summer's gone! getting back to basics

What's up!!! Summer time is over, now it time to get back to routine life!

Today was my first day as a senior, as I'm already in last year of junior high school!

When I reached school, the first thing I saw was a whole big bunch of first year students trying to see in which section they were.

I was really happy to return to school as I hadn't seen most of my friends in 2 months. We all were like omg! what did u do in these vacation? did u went in a holiday? did u have fun? I missed u soooo much! and stuff like that LOL

We have now 2 new students in our class, I hope they get used to our way of being in a short time and get united with our class.

We started our first 2 hours with miss Cecy explaining us the methods that were to be used this year and then just making some dynamics to get to know each other. Later we were presented to a new teacher called Norma who will be our chemistry and oyt (orientacion y tutoria) teacher through out the year. We also saw miss Rose our history teacher, as well as miss Alejandra our F.C.y E. (formacion civica y etica) teacher, miss Artemisa our spanish teacher whom we know since our first year and our new maths teacher prof. Rodolfo who we all hoped to be prof. Bustos magically! In the office I saw miss Pilar our always kind and friendly coordinator.

Finally, it was a great day! To see soooooooo many new faces and old ones of course! at school is always a nice thing!

The only sad thing is that we weren't able to see many friends who for a variety of reasons weren't able to be at our school this year :( but wherever they are I wish them all the luck! :D

Well, just hope this year will be even greater that last years!

Cuando un amigo se va...

It’s really sad when you have to goodbye to someone you really love…

Today at 5:00am was the last time I saw Jibran, Karina, Montse and their parents.

I first met Jibran, Montse and their parents in fifth grade when he was in my science fair team and I still remember I owe him a movie I promised him 3 years ago! He was just my friend in the past few years but in the last 3 to 4 months he became one of my best friends.

Karina, well I remember not knowing her until I got into the football team, from the first time I knew she was a very happy and fun person but I got to know I wasn’t mistaken in the last year when we all got together very often.

Now, there aren’t words to show what I feel at this moment, they are great people and they’ll always be. I’m really glad I got the chance to know them and of course I’ll always remember them no matter what! We all will never forget all the things we did and spent together.

I hope to see them again in the future someday…. As they say distance is no obstacle for true friendship.

Hope you like the song. It talks about the feelings you have when a friend goes away…

ESPAAÑA CAMPEOON!!

Bonjour!!!!
Well, Spain is the new world champion, now in South Africa 2010. I’m really happy as since the world cup started I have supported this team and of course Mexico.
Spain started its performance in this tournament with a defeat against Switzerland but later it recovered it level and won against Honduras and Chile in group stage. It passed to the knockout stage as first place of the group H. Spain passed over Portugal in the round of 16 with a goal of David Villa in the second half. With the same result Spain against Paraguay in the quarter-finals, they passed to the semifinals. This match seemed a bit complicated as it was against Germany who had been showing a really impressive way of playing and was one of the favorites to win the cup this year. When the time came, Spain showed it huge potential winning the match with Puyol’s header, breaking of the forecasts.
Well, today in the world cup final against Netherlands; both Spain and Netherlands didn’t reach their great football level, but I think they gave their 100% in the ground even with all the faults made. In my point of view the first 90 minutes were a bit boring comparing the 2 extra times. There was a stage in the match were I thought that the champion was going to be defined in penalties but hopefully for me Andres Iniesta scored the goal of the victory in the 2nd extra time.
This is the first time the actual European champions win the FIFA World Cup. Actually, none of the 2 finalists of South Africa had been world champions before. Netherlands is now a three time sub champion. Netherlands lost with dignity.
Finally, I’m really really happy for Spain and for winning my bet haha(:

south africa 2010

Bonjour a tous!

The first game of each country in the world has finished. It has been a round with many surprises; as the very good strategy of North Corea against Brasil, Spain’s defeat against Switzerland, and the golazos (it’s how we call very good goals here in Mexico) of Brasil.

This worldcup’s inauguration was really colorful and in a very african style. It’s the first time, this magnificient event takes place in an african country, so this world doesn’t just represent southafrica but the whole african continent. I think it’s a memmorable world cup.

The opening match was against Mexico , so all of us here really got into the match. I think Mexico could have played so much better but well we can’t do anything about it now. The other day when I saw a group in facebook called ; I really started laughing about how people have crazy ideas.

My favorite to win this world cup is Spain, but seeing yesterday’s performance I really think they should start playing as in the Euro. Other teams are Brasil and Argentina; the all time favorites and Germany is playing really well too.

Now that the second round of matches has started, Uruguay played really good in their 3-0 victory over the host Southafrica, Argentina won 4-1 against South Korea and Greece won 2-1 against Nigeria. In a few hours we will know Mexico’s future in the world cup as it’s going to play against France. We are all wainting for this important match.

