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Long, long time ago… we used to update this blog once or twice days per week. Well… we must make the effort to resume our english posts and measure progress in our english communications skills.

If we couldn’t do this in january… we’ll try in march… See how we are given

Today, the global press suffers a heart attack because a “bomb” news has exploited during the morning: Presidente Obama wins The Nobel Peace Prize in this 2009 edition.

In my opinion and despite Obama represents, according to an important group of people in the world, a new hope in the international political situation, however, there are a lot of good people hardworking day by day in favour miserable people, for example, in terrible conditions and, I believe that any of them deserve this prize rather than President Obama.

Probably, you are thinking that my thoughts are simple or demagogic but I believe that simple words hide big truths. The labour of President Obama is very important and more if we take in consideration the american influence in the world, but one thing is what  I just mention above and another is that kind of decision.

A days ago, I have discovered in El Corte Ingles a new product related to the fitness activity: the vibration platform.

I train every other day using an elliptical bycicle but, despite there are a lot of advantages in relation to this product, the new one (the vibration platform) surpasses it highly.

There are two types of vibration platform: the first is based in a rocking motion, while the second one is based in micro-impulses per second. The first is adecuated for elderly people and the second one for young people who are able to bear a stronger activity.

In my case and after examining all the posibilities, I prefer the second one and there are a lot of posibilities that I will go to buy one. I will inform to you about the result of this important decision …

The film Director Roman Polanski was arrested, in Switzerland, last saturday, thirty years after he escaped from USA when he was going to enter in prison.

All the european intellectual sector is blocked by this news, but I wonder if his reaction will be the same if the criminal is not a famous person.

This reaction, in my opinion is hypocrit and, despite that I can admit the talent of this film director, however it is true that he committed a legal fault and, as other people because the law is the same for everybody, he ought to pay and to bear the consecuences of his behaviour.

Today, the newspapers surprise us with a terrifying news about violence on women.

The situation was de following: yesterday, in a spanish city, several citizens called to the police station because they saw a men beating a women in her head using a plastic bag full inside. The case is worse yet because the women was in a wheelchair.

When de police arrived, the man told them: “I hit my wife when I want. When you go, I´m going to hit her stronger”.

That kind of persons ought to be refused in all cases by the rest of the population. The violence on women, childrens … must be a bad memory soon.

This is one of my favourite entertaiment in London city. Enjoy it!

Reading elmundo.es in its today edition, I found a report which supposes for our, the spanish people, a shame.

I can say this statement because, in opinion of this online newspaper, Spain in one of the European Union countries with a worse knowledge of  a foreing language.

Specifically, the opinion poll by Eurostat about this issue, shows us that Spain with Portugal and Hungary are the leading countries in a shameful opinion poll.

The research establishes that, in those countries, there are not many adult people able to speak another foreing language.

If the european average is 35,7%, in Spain it is 46,6%, in Portugal it is 51,3 % and in Hungary it is 74,8 %.

This ought to oblige us to think about learning english and other languages during the obligatory courses in the schools. In fact, in Spain only 28,3%students are studying two languages while in other countries, as France, Holland or Finland, the percentage goes up to 90%.