Japanese garden ( My world )

"Japanese gardens  are traditional gardens that create miniature idealized landscapes, often in a highly abstract and stylized way. The gardens of the Emperors and nobles were designed for recreation and aesthetic pleasure, while the gardens of Buddish temples were designed for contemplation and meditation."

I think there places are the most relaxing and beautiful. Being there must be a unique experience, being surrounded by wonderful plants, with the sound of water, all flowered, the spectacular Japanese buildings... Who would not like to visit there places? Japanese culture fascinates me, traditions, food, lifestyle ... everything is wonderful but what stands out are the beautiful gardens. If Japan were two hours away, I would be the happiest girl in the world.

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Asian Elephant ( My world )

The Asian elephant  is the only living species of the genus elephas and is distributed in Southeast Asia from India in the west to Borneo in the east. Three subspecies are recognized
 -->Elephas maximus maximus from Sri Lanka
 --> The Indian elephant from mainland Asia 
-->Elephant maximus sumatranus from the island of Sumatra 

Characteristics:
In general, the Asian elephant is smaller than the African elephant and has the highest body point on the head. The back is convex or level. The ears are small with dorsal borders folded laterally. It has up to 20 pairs of ribs and 34 caudal vertebrae. The feet have more nail-like structures than those of African elephants.

Parts of the body:

--> Trunk: The distinctive trunk is an elongation of the nose and upper lip combined; the nostrils are at its tip, which has a one finger-like process. The trunk contains as many as 60,000 muscles, which consist of longitudinal and radiating sets. The longitudinals are mostly superficial and subdivided into anterior, lateral and posterior. The trunk can hold about four litres of water. Elephants will playfully wrestle with each other using their trunks, but generally use their trunks only for gesturing when fighting




--> Tusks: Serve to dig for water, salt, and rocks, to debark trees, as levers for maneuvering fallen trees and branches, for work, for display, for marking trees, as weapon for offense and defense, as trunk-rests, as protection for the trunk. 

--> Skin: Skin color is usually gray, and may be masked by soil because of dusting and wallowing. Their wrinkled skin is movable and contains many nerve centers. It is smoother than of African elephants, and may be depigmented on the trunk, ears, or neck.






Intelligence:

Asian elephants are highly intelligent and self-aware. They have a very large and highly convoluted neocortex. They have the greatest volume of cerebral cortex available for cognitive processing of all existing land animals. Elephants have a volume of cerebral cortex available for cognitive processing that exceeds that of any primate species, and extensive studies place elephants in the category of great apeas in terms of cognitive abilities for tool use and tool making. Elephants are reported to go to safer ground during natural disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes, although there have been no scientific records of this since it is hard to recreate or predict natural disasters.

The habitat:

Asian elephants inhabit grasslands, tropical avergreen forests, semi-evergreen forests, moist deciduous forests, dry deciduous forests and dry thorn forests, in addition to cultivated and secondary forests and scrublands. Over this range of habitat types elephants are seen from sea level to over 3,000m.


Reproduction:

Bulls will fight one another to get access to estrous females. Strong fights over access to females are extremely rare. Bulls reach sexual maturity around the age of 12–15. Between the age of 10 and 20 years, bulls undergo an annual phenomenon known as "musth". This is a period where the testosterone level is up to 100 times greater than nonmusth periods, and they become extremely aggressive.

The gestation period is 18–22 months, and the female gives birth to one calf, only occasionally twins. The calf is fully developed by the 19th month, but stays in the womb to grow so that it can reach its mother to feed. At birth, the calf weighs about 100 kg,and is suckled for up to three years. Once a female gives birth, she usually does not breed again until the first calf is weaned, resulting in a 4-to 5-year birth interval. Females stay on with the herd, but mature males are chased away.



