Dancing and Music

I love music and I love to dance.  In Colombia music and dancing are a part of life.  I grew up in a Colombian family that truly loves both.  Whenever we get together we always play music whether it’s a birthday party or a holiday.  Once music is playing we can’t help but dance.  My favorite dance has to be salsa or cumbia.   I learned to dance salsa from my mom when I was a little girl.  We would dance around the house listening to music.  When I was in middle school I used to go with my cousin to see her and her friend in salsa competitions.  Since music was instilled in me from such a young age it is a part of my life now.  When I wake up I always put on the radio or my iPod.  In the car the first thing I do is turn on the radio.  I can’t imagine myself driving without music.  In coming to the United States I started to listen to different types of music.  Earlier this year I was able to go to an Aventura concert.  Aventura is a musical group that plays bachata music.  I had one of the best times there.  I found myself dancing right at my seat.  For me music and dancing is a way of expressing a wide variety of feelings and makes me who I am.

Hybrids

Cars and transportation that are electric/hybrid are helping to protect the environment because they will not pollute the air and they could save you some money because you don’t have to use gas.  Hybrid cars are better forms of transportation because they help reduce the amount of CO2 we release into the environment. Toyota and Honda are some of the companies that are creating some the majority of the hybrids or electronic cars. This is where hybrid cars get in. They're called hybrid because they still use the traditional engine but also includes another source of propulsion or energy. Two types exist - the electric hybrid which uses an electric motor in addition to the diesel or gasoline engine and the hydrogen or water hybrid which uses hydrogen extracted from water and adds it to the fuel-air mixture of the engine. Hybrid cars produce fewer fumes that can cause respiratory ailments like lung cancer. If all cars were hybrids then pollution will greatly be reduced. Hybrid cars also tend to produce less noise pollution as they go. In the case of electric hybrids, they go totally silent when the electric motors are turned on.

MY BEST PLACE TO LIVE

Where is the best place to live? It is one of the questions that I frequently ask myself.  Some people love the big city life while others prefer the solitude of country living.  I enjoy the cities, but I prefer to live in a small and quiet town.  I would like to live in a house surrounded by trees and plants.  For me it is fantastic to wake up every morning with the singing of the birds and be away from the noise of the city. In Colombia I use to live with my family in a great house in the outskirts of the city, where every morning I listened to the birds sing close to the window where I slept.  In the mornings I would go with my uncle and get fresh eggs and milk from the farm for breakfast.  During the day I could just hang out and spend time with friends.  It was very relaxing to live somewhere where I could go take time for myself and not have to worry about anything.    Even though cities offer many things to do, suburb and country towns offer things that a city never could.        

The importance of Animals and Plants

Humans are suffering in this world because of our own actions, which are only to fulfill our needs.  It is important to protect the plants and animals because they protect us, help us and they give us the most important thing that is the food.  First of all, they protect us.  The plants give us the oxygen to breath.  They also convert CO2 which helps the hole in the ozone layer not to grow.  The animals like dogs help people.  For example when a person is blind, he can use a dog as a guide.  This shows that the plants and animals help us.  They are excellent for medicine and raw materials.  With plants we can make paper, houses, furniture and others.  Some animals like certain types of birds kill insects that are bad for people’s health.  With that we can prove that the animals and plants are very helpful for the human society. Animals are important for ecosystem, and useful in many ways.  Animals support life by serving as food for the people.  It is important to take care of animals and plants because they are our life-support systems.  Finally the plants and animal play a very important role in the humans’ lives.  It is important to protect them, even when there are some people who are suffering.  Plants and animals are living things.  We do not have the right to kill them just because we’re unwilling to change. 

SECOND PART

Diana and I use to spend all the weekends together.  Every Friday when we finished school we took the bus to go to my house.  She loves to cook, so when we arrived to my house she would ask to my mother if she could make something for us.  Diana, my mom and I would cook together. For me the best day was Saturdays because we use to rent movies and make popcorn and watched movies all night until we fell asleep.  She also taught me to be stronger.  She gives advice when I need it.  She always looked at the positives in life even when there were negatives.  It has been a hard life because her grandmother is now sick and she and her brother try to do the best they can to help, but she still stays strong and helps her brother. When I came to this country it was hard for me without my “sister.”  We talk every night and still try to help each other but this distance is hard.  I wish I can go back more to Colombia to help her and be with her, but she wants me to stay here.  She wants me to live a good life because of the opportunities I have.  I know that whatever opportunity I have I can bring her with me.  I want her to come so she can be happy here with her brother, I wish I could give her the opportunity.

               

The people in my life....

FIRST PART        

In my life there are some special people like my mother and my father from whom I have been learning a lot thing since the day that I was born.  I feel like I wouldn’t be who I am if it weren’t for those important people in my life.  Besides my family I have my best friend of who I would to talk about.   Her name is Diana Carolina.  I consider her my best friend but I see her like the sister that I never had.  She is twenty years old.  Diana is a sweet girl that loves to help the people who need help.  She likes to study and loves romantic music. We went to school together since we were five years old.  She lost her father when she was six and her mother at the age of fourteen.  She tried to make the best of her life.  She is a very responsible and strong girl after all she has been through.  Although her mother is gone she still studies and completes her goals so that where ever her mother is, she will be happy.

