Racist director of human rights charity

Last week a group of Chelsea supporters was involved in an allegedly racist incident on the Paris Metro, one of the men, Richard Barklie, 50 years old, from Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland was a former police officer and human rights activist.

Since the incident Mr. Barklie has been suspended by the Wave Trauma Centre in Belfast where he helped victims of the Northern Irish troubles. Mr. Barklie is one of the three men whose images were released by Scotland Yard as part of an investigation into a group of supporters who allegedly pushed a black man, Souleymane Sylla, off the train and singed a racist song in Paris, France.

The incident happened before of Chelsea’s Champions League clash with Paris Saint-Germain, which ended 1-1.

Mr.Barklie admitted through his lawyer his involvement in the incident that resulted in Souleymane Sylla being unable to enter part of the train. He said he had an account he wanted to provide to the police that would explain the “context and circumstances”.

Mr. Barklie denied singing any racist songs, he said he travelled to the game alone, he insisted he did not know any of the other individuals captured on the video of the incident and said he has never been part of any “group or faction” of Chelsea fans.

The Wave Trauma Centre said it had suspended a part-time worker pending further investigation into the Paris incident. “As this matter is subject an investigation by the Metropolitan Police it would not be appropriate to comments further at this stage” said a spokesman for the charity.

The three men had now been identified and the force was liaising with the French authorities, none of them have been arrested though. A police spokesman said the force cannot arrest people for offences which happen outside the UK but a number of people have now been spoken to in relation to the incident. Five people have so far been suspended from Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge ground following investigations into the incident. The club has reiterated its promise to ban for life anyone proved to have been involved in the altercation and is helping police in the UK and Paris. Jose Mourinho, Chelsea manager, said the club are “appalled” by the racial abuse, adding that owner Roman Abramovich is also “disgusted”.

Meanwhile, police are seeking a gang of men, believed to be Chelsea fans, who were heard shouting racist chants at London St. Pancras station on Wednesday evening.

Talking with Noa

Last week in the English class we chatted via Skype with an ex-student from my high school. The reason of it is that she went to Australia, in Sydney, to be an au pair.

She explained us why she did it, her reasons to do it and why she picked Australia. Right now I'm still really really really jealous of her. Leave your town to go to AUSTRALIA to be an au pair and of course practise your English.

She explained us her daily routine, take the kids to school, then go to class, enjoy the beach, go to pick the kids at school, take care of them, which seems really cool to do. She said the family she was with was really nice. The negative thing was that Sydney is really expensive compared to others cities in Australia like Melbourne.

I think she is really lucky to be able to do that. I would love to be an au pair and travel to another country. I already did some research last summer about it and I will probably do it, I just have to wait until I'm 18. I would go to England first, London first and then I would do it again but in Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool, or all of them. Then I would go to Ireland, in Dublin. I would go there first because of the weather, I like rainy and cloudy days ( I know, normally people prefer sunny and hot days, but not me), the lifestyle there is really different and of course because there are my favourite countries. Then I would go to Australia (the weather is really different compared to England and Ireland but I love Australia too much lol). 

Back to what Noa said, it was really nice from her to explain us her experience and she gave me more reasons to do it. It's an experience you only can do when you are young, so why would I miss it?

Worst dressed at the Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards is the music's biggest night of the year, all the eyes were on the red carped at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles last 8th February for the 57th Grammy Awards.

All these kinds of events are perfect for designers to show their creations and the best of it, is that the creations are worn by celebrities. Unfortunately for some celebrities things don't go well. For example Madonna, Rihanna and Kaya Jones this year.

Madonna wore a disastrous Givenchy burlesque get-up, complete with corset, leather gloves, fishnet stockings and thigh-high boots. At one point she even turned from the cameras and lifted her skirt up flash her thong-clad derriere. (eww!) 

Rihanna didn't looked gross, she resembled a giant cupcake when she arrived in a frothy lurid pink Giambattista Vali creation.

The ex Pussycat Doll star, Kaya Jones, made sure she stood out with her ruffled black gown, which was hitched up to just below the knee, and the yards of fabric that trailed behind it.

