Carnival

Next weekend it is Carnival and thanks to that we've got three days of holiday. The second term has finished so that is going to be a good way to celebrate it. I love Carnival because I can see many different customes and it is really fun to meet other teenagers. My custome? I'm sorry but I can't tell you... It is a secret ;) Perhaps I'll add a picture of my friends and I in Carnival in the next post... Who knows?

Globalization explained (by explainity)

Any doubts about what globalization exactly is? Here you're an easy and clear expanation of it! :)

Have you ever helped an NGO?

On this term we've been finding information and getting an insight into some NGOs. Apart from that, our teacher asked us if we've ever helped any NGO. I've been thinking about it, and something came to mind although I'm not very sure if it was helping an NGO or not. The thing is that some years ago, due to the bad weather the beaches from Donostia, especially Zurriola,  got all dirty with plastic bags, branches, seaweeds and so on. Seeing that,  Patagonia the shop organised an event which consisted in cleaning the beach all together as a voluntary work. I thought it would be fun, I went there with some friends and we cleaned up the beach. Look at the video that comes next, we did a good job!

Zurriola beach cleanup

Worlds Population Graph

Usue and I have done a graph where we can see the worlds population and its increase between the years 1650 and 2004. It is impressing!

Population graph

Surfrider Foundation

These days we've been learning about ONGs and our teacher asked to choose one of them and do an article. Usue and I have chosen the Surfrider Foundation. Do you care about the environment? Do you want to gain an insight into this ONG? If so, have a look at our interesting article! We hope you like it!

Surfrider Foundation

Transnational companies

As we all know there are lots of transnational companies all over the world. I've been looking for products at home, and making a list of them.

Food products:
- Chocolate: Lindt
- Yogurts: Danone
- Coffe: Nescafé
- Drink: Coca Cola

Lindt & Sprüngli AG, commonly referred to as Lindt, is a Swiss chocolate company known for their luxurious chocolates and confectionery. The company began in 1845 in Zurich, and today boasts 6 factories across the globe. In fact, the Lindt family now includes such companies as Ghirardelli and Caffarel.Lindt is most famous for the truffle balls, each individually wrapped and coming in several flavours and colours. Each ball is recognizable by the wrapper, and comes in such variations as white chocolate, dark chocolate, peanut butter, peppermint, orange, raspberry, and even Irish Cream. Seasonal favourites of the company include chocolate bunnies, each wrapper in an easily recognizable gold wrapper and wearing a red ribbon around the neck. Typically, these are purchased for the Easter season. Lindt also offers chocolate bars, coming in a range of flavours and dark chocolate percentages. There are also 12 Lindt Cafes, all in Australia and New Zealand.

Technology:
-Iphone: Apple

- Ipad: Apple
- Computer: Mocrosoft
- Kitchen: Balay

Apple is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Macline of computers, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. It was founded by Steve Jobs.




Clothes:                                                            
- Trainers: Nike                                                
- Sport clothes: Addidas                                 
- Zara: Inditex                                                  
- Stradivarius: Inditex

Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. (Inditex)  is a Spanish multinationalclothing company headquartered in Arteixo, Galicia, Spain. It is made up of almost a hundred companies dealing in activities related to textile design, production and distribution. Amancio Ortega, Spain's richest man, and the world's third richest man, is the founder and current largest shareholder. The current chairman of Inditex is Pablo Isla. Inditex operates over 6,200 stores worldwide  and owns brands like Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Oysho, Pull and Bear, Stradivarius, Zara, Tempe and Uterqüe, and also a low-cost brand Lefties.

Globalization

Last day, in the eleanitza class we did an activity which consisted in saying the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the world GLOBALIZATION. They were a lot the words which were written in the blackboard: USA, nike, global warming, China... It was a fun activity, and then our teacher asked us to take some pictures about those things.