On the road to ruin.

On the road to ruin: Villagers fear their homes will be swept away as coastline is torn up by the sea

It is far more than just the road less travelled - and for very good reason.

The picturesque stretch of coastline at Skipsea, in North Humberside, is being rapidly destroyed by encroaching waters which have left a gaping chasm in the tarmac which runs along the cliff top.

Now villagers living along the same route fear their homes are quite literally on the road to ruin.

Fast lane to destruction: The picturesque stretch of coastline at Skipseam in North Humberside, is being rapidly destroyed by encroaching waters which have left a gaping chasm in the tarmac

The sea has already claimed a number of houses and gardens and locals have been forced to take evasive action.

Pensioner Janet Ellis, 65, said residents felt they had been left at the mercy of the elements by their local council.

'It's coming in a lot quicker over the last few weeks. I think it could be due to the severe winter we've just had,' she said.

'The erosion has taken a great big chunk out of next-door's garden. I've been here for 25 years and there used to be a road and quite a bit of land in front of the houses.

'Now my neighbours are having to pull up their fence and move it closer to the house to keep it from being washed away.'

Mrs Ellis, who said she was the first person to move into homes built along Green Lane, believes Skipsea will go the same way as a number of other villages which have disappeared into the sea over the years.

'I feel like we've just been left forgotten about,' she added.

'We can't use the road and the street lights don't work. We've even got to fetch our own bins down for the binmen, but we still have to pay our tax.'

Going nowhere? Villagers living along Green Lane fear their homes are quite literally on the road to ruin. The sea has already claimed a number of houses and gardens and locals have been forced to take evasive action

Another Green Lane resident, Michelle Bentley, 43, added: 'From my front garden all I can see is the beach - but there used to be a road and a cliff edge in front of my house.

'I've lost about 20ft of my front garden in the last few years. People say the erosion slows down but I haven't seen any evidence of that.

The holiday salesman said parts of what used to be her garden were now beach and she is unable to insure her home.

'The cliff edge has come right into the garden and I can look out of my window and see whether or not it's high tide,' she added.

'It's still coming in quite fast and I would say all the houses will be gone in three to four years.

'I can't get insurance on the property, just its contents. When my house is gone I'm going to have to see if I can get a council house. All of my money has gone into the house.

'There's about 23 houses left, so finding council accommodation for us all will be tricky. I don't think the council are doing enough to help us.'

Holiday sales manager for Skipsea Sands, Fiona Scott, 40, said a farm was pulled down last year because it was perched precariously on the edge of the cliff.

'Half of it had fallen into the sea but the owner didn't want to leave,' she said. 'In the end he was forcibly removed and the road was closed.

'Everyone round here talks about the erosion and signs petitions but I don't know what's being done about it. The council don't seem to care.'

My opinion:

Poor people. I think the council would have to pay a home to those who lost. Of course, poor city also, because they haven't to blame. I do not know, this case is difficult; it is nature who involved and that's why nobody is to blame. Lately, a lot of damage occurs because of the nature, we are destroying the world with the global warming.

A chilling new.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1362147/Skipsea-villagers-fear-homes-swept-away-coastline-eroded-sea.html

Description of a person: Lydia.

Important things in my life

Hello! In this post I'll talk about the things I need to survive (hehe).

There are a lot of things I need, but if I have to choose only one thing to survive it would be my family :)


Sentimental things I need:

I need love, of course. I need my family, my dog, my friends, music (in general), to write, live in a place near the sea where you can breathe,go to the cinema, go rowing with my team, go out , know that I am not alone, traveling, dreaming, having a goal (or a few), aspire to something important (no matter if I cannot reach it). Imagination and curiousity=).

I also need to feel safe, that the place where I am is the correct place, that people support me, that people understand me, that lying and false people is away from me (the farther possible)...etc,etc.

(These are a lot of things, I know. I am describing the perfect world, haha)

Material things I need:

(In a perfect world):

A HOME, a piano, a guitar, a laptop, something to write, clothes, shoes, glasses, books, a mobile phone (I don't use it very much, but well..), the Monopoly (:P haha), a TV, a camera... I don't know... THE WORLD! =)


There are a lot of things I'll need in a perfect world. But, fortunately, I have all these things :') and I'm very happy to have them.

My opinion about my Oral Presentation

I think my pronuntiation was good, and the text we put on the power point was it too. It was a good oral presentation (we had to talk about UUEE, and you know that it is a very known country, but beside that, we tried to find curiousities and we found them =) ) So I'm very proud of our work.

