States of mind...Difficult Question.

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?

Maybe many people see me as a very serious person but I’m not. I enjoy a lot when I can laugh with people but I don’t like to laugh about people for example when someone falls, or if someone has mistakes in a public presentation. Those are not reasons for me to laugh of others. I think that laughing is one of the better ways to be in a relax state. I like jokes that friends can tell me because I suck at telling jokes and stuff like that. I also like stories (secuence of events) from other people that get complicated somehow (they become like a drama) and that they get solved in easy ways. I think laugh is one of the best medicines and it creates a sense of happiness. It’s very relaxing.

WHAT FRIGHTENS YOU?

I think that what frightens me the most is the sense of being lost in life. I feel this way when I see the goals or the paths I have chosen are not clear, or are disorganized. I also feel frightened when I’m lost in the literal sense. I mean, when I’m lost searching for a place or an address. These things frighten me because I feel insecure. Other things that frighten me are flying cockroaches, or walking alone late in the night. Also when someone surprises me when I’m alone, or focus in something… for example when I’m drinking a coffee, or reading in a cafeteria and someone yells “Helloooooo” in my ear. That doesn´t scare me but it creates a rise in my heart-beating and a very strong headache.

WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL DEPRESSED?

These are very difficult questions for me because sometimes I think we just jump from one state to another. I get depressed when someone I knew had a tragic or non expected death and I start questioning myself about existential issues as life, death, if we really know or not know people, if we really have real and close friends etc. I also feel depressed when I feel I have a lot of work to do and no time to do it. This creates a sensation of chaos in my head.

WHAT HELPS YOU TO RELAX?

I don’t really want to be specific with this question but laughing is one of the ways to get relaxed. Also to share with someone you love: going to the movies, reading something together, eat together, cook and other things…. Oh, cooking is a great way to be relaxed and to learn new things to do in the kitchen.

WHAT DO YOU REALLY DETEST?

One of things that I really detest is liars. I think in moments when I find out that someone is lying everything or most part of the confidence goes down and I start asking myself in what point of the relationship something else changed. I think that to hate something is one of the worst feelings someone can have because it is connected with bounds you had with that person, deception, memories, good feelings…

WHAT MAKES YOU STRESSED?

I already mentioned one of the causes of my stress: a lot of work and no time to do it. And I would have to add the fact that for example in weekends I also have to share time with my family because I don’t see them so often during the week. So this is less time for my homeworks of the school and the university. Other thing that creates stress in me is the fact to think in how I will have to earn the money to survive in the future. I think the future is a difficult question in my life because I start thinking that my choices haven’t been correct.

WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL EMBARRASSED?

My low capacity to make presentations in public and my cero capacity to dance.

WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?

I don’t believe in complete or full states of mind or feelings. There are always mixture of things inside our heads and hearts that’s why this question is one of the most difficult ones. I feel I’m happy when I’m with someone I love: boyfriend, good friends or family. I love it when my cousin (4 years) is with me, with him I see the world in other colors and with other senses. It’s great.

I also love when I’m independent to be alone, to go to the cinema, to be in conferences I’m interested in no matter who is or is not there. In general situations I feel good when I have the sense that I’m learning something. I feel happy when I read and when I can find passion in my life.

As Sándor Márai says:

“¿Crees tu también que el sentido de la vida no es otro que la pasión,

Que un día colma nuestro corazón, nuestra alma y nuestro cuerpo,

Y que después arde para siempre, hasta la muerte, pase lo que pase?”

Circuliando la vida!

· - The teacher I remember too much is Beatriz Osorio. She was my 5^th grade group owner teacher and my social sciences teacher, too. She was so smart and she loved dance like me, so we shared a lot of time creating choreography for the school dance group. She had to leave the school before the graduation, and she told me she was going the graduation day, but she never arrived. Recently I looked for her on facebook and I couldn’t find her. It’s so funny but I really want to know she’s okay.

· -The number of people living in my house is 3. We are my sister, my mother and me. My mother is Maritza and she is the best human mom. My sister is Monica. She is 21 and she is a math teacher. We are so closed and we love each other.

· -An important birthday is my birthday on May 10th. Many people believes that birthdays are another common day or a celebration for one year less of life, but for me is a opportunity to share with people you love and people loves you, it’s a celebration for a beginning and a close of important symbolic things for everyone. It’s like a change, even no one can see it, it’s inside you and you can feel it. If you want it can be just a normal day or one of the best days of a year, It’s all about you and just you can take the decision, because it doesn’t matter what you decide, it lasts 24 hours J

3OH!3

Named for the code of the region, 3OH!3 is a duo conformed by two boys from Boulder, Colorado. They are Sean Foreman and Nathaniel ‘Nat’ Motte. Their music is a combine of hip hop and electro pop music.

Their first single ‘Don’t trust me’ was one of the song in the list of most listened songs for 15 months to attain #1 at pop radio stations. It wouldn’t be possible without Matt Galle’s help (Photo Finish Records president) who support them in the beginning of this trip.