Finally, I just hope this world cup we had been waiting for 4 years, will overcome all expectatives.

Each day is a new adventure(:

While surfing through facebook I found this. It’s quite interesting, take a look!

• It’s almost impossible to lick your elbow.
• The ancient Japanese believed that earthquakes were caused by giant spiders.
• If we put side by side all the Barbie dolls that were sold since its creation we could give 2 rounds to the earth.
• A drop of petrol is able to make non potable 25 liters of water.
• Microsoft spends more answering calls from users with problems
• than making programs.
• If by some reason the sun stopped producing light, it would take 8 minutes to realize that here on earth.
• The most known image in earth is the one of Che Guevara, with his hat with a star, looking toward the horizon.
• Finland banned Donald Duck comics because it didn’t have pants on
• Taking 100 cups of coffee in 4 hours technically can produce death.
• There are more cars than people in Los Angeles.
• When a month starts on Sunday, it has a Friday 13 and each month that starts on Thursday has a Tuesday 13.
• In average, a person laughs 15 times a day.
• 20 hours of video are uploaded each minute on YouTube.
• The official name of Bangkok is "Krung Thep MahaNakhon Amon PhoP Mahadilok Rattanakosin Noppharat Mahinthara Ratchathani Ayuthaya Amon Piman Udomratchaniwet Burirom Mahasathan Sathit Awata Witsanukam Sakkathattiya Prasit " which makes it the city with the longest name in the world.
• Hexakoisiohexekontahexefobia is the fear to 666.
• A 56.645 sided polygon is called pentakismyriohexakisquilioletracosiohexacontapentagonalis.
• Hipopomonstrosesquipedalifobia is the fear for long words.
• The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
• The memory of a goldfish lasts 3 seconds.
• The dolphins sleep with an open eye.
• In 1997, American Airlines saved $ 40,000 just by eliminating an olive from each salad.
• Elephants are among the few animals that can’t jump.
• The salt has more than 10,000 applications.
• The J is the only letter that doesn’t appear in the periodic table.
• 111 111 111 111 111 111 x 75 is 12,345,678,987,654,321.
• A ducks quacking doesn’t produce echo and nobody knows why.
• The giraffes are the only mammals that don’t have any vocal cords.
• 80% of body’s heat escapes through the head.
• The fastest muscle of the human body is the eye lid.
• According to the Times Magazine, the man of the year in 1938 was Hitler.
• A koala can live its entire life without drinking water.
• The Bulgarians say "yes", shaking their head side to side and they say
• "No" moving it up and down.
• An adult blinks about 23,000 times a day.
• The Vatican has enough money to end with world’s poverty and even then it has money left.
• Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare considered
• the greatest exponents of Hispanic and English literature died on April 23, 1616.
• If you shout for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days nonstop you can generate energy to heat a cup of coffee.
• The chimpanzees, orangutans, dolphins, elephants and humans,
• are the only species able to recognize themselves in a mirror.
• Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, was afraid of
• darkness.
• World’s most common name is Mohamed.
• The highest temperature recorded in the world has been in El Azizia,
• Libya, on September 3, 1922 the thermometer came to 136.4
• Fahrenheit. (58 º C)
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• Since we are born our eyes are always the same size.
• The first palm trees grew in the north pole.

CONADEIP NATIONALS

Well, after a whole week of matches and more matches in Pachuca, we got the 4th place in national level football.

After reaching Pachuca on 18th March, we just arranged our things and took rest for our first match next day at 9:00 am in the ART (Alto Rendimiento Tuzo: it's the place where we had our matches, it's the concentration camp of Pachuca's team Tuzos).

We arrived the ART at 8:00 am. We met our "calentadoras" (these girls were the ones who made us do the warm up before the match) Marisela, Gloria, Fernanda and Scarlett. They are really nice people.

This match was against ITESM campus Estado de Mexico. It was played equally well by both sides. At the end, the score was 1-1, so we went to penalties in which we lost :(

The second match was against Prepa Tec. Actually, in this really tough match we lost 5-0. My consolation was that we played really well the 2nd half, in where they didn't put not even a goal.

A victory in the third match against Colegio Miraflores gave us the pass to semifinals. The 70 minutes were really full of emotion as just a goal was the difference between them and us, so we had to be constantly running and being really careful about not making any mistake. When the referee gave the final whistle, we were all so excited, for us actually it was really wow, just the fact of being between the 4 best teams in Mexico.

Now, our semifinal match was against Colegio Once de Mexico from Guadalajara, they had passed to semifinals as the toughest team in the league. Being honest, we were really nervous and it was clearly seen in the ground. We lost 8-0.

Now we had to recover confidence for our match for the third place against the CUM (Centro Universitario de Mexico). We lost 1-0, it was really sad as the goal came by one of our mistakes.

