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when are you finishing University? If you are really 20 and you entered at, let's say 18, you've been there for 2 years only and the usuall time, at least here, for Medicine, is 7 years........ so, no end for me! :lol: (mnaybe it's 3 there though)

Could I ask the why of your preferences? I forgot to mention that at first, but it was was I was looking for really, not just the names; I can say anything I want to! :lol: (or think it sounds good :dozey: ) I just went by Tsar Peter I, because there was a book on the library, and no one would read it, so I took it and it was his Life and works and it was truly amazing. This fascination for ships, which I share, for learning and experiment new things, for trying and learning from the very bottom and with the people who actiolly make the things (like he would go to a blacksmith to see how the swords were made, instead of just requesting them, or he would build ships instead of just buying them) and that taugh minded that he was; I found him great (with my brother we discuss the battles and his love for army things, which is what called his attention). Tsarevna Sophia (a Tsarevna is the sister os the Tsar or the Tsarevich, which is the son of the Tsar, and that would make her daughter of the Tsar, in some cases - in this case she was the sister- ) I was just amazed by the way she impose herself. Like "Here I am, and you must obey me". She knew how to take advantage of the things, at least before she came to power, which was a great triumph, If you think that her destiny was to stay in one of the Kremlim's apartment forever and not been seen or touch by anyone, except the other Tsarevnas. Here I can see, in both cases, what education can do, and why it is so important. I was amazed aswell to see how tough she had been at first, but how weakly she surrender and how she really did not appeal people, because even though she ruled for 7 years, when she was overthrown, most people had gone to Peter's side (which I found quite feeble, to be honest). and Winston Churchill..... well, I always hear the speech "If it wasn't for Churchill, I wouldn't be alive" but regardless of that, I found him a very 'straight' person. Wether I agreed with him or not, that's another thing, but the way he managed the II WW, how he stood firm and would stay with his position; I really admire that. I also liked Margareth Thatcher, in the sense that she was a very like 'tidy' person, strict I mean, but I didn't like how comfrontational she was, or is, and how she is always right and my idea it's in top of everyone's ideas. She was the closest you have had to a dictator, as far as I'm concerned, and even though I like strictiness and a hard command, I'm not too fond of totalitarian regimes (1973-1990).

The inlet (that's the correct word, right?)

Well I don't think their biggest problem has to do with the Rainfall. Its true the weather they have at the moment, plus the conditions of the ground, are not the greatest to plant crops or any other kind of cereal, but it's not like they can't plant nothing at all. We have the driest desert on eart, The Atacama desert, and still you have flowers growing on it and trees. It's a very special variety of trees (called Chañaral) and they can grow in extredimely hot weather, with almost no rain at all; their biggest advantage is that it stops erosion and the land getting acid (that it's what happens with the Pines, for instance). You also have that Israel, which is located in a very hot zone, with a very high percentage of it's land erosionated, has been able to combat this and has depeloved a very good agricultural system, taking the maximum advantages that they can, with a land that had no resources really (what I mean with that is that it's not like here, where the ground is very fertil and we have rain, and quite a lot, and a hot season ... good for agriculture). If you are thinking in doing 'productive' things, you could try with Olives, and make oil for instance, which does not require a lot of water, they need sun and with salty water (countries on the coast) you get a very special taste. And like that, you have many, many other things. Erotion, which is worst that not having rain at all (and that's also, in some cases, a consequence of the erosion) can be reverted. Just look at Kurshskiy Zaliv, in Lithuania, it's an inlet that had a 'strip' which used to be covered with forrest and they were all cutted down and dunes started to appear and covered all the surface that was once a forrest. A group of very dedicated people try to revert the situation, and the zone has more forrest that dunes now. When I use the term "Teach them how to fish" (which is a saying here) I don't mean that you have to teach everyone how to fish. If you follow that, you'll see that you'll have many fishermen, but we don't want so many. But you can teach some how to fish, others how to pack the fish, how to sell it, how to do marketing campaigns, how to take seaproducts out aswell..... there is a lot of things that you can teach them, that are related with the fish but are not exactly fishing. Now, If you put that onto a bigger scale, I don't see how and why it wouldn't work. But for that, and for the previous (about the trees, deforestation,. erotion and so) you need to educate people. You need to teach them, to spend a lot of time with them,, not money, but time. I am not very sure If cutting the 3rd World debt is such a good idea, and I am not to fond of this massive fund raising things either. I believe, I know it by heart, that the key is education, and that does not require a lot of money, it just requires time and dedication. You can't expect all problems to be solved there; there will always be people dying of hunger, poor people, people with AIDS, eroted land, etc, but with a lot more of education, this can be lower down to a minnimun.

