martes, 2 de agosto de 2011

Block Out (extra credit)

Well, all of my friends know I have a very bad luck. I am always getting b y something or just fell from something. I think is enough to tell you that I have went to the hospital like 6 times. Last week a friend of me told me that karma take revenge of me by me getting hurt. Of course she was joking but I think that what she said may be true. Well I do not know and I do not care, I just try to be more carefully when I do all the things I do so I do not get hurt.

The point of what I just tell you is to make you know that I am a guy whit very bad luck. For instance, a guy may shout 'black!' to someone and nothing happens to that guy but if I do it, I may go to jail for the bad luck I have.

Now that you know the bad luck I have I would tell you a very big and nice example of my bad luck when I was a child.

It was a friday after school. We always have exams on friday so we all want to have some fun and that friday we were invited to my friend Cris Morales house. He invited Alvaro, Dani, Keso, Higueros, and me. We all were very happy because we were anxious to get out of school and finally have some fun that week.

At 2:30 we finally got out of school and so we all gather at 3ro B. From there we went to the bus of Cris Morales and I remember that I have lost my permission of going inside another one bus so the woman  that controls the bus told me to get down but I just stay there. She start calling thebus in which I was supposed to go on and they were going to send me to my bus but finally they spoke to Margarita and Margarita told them that I have autorization of going on Cris Morales bus.

When we finally arrived we went directly to the 'Casa Club' house which was like a park inside the condominum. We ate 3 pizzas and hangout in there. When we start getting bored, we went to Cris Morales house and play some guitar with Daniel, Cris, and me. Of course the other guys were bored about just sit and saw us playing the guitar so we went again to the park and play some futball.

After it got boring (I know we got bored of everything but we were young) we did not know whatto do so we want to go to the 'Valle Verde' school that was at the front of Cris condominum. We did not know how to enter the school so my friend Cris got an idea which consist of throwing a block on the school so they open us. Cris Morales throw it but we got scared because there was a man that take care of the grass and those things and he told us 'vengan patojos cabrones' so we start running.

After running like 2 miles we enter Cris house. We locked the door and we were very scared. The 'manager' of the condominum go to Cris house and knock the door but we did not open it because we knew that it was because of the block.

1 hour later we got out of Cris house but a cop stop us and tell us to stay in there while Lucho come (Lucho was the 'manager'). Lucho punished Cris very hard because Lucho said that the block had land on a mans head and that the man had to go to the hospital, which was a lie because the block landed on the pure concrete.

Finally our moms picked us on Cris house and of course, Cris mom puniched him very hard for what he do but Cris learned the leason and then he never do it again. It was a very funny, exited, happy, etc. experience even we did something bad, but the important is that we had a good time for us.

Long Term Achievements: Not that Easy (extra credit)

Lets start with DH. DH is the abreviattion for downhill skateboarding. Dh is something really dangerous because you are going from 60 kilometers per hour to 130 kilometers per hour. Of course you need certain board, certain wheels, passion, speed, courage, etc. Downhill Skateboarding it is about passion, speed, courage, and of course, WINNING.

I have been practicing longboard since 2008. When I stared this sport (which my parents do not like because a) They say it is not a sport and b) They say it is too dangerous), I started when my mom bought me my first longboard that was a 'sector 9'. When my mom bought me that board, She put me on a camp which consist of going every morning since 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. It was very expensive but value.

After this, I stop longboarding for 1 year and then got back up on the longboard. As I told on a blog entry, I knew skating friends from the condominium which teach me everything I know now. As I was progressing I started doing some tricks untill I got better. While every month pass through every month, we all skate every day and always knew more people and start gathering for new competitions. It was very interesting.

One day I saw a competence in a place called 'secret spot' which was about freeride and downhill skateboarding. In that moment I did not knew what that was. I did knew what was freeride or freestyle (which was about doing tricks9 but I did not know what downhill skateboarding was. I started asking my friends what was that and of course, searching videos on youtube about that. My friends taught me how to start doing this thing because of course when you start doing Dh you are very afraid of falling and getting to hurt. At first they taught me how do I need to keep my board so I can do DH. Then it comes the hard part, going 60 km/. I started throwing myself a part o the 'secret spot' in which I just get to 30 kilometers per hour. I need to get 30 more.

The first thing I needed was a board for DH and of course, courage. In that time I did not have any of them so I started getting courage because it was not too expensive. Then I borrow a board and threw my self all the secret spot. It was very scary because it was not my board and it was my 1st time.

After this first day (in which they took a video recording of me) I just start asking for some things I needed for my board so it was more secure, faster, and with more pleasure.