Well, we had finished our stay here in Pachuca. It was sad to be a step from having the third place and missing it, but even though a fourth place in the first time we go to nationals, it's really good.

Later that day, after eating lunch and so, we met the players of Pachuca's first team. I think they were really friendly :)

After this great experience, it was time to return home.

I liked Pachuca a lot. It's awesome! There's a place called Real del Monte; it's a mining little town in a hill. Another things that were really good there were the elotes (corn), they're totally not like the ones we prepare here but the taste really great. A typical food prepared there are the pastes, they're like puffs filled with different kind of things either sweet or sour.

Well, finally it was a beautiful experience! Apart from getting to know the city and making new friends, you see different ways of playing, and you get more confidence after playing against really strong teams. In fact, Esteban (our coach) told us that these experiences will help us grow and make us better each day.

Instead of that we'll have a GREAT experience!

Guess what???

This wednesday; Mexico's national football team is coming to play here in TORREON! (LOL can you believe it!!) against North Korea and we won't be here!! D:

But, from the other side is that we'll be going to play Nationals of CONADEIP in Pachuca. We're going to play football against many other teams from whole Mexico :D

We got our pass to Pachuca, nearly 2 weeks ago when we went to play in another city called Leon. There we played against the LUX, and won 3-2. Actually when the referee gave the final whistle, all of us were so soooo soooo excited!! This is the first time we go to nationals (:

Now this whole weekend has been of considerable amount of work,, on saturday we sold burritos, cokes, brownies, cake, ice-pops and so in a school event and yesterday we had a HAMBURGUESADA (it's when you make a lot of hamburgers and sell them) and we sold more than 500 hamburgers!!!!! All this was to collect funds for our trip to Pachuca!

Well now, 2 days away from leaving to Pachuca,,, I just hope that we can give our best in the ground!

FELIZ DIA DEL AMOR Y LA AMISTAD :'D

Hii everyone!!

Well this 14th February is going to finish and I didn't want to end this day without wishing you all... a VERY VERY HAPPY HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!

Hope you spent this day wonderfully well with all the people you love♥

--AVATAR--

Hola todos!!

This time I’ll tell you about a new movie called Avatar.

It’s a science-fiction movie, directed by James Cameron. He also directed the super hit movie; Titanic, between others.

The movie is about the relationship between the humans and the Naa’vi (the tribe living in Pandora).

The humans go to a new planet called Pandora. There they discover that it has a kind of mineral-metal that values more than a million dollar the kilo. The conflict is that the Naa’vi live over that land.

A group of scientists create a biological body similar of that of the Naa’vi called Avatars. Now, one of the principal scientists dies and his Avatar will die if it doesn’t have someone to control it. Here’s where Jack Sully appears; he and his brother were twins. This made Jack perfect to take control of his brother’s Avatar. So Jack, an ex-marine is transported to Pandora.

There Dr. Grace, the chief of the Avatar’s Program, considers Jack inadequate to take his brother’s place. One day she, Jack and another researcher called Norm in their Avatar form go into the forest. While taking samples, an enormous strange creature attacks them. Jack is separated from the group and gets lost.

In the night, he is rescued by Neytiri, a girl from the Naa’vi tribe. After helping Jack, she doesn’t want to do anything with him. But later, she agrees to take him to the Hometree (the place where the tribe lived). After discussing about him Neytiri’s mom decides that he could stay in the condition of learning their lifestyle.

Meanwhile he was learning all the traditions and way of living of the Naa’vi from Neytiri; he falls in love with her and with all the people and land. After learning everything, he becomes a warrior and one of the “people”.

Before starting this close relationship, he had promised the chief coronel to send him information about the Naa’vi. So, when he gets affectionate he stops sending data.

One day, the soldiers destroy one of the most sacred places for the Naa’vi. Jack, climbs over the excavators and destroys the cameras.

When the chief saw the tape, he immediately recognizes Jack and gets angry with him. Jack and Dr. Grace go to talk to them and ask for an hour to convince the Naa’vi to move into another place. Before they could tell them the problem, the Neytiri and all the people get mad with them.

The coronel attacks the Naa’vi and destroys Hometree, causing the Naa’vi to emigrate.

Back in the camp the colonel locks up Jack, Dr. Grace and Norm in a room. One of the pilots called Trudy and Dr. Max get them out. Trudy and everyone except Dr. Max try leave the camp. The coronel hurts Dr. Grace while he shot the helicopter. Jack decides to get help from the Naa’vi as Grace was really weak.

First, he had to get back their trust, so he goes to tame a Toruk (it was a flying animal, which just 5 Naa’vi had tamed before). When he appears with the Toruk, the tribe showed him a lot of respect and accepted to help him. They couldn’t save Dr. Grace.

