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When ever it is cold I miss the hot weather but when during the summer it gets so hot that I start hating it and i prefer to stay indoors in the cool nice temperature. I really feel bad for everyone who does not have air conditioning, like i fell terribly bad for all my family in Mexico because right now the heat is supper bad and they have no cooling and it really does suck for them. so I am very thankful for whoever invented cooling systems and also heating systems...:D

Summer bummer

So usually by this time of the year I am very exited, but his year there are not very many reasons for me to be happy about this upcoming summer. the main reason is probably because i wont be able to go to Mexico like I usually do. i really want to go i guess that is no secrete but I just don't know when that will be... Another reason that makes me not be that anxious about summer is the fact I still haven't found a job and I believe I'm going to die of boredom if I don't find something to do... i still have about a month before school is officially out and I hope that by then I will be able to find something... But the only good reason is that i'll be done with school!! that really makes me happy :D

Are we comming to an end??

This question often arises in my head. Specially lately with all the natural disasters that have been occurring, to me it has gotten really scary since some of this have happen so close to were we live. Like this tornadoes that have been happening and leaving so much damage on the south east of our nation. Or how about the floods that have happened in our area?? Whats going on why are we seeing more and more of this awful things and why are they happening so close to home. I wish I had the answer to this questions. I really do, but the bad thing is I can't. Maybe as the Aztecs predicted it this world will come to an end on 2012 and what we are experiencing right now is just the world coming to end slowly just getting ready for the final end on 2012... But i don't I guess we'll have to wait and see what will really happen on 2012.

technology is the best

So for me technology is one of the very best inventions ever. I don't think I could function right without many of the pieces of technology I am able to poses. For example I don't know what I'd do without a microwave that is able heat things up for me really quick with no pain at all. Or how about the washer and dryer those are truly great inventions that have made my life much more easier. But for me the best invention and part of technology ever is the Internet and computers. they allow us to do so many things and keep in tough with our loved ones that are far away that they make distance seem like a very small obstacle. So thank you to all of those who invented the computer and the Internet!!

On-line

I spend ALOT of my time on-line because:

• On of the easiest way to keep in touch with my family


• I like playing online games


• I need to do research


• I download music


• I look at images


• Get all the info I need


• And many other things that come to my mind while I am on, but that I just cant remember right now.

Spring Break 2011

so for this year my spring break was kind off boring but one of the best ones ever!! The first thing that made it be a great one is the fact that my soccer team played two games and we won both!! The first game was on Monday, and we played the new team that had just joined we won 8-0!! I could not believe it :) and then we played again on Thursday, we played against our biggest rivals the Belvue team we had been beat by them before 4-1, this made all my team nervous but at the end it turned out that we won!! our goaly(Monica) stop the ball every time they tried to score I feel so proud of her!! and we ended up winning 3-0!! and as of now we are the leading team... I have to keep working hard to keep the lead but I think we will be able to do it :D And the second part of my Spring Break was amazing because the guy I'd been talking to for two months now finally ask me to be his girlfriend and I really think I'm in love!! This break could not have been any better!!

Oh no!!

So last night our team played again. But now with a new name we changed from being "Chikas Guerreras" to being "Shooting Stars".Last night all the team was so exited because our first game playing with our brand new uniforms. We kept our eximent trough out our game I believe we did an awesome job or at least I know I tried. because this game had us all going crazy we played really hard, but unfortunately hard wasn't good enough because we lost 1-4. But we wont let this defeat over come us. We have our next game on Thursday and we have practice tonight and I really hope that we are able to defeat the other team on Thursday, but even if we don't I will have the satisfaction of having played with a team of hardworking members. But I don't know we'll have to see how things turn out.

memories

I believe that memories are meant so that when we remember we are able to relive the moments, bad and good. I think most of us just like to remember the good things but to me that is something close to impossible. I think this because even if we don't want to sometimes the bad moments to come back to life in our heads. But for me since I really like to remember the good ones I try to keep a journal of all the important events of my life I write in it maybe once or twice a month, and my journal is a decorated composition notebook, I choose it to be just that simple because I is something I don't want other people wanting to read because mainly i write my most private and important memories things that I think are worth remembering 10 years from now. but the weird thing is that even when I read the ones from a year ago i can remember that day but the emotions that I wrote in are nothing like what I really felt at that moment, and this kind off creeps me out because as I am writing I feel like if I was really writing everything that I was feeling but I don't know maybe there are some emotions that really cant be put in to words.