Now a days I already have the necesary equipment for DH including the passion, speed, and courage. When I started I have a bad possition for Dh which we skaters call 'tock'. Now, I have a better tock and I have already get to 90 kilometers per hour which is very fast. I feel very confortable and satisfied because now I am on another level of DH. I am much better now and its like this days I am constantly having lightbulb moments. To be honest, it is of the best feelinghs I have ever feel in my life. Its like love but with yourself because you achieve something. In my case, I achieve being on another level of DH which is a long term achievement and you are constantly getting this achievement and level of confortness with yourself. It feels like everything it is going to be alright.

We all have get through this wonderfull feeling and in life we get it mostly every day because every day you achieve something. Even it is a short term achievement but the thing is you get that Lightbulb Moment. The lightbulb moment that makes you feel free, happy, exited, and a lot of more good emotions. You also get a better mood, thats why we always have to search for something to achieve like for example grades and never give up.

Rituals At Night (Extra Credit)

I'm gonna talk about something special today. People may think this can be strange or that I'm a kind of a weirdo but they arewrong. We all have rituals. You may think you dont but people may think of a ritual, of something of witches or harry potter or something but that is not what a ritual really is, a ritual (for me) is something that you always do or that you do constantly for an x reason. For example some people may close their eyes when they are having a bad experience or laugh when they are having a bad experience. People may do a lot of rituals that they do not know tha is a ritual.

Me, like all people, have rituals. A riual which is a ritual that I easy recognize and know that may be strange or perphaps is not but well, whatever, the thing is that I, every night, before get to sleep, I close the bathroom door with no reason and I always order the stuff like clothes on my room so it looks better and maybe I do it because it makes me be more order and sleep better.

Other thing I do every day is taking a bath. I know it sound fun but what I mean is that I always take a bath around 8 p.m. and not in the morning. I make it mostly because at that time I come from the gym and I dont like to be sweaty when I went to sleep. Even if there is a day in which I do not go to school, I take a bath at that time. One of the most important reasons is that I do not lioke at all to wake up so early and taking a bath when I am half asleep.

In this last ritual, there is another ritual that may be starnge or make me look like a weirdo but it is the following one: I always put my iPod on my bose system and select especific music. Always turn on the water first and then put my close I am gonna wear ( in this case pijama) and put the music on. Most of the times I put the recently added playlist, the 25 most played playlist, or just shuffle and wait till it plays a goos song. Then I get into the water which is a little bit cold, not too much, but is not hot. When I'm already on the bathroom I dont get directly to where the water is falling, I wait like 30 seconds because I am naked and I always get afraid of getting more cold because of the water. When I am already on the water, mostly of the times I sing, and even dance (this for sure is something that makes me a completly weirdo).

After staying on the water for like 5 top 10 minutes 8 (which are like 3 to 5 songs) I just pull the towell and cover my self. I stay there inside the towell for like 1 minute untill I am not too cold. Then I just put my towel to hang so it dries, and start puting my boxer. Always put on my boxer on first so I can went wherever I want ( in my house of course). Finally I just put a t - shirt and eat and sleep. Sometimes I put on my pijama bottom part but when its too hot I do not use it.

Something strange about how I sleep is that I always wake up without my t - shirt and without one sock. It it very strange because I feel like someone came to me bedroom while I was sleeping and just take off my cloth and do strange things to me while I was sleeping so I did not knew what happen when I wake up. I know that is not true, I hope.

This are the things I do all the nights from monday to friday. I think I call this things personal rituals. Now, do you think I am kinda weird?

sábado, 30 de julio de 2011

Longboard Adventure: Parramos

Well, I will say that my greatest adventure in my life was when I went to Parramos which we longboarders call Volcanoes Bay.

It was a friday when we all got together to skate like every day. We have been told that there was a place called Parramos which was near Antigua Guatemala. They told us great things about that place like for example than you can go 90 kilometers per hour on a skateboard. We also have seen videos about that place so we were very exited to visit that place.

That same day, each one of us start asking our parents if they can get us there and we all got a 'no' from our parents but my friend Oscar Oliva kept asking her father until he say yes. We finally get to know parramos. We were so happy that we actually did not sleep that knight.

On Saturday, Oscar's father told us to gather on his house at 7 a.m. so on friday I start preparing all my things. Finally my mom took me to Oscar's house. Oscar was taking Jovan, Cris, Stephen, and me to Parramos. We got ready and put all the things on the car and we start going to our best adventure ever, Parramos. we were on the car for 2 hours because the dad of Oscar drove like 50 kilometers per hour. On that two hours we got desesperated but also nervous and exited. I remember every detail about that day. I remember when we say a mountain and we all said that it was a nice mountain to do downhill skateboarding and Jovan said that it was impossible to went there because it was going up and i remember when we all told him that then you just go uphill and then downhill. He was very stupid. The thing is we spent a good time.

