Inline-skating II

I've already told you about my tramuntana experience while practising again with my inline skates. But there are far more exciting ways to entertain with inline skates!

That friend of mine who's been here during Easter has shown me how he enjoys great days with his skates. He goes to practice tricks in a halfpipe once a week and also goes to contests. Actually, he's at a contest in Berlin today, the 21st May. The winner is going to spend two weeks in Barcelona, for another contest.

When he was here, I got to see him skate twice in the little street park in Castelló. As it is a street park and he usually only skates in halfpipes, he couldn't do many tricks, but it was still nice to see it. If I go to Bremen by the end of June, he promised he will take me to the skatepark an show me how he really skates. I'm looking forward to it. Here I have a photo (the best one I got) from his skating sessions in Castelló.

I've been thinking of trying it out a bit, actually.. What do you think?

Finally! - Plans.

I must say it: it's Friday, the 20th May 2011. Today have been my last two second batxillerat exams. I'm so glad!

This week has been so stressing, you know, I'm still happy I get some time to rest now. On wednesday, there will be a maths exam I'll have to take, but that's okay. At least it's not two exams every day now! And now, at last, I get some time for my friends. So this evening I'll go bowling with some friends and tomorrow afternoon I'll go have some ice-cream with Alexandra and Melissa (I hope she comes, too).

Monday.. yeah, on Monday I'm going to IES Castelló and look for the marks I still haven't got. I'll take my philsophy (Plato) notes with me because I'm going to help Pep (Joey) with it. He has to take the philosophy exam on Tuesday. We'll see If I can help him, but I really hope so!

For the rest of next week I have plans, too, like going to Figueres and such. I will meet once or twice more with some of my friends. I really need now some days off, to relax and have fun. And then, study again for PAU!

3 monsters at home: my cats

Lucy...................Timmy..................Maya

I can't believe that I haven't written a post about my three cats yet. Most people already know them, but I think it's time to write a blog post dedicated to them! :D

Timmy is the oldest of our three cats. Still in Germany, I wanted a cat as a pet and ym parents told me that I could have one when we had moved to Spain. So, two months after moving here, I got him. That was in June 2003. He was three months old, more or less, so he was born in March, 2003. That means that he's over 8 years old, not so young for a cat! But he's still very active, playful and cute. Lately he's grown very fond of my father, some years ago I was the only one he really played with. My father and I think he's the most intelligent of the three because he always listens to us talking and seems to know exactly when we talk about him.

Lucy is the second cat we got. We don't know how old she is, because she was a homeless cat. We found her in the nieghborhood, very thin, hungry and scared. For some days, we went to feed her and as she was always there, we knew she was homeless and took her home. She is a silly. When someone of my family goes out the house, she starts crying until he returns, which is really annoying, but it seems like she is somehow afraid that he or she won't come back. Now we've learnt to deal with it and she is learning that nothing happens. We've had her for 3 years now.

Maya is the youngest of our monsters. She's two and a half years old and that's also how long we've had her. We got her as a little kitten, some hours old, because her mother left her on our terrace. So we raised her with special kitten milk. She's.. well, special. She's the one who less cares about us humans because, I think, my mother was too good to her, she allowed her a bit too much. But Maya's very sensitive and notices when there's tension in the air. When I'm sad, she always runs over to me and tries to cheer me up. She tends to annoy Lucy when she can (well, it's quite easy, I must say).

News - Finally, equality?

I've read about a news article saying that the most powerful people in India are women. So, the president of India is a woman, Sonia Gandhi. The speaker of the parliament and the leader of the opposition are women, too.

Sadly, it's not like they got there by their own strength, as they inherited the charge from a male mentor. But still, I think it's a progress because in other countries female descendents couldn't inherit such important charges. In my opinion, this is an important step to equality that might already be done in most parts of the world, but still not everywhere.

But even in Europe the world equality is still quite relative. For example, women with the exact same qualification and the same job as a man still earn less money. I think that isn't exactly what equality should be like. However, we're still quite a few steps ahead of some countries, where women still have many, many rights less than here.

Finally, I think it's nice to see that the world is in a positive progress, it seems, but that can't be the end now. It must go on like that.


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Linkin Park - Somewhere I belong and concert!!!

