Posada in our house!!!

Hi all!
Now I’m writing about the first posada we had in our new house.
It was with all the students who are working with appa in the lab (Argelia, Natalia, Cheve, Ale, Viri, and others).
First we asked for posada (it’s like to ask for hospitality) by singing. This is like a representation of the event when Jose and Mary asked for hospitality from house to house if they could stay there the night when Jesus was going to born. Then we broke the piñata. There 2 boys who are my neighbors also came and hit it and they took more sweets than we did. We had fun doing this because we hit the piñata with our eyes covered so some of us couldn’t hit the piñata but as the piñata was very resistant we had a second round without covering our eyes.
After all these things, we ate tamales!, tostadas, qekiss (muffins), a panque (a type of bread) and my brownies. We drank some very tasty ponche and champurrado (amma made it). Everything was very very delicious, but just a little thing was wrong. It was that my brownies which I got it burnt at the bottom during baking. So we have to make a strong effort to eat them, hahahaha. The normal part tasted good. Argelia made the qekiss and they were very delicious. I saw her making them and learnt its preparation. We bought some of the tamales and others maestra (miss) Agustina brought them. For the tostadas, each person brought something, and we could take whatever we wanted.
While eating we were watching videos on YouTube. Some of them were very funny and we also saw a video of Charice Pempengco. I was impressed with her because she sang very nice. You should hear her songs if possible.
We had a wonderful time!

Summer Holidays 2008

Hi!
This time I’m going to tell all the things I did in these vacation.
The first 3 weeks I went to the museum to help in the summer course. This year theme was Ecology. So we visited many parks. This time Gera and I helped Flavia with the ensayadores group. In that group there were kids of 6 and 7 years. We told them how to plant a tree, make dough similar to plasticine and other things. In the course we went to Jimulco. It’s a region in Torreon, but its like 2 hours and a half from the downtown. Jimulco was very green and fresh. We went to see the river and the surroundings. We saw an eagle, mapache footsteps and other nice things. We also visited a park called Fundadores. There we saw how they clean the water. We also played games about taking care of the water. Later in the museum, we made recycled paper. We also went to a park called Las Etnias. There we made compost. Everything was fun and we learned many things.
When the summer course finished I went to appa’s lab and helped Sarahi in her experiments. The experiment was about bacteria that grow on oil. I helped her by writing the readings of the protein, enzyme activity and other things. I learned many things. It was fun.
I also went to Kung Fu Panda with Sarahi, Jorge and Yaira. The movie was very funny. I also went to the premiere of The Mummy with appa, amma, Sarahi and Jorge. It was very interesting. I liked both movies.

This was all the things I did in these holidays. All were fun.

Pasatela Super!!

Bonjour!
This time I’m writing about Sarahi Garcia.
Sarahi is my sister. She is a very good person and also very intelligent.
In the holidays I went to appa’s lab and I helped akka with her project. I helped her to read the enzyme activity, protein activity and other things. She explained me many things. It was very interesting. I learned new things. I also went with her, Jorge and Yaira to see a movie called Kung Fu Panda. It was fun.
Today in the morning Sarahi started her trip to Athens, Georgia, USA and right now she is there. She is going to study Masters in UGA. Sarahi got a full scholarship.
Sarahi is also a very good gymnast. She is a national judge in gymnastics.
We all are going to miss her very much.
See You Soon Akka!

Miss Universo 2008

Holaa!
Well, now I’m writing about Miss Universe 2008.
The Miss Universe competition started in1952 as a local beauty competition in Long Beach, California. Now it’s one of the most important beauty competitions in the world.
Last year’s Miss Universe was Riyo Mori from Japan. My dad, mom and I thought that Riyo shouldn’t have won because Miss Venezuela was more beautiful. Now Riyo looks better.

This year’s edition took place in Vietnam and the judges were: Roberto Cavalli, Donald Trump JR., Nadine Velasquez, Louis Licari, Jennifer Hawkins, Taryn Rose, Nguyen Cong Khe, Joseph Cinque and Eesha Koppikhar.