I think we did it well. The time was 10 minutes, yes, I agree. But we do it faster than in home and our finally time was around the 9 minutes. Is it a bad time? 30 seconds for each other, is that so bad?

I don't think so.

I think that we should equally appreciate the people who has a lengthy history roll (no matter if you only read your paper) that people like me who gets to the point and, unfortunately, makes 60 seconds less. In the next oral presentation, I'll come with the encyclopedia under my arm and read it from the beginning to the end. Maybe by this way, my note will improve...


I spendt my time preparing this oral presentation too, you know? And I'm very angry that a colleague commented on my 60 seconds. True, God forgive me! But get calm, the next time I'll exceeds the time as the colleague did.

Summarizing, if you penalized me because I missed 60 seconds, I think you should also penalized people who passed to that time. Nothing more.

This is my humble opinion =)

Oral Presentation & Transcription.

The video of my Oral Presentation:



This is the transcription of my Oral Presentation ( do it with Cristina Malirach Reitg).

United States

Native Americans and European settlers:

The indigenous peoples of the U.S. mainland, including Alaska Natives, are believed to have migrated from Asia, beginning between 12,000 and 40,000 years ago. Some, such as the Mississippian culture, developed advanced agriculture, grand architecture, and state-level societies. After Europeans began settling the Americas, many millions of them died from epidemics of imported diseases like smallpox.

FOOD:

American cuisine is similar to other Western countries. Wheat is the primary cereal. Traditional American cuisine uses ingredients such as turkey, venison, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, squash, and maple syrup, indigenous foods employed by Native Americans and early European settlers. Slow-cooked pork and beef barbecue, crab cakes, potato chips, and chocolate chip cookies are distinctively American styles.

Characteristic dishes like apple pie, fried chicken, pizza, hamburgers, and hot dogs derive from the recipes of various immigrants. French fries, Mexican dishes such as burritos and tacos, and pasta dishes freely adapted from Italian sources are widely consumed. Americans generally prefer coffee to tea.

SPORTS:

Since the late 19th century, baseball has been regarded as the national sport; American football ,basketball, and ice hockey are the country's three other leading professional team sports. College football and basketball attract large crowds.

Basketball, volleyball, skateboarding, snowboarding, and cheer leaders are American inventions. While most major U.S. sports have been taken from European activities.

HEALTH:

The United States life expectancy is of 77.8 years at birth.

LANGUAGE:

English is in fact the national language. Although there is no official language at the federal level. In 2007, about 226 million, or 80% of the population aged five years and older, spoke only English at home. Spanish, spoken by 12% of the population at home, is the second most common Language. Some Americans want to make English the country's official language,

While neither has a no official language, New Mexico has laws providing for the use of both English and Spanish, as Louisiana does the same for English and French.

GEOGRAPHY:

¢ 50 federal states

¢ America is the third most populous nation in the world after China and India.

CLIMATE:

The United States, wich its large size and geographic variety, includes most climate types. To the east of the 100th meridian, the climate ranges from humid continental in the north to humid subtropical in the south. The southern tip of Florida is tropical, as is Hawaii. Much of the Western mountains are alpine. The climate is dry in the Great Basin, desert in the South west, Mediterranean in coastal California, and oceanic in coastal Oregon and Washington and southern Alaska. Most of Alaska is subarctic or polar. Extreme weather is not common—the states bordering the Gulf of Mexico are prone to hurricanes, and most of the world's tornadoes occur within the country, mainly in the Midwest's Tornado Alley.

HOLLYWOOD:

Hollywood’s Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, California, United States, on whose soil is placed over 2,000 5-pointed stars with the names of celebrities to whom the House of Hollywood trade honor for his contribution to the entertainment industry.

CURIOUSITIES:

-The most expensive restaurant in the United States, is in New York.

Masa Restaurant, New York.
Price: $ 366.

This small restaurant, seating for 26 people, is the most expensive in the U.S. with a menu that ranges between 350 and $ 500 per person not including any glass of alcohol.

-The most populous city in the United States.

Is, of course, New York.

With 17,800,000 seventeen million eight hundred thousand persons, is the second most populous city in the world. 1rst: Tokio.

-The most poor State in the United States is Mississipi.

-WHAT IS THE ONLY PLACE IN THE UNITED STATES WHEN IS NOT COMMON CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING DAY IN NOVEMBER?

The virgin islands.

127 hours

Danny Boyle's film is about a boy (Aron) that goes away (on a excursion) to the Nacional Canyonlands Park.

