..~My Trip to Orlando~..

Hi,
Today I arrived to Miami like at 1:00P.M to the Miami International Airport. The flight was comfortable, fast, and calm. I woke up like at 4: 45 A.M in the morning because I needed to be in the airport at 6 O’clock in the morning. While I was in the airplane we fly right on top of Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, and other islands of the Caribbean. The color of the ocean on those islands was beautiful, it turned from aquamarine to turquoise and then to navy, it was wonderful! When I got to the airport with my parents we waited about for 25 minutes for immigration, the lines were gigantic. I was so amazed, there you saw people from all over the world, people with different cultures and customs. Also, there were people with these weird cloths similar to the cloths the Muslims wear and others with a kind of little dot on their forehead like the Hindus. For a moment I thought that they might felt uncomfortable knowing that most of the people are looking at them and talking about them as weird people, but then I just realized that they might be used to it and that we must be a little more respectful because is their culture and we need to respect that. Also, as well as we look at them and think of them about weird people they might be doing the same thing because are very different traditions and customs.

After all the procedures at the airport we went on a little bus to Dollar Rent- A -
Car to, obviously, rent a car. When we got there we realized that my dad’s car license had expired two days ago and my mom thought that she had left her license at our home in Cartagena, but thank god it was in her wallet because if not, you will not like to hear it because it would had been a total disaster. There we had a reservation for a Chrysler Pacifica but we didn’t fit there because we were going to encounter with my brothers and one of my brother’s girlfriend in Orlando and in total we were 7 and the Chrysler Pacifica was for 5 people. Finally we rent a Dodge Durango, it was perfect for us.

When we got out of Dollar, we went, again, to the airport to receive one of my brothers. He had lived in Miami so he wanted to take a little ride through Key Biscayne, Brickell, and Miami beach, but unfortunately we didn’t went to Miami Beach because it was getting later to take the Turnpike to go to Orlando. In our way to Orlando we got lost like a thousand times. When we were on the Turnpike we decided to exit because there was a giant truck, which had burned, blocking the highway. When we were trying to found Interstate95 we got lost. Due, to that we hadn’t ate nothing, we found Burger King. There, we ordered through the drive thru and asked how to find I95. After the instructions they gave us in Burger King, we found the highway, but in West Palm Beach we took again the Turnpike. Finally we got to Orlando like at 11:30 P.M, we were very tired, but at the same time happy because we were going to be all together.

Ps: It will continue...(on my next free post)

Short Story Draft

Rrrrrrrrrinng---oh god. Emily woke up; her mother was doing breakfast in the kitchen. Why does she make life so hard for her, she is too complicated, Emily thought as she took a slice of bread from the refrigerator.

Emily said, “Good morning momma.”

“Good morning sweetie, what do you want for breakfast?” asked Susan. “Do you want some pancakes?”

“Uh, no, really I’m not sure; maybe some eggs or a sandwich,” answered Emily a little insecure, “or maybe pancakes will be alright.”

Susan was cooking the pancakes; suddenly the phone rang. Rrrrrrrrriiiinnng—it was Chloe, actually she was calling to invite Emily to her house to make the invitation cards of her birthday party. Emily went to Chloe’s house, they finish early, so they went to hand out the cards and then they went to eat dinner. Several days after, it was Chloe’s party. So every girl, who was invited, was getting ready and looking for her outfit.

"Emily, Chloe is downstairs, come down," said Susan.

"Tell her to come to my bedroom," said Emily.

Chloe went upstairs, "Hi Emily, how are you?" asked Chloe, with a happy expression on her face.

"Hey Chloe!" exclaimed Emily, "I'm glad to see you".

"Me too, I was just passing near by, cause my mother is waiting for me at Costco to buy the things for the party, so I just thought that maybe you would want to go with me?" said Chloe.

“Ohh, I will love to, but I need to look for the outfit I’m going to wear for the party, but thank you,” said Emily.

“Okay, see you at the party,” said Chloe opening the door.