5-0

So like I've mentioned before on Monday night we had our second game and we did an awesome job. We won 5-0. At first we were kind off nervous because the other team had players that actually played for their school and they looked like they were pretty good. But as it turned out they weren't that great in the end because they were not able to score not even once. Even tough on this game I wasn't the one to score a goal at all I was still pretty happy because all the team contribute to the scoring, Monica scored 1 and our team captain scored the other 4. We were all so happy because we won we celebrated for a really long time. The other team was expecting an easy victory since they had heard we were new at this and had not much clue of what we were doing, they brought in their coaches and their friends and like a bunch of people to support then because they taught they were destined to win. but by the end they all left defeated. I am so happy to have joined the team and soo proud of everyone :D

Just relax

So how important is relaxation to me? I think it is very important and very much needed. Why well becasue without it we are always stressed and in a bad mood most of the time. also rest comes hand in hand with relaxaion eventhough everyone has a different way to relax. For example I like to read to forget about my own worries and just concentrate in the new world the book takes me to. But I know other people who do other things to relax for example my mom she likes to knit and she says she finds it relaxing.

OMG!! I still can't believe I'm getting good at this! So this weekend my team and I we had like two practices for the indoor soccer tournament we are in. So on Saturday it went alright only 4 of the 7 of us went and we were just out there running and paying without a coach. But then yesterday one of my friends got her brothers friend to be our coach and it was really fun. At first I wasn't that exited because the guy looked really mean and stuff but he turned out to be pretty nice. we practice for almost 2 hours non-stop we did all kinds of things and even tough I suck and the coach made fun of me and everything I enjoyed it. But then later on all his team mattes came (since he also plays in the same tournament but with the guys) and we split up and played a game and even tough my team dint win we did do pretty good I was able to score 2 goals I could not believe it, it was so much fun. I think it was that fun because the guys I taught they'd be pretty mean and stuff but they weren't they were actually pretty nice and play fair and everything! it was unforgettable for me. And now I'm just hoping that tonight our game turns out a good one and we ought to win!! :D I can't wait! I really haven't been this exited in a long time i think I'm failing in love with the game!! :)

More time needed

So if I had more time what would I do? I think I would try to exercise more so that I could be on shape for the summer. Also if I had more time I thunk I would love to spend more time in Mexico, but for now I just wish I had more time to spend with the person I love, I wish he didn't have to be far away so that we could be more time together.

who am I??

So the prompt is- list 10 things you like about yourself, but what if I don't like anything about myself what if I don't have any traits any others notice in me. Maybe is not that I don't have them I really think that I am a person who doesn't like to believe she has something special this might sound messed up but that is how I feel sometimes.
But there have been times when I have been told that I am a very responsible person and I like that and i know I am or at least I try to anyways. But I think that the one thing that I definitely like about my self is my ethnicity. I think that being different than most around me here has been the one thing that keeps me going. and it might sound strange but even though that is the one thing that puts me down sometimes it is the same one that helps me want to be successful in my society, and want to show everyone that I can really a successful Mexican and just part of the unsuccessful statistics.

Soccer??

So I have never been the type of girl that's into sports. I think this is mainly because I suck at any kind off sport. But I think yesterday i discovered that maybe I could be good if I tried. It all started like a month a go when a friend from church told me she was putting a team together to play in the indoor league at Bellvue Church. I wasn't so sure about this since like I said I know I am not good. But having nothing else to do after school I decided to join the team. we hadn't heard form the organisers until yesterday morning and they told us that our first match was going to be yesterday night at seven. Us all nervous, with any practice , and not knowing what to expect set out to play. and so we did and we tied with the other team. I was so nervous that I don't think I did a very good job playing . But during half time I was able to score a goal, and up to this point I can't believe it :D I'm like so proud of my self!!

help!!

So in case of an emergency I know my dad would be the first one I call. HE would be my first option and my mom my next because I think my dad always acts , and takes decisions wisely and I know if my mom was told I just had an emergency she will freak out and no t act very rationally. So my dad is my person to call on an emergency.

Why macaroni

"Yankee Doodle went to town,
A riuding on a pony,
Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni."

So I think he decided to calle it this because I can picture him seeing how the feather kind off curves to one side, just like macaroni is alwas round and kind of looks like an elbow. :D

Does being different really mean Different?