Success ...continued..........

Success has different paths.  These could be good or bad.  The good ways are the things we fight for every day doing it with honestly and responsibly.  The bad ways are things we do by taking the easy way out.  The easy things at first are happiness and fun, but not everything is good because at the end you will get sadness and loose everything that you had. Furthermore, the hard work we do helps us to create success in our lives; success is based on our future which is achieved with hard work.  Many people dream of fulfilling all their goals one by one throughout their lives.  Achieving each one of our goals make us successful people and makes us proud of ourselves.

In conclusion a good future is made by doing the right thing and putting in effort in everything we do.  True success is the one that we achieve with sacrifice.  Success is what we wish to have every day.  Being responsible helps us to grow as a person who appreciates what we have gotten.  A true measure of success is not taking anything for granted.

Computers

The first computer was invented in the year 1936 by Konrad Zuse. Computers have been one of the most interesting inventions in technology. In the market we found diversities of styles, colors and size for the likes of people. The computers carry out logical concrete functions with information like words, images and sounds. With the computer and the help of internet we can realize projects and we can also look for help for our homework. The computer also contains entertainment like the games and instant messengers. The messenger is one of the most entertaining uses by people, many people like to talk with their friends or their family in another country, also some people likes to meet new people on chat rooms. But nowadays there are people who abuse the advantages of the Internet and especially commit many abuses like kidnapping or presenting/displaying programs of inadequate subjects to other people especially to the juveniles. I think that the computer is one of the technologies most important that satisfies us but as long as we make a good use of it.

Success

Success has a different meaning for each of us.  For some people success is what gives you money, prosperity and everything that you want in life, but there are others that think that success is what gives you a good feeling and the motivation to work further.  The definition of success is highly individualistic and we should respect each of these definitions. What success means to me? For men success depends on each other.  A good future is created by our success.  Many people are going to have different ways to build their own success.  To have success we may complement it with good feelings, optimism, and think and plan all our goals to fulfill one by one.  In other words success is what we are going to achieve. A person’s future is done by our successes that each day we build.  Although not everything goes the way we want to.  To achieve all goals we have to pass some obstacles, but these obstacles cannot stop us from following our goals because these help us to become a stronger person and learn from our mistakes to not make them again.  The mistakes help us to fortify our plans that will take us to a better success.

Consequences for our descendants

We are destroying our own world without thinking about ourselves and our descendants.  God left us a treasure called nature where we can find every single thing needed to survive.  The earth is suffering alarming changes.  The environmental problem is caused by our ignorance.  This problem started many years ago.  The pollution in the air is around the world blocking the sun rays between the earth and the ozone layer making the earth being in exhalation and inhalation in a certain stage on the earth rotation. So this is making the earth warmer and producing hurricanes, inundations, the melting of the poles, the death of polar bears, but this pollution is also going to produce many diseases like Ebola, Arena virus, respiratory, etc. These effects are going to increase more and more depending in how fast we can act and solve the problem.  The carbon dioxide is also destroying our world and we could reduce it by creating cars that avoid environment contamination in others.  I think that everyone should buy efficient electric home appliances, more ecological cars, recycling, etc.  If we continue with a close mind we would have many consequences to the limit of “The disappearance of the earth”.  Now we need to make the decision of save our world because our children are going to suffer the consequences of our acts.  

Relationships Online...

There are many people that get married to someone that they met on the internet but it could be a dangerous mistake.  For example my friend’s mother got married to someone that she met on-line two years ago.  She started to chat to him every single day for five months.  He was from Spain and she was form Colombia.  He was a very sweet and a quiet boy when they chatted on-line.  After five months he went to Colombia to marry her and she was very surprised because he looked so different from the pictures she saw.  Without thinking much she got married to him but three months later they got divorced because he was an angry man that only wanted her to do everything that he told her to do.  She couldn’t work or got out with friends.  The sweet man she met on-line never existed in her marriage.  Many of these people that are using the internet to find someone are disappointed because the majority of these people whom they met on the internet are dangerous and liars.  When you start talking to a person on the internet you never know if they are talking honestly and truthfully because in the internet you can change your real name, age and you can be a person that you’re not.

A talk with my friend...

One month ago I was talking with one of my friends about his goal.  He told me that after working for many years in different kinds of hotels, country clubs and restaurants, he has learned a lot about hospitality industry.  So he said that now is time to open his own place and take advantage of his experiences from restaurants.  Even after years of taking the orders from many different kinds of managers, he has learned something from each one of them.  However he is getting tired of following orders and not being able to make his own decisions.  So a good solution to stop following orders is to become our own boss.  His idea of opening a restaurant is not only to be the boss, or get more money, it is also because he loves to cook.  He has never worked as a cook, but he has cooked many times for his friends and family.  His goal is not to have a fancy restaurant.  His plan is to own a restaurant with affordable prices for everyone, but he knows that the success on a new restaurant could be difficult because there is a lot of competition.  This conversation was very interesting for me because I like to listen to my friend’s goals and share my opinions about that.  I just hope that his goal comes true.