[In my free time...]

I like to do a lot of things in my free time, like visiting my friends, go out to the cinema, go to the mall, go to visit my family, go to partys with my friends, watch a lot of movies and more things like that. I also like to listen to music, read books, search the web, download series and visit some web pages.

I think I don’t have all the free time that I need, because sometimes I want to go to visit a friend, or I just want to have a nap and I can’t because I have to study, so I would like to have more free time to do things that I really like. But I have to be honest, sometimes I have a lot of free time and I don’t use it wisely. For example, I lose a lot of time surfing the web doing nothing. I go to useless pages and stay there several minutes or even an hour and I don’t even realize how much time I’ve wasted.

Maybe that is the downside of using technology such as internet, computers or things like that. You lose a lot of time using this artefacts, and you get so into it that you lose the track of time, and then suddenly you realized that an hour, two or even three has passed by, and you could have used that time doing another things, like go out and see your friends, go out to the gym or do some exersice, anything more productive that just sit in front to a computer or a TV. But, in the other hand, sometimes technology can be useful to get more free time to ourselves, like you can save some time paying bills online, or buying things on some web sites. So that’s a good way to save time and spend it in your house or doing something that you like. The main thing is that we have to be conscious of how much time we use this things that technology provides us and not waste time doing something useless. We have to spend time doing things more important than surf the web doing nothing.

See you at another publication.

xoxo. Paula

[Rise in unemployment less than expected]

The article talks about that unemployment didn't rise as much economist thought it could be.
Unemployment didn't increase much in September, having the smallest amount of people applying for jobless benefit. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) say that "the claimant count rose by 20.800 in September, below economists' expectations of a 24.500 rise". This means that this is the highest number of unemployment since 1997, with 1.6268 million people out of work and applying to the jobless benefit.
Also the International Labour Organization (ILO) released their statistics about unemployment, saying that the existent breach of 2.5 million mark didn't rose as much as was expected, it only increased by 88.000 in the three months to August with a total of 2.469 people out of work, which means that there's 7.9% of unemployment.
Despite the recession that the whole world is living, economists said that they're optimistic about a falling in the unemployment number and the claiming for jobless benefit, but on the other hand people of BNP Paribas "warned that the economy will continue to shed jobs until the economy is growing back at potential or above, and that's still some way off".
On another front, there's a concern about youth unemployment hits the one million mark, so the charities called for more action to help this economic sector. "Every one of those unemployed is a real person with real talents that can make a difference to this country" said Martin Milburn, chief executive of the Prince's Trust.
Finally, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said that men have been more affected by unemployment than women, and specially back men. Also, the ONS reported that the salary that people receive on their jobs has also been affected, only rising 1.9% compared with a year ago.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/14/unemployment-rise-lower-than-expected