One day to be millonaire

Hi everybody,

As I said in One week to be millionaire I have bought a number to play Spanish Christmas lottery, tomorrow all together we will be playing to win 3.000.000 euros. For now, I have just received a few ideas of what to do with the money. what a shame if you send nothing because you are shy ;-)

It's not too late, send your idea about what you would do with the money so if we win the first prize, one of those ideas will become true chesterfield.people@gmail.com

Keep your fingers crossed for a Christmas windfall

Cards for everything

When you spend in England enough time how to be part of the society you will begin to get a lot of greeting cards and you will realise about the importance of them.

In England you always will find a section in every supermarket, in every single store, you will also find some specialized stores fully selling greeting cards. You can find several categories such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Birthday Cards, Friendship, Thank You, Love, Sorry, Get Well, Party Invitations, Anniversary, Congratulations... even you can find cards to say you are angry-upset or delicate matters such as religion, sex or Gay-Lesbian, you will always find the right card for the feeling you are looking for. At the beginning this was really strange for me, as well as a friend who was travelling around Spain told me he didn't understand why he hadn't found any card shop there.

To be honest when I was a child I remember sending-receiving Christmas cards between family, it was always nice to get some of them but nowadays are just an article in disuse, now everybody gets a lot of e-cards or emails with impersonal messages, we have lost the illusion to buy a card, an envelope and write a nice phrase.

At this point I think, why English people is still using this amazing way to communicate feelings but then they just write a few words ("happy birthday", "I am sorry", "thank you", "Merry ") ??? If you ask them, surely their answer would be:

If I have to write hundreds of cards, won't expect that I will be funny and original...

One week to be millionaire

The Spanish Christmas lottery (The Fat One - El Gordo) is the biggest lottery in the world and also one of the oldest (1812). While the first prize is 'only' 3€ million, As measured by the total prize payout, the Christmas Lottery is considered the biggest lottery worldwide. "El Gordo" has the biggest prize pool of any lottery in the world, last year totaling over two billion euros!

The morning of December 22nd my mind will swimming the Caribbean Sea with my own yacht, drinking champagne with a lot of friends around.. You will think I am getting mad but if you compare the probability between winning the Euromillions (1 of 76.275.360) or Spanish Christmas lottery (1 of 85.000) you will see that with a little bit of luck, my dream would become true.

Now, here's the deal, I will buy a ticket for all of us, you just have to send an email to chesterfield.people@gmail.com with your idea about what you would do with the money so if we win the first prize, one of those ideas will become true.

Keep your fingers crossed for a Christmas windfall

My first Christmas card

Are we getting mad or what?? I got my first Christmas card yesterday 7.12.2010!!!. Ok, I can survive looking at how since October supermarkets are trying to make a profit with Christmas decoration, how you need to book a table for Christmas dinner in Summer, how people try to get good discounts to buy Christmas presents along the year, even I can see how happy a family is putting up the Christmas tree in November... but starting now giving Christmas card is too much for someone who his Christmas dates are from 24th December to 3rd January only.

Of course, I asked to this lovely old woman why she was giving me the card so early and she told me because she feel sorry for me because I am abroad and I am going to spend these happy days alone... whaaaaat??? I had to wait until she had gone to start laughing... Ohh dear, she has a good heart but a bad head!!!

Now I want to explain that when you are abroad is almost always because you have chosen to be abroad so you are not going to miss your family, you always can travel to spend these days with them as well as they can visit you, you don't always have to spend Christmas dates around the family, friends, partner, whoever.. will be there for you.. however if I couldn't have any of these choices and I had to spend these days in my own I would say: Thank you for remembering me so early how sad my life is and what poor boy I am... lol.