Next day, Dr. Max tells them that the coronel decided to attack the Tree of Souls and finish completely with the hope of the Naa’vi. Jack speaks with the tribe and asks them for help to fight for their land against the Sky People. All the tribes get together for the Toruk’s call. All of them get prepared for the final battle. Jack asks for help to Eywa (the Naa’vi goddess).

In the decisive day, finally Eywa helps them, sending all the animals in the planet to fight against the invaders.

With lot of courage, the Naa’vi win the battle. Neytiri kills the coronel ad saves Jack.

In the end, just a few humans are allowed to stay in Pandora and the rest is sent back to Earth. Jack fulfills his dream of being in the Naa’vi body forever. (:

In my opinion, I think that the movie is really good. I liked very much the special effects, they’re really wonderful.

Appa told us that Cameron based in the Hindu mythology to create the Naa’vi and the Avatars.

Well, finally I recommend you to see this film. I loved it. It’s really worth seeing in theaters.

FELIIZ AÑOO NUEVOO!!!!

Hi everyone!!

Well, another year has finished.

I loved 2009 because I think that I learnt lot of new things and spent sooo many unforgettable moments with people I love ♥

Let's hope that 2010 will be a really great year and many many good things happen during these 365 days :'D

My best wishes to everyone. Hope this new year will be wonderful!

Felicidades Arge!!! :D

Hii all!!

On Friday Arge graduated.

In the morning we went to the university for the entrega de papeles. First, there was a prayer. After, all graduates went to school for the graduation photo and returned back to the auditorium. Then, the ceremony started. While all the graduates walked in, we all stood up and clapped hands until they took their seats. Ing. Vaquera (the school director) spoke. They started calling each student to give them the degree. After everyone passed they gave the awards to the best students of the generation. Later, one of the graduates gave the final speech. I liked the way she spoke. A teacher from the university sang a song called Coincidir and another song (I don’t remember the name right now, but it’s very nice too). She sang very nicely. Finally, Lic. Manuel Martinez (the coordinator of UAdeC Torreon) congratulated the graduates and their parents.

In the night, we went to the party. Arge invited us and we sat with her parents. I have been thinking of this party from July itself because this one is for Arge’s graduation. This is the first graduation party I have attended. First each one of the graduates came with their father or mom, while some of them came with their pair. Arge started her dancing with her dad. After some time, we dined and danced. I too danced with Arge and her friends. I think most of the music was from the 80’s or earlier. At 2; 30 am the party was over and we returned home.

Well, finally CONGRATULATIONS ARGE!!!!!!!!!

iNdiA!! :))

Hi everyone!

This time, I’m writing about our trip to India. It was really cool! I loved it! The only thing I was sad with, was that we were just more a less a week with our family. But I learnt a lot of things about India that I had never thought about and also I think that India has changed a lot of things. Learning with Arge was really fun (:

The first place we visited in India was Bombay. There we went on a local tour. We saw: Gate of India, the Taj Hotel, Nehru Park and many other places. I think that Bombay, is like any other metropolitan city but it also has its dark part like the slums. I hope that someday, everyone can live comfortably. In Bombay, appa had a pleasant surprise as he saw an old friend of his, in the bus of our local tour. At first, he hadn’t noticed his friend but then, they were talking and talking the whole day. The only thing I didn’t like in Bombay was the weather as it was raining and raining all the time. We stayed in Bombay for just 2 days.

Then we went to Chennai in a train called Kongan Railways. This train is famous as it passes through the ocean for more than an hour, but we couldn’t see the scenery as when it passed that way it was midnight and we were all sleeping.

In Chennai train station, Shankar chithappa and Janani akka came to receive us. Then we went to chitappa’s house. There achi, thatha, varshini, Santhi athai and Mini chiti were waiting for us. I was realy glad and sooo happy to see them all after soooo much time.

We just stayed a day there and then we went to Delhi in a super fast train :) Well, actually I didn’t feel it soo fast but at least we reached Delhi in a day and half. Delhi is really a beautiful city just that I hated the climate. It made Arge and me feel that Torreon’s heat was far better.

In Delhi we visited the Qutub Minar, Lotus Temple (Arge and me were dying there, as we had to walk barefoot like200 mts. But the problem was that the heat was unbearable and we had to run real fast to get into to the temple), the Red Fort and other local things :)

From Delhi we went to visit Jaipur. This city is also called the Pink City, because in the olden times most of the buildings were in that color.

I really liked the architecture and everything in Jaipur; it was like in the Aladdin’s story. Here for the first time we saw a cobra dance. Well, actually it wasn’t like in the movies but the snake was trying to do dance. We also went in an elephant ride, it felt really cool, and it was real fun. We also visited real beautiful palaces there. It looked really amazing.

