keep sailing...

This is the third post about sailing, and it won't be the last one. My intention is to keep you in contact with my sailing experience. Today I'm going to talk about the racing calendar. 

At first it could seem very hard, because I have only a free weekend a month. But once you're in, you don't need a pause, you want more and more. 

Nowadays I have about two training weekends per month and a race. However, we have several races which last for two weekends like the catalonian championship, which was this two last weekends, or the spanish championship which lasts four consecutive days. This weekend I went to the second part of the catalonian championship, and I did it quite well (in my opinion). It was a hard race. Specially last Saturday, which was windy and super cold. The wind was completely frozen and the sea even more. 

But... now that the exams have already passed I have time to think of the future, and in two weeks I'm going to Villa García d'Arousa to compete in the nation championship. It lasts for four days, but we're going there a few earlier to train and pass the material controls. So we're going at least eight days, two for journeys and six for sailing. I'm very excited because it is the first long race I'm going to without parents, with plane and... a lot of friends! It sound great. :)

Well, I'll explain that race once being there and I will tell you all the details! ;)

Be careful with your tongue!

This week seems to be the hardest in winter. The weather's awful, we have plenty of exams and works and there's nothing to do outside. Luckily I can go sailing in the weekend and relax (or suffer), but as I know that there's so many people who don't have this kind of motivations, I challenge you to do something.

At first it could look ridiculous, but it is really funny: try to read this poem clearly as fast as you can. When I did it I couldn't stop laughing for minutes... It is very difficult!! (at least for me) ;) Well, I'm probably boring you and I don't want to, so start reading the poem!!

Whether the weather be fine,

Or whether the weather be not,

Whether the weather be cold,

Or whether the weather be hot,

We'll weather the weather

Whatever the weather,

Whether we like it or not!

I've also found the hardest tongue twister I've ever seen... It is even hard to remember!!

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where are the pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?” 

Technological addiction

I ask you to think about one thing for a while: how many electronic devices have you got in your home?

Mostly of you have more than five. It is normal, but... necessary? 

Nowadays all of us have almost a TV, a computer, a mobile phone, a radio... We live between thousands of electronic devices. It is in our lifestyle to use them daily, but do we really need them? Of course we need them, but we could try to use all this devices less, and nothing would happen. Because we don't live to use them, they exist to help us living! 

A few years ago, we couldn't speak instantly with our friends, we had to send an SMS and wait for the answer. If someone used that service more than needed, he would pay a fortune. But now we're able to speak with anyone, anywhere and anytime. And this is affecting our social relations. A lot of people, mostly teenagers, doesn't look at your face when you're speaking with them because they're answering a message of another friend. But when they're with that friend they could be speaking with you, and wouldn't look at their partner's eyes. 

I think we should use less our devices and attend more to our social life, and use the instant message service when we're not able to speak with anyone. This way we'll keep our friends closer and our "electronic affairs" further.

Sail, train, enjoy.

I've already done a post about sailing, but I would like to show you some more things. Every weekend I go training to Blanes or somewhere to compete in a race. This weekend I trained at nine o'clock with my team, because the winter wind in Blanes is quite strange, and if you want to sail, you have to wake up very early. As I know that sailing is an uncommon sport, I'll show you a short resume of how is a training day. You'll see that this Sunday (when I shot the videos) we had soft wind and flat water. These are great conditions to practice tags and jibes, and also velocity against other boats. I also have to tell you that it's been a short time that I'm sailing with this class of boat, so I still have to train a lot... Anyway, it is a good video to figure out how is training a sport such different as from we're used to see in television. I hope you enjoy it! ;)

Ho hey

Ho hey is a love song by The Lumineers. It explains the story of a boy who loves a girl. They were together, but now she has left him and he wants to be with her again. The problem is that the girl is now with another man, but the singer believes that she would be better with him, starting over again.

I like this song for its sound, but also for its lyrics. I think it is very beautiful and something that seldom happens in real life. It is romantic, and has a very good feeling! Enjoy it. 

Les Misérables

Before reading this post you should know that I love cinema. I go to the cinema almost every week, normally on Fridays with my friends or on Sundays with my parents. I've seen a lot of movies and each one is new story to live and imagine... The last movie I've seen is quite special, it is a sung movie, Les Misérables. 

It is about a man called Jan Valjean, who escape from the law and start a new life far from Paris. He soon become an important man and the mayor of a town. Then he meets Fantine, a young and poor woman who asks him to save her daughter just a few hours before dying. He obviously takes the little girl and races her as his daughter. Some years later he returns to Paris and there, Cosette (the girl) meets Marius, a young man who's fighting for people's freedom in the capital. They fall in love and after a lot of exciting scenes, they can live together... But I won't tell you the end of the story because then you wouldn't enjoy the movie in case you watch it!

I definitely thing it is an Alan Hooper's masterpiece. This film is awesome! After more than two hours singing, when you see The end, you're still wanting more and more of that moving story. I have to admit that I was about to cry when we left the cinema... The music is great and the way the characters express themselves singing, is even more powerful than just speaking. By the way, it is spoken in English! 

Well, to finish I only have to say that if you like cinema, you can't afford to miss this film.

song -do you hear the people sing?-

New year resolutions 2013

Wow! The 21st December has passed and we're still here and alive! So... This is 2013 :) Happy new year to all of you.

Like every year, this year I've made my New Year's resolutions... Since I never achieve any of them, this year I've been more realistic, and they aren't hard to achieve:

• I will improve my handwriting: look, I have an awful handwriting. I don't expect to have the best handwriting ever, but I would like that when I'm writing something, people don't have to ask me -what does that say??- 
• I will learn to speak German properly: I'm learning German since this summer, and by the moment I can have an stupid conversation, you know... like presenting myself, asking something... I can also move in a city as a tourist with no problems, but I would like to have a fluid conversation with someone.
• I will also improve my English skills, and for that, I'll travel to Ireland in summer, and some things more...

I've also planned some things more, but less important...