Why I decided to play an instrument pt3

The last time I talk about how I started playing the ukelele, and now I will show you why I began to play the piano.
It was 2013 when I discovered some piano songs that where fantastic and awesome, like "Una Mattina" of Ludovico Einaudi, so I was in love with the piano and I wanted to learn to play it from scratch. The unique problem was that I did not have a piano, and if I bought one, I would spent a lot of money. HOwever,  it was my uncle, who is in the world of music since he was little, the one who borrowed me his old keyboard to start learning notes, chords, and songs.
I was really surprised and thankful because of that gesture. From that time, I'm keeping learning new songs that I discover and those songs that I wanted to play. I don't stop playing because is one of the most relaxing and peaceful things that a person can do; I transmit my feelings, and this helps me to stay positive against any kind of problem. I would totally recommend to play piano to relax and feel the real person who is inside of you.

Trendy fashions

Today's new world has a lot of things that determine our lifestyle. Nowadays, the fashion industries have a lot of importance, because we tend to buy every single clothes or shoes that the market carry out. The fashion nowadays is dressing up in an informal way, but with trendy clothes, like sneakers from Nike, vintage t-shirts and sweaters, and some skinny trousers. The people who wear this need to tick in the society, a totally waste of time (and money).

In my case, I sometimes wear sneakers, but I only have two pairs when there are people younger than me with more than seven pairs. Therefore, the best way to be stylish (for me) is with smarter clothes, shirts, jackets, etc... The unique problem is the fact that this clothes are expensive, although there are thousands of sells in the Internet that allows you to buy cheaper clothes. I hope that someday the suits get back to the society like in the sixties, because it´s rather important to be classy than showy.

Here is an example of what I'm talking about, the need of looking trendy:

Big exercise (punctuation)

Put in semicolons, colons, dashes, quotation marks, Italics (use an underline), and parentheses where ever they are needed in the following sentences

1. The men in question, Harold Keene, Jim Peterson, and Gerald Greene, deserve awards.

2. Several countries participated in the airlift: Italy, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.

3. "Only one course was open to us surrender," said the ex-major, "and we did.”

4. Judge Carswell, later to be nominated for the Supreme Court, had ruled against civil rights.

5. In last week's New Yorker, one of my favorite magazines, I enjoyed reading Leland's article "How Not to Go Camping."

6. "Yes,"- Jim said -"I'll be home by ten".

7. There was only one thing to do, study till dawn.

8. Montaigne wrote the following: "A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself."

9. The following are the primary colors: red, blue, and yellow.

10. Arriving on the 8:10 plane were Liz Brooks, my old roommate; her husband, and Tim, their son.11. When the teacher commented that her spelling was poor, Lynn replied, -"All the members of my family are poor spellers. Why not me?"

12. He used the phrase "you know" so often that I finally said: "No, I don't know."

13. The automobile dealer handled three makes of cars: Volkswagens, Porsches, and Mercedes Benz.

14. Though Phil said he would arrive on the 9:19 flight, he came instead on the 10:36 flight.

15."Whoever thought" - said Helen - "that Jack would be elected class president?"

16. In baseball, a"show boat" is a man who shows off.

17. The minister quoted Isaiah 5:21 in last Sunday's sermon.

18. There was a very interesting article entitled "The New Rage for Folk Singing" in last Sunday's New York Times newspaper.

19."Whoever is elected secretary of the club (Ashley, or Chandra, or Aisha) must be prepared to do a great deal of work," -said Jumita, the previous secretary.

20. Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) caused a great controversy when it appeared.

21. We had a great time in France – the kids really enjoyed it.

22. Some people work best in the mornings; others do better in the evenings.

23. What are you doing next weekend?

24. Mother had to go into hospital: she had heart problems.

25. Did you understand why I was upset?

26. It is a fine idea; let us hope that it is going to work

27. We will be arriving on Monday morning – at least, I think so.

28. A textbook can be a ‘wall’ between teacher and class.

29. The girl’s father sat in a corner.

30. In the words of Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

Why I decided to play an instrument pt2

The last time I wrote about how I startedto play the guitar, and now I'll explain how I began to play the ukelele.
It was september in 2013 when I felt bored because of the routine. I was stucked in a rut  and I needed something new to my life. In that time I listened to songs which has the sound of a ukelele and I always thought "it could be funny to play that little instrument!" Thanks to what I had said, my desire to have and play an ukelele increased so much that my parents, in the 6th of january, gave one. I was really amazed! I could finally play the songs I like, without any difficulty!I kept playing it in 2014 all the year; its sound is really funny, relaxing and beautiful.
Most people ask me in a strange way if I really play the ukelele, and I proudly say yes, that I learnt by myself. It is not a common instrument like the trumpet or the violin which a lot of people play. Ukelele is different, it gives you a touch of interest and coolness.