From Jaipur we went to Agra. There we visited the Taj Mahal. It was really cool as when I saw it for the first time I was still really small and I didn’t actually remember well. I still remember a funny thing that happened here, while appa’s was taking the photos, he stepped wrongly and was about to fall down.

Another places, we went to; were Varanasi and Bodgaya. These two are religious places. The first one is supposed to be the holy city for the Hindus and the second one is the place were Buda is said to have received the enlightment. In Varanasi, I was a bit disappointed, because even being the holy place it was really dirty. I think they should take more care for that city.

After visiting those cities, we went to a place called Bhubaneshwar. There we visited a place called Konark Temple. It is called the Sun Temple. It is supposed to have had the tallest tower than any other temple in its period. There I climbed a tree into a branch and after I was down appa and Arge told me that a big lizard was just aside me and I hadn’t even noticed it!

After visiting all these places in Northeast India, we returned to Chennai. In Chennai, we stayed for some time with Balu thatha, Gomathi achi, Janani akka, Varshini, Shankar chithappa, Mini chitti, Santhi athai, Ganapathy mama, Mishal and everyone. We saw movies, went shopping and did a lot of things. The sad part was that we just stayed there for 3 days :(.

After Chennai, we went to our house in Coimbatore. Achi and thatha also came with us. Here we saw Aparna, Devi athai, Soori mama, Lalitha achi, Samy thatha, Mani mama, and Perrito! In Coimbatore we also did many things. Mani mama took Aparna, Arge, Varshini (a weekend she, Shankar chithappa, Mishal and Mini chitti came) and me to an ice cream parlor called Boomerang. I liked the way they sell you the ice cream because you could choose different types of ice cream and they’ll mix all that up with chocolate, cookies, wafers, etc. Meanwhile we were staying here; we went to a falls called Kovai Kutrallam. Kovai is the short form of Coimbatore. We also went to Kanyakumari. In this part of India, 3 seas get together (the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal and the Arabic sea). Here we saw PTR mama and Salom aunty & her family. But before going there first we went to Madurai were we went to a temple and then to Sivakasi. Sivakasi is appa’s hometown. It‘s called as Little Japan, as it is one of the most famous fireworks places in India. Here we visited the school where appa had studied his whole primary studies. From there, we went to Tiruchendur, there appa offered his hair to Murugan (a Hindu god). Amma also offered her long long hair before appa, but in Tiruapdi. In Kanyakumari we visited a monument and a prayer centre. After finishing this part of our trip, we returned to Coimbatore. Amma didn’t accompany us as she had her laser operation in Coimbatore.

In Coimbatore, we visited Lalitha achi’s and Devi athai’s house, and we also went to Marudamalai (it’s a temple in the top of a hill) and many shops.

After a week, the time had come. We had to return to Torreon and continue the routine. It was sad to leave them all, but I’m sure we’ll see them soon! (: We flew from Coimbatore to Bombay and from there to London. In London, appamma and I changed airports while Arge and Dra. stayed there. From there we flew to Orlando, meanwhile they were going to Mexico City. Arge and Dra. arrived Torreon before us, as we lost our flight to Mexico City in Orlando, and we had to stay overnight and take a flight to Dallas and then to Torreon.

Well, now in Torreon we’re again in the same work and everything again!

It's really funny now, because when our friends see amma, they get really shocked, as they didn't expect to see her like that, with the hair really really short. :)

That's just me!

Just posting a drawing I made for a homework.

We had to draw something that expresed how we are, our personality and character.

I chose a tiger cause I think that I'm really intense, temperamental (ask my parents and friends :P). I also think that a tiger has a friendly side and also a dark side (meaning getting angry easily, not having patience, and so on).

I think that I'm that kind of person. The thing, I guess that I would like to change is the bad characters in me. But most importantly I should keep on going with the good things I know and learn :)

Hope you liked the drawing!

Just 2 days from now!!

Hi all!!

This is a really short blog before going to India. :D
I’m really excited as we’ll be flying to India in 2 days from now. This time Arge and Dra. Lilia will also come with us. We’re going in an India wide trip (: we’ll just visit the most important places there as we won’t be staying longer than 40 days. Achi and thatha are a bit sad as we won’t be staying the whole trip with them. I am happy that I'll learn about India with Arge in this tour as I and Arge don’t really know much about it.

I hope and think that this visit to India will be really great.

Well, I’ll write about the trip when we return from there.

