My goals for this year

In March I will return to the college after summer vacations. This year is the last one before I will have my professional practice and I'm nervous about it. My goals are to get good grades, get a part-time job, and become more athletic. I want to compete in races, specially specifically the 5k (5k is short for 5 kilometre and is typically how you will see it). Currently it takes me twenty minutes, and I must would like to improve to eighteen minutes.

Great job, Vania! I am also graduating this semester and am nervous about it to :) 

I wish you luck in meeting your goals! When I was running the cross country (long distance running), I never had a 5k time that fast!

How far can you go to save an extra cent?

This post was inspired by a TV program which accidentally got my attention last evening. The program was about people who have an extremely strange behavior to save an extra dollar. Honestly, I was shocked and depressed when the causes had been revealed.
For instance, one family washes in one bath, one after each other, without changing water after all they wash all their dishes. Another pair (family? Two of the family members?) cleans their ears by with one cotton stick - the guy uses one side, the girl another. There were a lot of people who wash paper napkins and use them several times and more and even more examples, one is stranger than the other. They keep getting stranger.
What else I found weird is that the people weren't poor. They weren't by on or over poverty line or over it, in fact, some of them were rich.
What a bizarre psychological disease. Have you met something anyone like this in your life?

That sounds so sad! Almost like hoarders - we have an entire TV program dedicated to this subject in the US.

The Future

Nobody under the age of 80 will die of cancer by 2050. That's what a group of oncologists claimed during a medical congress, which took place a few days ago. According to them, by 2050, cancer treatment, early diagnosis, and scanners will have improved so much that it will be very difficult to die of this terrible illness. One of these oncologists said that the aspirin is one of the most effective medicines ever. He advised people over the age of fifty to take an aspirin every day, since according to him, this is the best remedy against cancer and heart attacks. What's more, he claimed that this medicine has been underestimated over the years, mainly because large farmaceutical pharmaceutical companies have no interest in it. As Since this medicine is really so cheap, the companies don't make a profit from it.

You are obviously very advance - some possible corrections :)