Int II

Uno es más auténtico cuanto más se parece a lo que ha soñado de sí mismo.: Si Para Vos...

2010-06-18T16:37:00.000-07:00

Algún día te darás cuenta que uno paga lo que hace, que con la indiferencia no se llega a ningún lado.

Me fuiste indiferente 18 meses, te pedí un poco de atención ahora, no sabrás por lo que estoy pasando, ni pretendo que no sepas porque no sos nadie ya, sólo pretendía un poco de atención, un poco de culpa, un poco de remordimiento por lo que hiciste. Una "Perdón" sincero y sin ese aire y tono prepotente tuyo era suficiente, el orgullo te va a hacer muy mal Agus. Espero que te des cuenta, yo en algún momento te amé, seguramente lo siga haciendo, no sé. Sólo sé que fuiste o peor que me pasó, que nunca nadie estuvo tan empecinado en hacerme daño y mucho menos en no hacerse cargo de ése daño.

No sé, si mi vida fuese un tren diría que descarriló para siempre, y es culpa tuya. A pesar que hoy en día tenga muchos problemas ajenos a vos, la culpa de que mi vida no tenga sentido es TUYA.

Hoy demostraste el tipo de persona que sos; creés que con el tiempo, con lavarte las manos y con la indiferencia se te va a ir la culpa, pero estás equivocado. Estando realmente arrepentido, dejando el orgullo y sientiendo remordimiento es como se te va a ir la culpa, pero no hay intención en vos de cambiar.

Seguís siendo el mismo que eras hace 18 meses Agus, exactamente igual de inmaduro y prepotente, lo único que te dejó nuestra relación fueron ganas de cojer. A mí lamentablmente me dejó la imposibilidad de confiar en otro ser, la imposibilidad de no odiar al mundo.

Porque yo antes de conocerte era bueno, el mundo, vos me hicieron mal sin sentido, y me las voy a cobrar.

Beso, suerte.

Sheffield: An interesting city

2007-07-06T15:36:00.000-07:00

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.
It is so named because of its origins in a field on the River Sheaf that runs through the city. The city has grown from its largely industrial roots to encompass a wide economic base. The population of the City of Sheffield is estimated at 520,700 people and it is one of the eight largest English cities outside London, which form the English Core Cities Group.
Sport
Sheffield has a long sporting heritage. In 1857 a collective of cricketers formed the world's first-ever official football club, Sheffield F.C., and by 1860 there were 15 football clubs in Sheffield. There are now two local clubs in the Football League: Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday, both of which formed from cricket clubs, and two major non-league sides: Sheffield F.C. and Hallam F.C., which also formed from cricket clubs. These are the two oldest club sides in the world and, in addition, Hallam F.C. still plays at the world's oldest football ground near the suburb of Crosspool.
Music
Sheffield has been the home of several well-known bands and musicians, with an unusually large number of synth pop and other electronic outfits hailing from there. These include the Human League, Heaven 17, ABC, the Thompson Twins, Wavestar, and the more industrially inclined Cabaret Voltaire. This electronic tradition has continued: techno label Warp Records was a central pillar of the Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass scene of the early 1990s, and has gone on to become one of Britain's oldest and best-loved dance music labels. Moloko and Autechre, one of the leading lights of so-called intelligent dance music, are also based in Sheffield. The city has a number of nightclubs - Gatecrasher One was one of the most popular nightclubs in the north of England until its destruction in a fire on 18 June 2007.
Attractions
Sheffield has two major theatres, the Lyceum Theatre and the Crucible Theatre, which together with the smaller Studio Theatre make up the largest theatre complex outside London. There are four major art galleries, including the modern Millennium Galleries and the Site Gallery, which specialises in multimedia. The Sheffield Walk of Fame in the City Centre honours famous Sheffielders like the Hollywood version.
The city also has a number of other attractions such as the Sheffield Winter Gardens and the Peace Gardens. The Botanical Gardens recently underwent a £6.7-million-pound restoration. There is also a city farm at Heeley City Farm and a second animal collection in Graves Park that is open to the public. The city also has several museums, including the Weston Park Museum, the Kelham Island Museum, the Sheffield Fire and Police Museum, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and Shepherd Wheel. Victoria Quays is also a popular canal-side leisure and office quarter.

Bye,

Ube!!

Sheffield in the last 40 years

2007-07-06T14:31:00.000-07:00

A recession in the 1930s was only halted by the increasing international tension as World War II loomed. The steel factories of Sheffield were set to work making weapons and ammunition for the war. As a result, once war was declared, the city became a target for bombing raids, the heaviest of which occurred over the nights of 12 December and 15 December 1940 (now known as the Sheffield Blitz). More than 660 lives were lost and numerous buildings were destroyed.[20]
In the 1950s and 1960s, many of the slums were demolished and replaced with housing schemes such as the Park Hill flats. Large parts of the city centre were also cleared to make way for a new system of roads.[14] Increased automation and competition from abroad resulted in the closure of many steel mills. The 1980s saw the worst of this run-down of Sheffield's industries (along with those of many other areas in the UK). The 1984/5 miners' strike affected the coal mining areas to the east and north east of Sheffield, though it is unlikley to have had a major impact upon Sheffield's economy. The building of the Meadowhall shopping centre on the site of a former steelworks in 1990 was a mixed blessing, creating much needed jobs but speeding the decline of the city centre.