“Yeah, obviously, see ya,” said Emily as Chloe went downstairs.

Emily always wanted to be one of the prettiest girls every where, so she started to look for the best clothing she could wear for the party that night. Anything looked gorgeous enough for Em, so she decided to call summer for help.

"Hi Summer." greeted Emily.

"Hi! Who is this?" answered Summer.

"Is Emily you dummy," said Emily.

"Hey! Sorry I didn't recognize your voice" answered Summer laughing.

"Summer, I need some help on choosing what I'm going to wear to Chloe's birthday, please come to my house, quickly!" exclaimed Emily hurried.

"Ok, but first I need to ask my mom because we had planned to buy some things for the trip today, so let me ask her and I call you in 5 minutes, if that's ok with you," answered Summer.

"Sure, I wait for your call," said Emily.

Summer called her mom. "Hi mom," greeted Summer.

"Hi honey, how are you?" answered Marissa; Summer's mom.

"Fine thank you," answered Summer "mom can I go to Emily's house? Is that she wants some help on choosing what she is going to wear and I wanted to help her.”

"Ok, but then tomorrow we need to do what we were going to do today, and tomorrow don't even think of saying to me 'mommy I have soccer classes' because I’m not going to accept it," Marissa advice her.

"Ok!" exclaimed Summer "I talk to you later."

"Ok, bye and also remember to put what you're going to wear on your bed so I don't put it in the suitcase," Said Marissa.

"Ok mom, bye." answered Summer.

Five minutes later Summer called Emily. "Hey, mom told me the same speech of every day; 'Ok, but don't even think of saying, mommy I have soccer practices' or something like that, you know how is she."

"Yes! Every single mother is the same!" answered Emily laughing "but, are you coming?"

"No, she told me 'No!' can you believe that?" said Summer.

"Really?" answered Emily kind of impressed.

"Not really, I was just kidding," answered Emily "I'm going in 5 minutes."

"Umm, okay," said Emily.

"See you later alligator,” whispered Summer.

“In a while crocodile!" answered Em.

When Summer was going into Emily’s house, Susan arrived and called summer, "Hi Summer, can you give this to Em, I bought her some clothes, so she can choose something to wear to Chloe's party."

"Hi Susan, okay, I'm sure Em is going to love it!" answered Summer.

"Okay, tell Emily to call me if she doesn't like it so we can change it," said Susan.

“Okay,” said Summer.

Then, when Summer got into Emily’s room, Em was sleeping.

“Hey Emily, wake up!” exclaimed Summer.

Em was waking up and asked Summer, “What are you doing with all those clothes?”

“Oh right, your mom bought you new clothes so you can choose something from it to wear to the party,” answered Summer, “and also she said that if you didn’t like it you need to call her quickly so that she can change it.”

Emily tried on all the clothes, but she didn’t like anything. Emily was very nervous to tell her mom that she didn’t like it, because she thought that her mom will be disappointed on her. Every time Susan bought Em new clothes, she never liked them.

“Summer, what I’m going to do? My mom is going to be mad at me!” cried Emily.

“Just tell her that you didn’t like them because they were very stretch, I don’t know, something like that,” answered Summer.

“Okay, but before calling my mom I must have what I’m going to wear, because if I don’t have it I’m going to be in trouble,” said Emily.

Emily and Summer spent about two hours looking for Em’s outfit. After a while they found the perfect outfit for Em to wear, it was a black skirt with a white shirt and a black belt, and she looked gorgeous.

“Summer now I need to call mom, I hope she don’t turn to be mad at me,” said Em.

“Just remember to tell her that you already picked your outfit,” answered Summer.

Emily called Susan, “Hi mom, thanks for the clothes.”

“Hi honey, did you like it?” asked Susan.

“Mom I already picked my outfit, but from old clothes, I had, because what you bought was too stretch, sorry mom,” cried Emily.

“Don’t worry, but I’m not going to help you at night if you tell me that something happened with your outfit,” said Susan.

“Okay mom, I know,” answered Em, “but now I’m going to the beauty shop okay?”

