Wednesday Morning Blog Club

Visit The Guardian newspaper (https://www.theguardian.com/uk) Choose an article. Fill in the worksheet your teacher provides. Link the article you read in your post and upload a screenshot/mobile photo of the article. Leave a comment on your teacher´s blog, and the blogs of at least 3 classmates.

 A school teacher I remember was Mrs Burrows, who was my first English teacher when I moved to school in England. I was born in Wales between Mold and Buckley, but I moved to Chester, in England, when I was 6 years old.  I don't really remember any of my teachers in Wales but Mrs Burrows made a big impression. She was always jolly. She smiled a lot, and I remember her as a very gentle person. The main thing I remember from the English classes is the stories she used to tell us. Her and her husband had lived many years in China working as missionaries and she loved to tell us about her travels and experiences.  I also remember we read short stories and poems in class and then worked to create our own stories and poems. It was a long time ago but I distinctly remember being very proud of a poem I wrote about a leaf. I can't remember how many years Mrs Burrows taught me but it can only have been 2 or 3. Unfortunately, her and her husband died in a car crash whilst on holiday...

 Hi Bloggers, Being a non-meat eater (my diet is 99% plant-based), Fiestas Patrias is not my favourite celebration because it centres around barbecues and the smell of cooked meat. However, what I do enjoy is having a few days holiday, and I guess this year was special because we had 10 days off. So, my wife´s birthday was on September 12th so from the 13th to the 17th we went to Isla Negra with her sister and mum. We rented a little cabin in the middle of nowhere (about 15 minutes walk from the centre of the town). It was a really relaxing place, surrounded by trees  so the only sounds were the birds and the wind in the trees.  It was a really lazy few days. We cooked, ate, drank, read and went for the occasional walk. In the evenings we played table games (Ticket to Ride and Yatzee). On the way back to Santiago on the 17th, we went via Limache and visited some friends there. On September 18 & 19, I just chilled, making music, watching some movies and reading. A good...

 Hi Fau Bloggers. Today I'm going to ask you to write about 5 favourites & why. The categories are: A song, a film, a piece of technology, a book, and a souvenir or trinket. The song I'm going to share with you is a song from 1971 by David Bowie called Quicksand. I really love the lyrics and all the images they conjure up. Bowie was about 24 years old when he wrote this song but he sounds so wise. I love this track because it reminds me of my youth (as well as demonstrating Bowie's versatility). My favourite film is most probably Brazil by Terry Gilliam. Released in 1985, it's is a "dystopian science fiction black comedy" (Wikipedia), which I must have seen at least 10 times. Actually, it's a nightmarish love story. I love it because it has so many bits of hidden humour. It may look a little dated nowadays but I still think it's amazing. A piece of technology I use a lot is my Macbook laptop. I bought it refurbished in the UK during COVID, mainly t...

  Part 1 Visit this British Council website and read the text: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/general-english/magazine-zone/international-day-friendship Write a 60 - 80 word summary. Part 2 Write a short post about your a good friend: Say Who it is, How you met, What you have in common. My short post is about my good friend Kat, pictured above. We met because a neighbour rescued him for a dog attack when he was a kitten. He decided to live with me and my wife. Kat and I both liked sitting on the balcony and eating. Unfortunately he passed away in 2017, aged 17 years. He was an amazing companion. R.I.P

 Hi Fau Bloggers: Today I'd like you to do a web-quest on New York, and at the same time discovery some interesting things about this iconic city.  I've been in New York twice. The first time for 8 hours, and the second time. just 8 days. Both times I met up with a childhood friend, Martin, who lived in the city for about 20 years. Martin and I played in a band together when we were younger.  He's a really amazing drummer. He actually played for a number of underground punk or post-punk bands in New York and became a well know figure on the underground scene there (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXyv-Ww5hg8).  Anyway, the week I spent in New York was amazing in so many ways. One really cool thing is that every corner you walk around, you encounter a scene from a Hollywood movie.  Of all the things I did in NYC, I think my favourite would be a tie between taking a 2 hour boat ride around Manhattan Island, and walking over Brooklyn Bridge. Anyway, please complete...

 Hi Fau Bloggers, In this post I´m going to write about what´s on my cultural at this time: Series: Vortex Vortex is a French series that my wife and I stated watching last week on Netflix. It´s tells the story of a detective who meets his murdered ex-wife in a virtual reality  crime scene. It´s science fiction, set in 2025. I´ve only watched 2 episodes so far but it´s entertaining but a little far-fetched Music : The Regular Cats I haven´t listened to much new music recently so I´ll tell you about one of my own musical projects. Over the last 2 months I released a series of songs that a friend and I remixed from last year. The Series is calle R.E.M.I.X because it´s created using a musical alphabet that a friend and I created. I like the energy and variety of these tracks (under a hip-hop umbrella).  You can listen here on Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/artist/2Q0yFv8UcEkyLIgr8YNR9Y?si=TD7CEjbiRrepyNcqm_WxGA This is one of 3 musical projects I'm currentl...