A NEW PROJECT FOR THIS TERM!!!

Well guys!!! In our last lesson we were talking about our new year´s resolutions in terms of English. Here you are a summary:

1. Write at least two articles on the blog during this term.
2. Make as many comments as you can to your partners´articles or posts
3. Participate actively in our new project: A TV PROGRAMME.

To work in this coming project you need several things to take into account, such as collaborative work, writing your scripts for me to correct them before recording or filming the activity.
As I have told you, there are different parts to bear in mind: publicity, news, chatshow, quiz show...I am going to give you some hints in each part ok?? Let´s start for the first one...The title of our TV programme. You should think, what kind of programme you are going to produce if we take into consideration that in it, you have to introduce news, pub (short form to say publicity), chatshow and quiz show...Let´s think together but I want you to give me the title in our next Friday lesson!!!
Your second challenge would be publicity...be ready for that!!!

I trust you guys...Lots of talents at your community, take advantange of being gifted....

Have a nice week!!! Take care!!!

Ascen.

READY, STEADY, GO!!!!

Well guys, this is just a "quicky" to announce you that next Friday 20th at 17.30, as usual, hope to see you all again and comment away about our new year´s resolutions and some novelties...

Have a nice week!!!

Ascen.

THE URGENT ONE AND THE IMPORTANT ONE

I´ve been thinking about this topic since the beginning of December. It´s not so easy to recognize what is actually urgent and what is really important. For example, everyone who goes to an emergency department is sure about his illness´ importance. He has a pain. It´s his own pain and it´s important to them. Maybe his pain is even the most important and the only thing all over the world.

In fact, their pain is important because they are worried about it and because it doesn´t let them keep on their normal life. But when they go to hospital with their 'important pain', the doctor may realize that it´s not too urgent – perhaps a simple toothache, or stomach ache after having eaten too much, or the same headache you have been usually suffering for six months. They are not important, however, we don’t know. All of us we aren´t so clever to make out between the urgent one and the important one. We need another person helping us.

When I have a lot of things to do in a short time – like this week – I´m not able to establish my priorities. And, what´s more, even if I find difficult to select what to do firstly.  It´s impossible to extend the day so I must decide and project what to do and what to do first.

It´s stupid to think about doing only and always important things. Following this path, for example, I would fail several subjects. But it´s also crazy to decide to do the urgent ones. In this way, what about living with peace and common sense? So, praying or sleeping?, effectiveness or relationships?, studies or pastoral?, speeding up or braking?, me or the others?

Therefore, it seems that we aren´t able to decide properly on our own. We need another person to talk about it. Especially, we need God to give us a skyline of meaning. Things are not urgent or important. No white or black but white and black. And our challenge is to discern, with helping God, what to do in each situation.

Things are not solely urgent or important to me. Maybe sometimes they will be. But so many times I´ll have to ask myself: what about urgency and importance of my things to the other? A challenge that will last a lifetime.

BY Alberto Cano SJ

5. Memories are the past.

There were tears, incomprehension, pain, a lot of pain, too much for one woman. She needed to get out of her past, but she didn´t want to. He is her life, now yet, and the past is the place where she meets him. She sewed the past with the present. At the end the past always returns.

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The day after tomorrow, the notebook was resting under the bed. She has promised herself, She wasn´t going to read it again. But this morning the broom pulled off the past. She opened it scared.

We arrived together (we always did everything together) at the railway- station.

People. How many people?

There were newspapers for everybody. The newspapers were masks. I didn´t see tears, neither incomprehension, nor pain.

- Come on please, go home! -he said to me- I´ll be great. Believe me.

- Only a favour.- I waited smiling. He said yes with his eyes- Come back- he smiled- soon.

He took the train and I stayed on the platform.

I know he looked for me as I looked for him. It was our play.

I was behind the baggage claim, but today, he couldn´t find me.

I think he was behind the paper´s mask, but today, I couldn´t find him.

Today we lost both.

When the train began its travel to the hell, at this moment, I always remembered that, I had got the first retch.

When she closed the notebook, she looked: her incomprehension, her pain and she felt her tears.

By Carlos Muñoz Novo.