An innovative activity

In the Language class with Andrea Schejter, we have begun seeing "How to get away with murder", and we realized that there were plenty of interesting sounds effects. We were asked to make creative presentation using the sound effects in differentes scenes. I worked with Manuel Busquets, Emilia Hernan and Juana Bonnemezón.

Situation: A woman is at the doctor`s, she is extremely ill and she believes she has little time left…

Scene 1 (In the office)

Woman- Please, tell me the truth (she sobs sadly) Am I going to die?

Doctor- No ma’ am, Although your diagnosis is not the best one, you are going to be safe and sound, after the treatment.  

W- You are a really bad liar (slurds angrily)

D- [clears throat] Miss please calm down. I am just telling you the truth.

W- Ok ( she sighs). But please tell me what the treatment consists of.

D- It is my job to speak always with the truth to my patients.. I will call my colleague to come and tell you.

W- (sniffling) Ok, I will wait for him.

Scene 2 (In the corridor)

2nd Doctor: Hello Miss, I had been notified about the situation you are going through. (coughs) We three know how hard  this situation is forf you, but I promise that with the correct treatment you will overcome it. I am sure of that (smiling)

W: [yawning] Thank you my dear. I hope everything goes well.  I will take a nap.

D: Thank you for trusting us, we are going to do everything that is on our power.

W: Bye doc...[Sneeze] (Her nose starts to bleed)
D: [Gasping] Oh, you are bleeding!

W: (She starts convulsing and dies )

People: [indistinct shouting]

Scene 3: (In the office)

Doctor 1: Have... you done your... job? (Intriguing look)

Doctor 2: Yes, let’s talk about the important thing. (serious)

Doctor 1: Have you given her the pill?

D2: Of course my friend! Keep calm and relax, everything is done, the woman won't bother us any more ( Maleficent laughter).

D1: Let's celebrate then!

People on the corridor: (clapping hands)

Scene 4: in the corridor The setting of the scene.

The doctors go out of the corridor

People: (clapping hands, cheering, laughing, yelling, indistinct chatting)

Director: CUT!

Director: Good job my team, let's set the last scene of the movie. Doctors ready?

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Essential for life

In the Environmental Management class, we have been studying the water cycle and the water availabilty on Earth. For this task, we were asked to write a text including these topics and also to talk about and give our opinion about what happens with the water nowadays.

Water, a simple word that means so much. Water is the essential component of all life. Think of this, it is the main source of plants’ photosynthesis process in which they release oxygen, indispensable for any kind of life on earth and also the main source of the water cycle. Nowadays, water has become a real problem as many countries don’t have access to it. Besides, with the development of industries, water pollution is causing really bad diseases and conflicts around the world.

We all may think, why there are still water shortage problems on the earth when most of it is covered by water? The answer to that question is that it’s not as simply as that. That 97% water surface is salty water, which means we cannot consume it unless it goes through the process of desalination (which is really expensive). Only 3% of that 97% is the fresh water used by humans and the whole ecosystem, in fact of that 3% just 25.33% is the water we use. The remaining percentage (74.6%) is either in the atmosphere, in the form of ice or in the soil. The actual problem, is that we, humans, are wasting that 3% of fresh water. All the Industrial waste generated through the years is dumped into rivers, oceans, and other waterways, contaminating at the same time, all other water that is fit to be used. To this we add that as Earth's population continues to grow, and people are putting a lot of pressure on the planet's water resources. In the end, if we don’t start controlling our actions, this will lead to a worldwide water scarcity.

The availability of water is one of the few things that is not caused by humans nor the society itself, but has to do with the distribution of precipitation. As we all know, on the one side, there are water- rich countries with plentiful fresh water supplies such as Canada, Brazil and Russia. In This countries, lack of water isn't a problem as they have large rivers that flow through them and also they are so huge that as a result they have plenty of territory for the rain to fall (despite the fact that the size of the territory, does not determine the reserve of water of a country since that same country can have a great dry area in which rains very little) And on the other side there are the water- poor countries such as Saudi Arabia, Lybia and Mauritius. In the case of Saudi Arabia and Lybia, this countries are dominated by deserts, so that's where the little amount of rainfall they receive in a year, comes from. In Mauritius, however, that’s not the case. This country, like many other, receives great amounts of precipitation but the problem is that the island is so little that the space where the rain falls is very small.

To conclude it's worth mentioning that it's actually hard to believe in this 21st century, where technology is so advanced, there is not solve yet the problem concerning water shortage in many countries. We constantly see in movies and documentaries how much the lack of water affects day after day to millions of people around the world. Although there has been improvements no solution capable of solving this world problem once and for all, has arisen yet. That people, who walk uncountable miles every day to get some water, are waiting for a miracle to happen, they are waiting for someone who brings them HOPE.