Favorite Blog Post : Drawing

Many, many teachers may truly hate me for my bad habits in class but, what can I say? I simply love to draw. I like to draw in bed, during classes, in airplanes, while watching movies in my house, while eating, and others I can´t remember at the moment. The truth is: I used to hate to draw………. I liked it but I didn’t know how. And I still don´t know how to draw animals, or people, or complex objects. But slowly I learned how to draw more abstract drawings and objects that don’t make complete sense but they are still fun. I get my inspiration from dreams, little things I see, and other pieces of art. It would be amazing if one day I could get payed for drawing so that I could do the things I love as a living. Unfortunately for me that is just not going to happen because I have responsibilities and a future to pursue.






The only thing that sometimes annoys me is the math that may be involved in each drawings. Its not complicated math or anything but I will still complain about it. I am a perfectionist when it comes to drawing and when I make patterns they have to be just right. Everything in its perspective place and the right size so that it looks neat and organized in the end. If something is meant to be in the center trust me, it will be in the center.

(I did not make this but it is my favorite style of drawing)

http://www.brucegray.com/images/eyecandy3.jpg

HERE IS A PICTURE THAT I DID MAKE:

Haagen Dazs

Now here is something that most People LOVE!! Haagen Dazs’ ice creams. There are so many different flavors that you can try out that when I go to the store each time to pick out an ice cream to enjoy at home, I get so indecisive that it becomes nearly impossible to pick one single flavor.


Among their copious amount of flavors, my favorite ones are: Cookies and cream, Strawberry Cheesecake, Vanilla Caramel Brownie, Chocolate chip cookie dough, and Midnight Cookies and Cream. Some of them are so weird but their combination is genius. What impressed me the most was how much I can eat. In one sitting, depending where I am, I’ll eat up to one can of their ice cream.

Haagen Dazs was not created over night….. it took them about 4 decades to perfectionate their products. Mr. Mattus, supported by his wife Rose, made this company based on the vision that was soon going to become the world’s number 1 ice cream.


http://www.haagen-dazs.com/company/history.aspx

MONIQUE VON GABRIEL

Have you ever met a person who can be described in one word? Crazy. It is a simple word that can be followed by endless explanations. Monique is this crazy person to me. She is a great friend and she always comes up with new and creative ways to make people around her laugh. A lot. We think very differently in many ways but, that doesn´t matter because I believe that, that is why she is a close friend of mine.


She has always been a very cute person to me. Someone who is there when I need her. If I am in a happy mood she will laugh with me for hours without even having a true reason to laugh. When I feel sad or somehow depressed she accompanies me by giving me advice or simply being there. She shows that she cares.

Something that distinguishes Monique from almost everyone that I know is her selflessness. At break time sometimes I find myself without money to buy anything or during class when I starve and have nothing to eat. She finds ways to help me with small things or big things. She does this to anyone who shows to be her friend. This is why I LOVE MONIQUE VON GABRIEL!!!

MAFE!!

Her real name is Maria Fernanda but everyone calls her MAFE. She was born in Peru but up until last year she was living here, in São Paulo. Now she is currently back home in her senior year. I really do hope that she ends up coming for college in the city because not only is she one of my best friends but, she has also given me many, many unforgettable moments.


She was the one that presented chapel to me when I first arrived in Brazil back in the year 2006 when I was a 7th grader. We didn’t have the best start but by the end we had already become inseparable. She is hilarious, charming, smart, influential, and pretty. She tought me a lot about life and how to look at it from completely different perspectives.

We have a few traditions that occur almost every time I meet her. We like to go shopping a lot where we can try on clothes that will NEVER be in our wardrobe while we take pictures. We later enjoy ice cream or depending on where we are we go to Franz Café. Our biggest tradition is Martinezlandia which, is nothing huge or anything like that. We do a sleepover at my house where we watch various movies, we bake too many cakes to eat, and we talk about our feelings for endless hours.

Listening to Music

I don't get it. I truly don't. Statistics say that we must never listen to music when we are doing homework because we wont be able to concentrate. They even say that your grades will be bad and bla bla bla. The ironic thing here is that at the same time they promote us to listen to classical music while we do our work in order to be better at it. Are we, or are we not able to do more than one thing at a time? Well, I really don’t know the answer to that question but I am still going to listen to my music while I do my homework.


Every time I listen to the type of music that I enjoy the most it relaxes me and it allows me to do my work will less stress. I don’t listen to it word by word it is mostly in the background. My mind is mostly focus on my math homework or my other class’s homework.