So all this week on Channel 1 they have been having this series called "Pride and Prejudice" that's about the several hate groups found in the US today. Most of this groups are really hateful towards immigrants, and that is just scary. I mean, I do understand a lot of the points they make and why they think that. But ain't this the Melting pot country? meaning it was founded by immigrants from all over the World, even tough whites predominant they are not the only ones who are important. For sometime I was sure that all this racism had ended but now that I see this news coming up with the news of all the hate groups and with all the things they are doing it just makes me realize that this world really is getting worse and worse. I do understand that there are several immigrants who have done bad things but, most of us just come here to work hard to try to help out our families that are back in our country. So why are people so hard headed? Why do they have to act so mean to others just because they look different? Just because they have darker skin, or different eye shape or different eye color they judge them by that, and create stereotypes that can really hurt others.
So going back to that series on Channel One, it is very painful for me to see that people are really so serious about being racist and keeping immigrants out of the country no matter what. Don't they realize that there are other problems that are bigger and more affecting to the country than immigrants? I wish they did and I wish all of this things they are doing against MY people doesn't turn out in a catrastophe. I say this because I have heard some people guess that this country will be having another civil war in relation to this topic, and that is just awful, so I hope it never does occur. But more than anything I wish for tolerance and acceptance of people, so that we can become a country united by the pride of it being called "A Melting Pot" and being separated but beliefs that will get our society no were but only backwards to a past we have being struggling to leave behind for a very long time "INEQUALITY".

Laziness

So I think there are plenty of reasons for people to be lazy, but is not necessarily being lazy sometimes is just that we feel like doing nothing and here are just a few reasons why we feel this way :

• We like to rest
  
• It feels good to laid back
  
• It's a great way to relax
  
• It's just plain fun
  
• Best way to be happy
  
• No worries!!
  

No.no.No!

I have come to realize that saying no without actually saying is harder than I taught;

1. definitely not
2. negative response
3. nope
4. naw
5. non(french)
6. don't know
7. move your head from side to side
8. never
9. not possible
10. not a way
11. not in your dreams
12. opposite of yes

silly things...

• When there's one other person in the elevator, tap them in the shoulder and pretend it wasn't you.

• Leave a box in the corner of and elevator and then ask the person in there with you if they hear it ticking lol!

• swat flies that don't exist to make people uncomfortable

• pretending to be out of breath when you are late

• trying to fold a fitted sheet

dog advice

I think that if a dog could give any advice it will probably be "Always stay close to your owner when they walk you around your neighborhood without a leash." I believe so because my friend one told me her little chihuahua had gotten lost in a situation like that.

It's been a long time since I've had a dog, it was back when I was like 7 and that dog save our live a couple of times by letting us know with its barking that the gas from the stove was escaping while we were asleep and that got my dad up and he noticed the smell and fixed the stove but also remembering this dog makes me sad because it was in Mexico were we had it and I stated in the roof of our house(a common thing over there) and then one night it just disappeared we think a mean neighbor we had killed it cause he hated our dog... I miss that dog "Chiko" and I can still remember how of a good dog he was..

• straighten your when is dirty
• touch the top of your stove while the light that says "hot surface" is on
• walk on the snow bare foot
• lock yourself in the bathroom while taking a longgg shower when there are 10 people living in the house and only one bathroom
• touching your when a second after you put nail polish hon them
• stepping on your dog
• using a phone card to make a call to Mexico on a holiday
• talking in your sleep
• getting your fake nails stuck in something
• leaving your facebook page open on your home computer :(
• outting delicate articles of clothing in the drier
• leaving a 20$ bill in your jeans before you put them in the washer

volunteering

Volunteering is something that I have always enjoy doing this is because I just enjoy being able to do something help for someone kind off like putting a smile on their face :D
Have done different types of volunteering I can remember the first time I did was in Middle School and we had go pick up trash from around the school. I really enjoyed that. Right know the place that I volunteer the most is at my church . I believe this one of the volunteering that I enjoy the most. In my volunteering I have many duties to fulfill. During mass I am one of the readers and more than feeling like a volunteer by doing this I feel proud to be able to read the Lords words to the people in my church. I also get to help with the kids during catechism class I have a thing for little kids and I really enjoy it!! I also help planning out the youth group schedules. I don't know if all of this would really be considered volunteering but to me it is and I love it :)

So I think mistakes are the one thing that was made to make every single person learn from them and be better. I like most people I would say hate myself when ever I make a mistake. It just makes me feel like I'm a failure in life that there is nothing I can do right, after I take all my anger out on my self afterwards I feel dumb because I realize that most people also have committed the same mistake that I have. I know that there will always be people who are better than me at somethings but I also know that there will always be people who do worse than me, and at those times when I feel like I'm the worst failure in the world I realize this and it helps make myself feel better. But even if I feel this bad when I make a mistake I know that everything happens for a reason and that I was supposed to do this thing wrong so that I could learn a lesson and not commit the same mistake again....

Where wisdom lies...

So I believe that it is true that most wisdom comes from the elder people I have come t this conclusion because I have seen this many times. I have seen coming specially from my grandparents. The best that I've learned form my grandpa is the fact that we have to be able to fight with our struggles and defeat them. He made me realize that trough all his stories of when he was young some of it I can't imagine having gone trough. And knowing that he had to go trough all of that stuff and that he was able to make it just fine until this day just makes me think that am way too dumb when I complain about my life because my struggles do not compare to anything any of my elder siblings had to go trough. so now every time I have something to complain about I try to remember what what I have learned from those that I love and just try to make the best of what I've got.

