Topic Nº 8: Free Time

In my free time, I usually try to use it in the proper way, because currently I’m very busy with the university. In fact, in the week, I don’t have more than 2 or 3 hours for doing other things with no relation with my studies, because I have to do a homework, study, prepare presentations, read a lot, and more. With this situation, I have the need to organize my time to do it all. For example, in the week, on Mondays I frequently go to practice karate. It’s very relaxing for me, because I can release all the stress of the routine and the life of Santiago. For me, the life in Santiago is very disgusting, because I have to coexist with a bad system of transport, and frequently, with very unpleasant people, that make things worse.
On Thursdays and Fridays, I try to meet with my band to practice our songs, but sadly now I can’t do it, because I don’t have time to listen to the songs in my songs. On Wednesdays I have a little of more free time, but frequently I use it for developing with my works. And now, with the use of the technology, all the people can do this kind of thins faster, but the great amount of things to do, not always I can end too fast.
And the other days, with my free time, I only try to relax, or just sleep, because with my routine, I always go to bed very late, and I don’t have a lot of time to sleep.
All this can sounds very sad, but this will be end very soon fortunately, since there is only one month of classes, and later, I will have three months of vacations.
With a little of more time, I would use it for rest a lot, not only sleeping, but travel to nice places with my friends, do a lot of sport, for example soccer with my family, or just talk with the people that I can’t do it often with no time. And finally, I would try to have a nice time for feel me better.

Post # 7: summary from a career-related article from The Guardian

Inflation falls to lowest in five years


This article talks about the current situation of the United Kingdom economy, especially of one of the most important items in this matter; inflation.
It says that this indicator has fallen to the lowest rate in the last five years, and with it, the prices of the energy mainly.
An Organization called Office for National Statistics (ONS), dedicated to identify the changes of the economy and the main indicators of it, discovers that the CPI (Consumer Prices Index) dropped to 1.1% in September, compared with the same date of the last five years, fell from 1.6% to august. This circumstance is the lowest in the last five years.
This situation was because the electricity and the gas bills fell in their prices.
And with this, some people with relation of the matter talks about this situation.
Amit Kara, specialist in economics at UBS said that this situation coincides with the expansive monetary policy.
But the other opinions of this situation said that this is only temporal, and with the rise of the prices of other things, the CPI will increase again. For example, the petrol and the clothing are very unstable in their prices.
The complete price of the basket of goods and services with the intervention of the ONS stills with no change, because the rise of some things was compensated for the fell of others.
Finally, the British Chambers of Commerce said that the confidence of the economy is better, but with the actual crisis is still fragile.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/13/inflation-lowest-five-years