Saturday, February 24, 2007

unrelated.

so this isnt technecly related to being an exchange student.. but in a way your could connect it perfectly..

anyone whos ever seen the movie Crash , or anymovie that talks about diffrences ,between racism , cultural differences , the defferences between living on dffente sides of towns.. in different states ,., or differences between wearing a different style of clothing.. or having a different way of speaking ... any and all the differences in the world.. why doesnt just one adapt to them , open there minds to them.. embrass them instead of judging , discriminating , compairing , exclaming that one is better then another ..while in reality we arent at all soo different from one an other...
one thing that I defently learn from being an exchange student as well as a person whos moved around a few times in there life , is that society isnt at all that diferent from one place to an other.. I mean sure theres different languages ,but are heart all beats for the same reason ,, were all made of bloood and flesh arent we ¿¿ soo why the discrimination , why do we assume .
example . why does one assume the light skin girl must speak english ? personally at times I take that offencively , because I didnot always speak english , and im not about to forget my roots . why does one categories mexicans, ppl from spain , from , venezuela , argentina , peru , panama ,the magority of south america as Latinos. why becasue they all speak a from of spanish ? well then should they be considers spanish`people? why latinos ? because spanish evoled from latin ? well so did , fench , english and ever other romance language out there..
I understand that our cultures is part of our identity , but should that mean that we shouldnt be open to learing new things ¿' hear new ideas ?
I personaly have a real problem with patriotism , of any country for that matter , the US for example has the image of being cocky about our patriotism , and the fact that our country was .. is ¿? a world leader . one sohuld help one an other .. instead of exclaiming that there better , help the others giet to there level so to speak instead of looking down on them...

open your mind , and not hold gruges.. I guess is the point im trying to make.. imbracess abcept instead of judginng , and disrespecting. love over hate. equality.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

hey world.

soo Im sorry im slow on updating .. im jsut overloaded with exams this term.. and I have a millions pictures im way back up on.. so im sorry about that wait also.. ill update soon I swear...

butfor the record over all im good!" im stilll loving ever moment everyday im here... of course theres up and downs smiles and frowns.... like when I reralized im out of here in less then six months.. but smiles when I get to graduate in VENEZUELA :: first then graduating from my classs back home 2008 ! hihih.. smiles..

but im off to study.. I shouldnt even be on right now.. i have my first real presentacion about something that now me .. my past .. my countries.. ALL IN SPANISH first period tomorow.. wish me luck ! I have to study my presentation...!

lov you all keep reading !

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

5 months in venenzuela

I fell like a weight.

Welcome back to my blog , people four my four dirrection.
I know I havent officially written anything in a long perioud of time , but that was becasue
I didnt feel upbright when I got on line... or I chose to write ny thoughts on paper instaed of connecting to the internet and doing so.
but now that im here let me catch you up.

new years ever was simple. Tradiction is to eat twelve grapes and drink a cup of champagn when the clock strucks midnight. The grapes represent the twele months of the year.. Its supose to give you luck in the proxima months to come .
some people cryed some people huged , every one shouck hands as we came into the new year. MY littlesister ( marry anny ) broke her champagn coupe as it struck 12 .. it was classic. The new year then sarted with greetings from neightboors
and other loves ones. ( needless to say international lines where on overload. ) plus with the time difference new years over there came an hours later... The time differences didnt really kick in any other year form me .. I always kinda felt as the whole world was anticipating the same ball to drop from time square as I was...
I started of at the moon , sending my thoughts to my loved ones when it struck 12 over in there galaxy.

ummm afther new years I still have 8 days till I got back to school.. so me and my family all when to Herragoti (sp) and I got a wicked algerie from a cream I used... soo I was stuck in the summer house, of the family friend while there was beaches at a ten min drive. and a jacouzzi out side at not enven 4 feet... no to mention the pool... but staying inside wasnt all that bad when you come down to it.. since it was incredably hot.. and the air condicionning was sweet !
back to class lessons came in slowly.. but onces they started the whole .. class examen class examen concept didnt fail.. soo Im studying harder this semester since I want to inprove my grades from the last term ( theres 3 terms in VEnezuela ( lapsos )
my host parent spilt up.. so that change the mood around the host.. and at times were all still adjusting . Now its just me and my host mom
I satrted flaminco again , putting more energy into it , and its showing in my shoes, being worned out ..hehehe Im going to start next tuesday and thurstday at giving english classes at one of the sons of one of the proffesors at my school.. ( I already stated teaching a little a few other gente around me , a friend here and there )
im exsited about that... OH and I need to put my self in a diet .. ASAP .. all month of december was spend eating...
that pretty much wrapes it up.. for what ive been up too... today I officially have 5 months in venenzuela .This would be my halfway point but.. i already know that im leaving in agust because school her doesnt finish till mid july.. and then there my graduation ! heheh Im graduating twice ! IM pretty fluent in spanish, now I work more on writing and such... more reading in spanish, to work my mind.

well leave comments.. I love ya all ! thank you ROTary from making this experience posible . I love every day of it ! and thanks to my moms .. etc.... you knwo who you are. I love ya all dearly