Reflections: Gender, violence, equality by ENSINUS-ETP/INETE (November, 25)

 Let’s talk about social behaviours 

 

 

Are we really that different? Perhaps we are not so different, we are equal men and women, black and white. We are all human beings, we feel pain, we are sad, we smile and scream all the same, we like to be heard and listen to others. Saying no to what is unfair and saying yes to what one wants to accept, so perhaps there will be less rivalry between us and those who feel and have no voice.  

 

It is up to us to build the world and to have a sense of what is right or wrong according to reality never forgetting our values. Why is there so much prejudice? Will we accept ourselves as we are? Why do we need to look for people like us?  

 

Let’s learn from others and get to know the different.  All of us have different personalities and opinions. Justice is not weakness, as well as bowing your head and accepting the other.  Learning from others and growing with them is doing justice and building a more balanced world. 

 

Fátima Afonso 

Reflections: Moving by Ensinus-ETP/INETE, Lisbon Portugal (December)

Have you lived the experience of moving? 

My adaptation to Portugal  ✌

 It all started on February 13, 2017, when my mother and I moved to Portugal.  At first I was not happy to come and leave my family, friends etc ... behind.  Of course I was excited, because it would be my first international trip and it would be with my mother.  My uncles and my cousin have lived here for 2 months, and in the beginning we would all live together.  I arrived in Portugal on February 14 at 07:00 am and my uncles and my cousin came to pick us up, my first impression of Portugal was not the best, I was used to a very big city, with several modern buildings and a lot of heat and  very wide spaces, in Portugal it was quite the opposite, the streets were small, the buildings were older and it was very cold.  In the first year it was very difficult for me because I missed home and I didn't feel comfortable in that environment even with my uncles, we moved and for a long time my mother and I lived in a room until today we have our home.  It was very difficult for me to adapt to the Portuguese culture, I was very introverted around the Portuguese, I couldn't adapt to the typical foods of the country, and at the beginning I wanted to leave.  After a year I met a group of Brazilians and I felt more comfortable and closer to home, since then I have met many Brazilians, I made a lot of friends, I traveled all over Lisbon, traveled to other places like Porto, Gerês, and learned to like Portugal.  I confess that there is a lot of difference between one country and others, but today I live very well in Portugal and I really like living here, the process was slow but today I can say that I love Portugal.

Isabela Rocha

Christmas lights in Adeje by IES Adeje (December)

 We associate lights with enlightenment and happiness. All the decorations keep our spirits high and nowadays we need it more than ever. We are facing the Covid-19 and we need energy to accept these hard days and intelligence to find a solution.
Lights in shops, parks and street lighting invite us to go out, buy and celebrate the coming of a new year. 

We liked lights and Christmas decorations in Navarre, now we are going to show you the ones we have in Adeje.

DO YOU LIKE THEM?

Giving my opinion about Christmas by Higher Vocational Training in Business Administration and Finances in CIP Tafalla (December)

 It is true that if you ask everyone to give their opinion about Christmas, we could find diametrically opposed opinions. This is why I rose the question "Is Christmas a blessing or a curse?" in the class of Higher Vocational Training in Business Administration and Finances (CIP Tafalla). After doing some oral debates exchanging interesting opinions, students changed the channel and they wrote their own essays. 

Below these lines we can find three students' examples:

Nowadays people celebrate Christmas without caring about its true meaning. There are people for everything, since for some it is a blessing and for others it is a curse.

First of all, I think that Christmas is a special date in which everyone is happy because they can get together with their families. There are many people who are alone, and this is why they do not like Christmas. I think that we should make them see the other good things that Christmas has. In my opinion, Christmas is a blessing, as in these holidays I am very happy because I spend time with my family and my loved ones.

In addition, I think it is good because you usually have a party both at work and at school and the economy moves forward because people spend much more money. Some people think that it is bad because we spend a lot of money, but I would tell them the opposite, thanks to the fact that people usually have extra payments on these dates.

Finally, Christmas is a date that we should all enjoy and spend with our loved ones because if not in the future we will regret it.

(David)

 

Although some people consider Christmas a curse, I believe that it is a time to be with your relatives and we should be grateful because of that. Especially nowadays, since we had to make a huge effort not to see them as much as we wanted.

Firstly, when these dates come/ arrive approach we all become more melancholic. This makes us focus on the importance of getting in touch with the people from whom we have distanced ourselves and to get together with the people we love and appreciate. Also, sometimes we forgive and forget problems that may have occurred.

