My friend Ascen's interview

So, I've interviewed my friend Ascen about her life. Here it is! Enjoy it!

-Hi Ascen, can I ask you about some things about your life?

-Yes, of course.

-First of all, where are you from?

-I'm from Cordoba but when I was a child I was living here, in Granada, about four years. Then, we came back to Cordoba.

-Have you got any brothers or sisters?

-Yes, I have one brother and one sister. Both of them are younger than me, I'm the oldest.

-And what are their names?

-María and Elías.

-Ok, and what do you do?

-Well, now I'm studying architecture at the university like my brother. I really love it!

-Oh! So your brother studies at the university, too!

-Yes, but he wants to leave it because he wants to became a chef. My parents are angry with him because of this.

-And what about your sister?

-She's at secondary school but the next year she will do Bachillerato. She loves languages, specially Asian languages, because she loves Asian culture. But she also wants to learn English and French. Her dream is to live in Japan or Korea.

-That's amazing! What do you think about it?

-Well, my parents and my brother think that she's crazy but I think that she can do it because she's really keen on it and she won't stop until she gets it.

-You really love her. You have told me you're at university student, where do you live?

-I live in a flat near the university with my friend Paula. We have lived there for three years.

- How are you doing?

-Sometimes it's hard because I miss my family and Cordoba, but I love Granada and I'm having a lot of fun here. Also, I have met a lot of people and they're so nice to me and some of them are from Cordoba too, which is fantastic!

-That's good! Thank you so much!

(Teacher, excuse me for being late!!)

Artificial Satellites

In the context of space flight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon.

Satellites are used for a large number of purposes. Common types include military and civilian Earth observation satellites, communications satellites, navigation satellites, weather satellites, and research satellites. Space stations and human spacecraft in orbit are also satellites. Satellite orbits vary greatly, depending on the purpose of the satellite, and are classified in a number of ways. Well-known (overlapping) classes include low Earth orbit, polar orbit and geostationary orbit.

History's first artificial satellite, the Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. Since then, thousands of satellites have been launched into orbit around the Earth.
Sputnik 1 helped to identify the density of high atmospheric layers through measurement of its orbital change and provided data on radio-signal distribution in the ionosphere. The unanticipated announcement of Sputnik 1's success precipitated the Sputnik crisis in the United States and ignited the so-called Space Race within the Cold War.Sputnik 2 was launched on November 3, 1957 and carried the first living passenger into orbit, a dog named Laika.

Satellites are not only used to tell us about space, the Earth or weather, they are very important in the field of communication. Thanks to them we have access to Internet, radio and even television. Also mobile phones need to use satellites.

Modern communications satellites use a variety of orbits including geostationary orbits, Molniya orbits, other elliptical orbits and low (polar and non-polar) Earth orbits.

Finally, if you want to know more things about communication satellites, follow this link:

Brick by boring brick

This song is from Paramore, an American rock band from Franklin, Tennesse, formed in 2004. The band consists of lead vocalist Hayley Williams, bassist Jeremy Davis, and guitarist Taylor York.

Brick by boring brick is in my opinion one of the best songs I've ever heard. Maybe its music isn't the best but I think its lyrics are really strong and certainly true. In fact, all their lyrics have a deep meaning between the lines, like all the songs, but it's different because most of their songs have a meaning of overcoming, and they always remind me that I can't surrender. Well, here I am leaving you the lyrics of this amazing song and a video to hear it. Enjoy yourselves with my song! ;)

..
She lives in a fairy tale
Somewhere too far for us to find
Forgotten the taste and smell
Of the world that she's left behind
It's all about the exposure the lens I told her
The angles were all wrong now
She's ripping wings off of butterflies
With her feet on the ground
And her head in the clouds
Well go get your shovel
And we'll dig a deep hole
To bury the castle,
bury the castle
Ba da ba da ba
So one day he found her crying
Coiled up on the dirty ground
Her prince finally came to save her
And the rest you can figure out
But it was a trick
And the clock struck twelve
Well make sure to build your house brick by boring brick
or the wolves gonna blow it down
With her feet on the ground
And her head in the clouds
Well go get your shove
l And we'll dig a deep hole
To bury the castle, bury the castle
Well you built up a world of magic
Because your real life is tragic
Yeah you built up a world of magic
If it's not real
You can't see it with your eyes
You can't feel it with your heart
And I won't believe it
Cause if it's true
You can see it with your eyes
Even in the dark
And that's where I want to be,
yeah Go get your shovel
We'll dig a deep hole
To bury the castle,
bury the castle
Ba da ba da ba...

Andorra

Hello, my country is Andorra. Andorra is a very small country between Spain and France with an area of 468 km2. It is also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra.
The inhabitants of Andorra are called Andorran and their official language is Catalan. The capital is Andorra la Vella and the population of Andorra is 80.000 inhabitants. Most of them are Andorran but there are also Spanish, Portuguese and French people.
The political system is a Parliamentary co-principality and it isn’t in the European Union but it is treated as if it was a member, and the currency is the Euro.