The best place in the world

I have to admit that when I came here I was totally scared and with a lot or nerves, it was a completely different place for me, it was a new experience, with people of all around the world, all with different cultures. But I was sure that something good was going to come of all of these new and uncharted things. Right now I can say that it was the best time of my life, I think I will never live this again because nothing can compare to this.

Even when everyone said that the rooms were so small, I had the lucky opportunity of have been living in the biggest room of all my building, also I lived with the nicest girls in all the campus, they are the best roommates.

I know that the Rita Hall food is not the best but I am pretty sure that I had the funniest moments in my life; I have to say that my friends are so crazy and at the beginning they were totally strangers for me, but I know that they are going to be there when I need them, even if we are going to be separated, we’ll still having contact or I’ll still seeing some of them. But I will be so sad because I won’t see them daily anymore. Some times it is necessary to let things go and know that some day you will be living that moment again.

Actually sometimes I have been so sad because I wish that my parents, my sisters, my boyfriend, all my family and my friends were with me but I always knew that the time run very fast and in the blink of an eye I would be in Mexico again, so everyone always were telling me that I had to enjoy this because it was a really amazing experience, that I was in New York so I had to be happy because it is the best city in the world, and now I have to say that it was totally truth and thank God I listened to them and I did what they wanted me to do.

I have to say thanks to all the people who supported me, even in the worst moments, also to the people who taught me and helped me to reach my principal goal, learn English. I want to say to my teachers: “Thank you for being patient with me and for teaching me all the necessary things to improve my English, also thank you for have been talking me about the daily life situations, all your tips have been very helpful to me.” I’m very lucky because I had the best teachers in New York, and I will really miss them so much!

The time to say good bye is coming so I have to be prepared for it, I know that something else is prepared for me so I have to keep going and never give up.

Nature vs. Nurture

When we want to talk about the differences between men and women we have to observe a lot of things, not just in our bodies or in our biological aspect, we also have to consider the society in which we live, the people who is by our sides, their own behavior, their perspective to see the life. Also we have to have a trip into our past, because the way in which we were brought up has a lot of influence in our actual life.

If we travel some years in the past we are going to see that people was really different, there was a big and notorious line between both genders. Almost all the men have to be working to sustain their family also they had to be very polite with the women, but without lose their authority. They would do anything to change the mind of someone who thinks they are weak, because the masculinity was a really serious topic, the people can not play with that. Almost every man had a decent job, they would think a lot in their futures and in the destiny of their family, but sometimes the equality wasn’t there when they need it, so some of them started to think about doing bad activities. They also were so into politics, because they thought that the women weren’t cleaver enough to manage something like a work or politic situation. If we talk about the way of clothing, the man could never wear pink, because they thought that it is a color just for women. They had the control in their houses, everyone would do what the father or husband says, even if he didn’t have all the reason.

The woman in that time were so delicate and submissive, or at least that was their appearance, they can not wear men clothes like jeans, or they cannot show some parts of their bodies because it was a sin for the church. Also they were really into the religion and they tried always to be a “good wife”, they supposed to do everything that the husband wanted, but sometimes the men abused of them. They were so weak if we are talking of taking decisions, but not because their capacity of thing, it was because the men did not wanted them to control them. Their assigned job was the house, they had to be all the time working in house chores and taking care of the children. They cannot have a career, because it was “unnecessary” for them, they had to learn how to do the entire house job since they were little girls because if they practice more the experience would be improving until they get ready to put into practice.

A few years later the women started to thing about the gender equality, they were so tired about men who treated them so bad, they cannot opine anything, anyone care about their thoughts. They started to form groups to be stronger, and they reach some goals, so their lives started to improve.

In the actuality there is still being difference between the genders, but I’m sure that some of those things are unchangeable, simply because not everything depends on the nurture, we have to be sure of include the nature in our viewpoint.

There are some aspects in our life that are unchangeable because our biology characters and they strongly affect our social life, personal life, health, and behavior among other things. This happen because the chemicals inside our bodies. Something that also have a lot of influence in our life is our offspring, we can not change our characteristics as easy as we think, we have to have some medical interference to can change something physically, sometimes we can not even change our emotionally aspect by ourselves, we also need some medical help but this is not necessary in some occasions.

