Halloween

Halloween day is coming and sometimes we don’t known what the origin or history about this day is.

A little passage of Halloween history…………………

All this happened a long time ago in the land of Ireland, England, Scotland, North of France…………………but who knows? Somewhere the Celtic culture celebrated a festival known as Samhain. The festival of Samhain was celebrated on October 31 like the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the season of darkness and cold, where the days were short and the night long. This period of time was associated with death, and winter was time of terror and uncertainty.

The Celtic society believed that on October 31, when the Samhain was celebrated, the deceased spirits came back from the world of dead people with one goal, to visit their relatives in order to take care them, but if they weren’t attended they tried to enter into the body of someone to guarantee continuing in the alive world.

In the festival celebration there was a great bonfire where the people met around it, and wore costumes, masks with aspects of animals, demons………

However, when Romans conquered the majority of the Celtic region the non-believer tradition was extinguished…. And for year 800 with the Christianity influence the Pope Bonifiacio IV designated November 1 like “the Day of all the Saints”, a day to honor the saints and martyrs of the Roman Church.

After Romans conquered Celtic territory some pagan tradition, like the Samhain festival, turned in a Christian festivity; nowadays known as “Halloween”.

Well……….I think that we know something more about Halloween.

Happy Halloween everyone !!!

International Year of Planet Earth 2008

• 
  
  Please, Planet Earth don't cry.
  
  The International Union of Geological Sciencies and Unesco are the International Year of Planet Earth 2008 initiators. More than 80 countries are supported of this event.
  
  But, What is the International Year of Planet Earth?
  
  In order to avoid our Planet Earth crying, this event tries to provide exciting knowledge about our planet and how we can make the Earth safer and healthier place for the citizens. The main objective is to become aware of our environment and our nature and also what will we be able do to in order to reduce the risk of the climate change.
  
  To make better use of Earth Science and Earth resources I want to invite you, to suggest, to encourge..... to visit the International Year of Planet Earth 2008 that will be held in "Parc del Fòrum " from 31 October to 29 November. There will be an extraordinary tent that will show in four different ways how to take care our Planet:
  

• Audiovisual
• Magic Planet
• Awareness
• Art of teaching

And for many other reasons..... why do you fancy? I think that it's a good idea to spend one morning in this travelling exhibition.

The entrance is free

See you in the Fòrum !!

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Vicky Cristina Barcelona is the last film of Woody Allen. I have to admit that I’m not supporter of Woody Allen and I usually don’t go to the cinema to watch his movies. However, with the last film was different because it was made in Barcelona, my city, and I thought that will be a great idea to see how an American director show Barcelona to the rest of the world.

I went to the cinema two weeks ago and the movie didn’t live up to my expectation. In my opinion, Barcelona and the Catalonia culture that the director showed in the movie is not the reality. It was like a guide tourist of Gaudí, given that the most scenes appears some building’s Gaudí and I think that Barcelona is more than Gaudí work.

The plot of the movie is funny and the relationship of the main characters as well.

But I encourage to everybody to go to the cinema in order to have another point of view.

Why Wizard?

Why have I chosen this name for my blog?

If there is anybody to blame about why I have chosen this name this is J.R.R.Tolking, a British writer who wrote one of the most fantastic books in the word called The Lord of the Rings.

In this book one of the main characters is Gandalf, an elderly man with a long grayish bear, a grey cloak and a blue pointed hat, he was considered like the wizard of the Western culture.

I’m a little bit wizard because sometimes I can know in advance what will happen or who will appear.