The frosting of the cake

Six years ago, a little shy girl was leaving the school, the place where she had spent her childhood to start a new period in a high school called Generalife. That girl was me.

After all that time, I guess I'm not obviously the same due to all the moments that I've lived here and the people who I've known , have made me change and grow until becoming in what I am now.

If I try to remember how I was before, I can hardly do that, but I know that I didn't have the same view of life I have in this moment. Actually, I don't know when my ideas have been clearer because now it's sure that they aren't, but I feel more confidence in myself.

However I am very grateful for having studied here beacause I have lived a counttless great moments that I won't ever forget, I just cannot imagine my life in other school, with other friends and with other ideas. So I have to thank my teachers, well not all of them, but a few ones have made me open my eyes and see the world different than before, understanding that we have to catch any opportunity that live gives us without fear to fall, and that's something that maybe inother school I wouldn't ever learn.

Talking about expectations, I still dont know what  I want to ve in the future, something understandable when you enter the school, but not so much when you are about of choose a degree.

In conclusion, all those six years have passed by so quickly that I'm not concious that a period of my life has finished, but I'm sure that I will miss that a lot, and I expect not to lose the contact with the people who are important to me now so when we are old, we could remember all the moments that we lived here.

Cinderella

Everybody knows that Cinderella lost her shoe in the Prince's Palace because she forgot that the spell, which the magic fairy had done, ended at midnight, so she had to leave the Palace very quickly, losing her beautiful, small, crystal shoe.
Then the story tells us that the prince was searching for the owner of the shoe all around the kingdom, so he finally found Cinderella and they were happy for the rest of their lives.
But actually it wasn't like that, the real story wasn't told not to frighten children. What nobody knows is that it wasn't Cinderella the girl whose foot fit in the lost shoe, it was her icky sister, who was jealous of Cinderella because she knew that the shoe was owned by Cinderella so she decided to do something awful.
One night, the icky sister drugged Cinderella while she was sleepping for cutting her foot and fix it intoher body with the help of a spell of the magic fairy and in order not to leave evidences, they fixed the big feet of the icky sister into Cinderella's leg.
When Cinderella saw what was happening she got crazy and called all her princess friends like SnowWhite with her seven bodyguard to kill the sister.
The icky sister who was so afraid, told all the enemies witches of the princess to start a war agaist them.
Finally the princess won with the help of all the animals and princes.

Breaking Stereotypes

-Not because I'm scout, it means that I have to sell biscuits.

-Not because I don't know what study next year means that I dont have goals

-Being from Spain doesn't mean that you only want party.

-Not because I have a lot of fights with my friends, it means that I don't love them.

-Not because the marks of the tests show what you know about a determinate subject, it means that they are   telling the truth about your knowlegde

As if each day were the last one of our short lives
we live without thinking in consequences
breaking as many rules as we can
We dont care what people think
or what happen around us
We just squeeze any opportunity
which life gives as.
We are just keeping memories which
make us being what we are.
We just worry about enjoying ourself
taking only what we need.
We just want to live
and let live.
Trying to build a new better world
making peace
and not war.
But what did you expect?
We are WILD, FREE AND YOUNG!!

Love doesn't exit. We spend our lives running after it but we'll never find it.

As the dictionary says, the definition of love is "A feeling or disposition of deep affection or foundness for someone" but I think that it isn't possible to describe thins kind of feeling because each person has a different way to love, it is so subjective.
The only thing I know is that everybody need to give and receive love just because we are human, social animals, we need to know that someone cares us. So in my opinion, if love didnt exit, the human species wouldn't exist and that's why I think that love is the engine of the world. It's what make us wake up every morning and think how beautiful life is, because if I dont love what I do, or the people around me or even what I am, what remains?
Love is what gives sense to our lives and that's why I think that the people who dont love their lives, dont want to live anymore.

                                                 

Creativity -PI.

A THANK YOU LETTER

Today, the teacher has given us the chance to write about a special person, someone who gives sense to our lives. And I've thought of my sister, Marina.
Although we dont usually get on very well because of a lot of silly things,I know that we love each other so much. Just because I know that she will always be there when I need her and me too for her so I think that it means a lot.
Probably I didn't like her to read it because I dont usually express my feeling about her and that's why we have a strange relationship, i know that I can trust her but at the same time we are always having fights.
However, we usually get on very well when we are alone in family trips, and I guess that I have to love her because of a lot magic moments and because we share the same blood and I've always been being with her.


Dear Marina, I must write a letter to you because of a school's task, but you know that I wouldn't do that if it wasn't a job. I suppose that you are asking the reason because of your sister Rocio doesn't love you, but it doesnt mean anything of that. It is just because I can't show you writting a letter how I love you.But if i have to say something, I'll thank you for treating me so good in the worst moment, for keeping secrets that our parent can't know and for just being you. And that's all, I hope to stay with you when we are an old woman as well as we are now.

