Nip-tuck

https://audioboom.com/boos/2985878-nip-tuck-dialogue

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is known for many things, but being a diva isn't one of them, at least not until now.
According to National Enquirer, the singer insured her legs, for $40 million. The National Enquirer is oft-unrealiable, so it could be that the story is a big fake, but Taylor Swift dind't denied it.
Apparently, the singer was unsure how much her legs would be appraised for and was shocked and even a little bit embarassed about the suposed value of her legs, so we supose that the story is true.

After thinking a little about it, it's not that surprising that she insured her body, and she sure isn't the first celebrity to do it. Jennifer Lopez's ass is valuated for $300 million, seriously.
It also has it's logical reason, if something happens to Taylor's legs, she wouln't be able to give her stage perfomances, so her $200 career would be in big trouble. However, I think that it's overstated to get so much money if something happens to your legs, even to Taylor's.

60 seconds

I just found this article on a news website and it surprised and shocked me a lot. It's about a list, written by the autors of List25, of 20 things that are happening every minute around the world:

So right at this moment, the next 60 seconds...

- There will be five earthquakes.

- There will be 360 lightnings on the Earth.

- 250 children will be born.

- 113 of them will be born in underdeveloped countries.

- 15 of them will have birth problems or disabilities.

- We will use 55.000 barrels of oil.

- The Sun will throw 60 million tones of material in the space.

- 105.360 cubic meters of water will fall into the Iguazú Falls.

- 960 million tons of water are going to be evaporated from the Earth surface.

- A bird will move i'ts wings about 4 thousand times.

- 6 million chemical reactions will be produced in every cell in our body.

- You will move your eyelashes 12 times.

- Bill Gates is going to earn 15 thousand dollars.

- Nike is going to earn 36 thousand dollars.

- Nike workers will earn a tenth of a penny.

- They will cut 2.040 trees in the rainforest.

- 1800 stars will explode.

- 107 people will die.

- People all around the world will eat 4.500 McDonald's burgers.

- But, 18 of the 170 deaths, will die of starvation.

Personally, this list surprised me a lot. I only knew some of the facts like the birth of children, especially in the third world, the number of deaths every minute and that we move our eyelashes 12 times in 60 seconds. 

However, what really shocked me is that Bill Gates and Nike are earning such an amount of money in this short time, comparing it to the workers of Nike. In addition, the fact that while people are eating 4500 burgers, 18 people die because of starvation is more than only a sign for us to act and avoid it. Finally, It's also remarkable that propably we won't have any trees in the future if they continue like this.

A soulmate

I'm realistic enough to not wait my whole life for Prince Charming coming out of the blue, I know that to find the perfect one I have to go out and look for him, because he sure won't be stuck in a tree or something. So, I don't expect to find my soulmate one day, but definately a  lifepartner, therefore I should start to describe my perfect lifepartner.
The ONE should be understanding, caring, loving, loyal, have a similar lifestyle, likes and beliefs to mine, but not too similar because I would get bored. So, I need a guy who will bring me the right balance in my life.
Besides, my perfect lifepartner should respect and accept my flaws and imperfections, just love like I am, so I won't have to change in front of him because I feel unconfortable.
In addition, he also should be attractive, at least to me, I just want to be sure to feel happy seeing his face every morning for the rest of my life.
In conclusion, I know that I am very picky but I hope to find him anyway, he must exist somewhere, but who knows? Maybe he is waiting for me in Australia!

Skype with Noa

The Skype session with Noa was really interesting, especially for me. It presented a great opportunity for the whole class to learn more about taking a year abroad because she explained a little bit about her tasks, her daily rutine, her impressions and her experiences as an au-pair living so far away from home.

She told us that she had payed for an agency espezialized in au-pairs who wanted to go to Australia. The agency also found a family for which she could take care about their children and they fixed all the complicated paper stuff too, so she didn't had to worry about anything.

In the Skype session, I asked Noa what kind of papers she needed, and fortunately I'm lucky of having a German nationality to get the Australian Visa, because as it seems the Spanish people can't get the Working Holiday Visa. Besides this, I'll also need some references, pictures of myself and of course, a passport. Finally, I wondered about the jet-lag, I imagine it to be really tough and I was right. Noa said that it was very difficult for her to get used to the difference of hours, she had a jet-lag during months!

A few months ago I also decided that I want to go a year abroad to Australia and I have already found an agency which will do the same for me, they will look for a family and the papers I'll need. Like her, I hope to have luck with my au-pair family and I hope to have a great time in Australia because this may be the most important experience I will ever have.

