Monday, December 29, 2008

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!

Friday, August 15, 2008

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.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

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!

Thursday, July 17, 2008

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!

Sunday, July 06, 2008

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.

Monday, June 02, 2008

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
Everyone is very happy because this team deserved the championship.

Monday, March 10, 2008

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.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Guess who?

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


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

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Fairies

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



Sunday, January 06, 2008

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!!!!!

Thursday, January 03, 2008

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.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Denounce Domestic Violence


I drew this today for a competition in our school against Crime & I chose domestic violence as my theme.

ALZA LA VOZ - RAISE YOUR VOICE

NO LO ACEPTES - DO NOT ACCEPT

NO TE CALLES - DO NOT SHUT YOUR MOUTH

DENUNCIALO - DENOUNCE IT

Hope my drawing represents the theme.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Reina Roja

Hola!!!!!!
I read a book called “Reina Roja” (Red Queen). It was written by Adriana Malvido. It’s about a Mayan queen. Fanny Lopez and her team discovered a sarcophagus in 1994, in Palenque, Chiapas state of Mexico. The called that as “Red Queen”, as the bones were in red colour due to a substance the Mayans added to the dead body. They knew that the sarcophagus was of an important person as it had Jade mask and skeletons of 2 other person with it. The two skeletons signify that the souls of these two persons will accompany the soul of main body to the nine worlds, which they had to cross to reach either one of the three heavens. They presumed that the sarcophagus could be mother or grandma or wife or daughter-in-law of a great Mayan king of Palenque called Pakal. Pakal’s sarcophagus was found 50 years ago in the same region. They compared Pakal’s bones and the queen’s bones to see if there was any DNA resemblance. But recently they found that there isn’t any resemblance between them. Hence the sarcophagus could be his mother or grandma. So they think that the Reina Roja may be his wife or daughter-in-law. But many believe that it could be his wife. It isn’t sure who the Reina Roja is yet. The true name of the Reina Roja is still a mystery. But when they searched more to find the identity of Reina Roja, they found many other Mayan secrets in Palenque. This book is very interesting. I liked it.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Parras-Pueblo Mágico

Hi!!!!!!!!
On 9th August we went to a town called Parras. We went with Dra. Lilia and Sra. Magda. We stayed in the house of Dra.’s friend. We met Sra. Mary (92 years old) and her daughters Lola, Sonia, Virtudes, Aurora, her son Arturo, son in law Sr. Carlos (husband of Sra. Sonia), her granddaughters, grandsons and many other people. Parras is nearly 1 and half hours from Torreon by car. Parras is very nice town. There are many orchards of grapes, nuts, avocados and other fruits.
On Thursday evening, we attended a festival of a saint called San Lorenzo, in which they also organize their fair of grapes and wine (Feria de las Uvas y el Vino). One of the granddaughters of Sra. Mary, Srta. Dora Maria Silva (daughter of Sr. Arturo) was selected as the Queen of the Fair. Sr. Arturo named his son as Rabindranath, in memory of great Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore.
They took us to a place where they make wine, called Casa Madero. It was established in 1597. So, Parras is more than 400 years old town. There we first saw some traditional dancers called matachines. They were dressed colorfully and danced very nicely. Then we went to the Church there, where they offered prayers for the event. The Church was decorated very beautifully.
In the night the matachines came down from a hill with a torch. At the same time there were fireworks on the hill. It looked beautiful. When they reached Casa Madero, they lighted wood fire. They danced around the fire until it went out. Again there were fireworks. It was very good and I liked them. It was midnight when we returned home, but the party continued with dances until morning.
On Friday at about 10 a.m. there was a parade from the town to San Lorenzo (where the Casa Madero is located). The queen of the grapes and vine, Dora Maria Silva, “God Baco” (Roman God of Grapes), princess of the grapes, matachines (one type of folklore dancers in Mexico), and other people took part in the parade. Ms. Dora Maria is the 4th queen of the Fair from their family.
In Casa Madero, the Queen and the princess crushed the grapes (“molienda”) with their feet. This is an old custom to start the wine making process for the year. It was very nice. After the “molienda”, we took photos with the queen and the “God Baco”. I took many photos of the event.
Later we also attended a lunch party in the Hacienda of the Casa Madero. It is a beautiful and big place. The owners of Casa Madero organized this party and have invited all those participated in the parade and their family and friends for the party. During the lunch Mariachi (traditional music group) was also played. We ate lot of sweet grapes of the town and also the traditional sweets of milk, fruit and nuts.
After the lunch Sra. Sonia and Sra. Virtudes took us to see various tourist spots in Parras. First we went to 2 tanks of water where people could swim. Then we went to Srta. Dora Maria’s house. It was very nice. Later we went to Sra. Sonia’s house. There she grows avocados, peaches and other fruit trees. She gave avocados, peaches and other things to Dra. Lilia, Sra. Magda and to us. They also took us to traditional sweets shops and we bought many sweets made of milk and nuts. They were very tasty.
We returned to Torreon on Friday night. I like Parras: Uno de los Pueblos Mágicos de México (One of the magic towns of Mexico).

