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Dimestore diamond

The title of this blog is Dimestore diamond, that's the title of a song of Gossip, an indie American music band.

I wanted to explain why I chose this title, but It'd cooler if I try to translate the song to Catalan just with the help of Wordreference...

I hope I can translate more or less good the song...

Everybody knows the things she does to please

Low cut sweaters with her skirt above her knees

She's a dimestore diamond

(Tothom sap les coses que fa per complaure

Jerseis escotats amb la seva faldilla per sobre els genolls

Ella és un diamant barat)

Everybody knows just where she gets her clothes

A water coloured painting in a renoir pose

She's a dimestore diamond

(Tothom sap on consegueix la seva roba

Una pintura amb aigua en una postura renoir

Ella és un diamant barat)

Everybody knows but no one can tell

A homemade haircut but she wears it well

She's a dimestore diamond

(Tothom ho sap, però ningú pot dir-ho

Un tallat de cabell fet a casa,

però el llueix bé

Ella és un diamant barat)

You can call her broke, you can call her poor

But everybody knows that she ain't cold no more

She's a dimestore diamond

(Pots dir-li trencada, pots dir-li pobre

Però tothom sap que no és freda

Ella és un diamant barat)

Shines like the real thing

Real thing

Real thing

Dimestore diamond

(Brilla com el de veritat

El de veritat

El de veritat

Diamant barat)

Gotta catch you one

Gotta catch you one one

Gotta catch you one

(N'has d'agafar un,

N'has d'agafar un un

n'has d'agafar un)

My favourite picture

2nd Batxillerat: first impressions

Last year I did something like that, telling my opinions to everyone who was reading my blog... so I was talking alone, haha.

The first term is almost over and there's no doubt that this three months have been the most stressing months EVER! Work, work, work, work, work, exams, exams, research project, work, more work, a lot of exams, and mooooooooore work!! We got stressed some times, like we are now!

And today me, and I guess more people, feel like the last five years in ESO and First Batxillerat were like a joke. If I compare just a week this year with a whole term of 1st Batxillerat... I just can't compare! I've never felt this stress, and I think it's too bad and shows the bad conditions of our education system. The effort and perseverance had never appeared, since this september. And now we are fed up of 2nd batxillerat with just three months...

Anyway, we hope that when we finish the Research Project all that stress will disappear, but then we will have to wait for SELECTIVITAT EXAMS!!!

If we success we have to be so proud, because all the effort we will put on this year worth it!

Choose

"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got heroin?"

I don't want to analyse Trainspotting. But the opening scene of the film makes me think about life. What we are supposed to do in life?

My father is always telling me "don't disappoint me"; my mother says "you are young, have fun". Both say: "you must do what we couldn't".

I think that's pressure for us. We are the owners of our life, there shouldn't be anybody pressing us with words like that. What's a disappointment for our parents? Don't do the homework? Smoke? Drink at parties? Think what they don't respect? When I think about that I feel sick.

Weren't they young? Sometimes it seems they were always like now. I sometimes need a little bit understanding, but it seems that's difficult for them.

I'm not saying parents are bad, because they are not.

And what's a model life? Why we all have to do the same? Is this the product of a closed mind or is the future that everybody expects for their child?

I think humans are sufficiently clever to choose our life, independently of the other people, but when we choose another way, we are weird people, we are the typical people that parents say "you must study because you can't drive your life as his life".

It's something to think a lot... always choosing! Choose: being the strange or a sheep following the flock?

Pope Benedict consecrates Barcelona's Sagrada Familia

Pope Benedict XVI has consecrated Antoni Gaudi's unfinished church, the Sagrada Familia, as a basilica in the Spanish city of Barcelona.

The Pope sprinkled holy water on the altar before a congregation of more than 6,500 people. Gaudi's greatest work has been under construction for more than a century, and will not be finished before 2026.
The current chief architect said he hoped the Pope's visit would provide the boost needed to finish the work.
Before leaving for Rome from Barcelona's El Prat airport, Pope Benedict called on Europe's Catholics to renew their faith.
"May this faith find new vigour on this continent and become a source of inspiration," he said at the end of the two-day visit.
In his earlier homily, he again criticised divorce, same-sex marriage and abortion.
He was seen off by dignitaries including Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia.

Source: BBC

I don't agree the Pope's visit in Barcelona. It's obvious he came because there are economic interests, and it has moved a lot of money... but I can't understand... in this country there is a lot of unemployment, how they could waste more than 4.000.000 euros just with the security of the Pope? And more money with tickets to enter into the Sagrada Familia to see him...

I'm atheist, but I understand if some people believe in God... but how can someone believe in Catholic Church? How? They got a lot of power centuries ago and now they don't want to accept the society is changing and what they say is getting obsolete.

Actually they NEVER preach with the model of Jesus, helping the poorest people with hope, the Catholic Church just gain money and tell to people with strong faith what they can do and they cannot.

How the hell they want to give us moral lessons if we know they used to practicate pederasty? How the hell can we respect them if they compare Spanish atheism with the anticlericalism of '30, where it had burned churches and killed priests? Just a ignorance show and want-attention.

They are scared and are trying to stay in the society but it won't be possible. We are changing. Really... do they think that in the actual society the young people won't use the condom? Do they think that a teenage girl will ruin her life having a baby? Do they think that we are more open-minded than before, and there is no problem is we fall in love with another girl or boy? I mean, of the same sex than us? What the fuck???