I have a playlist with mostly calm songs that I’ve heard many times before so I’m already used to their tone. I don’t only listen to music while I’m working but also when I’m at the gym or outside my house jogging. With time and age music has become more and more involved in my life because I listen to it in various activities that take place during the day. I listen to it while I’m showering, in the car, exercising, studying, dancing, and many other activities.

I don’t know anymore what I would do without music.

Drawing

Many, many teachers may truly hate me for my bad habits in class but, what can I say? I simply love to draw. I like to draw in bed, during classes, in airplanes, while watching movies in my house, while eating, and others I can´t remember at the moment. The truth is: I used to hate to draw………. I liked it but I didn’t know how. And I still don´t know how to draw animals, or people, or complex objects. But slowly I learned how to draw more abstract drawings and objects that don’t make complete sense but they are still fun. I get my inspiration from dreams, little things I see, and other pieces of art. It would be amazing if one day I could get payed for drawing so that I could do the things I love as a living. Unfortunately for me that is just not going to happen because I have responsibilities and a future to pursue.


The only thing that sometimes annoys me is the math that may be involved in each drawings. Its not complicated math or anything but I will still complain about it. I am a perfectionist when it comes to drawing and when I make patterns they have to be just right. Everything in its perspective place and the right size so that it looks neat and organized in the end. If something is meant to be in the center trust me, it will be in the center.

(I did not make this but it is my favorite style of drawing)

http://www.brucegray.com/images/eyecandy3.jpg

HERE IS A PICTURE THAT I DID MAKE:

E entertaintment Television

E Entertainment Television and MTV are my two favorite channels in TV. However E has a diversity of things to watch. They offer from documentaries to reality shows. Even though it all has to be related to Hollywood one way or another, you still learn a lot by watching some programs like Dr. 90210. It is a reality TV show that involves a lot of woman and men of several ages that have to get so and so operations so they go to doctors in Beverly Hills. They interview the patients as well as the doctors and you go through the entire procedure with the patients.


WARNING: if you do not like blood or cuts DON’T WATCH THIS SHOW.

Even though some selected episodes may be relatively gross you learn a lot about the human body and their functions. I learned about the culture in certain areas of the United States and the standards that most women are dying to meet. There are other reality shows like Keeping up with the Kardashians, The Perfect Catch, Temptation Island, and Kendra to name a few.

The Red Carpet season is also a big deal in the film industry and E always invests a lot of money on transmitting these famous events directly home so we can watch them. The season is during February and March . Different types of celebrities are invited to a diversity of awards for their performances. The Oscars is one of the biggest events and it involves mainly best movies, directors, and actors. The SAG awards are for TV show, and the Grammy’s is for the music industry.

This channel offers news as well and comedy based on it. Most of the news you will see won’t be based on the most recent natural disaster or the political situation in some country unless celebrities are involved. The soup is a show were celebrities are caught in embarrassed situations and the host of the show makes their life miserable and jokes about them in a very sarcastic way. In comedy and news you also have the Chelsea Lately Show. Chelsea, the hostess, makes fun of the current situations in Hollywood including live interviews with celebs.

Christmas

I cannot believe that Christmas is over and we are barely in march. Its not the fact that I will have to wait more than half a year until its Christmas again……. But I haven’t had a nice, cold, and cozy Christmas since last, last year. My mental image of a perfect Christmas is most likely very different than the perfect Christmas of many Brazilians. I can´t spend Christmas nor new years in the beach getting the perfect tan. Eating fish and ice creams every day instead of indulging on cookies, brownies, and turkey is not something I am used to.

Every Christmas I normally go to Northern Mexico and for new years I go to several places in the US like Las Vegas and Denver for example. I like to see my family members and spend quality time with them doing copious amounts of activities and cooking together. My grandmother as well as my mom, makes the BEST Christmas treats and cuisine. We have a lot of cookies, brownies, cakes, turkey, salads, gravy, and pies. When the weather is cold it makes it much more easier to enjoy these amazing stuff because you don’t end up all sweaty and full yet with your bikini on.

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Cooking

         Although cooking is more of a hobby to me than it is an actual possibility for future employments, I enjoy practicing a lot in my free time. I am Mexican and the rules are very basic in my home town: if you don´t cook you don’t get married until you do. It’s very weird to think that nowadays those old school rules still apply. But in my case they do so I had to grow up learning how to cook in one way or another. I mainly know how to cook Mexican food but that is not my preference. I enjoy cooking Italian cuisine and all kinds of pastries.