Hacienda de los Hornos

Salut!!!!!
This one is about my trip to “La Hacienda de los Hornos”. On 5th August we went there with Dra. Lilia, Srta. Yessica, Sra. Luz Maria, Sra. Magda and Sr. Miguel Angel, brother of Sra. Magda and his family. I made friendship with Andrea (daughter of Sr. Miguel) in this trip.
La Hacienda de los Hornos is near the village of Viesca. It’s the first house that was built in the region “La Laguna”. In that place there is a church which is also very old. It’s the region where there are the cities of Torreon (where I live), Gomez Palacio, Lerdo and other little villages. Las Dunas de Bilbao (sand dunes) is also near Viesca. We couldn’t go there this time.
Though the hacienda is in deteriorated condition, it was nice to see it. It has 2 floors, but there aren’t any stairs to go up. So Andrea, Yessica, amma and me climbed the wall to go to the first floor. From there, the view was very beautiful. In the church there were little statues of Santa Ana (Mary’s mother), paintings and the many other old things. After visiting these places we returned to Torreon. We went to eat tacos in a home restaurant. The tacos were very tasty. I liked this trip. I hope you enjoyed reading about it.

Monday, August 06, 2007

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

Hola todos!!!
Dra. Lilia and Yessica gifted me the new Harry Potter book. They bought it in Venice, Italy during their Europe tour. This blog is about it. The book is very very interesting. I loved it!!!.
Harry was waiting for the people of the order of phoenix to take him, his aunt, uncle and Dudley to a safer place as Voldemort might be searching them. After his uncle’s family had left, Moody arrives with Arthur, Fred, George, Bill, Ron, Hermione, Fleur, Lupin, Tonks, Hagrid, Kingsley and Mundugus Fletcher. They plan a trick and form 7 Harrys’ with the poly-juice potion in order to confuse the death eaters. Harry goes with Hagrid. In this journey Mad-Eye Moody and Hedwig get killed as they were attacked by Death Eaters.
After some days the family of Ron and their friends celebrate Harry’s birthday in the burrow. The minister of magic came during the party and gave the things that Dumbledore left to Harry, Ron and Hermione in his will. Harry got the snitch that he caught in his first Quidittch match and Godric Gryffindor sword, Ron the deluminator and a children book for Hermione. The minister gave them all those things except the sword. Then Bill and Fleur’s wedding took place. During the wedding party, Kingsley informs everyone that the minister of magic had died. Harry, Ron and Hermione disapparated to a common muggle street. There they went to a quiet bar where death eaters attack them. After escaping they went to Harry’s house (the house that Sirius left him). In there Harry saw a letter from his mom to Sirius. He also finds out that R.A.B. was Sirius brother. So they start searching for the locket. Later Hermione remember that Kreacher hid all the valuable things of the house. They went with Kreacher and ask him if he knew about the locket. He tells them that Mundugus had taken it. Harry also asked how Regulus got it. Kreacher started telling the story. Then Harry told him to bring Mundugus there. Lupin visits them and asks if he could also go with them. But Harry tells that he has to be with his wife Tonks, as she was pregnant. Some days later Kreacher came with Mundugus. They ask Mundugus about the locket and he informs that he has sold it to Umbridge. So Harry, Ron and Hermione decide to go the Ministry of magic to take it. After lot of struggle, they take away the locket from Umbridge. Then they disapparate into the forest. There Hermione put many charms to their tent in order to be safe. Now the problem was that they couldn’t destroy the locket as they didn’t have Godric Gryffindor’s sword. After a quarrel with Harry, Ron leaves both Harry and Hermione. After some time Harry and Hermione went to Godric Hollow. This was where Dumbledore had lived, Harry was born, his parents had died and where Gryffindor was born. They go to the cemetery first. Later they saw Bathilda, they follow her. Bathilda takes Harry to a room and attacks him. She converts herself into Nagini, Voldemort’s snake. Hermione saves him but accidentally breaks Harry’s wand. They both return to the forest. Later one day Harry sees Gryffindor’s sword in a lake and goes for it. But the water was so cold that he was nearly dying. Ron returns, saves Harry and takes the sword. Then Harry asks Ron to destroy the locket with the sword. Then they return back to the tent and tell Hermione about what they had done.