Linkin Park is a band that I've known for more or less 4 years now, so I can say that I've become an "adult" listening to their music. First, I'll tell some of general information about the band: Linkin Park is a band from California which was formed in 1996, with the name Xero. First, it was only made out of three highschool friends: Michael Kenji "Mike" Shinoda, Bradford Phillip "Brad" Delson and Rob Bourdon. When they finished highschool, they got more serious with the band, hiring Joseph "Joe" Hahn (or, better known by his stage name, Mr. Hahn), Dave "Phoenix" Farrell and Mark Wakefield, who left the band shortly after. Searching for a new vocalist, they found Chester (now also called Chazy Chaz from his bandmates) Bennington. The band changed its name twice: the first time to Hybrid Theory (which became the name of their first album), the second, due to copyright issues, to Linkin Park. On 1999, they signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Records and released their first album a year later.

What I like about Linkin Park is the special combination of their two vocalists, Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda. Chester is able to sing soft and melodical songs, but he can scream, too! That singing of him and Mike's raps make an unique combination that I like a lot.

But the most exciting thing is that I'm going to see them live! There is a concert in Hamburg the 21st June, and I'm going to Bremen, the 20th. A friend of mine is already ordering our tickets! I'm really excited about it

Finally, here you have the song which is my favourite at the moment: Somewhere I Belong.

Easter holidays - unforgettable!

So, many people already know that I had a friend staying at home during the Easter holidays. I can say that it was an unforgettable week for me.

On Friday, the 15th April, I didn't come to school because at 8:30 in the morning I had to be at the airport in Girona. So my father and me set off for it at 7:20. At 8:15 we were there. I can't explain how nervous and excited I felt! It would be the first time I'd see him face to face, because I met him through my ex-boyfriend, but didn't get to meet him in Germany. My father told me to go inside the terminal and look at the screens to see if the flight was on time. On my way there, though, I found there was no need to, as he was suddenly standing in front of me! My first reaction was saying: "You're too early!" We greeted eachother with a hug and we got back to my father.

The first day was rather peaceful. The next day, on Saturday, my grandma arrived by bus in Figueres. My parents went to collect her and my friend, Tyrone, and me made breakfast for everyone. But on Sunday was a very exciting day: Tyrone and me got up early to catch a bus to Barcelona: we were going to the "Saló del Còmic". We spent all morning going around in Barcelona, so he could see the city. He liked it a lot. After that, we actually went where we wqanted to go: the convention. We bought a few "souvenirs", like posters. I bought myself a necklace resembling the weapon of the game Kingdom Hearts. After going through everything there, we went back out and to have lunch. After that, we had a rest in a park. We rested there for an hour or so, then we went to the harbour, as he wanted to see it (he loves the sea..). But we didn't have too much time to get back to the bus, so we went on after another hour or so and got back to the bus station. On the bus home, we almost fell asleep, we were so tired! The we walked home from the Empuriabrava bus station. At home, we were so tired we got directly to sleep. I already loved my Easter holiday, and it was just the third day!

The nuclear disaster in Japan - Nuclear Energy

Since I heard from the tsunami in Japan and the nuclear disaster that happened two months ago, I've been interested in what exactly failed to protect the facility and the population from this disaster as it was supposed to be safe. I'd like to explain what I found out.

First, from the news in the german television, I heard that the nuclear facility had emergency generators, so they could keep running the cooling system as long as they had enough oil. the only problem was that they were in the cellar of the building. So, when the tsunami entered the building the water went down and broke them. I think that wasn't thought out well when they built the nuclear plant.

Moreover, the Japanese government bought the nuclear technology directly from the USA, including the safety measures. In America, there aren't many tsunamis, if there are any. American nuclear facilities are secure for tsunamis up to 10m of height. In Japan, there are statistics that say that there is a bigger tsunami approximately every 10 years, so they would have needed higher security, but they put the same measures as in America. So I think it was quite clear that someday something would happen, but I think not even the Japanese govenment thought it would be such a disaster.

Finally, I think Japan should think over all of their nuclear facilities and secure them better so there won't happen anything like this again.

A sentence from HOME - History of a journey

"In the great adventure of life on Earth, every species has a role to play, every species has its place. None is futile ur harmful. They all balance out."

I think this sentence is entirely true! The Earth has alwys been well balanced out where every being needs of others. For an example, you only have to think about the food chain. For example, in an ocean, there is plankton, which is eaten by small fish. Bigger fish eats those, and so on until the biggest ones, like tuna or even sharks. If the small organisms disappeared, the bigger ones wouldn't have anything to eat and die out. If the bigger ones weren't there, the small ones would reproduce and die much less, so there would be an overpopulation and more or less the same consequences. Of course, humans are considered to be on top of the food chain.

the problem comes when this balance is broken, like we humans do. So, considering the same example as before, we catch too many tunas. So, the smaller fish have less natural enemies as before and can reproduce more, causing the above said overpopulation. More of those smaller fish means they need more food, like plankton. So they eat and eat more and more plankton until theres nothing left. As it can't regenerate because there are too many fish eating it away too fast, those fish will start to die out, causing the organisms higher in the food chain to have no food, too. So, entire ecosystems can die out because of us catching too much of one single species.