Years ago...

I remember myself when I was a child, in my grandparents' house, with my aunt and my uncle. I remember they were so young and they were 60's and 70's music addicts. Their bedrooms were full of posters of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and I used to cry when I saw their faces on every wall, it scared me!! I grew up listening songs of Big Brother & The holding company because my aunt was always listening to them.

I can remember four walls and a lot of Janis on them. There are still a lot of posters; On the bed there's a giant poster of Janis singing with the eyes closed. There is a paint of the singer, too and a beautiful poster of Janis and her friend Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane.

Years ago there was a giant poster of Jim Morrison, the most famous picture of him. It was scaring.

Sometimes my aunt explain to me how difficult was buy a LP from her favourite bands, and how she and my uncle took the train and went to Barcelona to waste their savings buying Long plays...

And now, at my -almost- seventeen years old I think I am following their steps! I can't get tired of listening Janis or Jefferson Airplane, I feel curiosity and I try to discover more bands and singers: Bob Dylan, The Mamas and the Papas... yes, it's so different the kind of music, but I like it!

But my most special singer is Janis Joplin. It's just amazing her voice and what she could do with it... she took drugs, heroin and weed, but her voice never sound bad!! We can't say she hadn't talent!

"You have a very good English"

When you learn something, you like the people recognizes it and that makes you proud!

In my experience, I can tell it's true. Well, I experienced that before, when I was doing maths... I was the worst doing anything with numbers and when I understood something I almost cried! But I always failed. Hehe.

Well, that's not my topic! Some months ago I was walking on the street to the bus station of Castelló, because I was studying German in Figueres, When I felt something behind me. I was listening to music, so I couldn't hear anything else. Finally I turned and I saw a couple in a car. I came closer to the window while I was thinking "oh no! French?! I don't want to answer anything to French people!!", I don't know French and I usually don't like French people. Anyway, I gave them a smile and they said: Sant Pere Pescador?

Then I realized that the steering wheel was on the right side. I wanted to look their license on their car, but I said YES! They're English!!

I began to tell to them how to arrive to the town, "you have to go to the right, then you will find like a circle, then you go to the left, and...", and suddenly the man said "We've been here many times ago... and you have a very good English!". I just said "thank you!!" and I continued to explain the way to Sant Pere.

It's cool when you realize that you know how to do something, it cheers you up to continue doing it and improving a little bit everyday :)

My future

I know I have to talk about my future or what are my expectations, but I don't know what can I say. I don't like making decisions and I don't know how to live my life with the expression "carpe diem" on my face. I'd be a liar if I say I want to go to University, and study a lot to be rich. My first thing I want to do is finish 2nd Batxillerat and go away. I'm looking forward to catch a train and go to Barcelona, because there is where I want to study. I want to leave home and Castelló, because I'm fed up of a lot of people of here. Not because they're bad people or something like that, I just want to live new experiences, I don't know how is live alone, I want to know what is the "do it yourself"...

After that I don't know what can I study. I thought I can dedicate four years of my life on pedagogy. But I have no idea what can I do with my life. It also would be cool being president of Spain. I don't like my country and I'd change everything I think it's stupid.

After going to University I want to live in another country. Maybe in the Netherlands, maybe in Germany or maybe in USA, but I'm dreaming too much! It's obvious I won't stay here.

So, there's just one thing I need to do right now: leave home! This is something I'm waiting since I started ESO, and every year it's getting closer!

I have nothing more to say!

See you,
Claudia

My joke

There are two muffins in an oven. One of them says "Oh Jeez... it's so hot here!" and the other muffin says: "Oh, there's a muffin that talks!!"

Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell

What's Don't Ask, Don't Tell?

It's the common term for the policy restricting the U.S.Military from efforts to discover or reveal closeted gay, lesbian and bisexual service members or applicants.

What means that? In the United States military people who l

ikes people of the same sex have to keep secret their sexual orientation, and nobody can ask it. The policy of "Don't Ask, don't tell" prohibits anyone who "demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts" from serving in the armed forces of the U.S.A. because "it would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order, discipline and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability".

So anybody gay, lesbian or bisexual can disclose their sexual orientation or talking about homosexual relationships while they're serving in the United States armed forces.

At this moment, there is a campaign against this policy: Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, which is doing some pressure to Obama to stop this stupid law.

When I know what was this law about, I was like "what???". What a discriminatory thing! How could the government of U.S.A. let the captains of the military service choose to send off the people who's gay? Aren't they giving their lifes to their country? It's stupid make differences between an homosexual and an heterosexual, because it's not true that one is cleverer than the other, or if there are not gays in the army will be more order...

I hope it changes soon, and obviously, I can shout Repeal don't ask don't tell!!

Hey little rich girl

Every time I have to decide a new address for a new blog I turn on my iPod shuffle and I choose the first song in English that appears. This year is Hey Little Rich Girl, originally from The Specials, but this time covered by Amy Winehouse.

I like this song because it remembers me to one of my idols, Edie Sedgwick, the first Warhol's "superstar".

Amy Winehouse is one of my favourite singers, she has her own style and yes, maybe she has got a lot of problems with drugs and that stuff, but that is no excuse to despise her talent.

I finish my little entry with the song, I hope you like it!

And welcome to my blog.