A step further in women rights

Since ever, women has been discrimnated and considered inferior to mean, but in the last century and overcoast, in the last years, this is changing: now, in wester cultures, althought stills being cases of discrimination, it has almost desapperaed and it's a shame thta in other cultures women continue living considerated inferior to men. For this, I think that the fact that Nigeria has banned the female genital mutilation (a clear violation of the women rights) is a good notice that remembers us thta this discrimination and the violation of the women rights are being, bit by bit, erradicated.

The female genital mutilation (FGM) it's the partial or complete removal of tissue from the female genital organs, particullary the clitoris, in order to eliminate the sexual pleasure in women considering cultural, religious or any other reason and without any medical cause. This practice is usually done without any medical safety, security or supervision and this practice hasn't benefit the health of he women, is quite the opposite: it usually cause serious problems in women health like bleedings, infections, tetanus,... and there are a lot of women that had died in this procedure being that it's been done with rudimental intruments like crystals, knives or razor blades. Althought Africa is one of the continets in where there are more cases of this parctice, acroding with the Europian Parliament, it's also very commond in South America. In European conuntries is forbidden practice the genal mutilitaion and in fact, if you have the suspicious that an african family has led his daughter to Africa for practice the FGM, you can report it. For this, Nigeria is playing an importnat role in the african history because is the country who has the hight number of cases of genital mutilation in all the countries of Africa and now, the country has banned this practice. They considered that it's an horrible crime that untill now, only could find support in the history and in the social convencions  but it's deffinetly a clear vilation of the human rights of all women around the world. The new law states that those who practice or promote mutilation could face up to four years in prision and a fine of thousand dolars

How we could get to that point?

Related to the accident thta takes places in a high school in Barcelona the las month, where a 13 years old boy, as a result of a psychotic break, has kill his teacher with a crossbow and has hurt some students, make you think about about the security in schools, the law system,... and also, in our society because, how we could get to that point?... 

First of all, this boy will not go to a under 18 center and even, he will not be judget becuse he is under the 14 years old. This fact for the family of the death teacher it's horrible: you know who has caused his murder but nothing can be done for punish him. Front my point of view, I think thta it's necessary a change of law, this boy can and have to be, as minimum, judtget. In the other hand, we have the causes that made the teenager commit this unbeliable crime andwith this, the securuty in the schools. I think it's not necesary start to have police officers in the educational centers, revise the bags of all the students and teacher or veen, start to wear bulletproof vest but maybe, could be a goodidea start to have metal detectors for increase the secutiry. 

Another thing thta has to be doneis start to promove some valors from home and from schoolsbecause if a teenager can have this kind of guns at home, it means thta something is wrong with our system or with the society. In my opinionm I believe thta one of the causes could be the violent video game. Nowadays, teenagers are exposed to this kind of video games where they can be part of a warm, kill as peple as they want,... and all of this and like we can see in this terrible case, mark and transmit valors thta can end in what happen in this school.

Oral presentation

This term I had made the last oral presentation of the course!!! This time, Berta and I had talk about global issues and in concret, about the climate change. We chose this topic because we found it very interesting: we know what it was but we don't know why it was caused and the more important, we wnated to know what we could do for improve the situation of our planet.

Global change is produced by human activities. It means thta we are theresponsables of the pollution and the damage of the Earth. It also mena that we are who have to solve this problem and we should startnow if we want to conserv our planet and all the species thta live in it.

We hope you like it!

My football team

I have been playting football isnce I were 5 years old and altought I have practice another sports (without let playing football) definelty, football it's my favourite sport. I have been playing in differents teams but now, I'm playing in the female team of Sant Pere (thta it's good because I don't have to go far away for train). Last year we win the First Catalan League and we had the opportunity to play the Catalonian Cup thta althought we did it well, we were discalificated in quarterfinals. I think thta it was because the level of the other temas that were playing in hight categories was very good. Even that, we did our best and we went more far than we thought...Another thing of win the league was that we had the opportunity of play in a high level, in Prefered League. Is one of the highest categories for women teams, after that there's only Second and Firts National where teams like Barça, Espanyol,... are playing.

Because of this change of level, we had been training very hard and doing our best during all the season, I had invested a lot of time in my football team: we train three times a week and in addition, there are weeks that Berta and I have to go to play with the Female Catalan Selection. Also we have to go to play to Barceloina, Tarragona and even Lleida every weekend,...  maybe this is the worts of that category I mean, I need a lot of time for my studies and I have to invert a part in football. Another "athwart" that have play football in this highs categories is that you have to make sacrificies I mean, maybe I can't meet with my friends or go out at night because I don't have time or because I have a match next day... but I think that it also have good things: I can stop of my routine, desconect, have fun,...during thre trainings and matches and the most important: I have new friends every year when people come and goes to one team to another.