Copa Confederaciones

Hi everyone!
Today Brazil won the Confederations Cup against USA. The match was really interesting as in the first half USA was winning with a 2-0, but in the second half Brazil woke up and showed its magic and made 3 goals. The American goalkeeper (Tim Howard) made a difference as he saved many shots.
Dempsey made the first goal of the final at just 10 minutes. Then Landon Donovan made a goal in a kickback. Brazil started playing their game in the second half. Without even a minute of the 2nd half Luis Fabiano put the ball in the net. He again headed the ball into the net for the draw in a wonderful play of Kaka. Lucio, the Brazilian captain made the goal of the victory again with a heading. This was just 6 minutes before going to extra time. So the match was really exciting as both teams played well, one in the first half and the other in the second.
Kaka won the golden ball as the best player of this tournament.
Before all this, in the semifinals, I was totally surprised when USA won against Spain as it was my favorite for winning the Cup. Then in the 2nd semifinal: Brazil vs. South Africa, I thought that Brazil would easily win but the match was really tough. Brazil passed to the final with a last minute goal of Dany Alves in a direct free kick.
Well, now let’s wait for South Africa 2010. 346 days for the World Cup to start.
Spain is my favorite team to win the World Cup but let’s see what happens.

Changes

Hi everyone!!
Here everyone is really happy as we’re about to start holidays. This first year in junior high school was different. There were so many changes!! Still it was really nice.
I made new very good friends, and also got attached very much with some I knew since before. Just now a week before starting summer holidays, I started to remember all the things that happened this year and see the photos. We all have changed a lot!! I can’t believe it,, we’re all so different!!
So many unusual things happened.
First of all, people I never thought I’ll get along with them became some of my closest friends. Then our class which we never thought like one is now so united.
Then, the -Influenza Break- struck me hard as just 1 week before we had returned to school from Easter holidays. At first, it was ok to relax but after 3 days I was counting the days to return school.
Yesterday, a phrase that our Biology miss told us, kept me thinking. “Change is the only constant thing in life”. I remembered that I had often heard that phrase before but never thought about it until now. I liked it very very much. I think that it very real
Even though we don’t like the changes most of the time they’re for our good. So, what’s left is to over face and get over them.
At this moment, I’m really excited and happy because Arge’s coming and we’re going to India, but at the same time I’m feeling a bit sad as some of my closest friends aren’t going to be at the school next year. So, now just wishing the friday not to be the last day we ever meet. Hope all this new tech help us to keep in touch.

Go Green!

Bonjour!!
Well, right now for me it’s so boring…we’re in this kind of Influenza Break (swine flu break). It’s been nearly a week without classes and we’re supposed to enter again on Wednesday. I just hope that they don’t postpone it also. I think it’s quite right to do this for the health of everyone but now I question myself that how are we going to recover all the things we were supposed to see last week...

In this little “holidays” we saw 2 movies: Minority Report and Artificial Intelligence A.I. Both of them are science-fiction. They show the way they think that we'll be and things we'll create in the future, in order to create new technologies and make the life easier. In Minority Report they create a precrime system. They have 3 precogs who can see the murders so by that way they avoid the death of many people. Here the problem was that in some cases there was a minority report so not always the vision was true. In A.I. they create robots who'll be able to love, this is kind of strange because the robots also have the same feelings as us. The problem was that they didn't know if humans would be able to give back they love they received.

Right now, I think first about the planet. That all this global warming thing is going to affect and change the world totally in some years…so what’s about to happen, is something that I can’t imagine. There are so many things happening these days.
We have to try to make our best because the earth is the only place till now, where we can live. We’ve got to help, by recycling, using energy-savers appliances, and going green!

