A Useful Life = La Vida Útil

Another rainy day in England, so after breakfast I just sat on the couch to watch TV all day and enjoy another hibernating day, I have been having many of them lately. 

As I was flicking through the channels I came across a movie that was showing a CUTSA bus, so of course I stopped to see it as I knew it was from Uruguay. 

I only saw the last 30 minutes of the movie, so I am not really qualified to review the movie, but I will anyway.

The name of the movie was “A Useful Life” and the only reason I kept on watching was because it was from my country. And the only reason I did not fall sleep was because as I stated before, this was right after breakfast, so obviously I just got up.

The movie was so slow; hardly any dialogue and I still don’t know what it was about. I guess if I saw it from the beginning I would know the plot, however, if the last part was so slow, I guess the beginning was too, so I have no desire to see the whole movie, but if I ever see that they are showing it again, I know I will see it anyway just to see what it is about and maybe I’ll understand it.

I enjoyed seeing parts of downtown and the University, but that was it.

Aurora Borealis, Aurora Autralis.

This past summer I went to the Arctic Circle visiting Norway and Sweden. I saw some beautiful places, pristine lakes, snow covered mountains, gorgeous fjords, surrounding small towns, and I mean small. The people were very nice and friendly.

These places are gorgeous and I would like to go back in February when the northern lights are most visible.   However, when I think of the cold and that I don’t have the right clothes, my desire dissipates. After all, I don’t want to buy clothes and boots and all the other paraphernalia needed for such extreme weather, when I only would be using them for one week, and I am not an outside type of person anyway, much less in winter.

The Aurora Borealis are form when electrically charged particles from the sun enters the atmosphere, forming beautiful rays of colors in greens and pinks and sometimes red, yellow, blue, and violet, creating a magnificent dance between all the colors.

What most people don’t know is the Aurora Australis or the Southern Lights which are form and presented the same way than the famous Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.

What is interesting is that the lights happen at the same time at both poles and they are identical but in reverse, like a mirror image.

I remember as a young girl sitting on the beach looking at the southern lights dancing in the sky, there were so beautiful. I have also seen the northern lights and they were more magnificent just for the mere fact that they were closer to where I was.

The best places to see them are in the Arctic Circle in Norway, Sweden, Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, Antarctica, and the south of Argentina.

I have really enjoyed the Arctic Circle however, I am a city girl; I have proven it time and time again, nevertheless I still will be visiting remote places because if I am traveling the world I need to see and experience everything, not just the cities.

Christmas Victorian Market sky

During the Christmas season the city of Nottingham had a very nice Victorian Market. Many days I went over for a walk and to eat in the many food stall. I eat Ostrich burger, Kangaroo burger and German wieners with roasted potatoes. In another stall they roasted ham and they looked great, so one day I stopped there to get a sandwich.

After I bought the sandwich I turned around to stand by a table, when I saw the sky painted in brilliant pinks, lavenders and purples mixed into the blue. within second they turned into bright reds, oranges, and yellows.

 I put down my sandwich on a table and I proceeded to take pictures of that gorgeous sky, when I hear somebody screaming “NO” behind me. As I turned around I see this couple that had this beautiful big white dog that was eating my sandwich.

They apologized over and over and offered to buy me another one, I told them they did not have to but they did anyway. And to tell you the truth, I can’t blame the dog, the sandwich was delicious.

Jahi McMath

One of the worse pains a mother can experience is when her child dies. As a mother I don’t even want to imagine the pain and suffering, especially when it’s a child.

I feel bad for the parents of Jahi McMath, but they need to accept that the girl is brain death. She is not in a vegetative estate, she is death. The only reason her body still functioning it’s because she is hook to a machine.

 I don’t understand why they want to keep her on that estate, confined to a machine for ever. That is not life, it has not quality, it has no life.

In my opinion they should donate her organs while they are still viable, this way they can give a better life to many other children needing organs to survive. This way her death would have some meaning and the parent can continue with their lives knowing that Jahi still lives on.