Some people claim that Christmas is just a marketing campaign companies use to sell more and make people spend more money on things that are not essentials.  However, in my opinion, the majority of the society spends more than usual but with a reason. They want to offer themselves something special, take care of themselves and be pampered by friends and family members.

In conclusion, I believe that Christmas is a blessing and that although it is true that there may be discussions or bad experiences, in the end, we all want to spend those special dates with someone in one way or another.

(Sandra)

Although some people love Christmas, I believe that it is more a curse than a blessing because we are forced to do things that during the rest of the year don't matter so much. It seems that we have to behave well and do our best, be better,  more "good", and we should not get angry or be sad or depressed.

It is true that at Christmas we spend more time with our family and loved ones than the rest of the year, and at this time the whole family gets together to share dinner or meals, and gifts. However, when a loved one is no longer with us, Christmas seems to be the time when we miss them the most.

I believe that being a good person, sharing and enjoying time with our loved ones should be the same all year round, not just at Christmas. In addition, On the other hand there is the commercial and marketing issue to spend much more money at this time. This means that families must save money because at Christmas they do a lot of shopping, sometimes even more than necessary.

In conclusion, I think that Christmas has become an excuse to pretend that everything is going well and that we are all happy, to spend money and to smile. However, there is one good thing about Christmas, seeing children so happy.

(Edurne)

And... What about you? Would you like to post a comment giving your opinion?

Project on GENDER EQUALITY - Students in Basic Vocational Training course in CIP Tafalla, Spain. (November, 25)

GENDER EQUALITY

Elisabeth: We did a one-week project with the help of some students with special needs.

On Thursday, November 19, the first thing we did was create groups with the roles of manager, collaborator, moderator and analyst. It was my turn to be an analyst and collaborator. Then we made a Logo for each person and uploaded them to a Drive folder. Then we put adjectives in what society saw of men and women and we understood that jealousy is not love but control.

On Friday, November 20, we began to create some questions to interview a woman and we would have to do the interview over the weekend. Then we saw a movie called "I'm not an easy man" that was about a man who hits his head and ends up in a parallel universe where women work and men stay at home taking care of children.

On Monday, November 23, we had a talk for the first two hours. In the rest of the hours we begin to edit the interview.

On Tuesday, November 24, during the first two hours and the last two, we continued editing the interview and at the third and fourth hours we made some posters.

Finally, on November 25, the international day against gender violence, we made some masks, then a contest of the posters and logos that we did and at the end an act in the courtyard with the masks that we made. At that event a singer came to sing to us and at the end they told us who won the award for the logo and the poster.

Yasine: We did it in groups of three people each doing their own activities, the first days we were watching talks and talking about these issues then we created some questions that we had to use to interview different women of different ages. Each one made an interview, and in class we were editing the videos and organizing the interviews. The last days we made some masks with designs about gender equality, like phrases and drawings and some posters with phrases. The last day we went out to the break with the masks and posters hung on our bodies, and when we finished, we watched the videos that our classmates had made.

Pachi: Gender equality is evolving over the years but there is still a long way to go for the two genders to be totally balanced.

The first step for this to happen is to equal 50-50 the salary between men and women. Another big step would be to remove stereotypes in society, because childhood is the most important stage of our life, since there they teach us how to behave, and it seems wrong to me that a girl is given toy kitchen utensils because she is a girl so that he plays, and a child is given a ball for being a child.

Marta: The project on gender equality that we did a couple of weeks ago in class, was very good, it opened the eyes of many people and saw another way of seeing gender violence. Almost everyone already knew what the project was about, because it is a task that must carry out together.

This task would not even have to exist, as we are in the 21st century and tit is striking that there are still people who do support gender violence or that if someone is raped it has been the fault of the raped. LET'S SAY "NO" TO GENDER VIOLENCE!!!

Nicole: It took us about a week to do it, the whole class participated and the activities we did were a talk in which they explained to us what is right or wrong in love relationships, they also showed us videos about that, we made masks representing gender violence so that all women who are going through this know that they are not alone.

The talk helped us a lot since we got aware and learned to set limits.

I hope all this is over and we never have to make these movements for things that should not be happening anymore.

Julieta: The project on gender violence was very fun and interesting, since it helps us all not to have problems or to know when we are in a situation of risk, abuse, both physical and psychological, and how to try to get out of one of those situations since it is quite difficult.

