NEWS: AFRICA

BBC news about hunger

The news explains the general famine in Africa and the money that's necessary for help. The organitzations, nationals and internationals need money for projects. The hunger comes for the drought, the low technologies....

In Africa famine is a very important problem. Hunger is the more important cause of death in the world, including the "developed" countries. It's hard think about how here we waste food (supermarkets, restaurants...) and then see the people there, with nothing to eat, with the death for shadow.

With the "crisis" here in Spain people starts to haven't money for food. They have a home but can't pay the basic products, but, we aren't in the Africa situation, I think that you can't know what's happening unless you can see it.

What we can do? Not many things... send food, ONG's... little things. But, it's better to don't do nothing. I wish that the situation will improve in the future.

FORMAL LETTER - ENVIRONMENT

Elvira Fina
C/ Mur 1
Castelló d'Empúries, Girona 17486


March 20, 2012


United Nations Environment Programe Comitee
United Nations Plaza
New York, 10017 USA



Dear United Nations Environment Programe Comitee,

I'm writing to share a concern about environment and nature protect.

Society is trying to instill people to be healthy, but ... humans can be healthy, but we still depend of a major structure, a patriarch, the environment.

People can stop dirtying their lungs with tobacco smoke, can drink mineral water, can cut down forests to have fields and can build houses with more modern heating and electricity for the winter.

However, we are polluting the air our breathe with more toxic pollutants than tobacco, we are dirtying the rivers where someday we will take the water that us drink, we are eliminating the habitat of thousands of animals and plants that produce the oxygen to breathe and we are spending resources making a dirty energy full of wastes.

We are blind and can't see that we are killing his own mother? When we will look back and see where we came from and who sustains us?

With this worry and faithfully,


Elvira Fina

HUMAN RIGHTS

I have made 35 correct answers in the quiz, now I will try to answer the questions.

1. What are human rights?
The more extended definition is that the human rights are "the inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being."

2. Why were they created?
They were created to avoid the big tragedies of humanity.

3. How many human rights are there?
There are 30 human rights.

4. Which human right were you not familiar with? Mention an example where this human right is respected and where it is not respected.
I choose the Article 7: "All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination."

I think this article is respected with the most part of the population, ordinary people. In my opinion isn't respected when the accused is an important man or woman, or they have sympathy with the government... see Camps, Urdangarin...

ORAL PRESENTATION - TDR

Link to Oral Presentation video

It wasn't very difficult to translate the script but when I make a presentation in catalan or spanish I follow it verbatim, and I explain more or minus things seeing the situation, or maybe I explain an anecdote... and I never memorize the original script because I always say it different. What I'm saying is that for me express things in english is very difficult and I have to memorize the scripts. But when I prepared it for the oficial presentation I memorized little things that weren't in the script and when I'm doing it in english, memorized, conflicted in my mind.

Also, I always get nervous and forget things.

Why UAB?

Next year I want to study in Universitat autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). I don't want to live in Barcelona because there are a lot of people, noise... I like the feeling that the campus did in me the first time, it's paceful and for students.

I like to live in Bellaterra but I prefer to have a room for my self and if i can't enter in a individual room probably I will search a flat in Cerdanyola or towns near UAB. For me is important to have a personal space and, apart, i do a lot of work at night, and if my roommate don't share this way of work can be problematic.

I'm interested in the student flat live because I think that's important for the development of all of us. It's a style of life where you have to be independent, self-sufficient, take responsabilities... It's an important stage for create ourselfs final personality and habits.

I don't know with who I'm going to live, but I think that if we connect, that can be a important stage for me, and I will learn a lot of things.

NEW: Spanish town to grow cannabis to pay debt

I saw that new in "La vanguardia" one week ago and i couldn't understand what I was reading. But, yes, thats true, a town in tarragona started a plan for solve the debt... make a plantation of cannabis.

That's for an association of cannabis users, for own consumition. Well... the first thing I try to imagine was the security of that grow zone... I could see mountains of people pretending to catch a little part for them. And there is the funny one who burn the plantation, and, c'mon, all Tarragona happy for one afternoon!

If this is a question of own consumition, they can grow it in their home, because the law allow it, with little restricions. If you only need for you don't need a plantation. Grow them in your house, in a fresh air, with good conditions, controlling the atmosphere... that probably will be better!.

I don't know why this association need a camp zone, but I think that isn't for clean reasons because for the personal consume you can grow them in home.

Now the lawyers are discussing it. I'm interesting in how can end.




New from BBC

NEW: LOW INTEREST IN TE YOUNG COMISSION

The town hall organized a reunion with the young entities of Castello. Many members of AEiG Xots (with me and Maria), the vocal of Empuriabrava (Lydia), Senyors del Foc, etc. The objective was to search what, in the young view, the town need or what has to renew or delete.

From the town hall were two councils (youth and education) and the tecnicals of sports and youth.

The new says that there weren't a lot of participation and that's a topic that we spoke about. In castello the teens don't participate in things, interesting ones like excursions can't be make because of it. Why? We don't know. Teens work in groups but for the youth tecnical is very difficult motivate them to do activities. Now, the tenns are conformists, and only want comfortable activities... like see the tV. In what kind of society are we walking to?

The last example... in the Cau, for children of 12/14 years we organize activities that in other sites thay can't find... and we only have 6 boys of this age. Makes me think... are we consenting too our teens? In a few years we will see the results...