“Okay, take care,” said Susan.

Summer and Emily went to the beauty shop to get their hands and hair done. They spent about two hours there. When Emily and Summer were about to finish in the beauty shop, Em called to her house:

“Mom, can you put what I let in the studio on my bed please?”

“Yeah, sure,” said Susan.

Susan put Em’s outfit on Em’s bed. When Emily got home she saw that the white shirt had an orange dot, she almost died.

”Mom!” cried Emily. Susan come into Em’s bedroom and said:

“What happened?” she saw the white shirt and said:

“Oh my God, what happened?”

“I’m almost sure that it was my sister!” Exclaimed Em angrily.

“Okay, I’m going to help you just because it was your sister’s fault” said Susan.

They went to a store to buy a new shirt, Em was happy at the time because she got a new shirt. At the end, Emily had one of the most dazzling outfit of the birthday party. Also, she learned to appreciate what her mother did for her, and made sure, that for next time, her mother bought her something she really looked back for.

"::·.A Cool Experience!.·::"

Have you ever had an experience that you always remember and that you know you will never forget? One of those experiences that you don't expect and are very funny. Well, I had one and I think it would be kind of funny to tell.

It all started when my brother, Giancarlo, told my father that since he was here, in Cartagena, he wanted to go to the house that we have in the Rosario island. So my father invited the father of Isabella, Bernard, and his family. The day that we went to the island, was the day that the three mastered ship of Colombia, El Gloria, the four mastered ship of Chile, wich is the biggest, a three mastered ship from Brazil, and a three mastered ship from Paraguay were lefting Cartagena, so we saw them and it was amazing! I went with Lisette, Victoria, Isabella and her parents, two of my brothers with their grilfriends, and my parents. We went just to hang there for the afternoon.

In the island we did a lot of things, we went kayaking, we snorkled, take alot of photos, and swim alot! When we were about to left, my parents and isabella's parents decided to stay for the night there. Since we didn't had any cloth for the next day, we went to a little village in the Rosario Island and bought some clothings. Obviously, the cloth werent so comfortable, but we preferred to be cleaned. That night I felt as if I were in an isolated island with anything, It was just as in Desafio 20·06, a reality show inb Colombia. The next day we woke up early in the morning and had breakfast. For breakfast we had arepa de huevo, which is a typical plate from the coast. Cartagena is in the northern coast of colombia. About an hour before we returned to Cartagena, me and my friends went to a little reef, just in front of my house, in kayak. There, we snorkled and I saw a ray just above us, but it was a little deep. I decided not to tell my friends because then they would want to return to the house and I didn't. later our parents called us because it was time to go. We got to Cartagena like at 5 O'clock in the afternoon.

That was one of my memorable experiences. Really, I had a wonderful weekend. I think this experience was very important in my life, because it teached me how to survive without a comfortable cloth, without air conditioner, and a computer. I know this sounds kind of funny, but really I like it and I want to repeat it. Some times you think that you can't survive without an air conditioner or without a computer, but you don't realized that there is people in your surroundings that don't have even with what to eat, so before you start complaining think about it, you are very lucky.

°::.A Nightmare Holiday.::°

Have you ever think about how would a nightmare holiday would be like? 1) Imagine that your always-dream-holiday is just to begin, you are in the airport, and you loose your tickets 2 minutes to aboard the airplane. You loose the flight and you need to wait for the next airplane. 2) In the airport, you need to wait for 14 hours to the next flight and buy your ticket again. 3) While waiting in the airport, 4)you talked with some friends, read the news paper, and spilled the coffee on your pants. 5) Since you felt sleepy, every 5 minutes you took a nap. You took the nap on a couch. 6) The couch was comfortable, warm, and soft. 7) When you woke up you went to the cafeteria bought another cup of coffee, chocolates, and a sandwich. 8) Oh, what a nightmare!


1. Independent clauses.
2. Prepositional phrases.
3. Participial Phrases.
4. Series of phrases.
5. Adverb clause.
6. Series of Modifiers.
7. Series of Items.
8. Introductory yes, no, or interjection

..::·Solving Problems Properly·::..

