Choosing a topic for an oral presentation

Although there are a lot of ideas to talk about, it's really easy to choose what kind of stuff you want to talk about. The topics given by the teacher focus on projects that we've done in class (dreams and youth), adding "informatics" as a general idea.

Talking with my partner, it easily turned out that the idea we like more it's the dreams one. We've shared some opinions about the things that we like to talk about, but they weren't focus enough, so our ideas turned... "too general".

Then, we decided to talk about our personal dreams, the challenges we'll face to reach them and the solutions.

Dialogue - Eva & José

Scenario: Two friends talking about their mum’s mechanisms to keep young

Characters: José, Eva

J: Oh, did I tell you that my mum got an appointment in Corporación Dermoestética?

E: Wow, really? Why?

J: She is upset about her wrinkles.

E: Is she confident with her decision, isn't she?

J: Yep, she is.

E: Did she try any cosmetics?

J: Well, I think she never thought about that. My mum believes (that) they can be harmful.

E: Oh, come on. It’s known (that) operations are dangerous, aren’t they?

J: I knew you wouldn’t like that…I don’t disagree with her at all, though.

E: But why she wants to spent money on operations? She may feel bad with wrinkles, it’s so…unnatural!

J: Yeah, I think you’re right. Oh gosh, you always preferred to avoid this kind of things, didn’t you?

NOTE: The format went completely mad. I'll rewrite this entry to try to fix this.

"Youth is the most important thing in the world"

On one hand, this can easily turn into obsession; you know, it's nearly imposible to keep young all your life, and the desperation of seeing you getting older will be a nightmare.

But on the other hand, old people usually desire to be young again. Maybe they suffer to much from physical aches, so there we have a possible argument to defend that youth is the most important thing in the world.

“We can't live without humor”

Is this really true? If we interpret this sentence in a literally, absolutely non-metaphoric way, it's easy to talk nonsense: Humor is completely vital for life and without it, we will die. Obviously, to discuss this phrase we need to understand it as a metaphorical one.

On one hand, having a favorite topic for jokes doesn't mean the others would find comfortable with it, and you can easily offend or make someone feel bad; otherwise we would all have the same type of humor. The same occurs if we are jokers; we may see it funny, but it can be painful for the person who “suffered” the joke. So, humor can make your life and other's ones tough.

However, on the other hand humour affects positively to your relations and behaviour, greatly increasing your sense of self-fulfillment and making you engage your life happier. Well, life can be really deceptive, and it's absolutely true that if the bad things aren't faced with positiveness, they can make you suffer a lot.

In conclusion, humor is kinda “useful” if we want to avoid suffering, but on an adequate measure; in other words, having no humor at all doesn't help you much, but having an “uncontrolled” one have similar consequences.

News: "France shootings: How can a child aged four handle trauma?"

Zeena, a four-year-old child, was found with her dead parents inside a car. She was optimal physically, but the acquired trauma in such horrific experience is likely to affect her for the rest of her life. According to a psychologist specialized on children trauma, she would have experienced a really stressful reaction - a massive shock - and activated "a sort of shut-down response" that protected her psychologically. "Now", the police will take up to a week before questioning her to ensure that she won't be re-traumatized or "forced" to re-live the incident.

I can't even imagine how she could handle the situation (I know, it's mostly a "defense mechanism" issue, but it's really striking). Few people have experienced this kind of extremely shocking event, and I think they're the only ones that can say how it feels. This case doesn't affect me directly, but as a future psychologist (or/and psychiatrist or/and neuroscience doctor, perhaps), I'm sure that I'll encounter this kind of problems some day, and if I don't change my mind, I'll do all my efforts to try to help people that faced them.


New words
Witness: Presenciar
Stimuli: Estímul
Grasp: Comprensió
Pans out: Resulta

News & image source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19508900
"New words meaning" found on: http://www.wordreference.com/es/

Kinda worried about summer

The summer is near and everybody is impatient for the holidays. I don't know if there'll be like the others: I'm thinking about start working besides I have to do a lot of things... You know, I'm kinda worried about it. I don't know what exactly I'm going to do with the "treball de recerca", and it's important to have already clear how to do it.What about friends? Most of them will work, a lot will go on trips and few will stay here for the summer.

In reality, I'm not like thinking... I have some work for tomorrow, and it's very important, besides I'm a bit stressed lately.

Reading time ! : The call of the wild

Buck, a four-year-old dog, lives peacefully in Saint Claire's valley. Manuel, Buck's master's gardener, wants to sell Buck to a man who needs dogs for sleighs to pick gold on North-west Canada. The dog, who doesn't know what's going on, is abandoned in a train. Before he can escape, the train begins to move, sending Buck to an unknown place...

Opinion

Well, it isn't a bad book. Reading how Buck is treated made me sad, but I like the story in general.Good ambientation and adjectives to describe the situations. Recommended for those people who really love animals.