New from Emporda Tv

SEX IN THE SAME ROOM

I saw this piece of news and I freaked out. The notice is that a girl complained the campus because they don't help her with her problem: her roommate has too much sex. But, too much sex, near her! Meters, in the same room! The girl suffered depressions and attention deficit disorder... with suicide attempts!

Probably I don't complain the campus.... I call a mental institution for that roommate! She hasn't shame? I can't imagine it. Her and her boyfriends, apart from disturbing attempted in the health of another person.

The present society need more and more personal attention, but that isn't it... that's worse, that only can be called histrionical personality disorder.



http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Roommate-Sex-Lawsuit-Stonehill-College-Boston-141205123.html

HEADS EXCURSION - ST. GENIS

In our cau, we think that make excursions with all the heads is important for the group. Reciently we went to "Sant Genis" a very little hermitage in the mountains near llança.

We arrived at Llança at the morning and ate something. The head who prepared the excursion explained what we were going to do. The plan was follow the easy way that's marked. But.... some days before had rained a lot... We couldn't find the road at the first time, but asking and crossing one little river and a factory we found it. The day started with an adventure!

We can arrive at the hermitage following the PR signs (yellow ones). Most of the way was relatively flat, but the last 100m were a torture!! We arrived at the hermitage sweating and panting. After a little relax, we started the dynamics. We put in pairs and took a paper where was written an history that is about a problem that a head can have in a cau (problems with the children, other heads, parents...). We had to find what's the problem and thought about how we, or the person, could solve it. We put all in common and was very interesting and useful.

We had lunch with a tupper-buffet and played some games after the descent.

A useful and good day!

Now.. a photo of me thinking "Can the water be more cold?"

CARNIVAL

This year me and one friend decided to make our personal costume. We decided two days before carnival, and started very fast. We wanted a costume about Link, the main character of the game Legend of Zelda. We went to Figueres and bougth the green cloths and the sword.

All friday afternoon we were doing it, making the patrons and sewing the dress. Luckily we had the help of my mother that sew a lot with the machine while we were basting the patrons. We went to the carnival party of Roses with the disguise freshly made. I think that was simple but eficient I like the result.

In Roses, at 4.00 am, one boy opened an extinguisher into the enclousure. First of all I saw a "volcano" but when I was thinking "oh, lovely" I saw people running with faces of pain and the group of people who are there dragged me outside. When I felt the extinguisher I discovered how painful is it! An hour later I still feeling a strange sense in the noise and mouth... and I was far of the boy who opened it!

We went to Sant Pere and Castello parties too, and enjoyed a lot the carnival with our personal customised custom!

CORTEO

I February I went with one friend in Barcelona to see Corteo, the new show of Cirque du Soleil. That's about how a clown imagine his funeral. Seems dismal but was a very acrobatic and beautiful show.

Cirque du Soleil is the best circus in the world and they work to hold it. They have the better actors, but, my point of view is that they know how do a show. How manage de clothes, scenery, music... in this show they have a curtain across the stage that fill up over the tent. The clothing is all made by silk. The stunts are fine, calculated and fluid, always around the history.

Someone told me that for Cirque the Soleil made a new show profitable they must be minimum 6 years on tour! Imagine how giant must the inversion be.

Live in circus should be hard. Always moving around the world, without a stable home and that's why I admire the circus actors. They only live to make show and make happy other people, you, us.

Now it's still in Barcelona, if you have a free day I recommend it to you.

ROC DE FRAUSA

In Febreuary I went to Roc de Frausa, the largest mountain in Alt Emporda.

We went to la Vajol at 9.00 am and left the car. We started to walk on a forestal road until found a fontain. We drank and continued walking. At the middle of the way we visited the ruins of one castle (very little but with a fantastic view of the area). Two hours later we arrived to the Salines Refugee and visited an hermitage thats in a cave. We drank and started walking another time, after ate a lof of chocolate (sugar!!). Now the slope was bigger and it tired a lot our legs. One hour later we arrived at "Moixer", where RTVE has an antenna. Roc the Frausa was only 5 minutes from here. We lunch, a omelette and frankfurt sandwich, and relax. We had started walking 5 hours ago!! At the top of the mountain we found snow and had to walk some time on it. We decended by another way, very, very beautiful, but sometimes with 50 cm of leaves!

Eight hours later we arrived at the car. A fantastic day! And then... sleep at nine o'clock. For my surprise the next day I could walk.

It's a very beautiful and peaceful route and I recommend it to all people who likes nature and trekking.

MY IDEAL PARTNER

My ideal partner has to live closer to my town to be able to see him often and should be similar age to share interests.

I like men taller than me, broad-shouldered and well-built. He sould do occasionally sport to be fit. I'm not interested in pale-skinned and very thin men. I like long curly brown-haired with fair eyes, but that's not essential.

After these physical interests I have to say that for me is more important that my partner has an open-mind, can be patient and rather tender, but he has to leave me a bit of independence when I need it, definitely I can't be with a man that's always controlling me and saying what I can or can't do. If you are these type of man be aware! You have to be interested in nature and trekking and accept my passion for animals.

In conclusion, maybe, my ideal partner may be a dog. I know that a perfect man is impossible to find. In my view everyone has negative things and the better way to solve them isn't pretending to change them, but accepting and thinking that is his personal personality. All that stuff is what does a person different, and you fall in love with all man, with positive and negative things. We all have a dark side!