With love
 Rocio

2º TRIMESTRE. La Catedral y Torre De Pisa

El conjunto de monumentos formados por la catedral, baptisterio, torre y el camposanto de Pisa forman la Piazza de Miracoli, declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad en el 1987. Es una amplia área amurallada en el centro de la ciudad toscana de Pisa

 

EL DUOMO

Esta catedral conocida como el Duomo o Iglesia de Santa Maria Asunta se encuentra en el centro de la Piazza de Miracoli .

Es una obra muy representativa del arte Románico y da testimonio del poder que llego a alcanzar la Republica Marinera de Pisa.

Fue iniciada en 1063-1064 por el arquitecto Buscheto y consgrada en el el año 1118.

En ella podemos observar varios elementos estilisticos como el bizantino o el islámico para mostrar la presencia internacional de los mercaderes en aquellos tiempos.

        

Bizantino(Gran mosaico de                  Islamico(Arcos)
Cristo)                                            


El edificio tiene una planta de cruz latina con cinco naves, un abside y un transepto de tres naves ya que la agrandaron porque inicialmente constaba de una planta griega y una cúpula en el cruce de los brazos.











Características del Exterior de la Catedral




-Rica decoracion de
distintos colores de marmoles,mosaicos y capiteles tallados

-Numerosos arcos de perfil
 agudo gracias a las
 influencias musulmanas.

-Fachada de mármol blanco y gris e incrustaciones verdes.

-Puerta de bronce, que relata varias escenas de la vida de Cristo.

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- Características del Interior de la Catedral




-Techo a artesonados en madera dorada en el que se observa el escudo de los Medici.

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-Gran mosaico en el abside

de Cristo.

-Cupula ovalada en el cruce 

del transepto y nave central con frescos.

   

                                                        

-27 pinturas que revisten la

 tribuna detrás del altar mayor que representan episodios de

la Biblia. Ademas tambien nos podemos encontrar con numerosas esculturas.

- Pulpito realizado por Giovanni Pisano, es una obra maestra que narra por imágenes el siglo XVI en el cual se refleja el fervor religioso característico de esa época. También podemos observar escenas de la vida de Cristo. Este púlpito contiene cariatides que son figuras esculpidas en vez de columnas y un gran sentido del movimiento ya que en cada espacio se encuentran figuras
 Esta obra sobrevivió al grave incendio que sufrió la catedral aunque tuvo que ser restaurado.




                














TORRE DE PISA




La Torre de Pisa realmente es el campanario de la catedral. El arquitecto Bonanno Pisano se encargo de construirla en el año 1173. Este se propuso erguir un campanario en forma de columna y  separado de la iglesia. No obstante, muy pronto se observó que los cimientos de la torre eran demasiado débiles, lo cual provocó que empezara a inclinarse tras la construcción  de los primeros tres pisos
La altura de la torre es de 55'7 metros y tiene 8 niveles. La base es de arcos ciegos con 15 columnas mientras que los arcos de los niveles constituyen una columnata externa. Al final remata en el campanario con 7 campanas.
Por dentro tiene una escalera en espiral con 294 escalones.
Su diseño es es románico toscano con una fuerte influencia bizantina al igual que la catedral.


FASES DE CONSTRUCCIÓN

•La torre fue edificada en tres fases. La primera dura cinco años, a partir de cuando la empiezan a construir en 1173. Se edificaron tres plantas de mármol.
Al terminar la tercera planta se empezó a iniciar la inclinación de la torre ya que esta construida en un suelo pantanoso como el de Pisa.Por lo tanto la construcción es abandonada durante 96 años.

Mas tarde, en 1272 el arquitecto Giovanni di Simone retoma la obra, construyendo cuatro plantas mas dotadas de cierto angulo para contrarrestar la inclinación. Aunque en 1284 se vuelve a detener la obra nuevamente.
Finalmente Andrea Pisano, arquictecto toscano, integra al campanario es decir la ultima planta, un estilo gótico en contacte con estilo romanico del resto de edificio.  

Tras por fin terminar la Torre, se hizo evidente que la estructura estaba dañada debido a tantos años de inclinación y se cambia gran parte de la estructura de piedra, por mármol. 

LA INCLINACIÓN DE LA TORRE DE PISA


El hecho de que la torre este inclinada la ha hecho mas famosa aun que la catedral.  Y esto es debido a que los cimientos tienen solamente tres metros de profundidad en un suelo pantanoso como el que tiene Pisa.
El suelo empezó a ceder desde su construcción  ha seguido haciéndolo hasta entonces.

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BIBLIOGRAFIA:

http://www.foroxerbar.com/viewtopic.php?t=8505

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedral_de_Pisa

http://www.guiarte.com/pisa/que-ver/la-catedral-pisa.html