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.

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 Small personal belongings from some of the victims, structural elements from the huge camp, documents and unpublished audio-visual materials make up a rigorous and moving tour with a clear goal: knowing first-hand how a place like Auschwitz could exist and what were its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:

The meeting night (La Noche del Encuentro)

Today is the night of the 'Encuentro'! I'm really excited because this is one of the most wonderful nights in Cartagena of the whole year. As you know, we are in Holy week, a festivity whose purpose is to recreate scenes of Jesus' life in a parades called 'Procesiones'. So tonight's parade is specially beautiful, since three different parades meet at a big square in Cartagena in order to sing a Salmo to the Virgin. The coordination must be extremely high, and lots of people participate in the event to make it unforgettable, despite being held each year. I'm not a believer (I think God does not exist), but in any case I always get excited when the parades arrive and everybody is in silence to listen to the Salve. It's an experience I recommend you all!

Here I attach some pictures, so that you can imagine how amasinz this event could be. These pictures weren't taken by me, due to I always arrive a little bit late and I haven't got a good place to record it. There's a huge amount of people who is expecting to watch the Christ!

Here you have a Web URL too. It belongs to the catholical organisation which is in charge to organise the whole event. It also takes part in the other 'Procesiones' that set up the Holy Week in Cartagena. This organisation is called 'Cofradía Marraja': http://www.marrajos.es/

Roverway 2018

This weekend I went to Murcia in order to participate in a scout event to prepare ourselves for a bigger scout event: the Roverway. This is a meeting of scouts who are between 16-20 years old no matter their country. It helds every 2 years always in July, and this year it takes place in the Netherlands near of Amsterdam from 23rd July to 2nd August. So this weekend (17-18) the idea was to meet everybody together so we could know who are we travelling with, since from my scout group, for instance, there are only 7 of us, whereas more than 50 scouts in Murcia are participating in the Roverway. Besides, during the camp we will be organised in patrols (in my case platypus), which will be mixed with international patrols, so we are going to sleep and share experiences with, for example, british or weedish scouts!

This year Roverway's slogan is 'Opposites attract' (as it's shown below) because the idea is to join people from different countries all around Europe who are going to be pretty different among themselves. Take into account that Irish scouts will meet Turkish ones, and their respective culture is really different. The event will be organised in 2 parts: the first one is called 'paths' and it lasts the first 4 days of the Roverway. Every patrol is going to do a path or route with international patrols to discover the Netherlands and do some exercise as well as interesting activities. The path is previouly chosen by the patrols, and I'll tell you our favourite one so you can imagine who are more or less these paths. So we have decided to do a path called 'Pride in the south' where we are going to walk through the hills in the south of the Netherlands, play laser tag in the middle of the forest, explore some caverns, visit Maastritch and make rafting in a river. I'm reeeaaally looking forward to finishing the EBAU so I can live all these experiences!

If you want to know more about this awesome event, click here to get redirected to the official website.

Talking about myself and my view of the world

Today I'm quite philosophical, so I'm going to talk a bit about me and my view of the world. I hope you like it and share my ideas :)

My name is Alberto Nogueira. Im a student of 2nd Bachillerato in IES Mediterráneo, in Cartagena. I think I’m an interesting person, since the things I like are quite different to the other’s ones (something that makes me feel really proud, bacause it means I have my own personality, and that it isn’t influenced by anybody). I’m also very extroverted, due to I like making new friends wherever and whenever. Frankly, I consider my friends my second family, that people who’s not going to leave you, no matter what happens between us.

Well, as we’re talking in a philosophical way, let’s discuss this world, our world. From my point of view, there are several good and bad things related to our behaviour with each other in our society, but there’s one thing that annoys me the most: the kids’ attitude. I’ll explain myself. Nowadays parents spoil too much their children, and this way they will never learn to appreciate what they have. When I was in those ages, I didn’t have any mobile phone or electronic devices like the ones that everybody has in these days (or so it seems). And I’m also sure that they don’t know how difficult is to get enough money for bringing up your children.

So this is what really frightens about our future. It’s something that concerns all the citiziens of all the cities along the planet. If we continue in this way, in a few years everybody will be avaricious and selfish, and that’s a really really bad fact in a society, because nobody will help to the ones that need it, and only the richest and most poweful people will survive. In a nearly future (once I’m older than 18) I see myself helping in a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), such as ‘Médicos sin fronteras’, with my Scout group if it’s possible. Although I know it’s extremely difficult, I hope that this situation changes because if this doesn’t... In which world will we live in?

Comparing generations

Things have changed a lot during the last 10 years. For instance, when I was 5, almost nobody had a mobile phone with a tactile screen, and nowadays it’s strange if somebody doesn’t have it. So due to this, I’m going to compare my generation, but 10 years ago (above 2005), with the five-year-old generation of 2015:

From my point of view, this is the technological generation and I think that this is the biggest change between these two periods. Besides, as far as I remember, when I was in that age I enjoyed going to the park with my friends, and playing whatever just using our imagination, because any of us had touched an electronic gadget, such as a mobile phone or a videoconsole, before. However, nowadays chlidren are a bit spoilt, so they want to have everything and they cannot have fun easily. In addition, parents let their children do whatever they want, like watching some TV series which aren’t suitable for their ages or playing violent videogames.

On the other hand, if we take into account that these devices I’ve mentioned give everything done to their respectives users, in this way children won’t learn, because it’s not necessary to make a big effort if you want to find out something.

To sum up, I think it’s OK that new technologies help children for different purposes, but we’re losing some of the values we have learnt through the years: friendship, respect and work hard to get what you wish...

...and I have some photos which demonstrate this!

ME (2015)

This is me with some of my friends, doing senderism and having a really good time. And most of these friends are from primary school!

ME (2005)

In this photo, I’m playing with my friends in the park of my area, without using any electronic device and having lots of fun. 

My English class

I really like learning languages, but my favourite language is English. I want to learn a lot of English because it is an important languge that all people speak.
I´m in a bilingual class, so the level of English and French is higher than the level in the other classes, but I like it.