Australia

A few months ago I realized that I had no idea what to do with my life. My classmates and friends already we're planning at what college they will go, what to study and even looking for a flat, and there was me who hadn't absolutely no idea.
Since I was little it was already decided that I would go back to Germany after finishing school and go to the university to study something related with busisiness, but now I'm not that sure about it. I still want to study, but what? General business, business management, marketing? I really don't know, there are so many diferent possibilities and it's really complicated to get through them. Plus, there is also the question about the university, I have absolutely no idea in which city I want to study. To sum up, there are so many open questions in my life right now and I just don't feel ready to decide it at the moment.

Due to this, I decided to go a year abroad. During this year I hope to have time to decide what I want to do and I also hope that after this trip I will feel ready and responsible enough to live alone in a city  and of course, to improve my english skills. But instead of choosing a country near home, I decided to go to Australia, at the other end of the world. I don't really know why I've choosen Australia but I think it's because I want to take some time off, and this can't be far away enough from Castelló.

One step closer to Plus-Size

The last magazine of "Sports Illustrated" was a big sensation for all the readers and fans.
Firstly, the magazine became popular for their photo-sessions with the most famous and wanted super models, and obviously they all have one thing in common: their perfect tanned and trained bodies, and they show them, of course in bikinis.
These photo-sessions should motivate women to get fit and do sport, but this isn't the case in real life.
Due to this, the world tried to change the image of a model, introducing the plus-size models. They had a really hard beginning but they continue working on it, and the photo that apperead in this magazine presents a mile stone for them.
The plus-size model Ashley Graham made it in the Sports Illustrated. She represented her body for the campaign "Curves in Bikinis" and she feels safe and sexy in her skin.
In my opinion, this was a really big and risky step from the magazine for publishing Ashley in a bikini, but I think that it comes a little bit late. Plus-size models are conquering the Media for a long time now, and I was really shocked as I saw that they didn't made it in the Sports Ilustrated until now.
To sum up, I hope that this was only the beginning for the models to appear in these kind of magazines, and not only size 0 women.

Why our brains literally love notifications

Our generation is definitely the notifications generation. We love to hear a sound that tells us that someone wants to interact with us via leaving us a comment, to like a photo, to retweet or to write on our walls.Somebody who hasn't heard about these notfications won't understand anything, but we are real professionals in this issue.

The fact is that we love these notifications because they heighten our self-worth and we know that someone is interested in our thoughts. The digital world became just like the real one, we hate beeing ignored from others. Beacause of this we find it really frustrating if we post a selfie of a funny video and nobody comments or like it, just like in the real life. The comments or likes of the notifications tells us that they are important, so that WE are important, and that is exactly what we love about the social networks.
Nevertheless, notifications don't have to be always positive, thay also can create us negative emotions but we don't mind, because a negative comment, stays a comment and says that we are not totally ignored. This fact is really shocking, we prefer to recieve a negative comment than not receaving any!

What is more surprising, it has a scientific explanation! It's all about the dopamine, a chemical associated with reward and motivaiton response in our brains, that emerges when we get a notification. These hits of dopamine recharge our addictive compulsion to social media, and we can't help but to feed into this compulsion, in fact, apparently a disorder called Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) exists.

In conclusion, I will try to turn my push notifications off because I don't want to be addicted to it, what I have to confesss, I already am. ( a little bit).

DICTIONNARY:
emerge: sorgir

http://elitedaily.com/life/generation-notification-science-behind-notifications-obsessed/866812/

Why are we so tired at midday?

I started wondering because in the last hours in school I always become extremely tired, so much that I really have to force myself to keep my eyes open and try to listen to the teacher, but this is nearly impossible. However, after school I come home and eat lunch, but then I'm more tired than before! It's like all the energy I had in the morning disappears and I really need to sleep.

I always thought that only I had this feeling, but no. It's not only a mith, the 2:30 is the consequence if you haven't had your afternoon caffeine fix or if you're making an excuse for a boring situation you don't care to be in. Mostly, the only solution is to take caffeine!

