Frontier

Every day thousands of people arrive to U.S to visit New York, known as the capital of the world as well. Everybody has different reasons but I think everybody agrees that is a beautiful city. I enjoy walking in the street, taking pictures, being around so many people from all over the world and being in a place where the time does not stop. The difference that exists between Stamford, where I live, and New York is huge. When I take the train to New York the change that I can see is big. It seems as if you arrive to a different place. Here around 10pm everything starts to calm down; in New York no one sleeps, everybody is doing something. Besides you can do many things there. You can go to see a movie even if it is midnight, or skate, ride bicycle, visit a museum or do some shopping. Also you can visit many touristic places such as: The Empire State, The Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller building or walk in the train station that is big. You can do all these things and find this world in 45 minutes difference from here. However, I do not think I will able to live there; sometimes it gets really annoying. It feels strange when I get to New York because like I said is another world. May be, it is because every place has something unique.

Did you know…

Did you know that the fruit most eaten in the world is the banana? Did you know that everybody at least smiles 13 times a day? Did you know that the anti-age cream does not work? Did you know that the city with most population is Tokyo with more than 26.4 millions of habitants? Did you know that the taller man used to be 2.72m? Did you know that the butterflies have the taste sense in their paws? Did you know that the giraffes can clean their ears with their tongues? Did you know that a cigar steals five minutes of the person’s life? Did you know that in Finland the Donald duck was prohibited because it does not use pants? Did you know that the first word more spoke in the world is OK and the second one is COCA COLA?
I got this an email and I enjoy a lot knowing about this, there were many things I did not knot. I hope you enjoy it as I did.

Winter Vacation

I have been in U.S for a year and almost five months. Finally my sister and I are going to spend winter break in my country. I am so excited about my trip that I am counting my days. We are going for five weeks, this means I am going to miss part of this winter, by the way, it seems it is going to be really cold. And I am going to be in a warm weather. The best thing is that I will spend a lot of time with my nephews. I am excited because I am going to be there during Christmas and New Year’s. My family and I will spend Christmas in my grandparents’ house and we spend New Year’s in my dad’s family house. My dad’s family makes a big party and they cook delicious; at midnight we do many things like eating grapes with 12 wishes and burn the wishes so they’ll become true and other fun things. As you can see I am really happy to go there, like I said I am counting the days and there is only 31 days left.

Winter

I come from a city where the weather is warm all the time. That’s the reason why if the temperatures during the summer are high I don’t enjoy it too much. I think when it is really hot you cannot even be in the beach because it could be dangerous for you. Also you cannot stand outside it seems as if you cannot breathe. This is going to be my second winter and I just realized that I do not like it anymore. First at all, these last days have been really cold. I do not want to do anything, I just want to stay at home and keep myself warm. I hate to go out with a sweater, gloves, scarf, boots and a coat; when you get to the place you have to carry all these in your arms. Besides you cannot do too many things. You can’t go to the movies, play bowling, visit a museum, or eat in a restaurant. I am really disappointed about the winter, not because is rally cold but because it’s kind of depressive. Now, I can say that I am a summer person. This summer I promise I will enjoy every day and I am not going to complain too much about days over 90 degrees.

Museum

People say that everybody has a kid inside of us and I think that’s true, by the way I love kids. I enjoy a lot being around them and they do not get me tired, either drive me crazy. Today I went to visit my cousin, Luis Esteban; he is 15 months and he is really sweet. His parents were fixing their kitchen so I decided to take my cousin to the museum. We had a lot of fun, it was amazing. First there are thousands of children all ages. There are different rooms to visit, such us: rainforest, water gallery, age of reasons, in the works, music, paint, etc. We were at the water gallery; I was having too much fun that other kids joined us because we were playing, dancing and singing. After a while a Miss asked me what my schedules of work are, I told her that I do not work there that I was just having fun. She said to me that she thought I was working there entertaining children and she wanted to bring her children next time. Then we went to the paint room. My cousin was really excited to see all the colors and in the same way we try to be with other kids painting together. I made a lot of new mother friends. When I got home I asked Luis Esteban’s dad if I can take him to his play days with my new friends, he said that it’s fine. He thinks that I will enjoy it more than Luis Esteban.

Anecdote

When I was 5 or 6 years old, I was playing in the park with my cousin. We were playing with a hula trying to make my puppy jumped inside of it. My neighbor had a farm and he had bought a goat for his farm. He had tied the goat to a stick and left it in the park. When we saw the goat, we decided to change my puppy for the goat. We were challenging the goat, we wanted it to jump. My mom was watching us from the door of my house with my younger sister who was only 13 months; she had just learned how to walk. My mom was yelling to us but we did not listen to her. She was calling me but I did not want to pay attention to her. Suddenly the goat got lose from the stick and started to follow us. We were running because the goat seemed to be upset. We were trying to get to my house and the goat didn't stop chasing us; at my home's door, the goat made my sister flip with its horns. We ran until my room and we were on top of my bed; the goat was trying to get on the bed. We were really scared and we were crying. My neighbor came to my house to get his goat. While we were still crying my mom, dad, sister, grandparents, and the others were laughing. All the time that we remember that anecdote I laugh as well.

