Fashion models expose sexual harassment

This news talks about the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme that showed some stories of models that had been sexually harassed.

It mentions some short stories from different models. The first one is Marissa who says that she was doing a photo shoot for a jeans brand and when she took a break and came back, the photographer wanted her to make “a performance” for him. The second model is an anonymous one; she says that a stylist wanted to kiss her against her will, so she pushed him away and he ended up masturbating next to her, and the worse part of it is that this stylist is still working in the same place.

There are a few reports more from other models like photographers who wanted nude photos, or molestations by photographers or stylists.

Personal opinion

I simply haven’t got words for all these events, I don’t understand how evil can people be. I mean, when these models are posing for a photographer, they are working to get some money from it; they don’t need to go through all this abuse. The most shocking about all this, is that most of the assailants turn out uninjured and are still working with other girls. In my opinion, a worker who molests anyone as, little as it might be, should be fired and punished by law.

Another sentence that has me freaking out is the next one: "I told my agent about my abuse, they told me to 'stay quiet, he's too important to lose as a client'" I can’t believe that someone can play down something as big as an abuse. This agent has even thought how the model felt when “the important” photographer abused from her? I think not, this man clearly has neither empathy nor heart.

To sum up, I think that this should be more reported to put all these abusive workers in jail.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42230705

Self-evaluation

A few weeks ago, a friend and I did an oral presentation about dreams. We thought it was a curious topic to develop considering that everybody dreams and not everyone knows why  we dream or what's the meaning of the dreams. We explained what they were, how they happen, the 5 stages of sleep, the meaning of some dreams and sleep disorders.

To support our explanation we used a power point which was pretty complete, but not excessively. We used images and some key words to help us remember and manage all the information. Although we could have expanded on the topic, we only explained the essential so the presentation lasted more or less what it had to last, nine minutes.

My body language was not bad because I looked at the audience, but I think that I could make more gestures with my hands and arms. I read sometimes from my notes but just when I couldn't remember a word or I went blank.

I consider that the content was pretty good because as I said before, this is not a topic that everyone knows a lot about so we introduced new information to the audience. The information was clear and concise, just enough to get to know the topic superficially.

Regarding the grammar, I think the only complex words were the technical ones because I still don't know why,but I didn't say the things I wrote in my paper, on the contrary it came naturally. For this reason I think that although everything was easy to understand (when I didn't get tongue-tied), my vocabulary was not very rich and varied. As I said, although I got tangled up, I think my pronunciation was pretty good and everybody understood what I wanted to say.

Volleyball

In this post I want to talk about volleyball and what it means to me. Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net, and the aim of the team is ground the ball in the other team's field.

I've been playing volleyball since I was 12; a bunch of girls wanted to start a volleyball team in Castelló, so we did it. Some of us had never touched a ball before, but we were willing to learn. Nowadays, five years later 5 of us original girls are still playing together  in Sant Pere Pescador. 

I always think that I started playing real volleyball when I moved to Sant Pere, in 2014. That year was the first one that we played in a higher level, and we started to play every weekend.

Every training and every match made us better, in each match there was something better than the match before, we were improving week to week, until now. We still keep learning every day. Thanks to our new trainer, we started to learn a team works, we learnt to trust in our teammates, we learnt values such as commitment, cooperation and unity. 

Since 2014 nothing has changed, there are some new girls and other ones who have left it, but as my trainer says, the ones who really want to play volleyball, who don’t mind spending all the afternoon in the sports complex supporting other teams or playing, the ones who wake up at dawn to take the bus and drive for 3 hours to play, even if the night before was carnival. These are the girls that keep playing.

I am so proud of my team, we are a very united team, on and off the field, and that’s because we spend a lot of time together, not only in trainings but because almost every time that we play in another town or city we have to stay there and have lunch or dinner, so we talk and laugh a lot. Also, every year we go to another city to play a tournament, so we spend a complete weekend together. Nowadays, thanks to all these things we do, there is a lot of confidence with all the teammates and with the trainer.

To sum up, I want to say that volleyball has made me live experiences and feelings that I couldn’t live if I didn’t play. I wouldn’t change at all the feeling of making a point during a difficult match, and celebrate it all together or the adrenaline that you feel after a good match. Playing volleyball is my passion, and thanks to it I have met a lot of fantastic people and spent a great time with them.