Raquel Soto suffers from cerebral palsy

Raquel is a funny brilliant girl who made us laugh a lot telling us lots of anecdotes in her daily life. After being with her, our students chaged the way they look at handicapped people completely. She faces life with real optimism and lives a normal life with her partner and son. She is always helping people and she is involved in many organizations that support people with physical problems. She has also collaborated with the famous singer Macaco and here you have the link where you can see her playing a part in the song "Mensajes del agua".

http://youtu.be/JPWFtapYOXQ

Neil Harbisson suffers from acromatopsia

To make students aware of the physical problems that some people have to live with, we organized a series of talks by different people.
Our first visitor was Neil Harbisson, who was born with an illness called acromatopsia which unables him from seeing colours. So, instead of seeing them, he listens to them. How? He has got an electronic eye that turns colour into sound through vibrations sent to his brain using bone conduction. Because of this, he likes being called a cyborg.
Through funny anecdotes he changed the way students thought his life is like. For example, he can listen to a Miro's picture and he can paint a Lady Gaga's song. He showed us how some famous people's faces sounded and how Prince Charles sounded much like Nicole Kidman because both had blue torquoise eyes and very red lips.
We strongly recommend you to watch his lecture at TED because we enjoyed it very much and our students from 1st and 2nd year of Batxillerat thought that it had been awesome.
Have a look at the pictures we took during his stay among us.