The change

Time is gold, and there´s anything better than having time to do what you want, to be what you want. In my childhood I spent my afternoons playing videogames with my best friend in that period. We always met to play on his ps3, and we had fantastic moments playing a lot of video games! In the mornings I did not use to go out because I spent the monings doinng my homework because I wanted to have fun later.

While I was growing up, I realized that the most important thing is not just the video games, but the time you spend doing what you like. A few years ago, in 2010, I started lefting the video games only for myself, and I started going ou with my groups of friends. In the mornings we met to play football, in the afternoon to go to somewhere, and in the night we used to stay in someone's house to see a film. I sometimes take a look in those year and think "how amazing was that".

In the last 3 years,  everything changed: I changed my group,  I changed my hobbies, and I changed my way of being. Im not saying thatI changed in a badly way, but in a better one. For me, at the age of 15, I considered myself as a grown person (but it isn't), so I began to have more friends from the beach, the high school, from my new group and even from other parts of Spain (thanks to the social networks). I went to my first parties, which where superb and awesome. 

But it was in 2014 when I decided to change myself by putting contact lenses and getting fit. I gain a lot of self confidence which I appreciate everyday, because before that I  was a very shy boy who couldn't do the things that he wanted. Nowadays, I miss the oportunities that I had, but, I have the rest of my life to do what I really want.

Why I decided to play an instrument

The music is the key to our soul. It is the most common way to express feelings, either you listen at it or you just play an instrument. That's why I decided to start transmit my feelings.

I was eleven years old when I discovered the rock, heavy and grunge music. This does not mean that I didn’t listen some kinds of music like these before I was 11, it means that I realized how good it was. Anyway, I totally felt down in love with rock music; I listened when I was motivated, sad, depressed, angry, etc... But it was with Nirvana where I recognized that the guitar was awesome, and I thought that I could play their songs by myself!

Depart from that moment, I started playing the guitar; the first time was difficult, and a little bit strange, but when I got the drift, it was easy and fun. I learned to play songs from Nirvana, ACDC, Green Day, Artic Monkeys, etc... Now I keep playing it, but I don't have enough free time because of the university. 

In 2012, I played it in a party once, it was fantastic! The adrenaline of playing your favorite instrument, while there are people enjoying your music, is an experience that everyone should have.

The value of education

Today’s education is being criticized in all its aspect. Some people say that it has taken some levels of decadence: the way to teach and to learn changed unfortunately, making kids and young people of today not be a part of a good society in the future. And the rest of the people don’t care about the future lives and the educational system, that’s why most of well-known linguistics are expressing their opinion against the actual way of teaching.

Before our time, the education was simple: its purpose was just to make kids and young people attracted to the things that they were shown. The education was a tool to create an intelligent society with their own critical thought. But, only a few people maintain this philosophy. Nowadays the only thing that cares is to obtain the “good” life that someone told us. That’s how education evolves to an assembly methods and techniques, and the intellect is degraded.

Otherwise, we can be fortunate because of the technology we have: all the information of today breaks the amount of data of the last century. But because there’s a lot of information, it does not mean that all of them is useful. A future chemist will not obtain his degree putting the more information he can, but with the correct and necessary information. It can be said that, the Internet, is a cult generator.

But, related with technology, is the budget of the educational system. In my country the budget cuts are being disastrous for our students because the government do them for saving money. And also, they are taking away their chance to become what the students want. This makes the massive departure of future workers to other countries, which means that the budget cuts are a double-edged sword for the government. The education is not an expenditure, but an investment.

Another criticized topic of today´s education is the marks system. Students will not learn anything by their hands if a mark determines their future. This makes the students to be unable to have their own thought, and their heads are full with memorized information that will not have value in the future, or, in common situations, will be forgotten.

In brief, in spite of the type of education we have, the REAL purpose of education is clear and forceful: to educate citizens, fortifying them in the basics requirements of learning, giving the importance to the knowledge, abilities and values. We have the future in our hands, and we are going to fight for it.