Finally when we got to Parramos we were very scared because it was a scary hill. Let me show it to you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK-8uIHq6pE

When we were about to throw ourselves from that hill, let me tell you, it was VERY scary the first time and the second one it was less scary. We all throw from that hill. You know, it was very sad because we just throw 2 or 3 times because it started raining. Even that we had a very exited time and we all know that we just had another level of longboarder.

Then we got to casa y campo and continue longboard. I remember every detail about that day which change my life as a longboarder. After that day I have just go one time to Parramos in my life. I almost fell that day. The first time I went to Parramos is never gonna erase from my mind for being the most exiting day I have ever had in my life. I only got one problem that day. That I had my longboard too soft so when I was going 85 or 90, my longboard start shaking and I almost fell. On  that moment I got very scary but other 3 people also fell. A friend o mine felt because he was going 90 and a men carrying wood, got in front of him so he fell, the man who was carrying the wood just went another place running and he did not help my friend. It was very funny but we finally catch the wood men and he kept saying that the accident was not his fault.

Another thing I did not like from Parramos it was that when you get on your skateboard, some evil dogs start chewing you and following you like they want to eat you. But the bad part is not that they follow you because if they follow you, you just hit the on the face, the problem is that they get in front of you and you fell, the they eat you when you are already on the floor.

lunes, 25 de julio de 2011

Weather : Not That Simple

For me and my life weather is not just something simple. Here on my condominum "Casa y Campo" is very important how the weather is. We all skate here in Casa y Campo so we can only skate when its not raining and we always skate when there is not even a cloud. I sincerly like rain because I like the sensation of being inside my house when its raining outside. When there is not too much rain, I love to get outside and skate with my friends but when the rain its too much, I hate that kind of weather. I hate it because I just get sad and I can only be inside my house which means I can not get together with my friends, not even to skate. What I mostly hate is that when there is raining too much, and I already have finish homework, I have nothing to do. I get deseperated of being inside and doing nothing but watching TV or listen to music. Meanwhile I do this things, I just talk with my blackberry and start thinking the things I'v made that day and the things I could do if there wouldn't be any rain.

In the otherside, when its very sunny, I always get out. When I'v homework and there is a sunny day, I am always thinking and trying to hurry up with my homework so my mom let me go out with my friends.

When there is a sunny day, the time goes very fast for me so I'm always late at my house because I have to be on my house at 6 or 5 depending on the day. Today is a good example of a sunny day. The problem is that two girls visited me so I didn't do my homework and now until 8p.m. I am doing my homework. I hope this is my only homework or I'm dead.

In less words, when there is a rainy day, I can not meet with my friends and got desesperated and depressed because I can not get out and in my house i am just doing... nothing. In other words when its sunny I always get out, meet with my friends, skate, and have a pretty good day but at the end my mom punishes me because of getting late. I think that sunny days makes people feel more good and behave better and more funny. With the rainy days is totally the opposite.

Now not talking about relationships, I feel better with the cold weather because the hot weather gets me desesperated. I love rain and also relax deppending on how well my day was.

I tihnk weather does not have to affect you and how you behave. You just have to be how you are. Of course  we all change our behavior deppending on the weather. Perhaps you do not believe this but with the sunny days I behave in a bad mood with my parents but get to meet a lot of people.

Well, I hope my literature teacher likes this blog because my mood now is good, a little desesperated of doing homework and also of not getting to write 650 words. My life has not changed or not being affected by the weather at all. I just don not care of getting wet by the rain or get to sweat because both ways, I get wet.

Well still not to get to 650 words. Perhaps some times weather affects my life because my girl got mad one time because I did not saw her for like two weeks. On those two weeks I did not saw her because of two reasons. One it was that I skate every day. The other one is that it was raining too much. The thing is that she eventually got happy again with me.

Another bad experience is that I did not went to Xetulul like 4 times because it was raining. Well now I already get to 650 words so I will go to take a bath.

lunes, 18 de julio de 2011

How One Night Change My Life

The most important people I have ever met in my life were the skaters from 'Casa y Campo' condominium. It was an October 31 when my life completely changed. A friend from school that lives in 'Casa y Campo' told me to visit her for halloween because all of the children and teen from 'Casa y Campo' will go to her house. I went there alone on my green and fast motorcycle. Actually I was not able to ride it because I was too young but I didn't care. The things is that I went to her house around 7 p.m.  with other friends from school and we went all over the condominium asking for 'trick or treat, halloween'. It was pretty fun but after we got tired we went to a house in which all were gonna get together.

