CHRISTMAS

Christmas is here

Christmas to me is a celebration that includes spending time with my family and the ones I love the most, decorating the entire house and shopping to give presents to my parents, my sister, my boyfriend and my best friends. Spend Christmas with the ones I love is what means the most to me.

We usually celebrate Christmas at my house but this year I will go to Romania to spend it with my grandmother and my uncle. My dad bought the passages months ago because there were cheaper. We’re going for three weeks and I’m already excited because the last time I saw my grandma was one year ago and I miss her a lot. I’m very close to her because she understands me and loves me so much. She is one of my favorites persons of the world.

I spent Christmas two times before in Romania and we don’t use to decorate so much the house, we just do the Christmas tree. I always do it with my sister and we put bonbons in the tree as globes. It’s so fun to eat the bonbons and close the wrapper and see my dad how disappointed he is when he sees there is no bonbon inside.

My sister has 10 and she still thinks Santa Claus exist. I like to see her eagerness the night before Santa’s coming and I won’t ruin her hope. We do the Santa’s letter together and it’s very fun see how much things she wants, she will bankrupt Santa.

Besides, this is the first time I have boyfriend and I would like to spend Christmas with him too. Three weeks are too much time without him and we won’t spend any day of Christmas’ celebrations together. This makes me feel sad because I love him a lot and I will miss him every day there. 

DENGUE VACCINE

Philippines launches probe into dengue vaccine scare

The dengue fever affects more than 400 million people each year, the disease is transmitted by the mosquito-bone and it’s the responsible of serious illness and death among children in Asia and Latin America. Dengue is a viral infection that causes a illness similar to flu.

Dengvaxia is the first approved dengue vaccine and it’s created by the French drug company Sanofi. The drug company announced that there are no reported deaths related to dengue vaccination.

Last week Sanofi announced its vaccine could worsen the deadly disease in people not infected. The OMS recommended that Dengvaxia should only be administrated to subjects with dengue.

When new diseases are appearing, pharmacists are looking into to solve them. Maybe, their solution is useless and they try to find a new one. They always taste the cure before sell it and they analyze all the symptoms could originate. When the cure is safe and the patient doesn’t get worse, the product has to be approved by the government and then, it could be sold in pharmacies. In a period of 5 years, the scientists analyze the impact of the cure in the population and if they see something wrong they abolish they product from the stores and try to resolve it. I want to be a pharmacist and make cures to solve diseases. The objective is save people, not make them get worst.  

SEAS POLLUTION

UN signals 'end' of throwaway plastic

UN environment ministers met in Kenya to sign a document stating that the flow of plastic into the ocean must be stopped.

Li Lin from WWF International said he want to see a progress on marine litter and micro-plastics and agreed by governments, business, NGOs and consumers as soon as possible because it’s an urgent issue.

Plastics are already damaging life in the sea but we can’t risk waiting before whole ecosystems start to be affected.

After all, the seas are also beset with climate change, acidification, dead zones and different types of pollution.

People is waiting to see governments prompted to move faster with their own polices to clamp down on waste plastic.

Stopping plastic litter requires new technology and new attitudes from the consumers.

Seas pollution is practically caused by flow of plastic. Plastic can’t decompose and its throw away in the ocean. The movement of the waves, the wind and the current accumulate all the plastic waste in a place of the ocean called seventh continent and that’s because covers an enormous space. This plastic is split by the solar radiation in micro-plastics that are ingested as a natural compound of the diet of some animals as fishes and birds. Those animals will be eaten by others animals and finally will affect whole ecosystems. We eat fish so we could say we eat plastic.

POLLUTION

Babies' brains damaged by pollution, Unicef says

UNICEF informed that at least seventeen million babies are breathing toxic air and putting their life at risk. Babies from South Asia are the most affected because are living in areas with pollution six times higher than safe levels.

UNICEF said that breathing polluted air could damage brain tissue and undermine brain’s development that could affect IQ and memory, reduce test scores as well as other neurological behavioral problems. The effects will last a lifetime.

ONU warned that as more as the world urbanizes without adequate protection and pollution reduction measures, more children will be at risk. They called for broad use of masks and air filtering systems.

In the Indian capital, Delhi, the smog air was covering the entire city and parents accused the authorities of haven’t in mine their children’s health.

In northern China, air pollution will cut life expectancy by about thee years. Meanwhile, scientists in London found that the British smog is linked to lower birth weights, higher infant mortality and disease later in life.

Most of countries and cities with high levels of pollution are underdeveloped countries and haven’t the money to reduce the emitting of contamination. The polluted air will stay in the atmosphere and we and the others animals will breath this air. I agree with UNICEF to increase the use of masks and filtering systems to reduce the high impact in our health.