We learned new things about love, jealousy, many things that are important to know so that tomorrow we do not have problems of that kind, because it can lead to more and end in very bad things including death.

Soumia: In this project what I liked most was watching a movie called Adú. I liked the characteristics of the film and I love the performance of the two brothers. This is the summary of the movie more or less:

In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of a plane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of an elephant, dead and without tusks. Thousands of kilometers to the north, in Melilla, a group of civil guards prepares to confront the angry mob of Sub-Saharan Africans who have started the assault on the fence. I recommend you watch it.

Best Christmas wishes for the New Year - Students in Basic Vocational Training course in CIP Tafalla, Spain. (December)

 

The students in the Basic Vocational Training course in CIP Tafalla (Spain) wish you the best for the New Year 2021

SOUMIA

HUGO

YASINE

SOUKAINA

PACHI

NAJAT

CRISTIAN

MARTA

NICOLE

JULIETA

ELISABETH

Christmas lights in Navarre (Spain) - Students in Basic Vocational Training course in CIP Tafalla (December)

OLITE

TAFALLA

Christmas recipes (yummy-yummy!) by Higher Vocational Training in Business Administration and Finances, CIP Tafalla and Catering and Tourism Vocational Training, IES Adeje

If something characterizes Christmas is its delicious (and sometimes excessive amount of) meals. Even though these holidays will be different due to the so-called Covid-19, we would like to share with you some tasty meals to share with your close family.

Let us know if you try one during Christmas! 👀😋

EASY

Ham and cheese rolls

Ingredients:

• 12 slices of York ham

• 12 slices of cheese sliced

• 1 egg

• 100 grams of breadcrumbs

• 1 glass of oil

Steps:

1. In a bowl we put the breadcrumbs and in another we put the beaten egg.

2. On top of each slice of ham we put one of cheese.

3. Roll up the ham with cheese.

4. Passed the York ham and cheese rolls through the egg and then the breadcrumbs.

5. Put a pan with the glass of oil over medium heat and when it is hot we fry the rolls.

 

Prawns with American Sauce (Izaskun de Esteban)

• Prawns

• ¼ onion

• ¼ carrot

• ½ raw tomato

• cayenne

• oil

• butter

• salt

• sugar( only if necessary)

• garlic

FOR THE SAUCE: the onions and carrots are poached in olive oil and butter. When the onions take color, add the tomato and let it cook for about 40 minutes (if necessary, add water). Once cooked, go through the Chinese and reserve.

Garlic is fried in a little oil and butter. The prawns are added and when they are half fried, they are flambéed with brandy and finished with the sauce.

Christmas cookies 

First we need the ingredients, those are : 

1 Cup of butter 

½ cup sugar 

1 large egg 

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Cup all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon baking powder 

Instructions : 

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, with a mixer at low speed, beat the butter and sugar until blended. Increase speed to high, beat until light and creamy. At low speed beat in egg and vanilla. Beat in flour and baking powder just until powder.

2. Divide dough into 4 equal pieces. Wrap each piece with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm enough to roll,about 1 hour.

3. Roll 1 piece of dough, on a lightly floured surface, with ⅛ inch thick. With floured 2 to 3 inch assorted cookie cutters, cut dough into as many cookies you want, wrap and refrigerate trimmings. Place the cookies 1 inch apart from each one on a large ungreased cookie sheet, sprinkle cookies with colored sugar.

4. Bake cookies 10 to 12 minutes, until lightly browned. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool. If you want you can brush colore sugar remaining on a cookie sheet onto a piece of waxed paper to use again. Repeat with remaining dough and trimmings.

5. Wait until the cookies are cool, then sprinkle colored sugars as desired while it frosts before it dries. Allow frosting to dry completely, about 1 hour.

And you will have your christmas cookies ready for Christmas Eve.

By: Pedro Morales Trujillo

Santiago Nieto Grinko

MEDIUM

Pasty and Nougat Braid

Ingredients:

• A nougat tablet, in this case from Suchard.

• A sheet of puff pastry.

• 1 egg.

• A baking tray.

• A tray to present.

Elaboration:

• We preheat the oven to 200ºC.

• First, we stretch the puff pastry sheet and make diagonal cuts on both sides to simulate the shape of a braid.

• In the second place we introduce the nougat in the center and we braid with the strips that we have cut previously.

• Finally, we apply egg on top to make it shiny and appetizing.

• We bake at 200ºC for about 15 or 20 minutes.