This year top 15 where:
Miss Venezuela; Dayana Mendoza
Miss Kosovo; Zana Krasniqi
Miss Mexico; Elisa Najera
Miss Vietnam; Lam Thuy Nguye
Miss South Africa; Tansey Coetzee
Miss Australia; Laura Dundovic
Miss Japan; Hiroko Mima
Miss Dominican Republic; Marianne Cruz Gonzalez
Miss Italy; Claudia Ferraris
Miss Colombia; Taliana Vargas
Miss Russia; Vera Krasova
Miss Hungary; Jazmin Dammak
Miss Czech Republic; Eliska Buckova
Miss USA; Crystle Stewart
Miss Spain; Claudia Moro
After this, these 15 misses modeled in swim suit and the judges gave their mark. In this part Lady GaGa sang her hit Just Dance.
After this they gave the names of the top 10 that passed to the next round. They were:
Miss Kosovo; Zana Krasniqi
Miss Australia; Laura Dundovic
Miss Spain; Claudia Moro
Miss Mexico; Elisa Najera
Miss Colombia; Taliana Vargas
Miss USA; Crystle Stewart
Miss Dominican Republic; Marianne Cruz Gonzalez
Miss Russia; Vera Krasova
Miss Italy; Claudia Ferraris
Miss Venezuela; Dayana Mendoza
These 10 misses now modeled in night dress. I liked very much the dress that used Miss Venezuela. It looked very nice.
Now last year’s Miss Universe Riyo Mori came and told some words. They also showed a video of some things that she made during her reign.
The Misses that passed to the last round were:
Miss Colombia; Taliana Vargas
Miss Venezuela; Dayana Mendoza
Miss Dominican Republic; Marianne Cruz Gonzalez
Miss Mexico; Elisa Najera
Miss Russia; Vera Krasova
This last round is supposed to be very difficult as the last 5 misses have to answer a question that one of the judges makes them.
After some time Donald Trump Jr. gave the cover with the results.
The results where:
Miss Universe 2008: Dayana Mendoza; Miss Venezuela
1st runup: Taliana Vargas; Miss Colombia
2nd runup: Marianne Cruz Gonzalez; Miss Dominican Republic
3rd runup: Vera Krasova; Miss Russia
4th runup: Elisa Najera; Miss Mexico.

Here everyone thought that Elisa Najera could be Miss Universe 2008 as she had won the best body. We also thought that Miss India, Simran Kaur Mundi could be in the top 5. Now everyone is very sad.

The best national costume went to Miss Thailand, Gavintra Photijak. I thought that Mexico was going to win that one because Elisa’s dress looked very beautiful.
Miss Congeniality was Miss El Salvador; Rebeca Moreno.

Mexico has had only one Miss Universe. It was in 1991 with Lupita Jones. India has had 2 Miss Universe; in 1994, Sushmita Sen and in 2000 with Lara Dutta.

Miss Universe is an interesting competition. I like it!

Graduacion de 6º

Holaaaaaa!!!!!
I’m going to tell you about my graduation this year.

In Mexico the graduation in 6th grade is very important as we finish our primary school. On Friday, 27th June, 2008, our generation (2002-2008) had the graduation. It was in the auditorium of Cuidad Universitaria de la UAdeC. Everything was very nice.

