Juan Pablo II Gym & Pool

The brand new UNIVA's gym is near the great oppening, its been a long wait but finally we are able to see the results. In order to know how does the UNIVA's community feels about it we asked them 10 questions wich results are showed below.

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The way I see it the gym is going to become atractive to anyone who is looking for a high-school. I do not believe that this will turn more people to do excersice, but the ones that do excercise now will certainly use it constantly. The original due date was not respected, the name is probably not the best one for a gym, but still I support the fact that they want to tribute one of the most popular pops ever. I will use it mainly because I like swimming and its an opportunity I just can not let go.

World War 3?

In late days we have heard a lot about the possibility of a war between North Korea and USA-South Korea. Some have said that this might unleash the world war 3, but luckily this does not seem possible nor China nor Russia have any intention of getting involve in this conflict, so this is still between Koreas and USA.

The tension between the Koreas is nothing new it all started when North Korea became communist, following China and USSR. Since South Korea does not support this the trouble start showing up. From kidnappings to aggressions things were not going well. Whit Kim ll-sung on the power North Korea formed a powerful and organized army with nuclear power.

In the last 3 years the conflict has reach a critical point. North Korea tested weapons near South Korean shores leading to a large variety of events that caused the dead of many South Koreans and the sinking of naval vessel. North Korea denied the event and blame Seul. In 2011 it was revealed that high-ranking South Korean military officers were kidnapped in 1999. In 2012 North Korea launched a Satellite, causing US to move warships to the area.

And all of that lead us to this year which has been pretty intense. On January 1, 2013 Kim Jong-un New Year's Day message on KCTV calling for better relations with South Korea. North Korea announced its intentions on January 24, 2013 to target the United States in its missile and nuclear programs. The statement called the United States the "sworn enemy of the Korean people". During the training exercises conducted between South Korea and the United States, North Korea threatened to abandon the Korean Armistice Agreement , arguing the exercises threatened North Korea with nuclear weapons and that the U.S. was unwilling to negotiate a peace treaty to replace the armistice. JoongAng Ilbo reported that U.S. vessels equipped with nuclear weapons were participating in the exercise, and the Pentagon publicly announced that B-52 bombers flown over South Korea were reaffirming the U.S. "nuclear umbrella" for South Korea.

 On March 8, 2013, the North Korean government announced that it was withdrawing from all non-aggression pacts with South Korea in response to UN Resolution 2094

On March 11, 2013, the United States and South Korea began military drills amid high tensions and Pyongyang strongly condemned the exercises.

 On April 4, North Korea moved what is believed to be an intermediate-range missile to its east coast, possibly in preparation for a drill or test-firing. Many nations, specifically Japan, South Korea, and the United States, viewed this move as a continuation of North Korea's attempts to provoke confrontation throughout the beginning of 2013.

We can´t tell how is this going to end, but les hope that the young president of North Korea is clever enough to retreat. And that the USA doesn´t find any petroleum in North Korea or else the war is secure, at least that’s what history shows.

Spring Break, Vallarta

The spring break have different meanings for different people, for parents it means to have someone to help with the labors, for teachers is a nice vacation with the oportunity to mess up with the students with homework and for students and workers is an ocassion to rest and have a good time with friends.

This year I have the chance to make a trip to Vallarta in company of Martin, Adrian and Ramon. We stayed at a department and a beach house. Of course the beach was crowdy but that aint a problem for us, we just
wanted have some fun. At night Vallarta starts a new life, all for spring breakers. There are plenty of places to go and a bunch of things to do. Bars, live music, restaurants, clubs and the whole Malecon. People dance around, have one or two..maybe 6 or 7 drinks, enjoy their friends and just have fun in an American Way. I lived this for 4 days and it was just awsome, a lot of fun, a lot of memories and the good times that will never be forgotten. Spring break is made to have a scape from the routine and just chill out.

A great experience, but I strongly suggest people to spend at least a couple of days having fun with your family, this is the perfect time to visit the zoo, a fun park or even the grandma. Enjoy good times, good memories are that one thing to hold on when bad days come.

Stress Interview

Stress Interview with Univa Phsycologist, Raquel, about side effects, ways to avoid it and definition of this 21st century illness.

Stress

Stress is know as the 21st Century illness and nowadays it has become as unusual as a flu. We are exposed to a certain amount of stress daily but it affects people differently depending on each individual. Stress can be caused by family, friends, school, work and almost any challenge. As a personal experience I know that stress could be dangerous, it is silent but it suddendly hit you not only in an emotional way but also physical. It affects health in a strong way I was literarly sent to the hospital several times by ilness caused by stress. So after a couple of though lessons I learned to deal with it in a much healthier way, taking things lightly.

A Perfect Relationship

Last thuesday we had a conference called "Noviazgo Perfecto", to be honest I was not excited about it, if I could I would have not assist, mainly for the bad tittle and the prejuices I have formed around this kind of conferneces.

Anyway I paid 70 pesos, took a sit and watched the place get crowded. There I waited for Andrea Macias, who I admired a lot, to start the conference. The conference started with a good mood and with Andrea showing why is she so recognized for talking in front of crowds, she was nice and give the conference a chat feeling.

Talking about the content, the subjects treated were nothing new and they went from happiness to types of conflictive relationships. It is true that the conference was no great reveal but still it was accuarate and fun, with a nice way to talk about relationships in general.

I will like to share the following:
Happines comes from the inside
Everyone can find love
A courtship is made to find someone to spend the rest of your life
We are young and love can come at any time
Ending a relationship is not the end of the world

I actually enjoyied the conference, Andrea was amazing and the subject is appropiate to our reality, but I have one big suggestion, if the event is going a be mandatory the costs should be lower. Congratulations to UNIVA for this events and for the quality and organization of them, but next time they should consider that 70 pesos is not pocket change.

Aristoteles, new old gobernment

Recently the presentation of the governor’s cabinet took place. 22 governors came along just to meet the new leaders of Jalisco. There was one big absence; the president of Mexico did neither assist nor any of the highest members of his cabinet, which seems to me as a lack of respect for Aristoteles and his new group of co-workers.

The event was not only on the covers of newspapers but also y the social section, just because Vicente Fernandez and Roberto Palazuleos (neither of them have anything to do with politics) were present to show support to Aristoteles.

In matter of the names there is a lot to say, first of all Aristoteles said that his cabinet will be formed by specialist and experts on its matter but what we witness was a parade with a low number of experts and a large number of politicians that had been around for a long time. Also just 4 women have a place in the cabinet, in a state in which 52% of the citizens are women we could expect a larger number of female members on the cabinet.

This is the cabinet:
Arturo Zamora-General Government Secretary
Salvador Rizo Castelo-Social Development Secretary
Eduardo Amarguer-Jobs Secretary
Fransisco Ayon- Education Secretary
Hector Padilla- Rural Development Secretary
Hector Vielma- Assistants Coordinator
Jaime Agustin Gonzales- Health Secretary

If you are watching familiar faces are because there are familiar, most of them are traditional politicians that had been around Aristoteles for a long while.

There’s nothing left but to hope for them to do their best and just wait for things to get better in this magnificent State. The best wishes for the ones that will be on charge of administrating Jalisco.