POST #15

“In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.” An anonymous author said this. I bring this quote because this might be the last post I do, I hope not but in terms of my English class grade it is. Most of us have written about similar things that have happened in our lives since the project was given, others about things from the past, other have written about what is happening in the world, but when you look at all of them you can see similarities in most of our posts stories. Some have talked about our parents, others have talked about problems they have had to face with people, but no mater the differences of situations everybody can complement everyone by sharing there experiences and learning from others on how they chose to react or to assist the situation in the most suitable way so that their lives could go on in the same direction that they were and could keep pursuing the thing that are most important to each one of us. I really enjoyed this project it helped me to create a way to analyze things and to make something good of the experiences that I have had, good or bad.

POST #14

We're all a little weird.  And life is a little weird.  And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love. Robert Fulghum said this. I really identify my relationship with this quote. It is not because we are complete weirdoes but we have some qualities that might seem strange to others around us. I find Valentines Day one of the happiest days of the year for couples, although I think that love should be in the air all year long. I found this quote by an anonymous author that I found so funny but true that I have the impulse to show you. It says, “I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day.  When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon”. The first time I read this I almost peed my pants because it is so true. I think that one of the reasons people still celebrate Valentines Day is so that we could get inspired by one another and go the extra mile to get that girl that you’ve always wanted, or to tell that one person that you love how much you love her and cherishes the times that you have passed together.

POST #13

13 is my lucky number. I don’t think that I have ever had a lucky number, or I really didn’t realize it till today. Today is Monday February 13 and it has bean a very lucky day for me. The day started great, my mom woke me up for school in a very nice mood, she usually is in an angry mood in the mornings, I ate bedfast and got ready for school. I drove to school as always and started my day. My first class was English; my teacher today was writing the warning cards for those ho need to improve their grades in her class. I was very nervous because I thought that I was going to get one, when my turn was close I even got up from m chare and stood rite beside her so that I would sign it fast. Suddenly she asked me why I was standing there, and I said that I was waiting to sign my warning card. She said that I didn’t have one, and I started to celebrate because I was so proud of myself. Then there was math and I also didn’t get a warning card there. At the end of the day were the Science Fare awards, I didn’t think that I had won anything but it turns out I got third place in my category, and my project didn’t even work. I got to the conclusion that the number 13 is my lucky number because in January 13 I was a “math god” in a way because I was doing every problem rite.

POST #12

Want to know what really annoys me? Those embracing moments in your life that you seem to not find a way to get out of them. Have you ever bean embraced by your brother or sister in that moment that you are with your mom, your girlfriend, and her mom just talking and then they walk in and start interrupting the conversation by asking you a favor but you are trying to get them off your back without starting a fight but then they start to be very annoying and you scream to them to stop, then there is that awkward silence that you would want to die or that the earth would open up and swallow you in. Have you also had that time when you are at your home or at your grandparent home and they start bringing out your childhood pictures to show them to your girlfriend. That one happened today to me. I wanted to die, it was worse when that photo of me in a sailor suet showed up, or that one where your parents took you to make your own photo shut. But the worst part is when my girlfriend got to that naked picture in the bathtub, or of you randomly urinating in the side of the road when you were just 3 years old.

POST #11

Today was a very normal Saturday in my life. I woke up at 8:00 in the morning, ate some breakfast, went to my room and laid in bed for 3 hours watching Green Lantern in 3D until my girlfriend woke up and called me. At about 11:30 she called me and told me that she wanted to see a movie called The Vow, the only problem was that the closest time to watch the movie was in 30 minutes and she lives 20 minutes away from me. I took the fastest shower in my life; I usually take about 30 minutes to an hour to shower. In our like she lives about 5 minutes away from the movie theater. My girlfriend cried like 6 times in the movie, and she doesn’t know but I cried like 2 times. After the movie we went to eat at Panda Express, one of my favorite restaurants, and then we came to our house to rest fore a wile, obviously for those of you readers that are dirty mined my mom was there. Then out of nowhere one of my girlfriend’s best friends calls and says she wants to hang out, in other words “tell Mauro to pick us up and take us to eat somewhere”. At first I wanted to say no but then I was like well what do I have to lose. So I took them out, we had an awesome time. We went to a friend’s pizzeria and the pizza was delicious. After that we took a drive through Condado, then I took them all to there houses and came home.

