Formal letter

Plaça Catalunya, 7

1st February 2014

La Garriga, Spain

Mr. Barak Obama

The White House, Washington D.C.

The United States of America

Dear Mr. Obama, 

I am writing to request information about the most violated Human Rights in the United States, namely freedom of speech and thought.

First of all, as I am interested in Human Rights, I would like to know your opinion about their violation and the ones which are more violated. In my opinion, it is the freedom of speech and thought: in many countries the Government is very strict, from what I've heard from people talking about this. Is it true? Many people wish for a better life in their countries.

Finally, I would be interested knowing which countries suffer the most more from this kind of violation of these Human Rights.

Thank you for your time. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Irene Menéndez

Interview with a career expert on your interest

Today we are talking to an expert on Chemistery, who's working in a Farmacy's laboratory. His name is Xavier Font and we will interview him about his experiences.

Good morning Xavier, thank you for visiting us today. Do you agree if we start talking about when you decided to study Pharmacy?

Well, good morning. I first have to tell you that I didn't know what to study, and I decided to study Farmacy because I was keen on Chemistry and I wanted to do some research on animal drugs.

So you fulfilled your dream on your job?

Yes, I did eventually. Now I'm working in Amer, in a business called Hipra, where we prepare all kind of drugs for animals.

Why are you working for animals, and not for people?

I know it can sound a bit strange, but I think that working for people is probably more dangerous. Well, it must be. I men, you have more responsibility with people than with animals. Moreover, I always liked animals and working to save their lives or make them feel better, it also makes me feel good.

Thank you very much for your attention. I hope you research a lot on animal deceases and fins a cure.

We're now investigating in a new case, but it's a really new case. Thank you too for the interview.

Zonahorseball

Good morning people! Today I woke up feeling like persuading you about my biggest hobby. I'm sorry for you, teacher... but talking about this really inspires me and I feel comfortable. However, I promise I'll talk about something else!!

You just have to go to this web side: http://zonahorseball.cat and here you can see all the aspects of horseball. Marià Clavell and Berta Barnils, my excoach and the photographer, are trying to do a project to expand this sport around Catalonia, to be recognized as it should be. They have also sent some videos to APM (a TV programme). Here you can watch one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgD88HqAfjI

What do you think about it? I think I have no more words to describe it, it's enough with showing some photos to people who has never heard about it, and they look like impressed! 

I have never been recognized in my village, despite I've been competing on the European Championship for 3 years. And this year we are going to go to Paris! So nice... what else can I expect!

Amazing dancers

I think that they are the best dancers I have ever seen. They don't just dance with strong feelings, the guy also throws the girl on the air, and she is amazing, her flexibility... I have no words. I wanted to post an exciting video, maybe a dancer or a show, but I found this video the other day and I thought it was perfect to show it to you.
I understand people gets excited when they saw it, I also did. I'm so sensitive and my tears begin to fall (about the emotion).

I know Marina is going to like this video, and I hope the rest of you too, because I'm sure you've never seen something like this. In brief, UNBELIEVABLE!

Professors Are Prejudiced, Too

• Summary:

To prove that professors are also prejudiced, they did an experiment. They sent an email to some selected professors from different universities. This mail was the same, written in the same way, and the only difference between them was the person who signed it, white, black, Hispano... The results were as they thought in a beginning, and the responses depended on students' race and gender identity. Professors were more responsive to white male students than to female, black, Hispanic, Indian or Chinese.

• Opinion:

If it is an experiment, I can't say it's not true. Professors maybe say they are not prejudiced, but they finally are. I think it should be stopped somehow, but if it hasn't been gotten in all this time, it's difficult to do it. 

• Words I have learnt:

Gender: gènere, sexe

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/opinion/sunday/professors-are-prejudiced-too.html

A little visit to Aramon (France)

This last weekend I've been in France, in Aramon, looking at some horseball matches. I went there with two friends, one of them lives in Banyoles and the other in La Garriga. In fact, as we are not many people playing this sport, we all now each other and we've made good friends. Anyway, what I wanted to talk about is the difference of the level between France and Spain or the rest of countries. What's more, a lot of people leaves Spain to go to France to play horseball, learn the language and to work, and they're really happy playing there, they enjoy it a lot. One example of these people are my ex coaches, Pau and Adrià, two brothers from Banyoles, and now, they're living in Paris (Chambly). 

This photo you can see on the top is his team, young guys and only one girl, and Pau is the one that is giving instructions to the players. He and his brother don't want to come back to Spain, they're having a really good life there, doing what they want and what they like, and I am so happy for them. Personally, I want them back because I really miss them, more Pau than anyone else. Furthermore, he is a really good coach, he came once this year to train us because we had to play a very difficult match, and we won it!!! (I will link the video of that match). 

My wish at all this, is that I want that this sport to swell, and that people, when I talk about it, they know what I'm talking about! That's all I want now. So please... all of us want you to help us on spreading this sport. Thank you!

Here I link you two videos, the first one, the match I've wrote about and the second, one from France so you can see their level, the highest in the world!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vamFr5A1_Ss

http://vimeo.com/ondemand/6620 (This one is shorter, and more exciting)

Smiling is the best medicine

Have a look at this picture. Do you know how many time we spent collecting all the photos we liked and the "perfect" one to post on Facebook? (Please... I'm not talking alone...) So well, we chooses some of the million photos we took and we post them on Facebook. And if I am deep, I have to say that the one I like most is this one you can see. Why? Because the other girls didn't. No.. I'm joking! Maybe I'm not as beautiful as I am in other photos, and also my friends, but this one is the most spontaneous and real photo I have ever token with them (and not because all the rest are riding a horse).  They said they don't liked it whereas I advised them that they would find it somewhere in a short period of time.

Undoubtedly, now they love this photo!!