February 2012
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January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
10 posts
2012
I wanted to write an entire report of my year.
I wanted to write a New Year’s resolutions list.
But guess what? I’m absolutely short on time and I have to run and get ready for the dinner tonight.
So instead, I am just going to wish every single one of you a better 2012!
This are part of the ‘canapés’ I have been making all afternoon/evening long. Blame these little...
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Food for the soul
Muita bobeira
Luciana...
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Animal farm
Today the day couldn’t have started better.
I was enjoying my breakfast sitting at the table next to the window with the sun warming up the room while it was windy outside. The apartment was really calm because my roommates were still sleeping. I have decided then and there to start reading one of the books I took from the library yesterday.
I was one of this books you’ve always...
Open letter to Santa
Dear Santa,
For this year there is just one thing I would like to ask for.
In fact it’s not so much a brand new present, but I’d love if you could bring me back my Christmas’ Spirit.
When times get rough, people start to get pessimistic and lately we’ve all been fed up with negative feelings around us. This economic crisis is hitting hard to most of us and it is...
Be there or be square
They are trying so hard to pull my tongue and I am doing my best at keeping my mouth shut. I can’t believe people’s lack of reliability in terms of keeping their promises.
Whenever I give my word to someone, that is carved in stone. It’s hard for me to cope with lack of ethics and formality. If one says ‘so and so’, unless there’s a major force such as a...
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jhnmyr:
If you want to be truly intimidating,
If you want to make an impact,
If you want to have strong connections with others
just be sincere.
Sarcasm is not an attitude, and it’s not a personality trait. It’s a style of rhetoric meant to be used occasionally to highlight a larger point. Saying…
Story of my life.
Last minute update
It appears to be that all the caffeine in the world won’t wake me up today. I have been up all night, nervous, double checking everything just to make sure that I don’t forget to pack all the things I’m supposed to take home.
Tomorrow, by this time I will be at my sister’s wedding. This to me is a huge, huge thing. As for now, I am spending my last two hours in the city...
November 2011
10 posts
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My women
I can can barely find a way to express my joy with words.
Enthusiasm is a little word for such a warm and fantastic feeling. The reason behind this moment of infinite happiness has been provoked by “my women”.
This Saturday, December the 3rd my one and only sister is getting married. Such a huge event had not happened in my family ever since 1986 when my uncle got married. Despite we...
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Reduce, reuse, recycle
@jennygdc said: Hi there, have not heard from you as much…what is going on in Spain with the economic crisis, etc? How does it effect you? Love your last line on this. I too, am a firm believer!
Truth be told, in Spain, we’ve gotten to a point where people don’t talk about it anymore. Last May there was a huge movement of protest, but as everything else, it went unheard by the...
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Lies
If only I got ten cents per lie I have been told… Oh, man! I’d be filthy rich by now.
Every now and then and more often than expected I get lied to. There absolutely has to be something in my face or my speech that must invite people to lie at my face. And this, even though it bothers me, it has started being a great entertainment as well.
In general, people are horrible liars. I...
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Birds
Today I saw a bird flying.
He just came to my balcony and drank a few drops of the morning dew out of the leaves of plant that I have in there.
What at the beginning might look as a stupid observation it has given me a profound optimism and brought me some peace. Little this bird knew that he has made me think and by this, he has absolutely made my day better.
In a time where everybody is...
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Distance interrupted
Imagine for a second the anguish that can grow from watching the clock ticking away as you wait for someone.
You are sitting, waiting for “that” call as hours go by. No signs of life in the other end. You try to call there but your attempt remains unanswered even though the line is not down. So there’s just one thing you can do: Keep on waiting.But as you keep on waiting your...
Not much to say
I guess it’s pretty obvious that lately I’ve got very little to say. The lack of updates in my blog are starting to worry me. But I sit here in front of the computer and I think to myself: ‘What can I write about?’
Over the past few months you might have noticed that I’ve been mainly absent. But what should I write when everything happening in my life could be...
October 2011
9 posts
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Get well soon, John!
Not so much for the record but for your own well being. Health comes first, the record can wait. It’s good to hear that the surgery went well. I can imagine how scary it must be that one of your work tools (your voice) is being jeopardized by a freaking inconvenient granuloma.
Either way, enjoy as much as you can your traveling (I’m green with envy of this...
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Confusion
My God, I am nervous.
If we could measure the size of my heart right now, it’d be no bigger than a peanut. I try to do my best to keep a calm appearance but deep inside I am as shaky as a spoonful of Jell-O.
‘So what are the reasons?’ You might wonder. The reason is, there is no reason at all. There must be something hidden deep down my subconscious mind but nothing that I can...
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Ready... Go!
One hour left to leave to the train station and go home!
Sixty minutes left to kill and I’ll be on my way to visit my dearly beloved Kaoru and family.
In the meantime, things are getting hectic around here. Now my male roommate has broke up with his girlfriend of two years and the boy is logically devastated.
The thing is, I might be one of the worst people in the world when it comes to...
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Beautiful tribute, John!
And get well soon.
jhnmyr:
I wanted to share with you a memory of my friend Steve Jobs, a memory that in the days since his passing has come to represent how great of a guy he was, and how good he was to me.