         Considering the fact that I love pastries Christmas is my favorite time of the year. They make all sorts of foods and sweets that are decorated in the cutest ways! Making pastries out of ginger and cinnamon is the best in my opinion because it gives it the perfect Christmas tough especially when you add frosting.

Here is a recipe I found of one of my favorite desserts!

Apple-Cranberry Crisp

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup old-fashioned oats

2/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1/2 cup butter, cut into pieces

5 large Jonathan apples, peeled, sliced

4 Granny Smith apples, peeled, sliced

2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries

3/4 cup granulated sugar

6 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/4 cup butter, cut into pieces

Vanilla ice cream or sweetened whipped cream

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Butter a 13 x 9 x 2-inch glass baking dish.

2. Mix first 3 ingredients in bowl. Add 1/2 cup butter and combine using pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal.

3. Mix apples, cranberries, sugar, flour, cinnamon and vanilla in large bowl. Transfer to prepared baking dish. Dot with 1/4 cup butter. Crumble topping evenly over fruit.

4. Bake until apples are tender, about 1 1/4 hours. Cool slightly.

5. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or sweetened whipped cream, as desired.

Makes 12 servings.

http://www.cooksrecipes.com/dessert/apple-cranberry-crisp-recipe.html

Horseback Riding

Horseback riding ha been part of my life for a long, long time now. I don´t like to do it seriously though simply because I don't have the time and the dedication for such a sport. I used to do it a little when I lived in Mexico, and later on in my life I went horseback ridig much mor often in Venezuela. Here in Brasil I am only able to pactice it during special trips or very once ina while. I don't have horses here like I used to have back in Venezuela but I still get to do it at clubs. The reason why I practiced it a lt in Venezuela is because my Mom's best friend used to have a huge farm that had more than 9 horses and we invested in horses of our own.

Beyoncé

Beyoncé is the only one I´ve seen who can dance amazingly and still manage to sing at the same time without stopping to have a breathe. I went to her show in Ferbruary and that was the main thing that took me by surprise the most. In all of her videos her voice is always so perfect and her body is so curvy yet proportional. But I never thought that when you looked at her live she would still be able to pull it of just as much as in her videos. Her voice wasn´t nearly as computerized as I thought it would be, and her body wasn´t completely photo shopped either.

Out of all the videos she has done I think my top 2 would have to be SWEET DREAMS and BABY BOY. They are very different because she made them in very different stages in her life. But each one of them involves her dancing in very weird yet admirable ways. In SWEET DREAMS she wears this tight tiny dress and then dances with two other ladies. There are sort of mirrors everywhere and the effects and dance moves are unbelievable. In BABY BOY my favorite part is when she is wearing sort of Arabian mixed with Indian. She does a type of dance I don’t recognize in the sand and she looks really astonishing .

The Beach

One of my favorite locations that exist in this world is the beach. I have been to plenty of beaches but I must tell you that the ones of my preference are the ones located in the Caribbean. I haven´t had the chance to visit all of the Caribbean but to the ones that I have been to have so far been almost impeccable. Cap Cana in Republican Dominican among the rest is one of the best. Others include Puntacana, Curacao, Aruba, Puerto Rico, and other places that I haven´t seen before.

The reason why I believe that Cap Cana is one of the most beautiful places and locations to visit is because my aunt has a house in there and it is far more than simply clean. The beaches have everything that you need. For example SPAs and restaurants. Since Cap Cana is placed in the middle of the world the climate is very tropical and sometimes nice and sunny. In the condominium that my aunt lives in has copious amounts of activities you can do as ell as clubs you can joins. You can do paintball, boogie riding, Horseback riding, golf, and still hit the gym all in the same day. You can take long walks in the beach and for breakfast you can go to the restaurants. Donald Trump has invested a lot of money in this residential and that is why it has many, many things involved in it.

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FINAL EXAMS!!

Today I decided that for my blog I am not going to write about things that I Do Like but instead I want to express myself in a negative way. I am going to write about something that I truly don’t like at all. FINAL EXAMS! They always ruin everything, my weekends become stressful, and my chances of passing a certain class decrease.


At the end of each semester we are all forced to do final exams for each class so that the teachers can see how much we have truly learned during the school year and if any progress is shown. I personally would much rather not take these exams and do some kind of a project or a presentation in which all of our progress is shown and the teachers can truly see how much we know. In exams I tempt to stress out, memorize everything right before the test happens, and later forget everything. I don´t show all of my potential either due to the amount of stress. ? Isn´t December supposed to be a happy month where everyone is all excited about the holidays? Well, at Chapel it´s all very different, at least for the students it is.

