over a month at hairdresser's

A recent study on how much time women spend at the hairdresser's concluded thet the average British woman spends more than four hours per month, that means almost a month in a whole lifetime! A lot of the interviewed responded that they would like to spend even longer: "it is a relax, gossip moment" answered one of them. The researchers also concluded that it is very important for women to keep their hair looking good.

 I think it is incredible to dicover what an eternity we lose doing routine things during our life. In my case, i don't visit the hairdresser's very often, but I agree that it is important to feel comfortable with one's hair, so if some people need to "lose" a month to get happiness, I respect. I have to say that I also find it relaxing... but two hours? every week? No way!

You can look for the complete new here, it is quite interesting!

The pig and the boars

Once upon a time, in the middle of the country, there was a lonely cottage surrounded by a big, dark forest. The owner was an old fat woman who could no longer look after her piggies. So the pigs were living on their own and had their own lives and stories…

All the piggies were very happy, except one; the little pig. He didn’t want to live in a farm, he wanted to live a wild life with the boars in the forest. He saw them every day running free around the farm. The little pig thought they were very cool so he wanted also to be like them. So one day he climbed the garden fence and escaped into the dark forest. After some minutes he began to hear strange noises, so he got terrified but fortunately he found the boars. Actually the noises came from the boars, who were laughing at the little pig, but he was so happy to have found them that he didn’t realize it. They asked him who he was and he said he was a pig. Then the boars felt over by laughing. The little pig couldn’t understand it. Then Lucibor, the leader, asked the little pig: -Why have you come here? The little pig said: -I’ve come here to be free like you. The boars laughed again. Then Lucibor said: OK, but if you want to join us you’ll have to pass under a ritual.

The little pig was a bit confused about the boars behaviour, but he was so amazed with them that agreed and asked: -what shall I do?- There was a short silence and the boars looked at each other with an evil looking. Then Luciboar began to speak: “look, you little dumb pig, there is just one thing you have to do: eat these purple mushrooms. The little pig thought they looked tasty, so he picked one and ate it. After a while, the trees started to swing, and those purple mushrooms began to talk!

He felt sick and worried, he walked without knowing where while the boars laughed about him. 

The boars went away leaving the poor little pig alone in the dark forest. when he thought everything was lost, the little pig saw an angel, a beautiful angel with white wings. She was speaking to him, but he couldn’t understand her; however, he followed the angel until they reached the edge of the forest. Once there he started feeling better and was able to understand a few words... "This is not your place, your family loves you", said the angel. 

The next morning he was back at the farm, he woke up feeling different: he knew how much he loved his brothers and the whole farm. 

presentations

During these days I've learnt a lot of things with the oral presentations of our classmates. Perhaps the three things that impressed me the most were about foreign and far cultures. 

The first one is something I learnt of my own presentation while doing the research: how do the hindu people celebrate a funeral. Rahter than the funeral in sense, I liked all the "treatments" that they do to the deceassed, for example to wash the body with purified water or even milk.

I also liked to know that the "sweet sixteen", "la quinzeañera" or the "weekend party" are almost the same experienced in different ways. To end, I have to say that the african weddings look super funny and even better than ours.

All the presentations were really interesting and I enjoyed a lot getting to know new rites of passage around the world.

greed arrested them

Four suspects have been arrested because of their greedy behaviour.

Three adults and a youngster had stolen several cars and were under suspect by the police when they decided to go to a fast food place and order the hughest meal ever. To be even less discreet they paid with a stolen credit card (that they had found in one of the cars) and invited the person who was waiting behind them in the queue, then posted a photo of that massive amount of food on instagram.

It wasn't difficult for police to start researching on the fast food chain, and quickly found the reciept of that order (that the employees had kept by coincidence). Their "light" meal included more than ten burgers, two chicken, five sandwiches, six orders of fries... Bon apétit!

I think those burglars weren't really intelligent, and too greedy, that's what made them get caught. In my opinion police made a good job, and they shouldn't show mercy to thiefs, because although there are some cases when people has nothing else to do for eating, this burglars stole four cars and then spent a lot of money. And this is not necessity, this is kind of a "hobby" that makes some people lose a lot and the thiefs didn't have any objective further than stealing to steal.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/instagram-fast-food-arres_n_4263393.html

lighted ballons

I was having a look to Vogue magazine (For a school assesment, I'm not a frequent reader) when I found this fancy photo.

