Maranello’s new ride

Despite the fact that the money is haemorrhaging from the Arab Emirates faster than the oil it's built on, Ferrari is about to open its very own theme park in Abu Dhabi.

Two years in the making, Ferrari World will be a gigantic, tasteless altar to greed and consumption, a shrine to everything that's a bit sickly about having too much money and nowhere sensible to spend it.

Ferrari World is the largest indoor theme park on Planet Earth, with a 60 x 40m prancing horse on the roof, just in case you actually are navigating your way here from deep space.Among the 20 rides on offer inside will be an F1 experience that claims to hit speeds of 125mph and provide punters with the opportunity to feel the same sort of G-Forces that a driver endures at race speeds. This we like. On paper.Less convincing is the F430-based rollercoaster in which cars that look a tiny little bit like F430s will go head-to-head in a race that obviously isn't really a race.

There will also be six restaurants on site, all of them selling different types of Italian cuisine. Restaurants and rollercoasters. That classic combination.

snow day

I think the fact that it snowed in the province of Girona and left me 5 days withought electricity deserves an entry to my blog.

I had been at least 8 years since I had seen snow like this (not counting when I went to ski in the mountains of course) I remember when I was a kid in Irelend and it snowed enough so that we cold go up a little hill behind our house and slide down it.
This time it wasn't as fun...
When the snow hit I was playing a two player game on the playstation with my brother when suddenly the power went off. I knew it had been snowing, but when I got up and looked out the window it was a storm. I couldent believe it, my brither and I went outside to play in the snow and make a snow-man, usual things. Little did I know that I would be left withought power (playstation) for the next 5 days.
It was a real experience, I made my coffe on the barbaque, my dinner and my lunch. I didn't realise how much we depend on electricity, during the day I did'nt know what to do. So I even read a book, and studied next to candle light.

Anyway I really enjoyed the snow, and wish that it would come back a liitle lighter and more often.

self-evaluation

Comment
Presentation
To present my oral presentation I used a Power point that had photos related to my project and to help me during the presentation. The title of my project was Waterskiing , focusing mainly on the rules of the three disiplines. In this presentaiton I was less nervious but i took nearly 8minutes. So in my next presentation i will have to be more selective.

Body language and eye contact
I didn'e have to read my notes during the presentation because I had previously prepared it at home. I was constantly moving and making gestures, but I looked a lot at the power point, and i mainly looked at only one sector of the class.

structure
I had to reduce and take out a lot of information for this presentations and focus on the main topics of this project. I spoke of the 3 events of waterskiing, leaving aside the other work I did about the green-peace and contamination.

content
All the information that i said was new for the audience and I tried to make as interesting as possible to that they understood the concept of Waterskiing. The information I gave was clar, with the help of videos i explained the complex rules of this sport.

language
The vocabulary I used was correct for this sort of presentation. I made it easy to understand and I also introduced diferent words realted to the sport.

pronunciation
My pronunciation was good, i tried to slow down this time so to make it easier understand my accent. I spoke quite fluently

evaluation

Presentation 10%	10
Body language 10%	19
Structure 10%	9
Content 40%	40
Language 20%	19
Pronunciation 10%	10
TOTAL 100%	97%

the hangover

Now this is what I'm talkin' about. "The Hangover" is a funny movie, flat out, all the way through. Its setup is funny. Every situation is funny. Most of the dialogue is funny almost line by line. At some point we actually find ourselves caring a little about what happened to the missing bridegroom -- and the fact that we almost care is funny, too.
The movie opens with bad news for a bride on her wedding day. Her fiance's best buddy is standing in the Mojave Desert with a bloody lip and three other guys, none of whom is her fiance. They've lost him. He advises her there's no way the wedding is taking place.

We flash back two days to their road trip to Vegas for a bachelor party. Doug, her future husband (Justin Bartha), will be joined by his two friends, the schoolteacher Phil and the dentist Stu. Joining them will be her brother Alan , an overweight slob with a Haystacks Calhoun beard and an injunction against coming within 200 feet of a school building.