New Project: The Full Monty

2007-07-04T09:31:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody,

We are reading our first reader this month, "The full monty", which is set in Sheffield in the mid1990's. To start working on it, I´d like to suggest that you do some research about this city located in nothern England, its history and especially what has been going on in the last 30 or 40 years, and log what you find on our blog.
I hope to read lots of interesting material next time I check the blog!!

RULES FOR INTERMEDIATE 2 COURSE!!!

2007-06-11T11:10:00.000-07:00

GROUP A:
YOU MUSN'T HAVE MORE THAN 17 ABSENCES.(5 VOTES)
YOU MUST PAY ATTENTION WHEN THE TEACHER OR YOUR CLASSMATE IS TALKING.(11 VOTES)
YOU MUSN'T USE YOUR MOBILE PHONE IN CLASS.(1 VOTE: THE TEACHER)
YOU MUSN'T THROW OBJECTS IN THE CLASSROOM.(2 VOTES)
YOU MUSN'T WRITE THINGS ON THE BENCH.(9 VOTES)

GROUP B:
The teacher must show at least one film every term.(8 votes)
The students have to prepare 2 songs per term.(4 votes)
Everybody must hand-in all their homeworkbefore the term ends.(8 votes)
Everybody has to have turned off their cellphones.(1 vote: the teacher)
The teacher must bring chocolates every final term exam.(8 votes)
The course has to spend at least one class outside.(9 votes)
we chosed: The teacher must show at least one film every term and The teacher must bring chocolates every final term exam.

group d:
You have to be puntual (5 votes)
You have to turn off your mobile phone (1 vote: the teacher)
you must pay attention in the class (8votes)
You musn't make noise (4 votes)
You musn't smoke (2 votes)
we chosed: YOU MUSN'T MAKE NOISE

natu!!!

News

2007-04-26T15:42:00.000-07:00

A good new!, now all Int II can post with theirs owns accounts.
Our next project is a Photo Album of Int II classroom and also from the Hurlingham's Liceo.

Info about hidden things in the song

2007-04-12T11:35:00.000-07:00

This song is completly crowded with metaphors and euphemisms. I´ll mention some of them.

-When it mentions that the people in high un places turn their heads to the city sun, it refers to a city called like that which is very luxurious and is near Johannesburg. So, it means that the important people who lived in Johannesburg didn´t listen to black people´s problems and turn their heads to the important and luxurious City sun.

-Another thing about Soweto that wasn´t mentioned before, is that in that place the black people was drawn to work on the gold mines near there. And that job is very dangerous, so many inocent black people died because of the apartheid.

-In the last paragraph, it mentions: "The freedom fighters will overcome very strong, I wanna know[...] if you wanna hear the sound of drums, Can´t you see that the tide is turning, Oh, don´t make me wait till the morning come", it means that the black people(the freedom fighters) was trying to get their rights back, they wanted Jo´anna to listen them(the sound of drums), because things were changing(the tide is turning), and they didn´t want to wait anymore.

*Maga!

More information about the song

2007-04-06T17:23:00.000-07:00

This is some information I found on the Wikipedia about the background of this beautiful song, I hope all my Intermediate II students can find something relevant and add it to make this site a great success!!!
I really love you all and am already proud of you!!!

Marina

Apartheid (meaning separateness in Afrikaans cognate to English apart and -hood) was a system of racial segregation that was enforced in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. Apartheid was designed to form a legal framework for continued economic and political dominance by people of European descent.
Under apartheid, people were legally classified into a racial group — the main ones being Black, White, Coloured and Indian — and were geographically, and forcibly, separated from each other on the basis of the legal classification. The Black majority, in particular, legally became citizens of particular "homelands" that were nominally sovereign nations but operated more akin to United States Indian Reservations and Australian/Canadian Aboriginal Reserves. In reality however, a majority of Black South Africans never resided in these "homelands."
In practice, this prevented non-white people — even if actually resident in white South Africa — from having a vote or influence, restricting their rights to faraway homelands that they may never have visited. Education, medical care, and other public services were segregated, and those available to black people were generally inferior.

Soweto is an urban area in the City of Johannesburg, in Gauteng, South Africa. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation, short for South Western Townships, subsequently referred to by relocating residents and other South Africans as "So Where To".

Gimme Hope Jo'anna

2007-04-05T21:09:00.000-07:00

This is the fist song we have listened in this year,
Artist : Eddy Grant
Tittle : Gimme Hope Jo'anna

Well Jo'anna she runs a country
She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, oh
She don't care about the rest at all
She's got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo'anna see
How everybody could a live as one

(Chorus:)
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come...
If you want to see the complete lyrics, Click Here

Something about Eddy Grant and the song:

Eddy Grant was born in Plaisane, Guyana.
When he was still very young his parents emigrated to the UK,When he was in London he started to listen Rock and other styles of music (When he lived in Plaisane he only listened Indocaribean music).
When he was 17 he make his first band "The Equals"
His later single, "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" (1990),was a song about Apartheid in that country, the song was made during the apartheid regime ("joannaa" stands for Johannesburg, South Africa)

Saantii

Welcome to the Int II Blog

2007-04-05T13:06:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the new int2 blog!!! This project is created by the people of the mondays and wednesdays int 2 class.
We decided to make this blog to let you know what we do in our classes.
Our first projet will be a southafrican song.
We hope you enjoy it...

Juli