Migrant workers

We just read an excerpt from a novel written by Marina Lewycka called Two caravans. It is about different immigrants were the two first are spending a day in London and the second person is trying to get a job at a farm. The two first people in the story are Andriy and Irina from the Ukraine. They are visiting London for the first time and are overwhelmed by all the different sights. They talk about all the new technology and all the well dressed people and they feel like they don't fit in at all. 

The second person in the text is Tomasz who is looking for a new job in England. He finds a job at a farm where he has to catch birds and scrub out the barn. The employer he has to work for has no respect for migrant workers, he's only interested in the foreigners because he doesn't have to pay them as much as the locals. 

The main subject in this excerpt is that migrant workers often work black with lower than minimum wages and no safety or rights. Is this really fair? Shouldn't we be thankful for having some people there who wants to do our dirty jobs for low wages? Therefore we should give them enough respect to at least give them minimum wage as long as they follow the rules and do a good job.

OneNote

All the students at my school are using computers when they are in class, but also for their homework. That is great because it makes everything a lot easier to organize. But when you have to open one file for every note or paper you are working on, you sometimes have your whole taskbar filled with Word-documents. Which can be a total chaos.  But now Microsoft has come up with a solution to this problem. With the program OneNote, you can open, edit and organize all your documents in one window. It's easy to copy web pages over to OneNote and you can record sound and video while you are typing notes.  Because I still don't know all there is to know about this program, I'll write more about it later when I have some more knowledge about how to use OneNote.

This is England

Last day of English before winter break we watched a weird movie called "This is England". It is about a troubled 12 year old boy growing up in England. The story is set in 1983. Young Shaun comes across five skinheads on his way home, after he has been in a fight at school. These skinheads become Shauns new best friends even though they are some years older than him. Shauns dad was killed in the Falklands War and he is living with his mum. He dos not have many friends until he meets Woody and the rest of his gang. They're having a lot of fun, but when the older, overly racist Combo returns home after spending some time in prison, things changes. Now Shaun gets drawn into much more serious and uncomfortable territory.