Sunday, January 25, 2015

University almost on the Beach

I chose Almeria, Spain for my Erasmus and I need to say it was good decision. The city was perfect, the people was perfect, but… the university not. The buildings were ok, modern and comfortable, the University of Almeria is located near the sea side and it looks so beautiful , but the level of education didn't satisfy me, there was a big organizational chaos, the members of my working groups on lessons were quite rude. For many people who didn’t spoke Spanish it was said at the beginning that classes are conducted in English, but they weren’t. I didn’t have problem with that but, I think it was not fair for all the people  who thought it was enough to speak English. At the university I didn’t  learned nothing new. Maybe it wasn’t a good idea to locate the university in this place, you feel more like on holiday there. 



Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Spanish Mini Hollywood (Almeria province)



The Desert of Tabernas is Europe's only desert it is arid and resembles the type of landscape found in Arizona or Colorado in the USA, many films mostly westerns were made there as was an episode of Dr Who, There is a western town that was used as a film set called Fort Bravo which has facilities such as wooden. I think that this is the kind of place that you have never thought it exists in Europe. Not only the Desert of Tabernas is the place where many movies had been filmed, all the Almeria province is known as Mini Hollywood. There are hundreds of movies filmed there. The most popular are: Asterix at the Olympic Games, Cleopatra, King of Kings, Lawrence of Arabia and many more. After my residence in Almeria I had no idea of that. I was so surprised when they told me about that. Look at this photos. :)




Other recommendation

Today I want to recommend all of you the other serial produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami in co-production by Chile-based television network TVN. It’s called Dueños del paraíso (Masters of Paradise). The serial is inspired by the drug trade of Miami in the 1980s.
Masters of Paradise tells the story of Anastasia Cardona (Kate del Castillo), a woman without any innocence, with a life marked by violence and poverty, betrayed in the depths of his being and whose ambition leads her to use drug trafficking as a means to become one of the most powerful women of those times.
Traumatized by the events of a life difficult and driven to avenge the betrayal of a husband with that thought all their dreams, Anastasia will find the illicit business of her husband the wealth you have always dreamed. Their thirst for power will take her to not respect any limits when choosing their victims. Ready to everything to defeat their enemies, Anastasia will meet vexations of betrayal and the impossibility of living the true love.
The premiere of the serial was on January 13, and I have to say that I’m impressed. Everything, like houses, bars, cars, clothes of the characters is perfectly prepared, and looks like in the ’80. I think it will be high budget, and I’m sure it will have good ratings also.

Here’ s the trailer in English. Enjoy. You can watch the serial on telemundo.com, with English subtitles.