La Manada

In this post, I'm going to talk with a serious tone, since a few days ago the trial against 'La Manada' ('The Herd') finished with a sentence that astonishes me and at the same time angers me a lot. 

These five monsters forced an indefensed girl in San Fermines (a traditional party which is held in Pamplona during the first week of July) in 2016, and the jury has decided to impose an absolutely benevolent sentence: nine years in prison for abuses, but they have been absolved of sexual assault. With these sentence, it seems to me that sexual violence has not been valued at any time in terms of humiliation and psychological sequels; and the fact that it was a multiple violation and that has not been condemned as a crime of sexual aggression of a totally intolerable permissiveness in the 21st century. The message that transmits the sentence is that it is only an abuse, but has not taken into account that the mere presence of five men with who want to abuse you or force you already causes an intimidating effect for the victim. 

To sum up, I think that the penal code should be reformed in order to value the rights of  the women, who deserve protection of those men whose last purpose is to hurt them to increase their pride and arrogance.

'Rétame y aprendo' (Challenge me and I learn)

Yesterday, I participated in a contest called 'Rétame y aprendo' (Challenge me and I learn). It deals with questions of history, spanish language en literature, english an physical education. It's a kind of trivial contest whose last phase was held in the University of Cartagena (UPCT). Before going up the stage you can see in the following video, I won a small competition among students in my high school and a later phase with students all along Región de Murcia. This two phases were also a trivial, but it was necessary only your mobile phone to participate in, so you could play wherever and whenever. Well, I leave here this video regarding the final of the contest, where an awesome prize was waiting for the winner. It could seem a long video (almost 6 minutes), but I assure you that those 6 minutes were the longest of my entire life:

To the congress!

We were finally chosen to show our project to the jury of the congress! I hope the like it... Anyway, we have worked hard to achieve our objectives. I attach the powerpoint which is going to 'help' us during the exposition. This way, you can go deeper in our project and take a look into the different localisations that harbor a defibrillator. Wish us good luck!

Ruta Cardioprotegida from Alberto Nogueira

Hiking in a safe way.

We have just 4 minutes to recover somebody who has suffered a cardiopulmonary arrest, so the victim will not have any sequels. However, urgency services from 112 last an average of 15 minutes to reach the victim localisation. That is why two classmates and me decided to design a hiking route where a victim of a cardiopulmonary arrest could be treated with a defibrillator DESA in less than 4 minutes, so some lives could de saved, according to the project "Cartagena Cardioprotegida" ("Cartagena cardioprotected") that the council of our city is developing. Our route, whihc is drawn in the map below, departs from Cartagena's Plaza de España and climbs Galeras. In this part of the journey, the defibrillator will be in 'Club Naval de Suboficiales'. Then, it goes down Galeras and leads to Fajardo, another mountain to climb (both less than 220 metres high). In case of a cardiopulmonary arrest, there is a DESA in the repair doors of Navantia. Finally, it climbs down Fajardo to go to 'Fuerte de Navidad', where another defibrillator will be located. To end the route, you just have to come back to the depart point, Plaza de España.

This is a project we made in order to participate in a congress which takes part in the UCAM university in Cartagena. We are looking forward to being selected for the congress, since it would be an awesome experience to show everybody our project, that could be really useful due to the environment of Cartagena, which encourages us to go hiking now that the spring has already come.

The rest of my trip to Madrid

I must apologize because of my behaviour yesterday. I was really excited and I needed to tell you how was my experience in Harry Potter's exhibition, so I forgot something... Telling you about the rest of my trip!

Apart from Harry Potter's one, we also visited another exhibition (we had to take advantage of being in the capital city!) related to Auschwitz-Birkenau's concentration camps. It was an exhibition co-produced by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for the first time in history which shows an extraordinary collection of more than 600 original exhibits of inestimable historic and human value, that offer direct witness to one of the darkest chapters of humankind. Small personal belongings from some of the victims, structural elements from the huge camp, documents and unpublished audio-visual materials make up a rigorous and moving tour with a clear goal: knowing first-hand how a place like Auschwitz could exist and what were its terrible consequences. The great majority of the objects, pictures and audio-visual materials in this exhibition have never been shown to an audience before. Here you have some pictures I took. Every time I see them, I have a shiver down my spine, since  it must have been waful what these objects have witnessed:

On the other hand, speaking with a happier tone, we really enjoyed our stay in Madrid, since our appartment was in Fuenlabrada street, so we were almost until midnight having a walk in Madrid's main streets and Squares: Puerta del Sol, Callao, Gran Vía, La castellana with Kio Towers, ect. We also had dinner in a typical restaurant were squid sandwiches tasted reeeaally good (and where beer is also excellent). I strongly recommend you to go to Madrid, bacuse it is a modern city where it's assured to have a good time:

Harry Potter exhibition

If you are a Harry Potter fan, I recommend you to take a look into this. Last Saturday, I went to IFEMA, in Madrid, in order to discover more of the Magic World of J.K. Rowling thanks to Harry Potter: The Exhibition. This is an itinerant exhibition of more than 1,400 square meters, where visitors can admire in first person the artifacts used in the Harry Potter films, enjoy the scenarios inspired by the sets of the filmography, and surprise with the incredible manual and artistic work that hide behind the costumes and the original fantastic creatures of the film. You can also discover some of the most popular movie locations, including the common room and the Gryffindor bedroom, classrooms such as Potions or Herbology, and the Forbidden Forest. These scenarios contain hundreds of costumes and creatures that were used during the filming of the iconic movies. Visitors can enter into the Quidditch field and throw a Quaffle ball, extract a Mandrake from the pot in Herbology class, and even walk through Hagrid's cabin and sit in its gigantic chair. I assure you that this is an unforgettable experience if you have ever read or watch anything related to Harry Potter. 

Here you have some pictues of mine inside the exhibition. They show me with the Sorting Hat (I was chosen to go to Ravenclaw, the one I wanted!), extracting a Mandrake, in the main entrance of Gryffindor's main room with the Fat Lady and  with Hogwarts' shield.