Ha goes alone and without telling anybody. So, nobody knows where he has gone.

while he is walking thorugh the Canyon, he falls and he gets his hand trapped under a very big rock.

So, he cannot free himself.

The title given to the film is the time he spent trapped under the rock (around the five days).

He goes through hell, he has no water, no food and he can't move.

On the fifth day he decides to cut his arm to survive. But he hasn't got any sharp tools to cut something so hard.

But finally he cuts his arm off with a blund knife wich takes him half a day to be able to do it.

You can imagine the pain he falts (and all the people in the cinema).

In the end, Aron manages to scape and meet some hikers who help him and ring an emergency number and a helicopter comes to his rescue.

Before it shows the names of the people appearing in the film, appears the real Aron without his arm (but with his family) as it was a true story.

James Franco, the actor who plays Aron, has been nominated for an Oscar to play the mein character in this film.

Here I let you with the trailer!

Me and my short stories

I have a problem: I don't have time.

There are so many things I want to do and there's no time to do them.

One thing I love to do is write. I have started almost five novels (importants to me) and a lot of other short sotries. But I can finish none.

Now, for the TDR (Treball de Recerca/ Reserch Work) I have to do a short novel in the practise side. I hope I will be able to do this =)

I like writing fantastic sotires. I don't write any stories without a touch of magic.


My main characters used to be girls, because I understand better the thoughts I want to convey. Then, there is always a boy and an evil figure.

I have written stories about magic lands (that aren't on the Earth) and stories that take place in the real world, but magic is always there.

One thing that takes me a long time is choosing the name of my characters.

I always look for a name to represent the story, or a name with a great significance.

But it is worse when I look for a nome for a boy.

In my sotries there's always a touch of mistery caused by the evil figure (it used to be a evil wizard or something like this) wich slowly gets to the point.

Of course, the girl and the boy fall in love. So, there's romance too.

I have always another problem: the title.

People say that you should find the title when you finish writing the novel, but I put a temporary title.


I have won two Literature awards, one for a story in Spanish and another for a story in Catalan (both in the same year).

The Spanish story was about "the fairy f dreams" and the Catalan story was about a girl who had a strange dream.

Whenever I have the structure of the novel clearly in my mind, I cannot write it by an easy way, is just that: ideas.

I can't tell you what the story endings are like because of that: I have never finished one! haha =)

Earthquake in New Zealand

New Zealand's prime minister says at least 65 people have died after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch.

John Key said the toll was expected to rise further, adding: "We may be witnessing New Zealand's darkest day."

The tremor caused widespread damage as it occurred at a shallow depth of 5km (3.1 miles) during lunchtime when Christchurch was at its busiest.

The mayor of New Zealand's second-biggest city says 120 people have been rescued from the ruins.

The country's deadliest natural disaster in 80 years struck at 1251 (2351 GMT on Monday), 10km (6.2 miles) south-east of the city.

Screams from rubble

The damage is said to be far worse than after the 7.1-magnitude quake on 4 September, which left two people seriously injured but no fatalities.

“Start Quote

We've had friends in town call us and say there are just bodies lying around: lots of dead bodies outside shops just lying there just covered in bricks”

End Quote Jaydn Katene Christchurch resident

The epicentre of that quake, which occurred in the middle of the night, was further away from the city and deeper underground, but it still caused an estimated $3bn (£1.9bn) in damage.

TV pictures of the aftermath of Tuesday's disaster showed scores of collapsed buildings in the South Island city of nearly 400,000 people.

Shocked survivors could be seen wandering the rubble-strewn streets, which cracked open as the ground beneath was liquefied by the tremor.

Police said that the dead included people on two buses which were crushed by falling buildings.

Helicopters plucked survivors to safety from rooftops, and dumped water on fires.

Officials said up to 30 people were feared still trapped inside the razed Pyne Gould Guinness building, where screams have been heard from the ruins.

My opinion:

I think these disasters are always bad, of course. Normally we always see on TV that they only occur in poor countries, and we feel sorry for them, we see the catastrophe away from us. We see it as if it were a fiction that takes place far from here.

So I was surprised, like everyone else, when I saw the news of the earthquake in New Zealand. You see people like you, from a developed country, suffering like those of poor countries. And then you stop, think and realize that there is only one world and we all suffer because of the nature alike. It doesn't matter if your city is the most prepared of the world or the most modern and important: we are equal if a disaster like this occur.

I'm sad because of the disasters like this one, because is one thing we cannot control.

This is my opinion of this new.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12533291