Saturday, September 30, 2006

World Cup 2006

This year’s world cup was very exciting. At the beginning of the world cup I wanted France and Italy to win, and I couldn’t decide which more. I think that this year's world cup, France deserved to win. The new soccer ball of this world cup was called TeamGeist, made from Adidas and as everybody knows it was in Germany, there were 12 stadiums, the best and most beautiful ones where Allianz Arena in Munich and Olympiastadion in Berlin were the final was played. In this cup there were 32 teams and 8 groups of 4 teams each.

The favorite teams to win the cup were Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Argentina and England. This worlds cup was had some of the best goals in history, the best one was the goal of Maxi Rodriguez from Argentina in minute 115 versus Mexico. I was really exited for the tournament, when I knew that the final was France versus Italy I was like confused, I didn’t know to what team have as favorite, but at last it was France even ought that my family is Italian, so everyone was disappointed with the decision.

There was a big surprise; it was that Brazil was eliminated in quarterfinals. Something not very good about world cups is that you wait for 4 years to see something of 1 month, it passes too quickly. The final passed very quickly, like just at the beginning the goal of Zinedine Zidane at minute 9, then Marco Materazzi’s goal then minutes later It was a shame that Zidane head-butted Materazzi, so the referee gives the red card to Zidane, that was his last match in his career.

I was very disappointed when David Trezeguet missed the penalty shot. The celebration of Italy was gigantic, Italy almost exploded. Thierry Henry, the French forward was angry because he loss two finals in a year, the world cup and the Uefa Champions League. I really enjoyed this year’s world cup; I hope that the next one would be better.

Friday, September 29, 2006

My Blog is Very Helpful

My blog has helped me a lot with many things, especially with all that I said in my first post, Education and Technology, it help me expressing my thought to other peoples posts and to improve my writing skills with grammar and spelling and to know more people, in America. My blog has changed a lot my expectations by helping me and at first I thought it was very boring, but its very cool. It was very easy to control, do and maintain your blog I think anyone could do it, its being a little dificult to every week do 2 posts and 3 comments, but it is very interesting and fun. I feel very good of doing and having a blog, and it is very interesting to see others peoples comments and posts.

Compared of how I felt about blog at the beginning and now it’s very different, now its better. I really feel godd in all technical aspects and how to do everything is very easy.I am very surprised that my feelings changed about the blog, because I think it was very boring to do two blogs per week and comments. Ive learned many things in blogger, to control a blogger, to know better about blogger and some words that other people post and I don’t know, so I learn many other words. It is a really good experience to do a blog, so I feel good for doing it.

Friday, September 22, 2006

My Trip to Italy

This summer I went to Italy with ,my family the trip was 10 hours long, 1 hour to Bogotá and 9 hours to Madrid. In the flight I did almost everything, I slept, I saw two movies and I had a breakfast, a dinner and a meal. It was the longest trip I have ever been. When we arrived to Madrid, Spain, we waited like for five hours or more. I liked Madrid a lot because it was huge and we passed beside the stadium of a soccer club of Madrid, called Real Madrid. The plain had a delay of an 1 hour and a half, so we went in another flight of almost 3 hours to Milan, Italy.

We arrive to Milan at 2 in the morning and I was very tired, we arrived to the hotel an hour later, and we ordered room service, and we start watching MTV until the food arrived. The food arrived, it was like a sandwich with a horrible cheese, so I didn’t ate it. That day we woke up at 7 A.M. so I slept only like 3 hours. When we woke up we went to Hertz (the car company) to rent a car. Then we went with the car to Venice, the trip lasted like 4 hours.

