The "selfie" movement

Nowadays there is this fashion picture known as "selfie". It consists of taking a picture of yourself and posting it on the social media: Facebook, Instagram and I think it is also starting in Twitter. But as all good things it has the bad part.

Acording to a study done in the US it can cause a lot of insecurity in women, specially for teenager girls.They are constantly looking at pictures of their friends, celebrities and even from people they don't.This cause teen girls start being gelous from all them. The worst is that it can produce dangerous consequences on eating desorders because it is like a subliminal message for girls to lose weight.

However, I do take loads of selfies and I think it's funny when I'm bored.

On the one hand when looking at other girls I get gelous sometimes but in a good way. Like I'm gelous of their clothes or their incredible bodies but that doesn't mean I'm not happy with what I have. 

On the other hand I think being very skinny is not nice and I recomend everyone loving themselves.

I wish ,specially for girls, that they would stop hating their bodies and apreciate what life have give to them. And if they don't like their bodies thay can always do other alternatives like doing sport or serious diets instead of killing themselves by having eating desorders.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-26952394

Fashion bloggers

Nowadays, thanks to the social media, we have the called "Fashion Bloggers".

Fashion Bloggers are created by girls mostly who love fashion in general. They take pictures of themselves, now called selfies, and then they write a post like we do but they write about their style. You can find pictures of hair styles, nails (manicure), clothes, shoes, compliments,... 

I follow the on Instagram another social media very popular at the moment. It's nice to follow them because it can give you different ideas to combine colours. Even if you don't know how to dress one day you can look up their pictures and they can give you nice and cute ideas.

In addition you find colour combinations you never think they would be right and they actually are. I love fashion and following them it's a way to be updated with fashion around the world. But of course they look beautifuly in their dresses, shorts and skirts and when I try them on I don't like them. 

There are a lot of Fashion Bloggers, the most famous in Spain is "Dulceida" and from around the worl a very know one is "Song of style". 

Creating these Blogs is another way to get famous and people envolved in fashion look at their ideas and they might be contracted to be Models. For example the girl from "Dulceida" is a famous model at the moment. She explains you her experience as a model explaning her style and her ideas.

Dulceida:

Song of style:

Benetton's Rana Plaza Protesters

A Benetton factory falls in Bangladesh killing 1134 people and injuring the double. In the ruins there were Benetton labels and the clothes brand didn't want to pay the compensation to the survivors and  the families. 

Protesters celebrated the first anniversary of the factory fall chaining their hands and necks in Benetton's shop in Oxford Circus.  

There are clothes companies like Primark, which they company is located in the Raza Plaza building. They have started to pay the remuneration to the survivors and families of the victims tragedy. 

People who are protesting think that $40 million dollars must be payed by Benetton's for their compensation.    

http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2014/04/25/benetton-protest-oxford-circus-rana-plaza

Work experience

The work experience is an important part of the transition year. Transition year was called the course I did when I was in Ireland. Irish people consider that trasition year is a year to know more about yourself. If teachers saw you interested in learning and participating in activities they would let you do all of them. For example on Wednesdays I used to go horse riding with disabled children. I also did yoga, first aid and personal protection. It's been the best year so far. I learned so much things and I also took part in the choir what's more in the tennis team. However, it always would rain so we hardly had a chance to play.

All this made me grow as a person and I met loads of other students from other schools too.

In addition, transition year oblige all studients to take minimum two weeks of the year course and work in something we liked. A friend of mine went for three months to Australia. As I didn't have any contact with people outside from school a part for my family I couldn't choose my work. I asked my parents to go back to Spain but they said I must profit the maximum my time there. I'm so glad I stayed.  My supervisor decided to put me in a primary school of children with desabilities. Most people must thing it's very boring or not nice. : that must be so boring,.. and I also did, I didn't like the idea but after two weeks working there my mind absolutely changed. All I can remember are good memories there. 

I was so scared the first day. They assigned me a particular classroom. There were three teachers for class. The classroom where I was there were children from 6 to 11 years old because they organized them according to their desability and their dependence of an adult. They had a timetable and they did Maths, English, Art, Music, Gymnastics.