In the morning before the graduation, we went to my akka, Sarahi's house. She ironed my hair and made the hairstyle for the graduation. I liked that hairstyle and all my friends appreciated it too.
First we had the mass and to be honest everyone wanted to sleep as it was very boring. In the mass, Nancy and Mauricio read a passage from the bible.
After the mass there was the change of escolta. There the abanderada (person carrying the flag) told some things (we didn’t understand what she told) to the new abanderada and after that she gave the flag to the new abanderada and like this the change of escolta finished.
After this the director and owner of the school; Mr. Guayo Gutierrez del Bosque, his sister; Mrs. Susana, the coordinator of Spanish; Miss Lulu and the coordinator of English; Miss Silvia passed to the dais. Then Mr. Oswaldo (sports teacher) called Miss. Rocio to pass to announce the list of students of her group (6º A). When each person heard their name they went to get a paper and a disc which contained a video. When everyone had passed from that group, Mr. Oswaldo told who got first place and second and so on. When they had given the certificates to the people that had first, second and third place in both Spanish and English; Miss Grisel from (6º B) passed to do the same and when they had finished giving all the things. A girl from that group, Saidee passed and gave a little speech in english. After that my Spanish teacher, Miss Alma passed to do the same. After everyone had passed, they gave the certificates. I got first place in both English and Spanish. After that Miss Angelica from 6º D passed and did the same. After that Mr. Oswaldo told something about me, that I don’t remember well. Then I passed to the dais and they gave me 4 certificates (1 for 1st place in the Olympics of Knowledge in the our region, 2 certificates for passing in the Math Olympics (one given by the school and the other by the SEP) and other for getting a average of 10/10 in my generation) and a letter from the SEP that congratulated my parents and me for my average of 10 out of 10 in all the grades. After that Mr. Oswaldo said something and then I passed to read a little speech in Spanish. When I finished they put a video that was made with photos we had taken throughout the year. We were all happy and also laughing about the photos. When this finished we played a song called Titanic by flute. When we finished Mr. Oswaldo thanked everyone, and the graduation was finished. I took photos with all the teachers and with Mr. Guayo. Everyone there congratulated me. Dra. Lilia and Yessica had also attended the graduation ceremony. In the evening there was a party but I didn’t go.
All the years from 1st to 6th were fun.

UEFA EURO 2008

Hiiiii!!!
This post is going to be about UEFA’s Euro2008.

This edition of the Euro2008 took place in Austria-Switzerland. It started on Saturday 7th June and finished on Sunday 29th June. It was very exciting to see all the matches. I liked it very much, it was fantastic.
The teams that participated in the euro were:

Group A:

Switzerland, Czech Republic, Portugal,Turkey

Group B:

Austria, Croatia, Germany, Poland

Group C:

Netherlands, Italy, Romania, France

Group D:

Greece,Sweden, Spain, Russia

After the first round, the teams that passed to the quarter finals were from group A: Portugal and Turkey; group B: Croatia and Germany; Group C: Netherlands and Italy and from group D: Spain and Russia.

The results of the matches in the quarter finals were:

-Portugal 2-3 Germany
-Croatia 1-1 Turkey (1-3 p)
-Netherlands 1-3 (aet) Russia
-Spain 0-0 Italy (4-2 p)

Now, only Germany, Turkey, Russia and Spain passed to the semifinals.
In these matches the tension was very high as all the 4 teams were playing very very good.
The results were:

-Germany 3-2 Turkey
-Russia 0-3 Spain

The finalists of the Euro2008 were Spain and Germany.

I think it was easy for Spain to go forward as Germany wasn’t at the level it had been in all the other matches, but even though it was a very interesting match.

Spain hadn’t won the Euro Cup for 44 years and it hadn’t been in the final for 24 years. So now that Spain is the champion of Europe, all Spain is very happy.

Spain also won another title; its midfielder, Xavi Hernandez was named the Castrol Player of the Tournament for UEFA EURO 2008.

Now many people in Mexico say that Spain could be a candidate for winning the FIFA’s World Cup.

Santos Laguna - Campeon

Yo Soy Campeon y Tu Tambien (I am the Champion & You too)

Hi!!

Sorry for not writing for a long time. It’s that I had exams and many things.

Well, now I’m writing about the Champion Team of Mexican Football League - “Santos Laguna”.

Santos is the foot ball team from our Laguna region (comprising of our city Torreon, Gomez Palacio and Lerdo). They won the finals against Cruz Azul yesterday (3-2).