In Venice you need to park your car in a giant garage for approximately 200 cars. Then we took a boat to the hotel, which was very cool because you could only arrive in boat or walking in the bridges. In Venice we went to a giant glass factory called Murano. We stayed in Venice for 3 days, and then we went in car to Florence, that they say it’s one of the most beautiful cities of the world. When we were in Florence we did a trip in car to Pisa and we saw the Pisa tower and many other cities beside Florence, and we went to the best winery in Italy that its called “Castello Banfi”. We went to almost 5 museums in Florence, in one of those museum was the sculpture “David”, that is a pretty big sculpture, like 5 meters tall and we saw the Fontana di Trevi, that I liked a lot.

We stayed in Florence for 3 days, the next trip was to Rome, that trip was super boring, it lasted 5 hours. In Rome we did a lot of things. The first day we went to see the pope, Benedict 16 and to go to the Vatican and the Vatican Museum. We went to see the coliseum that was very big and amazing and we went to the biggest church of the world, which was almost 130 meters high and 170 meters in length. My opinion was that the best
city was Rome.

We stayed in Rome for 3 days and then we went to Madrid in a plane that lasted 3 hours, in Madrid we stayed one day in a apartment of a friend of my father, and the next day we returned to Colombia. The plane lasted 10 hours, I saw almost 4 movies and I slept and I ate dinner, breakfast and a meal, it lasted too long! It was the best trip and the one that has been the farthest from home.

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Suspense and Action Stories...

I enjoyed reading this story a lot because it has suspense and action, two things that I like in a story. I like a lot the part when the men kill the rats with knives, but I dislike the fact that a man died and I didn’t like the end of the story, its not a happy ending, I really recommend this story, specially to the people that like suspense and action, because it is very exiting and very different from the other stories. I dislike it a little because the story passed to slowly.

I wonder why Itchoua died and the narrator and Le Gleo didn’t, maybe he was bitten more or he was weak. I didn’t like the fact that there were rats, not cats or a wild animal, but rats! When I was reading the story and it was in the part when there wasn’t crew in the boat I said "¿what?", but when I read there were rats, it was still strange, but less. Me being the narrator I wouldn’t go back to the lighthouse, he’s crazy.

I was surprised when the boat came to rescue them; they were almost dead when the boat arrived. Unbelievable that there were sharks all around the island, you know that it false it wasn’t a coincidence of the story. Really this story has a lot of fiction, like sea rats, that the rats where giant and some things more. I say to all the people that like fiction, action, and suspense that read Three Skeleton Key.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Roger Federer won the 2006 US Open


Last week Roger Federer, the best player of the world, defeated Andy Roddick, the 9th player of the world(recently 6th because of his results in this tournament), in the final of the US Open in New York, U.S. The stats where 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1. It's the third time in a row Federer wons the US Open. There was a surprise in the US Open, In 3rd round Mikaihl Youznhy defeated Rafael Nadal. Youznhy was then defeated by Andy Roddick in Cuarterfinals.

Meanwhile Maria Sharapova, the third best player of the world, defeated Justine Hennin-Hardenne. The stats where 6-4, 6-4, This is Sharapova's 2nd US Open. Hennin-Hardenne is the only tennist player that has been 4 times in a row in the US Open final.

Response post


I found this amazing article about scientist that discovered a dinosaur in Brazil. They say it’s the biggest dinosaur ever discovered in Brazil. They say it’s a Maxakalisaurus topai of 13 yards, there has been 4 of that species so far discovered in Brazil. I think that is very exiting to discover a dinosaur, I would like to discover a dinosaur.

"If dinosaur species were soccer goals," says scientist Andrew Kellner, "Brazil would be getting pounded."
I agree with Andrew Kellner`s comment. This is a great discovery for Brazil and for scientist Andrew Kellner that is very happy. This dinosaur was discovered near Prata.l

Friday, September 01, 2006

My Friend´s Blog 1

This are 3 of my friends blogs. This are the first links I have done. This are Friends of my homeroom.

This is Miguel blog. He likes soccer and he is in my homeroom class.
http://mm1994.blogspot.com/

This is Julian blog. He is a very good friend. He is one of my best friends.


This is Stefano blog. He likes soccer and he likes the same team as me.