Abortion is OK in Spain

I was watching on TV (CNN News) that Spain approved a law which abortion was allowed more easier than before.

Spain on Wednesday approved a sweeping new law that eases restrictions on abortion, declaring the practice a woman's right and doing away with the threat of imprisonment, in part of a drive toward liberal policies that has angered conservatives and the Catholic Church.

The new law allows the procedure without restrictions up to 14 weeks and gives 16- and 17-year-olds the right to have abortions without parental consent. The senate's passage of the bill Wednesday gives it final approval.

Something that really scares me is the fact that this types of law are every time more expanded. I have always said that abortion is killing a person, even though is not even born.

The bill brings the country in line with its more secular neighbors in northern Europe is the latest of a series of bold social reforms undertaken by Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who first took office in 2004 and has ruffled feathers among many in the traditionally Catholic country.

There will be happy and unhappy people with this new law, but the ones that will never have a chance to say a word about the situation, are the babies that will be killed, that's for sure.

Spain sends back foreigners from the country

We may have heard that Spain is now in trouble due to the current global crisis, which has hit Europe and particularly this spanish-speaking country.

We see that Spain's economy has grown negatively and as consequence, people are seeing themselves in the situation of changing of work or quitting it.

As Spain has to focus itself on its economy, it leaves others factors behind, one is that one of the foreigners coming to this country.

As in Spain live many people from Latin America, Spain has stated that no more are able to enter the country unless they prove they are going back to their countries of origin. This is to prevent than more foreigners stay in Spain and more unemployment occurs.

Most of the countries from Latin America have not said anything about the people being returned, however, Brazil has started to do the same thing with Spaniards going to that country; they have to show they are going back, and if they don't, they are sent back.

I don't consider this as a bad decision for Spain because it wants to recover its economy; however, I believe the decision has been taken too suddenly, and many people were not planning for this to happen. I think the countries should first announce their ideas about something and then, start doing it, or else, many other countries could get mad and do the same thing in return. We don't any futur problems regarding these aspects just because decisions were not made correctly.

Current crisis in Europe

We all know that the current crisis has affected our lives; we need to pay more for goods and services, we have to prioritize our expenses, and many other consequences.
Although the crisis' problems have been regulated and the economy is becoming more stable, there are still some aspects that suffer from the crisis. One of those aspects is the one that includes Europe.

There are some countries like Spain or Greece whose economy is still the worst in the eurozone due to the current global crisis, this countries have the largest desompleyment percentage (20% and 10% respectively) and have bigger expenses that income.

What the EU is trying to do is to help these countries by telling them how they should manage their economies; however, the governments are not always willing to follow these instructions.

I believe that if the economy of these, and some other European countries, continues to grow negatively, we could fear that the cost of the Euro will fall and a lot of social issues (migration, immigration, discontent among people) will become present. Also, I think we would fear the relations between Spain, Greece, etc. and the rest of the world (Including México) regarding its comercial exchange. I believe that the politic parties should set aside the opinion of the people about the parties' popularity and should focus on raising their countries' economies; in order, for there to be a faster exit of the current crisis.

Home sweet home

Last year I went to Spain to study for 2 semesters. When I came back to Hermosillo everyone was asking me how was it and if I liked it, well my answer was no, I didn´t like. Many think that is better to go study to any place, except your city (I´m one of those people) but going so far away made me think that it is more difficult than you think. Family was not a factor, my parents came with my and all my family lives in Spain.

But I really missed my friend and my comfort zone, especially my house and overall my room. It was difficult for me to adapt to my new room, I didn´t slept for the first 3 or 4 days. But knowing a city, another culture and a slighty different language. The first days of school when I had to adress a teacher I told them that, teacher, but they will just look at me and laugh, they told me to call them by their first name and to adress them informally that was very difficult, so in the first days I raised my hand when they were looking my way.

Also, there are some words that are different like the ones for pen, "pluma" and "boli" and many others. The reason I dind´t like it was because of the school, it was very difficult and I didn´t like the system. The people was okey, a little bit different from my friend but they are good people. One curious thing I remembered is that in my shcool at Spain there were more male teachers than females and in here they are more female teacher. Also that the groups are smaller only two per year and of 23 or 24 kids and there are more boys than girls.

The first days I wasn´t feeling very homesick but when I was 2 months away from returning home I was incredibly homesick, I felt stange, like I didn´t belonged there because it was all temporary, the house, the shool, my friends...so when I was home I was very, very happy that is why when people ask me if I would return I say no. I´m very grateful for the experience because it does open your mind and you learn to deal with different people and situations but there is no place like home.

My summer 2009

This past summer I had the opportunity to go to Madrid, Spain. One of my mother's brother lives there. I went there with my grandparents for about 50 days. I had a great time. The point is that going there for that long helped me to understand, more or less, the Spanish culture.

The day I arrived, we went for a walk with my uncle's girlfriend. It really amazed me to see so many people walking in the streets, despite the fact Madrid is a touristic city, a lot of persons, including my uncle, walk to arrive to their destiny.

The first time I used the subway, some Romanian girls stole my grandmother's wallet. That left me a really bad impression about security in Spain, especially in places like bus stations and the subway. But it didn't matter much at the end because a few weeks later I started to use the bus and the subway by myself.

It was really weird for me to see people reading in every free moment they had to do it. For example, people in the subway read, even they only have 10 minutes to do it, but they read. In the park you could find a lot of persons from all ages reading while having a tent. I liked the idea of going to the park and read, so I did it a couple times.

At Madrid, there is this incredible park called "Jardines del Buen Retiro". It is enormous. It has grass all over the place, skating rinks, artificial lakes, many fountains, ponds, a crystal palace, ducks, among other good things. What was impressive of that park is that it was always full of people. Parents with their children, people exercising, people reading, old-people exercising clubs, skaters, and bike riders.

I like the part of the food because I ate food from a lot of styles. I tried my uncle's style, Indian food, food from different regions of Spain, Hungarian food (wasn't my favourite), and Arabian food. The ingredients were similar, but the way of cooking was totally different in every restaurant.

Going to another country in another continent helped me a lot to open my eyes to the different cultures that we have in the world. I couldn't choose among all cultures because each one of them has something special and unique and that makes it wonderful.