Are you happy with your body?

Lately, a lot of people want to change their body because they want to look like the people they see in magazines and films. The number of young people who have plastic surgery is increasing. Spain is the number one in Europe in plastic surgery, and the forth in the world following USA, Mexico and Argentina.

Most of the people who have plastic surgery are women, but every day more men want to change their body. In Spain, nine out of ten people who have plastic surgery are women, but in England men now make up almost 40% of all surgeries performed.

Because of the crisis that the world is suffering now, the number of plastic surgeries has decreased almost 30%. The most expensive plastic surgery is body surgery. For example breast enlargement costs about 1500 euros.

The most common plastic surgery among women is tummy tuck, followed by breast enlargement and eyelid surgery. Rhinoplasty is also very popular. Liposuction is the most popular among men, followed by hair implants and breast reduction.

A lot of people think that being beautiful helps them to be successful in life. This is what Cindy Jackson thinks who has spent more than £60,000 in plastic surgery. She started having her eyes widened, and now she doesn’t seem the same person. She says she has a genius IQ but she was invisible. Now that she is pretty she gets lots of attention.

Some months ago, a 15-year-old girl was in the news saying that her parents would pay her a breast enlargement for her 16th birthday.

I think that being happy with your body helps you being happier in life, and I think people can do whatever they want to their body if it makes them happy. However, I think that having breast enlargement at 15 is a bit exaggerated. Girls at this age aren’t fully grown and I think they should wait until they are older.

What do you think about that? Would you change any part of your body?

facebook and exams

Today I'm going to talk about what I think about facebook, and how it changes my life. This week we are doing exams in school and facebook is a distraction for me. It is for this reason that I have decided to talk about it.

Facebook is a social network, where people can write comments, upload photos, and be in touch with people who are in other parts of the world, but it is also a way to waste time.

I'm not an active person on facebook. There are some people who put "I like" everywhere, and they comment everybody's status. For me, doing this is difficult because before publishing something I have to read it hundreds of times and sometimes I end deleting it. I check if I have something on facebook every day because I'm used to doing it when I turn on my computer and I usually spend too much time reading what other people write. What I think is most useful about facebook, is the fact that you can upload a lot of photos in a short time, and then all your friends can see them. I think it is good, because I always take a lot of photos, and my friends want to see them, and if I had to send them by email, I would spend hours doing it! Another thing I like about facebook is that you can talk with people who are really far from where you are. Sometimes I use facebook to talk with the americans I stayed with last summer. Furthermore, facebook is useful too to have conversations with some of your friends at the same time. Last week it was Aina's birthday, and with my friends we planned her a party using a multiple conversation and she didn't suspect anything. It would have been more difficult if we had had to talk when she wasn't around. 

But now, I'm going to talk about the things I don't like about facebook. The main thing I don't like about it is that you waste a lot of time visiting it when you should be studying. Now, for example, I should be studying for my English exam (which is tomorrow), and I'm writing this and reading stupid things on facebook... The other thing I don't like about facebook is that people can gossip more than they used to do some years ago, because they can see what people say to each other, where they go, who they are going out with, etc.

To finish my post, I have to say that facebook shouldn't exist during the exam week! :)

Last summer

Last summer I went to USA to stay with a family for five weeks.

I stayed with a family called Atkielski. They are four members. A couple, Alan and Sandy, their daughter, Samantha and Alan's mother. They have a dog and two cats. They live in a little village called Pleasant Prairie, between Wisconsin and Illinois. It was funny, because every day I was in two different states. Alan loves to go fishing, so I hardly ever saw him during the month I was there. He woke up every day at 4 a.m or earlier, and he was sleeping at 5 p.m. The grandmother was all the day watching TV, so I went everywhere with Sam and Sandy. Sam is a twirler, and she and her team are world champions. During the month I was there, they had a national tournament in Indiana, and I went there with them. I saw enough twirling for all my life!! 

In the way to Indiana we stopped in Michigan for a weekend. In this area there are a lot of lakes, and we played water sports. It was amazing!

4 days before I left, they showed me Chicago. I loved it. Chicago has huge buildings, and everything looks new. 

Here you have a photo of Sam, Sandy and me in Willis tower, the tallest building in Chicago.

Harry Potter and the deathly hallows

Have you seen the new Harry Potter film?
Harry Potter fans have been waiting it for months, and they can finally watch it since last friday.
This film is the first part of the last Harry Potter book, titled Harry Potter and the deathly hallows.
Harry is now seventeen, and he doesn't want to go back to Hogwarts school because he wants to finish the job Dumbledore started. He wants to destroy the horrocruxes Voldemort had made to become immortal. With the help of his friends, Ron and Hermione, Harry starts his journey.
The plot is interesting, there's action, love, and it's funny.
The acting is good, and the special effects are amazing.
To watch it in original version with subtitles you have to go to Barcelona, but it worth it.
I recommend it to everybody. I think it's the best Harry Potter film after the first one.

If you want to watch the trailer click here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EC2tmFVNNE