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“YOU COULD BE HERE!”

A Canadian write woman called Jasmine Teed, 32 years old, decided to travel alone because her date didn’t appear.

She was planning to take the man, a pilot, who told her he would be taking her for a spin in a private plane, on a tour of Ireland, Denmark and Iceland. But when she realize that she will travel alone, she took a foam cutout of a faceless man on which she wrote: 'You could be here'.

Ms Tweed posted her first selfie with the cutout from Montreal airport, with the caption: 'You said you would take me flying and then you ghosted me so I'm going to take myself flying. Off to #Ireland, #Denmark and #Iceland!' 

She said: 'It's not really about the guy, it's more that if you can't find your perfect travel just make your own and go on the adventures you want to go on anyways.

'I think we all see those perfect couples on Instagram, doing all those amazing things and want that, but there's no need to wait for the perfect travel partner in crime.

'I'd rather just get out there and do them and the right person for me is someone who would be up for doing those things too.'

She is, nowadays, traveling around the world and writing on her blog.

I’ve chosen this one because it surprised me and I thought that it is an example of a good new. The majority of reports are always talking about misfortunes and there is no need to feel saddened about our world. While we are complaining about what is the mess today, there are a lot of funny things happening at the same time. So, I opted to talk about a witty and creativity one.

 

If you are not lucky in love, why are you going to feel alone all your life? I think it’s wonderful how Teed has turned the problem around. She has preferred not to stay and complain or look for a revenge, she has only found the funny side at all.

I know we must do a summary about the new, so it’s not necessary to put what the interviewee has said, but I’ve found very clever what she said. I agree with what she told us about perfect couple. Sometimes we lose our time waiting for a fairy tale, and maybe it won’t happen. So, don’t spend your time trying to turn your imaginary world to the real one.

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3923368/You-Woman-jilted-date-just-trip-Europe-takes-cutout-instead.html

OUTDOOR MIND

The last 15^th of October 2016 I spent a different weekend with my father. We packed our things and we went to Port de la Selva. There, we met the group of people with whom we shared this great experience. We put all our things into the kayak and we slipped into the water; the adventure had started.

We stopped in different coves, where we had the chance to examine closely every component of the awesome landscape. There were places where you can only access by sea, so there wasn’t any kind of rubbish.

We spent the night in a cave called Cala Tavallera, so we planted our tent camps and we ate a Fideua with fresh fish caught the same morning. We talked a little bit and we went to sleep.

The next day, we took our kayaks again and got back to the water. At midday, we stopped to ClubMediterranée, the place of inspiration of Dali, where a lot of paintings are based on.

Finally, we arrived at Port Lligat and we picked our things up, we put them into a van, and it brought us to Port de la Selva.

I have to say that I was a little bit stress at the beginning because it was a week plenty of exams, so it was a long shot, but I make no apologize with what I had chosen.

It enabled me to disconnect from the frantic world we live in. I met new people, I discovered amazing places, I was in contact with the nature and I realized that the most of the time our busy life not allow us to see the amazing world is behind the artificial world we have built.

I don’t want to say that I’m against cities, in fact, I think I’m a cosmopolitan person and I love going shopping, but maybe we should take some time out to discover further on what we are accustomed to see.

Doing some activities like that, increase your mental and physical health. It’s like press reset button and clean you mind of concerns, problems and stressing situation which only produce into you a discomfort feeling and it generates physical hurts, like muscle contractures.

So, I have no hesitation in recommend it to everyone who loves outdoor activities and also to those people who is just living for work. Work shouldn’t be your spotlight, you should dedicate some time to yourself and it will bring you really good vibes. 

Here I leave my video experience:

NEWS

DECIMATION OF THE DONKEYS: 4 MILLION ANIMALS ARE SLAUGHTERED EVERY YEAR TO MAKE CHINESE “MIRACLE” YOUTH SERUM

There are a lot of donkeys that every week arrive in Dong’e, northen China, an appalling multi-billion-pound industry, from all over the world.

These donkeys are killed because, in their skin, there is a substance called ejiao, which is a supposedly youth-preserving gelatin. The boss of one factory boasted that he sold £140 million of ejiao products last year.