Some time afterwards they visit Mr. Lovegood to get details about a sign. He tells them that it was the sign of the Deathly Hollows and about its legend. Harry understands that he has 2 of the 3 things. He just didn’t have the elder wand. He wants to find it, but Hermione and Ron tells him that they should first destroy the horcruxes. They later return to their camp. There Harry accidentally mentions the name Voldemort instead of telling He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Suddenly death eaters appear and take them to Malfoy’s house. They lock them up. Suddenly Dobby appears, saves Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna Lovegood, Mr. Ollivander, Dean and a goblin and takes them to Bill’s house. But Dobby also gets killed by Bellatrix. During the fight, Harry takes away Malfoy and Bellatrix wand.
After some time Harry, Ron and Hermione ask the goblin if he could take them to the Lestrange’s account. They thought a horcrux could be there. The goblin wants the sword in change. They accept and go to Gringott and take the horcrux. It was Helga Hufflepuff’s cup. They escape in a dragon. The goblin took the sword from Harry as they were escaping.
Harry thinks that Voldemort might have the final horcrux in Hogwarts. He has to kill Nagini as the snake was a horcrux. In the meantime Voldemort opens Dumbledore’s tomb and takes away the Elder Wand. Dumbledore’s brother helps Harry, Ron and Hermione to get inside Hogwarts. In Hogwarts they meet many their friends, who are in Dumbledore’s Army. They help Harry to find out the diadem of Rawenclaw. Luna took Harry to Ravenclaw’s common room as there was a statute of Rawenclaw with the diadem. Harry stuns the death eaters and tells Prof. McGonagall about the object that he was searching and that Voldemort is going to come to Hogwarts to fight. Many people of the order of phoenix come to Hogwarts to fight against Voldemort. Percy also returns back to their family. Lupin tells Harry that Tonks had her baby. He was called Teddy and requests Harry to be the godfather of his child, which Harry accepts.
Later Harry, Ron and Hermione go to the room of hidden things, where Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle attack them. The diadem was destroyed by the fire caused by a spell uttered by Crabbe. Harry and others escape. Earlier, Ron and Hermione destroy the cup with the basilisk.
Later Voldemort kills Snape. Snape gives his memories to Harry. He goes to Dumbledore’s office to see memories of Snape. Fred, Lupin and Tonks die during the fight. Harry comes to know many new things from the memories of Snape. Snape was not really been in Voldemort side and realizes that Snape was a good person and was doing things as per the advice of Dumbledore. When Harry goes to fight with Voldemort, he says Neville about Nagini and that it should be killed. He then saw his parents, Sirius and Lupin in the forest and they tell him that they are always with him in his heart. In the forest Harry pretends that Voldemort has killed him and discusses mentally with Dumbledore. Dumbledore tells him many things. As Voldemort thinks that Harry is dead, take his body inside Hogwarts so that others can see that the Dark Lord had won. When they were inside Harry gets up and fights with Voldemort again. Neville kills Nagini. A rebound from Elder wand hits Voldemort and he dies. Harry wins the fight against the Dark Lord. Harry has the Elder Wand now, but returns it to the tomb of Dumbledore.
Then Harry marries Ginny and nineteen years later they both have 2 sons and 1 daughter. They were called James, Albus Severus and Lily. Ron had married Hermione and had 1 daughter called Rose and a son called Hugo. Teddy was also with them. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny go to King cross Station to see off their children to Hogwarts. There they meet Draco, his wife and son.
I hope you all read and enjoy this book.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix

Hello everyone!!!!!
Now I’ll tell about the new Harry Potter movie. It’s directed by David Yates. It lasts 138 minutes. But it really goes fast. It doesn’t have many things that the book told. But however it was good.