In my opinion our feelings and our life experiences are playing such an important paper in our behavior; like if we want to play some game but if we feel insecure because we already had a bad experience in our past we are going to behave uncertain about the situation, but if we change this to a person who is so good at the sport and has been practicing it since he or she was little is going to be so confident in the match and will have better results than the other person.

Not the best birthday...

It was a beautiful sunny day in a ranch named “El Buitre”, everyone was so happy because it was the birthday of the owner’s son. There were family, friends and the people who helped the owner in his ranch; it was a really big party. All the little kids were playing and horse back riding, while the adults where making the food for them and talking about their business and daily lives. But there was a little problem, the owner’s son, whose name was Margil was so sad, and nobody knew why, suddenly he started to run so fast into the pecan orchard, and his father seemed  worried about him because everybody was having fun except the little boy. He said to the other people to excuse him for a moment because he wanted to check what was happening with his son. He started to walk in the same direction as Margil, but he couldn’t find him, that was so weird because this little boy never hid from his parents. When he thought that it was so difficult to find him, he started to shout his name, but nobody answered him.

Suddenly he found Margil; he was so calm because he knew where his son was. But all this calm disappeared and turned into horror when he discovered that the kid was unconscious because he was bitten by a snake. His father didn’t know what to do, so the first thing that came to his mind was to take the boy and run back to the house of the ranch, where were all the people. When he got there everyone entered in panic, but the mother of the boy started to extract the venom with her mouth, hopefully this was going to keep the boy alive for a few more hours. Without loosing their time Margil’s parents put him in the truck and took him to the nearest hospital, but it wasn’t so close, the distance between the ranch and the village where the hospital was located was about 20 minutes, so they started to speed up, they were so scared, one kilometer seemed to be like a thousand. The boy was going worse, but his parents were talking to him, they were telling him that he had to resist, that he could not give up, but the little boy couldn’t hear them because he was in a deep dream.

Finally they arrived to the hospital, and the doctors were looking for the correct antidote. When they applied it to Margil, he didn’t react. His parents were hopeless because the kid still in the same state. But after two minutes, the boy started to give some recovery signals, he was responding well to the antidote. Everyone was praying and thanking God for the miracle.

He started his recover and everything was fine. The boy could get out of the hospital 3 days latter and he gets back to his normal life, but he never went in to the orchard without the necessary protection again.

A Family Member

I'm very glad of having a really great family and I'm so thankful for them, because if I didn't have them in my life, it would not make any sense. I really love everyone in my family so much, but since I was a baby, I have felt that I have a special relation with my dad. I used to always ask my mom when my dad was going to come home, and when he got there I had an amazing time with him because we were playing all the time and he always took care of me.

He is the best man in the world. His name is Margil Eugenio Fernandez Chapa and he is 43 years old. He is so strict, but I really appreciate that because all the goals that I have reached have been because of the values that he has taught me, and also because he told me that you can do anything you want with consistency. He always tells me that I have to believe in myself; that nothing is impossible.

I admire him a lot. Four years ago he had a heart attack, because of the unhealthy food in his diet, but also because he is always working and his life is very stressful because of his work. He has a Bachelor in Business Administration, but he can't work on it, because his father has a pecan orchard, and he doesn't have the necessary strength to work on it. He is an elderly man now and he also has some health problems, that's why my dad (the only man in his family) decided to help him with it, but my grandfather is also very strict with him, even my dad left his work in the city to go to live in the countryside near the ranch. But he says that however he is his dad and he has to respect and obey him even if he doesn't agree with his ideas.

That is why I feel that he is a very good son and also the best father. He trusts me and I won't disappoint him. I will always respect and love him.

A Life Goal

Everyone has one or more goals in their lives, because even if we don't want to think about our future it's  imposible to not think about it, I think that we must have a guide to follow because if we plan the important things that we want to do in the future, they probably will be much better than if we just do it without thinking. Since I was a child I have been interested in science and every subject related to it. When I was 3 years old I knew the names of 35 dinosaurs, when I was 5 I always was in my grandmother's kitchen doing "experiments" with food and other stuff, then I moved to my actual city, and there I always was playing with animals and collecting plants or weird stones and all that kind of things. My parents noticed that I was really interested in nature and science so they decided to buy me some chemistry toys and a microscope to support me and make me more interested in this subject. Actually I really liked it, so when I was in middle school and high school I went to the chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics olympics. Right now I am so confused because I don't know which career is the best for me, I am thinking about study Biotechnological Engineering because I really love biology but this career is just in one university in the north zone of Mexico, I am already accepted and they are offering me a scholarship, but my parents are thinking about letting me go to the city where is the university because is one of the most dangerous cities in my country. But I have another career that I want to study, Chemical Engineering, and this career is in one university that is located in another city which is safer than the other city where I also want to study, I am already accepted in this univeristy too and I have a lot of family living in this city. I am looking for more careers but I think that I am still stuck between these 2, so I will try to be as sure as possible of my decision. Now I am so worried about making a mistake with my decision, but I am sure that everything happens for some reason, so i won't be sorry about it.