We also did loads of activities together like playing football, we went to the swimming pool and I use to read them farytales. I tried to give them all my love and tender. I'd never think they would be so intelligent, sensitive, sweet and kind as they were. I remember them so well. 

However, as all good things there was the bad part. I wasn't told the illness of all children so there were children that looked fisically as healthy one. One day we were at the playing game room and a girl had a epileptic attack. It was kind of shocking but immediately one of the teachers came to talk to me.

I learnd many things about them, the class where I stayed was unreal. I wish I could see them again. It was such a good and nice experience. The last day I brought them candies with the permition of the teachers and I cried a little. 

Teenagers behavior

Teenager's behavior can change so easily.

Not all teenagers are lazy, there are lazy ones, there are motiveted ones and the ones that stay in the middle of both. And not because we are teenagers we are lazy; I'm sure a lot of adults are lazy too. Of course we are lazy to do our homework and we find everyone annoying and we don't want to know anything about anyone, but that is only because we want to contradict adults.

Teenagers like not being told what to do, for example I prefer people not saying anything to me and I'll do my homework or the housework whenever it suits me but I'll do it. When people oblige me to do something I immediately feel tired or suddenly I'm not in the mood.

However, I don't understand why adults are so stricts with us or why they see adults like poison. They've been adults too and they have experienced this period of life too. They must  know how we feel. Only very little people understand us. And of course we change behavior very quickly but that's teens life, it's the way it is.  

Do we feel unmotivated? Well, teenagers can change their mind, thoughts and mood in a second of time. 

Our hormones energize and revolutionize, they make us act very different. We can't do anything about it. In addition, adolecence is a period in our life as infancy, childhood or adulthood and we just have to live at the maximum taking advantage of all opportunities that presents in front of us. Because opportunities only appear once.

I also recognize that we can turn people crazy because one day we are very happy and we go smiling everywhere, although, next day, for no reazon we are mad about all things in life and everything that crosses our mind is just wrong. We also get unmotivated for the comments adults make from us.  

To end I must say that as far as I know adolecence is the most difficult period in our lifes and also the most important one. We have to make decitions for our future and choose right people to stay on the right way.

" And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years "

One of human's best friends

First of all the topic I chosed is very wide and I focosed it in what do I consider a pet is and my experiences with them. 

Since I was a little kid I have grown up involved with many types of animals. My grandmother had a house with a huge field. There she had three horses, three dogs, a pond with fishes and turtles, a bird, rabbits, cats.. 

I know a lot of animals. Apart from my grandmother house I always had a dog at home, so I could say I don't remember any moment of my childhood without the company of a pet. Basically they have been another member of my family.

My favourite pet is the dog. It is a faithful an loyal animal. His eyes can talk as in you can recognize by his movements what he wants. He's always happy to see you and he never desagrees with you. 

I'd like to highlight that having a pet at home is a very big responsability, I mean they have feelings and they also have their basic needs : food, hygiene, freedom,.. 

To end up, I'm afraid to say that 6 months ago my doggy died. He was very old but he died happily with us and sleeping. It was so sad when my little brother found him and came crying to us explaning the horrible new. 

  My conclution is that I think is very positive to live in contact with the animals, with other words, near the nature.  

A different day

-Suddenly a message appeared on the computer screan. 
I didn't know who it was from. I chosed to press the button "open".
Reading the few first lines I started to sweat and my heart was beating so fast. My eyes couldn't believe what they were seeing.
I didn't know what to do faced with this situation. So I got off the chair and started to scream all over the house !!!
I had been waiting for the answer for a long time. 
When my mum heard all this noise came to my room with a worry face, the she asked me : "What is it all about?"
I told her the matter : 2 months ago I filmed a piece of a dance for a TV show, on the mail was written that they had chosen me. 
It is a very famous TV show, watched all over the world, I was so happy When I filmed the dance, everyone told me that it was very difficult, and that it is a lot of hard work. But yes, here I am with the mail saying that they have chosen me. 
This means that I have to go to Barcelona for a week. After that if I pass the first casting I will go to New York !!