To sum up, I think we should be cautious about nature in every way we can and be respectful with our planet, so our children and all the other generations will have a place to live as nice as ours still is.

Osama Bin Laden's death

"Justice has been done." - That's what Obama said when Osama Bin Laden's death was announced. What I was asking myself immediately when I knew it: didn't they want to judge him properly? If so, why did they kill him directly? Couldn't they get him alive?
In my opinion, the american soldiers could have caught Bin Laden alive and bring him to the USA, but Obama didn't want them to. I think Bin Laden would have had too many things to say, I mean, for example, the 11th september, as I don't think Bin Laden is to blame for that. There were too many coincidences and strange happenings. The American government didn't want Bin Laden to talk, so they killed him before he could. That's my opinion about it.
I would like to hear other opinions about it. So, what do you people think?

Lego is fun! - Minecraft

I know you now might think I'm crazy, talking about Lego. But it's not exaclty like that. I'm talking about my new game: Minecraft, a game that's now getting very well-known nearly all around the world.

The reason why I compare Minecraft to Lego is that its entire world is built out of blocks, even animals and the player are square-shaped. And at the start, that's all: you're dropped in a completely virgin world and you can start collecting blocks of different materials, like dirt, gravel, wood... When you collect wood, you can build a workbench and create some tools to get stone, coal, iron... But at night, you have to be careful because monsters will come out.

What's special about Minecraft is that, because of that "blocky" design - you can build almost anything out of those blocks because you can place them as you want. It's a game that is a lot of fun if you're a creative person and you like to build.

I very like the idea that game follows: a mix of building, searching for ressources and surviving in one. It's a very nice idea. Moreover, here you have some photos. What do you think about it? Did you know it?

One of the best inventions of 2010

In my opinion, one of the most useful inventions of 2010 was the "electric eye". It's still under development, but it supposed to allow blind people to recognise faces and go through a room without help, so they recover (or get, when they were blind from birth) parts of their sight! For it to work, the person must wear some special glasses that are supposed to stimulate the optical nerve.
In my opinion, it's very useful for those blind people, so they can have a more normal, easier life. I also think it deserves the title of "best invention of 2010" because it helps people and is not another of that unnecessary inventions some people seem to adore. It shows that there are still scientists willing to help ill, disabled or handicapped people.
moreover, it makes me think that, if there's a possibility to make blind people see, there may be cures for many other handicaps and diseases. Inventions like that one help us to be optimistic about our future development. And I think that optimism can be applied for every "category" of science.
For this particular invention, we only can wait for its development and see if it works how it should. Personally, I think we're in a period of great progress and I enjoy watching it. Hopefully we all can do our part to help that progress.

My frist day in Bremen - What it was like.

I know I've already talked a whole lot about my trip to Bremen, but it's a topic that's very important to me, so I'll leave it in my blog.
On Monday, the 27th December 2010 I was very nervous, because at 11 o'clock I would be driving to the airport of Girona. I was very, very excited about my trip there because my boyfriend (now ex-boyfriend, sadly..) lives there. It was the first time we actually met eachother and I would be staying at his house for 10 days!
So, at exactly 11 o'clock, a friend of my parents drove me to Girona. From there, I had to get into the plane alone. It was the first time I was at an airport alone, but it was easier than I thought, I found everything easily. As I was in the plane, I got a bit more relaxed. The worst was over. Now I only had to wait for the plane to arrive at Bremen and my boyfriend and his mother would be waiting for me at the airport.
Despite my expectations, the 2 hours on the plane went by quickly. I still can't explain with words what I felt when I got my first sight of the snow-covered Bremen through the window. I was close to crying. I had fought so much for that trip, to meet him, and now it would be less than 10 minutes. I couldn't believe my luck. As I got off the plane, I looked for my boyfriend, but I couldn't find him. Was he in the other terminal? It could also have been that they hadn't arrived yet. I decided to call him, so I searched for a phone cabin and entered his number. As he answered the call, I asked "Where are you?" to what he responded "Where do you think I am? Come on!". I explained where I was (the terminal was called terminal E, which is the one for Ryanair flights) and he said they would come. So I waited. 2 minutes passed and he arrived. I couldn't help but smile, I was so happy. I greeted him and his mom and then they brought me to the car. It really was a short trip from the airport to his house, more or less 15 minutes. As we arrived, I introduced myself to my boyfriend's father and grandmother, then we went to his room to have a rest. We spent the entire day talking about everything, making plans and so on. It was also the day we kissed the first time..