We become total anti-social people during the last weekends for we have to study loads and loads of information that we were supposed to know but we don´t cause teachers didn´t have time to teach us!

Circus Classes

I always liked circuses, since I was a little girl I loved to go and watch them.....not because of the monkeys and other  animals but because I found it amusing to see pretty girls dancing and doing the coolest things I since those days my dreams were always to one day become somewhat like them. When I lived in Venezuela I looked for classes but never found them because the idea of taking circus classes seems a bit crazy. However I when i came to live here in Brazil I found circus classes at the Companhia Atletica. At first I felt uncomfortable about atetending those classes because I thought it was just like juggling and those things. When I went to the classes I saw how the students were learning to do a lot of different jumps that are similar to the ones in cheereleading, flips, and flexibility activities.
This was perfect for me and exactly what I needed when i needed it! Since I was doing cheerleading, circus classes would truly help me because I would be able to practice my jumps, stunts, and flips more. I was amazed at how much talent one of the teachers had at olny the age of 17. He as well as the other teachers had a specific talent that they were willing to share to us so that we can be inspired by their acts. I think that my special talent is my flexibility. Due to my ballet, cheerleading, and other dancing activities my flexibily got very developed and managable so that I can always go back and be even more flexible.
In the future I hope to be even better at what I enjoy duing so much. I practice 2 days a week for an hour and a half and since I started I can see some clear improvement and less fear toward hights, falling, and breaking my bones!

Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger is to me, one of the greatest actors thatever existed. He had a lot of spirit and when it came to playing a significant role, he really knew exactly how to get into the role. Unfortunatly it was too much and that led to his death. He was born in Western Australia, in Perth, April 1979. In High school he picked to do drama enstead of cooking and even though hes mates didn't apreciate his obvious talent, later he dropped out of school hoping to become the actor Hollywood needed. At the age of 17 him and his friend headed out to Sydney to persuade an acting career. He wasn't very fortunate and he got his first acting job in a low budjet film in 1997. The name of the film was Blackrock. Not until 1999 when he played a funcky character in 10 Thing I Hate About You.
A problem that Heath had in becoming an actor is that he was already tagged with being a "pretty boy" and an actor of not much depth. For five years he desperatly tried to sway this image that was stuck with him away. In all of his films that I saw he always managed to convince me that he was truly that character. He was last seem on screen in The Dark Night as the Joker. Unfortunatly for the world lost one of it's best actors in January 22, 2008 in his apartment in Manhattan. It was found that he died of overdose of perscription drugs to sleep and anty-anxiety medication. He was having a lot of personal problems when he played the Joker because he was beleiving that he truly was that person.
Even though the world lost him in a way he still lives inside many of us because his performances penetrated us and left a mark that will never be forgotten.

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Escuela Campo Alegre

One of the places that I had to leave and I will always remember with a smile is my old school. When I lived in Venezuela I attended Escuela Campo Alegre in Caracas. In my opinion it is the best school the world has ever known simply because of their teachers, students, activites, and infrastructure. It is placed on top, in between and on a mountain whi makes it look even bigger than it already is. The best part about the infrastrucure to me besides the fact hat it had numerous courts, aditoriums ect. is the way that the classes are set. Each grade or section is like a totally diffrent world. Each building came with an auditorium and other rooms like art classes, and courts.

I made many significnant friendships that I am sure that will last forever. I made best friends and met role models. Every da when I was smaler I used to disobey the rules during recess time because otherwise it wasn´t fun. I learned to trust people in order to not get in trouble and to have fun without using technology. Many people always ask me if I do gymnastics or somehing similar because I am capable of doing acrobatics. I used to simply answer that no, I hadnt had any classes but at recess in ECA I always practiced crazy things with my friends.

The teachers are known for their pacience and their determination to help you any time that you have problems.  Mr. Dillon the, current high school principal, used to be my language arts teacher when I lived in Venezuela. I rememeber when I was going to move to Brasil he had to help me do my test because I had fractured y right hand. That was a very admirable act that I will always remember because he had infinite pacience.

I did a lot of activities in that school such as drama, swimming, ballet, an others. I liked it the most because it didn´t feel at all like an obligation. It was something that I really wanted to do. My ballet teacher was called Ms.Mariana and ever since I was litte I andmired her lithe movements and undescribable beauty. Every year we had a show and I felt like I learned alot from her..... this oes not only inlclude dance moves.