Free Afternoon

During summer, my family went away. My sister sometimes was taking summer school so we could not spend time together. During week days most of my friends were working, I did not like to be at home, because I felt that I was loosing the day. I don’t like to do things alone. One afternoon it was not so hot and my sister went to visit her friend in Philadelphia; I was alone. I decided to go to the beach. I wrapped some fruits and a book. I went there at around 3. I read like for two hours I ate all my fruits and then I felt asleep. At around 8 I woke up and I started thinking in everything. It was so nice, I was so quite and everything was calm. I enjoyed that afternoon as much as I could. I repeated that so many times during summer. That’s the reason why I feel sad because now with the winter I cannot do that anymore. In any case that’s how I would like to spend one of my free afternoons.

24 hours to live

If today would be my last day in this world I would do many things. First at all I would go back home, with my parents and family. I would go to visit my grand parents and I would talk to my grandpa for an hour. I would go back home and I would let my parents know how much I love them, how proud I have felt to be their daughter and the lucky person that I am to have them in my life. At noon I would pick up my nephew from school; I would take him to the park and we would play until he would say “Nina I want to go home”. I would have lunch with my family and I would talk about the best moments in our lives. In the afternoon I would spend time with my best friends; likewise I would remember them all the things we have done together. I would thank them for being such as good friends and be with me all the time no matter what. Before dinner, I would call the people some day I hurt and never said sorry. I would also call the people who deserve an “I love you” but I could not say it before. During my dinner I would let my family and friends know that I was really happy to have them in my life. I would let them know that they made my life complete.

If i could improve my personality

Most of people of around 20 years old already have a formed personality. This does not mean we’ve formed a good or bad personality. We know ourselves very good; sometimes we try to hide or pretend not to understand some of our own actions. I am that kind of person who knows what I want. However, I think more than three times before acting. Besides sometimes I don not like to cross the bridge because I am scare to fail or to see what would be in the other side. I have lost many things and people just for this. If I could change one thing about my personality it would be my insecurities. I would like to be a person with more confidence in myself, a person who can take any risk and be willing to fail and suffer. In that case, I won’t have to regret about my actions, at least I took that chance. In addition I would like to be more determinate in my decisions, in order to do not change my mind just because someone said something different from what I was thinking.

How would I like people to remember me when I die...

Everybody has to die some day; and next day people would be talking about him or her. I have been in a few funerals and people tell stories about that person; sometimes theses stories are good and others not so good. That’s the reason why we have to give the best from ourselves everyday. We have to try to do things with a positive attitude, and try to be happy all the time. Try to help people as much as we can, because in some point everything will come back. There are many days when we are not in the mood to be happy, and sometimes it seems like everything goes wrong. We cannot give up so easily and we have to keep trying until the end. When I will die I want people to remember as someone who was laughing all the time. Someone, who never gave up and tried to do her best in order to get what she wanted, also I want people to remember me as someone who they could spend time with. Someone, who was there all the time when the family or friends needed her. I want people to remember me as someone who could transmit good emotions, good feelings and good attitudes to others. It is sad to know that everybody has to get to that point; however, it is nice to know you can make things so that people would have a good memory about you.

The person I would like to marry...

Finding the right person to spend your life with, I think is hard. I am the kind of person that most of the time is happy; however, when something or someone makes me upset I can be really mean. Sometimes, I expect lots of thing from people; suddenly I realized that I am not perfect either. I have on mind an ideal person to spend my life with. I do not want a Brat Pitt, but I want someone who can smile all the time. I do not want a Jim Carry but I do need someone who can make me laugh every minute. I do not want to be a millionaire but I need someone who can visualize lots of expectations. I want someone who can be next to me but not in front or behind me. There are two things really important. First, I want someone romantic not like William Shakespeare but someone who can buy flowers for me without a reason, sent emails to me even when he know I will see him later, and try to do fun things like writing a “happy b-day” in a mountain. Second, I would like to find, someone who can enjoy talking as I do and listen as well. In addition, I need someone who can love my family as I do, in that way he will understand the reason why there are some dates that I have to be with them. May be I am asking for many qualities but I do not think it is impossible to find someone like that.

Honky

I just finished reading the book. At first I did not like it at all; however the last chapter and the epilogue made me change my mind, I was almost to cry. I learned a lot from him. First, the attitude from Jerome encouraged me to think about my problems; sometime we make a big deal for things that we can change, probably we just need time. Nerveless, I did not like too much the fact Jerome was not longer in Dalton’s life. Second, it was interesting Dalton’s point of view about his own mistake. He realized that maybe were not race either his class it was him. I think that happened to all of us. Most of the time we are trying to blame something or someone else for our mistakes or actions. We also see the world in our way instead of seeing the world in the way it is. It is easy for us to blame others, for our own frustrations; in this case, he could not socialize. Sometimes he had a negative attitude about the way people treated him, not always. As a result, he tried to overcome his problem and he succeeded. Now he is a sociology professor in a recognized University, Yale. This does not mean he knows how to handle his life, he is still having lots of questions about the people’s behavior but at least he perceived that in another way. As a human being, sometimes he feels the freedom and other times he feels the frustration for which everybody goes trough.