The dangers of road

Roads always are warning us about their dangers. At the last week, it’s always showing me dangerous situations like if the road was telling me: “Be careful, keep clean your mind and pay attention, or you will crash at the first time you get distracted”.

I say these things because since last Saturday I saw a couple of times the problems that can cause animals in the middle of the road.

Last Saturday I was making sider in my parent’s country house, that is near to AS-1 motorway that connects Mieres with Gijón. It was about 8 o’clock at night and I was taking my things and getting ready to go home, when I hear a claxon, a brake and inmediately a crash. Inmediately it sounds a new crash, a moment of calm and other crash. When I went out to see what was happends, it were 4 cars stopped on the right side of road, and a car in the middle of the road. I couldn’t see any more because it was very dark and I was a little far, but Monday I read in the newspaper that the accident was caused by a horse that walked into the motorway. It dead, but neither of people who crash had health problems.

But it’s not all. Yesterday at night, when I went to Oviedo to take home my girlfriend Eugenia, I ran over a dead wild boar that was in the middle of the road again. At a few meters there was other car on the right side and I stopped behind it to watch if my car was good and if the other driver was good. My car had not anything damaged, but the girl of the other car was very nervous. She still was on the car, and she went down very nervous when she saw us. We calm her a bit, called police and watch her car. It was damaged at the front because she knock down the wild boar, but it wasn’t very much. When she calmed down, she told us how it happened and we were talking and waiting for the police and for her parents. They came near together, and then I took another look to my car with the light of the police to verify that it was all fine and we follow our way to Oviedo.

There was all scares, but sometimes I think that if we were in the motorbike instead of in the car, probably it would be more serious because probably we would crash. So I have to be careful on the road, and much more if I drive my motorbike.

English lessons

Finally, as I wrote last friday in my other blog, I asked for help with English to my friend Xilimbra. As soon as she read the email, she took a look at my first post and she sent me her correction. I though it was impossible to make all these mistakes in a little bunch of words, but it’s possible And many of them are caused by the FromLostToTheRiverismo that always chase me when I start writing in English. Think in Spanish and write in English is not a good way.

With that post we start a test time writing (for me) and correcting (for her) posts. I will edit posts to put corrections in them because later that corrections may help me again to go through the good way writing. Thanks, Xilimbra, and comments are allowed to the rest of you.

Continuing customization

Wednesday I started this blog and I started configuring it. I had to leave it without finish, because it was too late and I had to go dinner.

Today I signed up again at wordpress and I continued customizing the blog. Here is a list of things what I did:

• I wrote the page About to describe what is the objective of this blog.
• I customized the blogroll putting my main reference pages. This will earn by the time.
• I tested some themes for the blog. Finally I choose Rubric, a simple, smart two-column theme with some options of configuration.
• In the theme options, I did two changes:
  • Disable snap.
  • Configure widgets, to show sections Meta, Categories, Blogroll, Recent posts, Blog stats and Pages. Some of this sections are not esentials, but I don’t like a almost empty side bar.

For a time, the blog is customized. In the future, if I need more and more widget, I will have to choose other template, a three-column one. But now, with this two-column, there is more width to the text, the main part of a blog though.

Starting at WordPress.com

Now that I decided to start a blog in WordPress, I had to configure it a bit.

I configured about 25 wordpress blogs the last academic year to use them in an assignature of teaching students. They had to go to schools for two months to make practices of teaching, and they shared their experiences with their partners (and with the rest of the world) writing them in a blog. The project was successful, but behind the scenes it was a lot of work from all the organization team.

So I have some experience configuring wordpress blogs. What I made in this blog was:

• Go to the general options and adjust de blog comment, time zone and date and time formats. The default values are english formats, so I only changed the blog comment.

• Test the rest of the options (reading, writing, discuss, privacy..) and adjust the height of the writing box, the number of posts in the main page, the default category, etc

I have some other options and features to change and test, but I have not much time, so step by step. Tomorrow I will write a little more.

Hello world!!

This is my real Hello World! post.

This is my secondary blog. The first one is here an and it’s in Spanish. But I’ve been thinking about to write writing a blog in English, because I read a lot of documents in english English, but I almost ever always write in spanish Spanish, so it’s difficult to me to write in english English. And, at the same time, I test I’m testing the wordpress application as a user (I already testi it I have already tested it as an admin) and play playing a little with it. And maybe, in a some time I export my blogger blog here and write in wordpress in spanish Spanish too.