Let's talk about sex

I love Portugal! I really do! It is my country; it’s beautiful, great weather, fantastic food and wine and a good vibe. But of course a country is made of all sort of people and is the short minded ones that really gets on my nerves. When I moved to Denmark (Danish boyfriend is the reason why I have moved) my parents were fantastic and sign me up to received Visão magazine. It is a weekly Portuguese magazine where you can read about economics, politics, social things, etc, in Portugal and in the rest of the world. So today, after my morning jogging I sat down in my coach with green tea and some Christmas Danish cookies (yes, already at the supermarket!) and I begun to read the magazine. And I got mad. I got mad about parents that were against of having sexual education in schools. I got irritated with their petitions to the Prime Minister forbidding their kids to attend such classes. Now, we are talking about a country where the average people works until 6 or 7 p.m. and has very little time to spend with their kids. We are talking about a country that the HIV rate is high among teenagers. We are talking about girls that refuse to use condoms because they are not whores. Why not prepare kids to a sex life? Why not teach them how to avoid pregnancy, diseases, how to be comfortable with your emotions and your body, how to avoid and spot perverts or pedofilans. Is that so bad? Sex is natural. Eventually they will do it! So why not enjoy it and be safe? My short minded idiotic parents: sexual education is not about practical classes where they learn how to do blowjobs, anal sex and so on. It is about preparing your kids to be confident and safe!

I will have new glasses!

I am changing my glasses. Tired of the small square type of glasses I will embrace new big ones! I was very undecided but finally I made up my mind and bought the ones you can see in the picture above! Anyway it is worth to take a look at the entire collection at http://ie-shop.dk/. The designer is Elisabeth Bennike. Very nice lady and she is usually at the store in Copenhagen city.

I hope I don't look too much of a nerd!

Lyon, France

Lyon… J and I headed to Lyon the past week. It is so good when you can combine work with pleasure. And that was what this week was all about: us in Lyon attending a meeting about vaccines.

We stayed in a hotel with a fantastic spa that I enjoyed after the work was done. Wonderful for the body and soul! I became a big fan of the hot water pool on the outside with a shape of a labyrinth where you had booths with different kind of Jacuzzis. But let’s start from the beginning:

- - Meeting: very nice, I have learned a lot from the bests.

- - Taxi drivers: oh mon dieu! What is this? Smelly, slow, always parked in specific spots and not driving around the city which could be just a little bit nicer for us customers. First night we walked forever and it killed my feet!

- - People: apart from the incompressible snobbish of the majority of the French people we met some very nice people along the way.

- - Evening: everybody is out enjoying friends or lover’s companies. Super!

- - Food: too much cream for a lactose intolerant as myself

- - Wine: weeeeeeeee! Goood!

- - Fashion: with so many nice shops why are you so badly dressed?

Overall a very nice experience! Now it is good to be home but not for long. Tomorrow I am flying to Stockholm for a course in Malaria Immunology.

See you soon!

Christopher Kane for Topshop

Since the last post was about high fashion designers in the street fashion (thank you, thank you) I just let you with my new purchase: a very cute bag from Christopher Kane to Topshop. Like it?

Jimmy Choo for H&M! Wanna take a pick?

The first images are out! With H&M permission, nitrolicious.com has released all the Jimmy goodies we will be able to buy. The collection includes men's and women's clothes, shoes, bags, and accessories. And I hope the suede gray shoes will be mine!

Don't forget! November, 14th!

http://www.nitrolicious.com/blog/2009/09/23/jimmy-choo-for-hm-womens-collection-preview-official/

And the winner is … Brazil!

As the song says “cidade maravilhosa…” the wonderful city of Rio de Janeiro will host the Olympics 2016! Lot’s of samba, caipirinha and sports. Seems a good combination to me!

Olympics 2016

Denmark is cooking once again. The reason this time is the Olympic games 2016. What city will host the games? Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro or Tokyo? I don’t know but Chicago city has sent reinforcements: Oprah Winfrey, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. Yes, they are here in Copenhagen and their hotels are in my neighborhood. Helicopters are flying, police everywhere, roads closed, the train from Sweden stopped around the time the F1 should land in Copenhagen’s airport, etc. Lot’s of commotion! These 3 make a fantastic cheering for Chicago! Now let’s see what city will win!

I'm back!

It has been a while since I write on my blog. But the truth is I have been out of luck these days. First I got sick with an idiotic virus that kept me at home for 2 weeks. The first time I went to the doctor he was sure it was the flue: “maybe the swine flue?” he said. I did some tests, and waited for 3 days, isolated from the world. Went back to the doctor and no flue. Probably some other kind of virus, let’s run some tests. Next appointment: “everything looks fine with you but you still have a high infection”, he said. “So did you find out what virus I have?” I questioned him. And you know what? He did not test me for that! So again, I had to do new blood analysis.

During all this process, the doctor didn’t give me anything to ease the pain or fever: “The body is healing by itself”. Why, thank you! But fortunately I had my little Portuguese drugs and I manage it.

On the last day home probation, because of the virus, my parents came to visit me for eleven days. Eleven full days! It was nice to have them but quite exhausting: translations, conversations, indications, suggestions, and so on. Then I have my work. Although I had a lot of help, I had a lot to do. Everything combined… I’m sick again. It is just a normal cold but I cough and cough and I am very tired. Fortunately, I am working from home today and I slept until later which helped. I need a speed recovery because I will travel to Lyon next week and Stockholm the week after… weeeee!