Winston Churchill!

I don't like the most threads and it's not very clear what I mean, but it was the best I could do. What I mean is the people that when you read about their life, or you met them you are amazed by them. You have them really high up. In my case, I haven't found anyone more interesting than Tsar Peter, or Peter the Great and Tsarevna Sophia

my room looks exactly the same colour! :stunned:

brain cellr research (isn't a bit too extravagant :lol:) Parachuting and sailing maybe, like doing it as a job or something like that, a hockey player aswell (not ice hockey though) and well, I do most of that stuff but at my level only (except from ballet, which I love and can't dance :P) I guess I'll stick with brain cell research

why does it always have to be me? :idea2: :lol:

I saw a program on the BBC which was about the Ethiopians and how people, specially in Britain reacted, when it was showed on television that they were dying of hunger. It was a documentary that showed the first images that the world had of people there, in that situation. (80's) And then it shows the Live Aid concert, the marathon, Margareth Thatcher and the Communist Goverment in Ethiopia, how in Europe you have thousands of kilos of grain unused (overproduction) and how there (Ethiopia) no one had a single thing to eat and when finally 'the rest of the world' send them food, they didn't have any roads to get the food where they wanted to. This was not what called my atention though. The program was focus on two person: Bob Geldford (he was member of a British band, quite famous at the time) and a lady who worked for the Red Cross. She went to a very poor area and there were not hundred, but thousands of people starving and they didn't have enough food for everyone, so what the Red Cross did was to build four walls and the people inside the wall would get fed and the one outside, would not received food at all. Twenty years later, she returns with the BBC correponsal and everyone salutes her and so and they showed videos of people and things like that, and that really didn't called my atention at all, what it did was the fact that now the number of people starving has doubled, and since in the 80's quite a lot of people was fed and survived, the population kept growing and they reproduced and now the problem is much bigger than it used to be. In a c ountry with 80% of the population living outside the cities, and dying of starvation (in the city that doesn't happen as in counry side) you realise is a big problem that has no solution in the short term (but politicians love things in the short term) Everytime I think of this, I make a comparison with AIDS. I love the African Continent and I would work for free If you asked me to, just to help there - a thing that I probably wouldnt do here - but you just can't go and say like "We are going to buy food for eveyone starving". Besides of sounding unrealistic, it doesn't solve the problem from it's root. You have to teach people, you can't give them all, because you'll get to a point where you have nothing else to give and hundreds of people depending on you... as we say, "Teach them how to fish". But looking from a rather colder point of view, that continent would be overpopulated If it wasn't for AIDS and Food problems, which is the cause of most dieases there. Suppose you find a cure for AIDS, well not a cure, but cheap medicines that stop the disease 'growing in your body' (a thing different to the retroviruals that they use now) Great! People will suffer less from it, the country won't loose so many people in their most productive years and families will not be tear apart by the disease, but that would mean that the number of infected people would rise at an impressive speed and sooner or later the organism will get used to it and will have an even bigger catastrophere. We are having so much development but it's not going ahead with education, which is the key of all. What's more dangerous and useful than an educated society?

uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think Ian is doing it on purpose! :idea2: :lol: but I'll try whate you tell me

uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think Ian is doing it on purpose! :idea2: :lol: but I'll try whate you tell me

uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think Ian is doing it on purpose! :idea2: :lol: but I'll try whate you tell me

uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think Ian is doing it on purpose! :idea2: :lol: but I'll try whate you tell me

uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think Ian is doing it on purpose! :idea2: :lol: but I'll try whate you tell me

uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think Ian is doing it on purpose! :idea2: :lol: but I'll try whate you tell me

I don't doit on purpose! They just come out (If one of those messages appear before)

I don't doit on purpose! They just come out (If one of those messages appear before)

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well, afterwards don't tell me that I am spamming! I warned you! :lol:

well, afterwards don't tell me that I am spamming! I warned you! :lol:

well, afterwards don't tell me that I am spamming! I warned you! :lol:

aaaaahhhhhhh I bet we can see those fat Santas that look like.......... :stunned: (and again, I don't understand that english humour :dozey: )

aaaaahhhhhhh I bet we can see those fat Santas that look like.......... :stunned: (and again, I don't understand that english humour :dozey: )

aaaaahhhhhhh I bet we can see those fat Santas that look like.......... :stunned: (and again, I don't understand that english humour :dozey: )