I first met Steve in 2003, over the phone, when I cold-called him to tell him I was a devout fan of all things Apple…
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Midday update
So today is one of these uncommon days when I get to seat in front of the computer just before lunchtime. Here I am, printing tons and tons of texts I have to read and learn somehow.
‘So what’s been going on ever the past few days?’ You might wonder. In order to maintain some sort of timeline I will tell you that my friend and my roommate are back together for good. It’s...
Thank you Steve!
Rest in peace.
@ clintirwin
Yes, I have considered that very much. This is why I have tried to make him open his eyes in a subliminal way.
But the situation sucks, ‘cause if I tell him EVERYTHING then my roommate is going to make my life a hell at home.
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Venting disappointment
Several curriculums down and no answer would be a great way to start this post.
Declaring that my apartment looks like a place where a Diogenes syndrome person lives would be another good way to start. My girl roommate is getting dirtier by the hour and you go to sleep to a clean apartment, next thing you know, you wake up and it looks like a tsunami had happened all over the place.
Another...
September 2011
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Chilean ice cream
Because not all is wrong in life, it seems that momentarily, the universe has answered at least one of my prayers.
Last week, one of my roommates announced us that he was leaving the apartment. At first it came as a big shock to the other girl and me but we had no time to lose. So once we tried to talk to him out of the idea and failing we saw ourselves paying an astronomical amount for staying...
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What has happened to me?
My god!
Is this an absence or what?
First and foremost, there are no words enough in all the dictionaries of the world to apologize to every single one of you for my unexplainable long absence from Tumblr.
These last months have been some tricky ones to say the least. Decisions and more decisions and frustration after frustration.
By last winter, I was naive enough to believe that the...
August 2011
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sheens43 asked: You do realize that your prolonged absence from Tumblr is very detrimental to the health of your followers, right? Ok, just making sure you knew that we missed you.
July 2011
7 posts
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Meantime somewhere on planet Earth...
Elena’s activities keep on being boring and repetitive.
So repetitive in fact that if I had to describe them all we could summarize them by reblogging my last post. Yup, you got it right. I face the computer to write grammar lessons and eventually read the newspapers to keep in touch with the outside world.
Other than usual, and to keep the tradition alive, fate has played with me a bit...
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Grammar is loads of fun; not.
Let’s dance the Hula!
It’s stuff like this that’s keeping me apart from writing my blog. Yes, I am so dull that I write it myself :S Preparing new lessons all the time for the kid to study and improve.
Showing the relationship between causes and results
Use as a result, because, because of (this), so and therefore to show the relationship between causes and results.
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Tired and upset
First of all, forgive me for having been absent all over the week.
I currently am a busy, busy, busy bee.
But today, I have postponed preparing any more grammar lessons and have decided to get connected for a while.
Ever since the month has started I am barely sleeping six hours a day. I have no time for myself and much less to get connected to the Internet. By the end of the day, once I get...
Holidays?
Is it still correct to say I am on holidays if I am even busier now than when I am at the University? This a question I have been rambling around all day long.
Ever since last Thursday I am back to my hometown for the summertime. That is not to say that I am on holidays the way Thesaurus would define them.
I arrived here and I have become the ant in the fable of the ant and the cicada. You know...
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Holidays?
Is it still correct to say I am on holidays if I am even busier now than when I am at the University? This a question I have been rambling around all day long.
Ever since last Thursday I am back to my hometown for the summertime. That is not to say that I am on holidays the way Thesaurus would define them.
I arrived here and I have become the ant in the fable of the ant and the cicada. You know...
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The world's most terrible teacher
That being me.
Today I have had my first pupil ever. He is 14 years old and has come to me because he has really good grades with all the subjects except for English.
I had planned an entire hour of completely English immersion. Instead I have found a completely different approach. The boy doesn’t understand a word when English is spoken despite he gets it quite easily when written.
And...
June 2011
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One second at a time
I am so very bored today.
Being used to have a crazy agenda and given the fact I have absolutely nothing to do I am finding myself watch the hours go by so slow. It is not that I am a workaholic and that I don’t enjoy time for my own. But today I find nothing entertaining enough to do.
Over the past weeks it’s been really busy. And then, this morning I finished all my duties and as...
This is not summer, this is hell.
Dear God,
If you are up there and read this please turn off the heating.
One cannot even concentrate or think properly with this heat.
Yours sincerely,
Elena
Bonfires and firecrackers
Tonight is the shortest night of the year: St. John’s eve. Here in Catalunya we celebrate it quite as much as Christmas. We gather with friends and have dinner at the beach around a bonfire.We drink hot chocolate and eat a special cake called Coca de St. Joan. Music and party are assured. By midnight tradition says you’re supposed to go for a swim at the sea. That’s supposed to bring you good...
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Leaving the Amish
The place and culture in which we’ve been born marks us for the rest of our lives.
There is not a single difference between a person who was born say 2000 years ago and us. Yes we are modern people, because we are living in the contemporary times. But not a single part of our DNA has changed in hundreds of thousands of years. Only the discoveries that there have been made through time mark...
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Enough
Today my body has said enough.
Remember how a few weeks ago I complained about how I gained some weight and how disappointed I was by it?
Well, I finally took a determination about it all. I was going to burn away every extra gram at the gym. Inspired by the MTV show “I used to be fat”, I decided that if those guys could endure that kind of exercise so could I lose the 6 extra kilos...