This afternoon fatigue has many possible causes, one of them is the body's natural sleep cycle. Our body's natural sleep cycle will automatically make us want to take a nap in the afternoon, because we woke up early in the morning. Because of this, some cultures have the siesta, like we have in Spain, because they find that they're more productive and bettter able to concentrate if they take time off after lunch. So, as a matter of fact, if you take a nap after lunch, your productivity increases throughout the rest of the day,
Another causes of the fatigue is the release of sleep chemicals, melatonin. These natural chemicals tells you that it's time to sleep between 2 and 4 in the afternoon. The release has to do with a dip in our core body temperature, because right before going to sleep, the temperature drops, which is a signal for the brain to release melatonin.
Some possible for having more energy during work is to have a right diet and to move. Doctors believe that only the move of standing up from your chair, produces beneficial  health effects.  Therefore, getting up and walk around every hour and eating proteins every morning, should avoid the afternoon fatigue.

Personally, I do all of these things and still feel like death at midday. So, as I see it, the best solution is to relax a little bit after school and take a lot of caffeine!

DICTIONNARY:
Dip: Immersió

http://elitedaily.com/life/230-feeling-science-explains-get-fcking-tired-midday/933380/

#THEDRESS

Last night, the Internet became engulfed in a debate over the colour of a photographed  $77 dress. The drama about this dress is that people see it in two different colours, but it is actually white and gold or black and blue?

People all around the world, including celebraties, are wondering about the colour, the Social Media is full with it and it really started a revolution.
I saw this picture in the morning before going to school and I didn't realized what was happening, but later in school my classmates were also showing me this dress, so I realized that EVERYONE has heard about it. In the same way, some of my classmates saw it in white-gold and others blue-black, but I continued seeing it white-gold, so I started to believe that they were kidding.

However, now I know they weren't because there is actually a scientific explanation for it; it all has to do with evolution and the way in which human eyes and brains see and analyze color in daylight. Our eyes are connected to our brains via the optic nerve, which transmits the information about what we're seeing to our brains, but this information must not be always true. Naturally,  We can detect what colour we are seeing, so even if they are a lot of colours in the backround our eyes are pretty good at eliminating these and see the actual coloUr of the focal object, like the dress.

To sum up, the famous dress reveals that daylight can sometimes play tricks on our brains. This make sense, because the colour we see in the picture depends on the time of the day and how light it is in the moment we are seeing it . Due to the fact the photo was taken under bright light, some people brain's get confused and they see it white and gold when it's actually blue and black.

DICTIONNARY:
Engulfed: embolicat

http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/science-why-the-dress-different-colors/950044/

Why we may fall ill when we're on holiday

In this research, Claudia Hammond wanted to find out why people fall ill in their holidays, and a possible reason for it could be that the most of them before going on holiday rush to get everything done related with the work so they can run-up to their holiday. This affliction is so common that it even has a name, leisure sickness.

The dutch psychologist Vingerhoets who gave a name to this illness, asked more than 1.800 people to find out if they have suffered a leisure sickness, but the results were surprising. Only a 3% of people said they did, but even this little number, it is a reason for him to look for a physiological explanation.

Firstly, the logical explanation for the illness we get as soon as we stop working, is that the stress hormones that help us cope with work deadlines get out of balance, and leave us open to infection. Secondly, the other less logical reason is that we are so busy during work that we don't notice that we are becoming ill until we have the chance to relax.

Another pshycologist interested in this topic, James Pennebaker, also did a study observing ill students watching a film and he found out, that the more interesting the movie was the less they coughed, and in the boring scenes  they seemed to notice their sore throats and cough a lot. So, the phsycologist came to the conclusion that the less that's going around a person, the worse their symptoms are.

Finally, another logical explanation is the cabin fever. Travelling is always tiring, particulary by plane. In a plane, the recycled air is often blamed  for his rate of infection plus the sitting in an endclosed space and the humidity can often cause an infection.

To sum up, I agree the most with the last explanation because I also became ill more than once after travelling to Germany by plane but I also see the point of the first one, because after school, holidays are the first time that the body can finally relax and calm down, so in my opinion, the leisure sickness must be a mix of all factors.

DICTIONARY:

- Run-up: anarse'n ràpid

-Affliction: aflicció

-Cope: fer front a 

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150216-the-truth-about-holiday-illnesses

Paralyzed girl walks in New York Fashion Week

The 19 years old girl, Megan Silcott has suffered for nearly the past two years from a rare neurological disorder also called "Kissing disease". I'ts really common among teenagers and it normally disappears after a few weeks with a sore throat, nausea and fatigue, but not in her case because it ended up manifesting into the illness ADEM, wich paralyze you from the waist down.