Shantaram

Hi all!!
This time I’m writing about a book called Shantaram. It’s written by an Australian who after escaping from the prison, where he was sentenced for robbery and heroin addiction, comes to India. Most of the book is non-fiction but there is also fiction.
Gregory David Roberts gets a false New Zealand passport with the name of Lindsay Ford. After arriving Bombay, he gets a guide called Prabu (Prabaker), who later becomes his friend. Prabu takes him to the slums and the black markets in the city. He also goes to Leopold’s, where he meets Karla (a swiss-american woman, of whom Lin fell in love from the first time he met her), Didier, Modena, Ulla, Maurizio, Letita, Kavita, Vikram and many others. Lin and Karla have a close relationship. One day, Prabu invited Lin to go for vacations to his native village (Sunder village). They stayed there for nearly six months. Lin learned a lot about Indian culture there, and also learned Hindi and Marathi. He became like a brother to Prabu and part of their family. Prabu’s parents called him Shantaram Kishan Kharre. Shantaram meant man of peace, or man of god’s peace. Lin went to live in the slums. He worked as a doctor. He met new people as Johnny Cigar, Raju, Mr. Qasim Ali Hussein, Anand, Rafiq, Jeetendra, Radha, Abdullah Taheri, etc. One day, Abdullah took him with Abdel Khader Khan (Khaderbhai), Nazeer, and others and they talked about philosophical things. Once, while he was attending some people, Karla passed by to visit him. He was very shamed to be seen by Karla in that condition. After finishing, Lin invited her to join him to eat at the Village in the Sky. There he hears about the Sapna killers. They were supposed to be a gang that killed the rich people to give it to the poor ones. With Khaderbhai too he talked about them. One day, Karla asked him to help her get her friend, Lisa out of Madame Zhou place. Karla arranged everything and Madame Zhou accepted to leave Lisa, but with the condition that if Lisa returned she would never be able to go out. Lisa joined them and they three left that horrible place.
Lin also took care of Khaderbhai’s nephew Tariq. He had to teach English and his culture. He looked after Tariq for 3 months. During that period, Tariq and Lin became close friends.
Lin also met a Nigerian called Hassan Obikwa.
A hard cholera fever occurred in the slums. Radha, Parvati, and many others fell sick. Karla also helped him to attend people. Lin did all he could, but still when the epidemic finished, 6 people died.
One day, Ulla told Lin to meet her outside Leopold’s at 1:00 at night. When Lin arrived there, some people took him to the police station.
Lin found out that he was there as someone discovered that he had escaped from the Australian jail. He was sent to the Arthur Road Prison, where he tried to get stronger and remembered his Australian life. Four months passed, Lin was told that a man had come to release him; Vikram, Khaderbhai had sent him. When Lin was out, he also paid for a man called Raheem to be released. Vikram told Lin that Karla had left the city. Khaderbhai asked Lin to work for him, so he joined the Bombay mafia.
Lin started his instruction with Khaled Ansari, to learn the black-market money trade, and then he learnt the gold-smuggling trade with Madjid. Finally, he was about to start the passport business with Ghani.
Ulla came and told him that she’ll tell him where to find Karla if he helped her. Ulla was in some trouble along with Modena and Maurizio and she needed money. Karla had written a letter to her from Goa somewhere near Masupa. After searching Karla the whole day, he sits by the beach. Just then, Karla appears. They start talking and spent a week visiting the shores. When Lin was about to go, Karla told him not to return to Bombay. She told him that if he went away it was all over between them. Lin left her. In Bombay, Ghani told Lin that the Sapna guys had killed Madjid, and then he presented Krishna and Villu. They were experts in the counterfeiting arts. Krishna was a light-box man, he could duplicate the effects of any passport and Villu was a stamp man. He could make any stamp. They became good friends. Lin went with them everyday.
Prabaker gave him the news that he and Johnny were going to get married.
3 African men wanted to kill him and Obikwa told them that they were tourists and when they found where those men were staying, Abdullah, Lin and others went to fight against them. At last, Abdullah forced them to tell who arranged it, finally they told that it was Maurizio Belcane.
The next day, Johnny told him that Anand Rao had killed Rasheed. It was the first murder in the slum, so everyone was really worried. Anand had done the wrong thing for a good reason. Rasheed sold the kidneys of his wife and sister and in the end he ran away. In the hospital they were claimed dead but half an hour later they were alive. Lin told Kavita to make an article about Anand and his case. Sometime later, the story became famous. The women were called “The blue sisters” and as people visited them as a miracle they became famous.
Lin helped people with illegal passports get into other countries by a system called double-shuffle. He also worked with Lisa in film industries contracting foreign stunts.
Some days later, Lisa killed Maurizio as he was disturbing her and Ulla. Lin arranged Obikwa to take the body away and clean the place. Modena was injured so Lin took him to the hospital. He told Ulla to return to Germany.
The ambience at Leopold’s had changed, new people came. Vikram and Lettie had got married. Johnny’s and Prabaker’s weeding was a very happy one. Lin gave Prabu a taxi as his wedding present and 5 thousand American dollars for Johnny.
One day, when Lin was returning from the film set, Khaled told him that the cops thought Abdullah was the Sapna guy and had killed him. In Leopold’s, Johnny told him that Prabaker had had an accident. Prabaker was in the hospital, he was really bad. The doctors told them that he’ll die and indeed some time later, it happened. Lin was really upset. Khaderbhai, Khaled and the others had disappeared and Lin felt alone. His closest friends had died and Khaderbhai wasn’t there and all together he felt terrible.
3 months passed. Everyday Lin smoked heroin, he was really weak. One day, Nazeer came and took him away. When he woke up, he saw Karla. He asked her how she found him; she replied that Khaderbhai had sent her. Half an hour later, he woke up beside Khaderbhai. He said that he had a work for Lin. He told Lin that in 3 or 4 months he would be ready. Lin had lesson of riding horses with Nazeer and their friendship grew. Khaderbhai told him that they were going to go to the war in Afghanistan, and that Lin will come as an American.
Time passed and they prepared to leave to Afghanistan. They flew from Bombay to Karachi, Pakistan. Lin used 4 passports in Karachi. He met a lot of new people; Lin had met them all before...the first time he met Khaderbhai. He then realized that Khaderbhai had included him since the first time. There were many people from different parts of the world. Khaderbhai explained about the war. Sometime later, the Pakistani police searched the hotel where they stayed. They knew that someone close to them had betrayed them so they needed to be careful. Lin remembered read a note from Didier, which said that the woman that had betrayed him was Madame Zhou. Many crazy things happened in Afghanistan. Lin learned a lot of things about Khaderbhai and Karla, about how he went to the jail, between many other things. One day, he got really angry at Khaderbhai and he refused to go with Khaderbhai. That had saved his life, cause after days that Nazeer, Khaderbhai and others left, Nazeer returned with Khaderbhai’s dead body. Lin and everyone became really depressed but the named the oldest man as their guide. Most of the men who started the journey started to die one by one. At the end, just Nazeer, Lin, a boy called Ala-ud-Din and Mahmoud survived.
When they returned to India, some people didn’t know that Khaderbhai had died. Some time after he left Ghani, Nazeer and his men killed him. He was the one that had betrayed them in Pakistan. Krishna and Villu were freed. New followers came to Khaderbhai’s gang. Now they were a different kind of people, so many things had changed. One day, Lin saw Abdullah, he thought that he was going crazy, but then Abdullah told him that in the attack he was taken to New Delhi and there he had recovered himself. They had new types of tasks and all. One day, Lin met with Modena in Leopold’s; he said that he was waiting to Ulla’s return. So many things had happened since he had come to Bombay. At the end, he has 2 options to go to the war in Sri Lanka or go with Karla. After leaving Karla, he went to the slum. Prabu’s parents were there, they were really happy to him, and Parvati gave birth to a boy whom they named Prabaker.
Lin had changed completely since he stepped Bombay for the first time. A new life was ahead of him.
I liked a lot this book. I think it shows a part of India, well exactly about the life in the Bombay slums. It’s really good.