The next morning, Doug will be missing. The other three are missing for several hours; none of them can remember a thing since they were on the roof of Caesars Palace, drinking shots of Jagermeister. They would desperately like to know: How in the hell do you wake up in a $4,200-a-night suite with a tiger, a chicken, a crying baby, a missing tooth and a belly button pierced for a diamond dangle? And when you give your parking check to the doorman, why does he bring around a police car? And where is Doug?

The only bit in this moviw that i didn't like was the end, you could see it coming from a mile away, but everything else that in the movie is very random and misleading heh. One of the best movies I have ever seen. directing brilliance.

If the movie ends somewhat conventionally

chile earthquake

• First quake hit at 11:39 a.m. local time; second 16 minutes later; third 27 minutes later
• First shook the ground near Chilean coast; epicenter about 90 miles from Valparaiso

Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile on Thursday, causing significant damage in at least one city, the country's new president said Thursday.

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit followed by a 6.7-magnitude quake 16 minutes later, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. A third, measured at magnitude 6.0, came 27 minutes later.

They were the strongest aftershocks to rattle Chile since a February 27 earthquake on the country's west coast that toppled buildings and spawned a tsunami, killing several hundred people. Thursday's quakes shook the ground near Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins near the coast just as Chile prepared to inaugurate a new president, Sebastian Pinera.

"There is significant damage in Rancagua," the new president said. "We're going to send the necessary armed forces to guarantee citizens' safety." Rancagua Mayor Eduardo Soto said that no fatalities were immediately reported and that the biggest worry was damage to homes.

After his inauguration Thursday, Pinera visited Rancagua, where he confirmed there were no initial reports of fatalities.

The country's national emergency authorities also put in place a tsunami alert for the coastal area near where the earthquakes hit, and authorities ordered evacuations of some coastal areas..

Why America never fell in love with soccer

It is still regarded as one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history; the day the U.S. shocked the world.

in the group stages in the 1950 world cup finals in Brasil, Walter Bahr was the trainer for the team of semi-professional players who beat the favorite and best team in the world, England, 1-0. This created hradlines all over the world as America were a former colony for England at the time. Bahr celebrated his victory but when he left home, the only pearson waiting for him was his wife. Hardly any news informed America of this great win over the king's of football at the time. Meanwhile the rest of the world were in disbelief.

You would think that after winning such a prestigous prize like the world cup , the american citizens would take a liking for this sport, but they did'nt. Why?

To start soccer never started in America, it was brought over by colonial merchants. But soccer was pushed out by rugby variations of the game, they thought that they had to be more indeoendent and invent your own games, not to depend on merchants to show you. So all games that were seen as un-american were rejected by society. Before 1876 there were many variations of american fotball, until they decided on a federations and started to introduce proper rules.

Another factor is that immigrants wanted to fit in to the american society, so they followed the american football so not to be diferent.

To conclude, I think that it's good that every country has there own games, it formes part of the culture. Like in america there os american football, in Ireland there is hurling and GAA. I really like arriving to a country and learning a new sport I've never heard of before.

amazing sculpture

I saw this picture and i said, ''this deserves a description'' there are so many things happening.

It's a picture of a sand sculpture , totally made of sand made by an artist that gets paid to come to various events and build these amazing sculptures.

starting on the left you can see four heads of american presidents and behind them a massive sculpture of a castle. In the middle of the photo, where the most things are happening, you can see a gate with an imprint of a human face. this is sand!!. underneath the gate a ghost is lying down while a cat stands on its stomach in a pouncing position. Two angels are sitting on either side of the gate with sad expresions on there faces.

The amount of detail and time out into this is huge, thats why I like it so much. The first time I saw one of these was in L'escala where another artist made a sculpture of two lions. I'd like to go to one of these exebitions.