Advice Column: Loyalty to a friend

A reader has sent us a problem about loyalty and friendship. What do you think, dear reader?

My problem is a moral one. I’m between what is correct and loyalty to a friend.
A friend of mine has been dating a new girl for a month; her parents are very strict and don’t allow her to be out after midnigth. The problem comes when he leaves her at her home. He goes to meet his ex-girlfriend.
He says that he wouldn’t go back with his ex and I believe him.
What should I do? Should I tell his girlfriend what is going on?

Advice Column: “My moaning friend”

Our friend Scotfield has sent us the story of her friend who keeps moaning about her life. What advice can you give her. Send us your comments!

My friend is driving me crazy!!

Two years ago my friend, who is a very talented photographer,  got a job working as a babysitter just to earn a bit of extra money to start her own photograph business , but she hasn´t done anything about it. She just spends day after day complaining about how hard her life is, and how she would never get  her dream job, doing nothing to change it!! I´m worried about her and annoyed, but whenever I try to talk to her about it, she just ignores me and changes the topic.  What should I do?

Scofield

Advice Column: “My best friend’s boyfriend”

A new case for our Advice Column section. What should our dear reader do? She wants to help her friend, but how?

Send your wise advice in a comment to our worried reader.

This is her story:

A year ago one of my best friends met a guy, and from that day they have been dating.

However  there is a problem, he is working in another province and when he comes back to Asturias to spend a weekend or on holiday, the last person he phones is my friend, instead of meeting my friend he goes out with his friends everyday…. Apart from that I have seen him with other girls while my friend stayed at home.

I don’t think she realises the situation, and I would like to talk to her and tell her what I really think of this guy, but I don’t know how I can do it. I don’t want her to feel bad because I’m sure she is totally in love with him.

Our Advice Column is back

After a few too many months of inactivity in our section Advice Column, we have received new cases for you, dear reader, to send your expert knowledge.

Don’t hesitate to take part, send your comments and help our distressed friends.

This is our first new case: “Is she my daughter?”

When I was a teenager I had a friend who, one day, told me that he was going to get marry because his girlfriend was pregnant. It was a surprise for me but I knew that he was in love with her and he had a good job so I didn’t see any problems. But a few years later, when their daughter was four or five the relationship between them began to get worse and worse everyday. For this reason they decided to get a divorce but there was a big problem: Who would have the custody of the girl? At that moment, the woman told my friend that he wasn’t the father of the girl. She told him that she had had an affair with another man when they were single and he was the father of the child. He was astonished and he couldn’t believe it so, for this reason, he decided to do the DNA test and it gave the reason to his wife. What should he do in that moment? Should you renounce to the child he believed for five years to be his daughter? How should his relationship with her be from that moment?

Asturcón

Education: Some debates

Following the discussion activity, here comes the writing task. Choose one of the issues introduced in the presentation by Ian James and write a comment presenting your views.

If you want to watch the BBC video again, click on the picture below.

An Expert’s Opinion:Teenage Rebellion

Watch an expert giving her opinion on the best ways to deal with teenage rebellious attitudes. Do you agree with her?

An Expert’s Opinion:Teenage Rebellion, posted with vodpod

 

The No Money Man

Mark Boyle has no problem to balance family life with work. He simply doesn’t have a paid job, but he does work! He manages to live without money in really hard conditions. But he looks happy, doesn’t he?
Watch these videos in which he explains how he does it.

If you have had problems to understand him, you can read this article to help you before you listen again.

In the following video, you can watch Mark explaining how he survives without buying food at a supermarket.

What about you? How do you feel about living without to money? What would you miss most? Do you think you would be able to do it even for a week? Post your comments!

How to make work-life balance work

A new interesting talk from TED site. What do you think? Does your life need a change to find balance? Do we all live to work? Can we do otherwise?

Humour and controversy

Little Britain, a TV series created by Matt Lucas and David Walliams for the BBC, is a compilation of exaggerated parodies of life in Britain, always witty, and definitely politically incorrect.

Watch a compilation with some sketches and judge for yourself.

How did you like it?

Interview with the founder of Wikileaks

Wikileaks is a controversial organization that collects and posts classified material and video. The latest action leaked documents that put the diplomatic world in a difficult position, publishing cables from the American Embassy that are embarrassing diplomats, politicians all over the world.

These US Embassy cables are being published by some of the most important newspapers in the world. In Britain, the newspaper which undertook the task is The Guardian. Here you can see their interactive guide to the cables of the American Embassy.

For some people Julian Assange is a hero. He was interviewed in July 2010 for TED. Watch the video and tell us what you think of him, his organization, the leaks…