These are just some example, there more celebrities who nobody knows how they could wore the dresses they were wearing. I think that celebrities could try and dress better and stop wearing what they wear to get attention. Madonna is now 56 years old, I don't think what she wore was really acceptable. Rihanna looked cute with that dress but I don't think it's glamorous enough for the event or another event, it doesn't have a good form or anything. And then, Kaya Jones, that dress is just ugly, there is too much froufrou on the skirt, there is too much details on the top and the tail... just ugly. 

Not really innocent

Before to start reading I think you should watch the trailer of the film, it might help you to understand the article.

"I don't want my family to see it.": Dakota Johnson says hot scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey are "inappropriate" for her parents.

There are a lot of things we don't share with our parents, it's totally normal. For Dakota Johnson, on of those things is her hot scenes in the highly anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey. She confessed to Glamour magazine: " I don't want my family to see it, because it's inappropriate. Or my brother's friends that I grew up with. Also there's a part of me that's like, I don't want anyone to see this movie - just kidding."

Dakota's co-star, Jamie Dornan, as Christian Grey, also thinks that there are a few people that should perhaps give it a miss too. He admitted that he probably won't be too comfortable when his daughter, now one year old, will be older. "When my daughter's 18, I'm not going to be going, "You've gotta watch Daddy in Fifty Shades of Grey", but there will be greater things to protect her from than dad's ass on the big screen". He said joking.

In order to stay loyal to the story, Sam Taylor-Johnson, the director of the film, did extensive research into the world of BDSM. She recently revealed that she consulted a professional dominatrix for the film and she said she "learned a lot" from her.

She told The Independent: "The sex scenes are pretty intense, so I'm sure people are going to feel aroused - but I've seen them so many times that I tend to forget."

EL James, the author of the trilogy, has reportedly sold over 100 million  copies of the books in the whole world and it has been translated into more than 50 languages. The film is one of the most highly anticipated films of the year, with the trailer having already been watched a massive 45 million times on YouTube. The movie will be at the cinemas on Valentine's day in the majority of the world.

I would be lying if I said that I won't go to the cinema to watch it, but after reading stuff about it I even would go just to watch people's faces, to see how they react, above all men's faces, I'm sure it would be hilarious. 

Teenage routine

In their blogs people usually talk about their passions, hobbies and all, well, me being me I don't really have a passion or a hobby. All I know is that I enjoy listening to music, read, write and do nothing. I don't know if listening to music can be considered a hobby but I know that a lot of people spend free time reading so that can be considered a hobby. (I found my hobby!).

When I listen to music normally I just lay in bed with my phone or computer on twitter or other social networks or I just look at the ceiling, thinking about everything. Also, the type of music I listen to depend in what mood I am, that's also why I write. I mean, depend in what mood I'm I listen to specific music and write. I also write when I think to much about something, above all something that happened that day at school or something between my parents and I. It my be quite confusing, well, us teenagers, aren't really easy to understand.

I spend a lot of time reading, every time I have free time, which is almost always, when I'm at home, when I'm bored and maybe sometimes in class too, not my fault if the lessons are boring... I have this app on my phone, Wattpad, where people can write a book/story and post it, that's maybe why I read a lot, you just have to choice a topic, and find a book that seems good and read it. And it's totally free.

Just before I said that when something happen I write, yes, like a journal if you want to put a name to that notebook even if I don't consider it a journal. Well, I also write on Wattpad, for the moment it's not really a big deal, it's just a story. Nobody have read it and I don't think someone will, I'm sure it's bad anyway. I just like to keep writing that story because I maybe, maybe not, describe a little my life, and also maybe one of the characters, Megan a 17-year-old girl, is based in me, so yeah...

I don't really go out with friends, above all now that I'm grounded, not because I don't enjoy being with them, it's just that I like being in my little world with my music and my books, I try to escape reality and I like it because it works. Some people even say that I'm lonely, but if lonely means to stay away from stupid people and enjoy doing simple things, then yes, I'm lonely.

I don't know what to say more, I don't do much. My life is just like the same day again and again. I go to school, then at home, I listen to music, read, write and sleep, and start again the next day. God, my life sounds so pathetic.

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