My first day in Bremen may seem boring to you, but for me it was a memorable day. I won't forget how we met the first time. Ever.

Dancing and Audition

Do you like dancing? Well, I do! I'd like to take dance lessons, but my reduced free time doesn't allow me to do it. Besides, I guess they're expensive and my parents wouldn't pay much for them. Anyway, as music is a very important thing in my life, I dance around with almost every sing I like (usually I don't do that in public, though, as I'm convinced that I absolutely CAN'T dance!).
I don't really have a favourite style, I like them all. But there's such a great diversity I can't even say how many there are I don't know! I enjoy watching people dance, like Arunas sometimes between classes or my ex-boyfriend, who dances jumpstyle.
I also like playing games with those dance mats. They're fun and you make a bit of exercise too. There's also a computer game about dancing I like: Audition Online. It has different game modes (the newest is a guitar mode, similar to Guitar Hero) where you compete with other players in so-called dance battles. Furhtermore, you can buy clothes for you character so it is prettier and different from the other ones. There are lots of songs from not so well-known bands, some of them really good ones. Of course, the songs have diofferent speeds and so some are easier than others. I've played that game now for more or less a year and I think I'm not really really good, but it's okay for my level, as I don't play much.

After all, of course that kind of games are nothing compared to lessons, but it's also a way of having fun with music.

Inline Skates and Tramuntana

Last week, I went to the supermarket Esclat with my mum because she needed to get some ingredients for lunch. I decided to go with her and take my inline skates. That's because I want to get used to them again. On Easter, I'll have a friend staying at my place and he'll bring his inline skates and he wants me to go with him. As I don't want to fall down when he's with me, I'm training now.
So, the way to the supermarket wasn't easy as we had Tramuntana blowing at our faces. Sometimes Mum had to drag me because otherwise I think I would have rolled backwards, unable to go on! As we made it there, I changed my inliner for some normal trainers and we went inside. Of course, as we hat everything and paid, I got outside and put them on again. The way back home was easier and a lot funnier! At some point of our way, the wind got stronger and pushed me forward at a considerable speed. I was a bit scared at first, but then I started laughing as I saw my mother running after me! As I managed to stop, First I had to laugh. It was so funny!
After that funny little surprise, the rest of the way back home went without greater anormalities.

Howerver, I'll train a bit more with my inliners, because the next day my legs hurt a bit. Butt until Easter I still have time!

Pokémon..

Red, blue, yellow, gold, silver, crystal, ruby, sapphire, emerald, fire red, leaf green, pearl, diamond, heart gold, soul silver and now black and white.. It really seems like the Pokémon series never end. But, surprisingly, it's still fun! At least I think that way.
The games may seem for little children, but there are many (hidden) strategical points that are interesting for older people. But my main occupation in Pokémon Pearl is searching for some extremely rare creatures with different colors, called shinies. So far, I've collected 10 of them and I'm working on more. There's a special method in the game to increase the probability of meeting one of those shinies, but it's hard, so I have to try several times before I succeed. The normal chance to find one is 1/8192. But after applying the method successfully, it's 1/47 or so. It's still small, but it really makes a difference.


The pictures are some of the shinies I've got. Aren't they pretty?

Something I need to tell him..

Hello my dear,
this is probably the last time I write a letter like this one to you. I know it's probably too late to tell you all that's spinning in my head now, but I'll do it anyway.
So, where to start.. maybe by saying sorry. I know I've made lots of mistakes, even if you say nothing is my fault. I know I got too angry too easily many, many times. Sorry aybout everything I said when I got annoyed about something. Sometimes it wasn't even related to you.. Sorry about crying twice when I was staying at your place, because I was afraid to go home, be without you and someday, losing you..
Secondly, I want to say thank you. Thank you for being with me when I had hard times, thank you for loving me even when I was so incredibly and stupidly angry at everything, thank you for the wonderful time I had in Germany with you..
What else to say? I don't know.. There are just so many things running through my head.. I don't really know exactly when things started to go wrong, but I sure know that we weren't able to do anything against it. I'm so sad about the way it ended, knowing that it possibly wouldn't if I hadn't been so stupid and stubborn.
You know, when I listen to the old songs, the ones that we were both listening to all the time when everything began, I can't help it but smile. Inside, it feels like something is breaking right now. I know it will probably get better with time, but I don't even know if I want it to be at the moment..

