The other day I was with my mother in the shopping centre and there was a store that sold little animals made of fabric to put on your clothes, purses, etc… and she said:

- The other day a woman went to my job with lots of those animals to sell, she said it was from a elderly home and that the elders that lived there wore making them so they could buy their dippers and medicines…

I have to admit I was shocked… Not from the elders getting an occupation (I actually think that’s a good thing) but that they wore doing that because they needed the money to live with some dignity. It’s really very sad that a country that belongs to the EU, and to the OECD, has to put people that worked all their life, working to pay for medicines. I’m also a little bit concerned with the general way of thinking in Portugal, the way of patching instead of fixing. That way of thinking can be resumed in one sentence: If people have no money to buy medicines, lets buy them craftwork so they can have money to buy the medicines.
I don’t like that way of thinking.

As the old saying goes: Give a fish to a man and he’ll eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he’ll eat for life…

Instead of asking for responsibilities to the government, we’re saying… Oh it’s ok, let’s not worry about this! I definitely do not like that way of thinking!

Well, one of my favourite singers is coming to Lisbon. Stacey Kent will be here Wednesday and my sister offered me a ticket!!!
I’m just unable to say how much I like Stacey Kent and how I’ve been wanting to see a concert of her for a long time and now I got the chance :-D!!
I’m so happy!!!!

Well London was awesome! What a terrific city. I loved every inch of it. Too bad it only lasted 4 days.
First of all I need to thank my cousin!!! If it wasn’t for him I would have missed some incredible things, like riding that strange bicycle with a driver… and also he got me my own room in London… how cool is that?!?!?!
Then I have to thank the only two people in the world that think I’m a photo freak… I kind of took more than a 1000 photos in 4 days… but they’ll get over it!!!
From London itself, there’s nothing to say… we all know how different London is from everything else… even from the rest of the UK. I loved the boat ride up the river Thames and the National Gallery… although I’ll have to take a week off just to see it properly! But in the overall I’m speechless…
I’ll just leave a couple of photos I took…

Well the ticket is bought and I'm off to London tomorrow!!!
Loads of pictures will be taken, and lots of problems and worries will be put on pause for a week... I've been in need for something like this for a long time.