My Winter Vacations

I really enjoy winter vacations, especially because they are full of love and everything is calm. Also I can spend a lot of time with my family and the people who are special to me, and that is one of the things that I love to do because I have a lot of fun when we are all  together.


This winter vacation was the best for me, because I have spent 3 months in New York and obviously I missed my family and my boyfriend, but the best Christmas gift was their trip to visit me. I was so excited to see them, because first of all they didn't tell me that they were coming to visit me because it was a joke, and then their trip was kind of a surprise. When they arrived here they called me and told me that they were here, that we were going to spend a week together in Manhattan, I was so happy to be with them during Christmas! Because I was afraid of being alone on that day, also because it is so important for me. They decided to come pick me up in Tarrytown, also they visited the campus and Tarrytown's Main Street. All of them were so excited to come to, so i packed up and we walked towards the train station, but the first train that was coming was so crowded, and it was a big problem for us because we were 10 people! but then we had to wait for another train and it was almost empty. Then we arrived in Grand Centran Station and we took the subway to the hotel. Everything was perfect... it was winter in Manhattan with my family and my boyfriend!


We did a lot of things, we went to Central Park, Rockefeller Center, Empire State Building, Chinatown, Little Italy, Times Square, The Statue of Liberty, Wall St. 5th. avenue, World Trade Center, Museum of Natural History, etc.


We had a very good time together, but my parents, my sisters and my cousins, had to go back to México. My boyfriend and I stayed here in Tarrytown, but we also went to the Palisades Mall to go shopping and to have dinner, and also some friends my boyfriend and I went to Manhattan to the PBR show, in Madison Square Garden, we had a lot of fun there.


But then he had to go and vacation was over. So now I have to wait until March to see them again.

Interpretation of a Dream

Everyone can dream, but not all people can remember their dreams. Sometimes we can wake up and remember all of our dream that we had that night, but sometimes we just open our eyes and suddenly every detail of last nights dream disappear and even if we try to remember what it was about its harder to recollect images about it. Some dreams are about the thing that we did the last day, week or month or sometimes about something weird or imaginary. We can dream about everything! We just have to have an active mind to dream. If we have goals, fears, feelings or memory, our dreams are going to be about those things.

I am too scared with all the insecurity in my country, and once I had a dream about it. In my dream I was leaving Saltillo, the city where my grandparents live, and I was with all my family we were on our way to Zaragoza, the city where I live, suddenly I was with my uncle and my aunt in the car, and we arrived to my house, but we saw a lot of cars parked outside my house, but the cars were so expensive like the cars that the men who traffic drugs have. We were too scared because there were close to 20 cars outside my house. Then my dad and my uncle went inside of my house and they told us that they were going back with us to tell us that no one was inside of my house, but we were waiting for them for 15 minutes and they didn’t come back outside of my house. So I was only with women, my mom, my aunt and my 2 sisters and we were all so scared because we were alone there and my dad and my uncle didn’t answer to our screams. Then my mom and I decided to go into the house, when we were walking through the living room we saw 2 men walking in the kitchen we tried to run outside the house again but another man trapped my mom and I ran and ran and ran and finally I was out of my house, then I told my aunt and my sisters what was happening and they decided to enter with me, we were trying to find my mom, my dad and my uncle, but when we were looking for them then man trapped my aunt too! So my sisters and I ran fast and we locked up the door of my parent’s room. We could hear all the screams outside and we were crying a lot because we could imagine what they were doing to my family.

When I woke up I could remember the entire dream but that wasn’t a great sensation because I was even more afraid of the situation.

I think the meaning of my dream is that my country is living a hard situation with all that insecurity and maybe all the citizens can live everything is happening, I think we are all exposed to the crime and I am afraid of that can happen to me and all the people that I love.