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?