OZUNA, MY FAVOURITE LATIN ARTIST

Are you a fan of Latin music and reggaeton? If you are, you will love reading my first post. I am a big fan of this kind of music, so I chose to start writing about a famous Latin-American singer, his name is Ozuna.

Who’s Ozuna?

Jan Carlo Ozuna, known as Ozuna, was born on March 13^th, 1992 in Puerto Rico. Raised by his grandmother because of the economic conditions of his family, from a small age shows great passion for music dreaming of becoming a singer with a worldwide recognition.

Now at the age of 26, he has a huge success in his musical career, producing songs that quickly become viral in fact, he is considered the best artist with most success in the generation of reggaeton singers.

GEORGE GRAY - CATCH THE WIND OF DESTINY WHEREVER THEY DRIVE THE BOAT

Here are Andrea's and Sofia's reflections of Edgar Lee Masters' poem, George Gray

ANDREA: REGRET IN GEORGE GRAY

This epitaph by Edgar Lee Masters wants to underline the irremediable despair of those who didn’t have the courage to face life in order to fully live it. The poem is written in free verse , without any rhyme nor structures of stanzas.

DO YOU EVER FEEL ANXIOUS? WELL, YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

We are reflecting on The Hard Task of Growing Up in our English lessons in this final year. We have worked on poems, novels, articles, clips from movies, songs and videos so far. We also listened to an interview with global star Shawn Mendes and  to one of his songs, In My Blood. Both in the song and in the interview Shawn Mendes refers to his issue with anxiety and gives his own personal vision on the matter. We were asked by our teacher to write about our own struggle with anxiety. Here's what  some of us had to say. 

Karina

Anxiety is a combination of emotions which include fear, worry and most of the time it's due to nothing. You can feel anxious or nervous before a test, before a job interview or when you fight with someone really close to you, but the hardest moments are when you feel anxious because you don't think you're good enough.

DO YOU LOVE ED SHEERAN? WE DO!

If you've been following our blog since it started, you'll know our staff love Ed Sheeran. We are new entries and wanted to start blogging with something we really like. So, why not Ed Sheeran, we thought. 

Edward Christopher Sheeran is the most-selling male pop star in the world. He has sold more than 38 million albums and 100 million singles worldwide. Two of his albums are in the list of the best-selling albums in UK chart history: x(at number 20) and ÷(at number 34).

His album ÷ (Divide) sold over 400,000 in just three days, it sounds crazy, doesn’t it?

In this post we’re going to write about  some of Ed's most famous songs.

ALEXANDER THROCKMORTON AND THE PURSUIT OF GENIUS

In youth my wings were strong and tireless, 

but I did not know the mountains.

In age I knew the mountains

But my weary wings could not follow my vision

Genius is wisdom and youth.

(E.L. Masters, Spoon River Anthology, 1915)

Alexander Throckmorton is one of the protagonists of Edgar Lee Masters’ collection of poems Spoon River Anthology. Each poem tells the story of one of Spoon River’s citizens. All the protagonists,  now dead, confess their desires, ambitions and, above all, their regrets. 

The poem, composed by five free lines, is written in the first person. In the first line Alexander describes life as a flight whose destination is the “mountains”. These mountains stand for knowledge and experience. Instead,  the “wings”, which makes him able to fly, symbolise dreams, ambitions, desires, energy, and freedom.

PARKOUR: ONLY FOR THE BRAVE!

Hello there! This is our first post on LET’S BLOG! so we would like to start from something we are really fascinated by, one of the riskiest sport ever invented: PARKOUR? Have you ever heard anything about it?

Parkour is a very dangerous activity. You have to overcome whichever obstacle with the best efficiensy, speed, and movement semplicity, adapting yourself to the surrounding space, nature or urban, by running, jumping, balance.

As you may have guessed, this is serious business! If you are wondering where Parkour was born and what our favourite stunts are, keep reading!    

A POP SONG IN A FEW STEPS

Warning! This post is full of audios so put your headphones on and let’s get started!

1)TEXT: 90% of pop songs are love songs so we’re going to write a text about love. Well, in this case we’re supposed to use words such as sweet, love, heart... so love everywhere.

1a) VERSE: in the verse we can talk about our love for a girl or a boy: we can say we are falling in love with someone or that she/he is the sweetest person in the world; we want to kiss him/her for our entire life and so on.

FIFA WORLD CUP 2018: PITY WE WERE NOT THERE!

Are you an avid football fan? If you are, you’ll love reading our first post for LET’S BLOG!   We are great football fans, so we’ve chosen to start writing about FIFA World Cup.                                                                                                                          

FIFA World Cup is the biggest football tournament. There are 32 national teams competing and it takes place every four years. 

Brazil national team won the cup five times, while Italy and Germany “just” four times.

2014 FIFA World Cup was held in Brazil. During the tournament Germany played against Argentina. The victory-goal was scored by Mario Gotze during the extra time after taking Miroslav Klose place, that was the best world cup goal scorer of all time.

A NEW BANNER AND A LITTLE MESSAGE

So, recently,  I’ve decided to finally get over with the new banner.

The first idea was pretty simple, a teenage girl, specifically the older version of the red-haired one from our first banner, sitting in her office working on her pc.

Even though I started drawing it, the subject itself did not really interest me, at least not enough to make me excited at the idea of finishing it.

But now, here you have this beautiful mess I dare to call “our new banner”.

MILAN FASHION WEEK

You’re interested in fashion but you couldn’t see the Milan Fashion Week?!? Well, make sure to read the whole article so as not to miss your second chance to know what happened. If, instead, fashion is not your passion, well … you might learn something new!

MFW took place in Milan between the 19^th and 25^th of September. For those who don’t know how fashion shows work I’m gonna tell you that were presented just SS’019 (Spring/Summer 2019) collections. So if you were interested in autumn or winter clothes you’re late because for those collections there was another MFW previously, in February.