My first year

Today, 8 of December, my blog celebrates its first year. This was a project that I started because Ben Cardew told us to in an English course I did last year. I remember that when he told me in our previous interview that he was thinking of this activity, I said it would be great.

I have always wanted to write a blog. I like writing. That is one of the things I do for living. However, normally, I always write about the same things and I get a bit tired. As a journalist, I think that there are a lot of subjects, news... to write about and give my point of view.

When Ben told us to start the blog I thought it was great. First, because, as I said, I like writing. And, in second place, and probably more importantly, because it was in English. For some years now, I have been looking for the way to keep practising my English. I try to listen to the news every morning, I watch series in English and I try to read book as well. I know I am able to hold a conversation with anybody that speaks English, but I also know I do some mistakes. That is the reason I try to improve and get better.

After a year, I think I can be happy. First of all, because I have been able to write a few posts (except in summer) and I try to keep updated my blog. Sometimes I have ideas when I am running, but then I forget about them. The good thing about it is that I have plenty of time to improve and it is a new challenge. One of my doubts to get more visits it’s to twitter or facebook my posts... I am sure that I would get more visits as I did when I started, but it is not my aim. What I really want is to keep writing in English and trying to improve every day. I know I don’t have many fans, but don’t worry: I promise I will keep updating my blog and writing about my running thoughts or anything that I consider important.

Questions and more questions

In terms of information there is something that happens very often: news that are on the main newspapers, radios and TV stations every day all of a sudden disappear and nobody hears about them anymore. I am sure that all of you have noticed it. 

I remember, when I was younger, that in Spain big glass stones felt from the sky. During months, in different villages of Spain, somebody informed about a big stone falling from nowhere. I remember it went on for a few months. However, since then, I have never heard about again. Maybe it is because the big stones stopped falling, but the thing is that there were no further news. 

 

Something similar happened, for example, with the dangerous dogs. I remember that a few years ago every day a dog attacked a person. Obviously, the social alarm helped to control more these dogs and the government established some rules. In any case, I am sure there are attacks nowadays that are not reported.

 

I know I am talking about topics that happened a few years ago, but I have more examples and that's why I decided to write. Do you remember all the news about Ebola? When it affected to European citizens and from the United States we had news of Ebola every hour. I think we all became experts. However, in the last weeks we have stopped hearing about this disease. Has it finished? Nobody is dying of Ebola? I am sure that in Africa there are still a lot of people suffering the effects of the disease, dying every day without anybody reporting. I think we all should reflect about it.

 

Something similar happens with the war in Ukraine. In Barcelona we even had demonstrations with the Ukraine flag in the Diagonal. We had news and reports every day from Kiev and the problems with Moscow. Does anybody know how  has it finished?

 

And what about Millet, Undargarin, Fabra  and other important people that have committed fraud? What has happened to them? Are there in jail? Have they given the money back? I remember that every day we had news concerning Undargarin but lately he has disappeared. By the way, and this thought I will extend it to other cases, what I really want is that Millet, Undargarin, Bárcenas, Pantoja and all of them give the money back. For me it is all right that they go into prision but the most important thing is to get the money back. We all know that if they go in they will spend a short time, but when they leave they will still have the money.

 

I know that things in our life happen very fast and that we don’t have time really to stop a second and think about different topics. Social Media don’t help either because everything goes too fast. However, we mustn’t forget all the harm these people have done to our society. They have to pay for it.

 

PS: It is really terrible that nowadays where most  people are suffering to get to the end of month some fans of Isabel Pantoja have decided to start collecting money to help her. Would these people collect money for homeless or people that don’t have enough to live? I do not think so.