Santos was created by the IMSS (Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social) on 1983 and it is a glory that it has won its 3rd National Championship in this 25th year. It was in 2nd division 5 years, and it played its first game in 1st division on 16th October of 1988.

Now the Comarca Lagunera is very excited about this triumph. This is the 3rd National championship for Santos. The first one was in summer of 1996 and the second one was on summer of 2001. Now in Clausura 2008 it’s again the champion. It was Super Leader during Apertura 2007 but lost in semifinals.

The members of this Santos team are:

Goal keepers: Oswaldo Sánchez, Miguel Becerra, Francisco González

Defenders: Iván “Guti” Estrada, Fernando “Tano” Ortiz, Rafael Figueroa, Edgar “El Hobbit” Castillo, Osmar Mares, Juan Pablo Santiago

Midfielders: Daniel “El Hachita” Ludueña, Fernando Arce, Walter “El Lorito” Jiménez, Juan Pablo “Chato” Rodríguez, Paco Torres, Jorge Barrera, Alberto Soto, Johniee García

Strikers: Christian Benítez, Vicente “El Toro” Vuoso, Oribe “Cepillo” Peralta, Mario Sánchez, Agustín Herrera

Coach: -Daniel “El Travieso” Guzmán

Some players in Santos are from other countries such as Argentina & Ecuador and they have contributed a lot for this win.

You can know more about Santos in the following link

http://www.clubsantoslaguna.com.mx/Aspx/

Everyone is very happy because this team deserved the championship.

Amigos de la India en Torreon

Bonjour!!!!!!!
Now I’m going to talk about our friends Mr. Babu Anthony, Ms. Agi, Achu and Appu.
We met them in Torreon, amma’s doctor told amma that there is another Indian family. After some time we met them in our house, and came to know that they are from Kerala (a state near Tamilnadu, our state). They are very friendly. Issac (Achu) is about 4 years and Jacob (Appu) is 1 and a half years. They are very cute. Appu and Achu played with me, while appa was talking with Babu Antony uncle and amma was cooking and talking with Agi aunty. Later we ate rasam, rice and so on. Some days later we went to their house, there we saw some of their photos and ate delicious Indian food. They also told us that they lived in Dominican Republic and Mr. Babu Anthony had also lived in Bombay, Bangladesh, South Africa, Turkey, Bulgaria and Egypt, before moving to Dominican Republic.

We were sad as they left Mexico. On 22, December we accompanied them to the airport as they were leaving for India. Now they are in Vietnam and we are maintaining contact with them. We are happy to know them, as they are very nice people. We miss them here in Mexico.

Guess who?

Priviet!!!!!!!!! (hello in Russian, i am not sure of spelling)


?????? dollar award to those who find out who it is!!!!!

Fairies

Hola!!!!!!!
Do you like my drawings? Please choose the one which you like most and tell me why?

