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Empezando....

Cuando me detengo a ver en dónde me encontraba hace un año, todo parece mentira --en serio. Hago la retrospectiva de cuánto ha cambiado mi vida y si, hay que decir que MUCHO. Hace un año recibí la noticia de ser aceptado como residente permanente en USA; recuerdo estar rodeado de amigos cercanos que me conocen bastante bien. Muchas cosas han cambiado durante los últimos diez meses desde que llegué a USA: Una nueva etapa en la relación con mi mamá --una etapa que ha hecho todo mucho mejor de lo que ya era nuestra relación madre e hijo. He conocido grandes personas que han estado conmigo día a día en esta "nueva vida". He tenido la oportunidad de conocer gente nueva y diferentes formas de pensar. He adquirido responsabilidad y he crecido como persona a lo largo de este corto camino. Ha sido un año bastante peculiar. Gracias por ser parte de todo esto, gracias por haber ayudado a labrar este corto camino que apenas estoy empezando.

Claro, si, también encontré a una persona que me ama, de pies a cabeza, con cualidades y defectos --No, no ha sido menos, simplemente sucedió en último lugar en esta serie de eventos que han acompañado mi vida, y tengo que decir que es número uno desde el día en que ocurrió aquél amor a primera vista.


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When I look back to a year ago, it all seems unreal, and I get to do a restrospective of how much my life has changed and I have to say: A LOT. A year ago I got the news of being accepted as a permanent resident in the United States, I remember being surrounded of great friends that have known my path in life very well. A lot of things have changed during the last ten months since I got here: a new stage of my relationship with my mom (which has made things even better every single day). I have found great people that have been with me every day. I have had the chance to meet new people and different ways of thinking. I have had gained responsibility and have grown every day more as a person. It has been quite a year. Thank you people for have been part of this journey that is just starting.

Oh yes, and have found someone that loves me -which has been the most important of all of this, and has been last in all the things I had to mention, but has never been less, has been my first thing to think every day since all started.

Oh, really?

Ironic lyrics by Alanis Morissette manage irony in different levels and in all three common uses of it. Situational irony is present in some parts; when she starts the song and says that “an old man turned ninety-eight” it’s a good example of this, we all know that to be ninety-eight years old would be to already have a long life –plus, not much people gets to even reach the eighty years- so why to bother about an exaggeration of age? Unless you are going to show up with a nice thing like irony, it is not worth.

            Giving us a surprise, not for all cultures is a bad sign if it rains on your wedding day, according to an Italian saying: “Wet bride, lucky bride”. Yes, we can discard irony with this phrase –Some people sees beauty in things that others despise; but there’s more fragments of the song that seems to give us something different than irony, to get in a traffic jam when you already ran out of time to arrive to your work-place is not ironic, it’s sad and speaks for itself: You are a person with serious problems of commitment or you really need to plan your day’s schedule and be organized with your life; there is no way that you have committed when you signed your work contract ‘at-will’ and you are not professional as your contractor expected you to be –Seriously, come on.

            For many of you won’t seem to be ironic; but it is, and in some countries this is a fact. In Colombia was implemented a no-smoking sign on cigarettes boxes and a simple text that says “This is what happen to your teeth when you smoke” and a little and not nice photo of yellowed teeth in bad conditions; now, it’s surprising that Alanis was laughing about some stupid rules that will never work to stop the liver cancer or the growing percentage of population with asthma problems, it’s like government saying that marijuana is destructive and leads us to war against the entire world and the person who is saying it is smoking a pot –You probably would be with an ‘OMG’ face and  would think “Seriously?”.

            There is more to dig in and keep laughing or thinking about in some parts of the song; but the most ironic thing –and done on purpose, off course- is that Alanis keeps asking if it isn’t ironic, well: YES, IT IS IRONIC –same as writing it on capital letters, “don’t you think so?”

Hoy la inspiración llegó de la mano de una obra hecha con pasteles. Debo admitir que nunca antes había pintado con dicho material, pero me gustó. Debíamos explorar la versatilidad del material que escogiéramos en nuestra clase de apreciación del arte y creo que escogí de manera sabia. La versión original, a continuación.

A fun-size hidden in a hand

I work at The Carlisle at Naples as a server. The crew that works as servers and bussers are selected over thousands every single time that there is a little opening position I here. 

Elvis