POST #10

Today was the second soccer practice it was great. At the end I looked at my phone and saw a text form my girlfriend to call her. I called her and she told me that she needed my help with a project. The help was that I had to go pick her up at her house and come to mine so she could print the project because her printer was dead. I asked my mom and she said it was ok, the only problem was that my school is in Isla Verde and my girlfriend lives in Guaynabo and it was 5:30. That means that I had to get some traffic to get to her house. I went home got some water and my sister wanted to come with me to get her so I had no chose but to bring her. We were in traffic for about two hours so that we could get to her house. I got home at 8:00 and when she connected her computer to the printer we realized that the printer was without ink. We had to run to the nearest Office Max so we could buy some ink. When we got to my house after buying the ink the lights went off all of the sudden so we had to wait until they came back.

POST #9

Today was my one year and nine month anniversary with my girlfriend, and since about a week ago I have had the plan of taking her out to eat today or to make her a home cooked meal for us. My plan with her was going perfect until this morning when I wake up and see that my van isn’t parked outside. First I thought that someone had stolen it, because I asked my mom about it and she didn’t know anything, but then I realized that my dad’s car was still there, and he had left at two in the morning because today was a very busy day at the catering. I called my dad and he told me that he took my van because he needed to use but do deliver some activities with it and buy some stuff. I got really mad because I had just cleaned the van this weekend and I know that every time he takes the van it comes back smelling like fried food and fish, and believe me it is not a pleasant odder together. I had to call my girlfriend and tell her that our plans for today had to be canceled, because my dad took my van and didn’t want to give me his car. When I got out of school I got home and I was so bored that I called my dad to see if he was near, in my favor he had just finished all of today work and told me that I could get the van and go get my girlfriend but in one condition, to make food for all of us at home.

POST #8

Remember yesterday I talked about how I thought that my sister got all the attention on my family because she was the athlete. Well I decided that I wasn’t going to let there take all the attention. Today was the first indoor soccer practice and I decided to join the team. I was surprised how the team manages to keep practicing and in order knowing that they are playing without a coach. When I was playing soccer I had the same feeling of belonging that I get when I am cooking. That feeling only has come to me at those times. My girlfriend was very proud of me because I am starting to take a stance on what I love instead I lying back in my bed waiting for the day to pass. She has been very supportive with my decision to join the team, and so have my parents. When I was at the practice I started to feel something in my foot, it turns out that a massive water bag had popped in my foot and I couldn’t even stand the pain that I had. I sat down for a few minutes until I could get back on my feet. I had to stop playing every once in a while but I ended up having a lot of fun.

POST #7

Living with my sister is a living hell. She is 11 years old, and since she was born all the attention on my family has bin towards her. She has always bin the one that makes my parents proud of. She is the one with the perfect grades, the one that always has everything figured out, she is the family athlete, and still finds away to have one hell of a social life. I’m not kidding she has the best social life I have ever cine. She has more than a 100 contacts in her phone book and only has 11 years, and that is excluding the family members. I mean I don’t even have that many contacts. My sister likes to make my life miserable. She always blames me for everything that happens to her or near her. It is even worse when she is on her menstrual sickle. Even the smallest thing you can say to someone that can bother them can completely make her go crazy. I mean I am not in the position to criticize it because she has no control of her hormones, but at least she could try to hide them a little bit so that what she says wouldn’t be so hurting to others.

