Singing, Dancing and Running

Well the second irish team leave today which will be strange not to have any other crazy irish people walking about the city. No more dancing but thanks to Harold they can now all barn dance! "el dia del Niño", The Day of the Child went really well, they had more than 60 children which is was a real blessing to be honest! we had such a great wee time with the children on the bouncy castle and just being able to share with them etc. Last night Naomi and I started our get fit programme. so we ended up in this really quite "vintage" gym and something really came obvious to me (while running on the treadmill mind you). You may not know this but Bueños Aires (the capital of argentina) has the highest figures of anorexia per capital. Last night just like home i suppose but i really could understand why there was such a pressure. imagine this, this old vintage gym, with some really old machines but the main thing was that they were surrounded with pumped up images of people and slogans that were demoralising. I suppose you could say we have that in our gyms, but not to this existent. No wonder there is such a pressure in a society to be figure conscience to the maximum where the image that is being protrayed is that you have to look a certain way and if not, your not worthy. finally what struck me was the fact that, most of the people in the gym where really skinny already and working so hard. I just wanted to share this with you as it made me really think.