It starts when Harry and Dudley are attacked by dementors. So Harry makes the patronous charm. For this reason, the ministry of magic may expel Harry from Hogwarts. He manages from not getting expelled with the help of Prof. Dumbledore. He also goes to number thirteen Grimmuald Place (Headquarters of the order of phoenix) where he sees many of his old friends and also meet new friends. Some time later they go to school. They see Luna Lovegood. There they find out that their new Defense against Dark Arts teacher is Dolores Umbridge. She works for the Ministry of Magic. As a fact she doesn’t teach them anything. So Hermione tell Harry to teach them defense against dark arts in secret. So they decide that, and many students also go. Harry teaches them many things. Some time later Harry dreams on an attack on Ron’s father. So he goes with Dumbledore to save him. Later Ron’s father gets better. In Hogwarts Harry have occulemency classes with Snape. After some time Snape refuses to give Harry those classes. Umbridge was now the high inquisitor of Hogwarts. She goes to see how teachers teach their class. She fires professor Trelawney and tells her to get out. But Dumbledore says Umbridge that she can’t get teachers out of Hogwarts. So Trelawney stays there. She also finds about Harry teaching. Then she goes with Dumbledore to complain about that. He says he told them to do that. So she is made as principal of Hogwarts and she says that Dumbledore should go to Azkaban. But Dumbledore escaped. Later the Weasley twins also went away and bid farewell with beautiful fireworks. I liked this part very much. Then Harry also dreams about Sirius asking for help. He sees as if he was in the department of mysteries in the ministry of magic. He goes to check if it’s real by calling Sirius by fire in Umbridge office. But she catches him. She thought Harry was going to talk with Dumbledore. Harry was telling that he wasn’t doing that when Hermione told yes. She said they had a weapon in the forest. She and Harry took Umbridge to the forest. They took Umbridge with Grawp. It is Hagrid’s half brother and also a giant. There some centaurs attack them but Grawp saves Harry and Hermione. Centaurs take away Professor Dolores Umbridge with them. Now Harry tells he has to go to the ministry of magic to save Sirius. But Hermione, Ron, Neville, Ginny and Luna say they’ll also go. So they all go there. When they reach the department of mysteries they see some type of balls. Soon they see one with Harry’s name on it and at this time they also see death eaters. One of them Lucius Malfoy tells Harry to give the ball to him. He also says it’s a prophecy. But Harry refuses to give it to Malfoy. After running for some time they get to a type of arch. Suddenly it goes black and then the death eaters have Harry’s friends. So Lucius tells Harry to give him the prophecy. Harry gives it to him. Suddenly wizards of the order of phoenix come. Lucius drops the prophecy and break it. The wizards fight against the death eaters. On this a death eater called Bellatrix Lestrange kills Harry’s godfather, Sirius Black. Then the death eaters go. Dumbledore comes and Voldemort is there. They fight each other. At that time the minister of magic and other people come. Cornelius Fudge, minister of magic is surprised about the return of the dark lord. Soon Voldemort disappears. They all return to Hogwarts and again Dumbledore takes his place as director of Hogwarts. They finish another year at Hogwarts.
I saw this movie on premiere show. It was on Thursday 12th of July at 12.00 at night. Many people were there too. I liked it very much. Hope you all also will enjoy the movie.

Friday, July 06, 2007

My Summer Holidays

Hi guys!!
In this blog, I am writing about my activities during this summer holidays.
I’m going to a basketball course in ESBAL, Escuela de Basketball Algodoneros de la Laguna (Cotton growers Basketball School of Laguna & basketball team of Torreon). We go from Monday to Friday. We start classes at 9.00 in the morning and finish at 1:30 pm. But we have a recess at 11:30 for 30 min. But from 16th to 27th July, our class is from 4 to 6 pm.
There are nearly 100 kids (5 to 16 years) in this course. One of my classmates from school is also in the course. Few of my school team mates, Karla, Paty, Andrea and Luisa are also in this summer camp. We are divided into different categories. I’m in the category of 11 and 12 years old boys and girls. Our coach is Tony. He is also my coach at the school.
We are practicing many things. We practice defense, shots and dribbling. They gave us 2 T-shirts and told us that they give us a free pass to go to all the matches that Algodoneros play. I’ve made new friends here. It is fun. I like it. Today some basketball players from the Algodoneros team came. We played a friendly match with them. Our group played just for 5 minutes as there are many groups. But we couldn’t reach them as they were very tall. However it was fun. It was very good.
From the 3rd week of July, I will attend another course in the Arocena Museum. I have already told you all that I go to the Arocena Museum on all Saturdays. I help them and I’m getting ready to be a guide in the museum.
During the evenings I just read something, draw fairies (I like to draw these very much) or watch football matches (Copa Oro, Copa America & FIFA under 20 World cup) and cartoons.
See you all soon in my next blog!!!