Domestication:

Elephants have been captured from the wild and tamed for use by humans. Their ability to work under instruction makes them particularly useful for carrying heavy objects. They have been used particularly for timber-carrying in jungle areas. Other than their work use, they have been used in war, in ceremonies, and for carriage. They have been used for their ability to travel over difficult terrain by hunters, for whom they served as mobile hunting platforms. The same purpose is met in safaris in modern times.


In my opinion the Asian elephant are the best. Because it's strong, courageous, warm, obedient, shy and a big help for the humans. 

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a famous novel who talk about two lovers; Romeo a Montague young man and Juliet a pretty young Capulet. The main problem is taht her family hates his family, is a big rivality amoung the two. But the love is too big and the two teenagers fight for be together.
All starts when Romeo meet the beautiful lady in Verona, he be in love immediatly, in the same way that Juliet. But as they can not be together the young man visits in secret Juliet every night. At the beginning in general no happen nothing special, the "action" start when the parents of Juliet get ready her marriage with another man: Paris. Of course she is not agree with this desition and try to explain to her father that she loves Romeo, not Paris. Afther that, Juliet make a plan with Friar Laurence to escape but the things didn't go well.

The ring

I was glad when my phone started to ring, in this moment my heart speed up, and my lips smiled. I don't know why... maybe because I was waiting for this call for three days! After the meeting with Milan I had the sad feeling that he woved never call me again. But when I heard this beautiful melody on the phone, I knew that he is the perfect boy for me. After speaking two hours, we decided to start a relationship. And I guess, we like the some things, and when  he is with me I become the happinest girl of the world.ç

Valentine's day!

Vocabulary what I learnt :
- topycal
- card
- candlelight
- bouquet

--> http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/vocabulary/holidays_valentines1.html

I learn about origins of Valentin's day. There was two theories:
-The ancient Roman feast of Lupercalia, a pagan fertility celebration honoring Juno, the queen of Roman gods and goddesses and the goddess of women and marriage, was held on Feb. 14. During the festival, women would write love letters and leave them in a large urn. The men of Rome would draw a note from the urn and the chase was on.
-  Medieval Europeans believed that birds began to mate on Feb. 14 and that made it the perfect day to send a love letter.
In my opinion the second theory is the most cute... because the migration of birds is related with the liberation of feelings.

The story of Valentin's day:
Legend holds that one of the Valentines performed secret marriages against direct orders from Emperor Claudius II (who believed single men were more likely to join his army) and that he sent a friend (or possibly his jailer’s daughter) a note signed “from your Valentine” before he was executed on Feb. 14, 270.

Early Christians preferred a holiday honoring the saint of romantic causes to one recognizing a pagan festival, and in 496, Pope Gelasius named Feb. 14 in honor of St. Valentine, the patron saint of lovers. But don’t look for it on the official list of saints’ days. In 1969, Pope Paul VI dropped it from the calendar.

Vocabulary:
- Patron
- Marriages
- Jailer
- Recognizing
- Pagan
- Dropped
- Join

Shakespeare life's

He was born in Stratford on Avon near to London in 1564 on the 23 April. His father (Johnn Shakespeare) was a glovermaker, shop keeper, land owner and bailiff of stratford. His maother Mary Arden was inherited land  witch was bequeathed to William, he had 7 btrotherts and sisters. His education: he probably attended the free grammar school until 15, mainly studying latin, read much mythology, ovid...
He married with Anne Hataway (she was 8 years older than him) and they had 3 children:  Susanna, Hamnet and Judith.
By 1592, he was recognized as a successful actor on the of a repertory group Chamberlain's men.
He wrote at least 38 plays, as well as sonnets and other poems. He revolutionized the English stange with his dramatic and poetic genius. He retired from the theatre to his native stratfordsometime between 1611 and 1613 having bought a large house called "New Place
He lived in London most of his life and had little to do with Stratford, although he become it's thired largest landowner, and eventually retired there.
He died on his 52nd birthday (april 23 1616) in Stratford and was buried in the chancel of the Church of Holy Trinity. 

