I believe it should not be forced because blood is something very particular and personal.
I think the best way is to educate people to do it by themselves.

In Brazil, some universities choose one day each year and rent a bus to bring voluntary students to donate blood in a partnership with local hospitals. The same happens with many big and small companies throughout the country, they bring voluntary employees. Recently, we saw some big soccer clubs making publicities in the television in order to suggest people to donate more.

When a person need blood donation here, normally the hospital ask their relatives to persuade other people (around 8 people, but it is not a rule) to donate blood to this same hospital.

During the winter the number of donations decrease a lot, this is the time in which companies, universities and other organizations try to help more.

"50 First Dates", "Just Go With It" and "Click" with Adam Sandler

"The Proposal" and with Sandra Bullock

"The Devil wears Prada" with Anne Hathaway

I like comedies, especially when they have something moralist to teach us...

Hello Vanessa,

A few years ago, in Brazil, it was easier to find a new job. The economy was increasing really fast and due to this growth, companies were hiring a lot of new people to work for them, including many adults with no studies, what was helping Brazil to decrease the rates of violence and to submit poor people into a new social class status...

Unfortunately, our economy is under recession in 2015 and probably in 2016, too. As a result, the number of jobs is decresing month to month. Now we can see many people with lot of studies looking for jobs that pays lower wages and the rates of violence is increasing again...

Really good to know these different extreme sports from different countries!

I didn't know about Backgammon hahaha.

Parkout is increasing in Brazil right now and another extreme sport that is increasing here is Slackline.

I'd love to flyboard or parasailing, they seem to be really well and are not common in my country.

Hello Camilo,

Although you will find many foreigners searching for a part-time job there, I think it is not so difficult. It depends on your level of English skills and a good networking.

I recommend you to participate in some groups in Facebook like "Colombianos en Sydney - Australia" or "Colombianos en Brisbane - Australia", they normally have lot of good tips to reccomend for who are interested on living and working there... I'm in a group named "Brasileiros em Sydney" and it helped me a lot.

About the cost of life...

The minimum wage in Sydney runs about AUD18,00/hour, too. It depends on the job... hard works normally pay better.

Accomodation: around $180/week in a shared room near a beach... :)

Other bills (Internet, cellphone credit, light): around $200,00/month

Entertainment: it depends (but there are many free things to do there...)

Food: I recommend you to visit the websites of Coles or Woolworths to do a research. (the 2 biggest supermarket nets in Australia)... 

Transportation: It depends where you live... considering a far neighborhood, between $50 and $60/week.

Cheers.

Really good to know these points.

I've met some Koreans this year and I think they are really polite and happy and, in general, Koreans are known in Brazil as good students. Most Brazilians don't like to study a lot, maybe because our system of education is a big messy.

There are many Japenese people living here, they are really known as polite people as yous said before.

Another interesting aspect about Latin Americans is that: after getting married, normally our parents, grandparents and other closely relatives keep influencing in the way we take decisions... In other countries like in France, or in the UK, after getting married, the decisions are taken by the couple, without many influences from other people.

Hello SJH,

I agree that people from each country have some own national characteristics.

I'm from Brazil and I can see these cultural differences all the time.

For example, Brazilians are hot people and we use lot of body language while speaking... We are known by arriving late on meatings, too... hahaha. Due to the fact Brazil is a vast country, we can usually find different cultural characteristics in different regions of the country (in the accent, foods, songs, hobbies and even in the way of wearing clothes).

In Argentina, our neighbor, people are a little colder than in Brazil;

In Bolivia, another neighbor, people wears really differently and their architecture is tottaly different of our cities.

In France, teenagers commonly go out of their homes really early to live alone, while in Brazil we normally go out just after getting married (around 25 years old or more...);