Oh, Great Spirit, keep me from ever judging a man until I´ve walked in his moccasins

This sentence means that before we judge somebody or his/her actions we should try to understand first in which situation he/she is and what his/her feelings or thoughts are. By doing this it will be more difficult to do something to somebody that we wouldn´t like to be done to us.
I think that to identify or emphatyze with others feelings is a good way to understand us much better and avoid communicative and social problems. After all, we are not so different. This was the moral that we could learn from the video we saw today. By the way, if somebody is interested in watching the video again (Hi Helen) or knowing more information about the experiment take a look in this web: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html

Animal Experimentation Unit

The unit that I most enjoyed was the one regarding Animal Experimentation, especially because the persuasive paper that we were asked to write using the different articles relating the topic was the most hard that I had to write before the Research Project.
I must admit that I had a hard time trying to connect what was said in the articles with my own approach to the topic, and I must admit that I like suffering. I think that the Persuasive summary was a good training for the paper we are now working on. In my case, all the written tasks we are asked to do are helping me to improve how to connect the ideas that I want to capture on the paper in a most understandable way. It´s not really my style to say things directly, but I´m really enjoying learning how to write in different ways.
And, I must also admit that after working on this topic, and after some years of doubts and meeting vegetarians (including my mother) I have decided not to eat meat anymore. For the moment I´ve been 10 days without tasting any animal that doesn´t come from the sea!

Theo Jansen´s Strandbeest Lecture

I only have good words for describing the lecture that Dong and I attended at Concordia´s Hall. To listen directly to the creator of such a fantastic and original project as strandbeest is not a thing you live everyday.
After Theo´s speech regarding how he started to create the strandbeest, many questions came to my mind relating the meaning of our lives.
Theo´s meaning is working in his marvellous creatures until he dies. I understood that in this meaning there was beauty, strandbeests are something that the rest of human beings can enjoy, not only Theo. There´s something magic on them. Perhaps our meanings of lives will improve if we adapt the concept of beauty in them. I personally would like to transform my life and it´s meaning in something lovely that could be enjoyed by others.
I left you with a video of a Theo´s presentation that I hope you will enjoy.

Popullation

My father has one brother and one sister, and my mother has only one sister; so I cannot say that I have a wide family, but I can say that is a young one because I met all my grandparent´s parents when I was a child.

I have one brother, his name is Carlos, he´s much more responsible than I am and he´s 27 years old.

I would like to have children, at least two, but I don´t know when that´s going to happen because I have been always moving from one city to another for the last ten years.

The population of Spain is 45.2 million people (according to wikipedia), and Spain's population density is lower than that of most Western European countries. I have already discovered this last data and I considered it funny because some politicians say that we are too much people in Spain and that we shouldn´t allow the entrance of immigrants. Spain is the "door" to Europe of african immigrants who are willing to improve their lifes.

I come from an island named Mallorca, it´s in the Mediterranean sea and it´s a touristic destiny because the beaches and the weather are wonderful.

It´s interesting to know that during the summer the population of the island increases five times. That means that the number of cars increase, and so the pollution. The use of water is a problem because there are not enough reserves of drinking water for everybody. The natural balance of the beaches is specially altered, the huge number of people that visit them is destroying these beautiful and unique ecosystems, and the life in them.

But money rules, and things haven´t changed for the last 15 years.

Novel Project

In my opinion the Novel Project has been an entertaining way of learning more about the culture of Canada, specially because the authors were canadian or the plots were situated in Canada; and improving our knowledge in english. I am an habitual reader so it´s not been difficult for me to dedicate time to such a wonderful novel as Alias Grace.

The class discutions were very helpful for clarifying important points of the story and listen to different and valid interpretations, as well as for practising our speaking by explaining what we understood.

To write a book review was very helpful to focus on what I considered to be the main aspects of the novel, and also force myself to find the simplest way of explaining the story, which is not easy.

The oral presentation was the most difficult task of all because Alias Grace is plenty of meanings and dimensions, and specially because we didn´t want to tell you the end of the story. Also because explaining something in public requires a good level of english, and the nerves sometimes provoke that you just cannot find the words. But when it is over everything is fine again.

As being part of an audience I must say that I enjoyed all your lectures guys, and I had the perception that you all are hard workers.

My general punctuation to this activity is a 10, there´s a good balance between team and individual work, and you learn a lot, not only from the stories you read, but also from your partners appreciations.