Kids, Journalism and literacy

Big title on The Telegraph:” One in seven children cannot write own name after a year at school“. After reading the title I really thought the article was about young pupils who are literate after the first year of school. Then, after reading the first sentences, I realized that in fact the article is about [...]

Ghost stories

Due to Bram Stoker‘s novel, many tourists come to Transylvania to see the Dracula castle, where Vlad the Impaler is supposed to have been captured and where he sucked blood from all those who dared to see him. In fact, Vlad the Impaler was no blood sucker, he used to be one of Transylvania best [...]

Off to England for Florina

Florina, the 11 years old girl who got pregnant after her 19 years old uncle raped her is going to England. Her mother confirmed the fact that they already have the flight tickets. Meanwhile, the Romanian comission concluded that Florina can have an abortion in Romania IF she can find a doctor who will go [...]

Funny royal hats!

The five day event, the Royal Ascot has started. All British royalties (except for William and Harry) were present and I noticed the funny hats worn by the British royalties. My God, some of them were hideous. Is that royalty fashion? Do they have a Blackwell for queens and kings? If not, they could sure [...]

Ali’s fighting anorexia

This is Ali’s story fighting a dreadful disease: anorexia nervosa. I admire her because she has the courage to tell her story on national television. Maybe more and more teenagers will listen to her story and realize being the thinnest is very unhealthy. In my previous post I was showing you a video of Chloe [...]

Anorexia makes another victim

A couple of weeks ago I told you about Hayley Wilde, the woman who defeated anorexia. Well, unfortunately not all the ladies suffering from this dreadful disease were as lucky as Hayley was. Rosemary Pope, a professor, weighing less than 5 stone had died after torturing herself with a diet of sweets and coffee. She [...]

Miss England 2008

The first teenage beauty queen to break the patterns by becoming the first size 16 queen is Chloe Marshall. She made it to the finals of the Miss England beauty contest. She’s 17 and she’s proud of her size 16. Chloe won the Miss Surrey title and now she’s ready for Miss England finals. She [...]

Wentworth Miller

Wentworth Miller is one gorgeous man. Born in England but raised in America, he’s descending from many nations, that explains it all, doesn’t it?! Well, he often says that his father is black and his mother white. “Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two [...]