So once again we missed school yesterday due to a snow day....So probably by the time all of this snow stops to fall we will be making up days till July.. and that really sucks. But anyways today I feel like writing about last weeks visit to the FRIST center in Nashville. Our french class went because they were having a Display of Musee d'Ovre exivition from really famous french painters. I had never been to this kind of museum, and it was something I really liked all of those pieces that I had only seen in magazines or the Internet, having them so close I could almost picture the artist has they were painting. Since I really like art the time we were given to look at the paintings wasn't enough i could have probably stood in front of every painting for an hour admiring the techniques of the artist. Most of those paintings felt really inspiring and I loved having the opportunity to go see them. In the future I plan to go to museums like these more often since i now know that wont get bored.

So as of today our last day of school is schedule to be on May 31st, and that is just depressing to me. That is because I really want to graduate before June, but has I see the weather has been acting up I don't think that will happen. I wish all this snow just left is pretty to look at and I love staying home but I rather be at school in those days and be out and enjoying the beautiful sunny days in the summer and not siting at school. Like last week was a kind off a great week since I only went to school one day! On Monday of course we were off because of Martin Luther King Jr. day and then Tuesday was the only day I came to school since on Wednesday I went on a field trip to Nashville and then as everyone already knows Thursday and Friday were snow days. But hopefully we wont keep on having any more of these days so that we can be off from school no later than May 31st.

So who do I want to be? I believe this is a very good question and every time it has been prompted to me I always come up the same exact response, "I want to be a good example for my sisters and brother and I want to make my parents proud." The reason it has always been clear to me what I want to do is because I have always seen how hard my parents are always trying to give my siblings and me the best and that they want the best for us. And to me the only way i can possible repay them is by making them proud and setting a good example so that my siblings will follow my path. The only thing that I want to be able to be and do in the future and that my parents don't agree with me is the fact that I want to be back in Mexico to live my adulthood and since everything is getting kind off scary like I've mentioned before, my parents really don't want for me to go and live and work down there. But we'll see maybe just because I really want doesn't mean that it will happen. And since i believe everything happens for a reason, if it is in my destiny to stay here in the US for the rest of my life just going down there for vacations I think I will work hard on getting used to it.

Criticism good or bad

Well for me there are different types of criticism some good and some bad.
In my case I am a person who criticises a lot I know that is not a very good action but there is little I can do to help it even tough I don't do it out loud it happens in my head all the time. So when giving it I don't really have a problem with it except that I know that it ain't the right thing to do. But then when given to me there is where I have problems I am not very good at taking it when ever I don't ask for it or specially when it contradicts what I think, this often happens when my parents criticise me, and I just get furious and don't know another way to react to them criticising me. But then when ever I do ask for opinions and they give it to me I don't feel that bad and most of the time even take it in to consideration specially when it comes down to art

VITA training!

So last Saturday was my first tax-preparer volunteer training(VITA training). At first it was kind off awkward because there were only like 8 other people there and all of them were older than 40 with the exception of me.But then the training lady started talking and teaching us all the stuff and I got really into it. Everything seemed really interesting learning all of the tax laws and things. More than being interesting while I was listening to the trainer I was just thinking on how good all if this info would be for me when ever I go into the work force. Then they fed us Papa John's Pizza it had been long since I'd had pizza from there, I really enjoyed it.Then we got to actually work on the software and I really liked it because it is really easy to use and everything is very user-friendly :D Now all I have to do is take the test to be officially certified to prepare tax returns! I am a little nervous about this but I hope it ain't that bad!

christmas break

Like I've already mention before I got to spend my Christmas break in Mexico once again :D
Even tough Christmas Eve itself wasn't all that exiting there were other days that were definitely worth the trouble of traveling down there. And favorite one was the one Saturday we went to the horse races. It is nothing compare to what we have here I'm sure but I'd never been to an event like that one and it was awesome, seeing tons of people that I hadn't seen in along time made my day. Also having the opportunity to hang out with my friends and family made it all the best. That was just my favorite day but all of them were great there is always something to do down there. I guess that's why I like it so much. Anyways I really had to enjoy my time down there since I wont be coming for a long time.

possibilities

For this year i am hopping that lots of good things will happen to me. Yeah I guess everyone is always wishing the same thing but this year is a very important one for me the reasons:

• I'm graduating in May
• I will start college in the fall
• I'm turning 18

this are just some of the things that make me look forward to this year. Some of the things that I hope that happen are:

• I hope to go to Mexico over the summer
• Get a good job
• I really want to make more time to exercise