Heart attack

Puttin’ my defences up   
‘Cause I don’t wanna fall in love
If I ever did that
I think I’d have a heart attack

Never put my love out on the line
Never said yes to the right guy
Never had trouble getting what I want
But when it comes to you, I’m never good enough
When I don’t care
I can play ‘em like a Ken doll
Won’t wash my hair
Then make 'em bounce like a basketball

But you make me wanna act like a girl
Paint my nails and wear high heels
Yea you, make me so nervous
That I just can’t hold your hand


You make me glow, but I cover up
Won’t let it show, so I’m
Puttin’ my defences up
Cause I don’t wanna fall in love
If I ever did that
I think I’d have a heart attack (x3)

Never break a sweat for the other guys
When you come around, I get paralyzed
And everytime I try to be myself
It comes out wrong like a cry for help
It’s just not fair
Pain’s more trouble than love is worth
I gasp for air
It feels so good, but you know it hurts

But you make me wanna act like a girl
Paint my nails and wear perfume
For you, make me so nervous
That I just can’t hold your hand

You make me glow, but I cover up
Won’t let it show, so I’m
Puttin’ my defences up
Cause I don’t wanna fall in love
If I ever did that
I think I’d have a heart attack (x3)

The feelings got lost in my lungs
They’re burning, I’d rather be numb
And there’s no one else to blame
So scared I take off and I run
I’m flying too close to the sun
And I burst into flames

You make me glow, but I cover up
Won’t let it show, so I’m
Puttin’ my defences up
‘Cause I don’t wanna fall in love
If I ever did that
I think I'd have a heart attack (x2)
I think I'd have a heart attack
I think I'd have a heart attack (x2)

 Estic posant-me a la defensiva,

perqué no vull enamorar-me

si aixó pasés cred que tindría un atac de cor.

Mai vaig posar el meu amor en evidència

Mai vaig dir que si al noi correcte

Mai he tingut problemes per obtenir problemes per conseguir el que vull

Però quan es tracta de tu, no soc suficientment bona

Quan no m'importa

Puc jugar amb tu com un nino Ken

No em rento el cabell

Després els faig botar com una pilota de basket

Peró tu em fas comportar com una noia

Em pinto les ungles i porto sabates de tacó

Si tu, em poses nerviosa que

Simplement no et puc agafar-te de la mà

Em fas brillar, pero ho amago

No deixaré que es vegi

Estic posant-me a la defensiva

Perqué no em vull enamorar

Si aixó pasés

Crec que tindría un atac de cor (x3)

Mai vaig suar ni una gota per altres nois

Pero quan tu estás a prop em paralitzo

I sempre que intento ser jo mateixa,
surt malament, com un crit d'ajuda,
simplement no es just,
el dolor es unun problema massa gran de lo que val l'amor
respiro buscant l'aire
aixó em fa sentir bé, peró saps que fa mal

Peró tu em fas comportar com una noia 
em pinto les ungles i porto sabates de tacó
Sí, em poses tant nerviosa que 
simplement no puc agafar-te de la mà.

Em fas brillar, peró ho amago no deixo que es vegi,
així que estic posant-me a la defensiva
perqué no em vull enamorar.
Si alguna vagada pasés, crec que tindría un atac de cor.
Crec que tindría un atac de cor.
Crec que tindría un atac de cor. 

Les sensasions es perden el els meus pulmons,
s'están cremant, preferiría estar adormida,
y ho hi ha ningú a qui culpar
tan espantada que començo una carrera, 
estic volant massa a prop del sol,
i exploto en flames.

Em fas brillar, peró em cubreixo, no vull que es vegi 
així que estic posant-me a la defensiva,
perqué no em vull enamorar.
Si aixó passés crec que tindría un atc de cor,
crec que tindría un atac de cor,
crec que tindría un atac de cor.

Crec que tindría un atac de cor,
Crec que tindría un atac de cor. 

(The song talks about a girl who does not want to fall in love because she's afraid. She just wants to play with boys. Although there is a special guy who makes her feel good, shines as she says.)