Hi,
Today Mr. Hide assigned us a post about problems and solutions. I think this post may be of interest to many people because I think that everybody have problems.

I have many problems like all human beings. I believe that anyone on Earth is that perfect to don’t have even one problem in his/her life. When I have problems I deal to them in different ways because it depends on my mood and also on the gravity of the situation. I think that the 70% of the problems in my life are with my mom. Almost all of the times that I have problems with my mom I end up grounded. When I am in a bad mood sometimes I deal those problem in a way that is no the best, like ignoring that person or shouting or not trying to solve the problem. The best way that you can deal to you problems is talking to that person in a calm and good way, not ignoring them, and hearing her/his points of views; may be you might be wrong and he/she might be right.

Well, I have strategies to solve my problems, but when I’m under pressure I really can’t apply them because the angerness takes me to do things that I’m not thinking about in that moment. My parents always tell me to think before my actions, I can do that if I have time to reflect, but If I have little or no time to think about what I’m going to do it is very hard to do that. When I was younger my parents always told me to go to my room and reflect of what I did for 10 minutes and then talk to them, all of the times I ended up apoligizing.

Well, One of the problems that most of my friends and I have with our parents it’s to stay out later. I can tell you that if you get upset with your parents and talk to them in a bad way you’re not going to get what you want. Almost all of the times that I had a problem with my mom, the problem is about staying out later and usually I didn’t talked to her in a calmed way and I ended up grounded, so it was worst for me because I didn’t even get to go out with my friends. About A month ago I talked with my parents in a calm way and they talked about it. Know I have what I want; I got to stay later.

Most of my friends are younger than me and they stay out later, so I thought it was unfair to stay earlier if I was older. Every time that I went out for dinner with my friends I fought with my parents because I wanted to stay later, this is the reason why I had the problem with my parents.

After several months, I talked to my father in calm way and he understand me because I gave him good reasons, so he said he was going to talk with my mom. So as you can see, I fix my problem by talking to my parents in a good manner.

..::·::-Soccer in School-::·::..

Hi,
Like I told you before, one of my favorite hobbies is to play soccer. I’m in the Jr. Varsity girl soccer team. I have practices every Wednesday and Friday from 3:30 P.M to 5:15 P.M. Next week we have a game vs. another school, but I’m not sure of the name of that school. I like very much to play soccer. Through all the year we have several tournaments in different cities. The biggest tournament is binational games.

For this year we have the following tournaments:
· On November 24th to 25th are the MS Cartagena Games.
· On February are the Albania Games.
· On March 1st and 2nd are the Barranquilla Games.
· On March 13th to 18th are the Binational Games.
· On May 4th to 7th are the Mary Mount Games.

Last year I was also in the team. The Binational Games were in The Columbus School of Medellin. We stayed at the club Campestre of Llano Grande. From about eight different schools we got the fifth place. I know is not too good, but that is why we are working very hard to get the first place this year.

I think that is very important to have sport teams in a school because is good to encourage and give the opportunity to students to play sports and like sports. For example in my school, we get to choose extracurricular classes of sports. We can choose maximum two sports. To go to a tournament you need to have good grades, if you have failed a grade and you haven’t improved it you can’t go. So, really it doesn’t affect your grades in school because the people that want to play they want to go to those tournaments soy they put all their efforts to get great notes!

·..::Two of my Favorite Hobbies::..·

Hi,Since I create my blog I have written some things about what I like, what I want to be in a future, what I do in English classes, one of my vacations, etc. So far I had told you little details of my life. Today I’m going to tell you about my favorite hobbies.

Two of my favorite hobbies are to play soccer and to draw and paint. When I have free time, in the afternoons, I usually draw. Obviously, except when I have home work or soccer classes. Like I told you before, I want to be a fashion designer, and the reason why I want to be a fashion designer is because I love painting and drawing and fashion. I expect to be a great fashion designer. And yes, I want to spend the rest of my life drawing, or being a fashion designer, at the end is the same thing.

