A GAP YEAR

Who doesn't like the idea of having a gap year? I'm sure that we all have different ideas of what we would do. My point of view is that when we're students, in a gap year we want new experiences, but for people who has a job, the adulthood stage, are more interested for get more experience of something, or just to take a year off. 

Right now, if I had to do one, I would part my year in three parts. 

The first one would be the most radical one, I would like to volunteer in a poor country, where everything it's different, aproximately three months. It would also be great because I would get the chance to see more places around the world, and also to make a lot of friends of other cultures and other languages. It sounds great but I think that it would be a hard experience, because we aren't used to this lifestyle. The second part would be the relaxing part, after a great experience, it's nice to go back with the family and chill out for a bit. I would spend my time doing some projects that I have in mind, and trying to find a job for the  rest of the year. This would be my third part, I want to earn my own money, so I would like to work.

I think that taking a gap year it changes you life, you have the chance to see different cultures, and apreciate more the things we have. With all those experiences you grow as a person, you get more values. 

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NEWS: THE CITY OF THE FUTURE?

What do you imagine when you think of the future? 

An architect Vincent Callebaut, has a clear idea of how it should be, and he decided to show it to the world. 

He is based in an eco-living lifestyle, he wants to combine the city and the countryside, doing eco-friendly communities instead of separating our houses with fences. His project is called Flavours Orchard, and I really like it. I would be very pleasure if my future house looked like the ones he designed. They are like little palaces, with a very peculiar structure. They're all made of glass, so everything it's very illuminated and it gives a clear sensation. 

Unfortunately, all those buildings are planned for a city in China, so it would take too long to arrive in Spain (if it was possible, all this are just projects!).

My house.
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This could be our lovely highschool!
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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2571330/Is-city-future-Incredible-artists-impressions-glimpse-eco-living-houses-shaped-like-cones-fans-rooftop-gardens-streetlights-switch-cars-nearby.html 

BOOK REVIEW: TIRANT LO BLANC

As I haven't got time to read my own books, I'll do a review of one book which we had to read for highschool.

The book we read was Tirant Lo Blanc, written by Joanot Martorell. It's a very important book for the literature because it changed the way of writting (not just about war and knights stories) introducing heroes showing human characteristics, like Tirant a hero that cries and he also broke his leg twice. Now it's a normal thing, but in those days, it was the most modern literature for all those aspects. At first I didn't like the idea of having to read one of "the classics of literature" because everyone said that it was very boring, and it's written in an old catalan, so it's difficult to read sometimes. I actually enjoyed! Perhaps it was because I had the lowest expectations for that book that it surprised me when I found out that it wasn't as bad as everyone says. 

The book is divided by two main stories: Tirant going to war and Tirant falling in love with Carmesina.

Tirant was a very honored knight who was always fighting against the Turks, he was nobel and loyal to his homeland: he was a hero, but he was also human. He felt in love with the daughter of the king of Constantinoble and they married secretly. I found that the part of war it was a little boring because all the battles were always against the Turks and they were very similar so it's a little bit confusing if you have to situate the battles (which one goes first?), but the part of love, the part of the social problems we might say, it's very funny and it's easy to get hooked.

I wouldn't  recomend it, but I would say that for the people who has to read it compulsery it's not as bad as it looks like!

Tirant lo Blanc
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NEWS: THE MWC

At the end of February, in Barcelona, they're going to do the Mobile World Congress, that it's known worldwide and it's a big contribution for the city. 

The congress it's an exhibition of mobile companies from 200 different nations, where they can expose their newest electronic devices.  They do conferences to announce the news, meetings and all the things you can imagine related with mobile phones. There you can find some famous people, like Mark Zuckerberg.

Last year there was around 72.000 trade visitors, 1.900 exhibitors and 300 keynote speakers.

Mark Zuckerberg doing a conference
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That's a video where it shows the place where the MWC is and their highlights:

Source: http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/2014-event-highlights/

NEWS:THE BROKEN HEART SYNDROME

The scientists announced this month of a new research. They have found out that having a broken heart can cause more than the risk of having depression and anxiety. In fact there are proves that showed that you can have a heart failure after a few months that someone very close to you dies.

The broken heart syndrome starts with an "overdose of adrenmaline" which is normally a great fact, but mixed with emotional distress it can be very bad. Other sympthoms are hair loss, cold and flu, headaches, asthma, high blood pressure, diabetes...

They can prove this new theory because they have found examples of it in popular couples: The Prime Minister James Callaghan, who died eleven days after his wife, and also the famous country singer Johnny Cash died of died of diabetes four months after his wife.

The Prime Minister and his wife
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Johnny cash and June, his wife.
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Although scientists say that it has been proved, it seems difficult to believe because those examples could be just a coincidence. But it's easy to relate that the fact of being depressive when somebody who you loved dies, the depression also takes different damages, not just being sad.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2568888/Headaches-Hair-loss-Even-strokes-cancer-The-terrible-cost-body-broken-heart.html

ORPHAN BLACK

Orphan Black is about one girl, Sarah, who has arrived at her hometown after ten months. When she came back, at the train station, she saw an identical girl killing herself by jumping in front of the train.

Sarah had no idea of who she was but she stoled her handbag and she found her house keys and two mobile phones. She went to her house and she decides that she'll pretend to be the girl who killed herself. After that she'll have a lot of troubles with her false identity (her real and fake boyfriend, her fake job as a policewoman, the mystery of the second mobile phone, ...) but the most important thing is that she'll find out that she's a clone and that there're more like her. 

She's a clone, but she has something that any of the other clones have: a daughther.

The "sisters"!
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I really liked this serie, I think that it's very interesting the way that it's focused, about all the cloning experiments that aren't allowed in real life (yet), and it also has a lot of mistery, at the end of each episode you want to see more. What I love the most are the characters, all the clones are so well played for just one actress, they all have very different lives and ways to express themselves. My favourite character it's Fe, the stepbrother of Sarah, he's the one who'll make you laugh!

Felix
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FLIP-FLOP RADIO: AN INTERVIEW

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I did this podcast with Tania Argelés and Marcel Kotthaus.

ARE YOU INFLUENCED BY WHAT CELEBRETIES WEAR?

Of course I am! But that’s why styles are for: to copy ideas from what you see around and try it to make it a little bit yours. We always look up to celebrities because they have a lot of money in their pockets that they can  spend on clothes and then everyone talks about them.

In my opinion I would say that celebrities now are trying to catch desperately the attention of paparazzi wearing dresses that anyone would wear, like Lady Gaga. I don’t think that she influences me at all, and I would dare to say that she’s the exception. She’s not the ony one anymore.

Jennifer Lawrence

Now there’s a trend (in the celebrity world) to show too much skin. I don’t think that this is a nice style but I was very surprised the other day when I went into a clothing store in my town and I couldn’t find a T-shirt that wasn’t cut by half. Who will go to highschool showing the belly? Nobody! Clothing managers know that if someone who’s recognized all  over the world wear some kind of shoes, people who admire this person are (probably) going to buy the same shoes because “he has the same ones”. 

Instagram's OOTD

Nowadays, most of girls are also influenced by apps like Tumblr or Instagram, where you can post your OOTD (Outfit Of The Day) and you’ll also find lots of outfits from other people. And all those outfits are similar to each other, they’re the same style.