• Let it cool a bit and serve.

RECIPE OF COD IN GREEN SAUCE

INGREDIENTS:

• 1.2 kilograms of cod.

• 500 grams of clams.

• 0.5cup of White wine.

• 1cup of fish soup.

• 8 garlic cloves.

• 4 parsley branches.

• 1tp of flour.

• Salt.

• Extra virgin olive oil.

• Water.

ELABORATION:

1. The cod is placed in cold water with the skin facing upwards until it is covered and left for 3 days to desalt, changing the water every 6 hours and putting in the fridge.

2. The clams are left in cold water for an hour to wash them.

3. The garlic peeled, cut in half and the germ is removed to chop them very small.

4. Put a pan to heat over low heat with the garlic until it begins to take color.

5. Add the flour to the garlic and stir until it turns color.

6. Add the wine and cook until the alcohol evaporates.

7. The soup is heated and added to the flour with the garlic and add some salt.

8. When the sauce is about to boíl, add chopped parsley and the cod fillets with the skin facing up.

9. After 3 minutes, add the clams and wait for all of them to open.

DECOR:

1. Serve the cod with some clams and with a spoon pour a Little sauce on top.

by Francisco J. MejíasBaked Brie

Ingredients

• 1 (250 g) whole brie.

• 1/4 cup roughly chopped pecans , roasted.

• 1/4 cup pomegranate seeds.

• 1/4 cup maple syrup.

Instructions

• Unwrap brie and place on a small microwave-proof plate with a rim (so maple syrup doesn't go everywhere).

• Microwave on high for 1 minute 15 seconds, or until the brie is very soft when you prod the centre. Watch the brie as you microwave it - if it starts to puff up too much, turn microwave off and leave brie inside - residual heat will continue to melt it.

• Top with pecans, pomegranate seeds and maple syrup. Serve immediately with crackers of choice (choose ones suitable for scooping).

  
  

Fruit salad for Christmas

Ingredients (for 6 person)

• Sugar 375g

• Water 250 ml

• Banana 2

• Pears 2

• Nectarines 2

• Kiwis 2

• Cantaloupe large slice

• Peach in syrup 2 halves (more syrup to taste)

• Blueberries 1 tray

• Cherries 1 handful

• Oranges 1

• Lemon juice ½

• Orange juice 4

• Grand Marnier 2 tablespoons

• Fresh mint leaves

Preparation

To make the syrup we put the sugar and water in a saucepan and without stirring we bring it to a boil. Let it boil for two minutes and remove from the heat. Set aside until it hardens.

On the other hand, in a large bowl, we cut the fruits, once washed and peeled. In my case I also like to peel the orange segments, it is easily done once peeled, cutting each segment flush with the skin with a very sharp knife. The cherries are pitted and chopped as well.

Once the fruits are cut, we add the lemon juice so that they do not rust. We mix carefully, so that the cherries do not stain the fruit too much and the juice is well distributed.

Once everything is mixed to the touch, we add the juice of the four oranges, the liquor, the peach syrup and adjust the sweetness, trying first, with the syrup we have reserved. We cover the fruit salad and refrigerate it for a few hours before consuming it.

The amount of homemade syrup we have made will be enough. We keep it in a glass jar in the fridge to use it in sorbets, ice creams, or any other sweet that requires it.

"Turrón" mousse

nougat	liquid cream	milk	egg	flake gelatin	icing sugar	a pinch of salt
200 gr	200 ml	150 ml	1	2	15 gr

1.To prepare the mousse, we must realize 4 different makings and then mix them all together

properly.

2. Put the egg whites in a bowl with a pinch of salt and whip it by hand until you get a foamy

texture.

3. And then use your electric mixer until you get a firm texture, so if you turn the bowl over,

they won’t fall.

4. Whip the cream using electrics rods. We recommend keeping the cream in the fridge till the

last moment. The best would be to use a plastic or a metallic bowl that you left in the freezer

for 30 minutes, so that it can be very cold.

5. Whip it until it gets thick and spongy, it will take 5 to 10 minutes. Be careful not to overdo

it, you would obtain butter. Once you have the good texture, keep it in the fridge.

6. In a bowl with cold water, put the gelatine to hydrate it

7. Put the egg yolk and the icing sugar in a bowl and whip it until the mixture gets creamy

and yellow

8. Grind the soft turron with the milk

9. Put half of the mixture in a saucepan and put it over medium heat

10. When you start seeing bubbles take the gelatine in your hands and press it to take the

excess of water away and then put it in the pan. Stir a little, remove from the heat and pour

the other half of the turrón and milk mixture.