They were nominated in 2009 MTV Music Awards in the “Best new artist” category beside Lady Gaga, Kid Cudi and Drake. Even they didn’t get the moon man (statuette) they were really happy and excited because forming 3OH!3 was always about something hardest for them, it was and reminds about being fun, not about the trophies and notoriety they could have.

After a long working on their second album "STREET OF GOLD" (the actual album) they decided to record the first song “My first kiss” with Ke$ha. Nat said that “it sounds like robots making love” and after a few hours of being released on iTunes, the song jumped to the #2 over the list.

There are tow 3OH! videos. Enjoy them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RePriPCmlro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iWxD0GZVVk&feature=branded

SHE IS…

I am 19 years old and almost all my life I have lived in Copacabana, but the first two years of my life, I lived in three different places of Antioquia and out of this.

All of these years I have been living with the person more important when I was growing up, my mother. She is funny, honest, responsible, nice, energetic, hard-working and tender but primarily she is my oldest and dearest friend.

I consider myself a person little sociable, I feel that I am the contrary of her, because we have a different form of thinking. However, we have a pretty relationship like mother and daughter, but principally like friends. She is my example of life and my help to continue with y dreams.

With my mother, I visited an interesting city 4 years ago, this city was San Andres. This travel we did it because I had my birthday number 15, so my parents gave me this travel like my gift.
An important place in my family history is the grandmother`s house, this place is exactly where my mother grew up with her parents and her four sisters and two brothers.

This house was where all the family did the familiar`s meetings. Because my uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents were a very close family but then of the grandfather`s death all of this changed.

In conclusion my life is around to my mother and at the moment she is the most important that I have in my life.

♥ :D :S :( :@ :$ :)

What makes me laugh?

Well, that´s a difficult question…

Actually I think there are few things that really make me laugh because the most part of the time I just smile. I always have thought that things that happen to me are unique, to the point of think that my life is a drama but I´ve learned that life is a serie of dramatic situations that turn into comedy.

So, are these tragic moments which make me laugh… an ants’ attack all over my body, fell down from stairs… that´s funny.

What frightens me?

I´m afraid of everything, I´m a very nervous and sensitive person, I´ve fear of hurting myself fiscally and emotionally, I´m afraid to fall, to fail; I have also fear of die and people who I love die, but my biggest fear is the loneliness.

What makes me feel depressed?

When I arrived to a place I try to identify and to feel the type of environment, so my mood change depending of the energy of people who are there, everything can affect me in different ways and the fact of feeling somebody sad or bored makes me feel depressed.

What helps me to relax?

To lock myself in my head, that´s my happy place, I can lost there, talk, laugh, I can have fun and dream. Also sleep is relaxing: I like the unconsciousness state; also drawing makes me relax, in my paints I can express everything that I want and after do it, I glue it on my wall; to see that paintings makes me feel relax and comfortable with myself.

What do I really detest?

I hate hypocritical and intolerant people, I hate that when I´m talking don´t listen to me and principally, something that drives me crazy is that people don´t help me after having helped by me.

What makes me stressed?

People stressed, the noise and loud people, but above accumulating a lot of homework to do.

What makes me feel embarrassed?

Everything, each situation in my life makes me feel embarrass, a misplaced comment, a flattery, a scolding, this one is the most uncomfortable thing that I can support, when I feel embarrassed my reactions are different all the time what makes me feel even more ashamed, I blush or I get pale, I could vomit or to get dizzy, this one is the worst mood.

What makes me feel happy?
To feel that everything is good in my life, to feel that I´m not alone, to realize that I have wonderful friends and that I can count with my family. Something that makes me really happy is to get my goals, to wake up every day and to feel that I have everything and that I have lot of time to do whatever I want. :D

♥ Sara García

life circles.

I have never circled my life in specific situations or persons, because for me, life is just a big blender full of details, you see every ingredient before the mix, but at the end you can’t identify every flavor.

But now, that I have the opportunity to taste again some ingredients I would say:

An important person when I was growing up, was my grandfather, he is death now. When I was a little baby, my mother and father worked, so I spent my first years of life with my grandfather, he was so funny all the time and used to take care of me the whole day every day until I turned three and I went for the first time to a nursery. After that, I went to my grandparent’s house all weekends to spent time with my grandfather.

It was so sad when he died of cancer, but I guess he had a very happy life.

An interesting town or city I’ve visited is Santa Martha. I went there like 4 years ago, with my uncle. I went for free, so that is the best part of the story.

In this trip I went to Rodadero, to the center of Santa Martha, to Taganga, to Parque Tairona and to “Mamancana”. I guess the best place I went there was Mamancana, it is a nature reserve but also an extreme sports park. So there I practice canopy and I climb a big wall, was fun.

My favorite day of the week is Sunday because is the only day when nobody can’t force me to take a shower, I am free to rest!