Althought I had miss part of these season because I suffered an important knee lesson, we did, like always, our best. We have achieved the fifth position thta it's not a bad place in a classification taking into account that we have enter in this new category this same year! Besides, one of our objectives were keep on in this category and we did it and I'm sure that next season we will bee between the three firts places.

This year we are participating againg in the Ctalonian Cup and we have overcome oruself. This last weekend we payed quarterfinals and we passed it! It means that this August we are going to play agianst Barça F.C and if we win, we would be playing the final of the Catalonian Coup against Español F.C!!! I know it's very difficult, Barça have one of the better women teams, but we will try.

Trip to Berlín

I can't believe what I had just find! Last year we went to Berlin for the final school trip and when we come back to Spain, I was so exciting aboiut the trip and I decided to do a diary and I had just find it. I have been reading it and Ireklinding moments that I had forgotten! So thi is a sum up of all the things we did:
TUESDAY, 22

It was the first day of the trip. In the morning, all the students met at the high school and then, we went to the airpot in Barcelona by bus. In the airport we checked in the baggage and we waited to board the plane. It took two hours to get to Berlin. Once here, we went to the hostel by bus. 

When all the students and teachers were installed in the rooms, we took the first walk for Berlin and we saw the door of Brandemburg, some shops, Alexanderplatz,... Then, we went to dinner to a restaurant. 

When we finished, we had free time for make what we wanted. It was one of the nights taht I like most!

WEDNESDAY, 23

We woke up early for breksfats at the hostel and then, go to the parliament of Berlín. I really liked this visit because from the top of this place you can see all Berlín. When we finished the visit, we went to the Holocaust Monument. It is in a big park and there are a lot of big rectangular estructures made of concrete. It's very shocking. Then we went to lunch. In the afternoon, we went to visiti a bunker that was made in case a nuclear bomb roll out in the city, then we went to a museam called "The history of Berlín".
After diner, we went to a carousel. It was very funny!!

THURSDAY, 24
We woke upearly too! We took a bus and we went to a concentration camp near Berlín called Sachsenhausen. Then, we went throught the turquish quarter and we see The Berlin Wall. I really liked The Berlin Wall because it's full of graffitis and it's very colorfull.
After lunch, we went to the Jewish Museum were there was a tree were you could put one wish.
At night we had free time again and it was the funiest night of the trip! It was half past night and one of my friends realized that he had lost 150€ in McDonald's at seven o'clock in the afternoon. We went to the McDonald's to tried to find the money, all of us thought that it would be imposible found the moneytwo hours later, but we went anyway. The employeds of the restaurant let us to searched the money in the rubish inside the cook. There was more than thirty full bags of rubish and when we opened the first bag the money was there! All of us started to scream and jump in the middle of the cook of McDonald's.

FRIDAY, 25
I really enjoyed this morning because we went to the Zoo! I love the zoo and the zoo of Berlín is one of the biggest zoo's in Europe. We spent all the morning in the zoo seeing all the animals, then we went to saw the Sinagoga. It's a beautiful church but we couoldn't enter because was all controled by the police. After lunch, we take a bus and we went to the last two museums of the trip; the "New Museum" and the "Museum of Pèrgamo". Both were at the "Museum Island" place where there are five different museums. In the first museum we could see Nefertititi, considerate one of the best egiptian work of art.

SATURDAY, 26
It was our last day in Berlín. We had to bee at the airpot at half past twelve so we had free time during the morning that I take advantatge for did the last shops.
We took the plane at three o'clock and we arrived to Barcelona more or less at half past five, then we took a bus and we came to the high school. The bus ride was very funny because all the students were exciting for met with the family again and we didn't stop singing.

Six new tombs are found in Egypt

An egyptian archeologicalmission has discovered six tombs of the pharaoinic era in the hill of the river Nile and with some trousseau that survived to the treasure hunters. With this collection of graves the necropolis is finally completed: the graves belong to the XXVI Dynasty (664-525 BC), time in wich the court established in the city of Sais, in the Nile Delta and at the other end of Egypt and where the dinasty resisted untill the Persian conquest and according to Mustafa Jalil, the leader of one of the egyptian missions that explore this are, these burials match with the architectual style of the time sayed previously.

Of the galleries and rooms of the tombs, the experts have rescued a small fortune: a collection of sarcophagi made by limestone and wood and whee the mummies where laying intact, statues representing the four sons of th God Horus (Amset, Duamuetef, Haoy and Qebehsenuf), keepers of the viscera of the mummi and some amulets in various shapes, sizes and colors and a samall wooden figueres of hawks (thta represents de God Horus).