11. In a big bowl mix what you just got with the mixture of egg yolk and sugar and mix with

a spatula

12.Take the whipped cream out of the fridge and add it in 2 or 3 batches to the bowl and

mix everything little by little with the spatula using enveloping movements so that the texture

remains fluffy.

13. Repeat the process with the whipped egg whites

14. Put the mixture in the glasses or containers you want to use, you can either use a spoon

or a pastry bag. Leave it in the fridge for at least 4 hours. The best would be to leave until the

next day.

15. To prepare the chocolate shapes, put the half amount of chocolate you want to use in a

bowl in the smallest pieces possible and then microwave it for 30 seconds and repeat the

process until the chocolate has completely melt. Put the other half of the chocolate in the

melted one and remove until homogeneous consistency

16. Put the melted chocolate in a kitchen bottle or similar and draw your favourite shapes

on a baking paper you previously put on a tray and leave it a few minutes in the fridge.

17. Decorate as you please using your chocolate shape and icing sugar.

by Cristian Robertt Berriel

RECIPE OF MILLEFEUIE OF CHOCOLATE AND NOUGAT CREAM

INGREDIENTS:

• 3.5 oz of chocolate coverage.

• ½ tablet of soft nougat.

• 1 cup of cream.

• Raspberries.

• Mint leaves.

(For the yolk cream)

• 8 yolks.

• 0.9 cup of sugar.

• ½ glass of water.

ELABRATION:

(Nougat cream)

1. Put the cream to cook until it boils.

2. The nougat is chopped and added to the cream.

3. It is stirred until the nougat dissolves.

(Millefeuille of chocolate)

1. The chocolate is melted in the water bath.

2. The chocolate is poured into a sheet of plastic wrap and covered with another sheet.

3. The chocolate is spread with a rolling pin so that a thin layer of chocolate remains

4. With a ruler, the squares are marked in the chocolate and allowed to cool.

(Yolk cream)

1. Put the sugar and water to cook until a thick syrup is obtained.

2. Put the yolks in a big bowl and add a Little syrup while mixing with a manual rod.

3. Gently mix without stopping and strain the mix.

4. The mix is heated in a water bath until it thickens (20-30 minutes).

5. The dough is allowed to warm.

(Decor)

1. Assemble the millefeuille alternating the layers of chocolate with the nougat mousse and the yolks cream.

2. On top of the millefeuille, put some mint leaves and some raspberries.

by Francisco Javier Mejías

DIFFICULT

Christmas log or Bûche de Nöel

Ingredients

• Sugar 100 g

• Water 100 ml

• Vanilla pods 1 

• Oranges 1 

• Cinnamon stick 1 

• Liquid whipping cream 250 g

• Dark chocolate 155 g

• Butter in ointment 50g

• Egg white 8 

• Sugar for egg whites80 g

• Egg yolk 8 

• Sugar for egg yolks70 g

• Baking flour 150 g

• Vanilla essence 5 ml

• Icing Sugar
  

Instructions

• We prepare the syrup and the chocolate ganache. Put the sugar in a saucepan with the water, vanilla, orange peel and cinnamon, bring to the boil, cook for about 5 minutes stirring until it dissolves and keep in the fridge

• For the chocolate ganache, cut up the chocolate and heat the cream. Just before it boils, pour over the chocolate and mix gently. Add the butter in ointment and mix until it melts completely and keep in the fridge.

• Preheat the oven to 200ºC and cover a baking tray with non-stick paper. Beat the egg whites with 80 g of sugar until a meringue is left. Beat the yolks with 70 g of sugar until they become pale.

• Add the yolks to the whites, mixing with encircling movements. Sieve the flour on top and add it. Add the vanilla and mix well until you have a homogeneous dough.

• Pour on the tray and spread well with a spatula. Bake for about 12 minutes, until it has browned a little and when it touches the surface it feels spongy and firm but elastic.

• Roll the cake for 30 minutes and then unroll it, cover it with a generous layer of cream and roll it up again. Cut one small end straight and the other slightly larger end diagonally. 

• Stick the small one on one side and the other on top, using a little chocolate ganache. Spread the ganache well all over. Decorate by drawing grooves with a fork and add the details you want, such as sugar, marzipan or fondant figures. Sprinkle with sifted icing sugar.