I just want you to know that even if we're not a couple anymore, I'll be there for you if you need me. Always.

God, I want you back so badly..

About my visit to the "Salón del Manga"

Last month I went to a manga convention in Barcelona with some friends. I'd like to tell you about these awesome experience so I decided to write a post.

I got up early on Saturday, the 30th October, to be ready until 7:30 in the morning when Africa's father would pick me up. At first, I put on my simple, but in some way cute costume: a fuzzy pullover, black leggins and a skirt, a collar with a little bell and my self-made cat ears. Then I put on my makeup. Then it was almost time so I got to wait for the car.

After picking me up, Africa's father went to pick up her cousin, Wijan, and a friend, Idoya. When the group was complete, we set off to Barcelona. During the journey we were so excited we were only talking about what we wanted to do and what we wanted to look for to buy.


As we arrived there, we saw a HUGE line of people waiting to get inside, but we already hat our tickets to got inside directly. The first impression was amazing: everywhere where people dressed up as an anime, manga or video game character. So we started to look around and I found plushies of some characters I really love. We took tons of photos with people. There were also rooms with expositions and a gaming room to rest and play some famous video games with other people. It was a shame that at 3 o'clock we had to get back home already. But we're already planning to dress up as a group next year and I'm excited to see what's going to happen!

I wanted to show you a photo of Wijan and a guy who dressed up as the same character than he did. the other photo is with the plushies I brought home.

Book: Sherilyn Kenyon's Unleash the nightr

Unleash the Night is about a girl, Marguerite Godeau, who meets Wren, the silent waiter of a bar called Sanctuary. The attraction between both starts right away, but what Marguerite doesn't know is that in her world are creatures, half animal, half human, and that Wren is one of them. She gets into dangerous situations, but her love for Wren helps her to get through.
What I like the most about this book is the depth of the characters and the moving story. As you are reading the book, you can really feel with the characters from the first page until the end of the book. There is action, love, nearly everything I'm personally looking for in books. Some characters give actually some quite funny moments and some spice to the story. Sherrilyn Kanyon's writing is full of sarcasm and her heros are some kind of the men women dream of.
Unleash the Night is a book of the Dark-hunter series from the author. Having read this book, I would definitely recommend it excepting for people who don't like sex-scenes, because there are a couple of them. And I think I'll give another book of the series a try.

Why is saying sorry so hard?

Talking about themes that get in my way quite often is something I used to do a lot in last year's blog. And I thought why not do it again when it worked out well?
So it happened that these last days some of my friends got into a fight and asked me for advice, saying after the fight that they felt really bad and asking what they should do now. I said that if they really feel bad for things they said they should just go and apologize, but I believe they haven't yet.

I'm asking myself why it's so hard for people to say sorry. I mean, it's just a word. I'd say that, on one hand, it's pride. Sometimes we know we're wrong and get into a fight for our oppinion anyway. Saying sorry afterwards means admitting in front of other people that we were wrong and that's hard for many people. On the other hand, I believe that people are not able to apologize when they believe strongly that they are right, even if they feel bad for fighting with people they like because of that. They don't want people to think they are weak in their believings and so they wait for the other one to apologize (who usually thinks and does the same).

Don't get me wrong, it's also hard for me to apologize sometimes. But don't you think we should be able to admit that we were wrong if we really were? Or just show that we feel bad for making a friend angry, even if we believe that we are right with our oppinion? I think relationships with people we like are more important than our oppinion about sometimes stupid things. So, go on and say sorry for good!

The Sims 2

I'd like to present my current favourite computer game, The Sims 2. It's a game where you are a bit like God and take control of Sims, human-like characters. You tell them what to do to lead them to a wonderful or terrible life, you choose. You build their houses, put all the decorations in it, move your family in the house and play with them.

What I personally like the most is building houses and decorating them. There are so many different objects and styles to try out! You choose everything from floors through wallpapers, chairs, the tv.. The result is never the same. What I also like to do is to take photos of important things that happen in my Sim's lifes: birthdays, their first kiss, having their baby.. There are many things to explore so you won't be able to see everything just in a couple of hours, like in some other games.

You can get really creative in this game, because you can personalize it: in the internet you can find tons of downloads: clothes, furniture, wallpapers, floors.. So if your game does't have what you need, youwill most likely find it for download.

To sum up I'd like to say that it's my favourite game because you can do so many things and it never gets boring. Does anyone else have that game? Tell me about your experiences!

I leave you with two photos: one of the wedding of two of my Sims and the other of a house I built, just the ground level.