Rebel song

Now I'm going to introduce the rebel song I chose. It's called Uprising from the band Muse. This song was released in 2009. Muse is one of my favourite bands, I really like their style of music because it's got a lot of rock elements but it's quite different comparing to the mainstream music. Their songs always come up with great lyrics that make me think and often they fit well in situations in my life. So no more preview, let's listen to some nice music! (In blue you can read the German translations)

The paranoia is in bloom / Die Paranoia ist in der Blüte

 The PR transmissions will resume / Die PR-Übertragungen werden fortfahren

 They'll try to push drugs, keep us all dumbed down / Sie werden versuchen Drogen zu verticken, uns alle dumm zu halten

 And hope that we will never see the truth around / Und hoffen, dass wir nie die Wahrheit außenrum sehen

 (So come on!) / (Also kommt schon!)

Another promise, another scene, another / Ein weiteres Versprechen, eine weitere Szene, eine weitere

 Packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed with all the / Verpackte Lüge um uns in der Gier gefangen zu halten, mit all den

 Green belts wrapped around our minds and endless / Grünen Gurten um unseren Verstand gewickelt und endlosem

 Red tape to keep the truth confined / Rotem Band um die Wahrheit begrenzt zu halten

 (So come on!) / (Also kommt schon!)

They will not force us / Sie werden uns nicht zwingen
And they will stop degrading us / Und sie werden aufhören uns herabzustufen

 And they will not control us / Und sie werden uns nicht kontrollieren

 We will be victorious / Wir werden siegreich sein

 (So come on!) / (Also kommt schon!)

Interchanging mind control / Austauschen der Gedankenkontrolle

 Come let the revolution take its toll / Komm, lass die Revolution ihr Tribut fordern

 If you could flick a switch and open your third eye / Wenn du einen Schalter anschnipsen und dein drittes Auge öffnen könntest

 You'd see that we should never be afraid to die / Würdest du sehen, dass wir niemals ängstlich sein sollten zu sterben

 (So come on!) / (Also kommt schon!)

Rise up and take the power back / Erhebt euch und holt die Macht zurück

 It's time the fat cats had a heart attack / Es ist Zeit, dass diese fetten Katzen eine Herzattacke haben

 You know that their time is coming to an end / Ihr wisst ihre Zeit kommt zu einem Ende

 We have to unify and watch our flag ascend / Wir müssen uns verbünden und unsere Flagge aufsteigen sehen

 (So come on!) / (Also komm schon!)

They will not force us / Sie werden uns nicht zwingen

 And they will stop degrading us / Und sie werden aufhören uns herabzustufen

 And they will not control us / Und sie werden uns nicht kontrollieren

 We will be victorious / Wir werden siegreich sein

 (So come on!) / (Also kommt schon!)

Hey, hey, hey, hey! / Hey, hey, hey, hey! (doing a more German accent, logically)

 Hey, hey, hey, hey! / Hey, hey, hey, hey!

They will not force us / Sie werden uns nicht zwingen

 And they will stop degrading us / Und sie werden aufhören uns herabzustufen

 And they will not control us / Und sie werden uns nicht kontrollieren

 We will be victorious / Wir werden siegreich sein

 (So come on!) / (Also kommt schon!)

Email writing

Here is the original text of my email writing homework:

"Hello Sonia!

Well, you told us to write you an email with a presentation of ourselves. But as you already said, you know many of your students from last year. And I'm obviously one of them. So I thought if I write a mere presentation it would be rather irrelevant and it may bore you to read it.

Eventually, I decided to tell you about my summer this year. Perhaps I should remind you of my facebook status from the end of August. I shared with everyone that I would return to Spain the 2th of September (Or was it the 3rd? I can't remember, hahaha) after two cool months in Germany. Well, not really "cool". It was actually quite hot many days.

During those two months I had been to three diferent places. And I never travelled so much alone. First, I accompanied Lena to her new home in Germany. She's now living in Munster (now I've got to reveal private information) which is a little city in Niedersachsen. It's in the northern part of Germany and its capital is Hannover. I had two very relaxing weeks there and her family was very kind to me. Around the 26th of August they had to go to Bavaria to a celebration for the 90th birthday of Lena's grand aunt.

So I had to leave and I went to visit my grandparents which live in Kusel, a REALLY little city in Rheinland-Pfalz in the southern-west part in Germany. It was very nice to see them again after two long years! My poor grandfather suffered a stroke in September 2010 and the left side of his body was paralyzed. But luckily he did a therapy with success and now he feels a lot better. He has to walk with a cane but he's in a very good condition. I also met my best friend who lives there and we did a lot of crazy things together. We went two times after midnight to an old castle which is near his house. There we climbed up a wall and sat down on a place with a really amazing view of the landside. And we talked about a lot of things and had our philosofical moments.

But I missed Lena too bad and I couldn't return without seeing her another time. I decided to take a train to go another time to Munster where I could stay for two more weeks. You see, her mother is really kind and did me big favour for letting me stay so many days. This second time we had two very special experiences in the last weekend. We had the luck to fly with a sailplane and enjoy an outstanding view from over 500 metres. It was a pity that we both didn't feel very well that day and we couldn't fly for a long time but it was definitely worth it! And the next day we visited the Heidepark, a very well known theme park in Germany! We had so much fun there and our last attraction was a new roller coaster. First, Lena was very excited to ride it. A few minutes before she cursed the whole world. After the ride, she felt very happy and thought it was cool!

Finally, my last travel station waited for me: Frankfurt am Main. My uncle lives in Offenbach, a city which is next to Frankfurt and thanks to him I could see some things of this amazing city. You can see my pictures in Facebook if you're interested!

Well, as you see, I had a great summer. Those were some really nice experiences and I enjoyed the time a lot.

I hope you will also have a good time when you go to Berlin ;)"