On the picture you can see a girl with a dolly-looking wearing an ankle-long dress standing on a field with red trees on the left and a curious tower on the right side. What makes the photo special are some lighted ballons spreaded around the landscape.

I know that what people would think is that what's fancy on the picture is the dress... But I'm not really interested on long pink clothes. Although I like fashion, I think that you have to know when to wear super fashion things and when not. For example, if you're going to college you can dress beautiful clothes, but you don't need to make wonders with your waredrove. Then, you can't appear in a wedding on your trainer's. You have to know when and where to wear each kind of clothes... and you don't need a lot of clothes to look always nice.

My advise (I'm not a fashion expert, so you may disagree) is to combine clothes you like, when you like and where you like with a bit of common sense to be fancy anywhere and dress properly. And to be true to your own style!

unexpected trip

I woke up this morning thinking what could I do to do it better. I didn't really know what to do, so I ate breakfast calmly (this weekend I didn't have training nor races) and spoke with my parents. We have decided to go to Palamós to visit my grandparents and cousin, we've got dressed and then on the road to Palamos. At half way, we've seen the Montrgrí, a little mountain located in l'Empordà. We've looked at each other and no words were necessary to decide to climb it!

My sister had some assesments to do and stayed on the car, so we've thought... Why not? She has driven to the other side of the mountain and stayed in a bar. We had one and a half hour to walk up to the mountain and then down to the town for the other side! My grandma was waiting for us to arrive at two. 

It's been so exciting, the views were delightful and the sky had a special beautiful light. Once we've got on the top, where there's a castle standing, we've taken a look to the lamdscape and visitted the castle. Then we've got to run down the hill to arrive on time to granny's place. It's been an unexpected but really nice trip.

Next time we'll get dressed properly and with some more time (and a backpack with food and water) we'll try to climb it with the whole family!

Sailing Mallorca

It was a normal wdnesday until the school bell rang. Then the day turned into the start of a new adventure... I was taking a ferry to Mallorca that night! 

I met in Blanes with some of my sailing team, there we took the trolleys with the boats and got on the road to Barcelona. At eleven thirty the ship was leaving straight to Mallorca. We arrived at half past six the next morning, very tired but excited, looking forward for the race we were going to compete in. We had to take the boats out of the trolley under the rising sun, with a freezing temperature. That day we had to pass the measuring test for the boats (an especialist cheks every part of your boat to ensure its legality) and formalize the inscriptions to the race: it was the Spanish championship!

The first day of race we were given two really uncommon things that made the race even more exciting: a bracelet that contained our information, to sign in before going to water and out afterwards. There was another update, a chip that followed our trajectory during the race.

The championship ended last Sunday, our results weren't very good but I was happy because I really had fun and met some new people. I would like to post this with a photo, but we have no good shots...

Simply clever, simply sexist

Skoda, the famous Czech car company, has been recently accused of sexism because of advertising!

The ad was about a man considering what to do with his wife: to keep her, to trade her for her younger sister or to give her back to daddy. It became a trendy topic on twitter when it appeared, with opinions against and for the commercial. Some bloggers have titled the ad as "Simply sexist", using the famous Skoda's slogan "simply clever".

I think it is just an innocent joke an although it isn't, perhaps, very appropriate, it is funny. It shouldn't have become a trendy topic for sexism: Remember that the company have also made the same version but with the girl choosing, just to avoid this debate!

You can look for the new in The Huffington post, what do you think about this commercial?

the adventure of socks...

Everyone has that lovely pair of socks, thin but warm enough, not too short nor too long and with the perfect color that fits with all clothes. You love these socks, but there's a problem: you always lose one of them! So, where is that poor sock?

You'll find one single sad sock, missing its pair and becoming useless for the rest of its life, because its couple is gone forever. Can you imagine how it feels? But worse is how would the lost sock feel. Lonely, abandoned and somewhere unknown in the washing machine.

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I like to think that they start a new life with all the other lost socks, or even that they return home but in a relative's drawer. Then becoming evil and revenging you for losing them, making you think the sock you see is always the same but you actually have both socks hanging around your home laughing at your face because you think you've lost a sock!

Who knows what really happens? I do not, but this is a funny way to imagine what the hell are your disappeared socks doing... they can't be that far!