My accent!

It is really interesting how languages are. I think the most interesting thing about languages is the accent. Sometimes I am scared to speak english because of my accent. It's funny when people try to find out where I am from because of my accent. I ride the bus to get home. One day I was riding the bus and I asked something to the bus driver. He asked me later where I was from, I said I am from Mexico. He said "I thought you were from Germany" because your accent sounds like german. I started laugh. Other day a person asked me if I was from Italy, even one day someone asked if I was from Asia! People never guess that I am from Mexico.

My sister Briah

How Briah Changed My Life

It has been difficult for me to see life from a good point of view when I believed that only bad things happened to me.  My sister Briah has been a great help to me because she show me so many reasons I can be happy.  Briah is eleven years old and is a girl with special needs.  She was born four months premature and she has had a lot of medical problems since then.  Even though she has a lot of disabilities, she does not let them stop her from being happy, smiling and always with desires to keep living.  At the beginning it was hard to be with someone with special needs because I did not know how to act around her.  Because of Briah I now know that people with disabilities exist to teach us many beautiful things.  That is what has happened to me with my sister Briah.  She has been a great example for me.  She has taught me how to be strong in difficult moments, to accept people who are different than me, and to see things with a good attitude and to live my life with happiness.

 The first thing that I have learned from Briah is to be strong when life is difficult. I have had three surgeries in nine years and they have been difficult. I have not been very strong because I think of Briah who is only eleven and has already has 41 surgeries and it seems incredible to me how strong she is. I have had the opportunity to be with Briah in two of her surgeries.  It has impressed me how strong she is and how easy she recovers.  Even though she is always in pain, she is always happy.On one occasion, the day after one of her surgeries I asked her how she felt and her response was “I am happy”.  It amazes how strong she is.I have learned to be strong and to not complain.

The second thing that I have learned from Briah is to accept people that are different than me. There is a big diversity of people in my family.Briah is different from everybody else in my house.She cannot walk or do other basic things for herself. Living with people with disabilities is challenging but rewarding, because I can learn a lot of things with them.Living with Briah has helped me accept people different than me. It has helped me to understand nobody is perfect.And the most important thing i have learned is to respect and not discriminate other people.

The last thing that Briah has taught me is to be happy.  Happiness is an important feeling we should have every day. It is easy to forget about what makes us happy. Briah is a girl that always is happy and it makes me happy too.  She shows me that I do not have to have an easy life to be happy. When I see the happiness that she shows, I feel happy too.Briah has shown me so many things that i can be happy and thankful for. One of those things is that I have to accept myself as I am without worrying about how I look or how smart I am.

Everything that Briah has taught me are important principles that we have to learn in life and it is not easy to learned them and shows them. I show Briah how thankful and happy I am that she is my sister and part of my life by caring for her, spending time with her and trying to be more happy in my life, even though she does not know everything I have learned thanks to her.

Writing 0900

When I was in high school in my senior year I took Honors English. That was hard for me.  When I took the placement test for college I had to take Writing 0900. I did not know really much the differences between Honors English and Writing 0900. When I was in high school I did not learned enough English to be in college. I think this year I am focusing more in learning English.

 Writing is really important. Is really hard for me to communicate with other people or when I have to express my feelings. Writing is really helpful for me because it helps me to write some of my feelings or the things that I do not want to say face to face. Being in Writing 0900 has been helping me a lot because I realized that I did not learned very much when I took Honors English.  Writing 0900 is a class where we can learn the basics things of writing.  At the beginning I was not happy because I knew it that taking Writing 0900 I was going to take more classes but now I realized that I really need this class and I like it. When I was in Mexico I had to learn how to make an essays and I never learned how to do it. Now taking writing 0900 I had been learned how to do an essay and I am really happy because essays are very important and I am learning how to do it. 

Medicine

The importance of medicine.

Medicine is very important. Yesterday I felt bad.  My stomach  really bad.  When I got home I took  a pill  and  in 20 minutes after I was whithout pain.  I was really happy and thankfull because medicine exist.  I was thinking about the people who discovered medicine and how they did it.  I know it is hard, but at the same time I know people have capacity to do all kind of things.  I was sad too, because medicine not everybody have it.  It can be people in bad conditions or with a lot of pain and they do not have medicine to take the pain  off.  I learned that people from long time ago didn't had medicine and because of that a lot of people died.  There are some medical problems that don't have medicine for cure it, but there are people who are discovering  medicine every day.  Medicine helps me feel better.

Differences between Mexican and American schools

Schools

I had been in school since I was 4 or 5 and now I am 18.  I lived 17 years in Mexico, so I went to school  there.  When I came here  I went to high shool and I finished my senior year.  I was really impress about all the differences between the school here and Mexico. First,  here you can wear normal cloth, but in Mexico you have to wear uniform.  I did not like it because it was boring wear the same cloth every day. The only good thing about uniform is that I did not have to worry about what cloth I was going to used. The second thing that most impress me was that I was available to choose my classes. In Mexico they gave me the classes that I had to take. Something good about that they gave me my classes was that if I did not like the class I was having someone to blame, but if I choose the class and I did not like it I was going to be mad with my self.  I like more the teachers here, because they care about my grades. In Mexico they do not care,  if you fail sometimes they are happy. That is sad. The school in Mexico is harder that the school here. Here I have freedom and a lot of opportunities to have a good grade.

Photography

PHOTO

I took Photography when I was in high school. It was a great experience. Before I take that class I tought it was going to be an easy class and I was going to take only pictures. It was not easy as I tought. I learned how to take and develop pictures. Some days was boring because all the theory. It was stressful too because sometimes the pictures didn't turned how I was expecting, but it was really fun. If I have the opportunity to take it again I would do it. I think pictures are very important. I remember a little about my childhood but when I look some pictures it helps me remember more. Pictures helps us to remember things and to know places that we don't know.

Surgery

My third surgery

A few days ago, I was remmembering that my last surgery happened a year ago on September 2, 2010. It was something that I didn't expect that it was going to happen because I thought I was healthy.  Something that was funny was that my first surgery was on September 2, 2002.   The day that my dad told me that I was going to have another surgery I was really sad.  I have had a lot of good and bad experiences at the hospitals.  I got to know many people and some of those people are now dead.  I had he opportunity to understand people with differents situations.  I now look back at those days and I remmember how things happened and sometimes it makes me feel sad for all the pain that I was feeling but I feel happy too because I am here alive. 

If a girl ask a boy on a date who should pay?

I think the people who ask for a date should pay, because those people are interested in the date. I like the idea when both persons pay; I think that's the better option. I don't like it when guys pay for everything, even that I grew up believing that boys have to pay. I think all those ideas came from a long time ago maybe because women didn't have a job; for me that’s the reason, but at the same time we should have some of those ideas, like boys opening doors for girls and things like that.

My experiences in Mexico were when boys asked me on a date I like to pay my part, but Mexican boys don't like when a girl pay because their mom's told them that they have to pay, sometimes that’s good.

When someone else ask us for a date, sometimes we should allow them to pay.

Every culture is different, in some cultures is not accepted that a girl asks a boy on a date, but those differences make cultures interesting.