Ander Mirambell

Today, I want to talk about Ander Mirambell for two reasons.

First, because Ander is the first Spanish skeleton pilot who went to the Olympic Games, and the third sportsman of the FEDH( Federación Española de Deportes de Hielo).

In his first competition of the O.G. Ander finished as the 24th out of 28 participants.

To get that result Ander has to work a lot for a long time. As well he does not win any money, on the contrary for his participation in the Olympic Games, he had to pay everything himself: to get slopes for training, to have his sled built and to travel...

And second, because I enjoy talking about a famous "friend" who plays with me in my football team. I do not know him very well, because I am new in the team this year, but I had the opportunity to meet him for two weeks, and we were talking about his dream.

When he told my his dream of going to the O.G. I thought that it was impossible that a man of his appearence could go to the games. As well he commented us the economic subject and in the moment when he said us that he had to pay I thought that he was crazy!

But after that, when he returns from his competitions I will congratulate him.

Ways of communications.

There are a lot of different ways of communication, but today I'm going to talk about the two most important for young people and which have been fashionable for the last three years or so.
They are: messenger and facebook.

Messenger is a kind of chat that you can use to talk with your friends, and people that you know. At the moment, it's one of those things most used by teenagers to talk with people, but as well to meet new people. The conversation is written but directly like a live conversation, you can even talk face to face if you have a videocamera.

On the contrary facebook, is not so much a chat, but it is a place where people exchange ideas, coments, photos, etc and actually I don't know anybody, except mothers and old people, who don't have one account.

Personally I prefer messenger because it is a form to talk more directly and not so distanced as in facebook. As well messenger has more privacy than facebook, because the information of messenger is more restricted, and you don't have the possibility to offer too many things as in facebook, where there exist a lot of images and anybody can look at your account.

Cigarette ends...

The National Institute of Technology has found that Italians throw away 195 million cigarette ends every day. The butts contain toxics waste that comes up to 300 bilions tons a year.

This news item is very worrying because people start smoking earlier and their number is increasing. The Spanish politicians intend to stop people from smoking in public places, the new law starting on the first of January 2010, but in reallity it hasn't started yet.

When I go out to the pubs, discos, bars a lot of people still smoke and of course they throw the butts into the streets. That means that I can die inhalling smoke, or because of the toxics waste.

All that without being smoker, and this also for a lot of people who don't smoke.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8490511.stm