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Slumdog Millionaire

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This time I’m just going to tell a little about the movie Slumdog Millionaire. This movie won 8 Oscar’s this year, including best film and best director (Danny Boyle). It also won the best original song with Jai Ho of AR Rahman.
The plot of this movie takes place in Mumbai, India. It’s the story of Jamal Malik, the movie starts telling that he was 1 question away from winning 10 million rupees in a contest called Who wants to be a millionaire?. Everyone is confused as they don’t know how a boy from the Bombay slums could have reached till here as doctors, scientists and many others couldn’t pass the 1 million rupees question. Jamal is being questioned by a police officer and that’s when he explains all the events that happened in Jamal’s life, the ones in which he based to answer the questions.
Jamal and his brother Salim became orphans in a religious fight. They both run away from the place and in the way they find Lathika. Jamal and Lathika become very good friends. Sometime later, they are found by Maman who tells them that he will help them but really he was training them to beg. After finding out what will happen to them; Salim, Jamal and Lathika try to escape. The 2 boys manage to escape leaving Lathika behind. Many years had passed; Jamal and Salim went through many things. One day, Jamal and Salim return to the slums to search for Lathika. Salim kills Maman after finding Lathika. He and Jamal have a fight. Jamal leaves as Salim threatens him with a gun. After many years, Salim joins another criminal band and Jamal works at a phone calls company. There he finds Salim’s phone number and gets in contact with him again. Jamal stays with Salim for some days and at that time he meets with Lathika. She tells him about her life those days. He asks her to come away with him, he tells her to meet him the next day at the train station. The next day, she goes but Salim and the others prevent her from leaving. Jamal decides to enter the TV program -Who wants to be a millionaire?- just for Lathika to see him. Lathika, Salim and the others were taken to another place, there Salim thinks about all the mistakes he committed and gives Lathika his cell and tells her to escape. The program host was very angry and amazed with Jamal. Jamal had at last come to the 10 million rupees question, as he didn’t know the answer he decided to use the application of –call a friend-. That’s when he calls Salim but Lathika answers and she says that she doesn’t know and has never know the answer to the question of who was the 3rd musketeer. When they were young Jamal always told that he and Salim were Arthos and Porthos and that Lathika was the 3rd musketeer, whose name they never knew. Jamal just chooses an answer without being sure of it, as his only desire was to be with Lathika and not winning the game. Jamal wins the game and takes the 10 million rupees. Salim kills the criminal leader and himself. The movie ends when Salim is in the train station and he sees Lathika there.
Appa says that in India some people think that the movie isn’t as good as it shows the poor part of India now that it’s growing, while others think that this is also the reality so why not show it. In my opinion, I think that we should also know other things more than just the nice part of somewhere. The movie is very good and the time really goes fast watching the movie. I liked it.