Wednesday Morning Blog

 Hi FAU Bloggers, This week we will also split our blog session into 2 sections: In section 1 you need to write about your ALL TIME TOP 5, and in Section 2, evaluate a classmate's blog. ALL TIME TOP 5 Choose one of the following themes and create an ALL TIME TOP 5: books, films, animes/mangas, songs, albums, TV series. For each of the 5 items on your list write a text that includes: - the genre - the creator (director, author, musician) - the year it came out - the main characters or themes - a very brief summary of why you like it. Here are 2 of my ALL TIME TOP 5 FILMS as an example. One of my favourite films is the science fiction film Bladerunner which was released in 1982. It was made by British director Ridley Scott. The main characters are Deckard, an ex-police officer trained to capture and "terminate" runaway robots called Replicants. Roy Batty is the leader of a group of escaped replicants who Deckard has to capture and kill. I loved this movie because of it'

Having a week off mid-term is a great idea. Being able to do other things apart from work or study can have a positive impact on motivation and wellbeing.  Today I'd like to write about the top 5 activities I did during the past week. 1. Sleep I guess this will be high on most people's list:) I normally get up at 6.45 - 7.00 am every week-day, so being able to sleep in until 9 or 10 am was great. I think I enjoyed it more because of the time of the year. There have been a lot of grey, sun-less days recently, and being able to stay in bed when its cold outside is wonderful. 2. Hobby Time Extra time off always means having a little more time to dedicate to doing hobbies. As you may know by now, my main hobby is making music. I combine electronic instruments and rhythms with live guitar and, occasionally, vocals randomly. This past week I fine tuned a couple of songs I'm working on and started a couple of new projects. I had hoped to get more done this week but I guess the tra

 My cultural snapshot at the moment contains the following items: Music: Actually, the songs I have stuck in my head at the moment are all the demo songs I´m working on for a solo album I hope to release next month. It´s the first time I´ve worked on a collection of songs with lyrics for about 20 years. My favourite tracks are ¨Can U Lift Me Up¨ & a duet I sing with my wife called ¨Hope¨. I guess they are sort of electronic with elements of Pop & Soul. My artistic name is Experiment SH1310 (you can follow on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/artist/08XQBuGhFGeu0SXOfpwLmz?si=Gmei-psGQuORP8FxEGmrWg). Book The book I´m reading at the moment is called ¨Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow ¨ by Gabrielle Zevin. I think it´s a modern love story (but I´m not quite sure). It´s about 2 friends who worker together creating video games. It´s very easy to read and the story is compelling. I´m about half-way through so far and I´m really enjoying the story, Film: The film on my cultur

The first thing I do most mornings is to read The Guardian newspaper with a cup of (British) tea. I tend to scan the headlines to see if anything important or interesting has happened and then head to the sports's page to read about football. Later in the day, when I have more time, I go back and read other parts of the newspaper that may interest me. I've read The Guardian since I was about 18 and although the journalism has become a little "comic like" at times, it still holds true to it's left-wing ideals (nowadays it's pinkish rather than red😂😂😂😂). Today, I'd like to use a Guardian idea as an inspiration for today's blogpost. We are going to read an article on cultural recommendations given by a well-known person (well, in the UK at least). Click on the Guardian "On My Radar" link here:  theguardian.com/culture/series/on-my-radar Scroll down and select an article to read (by someone you have heard of or think might be interesting). Th