My cousin lives in 'Casa y Campo' but 1 year ago, I didn't gather with he and his group. That halloween I met them and they seem pretty funny. They all had different suits. My cousin painted his black hair to green hair and I don't know how, but he looked like Dracula. Actually all of them were withy Dracula suits but all were different. I just had an 'Afro'.

That same night but like at 8 p.m., we start playing 'chiviricuarta', which is a game like hide and seek but much more complicated. We played in groups because we were like 30 children. Oh, I forgot to say that in that night, I met my future girlfriend and when I saw her, she was like the dream girl because it was dark and I didn't saw her pretty well. I know its rude, but now a days I repent of being (before) her boyfriend. That day when I saw her, she looked like the prettiest girl I'v ever seen. She was with some mini shorts, blonde hair, light brown eyes, and with a hair style that make her seen like a 'good girl'. Of course she wasn't.

Now talking about the skaters or my cousin friends, they liked me that night because spend a very good time together. A good thing was that they were all the same age as I was (14 years) and that they all live on the same condominium as I do. The 1st of November, they all went to my house asking if I skate,I told them that I had bought a longboard last year, so we went to skate. I was pretty ashamed because I didn't know any trick so I saw a trick they were doing and I tried it. I fell. but I had the ability to skate. On the month of November we start looking and getting together with my friends and with the blonde hair girl I saw that night.

I had a pretty good impression of all of them including the girls. As I start meeting with the skaters, I start learning a lot so I bought another longboard. And with the girl, we meet all the mornings because we were on vacations. I liked and still like a LOT 'Casa y Campo'. There is always good weather and there are many things to do. For example, gather with friends and if its raining you can go to 'Casa Club'.

Getting back to the theme, I made a bet with the blonde hair girl in which I need to kiss her, but just a kiss. Then  she told me that I need to go in pajama to her house and if I didn't do it, then I would give her something more than a kiss. Of course I didn't went on pajama so I kissed her. You may think its funny but we just started kissing a lot and she was not my girlfriend. Actually is funny. One day I took her to a big garden in 'Casa y Campo' and ask her if she want to be my girlfriend and she say yes. Here is were I can tell you how first impressions can cheat you. We only last like 3 or 4 weeks. Maybe 5, not sure. The thing is that I broke up with her because she was giving me too much love or too much affection, in a bad way. I hope you understand what I mean.

The first impression of the skaters is still the same as that day when my life got better. I hope they got a good impression of me. That day change my life in all ways and I will never forget it. My life would be way different if that day would it be different.

lunes, 11 de julio de 2011

An Important Person, MOM

An important person I would say it is the one that you care about and that he or she cares about you or also someone that has a history with you. In my case, an important person for me is my mom, casually today it’s her birthday. She is 49 now. She has taught me everything I now in my life. First thing is that she took me everywhere when she was pregnant for 9 months; also take care of me always for 15 years and she will be taking care always me. She is important because she is a good person and when I say good I mean someone who has learn the bad way in life. Not because she want it that way but because that’s how God want it to be and for all the things she suffered in the past, she is the person she is right now. She is the person I most admire in this world and when I say this I mean it, not like other people that just say it. I love her and admire her more than anyone. 

One of her qualities is that when I do something bad, she do not yell at me, she talk to me about it and makes me see my mistake. I think, like most of adolescents, that I have not demonstrated my mom how much I love her and how much thankful I am with her but I know she knows it.

God sent our family many tests and my mom was the one that more suffer from this tests. Even that, she NEVER give up, she always kept fighting and always saw the positive things from "problems". Something I have learned from my mom is that "problems do not exist, they are just tests from God and the tests will only make you stronger.

We sometimes reclaim our mom that we work too hard and that we deserve a "price", and we never think that our mom carry us for 9 months, take care of us ALWAYS, love us, give us what we need, and give us more that we need for FREE. We are just not fair with our parents. Lets think about all they have done for us for 15 years. Lets think about this big test called LIFE.

People do not appreciate friends, family, etc. They just think about the bad things of other people and do not see the good things. Seeing the good things would make a better world.

For my mom i would do everything for her. I would die for her because she bring me to the world and make me who I am. Situations make her who she is. She is a strong person, funny person, straight person, and many more things that I would never stop saying. I'm proud of be her son, even I have done many bad things that she would be ashamed of me, she loves me. Having someone important in your life makes you feel secure and with confidence. 

Many times my mom inspires me to do a lot of things. I would like to make a book or make people know her so they know how hard is her life and see her as a happy  and positive person. People constantly are complaining about his or her problems and they do not think positive and do not think about other people problems. Many people just give up and doing that will just take he or her to a bad feature. 

Always have someone in which you can trust and you know he or she likes you just the way you are, cause thats how you need to be with other people, like him or her just the way she or he is and do not try to change them. Thats how the world should work. Just be you.