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INSIGHT Magazine INSIGHT Magazine Edition 4, Dec 2017 English Department IES Costa Teguise INDEX ABOUT OUR SCHOOL HALLOWEEN VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DAY Our Headmistress: CARMEN PELLÓN ABOUT COSTA TEGUISE Our Mayor, OSWALDO CABRERA INTERVIEW: British vs Spanish lifestyle BIG BOBS BAR AND AMERICAN DINER COSTA TEGUISE TECH TIME SOCIAL MEDIA ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF MOBILES DANGERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA iPHONE X HEADPHONES STUDIES AROUND THE WORLD SIXTH FORM COLLEGE SPANISH vs GERMAN SYSTEM MUSIC THE CELLO CURIOSITIES CHRISTMAS TEENAGERS AND BOOKS ELVASTON CASTLE HADDON HALL ENGLAND THE MOST VIOLENT CITIES IN THE WORLD MONARCH AIRLINES CEASED TRADING IMPORTANT EXPLORERS IN THE WORLD HALLOWEEN This day different activities were carried out in the school. NÚMERO 1 C U R S O 2016-2017 25th December, INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMAN We have celebrated this day at school with a ceremony in memory of all the victims of gender violence. We have taken the idea of the Mexican artist Elina Chauvet and her Zapatos Rojos or Red Shoes. It is an art project which deals with a city route which consists in lots of pairs of red or red- painted shoes to commemorate the many cases of violence against women in the whole world. In particular, his first work was realized in Ciudad Juarez, the border city between Mexico and the United States, where for the first time it was used the expression “femicide”. Here, indeed hundreds and hundreds of women were abducted, raped and then killed since 1993. It’s not known the real number of victims, but it’s known that the authorities have never seriously considered this shameful truth, covering everything and never making justice for the women killed or their families. Here Elina Chauvet organized the first “silent protest” by collecting 33 pairs of red shoes and arranging them in place as to simulate a protest march of absent women. This project expands also in other countries up to in Italy: Milan, Turin, Genoa, Lecce and now it’s the turn of Bergamo, where there will be two art installations that occupy the Old Town Square from May 12 to May 15. Elina Chauvet is also working on another public project “Confianza” (Trust) dedicated to the Italian artist Pippa Bacca, brutally murdered in Istanbul in 2008 during a performance entitled “brides on tour” in which she and another artist Silvia Moro intended to travel, dressed as brides, by hitchhiking in eleven countries crossed by wars and conflicts to bring messages of peace. The journey of Pippa, however, was cut short in Turkey because of a man who raped and killed her. Elina starts from here to organize a march of women in wedding dress to remember Pippa Bacca. INTERVIEWING OUR HEADMISTRESS, CARMEN PELLÓN (By Jamie Clark, 4º ESO D) Carmen Pellón and Jamie Clark How does it feel to be the headmistress? I feel good about being the headmistress but being the headmistress comes with a big responsibility. How long do you want to be the headmistress for? I have signed a piece of paper to say I can be the headmistress for four years. How long have you been studying to be a headmistress for? Now you don’t have to study to become a headmistress, but you have to do a project and if you pass said project you Carmen Pellón and Jamie Clark are allowed to be a headmistress or headmaster. to wear school uniforms. Eventually we have school clothes that What are your ideas for the are a polo shirt and a pair of jeans or future with the school? trousers and the polos have a logo on. I would like to work on a project with the children and get them to help out. Are you going to add any building to the school? What do you think about the If it was in my hands we would be magazine the English students working on more buildings right now but unfortunately it isn’t. Next year there are are doing? going to be four classes of each year, not three and eventually we will have eleven It is an excellent project and well classes more. designed and it’s good because it gets the English students involved. Are you going to get the school This year we have the option to do big projects? Yes, next year we will have a multicultural project. Why is it prohibited to use your phone on school grounds? At the minute it isn’t prohibited to use your phone but you can only do so if the teacher gives you permission for educative reasons. Next year we will not allow phones in the school because there have been incidents of students taking photos of teachers and uploading them to Instagram and creating fake accounts of said teacher. Do you think the school and its teachers should do a day to day activity to relax before the classes start, like breathing exercises? I don’t think that is a bad idea, maybe next year we will have to include that in into our daily activities for educational reasons of the students. And maybe always have relaxing music on to work to. INTERVIEWING OSWALDO BETANCORT, OUR MAYOR (By Jorge Callero, 2º ESO D) Do you like being the Mayor? Yes, I do. I especially like serving the people and seeing that we help a lot of people doing little things. There is still a long way to go but I like being the Mayor in Teguise. Which politicians or popular people do you admire? Why? Where did you work before being the Mayor? I studied law and I admired Lorenzo Olarte because he was one of the fathers When I finished my studies, I started of the Penal Code. He lived the change of working in a familiar company. It was a the Canary Islands from the dictatorship construction company where we to the democracy. He also worked with promoted housing and I helped my Adolfo Suárez and later he designed the parents with my sieblings. political party Coalición Canaria. He Why did you decide to be the Mayor? achieved that this party was the first political party in the Canary Islands after Actually I didn’t decide it. I had had 30 years. Definitely, I admire the old strong relationships with some nationalist politicians, not the new ones, because politicians in the Canary Islands as, for they were brave and had dedication and example, Lorenzo Olarte. On the other persuasion. hand, my wife started working as an administrative in a political party called What are your plans for the next Coalición Canaria. One day, I went to legislature? pick her up and there, Juan Santana, the I would like to continue improving president of that party, told me that they Teguise. It has to be a competitive and needed a person in Teguise. During three comfortable municipality. I would like to months he was insisting me and finally I install children parks with shadow and went to a meeting with them. After that, I also for disabled people, to improve the hooked. gardens cleaning, etc. And I will tell you a breaking new, you are the first journalist I tell this: there is already a project for a teacher told us to write about what we new health centres in Costa Teguise and were feeling at school. I wrote that I felt there is funding to it before December. in prison and the teacher call me saying that I was the only child that said that. I Will you be the mayor the next told her that I preferred that they take me legislature? to the beach, to the “Bosquecillo”, etc. I do not know but I would like to After two or three weeks, they took us to because I think that we are a team Las Montañas del Fuego. The teacher formed by young people that work a lot. told me that the trip was because of my People may think that we make mistakes, letter. and actually they are right, everybody What do you think about the education makes mistakes, but they cannot say that nowadays? we do not work. I hope that people understand that this has not been an easy legislature. Which school did you study at? I studied at Generalísimo Franco, in Arrecife. It was a beautiful but disciplinary age where we could not even stand up in class. I remember a History class where I yawned because I could not sleep the night before and the teacher argued me horribly. I think those things were very important in my education and I think that education nowadays is quite nowadays I am proud of that. I think that good, we have very competitive teachers education is the most important value in and I admire that you are right now life. asking me questions in English, speaking the language very well. We depend on After school, I studied in Agustín tourism in the Canary Islands and it is Espinosa High School. I studied my very important to speak different degree at the University of Las Palmas. languages, I think it is even more Could you tell me any memory you important to have another language than have from your childhood? to have a degree. My childhood was good. I can remember that my school was full of grilles and the BRITISH AND SPANISH LIFESTYLE IN COSTA TEGUISE (By Anna, Kira, Grace and Alex - 2ºESO A) These past few weeks we have been asking questions to all the teachers and students to compare the Bristish and Spanish lifestyle.
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