Babies are not the only affected, all the population is affected and in most of cases, the same population is the responsible from the polluted air we breathe. We can’t do anything to solve it, the problem begins with the government and it’s the only one that can reduce the emitting of contaminants to the atmosphere by using methods that could respect the safe levels of pollution.

HAPPINESS

What I think about happiness

I don’t really know where to start… Happiness to me is everything: have the people I love close and enjoy the little things of live, as pizza, for example. These little things make us the happiest. It’s not a sensitive thing, quite the opposite, is the most subjective issue. Why it is an issue? Well, what makes one happy does not necessary make someone else happy. What I mean is that happiness is what we are dreaming about and it depends on each one.

Lots of poets, philosophers, writers had thought about happiness. For example, Aristotle said that happiness was an aspiration in live that everyone can got by knowledge. I think happiness is a state of mind, we cannot touch it, we just feel it. We may feel happiness when we win lottery, but it’s temporal happiness.

What’s more, I think happiness is about other people. Meaning it depends on our family or the closest persons we have. If our family or our friends are happy, we are happy. And if your boyfriend leaves you, you may feel heartbroken. On the other hand, if we succeed in live, we are happy. The sentiment of success may have a positive emotional impact on us, and that’s why we feel happy.

According to society, happiness is different depending on people’s age. Children don’t need a reason to be happy; in fact they release happiness around. Adolescents think they would get happiness if they follow trends, if they have brand clothes,… Adults are happy if they are making a family, having kids,… The elderly is happy if their kids are growing according to its expectations.

I have been always a happy girl, I laugh much and I feel very good accompanied by my beloved ones.

In my opinion, everyone should enjoy happiness. Be happy is the best feeling you can feel.

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” – Socrates 

1-O Catalonia referendum

1-Oct, an historical memory

Catalans had requested a referendum for the independence from Spain. But the Spanish government had denied it. Despite everything, all Catalans have organized everything for today, 1^st October of 2017, for vote. They used public locals as schools for the illegal voting and Spain, from the other side, had demand to the police to confiscate all the ballot box. Guardia Civil and the National Police followed the government’s demand and they used violence against the civil population to cancel the vote. In spite of everything, the Mossos d’Esquadra, Catalan’s police, gave support to the nation and they faced with the Spanish police.

The TUE, the UE’s treaty, invalidate the state that use military aggression against the population. And the Guardia Civil is a military body, by the way. Therefore, Spain can be judged by the TUE.

The people that vote today was united and with courage tried to stop the police aggression that were inhuman. The National Police tried to stop a referendum that the Spanish government declared as “illegal” with police’s responsibility, using nightsticks and rubber balls that are illegal in Catalonia. Meaning that Spain tried to stop the vote with illegal weapons.

Until today I didn’t consider myself an independentist but now Spain has disappoint me a lot. Today, Catalonia got the independence. Today, Spain lost Catalonia by its acts. 

Catalonia referendum

Tractors roll into Barcelona to support vote

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41439787

29.09.2017, Catalonia

Last Friday, there were a pile of tractors with the lone-star flag of Catalan independence standing up for Sunday’s banned referendum. The Spanish government wants to stop the referendum because it says is unconstitutional.

Catalonia has demanded a referendum on independence since 2010. There is a law that says all the autonomous communities can declare its liberty.

Tractoradas had been the centre of attention today. It could also been saw in Girona and Tarragona. The objective is to impede police officers to close the polling stations.

The police have orders from the state to confiscate all referendum materials and to prevent public buildings being used as polling stations. Nevertheless, teachers and students are organizing to keep them open for the vote, using coded messages on social media.

Hundreds of teachers and students made a manifestation on the streets to make clear to the Spanish government that Catalonia will vote. Besides, it has been set up a website so people can see which schools are open for the vote.

The Spanish government is opposed to the vote and will deploy thousands of national police officers to stop the vote and to guarantee Spanish sovereignty.

What’s more, the European Union said the referendum was illegal but they will work towards a political solution to solve the problem.

Catalans have its rights and can choose the future of their nation. We should all vote on Sunday because the future of a nation is up to us. I don’t declare myself independent and I think Catalans are the ones that must choose for Catalonia. As I learned in History, Catalonia has demanded independence since lots of years ago and there has been also a Catalan Republic. This one will be the second Catalan Republic, if the voting goes well. If the nation has success and gets the independence I wish the best to Catalonia and I hope there will not be political problems between countries and I also hope there will be free movement across the continent.