Ten thousand men and women are employed at this factories in Dong’e, where skins are boiled and liquefied to make health snacks, powders and face creams that Chinese people believe are the key to long life and lasting beauty. There is no medical evidence to support this belief.

‘Our only concern is that one day soon there won’t be any more donkeys left to kill,’ he said. Tragically, he wasn’t exaggerating. For centuries seen as symbols of peace and humility, donkeys are being massacred across the world with industrial callousness.

Taking the advantage of what we have been doing in class, the project about beauty, I’ve considered this new really appropriated to talk about.

First of all I could say that there is no need to use animals for human whims, and I think it’s a very selfish behavior. So, if we are infatuated with something, we can’t hurt other living beings. This only strengthen the idea that humanity is killing the same world that has given life to us.

And in the other hand, I don’t understand why people continues to dream on an infinity beauty. Why they don’t accept that ageing is unavoidable and it take a part in the course of a lifetime. They must be worried to enhance as a person and be gentle and pleasant with those who loves them, because, at the end, you can be really beauty and youth but if you are alone, you still being nothing. Maybe, be nobody is the worst thing can happen to anyone. 

Link:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3930644/Decimation-donkeys-4MILLION-animals-slaughtered-year-make-Chinese-miracle-youth-serum.html

NEWS

18 MILION VOTERS CAST BALLOTS THIS ELECTION DESPITE BELIVING THAT NEITHER DONALD TRUMP NOR HILARY CLINTON WERE QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT

Last Tuesday, 8^th of November 2016 habitants of USA were willing to vote who would be in charge of the first world power.

Some of them took a chance on Hilary Clinton, while other opted Donald Trump, a xenophobic, chauvinist man. The voters who were undecided until the last minute ended up voting Trump.

A research by CNN suggests that id these voters decided not to vote, then Hillary Clinton would have won with a landslide victory of 53% to Trump’s 44%.

Clinton’s had the worst turnout among white working-class voters from the outset of the elections: just 28% of white working class voters opted for Clinton.

Exit polls results indicate the electorate were influenced by continual negative attacks between one and the other political parties.

Clinton becoming the nation’s first female president was a novelty, so even if she defended women role, she only got 54% of women votes. Among men, her performance was even worse at 41%, the worst by any democrat since 2002.

In contrast, Trump has achieved the highest vote since 2000 among white evangelicals reaching 81% of people who lives in this country.

It came as a surprise to see how a xenophobic, chauvinist man won the USA elections. The country who has been presented as a democratic equal and ombudsman one has been shown to be the same or worse than countries that has been judge for delivering the mentioned adjectives.

It’s hard to accept how people still thinks like years ago and also to see, or this is what it seems to be, that the fight against racism and machismo has yielded very little.   

So, in my opinion I have almost nothing to say, I just want to know that there is a little hope that Trump won’t remain in office for long time. I just hope that someone realizes that position of USA President is not occupied by the right person. 

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3930728/18-million-voters-cast-ballots-election-despite-believing-neither-Donald-Trump-nor-Hillary-Clinton-qualified-president.html

SUMMER JOB

We have started routine again, so we have already changed our chip. 

In my case, I haven't changed it too much because this summer I've worked so hard in the Skydive Empuriabrava bar and it wasn't easy work.

You must be fast and on the ball every single minute because it is a place where people go often in their summer holidays. 

There was a lot of people and even if you felt stressed you had to be kind with every single client, You must have a good actitude and accept the client is right. 

Taking into consideration the work I spent doing last summer, in the reception of Hotel Port Salins, I could say that I've enjoyed working in Skydive more, being always occupied and I've met some extraordinary peopl. I love the atmosphere at this place and I would like to spend more time there, maybe doing some skydives.

Focusing on the work, I've learnt a lot of things because I had to cook also. So now I know how to cook some kinds of foods; how to cut them, to present them... and it is not just about material things. 

I have shared lovely moments with my work mates, I have learnt about working as a team, for example spend a little bit more time at work beacuse your partner feels sick, trying to distribute your tasks in order to finish them earlier, put your complaints in common and discuss them with work colleagues, etc. 

So, at the end, I can say I feel great to have been working there even if it wasn't an easy job. And, of course, there is no doubt that I prefer to work in Skydive than in Hotel Port Salins.