Ok, now my other favorite hobby, soccer. I love to play soccer, when I play it I feel like that is what I like to do. In my school I’m in the girl’s soccer team of middle school. Every Wednesday and Friday I stay after school in practices. Also, after each practice I have another soccer class, but independently from the team. I receive that class with Valentina, one of my classmates and one of my best friends! You can visit her blog is super cool!

Expectations Vs. Reflections

As you can see in the bottom of this blog I posted a paragraph named My Expectations. If you read that post, you can see which were my expectations of making and having a blog one month ago. What I expected of having a blog have similar things of what I have experienced. I expected to be fun and interesting, and so far it has been very fun and super interesting.

Maintaining a web log has both, easy and hard things. Well, it is harder when Mr. Hide, our English teacher, assigned us a topic to write a post, because you can’t write about things you want, eventhough the topic that they assign us are things that we know or we have studied. Each week we need to write two posts; one of them is a free post and the other one is assigned by mr.hide. I love when we write our free posts because we can write about anything we like except unproper things. On you free posts you can put your point of views and add some experiences. The posts are due every Sunday at 7:00 A.M.

I feel that having a blog is very fun. Although sometimes when you’re in a bad mood is boring to go to your blog and write the posts. Also there are times that i feel like if my head was blocked and any ideas come to my head so I don’t have anything to write. Since we have a post I have improved my writing.

My feelings about having a post have changed a little bit. At the beginning I felt a little bored. But know I feel that is more interesting, that you can express in different ways and everyone can see what you feel and what you think. Also I feel that posting assignments is better than writing them by hand because sincerely I really hate writing by hand.

I love to add pictures to my posts. Really when I look at a blog and I see pictures, I feel with more enthusiasm to read the posts and leave comments. So I want people to feel the same way of my blog. I love to have my blog very organized and cute. The settings of my blog I changedthem if I don’t like them.

Of my experience what have surprised me the most is that I have improved my writing so this week one of my free posts got an honorable mention. I care very much that my blog is in good conditions and the posts are great and interesting. I hope that one week my blog get named the blog of the week.

From blogging I have learned many things. - I know is going to sound very funny- but the first of them is how to make the blog. I also learned how to make great comments. To make my posts, most of the times I put some experiences and my points of views. I also learned how to link to places and other blogs.

.:·:·::4-Shopping Lovers::·:·:.

Hi,This week I started to read a book called Little White Lies. This book is about a girl that wants to restart her life by moving to London. There, she had a high class life, shopping all days and going to famous clubs on weekends. This book makes me think about the all day life of much woman and teenagers. Why? Well, just because we love to go shopping!

When Caro, the girlfriend of my brother, comes to Cartagena we go to The Old City because there are many boutiques, such as Pilatos, Hernan Zajar, and many others. Also when I go to Medellin we go shopping too because there you can find beautiful clothes, shoes, purses, etc. and they are very cheap. If you come to Cartagena, Colombia, I will recommend you to go to The Old City and look also at some boutiques in the Av. San Martin.Do you know why I love to go shopping? No? Okay, I love to go shopping because I love fashion! In the future I want to be a famous fashion designer.

My mother is a very good friend of Francesca Miranda, a recognized fashion designer here in Colombia. Some weekends I go to her factory and she teaches me basic things of fashion designing. I think that if a continue learning those things maybe I’m going to do well in college. I’m very happy of what I’m learning, because I enjoy doing it. I think shopping is one of the best hobbies.

..::Interesting Story::..

Last week, in English class we read a story called Three Skeleton Key. Every week we read a story in English class. We have read three stories since we started school. From the three stories I've liked two of them. Three Skeleton key makes me think about Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Dead Man's Chest, because in the story appears a three mastered ship. When the three man saw it one of them said "Are you saying that she's the Flying Dutchman?" when they told that, immeditley the picture of the Flying Dutchman in Pirates of the Caribbean II came to my head. In that story they thought that the three master ship was the Flying Dutchman but it wasn't.

