YAAAAAAIIIIIIIII =)

Last week I finally made my final presentation on my internship report, so there's only one thing I have to say: YAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got 19 out of 20... how's that?! Im graduating the first week of July... and, of course, I will be thinking about all of you =)

Same-sex marriage in Canada

Hi everyone!

I am still working on my internship report (yes, still). One of the parts of such report is a Cultural Essay. After thinking about an interesting topic for that essay, I decided to write about same-sex marriage in Canada. It is a very interesting topic for me, because here in Venezuela we are not even close of having such kind of civil unions. Besides, I don't want my audience to stand up and leave in the middle of my presentation, because it would make me more nervous. Sooooo, if somebody wants to give me their opinion about the legalization of same-sex marriage in Canada, or if somebody has a useful website that I can possibly take as reference for my essay, it would be really helpful! and I'd be extremely greatful!

Cheers!!! =)

Cycles

I've been extreamly worried these days. I came back from Canada 3 months ago and I have not written even half of my report. I really want to finish it and graduate next April, but I think deep inside, Im sabotaging myself. Even if I know that's what I want, I don't do it. WHY?! It may be one of those times in life that I need to close cycles to let new oportunities arrive. Once I heard that most difficult ages for Human Beings are 23 and 27/28; in fact, there are many people that have suicide at the age of 27/28: Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Brad Nowell, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin, to name a few. I don't know anybody who has done that at 23, but in my opinion 23, as well as 27/28, are transitive ages in every person's life.
Im not saying Im a superstar or that Im about to commite suicide, Im just trying to make my story beleiveble =P
Well, I will keep trying! I will keep in mind that changes are positive, and that we need changes to keep our energies in motion and to keep harmony between ourselves and our desires.

Cheers!!!!

Showing some LOVE to my friends in Canada :)

Hooolaaa!!!

As you can see, I have not been updating my blog, so now I have lots of things to say. I will not tell you every single thing because it would take me hours to write all my experiences of the past 2 months, and also because you would not read my post =P

I just wanted to tell you, my dear friends from YUELI, that I'm already back in Venezuela and that I miss you all very much. I'm very glad I had the chance to share with you during class, and with some of you after finishing our course (Meggie, Chie, Ahmad, Tina, Leo, and Don). I'm sorry by the end of my stay in Toronto I couldn't meet you all... now I miss you more than I should because of that!!!

My work at YUELI went very good. I have to tell you that I got the highest score in my internship evaluation, that is to say 20/20!! yaaii!! Of course, I love even more YUELI staff now, lol. I'm very proud of myself, because I have never worked before; now I feel more confident and happy with the things I can do. I was capable to go study and work in a foreign country, live without any family, and make very good friends... I'm pleased and lucky I had the opportunity of getting all those experiences and memories!!! we all are!!!!!

I promise I will be around more often :) hope everybody does!!!

Love,

Maria I.


PS. I got extreamely happy when I got Puma's e-mail a couple of weeks ago! loool!!!! =P

Pic 1: YUELI staff
Pic 2: Our class and Don on graduation day. Rafael had to go early, boo!!

HEY!!!

HEY EVERYONE!!

I WAS JUST RE-READING SOME OF YOUR BLOGS AND WANTED TO TELL YOU (IF SOMETIME YOU GUYS CHECK YOUR BLOGS) I ENJOYED BEING WITH YOU ALL EVERYDAY FOR TWO MONTHS =)I HAD A WONDERFUL TIME. WORK AT YUELI IS NICE AND EVERYTHING'S DOING OK! I'M REALLY HAPPY SOME OF YOU ARE STILL HERE AND THAT WE HAVE THE CHANCE TO SEE EACH OTHER EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE... EVEN EVERYDAY :)
WELL, NOW THAT MY TIME TO GO BACK HOME IS COMING, I'M STARTING TO MISS THINGS HERE...

HOPE YOU'RE ALL COOL!!

HUGS!!!

MARIA ISABEL

The gift

I've been thinking about buying a gift for my friend and a few days ago I decided to look for the Sin City comic. I know he liked the movie a lot so I think it would be a nice souvenir.
Yesterday, since we were done with the final presentation, Chie and I wanted to kill some time. We went to a comic store at the Korean Town. I liked the entrance of the store because it was very small and needed to be painted; it looked like if it were an illegal shop. We got inside and started to take a look at the comics, there were many, so I asked the cashier if he had the Sin City comic, he said it was upstairs.
There was another guy upstairs, he looked the same way as the first one: crazy hair-crazy clothes :P He was very kind and told where the comic was...
The whole Sin City comic is 7 books, which is too much weight for my luggage, so I decided to buy only one! :( Chie helped me choose one that had many scenes adapted to the movie... I went to the cashier again to pay for the comic and I remembered that 300, a movie that I looooved was also an adaptation from a comic book. The cashier told me 300 comic was right beside the Sin City comic so I came back to have a look at it. I fell immidiatly in love with 300, it was very big, nice colors, and I found out that the star of the movie reeeeaaally looks like the comic!!! as well as the other characters! I was amazed!!
I end up buying it for me and buying nothing for my friend :p For a moment I felt guilty and selfish but it's ok because I just want to know if he prefers to have the 300 comic (he also loved that movie) or only one book from Sin City comic...
I hope to talk to him soon =)

ROOTS in harbourfront

A couple of week ago, when I was writing the first draft of my research paper, I found out that there was going to be a free jazz serenade next sunday, I thought that if I had time I would go to that event...
Sunday came and I was really tired of being in front of the computer writing and studying, so I decided to go out for a couple of hours and relax a bit. I tried to find the place where the jazz serenade was going to be but I couldn't. I was very sad and angry because I'd been here for 2 and a half months then and I realized I didn't know the city yet! I got a bit depressed and felt alone at that time, but I didn't want to come back home yet; I think at that point I was more stressed than when I left home!
I remembered that there were events every weekend in Harbourfront so I decided to go there! When I got to the boulevard there was a guy playing with fire! he put a burning stick all over his body and nothing happenned to his skin and, at the end, he put the stick on his mouth and turned off the fire, very nice!
After the fire guy, I started to walk around and I realized that there were many rastafaris in the place... It made me curious and, few minutes later, I heard that night was called ROOTS and that reggae music was going to be played. At that point I understood the colors of the CN Tower, green, yellow and red: rasta flag. I got very exited because I really like this kind of music. I was alone, though! :( I really missed my friends from Venezuela at that moment because we all enjoy these kind of shows.
Well, a band started to play in the main stage and there was a rasta woman beside me. She was dressed with a long skirt and, a shirt, beautiful sandals, and on her head she had some kind of clothe desiged with the rasta flag covering her dreadlocks... suddenly her friends came and started to say hello to her in rasta way! they screamed "raaaaaaaaaastaaaafaaaaaari" very loud! and she answered the same way, they huged and kissed! nice!... then they started to chat and all what they said ended with the phrase "yeh man" just like reagge sons! :p very funny!
Actually they were talking like they were signing, they all had an accent, from Jamaica maybe, and I could barely understand what they were saying. At one point a guy came and stood behind the rasta girl, they didn't know each other, and appearently that guy touched the girl's bum, she started to yell at him and repeated many times "the f word" :p I thought she was going to hit him, but the guy run out of the place before she could do anything to him; he was very scared haha!!
I stayed there for two hours and then came back home... I think I know a bit more about rastafari people :p