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Starbucks

     Starbucks, THE BEST COFEE SHOP EVER, has been around the world to please us since 1971. The name comes from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, a classic American novel about the 19th century whaling industry. The first Starbucks opened in seattle with the objective to feed the people in Seattle with only the finest of the world´s coffee that had to be imported. Most of their coffee comes from Latin America, Africa and the Pacific. They have stores located in more the 30 countries and each of them cary comfortable places to sit and relax whether it s to think, work, or gossip with your friends.

      If there is something that they have plenty of it´s food and offcourse beverages. They have yougurts, patries, cakes and cheesecakes, muffins, salads, sandwiches, and hot paninis that you can enjoy while you drink up. They have juices, frappuccinos and other blended beverages, and apart from that they have hot tea and coffee like cappuccino.
       My personal favorite is the coffee frappuccino because it is very taste ful and yet simple. I like to put 3 diffrent kinds of sugar and cinamon on it to give it the "Yormin" touch to it! and I love the blueberry muffins that they make because of their size. I take a lot of time to eat it and after I am done I feel really satisfied.

http://starbucks.co.uk/en-GB/_About+Starbucks/

Mexican Food

I have grown up to love mexican food. Not because I always eat it in my house considering that I am mexican but because it has a vast diversity. In mexican foods you can find from very sweet platters to sour and salty with spicy. It is very traditional for all mexican females to learn how to cook mexican traditional dishes.
You canfind from soups to to rices in difretn types of parties. Normally foods at parties are all home cooked. That is why it is recognized by the entire world. I really it also  beause it is olorful.

Acting

I have always wanted to be an actress because I believe that it is way more than just the steriotype job that people think it is. For me acting goes way beyond the obvious money, red carpet events, and fame. In my opinion acting is a way to put yourself in other people´s shoes and learn important leasons in life without actually having to suffer the consequeces that the character in the movie had to suffer. New opportunities to meet vast amounts of different people become present in one´s lives when they get involved in the acting buisness.

I like a lot of actresses and actors and my favorite ones include Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Heath Ledger, Johny Depp, Aishwarya Rai,  Jennifer Aniston,Taylor Lauhtner, Sophia Bush, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Charlie Hunnam, Ryan Reynolds, Shia Labouf, Dev Patel, Kat Winslet, Freida Pinto, Robert Pattinson, Eva Longoria, Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, Hayden Pantteniere, Jessica Biel, Matt Demon, Kate Beckinsale, Chalize Theron, Elizbeth Hurey, Amanda Byns, Queen Latifa, Keira knightly, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Blae Lively, Eva Mendes, Eddy Murphy, Denzel Washington, Ashton Kutcher,Demi Moore, Vinvce Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Orlando Bloom. I might be forgetting a lot of them but this is basically it hahaha!

Even though it is my dream to become an actress it is very hard to become an actress because it requires being at the right place at the right time. I have some difficulties with fake crying and I have been told that you just have to think of sad moments in your life.

My Father

Everyone believes that their family is very significant and my case isn´t any diffrent. My entire family is always very understanding and has been there for me when I needed them because everyone else has turned their backs to me. In my family my father I would say is the wisest one. It is not because he is old or because he has studied to much but everytime I talk to him  he seems to always have the right answers and the perfect suggestions.
 Before I used to have serious communication problems with my father because he appeared to be very harsh and not accepting. The truth is that I think that he only acted that way in order to protect me. In a way I did feel protected but I still did not feel close to him at all. When I had a boyfriend I could not come up to my father and tell him the truth about everything. I  was terrified that when he found out he would be extremely disapointed in me. Like in every other situation the truth always comes out in one way or another.
When my parents fond out a lace of trust had been broken. They were not too disapointed with the fact that I had a boyfriend. They were sad and they felt betrayed because I didn´t have the trust to tell them. At the end of the story I learned that nobody is worth braking that trust with my father and that he truth will set me free.
I am actually currently in love and I made the choice to tell everything to my father no matter how hard it might be because I know now that I can come to him with any problem that I might have.

My Father was able to get out of the hole that he as born in. He comes from a very poor family and he was always very determined. When he was a kid he enjoyed doing sports all the time and he grew up to be a karate teacher at the age of 19 and he was the national champion in boxing. Then he wanted to become a somebody for some company. He went to college  with a full scholarship an later started to work in Pepsico. He workers there until the today and he has been promoted several times. I am very proud of my dad and I hope that one day his attitude and life is reflected in me.