The three mastered ship was abandoned because sea rats ate the crew of the ship. The ship crashed the shore, when it crashed all the rats when to the lighthouse, where the three man live while they were working. When the I heard the word rats it reminded me of one time I was walking with a friend, Isabella, to her house. It was late at night and we where going to cross the street. We saw a giant rat! It was grose, the rat was runnig out of a sewer, when we saw the rat we start running and screamin it was horrible! So could you imagine how would it be not only with one rat, but with thousands of them wanting to eat you! That was what happened in the story, all the rats were hungry beacuse they didn't eat for about 4 weeks. They wanted to eat the three man in the lighthouse, poor guys!

I liked this story because when you are reading, you dont't want to stop, you always want to know more. This story is very suspenful, and I love suspense. In English class we have read three stories and none of them were very interesting, it was time to read something of our taste! eventhough the other stories were cool, this one was better.

.·::·.My Trip On The Disney Magic!.·::·.

Three years ago my uncle planned to make a trip with the family. He thought of going to disney, but his daugther told him of the cruise of disney. He thought that was a great idea beacuse all of my cousins are young and they love disney!

On the 26th of December we traveled to miami. that same day we rent 2 cars and traveled all the rest of the day to Cape Canaveral were the cruise sail from. In Cape Canaveral we went to the NASA. There, a man showed us all the things in there, it was great! On Monday, at the afternoon, was the cruise departure from Port Canaveral. The route of the cruise was first St.Maarten, St.Thomas/St.Jhon,and Castaway cay. It was a 7night cruise.

Silvana, my cousin, and me the first day we went through all the cruise to know all the things that the cruise had. In the cruise we went to the pool, we ate many ice-creams, we went to the game zone, we buy alot of things too. All the nights we went to a room were you could chat with other friends in internet, it was a great experience. I will never forget it!

>= Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter Have Past to History! =<

Animal lovers around the world are paying tribute to a brave and beloved
conservation hero today. Steve Irwin also known as the “crocodile hunter,” died
after being attacked by a stingray at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.

Steve Irwin was a great and brave man. When I was very young I saw his TV program in animal planet. I loved him, I always dreamed of going to australia just to go to the Australia zoo and watch him. His death was a big impact on humanity. Almost every person in the world loved him. I cant said that every person in the world loved him, because I´m not certain.He said,

"I was actually put on this Earth to promote conservation so people can protect
wilderness areas, love wildlife, and feel energy, passion, and enthusiasm for
our beautiful native animal species.”

His death was caused by a stingray, while he was diving in the Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. "As he swam over the more than 200-pound stingray, its poisonous tail spiked him in the chest. The attack damaged his heart."

I think that he was a great man, he was not only the "crocodile hunter," he was a “passionate environmentalist.” If you want to read more about these, you can visit Time For Kids News web page or Scholastics News web page.

? =]Some of my Friend's Blogs [= ?

This is the blog of my friend Catalina. She is one of my best friends. She likes to be called Kat!http://kta93.blogspot.com/

This is the blog of other friend; Stefano. He likes to play soccer.

A third neat blog belongs to Augusto. He likes to sail. Also, I called him August.

..··..My Expectations··..··

Well, my expectations of having my own blog are many. I expect to have fun, and I know is going to be very interesting. The idea of looking at other peoples points of views makes it even more exciting. Also other people can see your opinions and point of views too. Well I know I’m not the best writer, but I make the posts the more interesting I can. Also people that visit my blog can write me comments to correct my errors, that way I'm going to improve each day more.

*Technology And Education*

I think technology has advantages and disadvantages for education. One advantage is that we have more sources to find information. Nowadays we don’t have only books or encyclopedias, we also have computers, educational TV programs, and more. Other advantage is calculators. Calculators are good or bad depending on the way people make use of it. Even though technology has advantages, it also has disadvantages. Some disadvantages would be inappropriate content, make people lazy, and is not that easy for some people to afford for it.