Vacation Cine Festival

Honichiyua !!!!! (Hello in Japanese)
This post is about all the movies I saw at home during this christmas-New Year holidays. Most of them were very good.
First we saw “Ocean’s Thirteen”, it’s very thrilling and also has funny parts. George Clooney acts as Danny Ocean. Also Brad Pitt and others act here. This is the third part of this series. In this movie they try to break down a new opened hotel-casino. It’s very good.
We then saw “Ratatouille”, this one is about a rat who wants to become a chef. Sometime later it becomes friend of a human and controls him by his hair when cooking. Like this they work in a famous restaurant in Paris. It’s very nice.
We also saw many tamil movies:
“Anbulla Rajinikanth”, this Rajini movie is more or less sad. In this film little Meena has a heart problem and she is also not respectful, so they hire a person to take care of her. However she doesn’t change, but after seeing Rajini she changes. And many changes happen. At the end Meena dies and everyone is sad.
“Dharmadurai”, is also a Rajini film. This movie is very very sad. I cried in most of the parts. In this movie Rajini’s brothers take money from him, put him in jail and other sad things happen. Even though it’s a sad film it’s very good.
"Veera”, is also acted by Rajini. Here he first marries Meena, and then he goes to town to participate in a music contest. First he isn’t allowed to participate in it, but then with the help of the owner’s daughter he participates in it. He then wins the contest. He becomes famous. When returning to his village he finds out that Meena and her father have died. Then he and his mom returns to town. There the owner’s daughter wants to marry him. He doesn’t want, but at last he marries her. Sometime later Meena appears. He then acts as 2 different persons. It’s very funny.
“Mapillai”, is another Rajini’s film. In this film Rajini gets married to a rich girl, without her mom knowing it. The girls mom doesn’t wants her daughter to get married with him , as he isn’t a rich man. After they are married, Rajini challenges his wife’s mom on many things. All those things are very joke. The movie is very funny.
"Rajathi Raja”, is other Rajini film. It’s very funny. Here Rajini double acts. The first character is accused of a murder that he didn’t make, however he is put into jail. Later he escapes of jail to find the truth. On the way, he finds a man who looks like him, and asks him to be in his place. He also says the man that after he finds out the truth he will take him out of the jail and also give money as a reward. The other man accepts. From here many exciting and mostly funny things happens.
“Sri Ragavendra” is Rajini’s 100th film. It’s very good. It tells about the life of Sri Ragavendra. It was very informative. But I didn’t understand many words they said.
“Unidathil Ennai Koduthaen”, is also a sad film. In this film Roja, Karthik and others act. The story here is how Roja becomes a famous singer, with the help of Karthik. But Roja’s family doesn’t want Karthik. Then many things happen. It is good.
“Panchatantaram” is a joke movie. In this movie Kamal Hassan and his friends go to Bangalore to celebrate his birthday. There many interesting and funny things happen. There are too many funny consequences of their trip to Bangalore. It’s very funny.
“Ooty Varai Uravu”, is a Sivaji Ganesan film. Also Nagesh and other old actors acted there. It’s a funny movie. This movie is a very old movie, but I liked it.
“Thamirabharani” was good. Vishal, a new actress and many others acted here. It’s about a family that’s separated, and how they get united. It’s very funny. I liked it.
“Billa” 2007, is a remake of Rajini’s old movie Billa. This one is acted by Ajith. Nayanthara also acts in this movie, among other actors. The film is stylish and it is very fast. I liked it.
“Polladhavan”, is a title of one of Rajini’s old movie. Dhanush acts in this movie. The movie is mostly in a flash back. It was good.
We also saw two dappa (very bad) movies: Cheena Thana and Unnale Unnale. They weren’t good. I didn’t like them. They were super boring.
Hope you liked this post!!
Sayonara!!!!!

The Lost Continent of Mu

Hi everyone!

I read a book called “The Lost Continent of Mu”. It was very interesting. It was written by James Churchward. Sra. Paty lent us this book. It tells about the ancient civilizations. It says that a long time ago there was a continent where the entire human race began. The civilization in this continent was very advanced. They also say that when a great catastrophe was going to happen, some of its habitants went to live in the other lands of the earth. Mu was destroyed by the water, air and fire and it collapsed down. In the book it also says that the islands of Hawaii and all the islands of that region were part of this continent. In the book it also comments on the similarities between all the great civilizations of the world. It also say that in Mexico, the original Mayans were of white race and that some time later people of dark skin came and took all their things and told that the pyramids were made by them. It also explains some signs from the sacred book of the death of the Egyptian culture. Also it tells about some tableaus of the Indian Culture. It also mentions that the place where Adam and Eva of the bible appeared symbolizes Mu. All the civilization and great people in the history of the Earth have mentioned about Mu. It details many signs of different civilizations and explains them. It reaches the conclusion that the continent called Mu really existed. I came to know many interesting things from this book. I liked this book.

Happy New Year

Hola!!!

My warm new year greetings to all of you. Hope this new year brings good things to everyone.