LAST DAY

Today has been our last day working on this subject. Our school year finished on the 11th May, then we had our final texts week until the 17th. Even though we finished the 17th, we have been finishing our work two days more. We had to finish everything we were doing for the contest and send it, as today (19th May) is the last day to send it. My part was to translate the research from english to spanish, and of course my classmates have helped me.. Thank god they did!

Jon and I were in charge of the research. Even if we thought it would be much easier than what it has been, we've achieved to finish it on time and successfully. Apart of doing my part of the research, I also helped other classmates with their parts. All of us helped some of our colleges giving ideas for the activity or the wallpaper, for example.

Elene and I have been counting the rubbish on our school playground and pasting some posters on the corridors for younger students to be aware that is important to take care of our planet. Our acts had good results, cause the amount of rubbish in the playground decreased considerably in just a week. After doing this, Alvaro wrote a little conclusion about what Elene and I had wrote down.

 

This picture above was taken by our teacher while Elene and I were counting the rubbish with the green puchu.

Do you want to know more about the green puchu? CLICK HERE

FOR MIREN

RESEARCH:

   In this project Jon and I are working on what Xabi told us to do: a research
 explaining te changes that climate has suffered both in our area and in any 
area of our choice. After talking about it, we have decided to compare the 
differences on the climate changes between Spain and China. 

We have been looking many Scientifical Articles published in the net so we could
 do a proper research. We have found articles on Climate Change due to 
greenhouse effects in China, Recent and Future Climate Changes in Northwest China,
 The Role of Insitutions, Greenhouse Gases Inventory or Climate Change Projections
 for the Mediterranean Area among many others. Now, we have to go through this
 huge amount of information and draw our own conclussion. 

At first, we thought it would be a great idea to compare the climate changes in San
 Sebastian and Beijing, but it wasn't until after having started to look up information
 that we found out that there was very little info available. That's why we opted to
 look into more general areas such us China, Spain or even the Mediterranean Area. 
Of course, both Jon and I joint to work so we could get as much data as possible. 

Honestly, I must admit that we had no problem when it came to searching info or
 even rewriting it. It took us quite a long time to finish it off but we handled it well.

PICTURE

European UNION

In order to the actual situation in Europe with all the problems countries are having between them and with those that are not from the European Union but from Europe itself as a continent, I've thought that this picture is very simbolic and I want to remember to ourselves that we have to respect and treat well everyone so that this "union" works as it should.

DIFFICULTIES

Doing the research wasn't as easy as we thought it would be. He are having some little problems to find reliable information that can be useful to us.
My classmate Jon and me decided to share the work. He had to look for information about changes in climate in the area of China, and I had to do the same but in our area (Basque Country). As it was not easy to find exact numbers and information about what I was looking for, I decided to look for information in a bigger area (Spain).
After having collected all the information needed about the topic we have to do the research comparing both places and their climate changes. Even if the work done until now has not been very easy, now we have to do the most difficult part of the work; write it up, and, after having done that, translate it to basque and spanish.

MORE ABOUT THE RESEARCH

As you know, Jon and I are working on the research. We have just started but these are some of the links that I've found.

http://www.ingurumena.ejgv.euskadi.eus/informacion/inventarios-de-gases-de-efecto-invernadero-en-graficos/r49-11293/es/

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818107001750

 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2000PA000502/full

 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-006-0167-z#/page-1

CONTEST

My classmates and I are taking part in a competition related to climate change and the European Union.
Each of us will be doing one of the nine parts it has and as our main aim is to win the contest we will really go for it.
Jon and me are working together. Our part is the Research; We have to compare the climate change between an area in Europe and another area somewhere in the world, and my classmate Jon and I have chosen to do a research comparing the differences between the climate in China and in the Basque Country.

Stop War

Nowadays wars are a problem that affects both our life and our wold globally. It's a problem that has existed for lots of hundreds of years, but in consequence of the important improvements in weapons (fire weapons, nuclear weapons...) it has became much easier and efficient to kill more people with less effort.
Most of the people suffering from wars are those who do not have the way to protect themselves from attackers, and this usually coincides with poor countries or those that are also named as underdeveloped.
Some of the main reasons for wars to start can be religion, race or (of course) money. Important people of the richer countries are the ones who take advantages from war, and the media usually tries to hide the horrific things that happen in other countries, so as they are far, and we are not shown what's happening but we have to look for it to inform ourselves appropriately, we tend to do as if nothing was happening.
I think that the first thing we should do to stop wars it's to concern people about what happens everyday in our world, and after doing that, show them that if everyone made a little effort we could make a big change.