A better access to drinking water?

A woman using a LifeStraw

My dear readers,

For my last post I spoke about food. I want to talk about something which is related to food, it's water and drinking water. 
At the moment, around 884 million people in the world, 37% of whom live in Sub-Saharan Africa, drink water from unreliable sources of drinking water. This increases the risk of having diseases such as cholera or typhoid. Each year approximately 3.4 million of people die because of this lack of safe water. 
Recently, a company invented a straw to filter water and drink it safely. This  object, called LifeStraw, has more or less the same shape as a straw. It removes all bacteria and parasites in filtering the water. No bacteria and parasites means that it is a efficient way to avoid diseases and death. 
This LifeStraw requires any electrical and battery power and because of its small size it may be carry everywhere. So to recap this objet is like a little revolution for countries lake drinking water. 
But (there is always a but!) it is produced by a company so I am quite sceptical about the accessibility of this (great) invention for population at a disadvantage. I am afraid that one more time money will take precedence over people. 
This invention is absolutely new so we have to wait a little bit and hope that my skepticism wasn't fair. 

My most awesome meal ever

My dear readers,

I'll tell you the most awesome meal I ever had.
It was in my boarding school. It was awesome not for the quality of the food but because we had the biggest fun ever!
With the girls of my room, we decided to challenge ourself to eat a full diner without our hands. It was unlucky that we hadn't seen the menu that day because it was meatballs and rice. Trust me it is pretty hard to eat rice without using you hands! Unfortunately we had a warning for bad behaviour and we had to clean the canteen for a week. But it was really a lot of fun and even of week of cleaning couldn't ruin this great souvenir.

May I introduce myself?

My dear readers,

(Let's be crazy and think that I have readers!)

I'm Anaïs (yes this weird sound is my name). It is quite uncommon and kind of hard to pronounce for English speakers. 

So I'm Anaïs and I'm 21. I am French and I study in Austria as an exchange student. It is funny to think that I came here to speak German and I end up having a blog in English.

But the reason why I started to blog is our English teacher. He asks us to write regularly and thought that blogging would be a new and fun way to write. Since 10 minutes, I have been able to call myself a blogger!

I don't have any idea yet about what this blog is going to talk about. Maybe a melting pot of many ideas and opinions.