POST #6

Today was my dad’s birth day, and as always I didn’t have a present for him. In my favor he had left early with my mom and my sister to a volleyball game in Adjuntas. So when I woke up I tock a bath called my girlfriend telling her that I would pock her up in like 30 minutes or so to go to the mall so that we could find him a decent present. We were one of the firs to arrive at the mall it was like a desert. I had never scene it that empty in my life. We went through so many stores. The thing is that my dad is an easy person to give a gift, but that means that there are so many options to give him that it isn’t easy to chose which one. I started by thinking to give him an iPad, because since I bought mine 1 years ago he always wanted one. Then I thought of buying him a 3d TV, obviously with the help of my mom, because he liked the one they gave me for my birth day, but it was to expensive. I also thought of giving him a shirt, but he has so many that it would be a waste to give him something that he would barely use, and if he did he would use it for work and ruin it all. I made my decision by getting the most obvious present of all. His favorite deserts are Godiva truffles.

POST #5

            Do you know what I hate? Teachers that give you material that will not be necessary in life. Today one of my teachers gave a quiz on dividing the poem in its rime and metric. I mean in what way will that help me in life? (I am not going to de a poet or a writer) I am going to be a chef that only reeds the recipes and makes them. You know I am not going to be in a kitchen “well this recipe has 13 stanzas and its rime scheme is abacb “. A good teacher says to you that the things she gives you, even though we question her all the time that it is ridiculous, are the ones that give us things that we will have to confront in college and they give us a pinch of what we will overcome in college so that we could be prepared for when that time come.

            Do you want to know something that really pises me off? Those online gamers. They think they are so great because they are in clans and they play until 4 in the morning. I admit I’ve had my days that I have played to that extend but I have never trash talked. And even if I have there is a limit, but they take it to the extreme, I mean they call you a fagot, the call you a noob, o and just because you speak Spanish, you’re a Mexican, now that makes me mad because then they start asking for us to make them burritos and that kind of stuff.

POST #4

Remember a few days ago that I wrought about what I wanted to be when I grew up? Well I remembered today what made me so indecisive about it, and made my girlfriend not wanting me to study it. It was that I gave up on trying to improve on it by myself. I stopped trying because I always wanted only one complement from my dad that if it was perfect, but he always found a way to improve it or to comment about it. It is not that I appreciated his help on improving it is that I only wanted him to say that it was perfect. Well today when I was studying for my English exam I got really hungry, and there was no food home. I decided that I wasn’t going to do what I normally did and order food, I decided to cook again because I wasn’t going to give up on my dream. So I started to take out everything I could use to make me food, when my mom saw me she told me to me food form her, my sister and my dad as well so that she wouldn’t have to cook later. I said that I would do it. I decided to do a burrito but I made all the meat on many things and added a few uncommon ingredients to it, like chorizo and soy sauce. I pleated them and when I called everyone to eat I realized that my dad hadn’t gotten home from work, so I took his and placed it in the microwave. My mom, my sister and I ate and they thought It was delicious, it made me really happy to hear that but the real comment that I wanted to hear was my dads. When he finally came home the first thing he did was eat his burrito, I was amazed when he immediately finished asked who made it and my mom said that I made it and his response was that It was perfect. He didn’t want to make any changes to it and that made me feel very accomplished.

POST #3

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. Catherine Ponder said this. I chose this quote today because recently I had a problem with one of my cousins, she was the best fiend of my girlfriend. My cousin has always been very manipulative and controlling in everything she did. One day she introduced me one of her best friends (my present girlfriend) and in time we fell in love. When my cousin got the word that her best friend and me were going out on a date she immediately tried to stop the relationship before it got serious. Sadly for her, we were in love. From the day we started to go out she tried to manipulate us into leaving each other by saying lies about the other. At one point she even started to bully my girlfriend by calling her names like “cousin stealer” or “family destroyer”, yes they don’t sound so rough but imagine it coming from your best friend. At that point me and my girlfriend were 3 months in the relationship, and a was sick and tired of my cousins abusive tone toward us as if we were some criminals, so I said a few things that might of hurt her in many ways that at this point I regret saying them but I cant change the past I can only hope for a better future. Six months had past since I had herd a word from my cousin, even though she studies at the same school that my girlfriend does, till I got tired one day and decided to call her and ask for her forgiveness from the words I said. She forgave me and asked for my forgiveness of the things he did. Things aren’t still how they were but I still hope for a better future.