Free time

Nowadays, I think that people have more free time becuase there is more technology available. Always it depends on the life style we're having, for example, if we have children it is very difficult to take some free time to ourselves because we would have to be parents. In my own case I only have free time when I end my university obligations and I do them faster with a pendrive, for example, than without it. Technology helps me very much.

My free time in a week depends on the tests I have, if there are not, I just assist to classes and share more moments with my classmates, without stress. By the nights, then I can read and study relaxed. On those weeks I have entire hours for me and for going out to know Santiago. To say them exactly, I have never counted them.

I don’t know if “wisely” is a good word to define how I use my free time, but I can say that now I have learned to invest it and not to waste it. To me, helping social risk kids is a very good way to share and give my free time; it is a way of doing what I am studying for.

In my free time I like to be with my familiy and friends, share great moments as more as I can because they are far away now. In Santiago I use my free time helping to kids from Lo Espejo at their studies. If I am not doing that I sleep or I share my time with university friends trying to relax myself.

If I had more free time, I think I would use it working at something to help my parents and family to get our project as group, mainly. Also I would like to have some volunteer works to take there my sister, so when I already don’t have more free time, she could continue a good work.

Summary from a career-related article from The Guardian

UK to send more troops to Afghanistan, Gordon Brown confirms.

Wednesday 14 October. BST.-

The intentions of the prime minister, Gordon Brown, about fighting against terrorism in Afghanistan, were send there more troops to reinforce the ones which remained. Exactly, he wants to send five hundred troops. He said that he was sure that teamwork with Afghanistan president would give a good result. In Britain, these statements sparked the debate; from every side, the opposite ideas came. The main arguments were that the British population was not sure if it was advisable to send more British forces to a place were political and electoral processes were corrupted. Another argument was that the psychological support for soldiers was weak and poor.

Otherwise, Brown said that he was very moved about the lost men in the fighting place, giving a felt greeting to the families of them. To which it is added that the supporting of population to increase troops and keep war, measured by a Populus poll, has decreased from 36 % to 29 % in September.

Internationally, Brown has been looking for help and holding with Barack Obama and with Hamid Karzai, Afghan president. The first one said, elusively, that he would do his best and would give an answer in the coming weeks. Especially if we consider that recently he has won the Nobel Peace Laurel. The second one said he would also do his best to fight against al-Qaida together with Brown.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/14/gordon-brown-davidcameron