DEATH

I am here again. This time I would like (I must) to talk about death. In our society death is a taboo; people don’t like to talk about death, but why? What happens after death?

We all know that we will die one day, but in my case, for example, I am not thinking all the time that I will die. I have a friend, I won’t say his name, who has not accepted that he will die, and when he was a child he couldn’t sleep. He has grown but he has not accepted it yet. When I talk to him he always asks me: how do you cope with death?

I don’t know, simply, I don’t think about that. I know that death is far away, I wish; and I think that when something is far away, it doesn’t bother us. For example, we all know that we will marry someone (I also wish), but I don’t think about that all the nights. We have to learn to cope with death, having a little bit of fear, obviously, but without getting obsessed. I don’t when and who said: carpe diem, enjoy the moment. This is my message. Until next time.

Fail video

This is a video that shows Edgar’s failures. Fails are an acts or instances of failing or proving unsuccessful. The first fail is about when you are on stage. You must be careful if you don’t want to do a big fail. It is very important to control your movements, an advice: don’t jump to the crowd…

The second fail is about the risk of being stolen in the street. If you have something you value very much, don’t be silly and hide it, unless you want to be stolen. I know that the short video about fails is a little bit bad, but I have uploaded three fail images to help. I can only say to enjoy the video, until next time.

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alcohol

Alcohol is drug that works directly on the central nervous system. The liver can be damaged, and takes a few days to recover. But in teenagers alcohol is still more dangerous than in adults. Our bodies are growing and our organs have not been developed, and in this case alcohol can damage our organs for the whole life.

Almost all the teenagers are social drinkers; I don’t know any teenager who drinks everyday, this would be a weird thing. In social drinkers there are two groups: moderate social drinkers (MSD) and obsessive social drinkers (OSD). MSD tend to drink until they are a bit drunk, and then they stop; but OSD drink and drink and drink until the bottle is empty.

OSD are not ashamed of anything: they start to sing, to dance ridiculously… and the problem with OSD is that you become ashamed of him, and the only thing you want to do is to escape of that hell.

In the other hand are the MSD. MSD are teenagers who you can be with, without fear of being ashamed. They do silly things, but always inside a limit.

To sum up, be a MSD, no an OSD, it is better for you and for your friends. I know that because I have been a sober guy, after an OSD and now I am a MSD, I think. Until next time.

what is in?

I am here again! This time I am going to talk about what is in (fashionable) and out nowadays. But what is fashion?

Fashion is something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode. To some, fashion is an art form. To others, it is almost a religion. But for most people it is a method of using clothing, accessories and hair to show or hide something about yourself. You can use fashion to express yourself, to serve as an extension of your personality: Goth, skater...Or you can use fashion to disguise your true self.

It is not necessary to be very intelligent to know what is in. If something is in, almost all the people would have it, like ipods or phones with touch screen. Mobile phones with large capacities for music and good cameras are hot, or portable devices that can connect to the internet with wi-fi, for example, itouch. To finish, I think that the portable computers are very in.

To continue, anything with wires is out. Those phones with black and white screens are very out, or potato phones. I am not telling you what is fashionable in clothes because I don’t know anything about it.

To sum up, and in my opinion, I think that almost all the devices that important companies are launching are in, due to advertising, maybe? I see you off.

DESCRIPTION

I am going to talk about a person that I estimate very much, but I won’t say his name. I have known him since I was five, but I am his friend since I was twelve. He isn’t very tall, medium height. He has long blond hair and quite small blue eyes. He is well built and he has a big nose.

I’m doing this essay about him because he is a very funny person; he is always laughing and joking, like me. We have lots of things in common, and that is the reason for being one of my best friends. We laugh together all the day, but when I am sad, he is always there, very sensitive, and tries to give me advices that would help me. He is a friendly boy, he meets new people very easily and he is very talkative, sometimes I have to tell him to shut up. He is always moving and jumping (he is quite hyperactive), and sometimes I get nervous.

I trust him a lot; I know that if I tell him a personal thing, he won’t tell it to another person. I don’t know why but I have never been angry with him, this is a very strange thing, because we are quite stubborn. I would like that our friendship would never end.

Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow

Daniel Kraft is a paediatric cancer doctor and stem-cell researcher at Stanford University where his clinical focus has been bone marrow transplantation. Bone marrow is actually what we use to save the lives of thousands of patients.

Few years ago, he was doing a transplant at Stanford. He was in the operating room; he had a person there, who was a volunteer donor. He took the needle, punch it into the hard bone and aspirate about 10 millimetres of bone marrow out, each time, with a syringe. After that he handed it to the nurse, she dropped it to a tin and handed it back to him. They repeated this about 200 times, and by the end the bone of the patient looked like Swiss cheese.

After few months he made up a new device, called Marrow Miner. This device can aspirate rich bone marrow very quickly trough one hole, and no robots are required. He experimented with other animals and he was astonished: he got 10 times the stem cell activity in the marrow from the Marrow Miner, compared to the normal device. With this technology more people will donate them stem cells, and more people will be saved.

IS ENGLISH A MANIA?

Last Wednesday afternoon, I was playing football with my friends. An hour later Patxi told me: “sorry but I have to go to the English academy”, and then all my friends told me the same. Five minutes after all my friends had gone, and I was alone, with the ball. I started to think and I wondered: is English a mania?

In my view, English is absolutely a mania. It’s true that English is expanding all over the world, cause to internet and globalization, but in my opinion it’s excessive the mania of the parents signing up their children to the English academies. We can learn English at school, but a lot of parents think that if they don’t sign up their children in an academy, they won’t learn English.

However, it isn’t an obsession only of parents. If you want to apply for a job, they always ask you a certificate of English, and if you don’t have it, you won’t get the job. I believe that English is important nowadays to travel to other countries, have a better job…. But a lot of people are learning English before learning well his own language! And this is catastrophic: day by day English will delete all the languages in the world, all the cultures and all the traditions. We want that? I don’t think so.

To sum up, I agree that English is important these days, but it is more important to learn and use our language, if we don’t want to lose it.