What i spend money on?

I must say that my money is divided in five things:

1.  I spend most of my money in food. This money is not for my lunch at university, instead is for my cravings, I have ton of those. For example I really like to eat chinese food when I go out from classes. But this is a problem because is not just this kind of food, I have a plenty list of my favorite cakes, chocolates, ice-creams, cookies, French fries and hamburgers that I like to eat constantly.
2.  Other part of my money goes to money for photocopies and materials that I need during the year, like notebooks, pencils and cardboards.
3.  Books are my greatest pleasure in the world. Maybe somebody could though that this is not a good idea to spend my money on, but I truly don’t care about that very much. If books where cheaper in Chile than the price they are now, like Argentina, my house instead to be a place where people can live it would be transformed into a personal library.
4. One of my hobbies is having photo albums, but they are really expensive if I don’t reveal many photos at once.
5. Maybe the last part of my money goes when I have to buy gifts for my friends and family. Anniversaries, birthdays and Christmas are some of the moments when the money I've saved in the year leaves my pocket, leaving me bankrupt.

I buy all this things at malls and supermarkets, and I realize I don’t feel real guilt about buying things that are not really necessary for living.

A job i would like to have

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How green are you?

For telling the truth I’m not a very green person. In school, teachers never tried to teach us about conservation and recycling till we were grown up. I certainly believe that schools should teach students how to recycle and care about environment since they are children; because like that, kids will learn this as a habit for their entire lives.

The things I tried to do for the benefit of the Earth is not waste water while I’m brushing my teeth or when I’m taking a shower. I always turn the lights off after leaving a room; and try to repair or reuse objects in bad condition or which are considered trash. My family and I try to recycle the bottles and cartons we use at home. We don’t do the whole recycling process by ourselves, instead of that; a person passes by once a week and removes the objects we collect. Besides that we don’t help much more trying to reduce our carbon footprint.

The way I transport from one place to another is by subway and bus. Not just because cars produce higher levels of pollution than any other means of transport, for its massiveness, but the time traveling is less than by car. Also you can avoid the traffic that overwhelm people and is cheaper.

About supporting eco-organizations, I have never done it. Maybe it's because I’m too lazy to help them as volunteer. I should try to do more to help this planet from global warming.

Guilty pleasures

I believe everyone have at least one guilty pleasure to be embarrassed, one of my guilty pleasures is related to food. I absolutely love eating sweet things like cakes, chocolates, ice cream and fruit with condensed milk. I know that is really bad for my health but still I do it. The second guilty pleasure I enjoy is watching series online and trying to see the end as soon as possible, therefore, I spend hours watching them. For example, about five weeks ago I started watching the new Doctor Who from the beginning, and now I finished watching the final episode last season in air. Maybe it doesn’t sound like a truly guilty pleasure, but after seven seasons of twenty episodes I really believe that is not a normal thing to do.  And for this reason the third pleasure I have is sleeping too much in the evenings or even while I’m in class but when is really late at night I’m awake. Now for this reason I have a really messy sleep schedule, and I kind of like doing it. My last guilty pleasure is to read romantic novels, and I’m not talking about Jane Austen kind of novels, I mean romantic novels where you can see cute guys on the covers. That’s all I think.

A career-related Newspaper Article

In this blog I choose an article named: “How we can make our oceans well again”. The article deals with a group of 65 scientists who met three years ago to create an index on how to evaluate the ocean while he maintains the existence of life.

This project started when Greg Stone, Conservation International's chief scientist for oceans and vice-chair of WEF agenda councils on oceans, was on an expedition at sea. He went down to a depth of 5500 meters to see the marine life that lived there, he expected to see a great variety of species, instead founds out that there was no animal life there.The cause of this is the excessive pollution. 

At that time there was no definite indicator of the ocean pollution. So, they decided to make an index that takes account of different facets of the ocean: food provision, carbon storage, clean waters, tourism and recreation, and natural products. So they expect to appeal to the competitiveness of human beings, by assigning points to each country according to how well they take care of the sea from 0 to 100.

To make a real change in the world people's mind, countries should mix marine conservation with sustainable use according to the needs and culture of the country.

The oceans are essential in human life, because they feed us, regulate our climate and produce oxygen, but it is not an inexhaustible resource. It is our responsibility to ensure the future of the earth and ours.