Another importnat discovery with this area was made by an Spanish group of archielogics. A few meters from this finding, has been working for seven years a Soanish expedition lead by Alejandro Jimenez of the University of Jaen, and last March, the team plus another expedition of the University of Granada, issued an important discovery: the first evidence o breast cancer in the history, found in one of the skeletons of a woman who lived 4200 years ago and that was buried in one of the tombs.

This is not the end #forçagirona

This last day of league in the Liga Adelante (Second division) has left a lot to talk. In these last matches were decided wich teams will play next year in firts division, wich teams will remain in the same division and wich teams will down to Second B, and one of the most important matches were played in  Montilivi, Girona. With only win the match, Girona would have been one of the teams that the next year will be play in firts division. Everything pointed that this could happen but there was a dramatic end in Girona. The Lugo team directed by José María Sánchez, left no party for the Girona team thanks to a goal of Paul Knight in the injury time that suppossed the final tie. The polemic comes when at the next shot, one of the referees annul a goal of Girona that would have given the rise again to first dividion. With this last decision of the referee, the crow went wild and from the stands was launched a water bottle that hit on of the assistants and the referee decided to suspent the match. Twenty minutes later and with a little public in the stands, the meeting was resumed only for fifty seconds that make imposible that the score move (even José Sánchez couldn't get on time to the field as  he was in the press room).

The desesperation of the Girona players, the feeling of injustice and imptence at the end of the match was the only thing visible in the field, in fact, there have been some declarations and charges of premiuem payments for the Lugo players and also, charges of the purchase of the Betis game agiants Sporting de Gijón, the other polemic match of this last weekend of league. Some Girona players, after the match, have accused to Betis of "let win" by the Sporting de Gijón and in this context, Santi Vila (former mayor of Figueres) wrote in his Twitter account: "The fact that Betis let win by the Sporting de Gijón is more outrageous than the surprising motivation of the Lugo team agains the Girona". 

And this is not all, with all this confrontations in Montivili, the audience jumped infuriated to the football field to rebuke players of Lugo, thta have to be escorted by the private security of the Girona club. Even that, they couldn't leave Girona stadium untill 22:30 because outside of the stadium the Girona fans awaited them.

But this is not the end of the "Girona dream", they will fight for the risse at firts division in the playoff step, where they will face against Zaragoza, Las Palmas and the Valladolid. So at the moment, the teams that will be for sure playting in firts divison next year will be Betis and Sporting, and we would see what happen between this four teams in te playoof step. 

Breaking the rules in the fashion world

The model Ashley Graham just made history in the fashion world as the first top plus size appearing in the Sports Illustred magazine. She's 27 years old and her measures are far from the 90-60-90 stipulated by the fashion wordl. Although she has collaborated in different adverstiments of "plus size clothing", now she has appeared in this famous magazine wearing a black bikini and have the leading role in the last advertising campaign that claims the use of this garment by all women wathever their size is. This initiative has the intention of help to all women to feel attractive and safe with their bodies and also, with any type of swimsuit.

"It's necessary that all women with the same body as mine know thta their curves are beautiful"

-Ashley Graham-

With her work in this magazine and in others, Ashley is showing that something is changing in the fashion wordl. Another important brand, Calvin Klein, has just include in his CK Underwear another "plus size" model, Myla Dalbesio, with all the other models of the same campaing without doing any distintion or allusion to her size. 

I think that the forefather of these new campaigns was France when they start to ban the fashion walks of extremely thin women and for avoid it, all the modle will have to present a medical certificate before being hired and a few weeks later. All the models under 18,5 of the Body Mass Index would not be allowed to file.

All this kind of mesures and the participation in important adverstimeng campaing of this "plus-size" models it's very importnat becuase the social impact that the fashion and the image of these models trasnmit it's very influencial overcoat for the teenagers. It's supposed that they represent the image of the beauty and if they are telling women thta a plus-size is 38 and up, they are causing body image issues,  it's unrealistic expect that every women should be under the 38 size for feel beauty. 

In the other hand we have another porblem with this matter that is: When a model is considerate a plus-size and when not? Where is the limit? In fact, not so long ago, plus size models were around size 44-46, but that number has recenlty shrunk to a 38-42 and as far I'm concerned, I believe that in the "real world" moste people would never think of a size 42 as a "plus-size". Anyway, of course, we continue to see fashion predominately on thin bodies because we're told that's what sells. But the fact is, it's just what we've been seeing for so long that we don't know what the alternative would look like. This could change, but the fashion industry would have to want it to. The more "plus-size" women we see, the more we're like "hey! she looks good!". If we saw more average-sized women in media, the more comfortable we would be with those images and the more we'd want to see ladies who look like that in movies, TV, and another fashion campaigns.