Megan Silcott, noticed her illness in one of the worst ways. One morning after a party night she wantet to get up and go to shower but she couldn't move. Before this morning,  she has been a healthy athelete and her biggest dream was to become a model, but this dream seemed nearly impossible due to her doctors who told her that the chances for her to walk again were very little, but the teenager never thought about giving up, so she did the best that she could and started to attend a therapy during two years, and as it seems, with success.

The famous designer Nina Perdomo heard about her story and wanted to make her dream become real so she invited Megan to participate in her runaway with the aid of a walker and this was only the beggining of her carreer as a model.

In conclusion, this story is really impressful and it shows again that anything can be possible if you truly want it and work for it.

DICTIONARY;
-Sore throat: mal de coll
-Aid: ajuda

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/02/20/paralyzed-maryland-girl-18-walks-in-new-york-fashion-week/

IS INTERNET MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE?

It is believed that the Internet and Social Networks like Facebook or Twitter are very appropiate and popular to meet new people around the world. In addition, it is also very useful to solve problems as well as answer questions, but in spite of it, is it really making the world a better place or is it making it worse?

In the first place, I agree that Internet makes it all easier in every way, not only to meet new people. Nowadays, the Social Networks offer new learning methods and a lot of opportunities that we never could have imagined that they were achievable, like chatting with somebody who lives far far away from you or to order food in the Internet, what seems really crazy.

On the other hand, the Internet also brought a lot of problems to our society. Due to some Social Network, a lot of teenagers have been bullied from other kids because of their weight or other issues and the truth is that a few of them ended up with suicide.

In conclusion, the Internet has made the world a better place because it offers a lot of chances although we shouldn't forget the risks and control it a little bit more to avoid such problems.

How three people can make a baby

A lot of people said that 2015 would be a year full of surprises and changes and they really meant it so. In 2015 children in de U.K may be born with the DNA of three different people, so they will have one father and two mothers. This idea seems crazy and dangerous for the consequences but it has a nice background because it could save a lot of lifes. 

The procedure would allow women who carry genes with deseases to have their own biological children without passing down the risk and it is an easy process;  the nucleus is taken from a mother's egg and is inserted into the donor egg with the mitochondria. The resulting egg is then fertilized with the father's sperm and a healthy baby can be born.

For now it seems that it has success because the British Parliament voted to pass a bill authorizing this technique and if the House of Lords also votes in favor it probably could become legal by October. 

In my opinion, this method would be a big chance for a lot of families who can't have a baby, but I also think that it also takes a huge risk because the third mother could always want to  require claims for her child. 

http://news.yahoo.com/three-people-baby-185550160--politics.html

GERMANY 2014

Last christmas I went, of course, to visit my family in Germany. Despite that we had school the 23th I had to leave that day because I wouldn't have had time to arrive at time to go to the church. Religion and going to church isn't very important in my family, only my great-grandparents go every week. But on the 24th of december my whole family is forced to go because it is the only moment in the year that we are all together, so it's quite funny because most people in church occupy two or three seats, and we are about thirty.

After church, we all go home, eat together and than we open the presents. All this act is always a chaos because we are too many in one house. Even if it is very stressing we do it every year and it's always hilarious. And the next days, the stress begins; we visit everyday another family member and eat at their house, so normally after holidays my jeans doesn't fit anymore. 

This year, I was very excited because my cousin was pregnant and finally get her baby and I saw her for the first time, and she is soooo sweet. Besides the christmass meals, I went to a lot of trips with my family and went skiing with my granfather.

In summary, these days were just amazing, besides the homework we had to do... but I can't wait to go back.

CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

Personally, for me Carmen dell'Orefice is the authentic proof that beauty can stay forever.
The american actress and model is 83 years old and still looks pretty good, she seems about 20 years younger than she really is and so is her actitude. She has absolutely no problem with her age and considers herself pretty enough to keep up with the younger models.
She was discovered at the age of 13 by the photographer Herman Landschoff and with 15 years she already appeared of the Vogue cover.
The fact that she was Salvador Dali's muse in her early years surprised me most, but despite the succes, she lost most of her money in the stock market, and probably because of this she returned to the model bussiness.
Carmen dell'Orifice told in an interview the secrets of her beauty, and they weren't that surprising. In summary, she just lived healthy during her life, she didn't smoke or drink alcohol, had an healthy diet and of course, had a few beauty operations. All these are things that all women could do and it seems very easy, but surely it's not that easy to renounce always to drink a cocktail or eat fastfood.

In conclusion, I think that the her return was a great decision because she is now a new idol for a lot of women and inspires them to live healthy and so to keep their beauty.