Questions

In life there are many things that we enjoy or hate, for example I love laughing (especially with jokes), I like seeing people happy, when a person falls is so funny, also when someone tells me something funny and also when I am stressed for something like an answer of a question that is so important for me and the person tells me a good answer, those things are motives to have a smile on my face;

The question about what makes me laugh? Is so similar in some cases with what makes me happy? I really feel that I am person happy in general for my family, my friends, my study and my children (students); I enjoy so much the things that I do, I always try to love what I do, the people that is close to me, the study, all it makes me feel happy also that my family has a good health, I am happy if the people that I love is happy with themselves, also I am happy when I am going to travel, when I obtain an objective that I had in mind, when I demonstrate that I am able to do something, when I understand some topics that were so difficult for me, when I do the thing correctly and good, and also I am happy when I listen to music, I love the music, I enjoy listening the lyrics of the song when the song is identify me and I love to dace too. Also I am happy when I share with all my family, when I saw someone that I haven’t seen in many years. In general all those things that makes me happy, also makes me laugh.

In the other hand the things that makes me feel depressed are: when I fight with my parents, when I am bad in something for example in the study, when I miss someone, when I expect so much of people and they disappoint me, also with something when I hope something (event) and I feel isn’t going happen or didn’t happen, also there are days that I feel without motivation for doing anything and I only feel bad. Also when I feel depressed I get stressed so much. So the events that make me feel stressed are: a long work, an evaluation so long too, I am really a person so stressed also with an event so small like a little work or something like that, but also I only stressed with study and with situation big, for example a lie.

I feel frightened with the loneliness, not with I am alone but when I feel that someone special Is alone, also I feel frightened when I think if I can’t accomplish my dreams and also when I think in the death of my parents… I really can´t imagine my life without. And also there are things that I feel frightened but are smaller things than the others, for example: The mice, the cockroach, and the wild animals, the height and the darkness.

I feel embarrassed in situations like: When I’m confused with someone in the telephone, when I say something that embarrasses someone, when I fall although it is funny for the people, and when I forget something so important for someone.

I really detest the stupid people, the hypocritical people, the liar people, the possessive people and the obstinacy, but other thing that I detest is the angry people (serious) although my friends and my parents said me that I hate that because I am so angry and serious person.

And I feel relax when I finish a homework, when I am in my bed without things for doing, and when I am not doing anything.

questions.

Simple questions put us against our perspective of life…

What makes me laugh? So, what not makes me laugh? I have always thought that I have to smile to the problems of life, so my life makes me laugh. Every little situation has a big thing to laugh about, the people, the problems of the world, the chaos, the sadness is always an opportunity to see the good things of life and smile about it.

I guess that something that makes me laugh till I can’t breathe is a silly joke.

And I always said that is a rule to laugh when somebody else fell down, if you don’t smile to that situation the universe lost its balance.

What frightens me? I have a very sensible mind, if I see something horrific I can’t sleep, I dream about it and scars me for life. The scariest things for me are old movies, classic movies of horror. Because, nowadays, movies are just silly suspense, and no more.

Movies as the shining and poltergeist really frighten me! Just with thinking about those movies, I feel that I can’t sleep tonight; it is a little bit silly but I picture myself in that situation and I can’t help to dream about it. I confess here that I haven’t watch those movies complete, I give up before the end.

What makes me feel depressed? I don’t know what means to be depressed, I have never feel that, so I guess nothing makes me feel so bad to be depressed.

What helps me to relax? Good music and a pencil in my hand. I always listen to my music to relax and feel no preoccupation, but it has to be happy and energetic music, not something dark or sad; for me happy music means healthy mind; of course “happy” is a subjective topic.

A pencil in my hand, writing and expressing how I feel, is the perfect way to relax, to feel freedom.

What do I really detest? I really hate interruptions. When I am talking or somebody is talking and there are two or three people murmuring. I also detest when people is not serious in the moment to be serious, it isn’t always time to have fun.

What makes me stressed? In few situations I feel that way, I always avoid the stressed because is bad for my health. But those few situations are, maybe when somebody feels stress and it’s talking to me about that, I guess I feel his/her stress. And when I can’t eat on time, it really stressed me.

What makes me feel embarrassed? One situation that embarrassed me is to have food between my teeth and nobody says anything!

What makes me feel happy? Life is an opportunity to smile at death. I guess that everything must help me to feel happy.

But what truly makes me happy, is… those seconds before to wake up, because I am between the real plane of life and my dreams, and I feel that the time doesn’t exist, I feel peace, it’s a happy time before to get up and realize that my life is not always a dream.

• · Everything makes me laugh. To laugh is like a hobby and a therapy to get relax in some cases. It does not matter where I am or who is with me, the point is that I laugh all the time for all small or big things happened me, because I enjoy and love to do it.
• · I am such a nervous person and many things scared me too much. But the two things that really scared me are the silence and the loneliness in a dark place. For that reason I cannot imagine me in a haunted house or something like that.
• · I feel depressed when I fight with an important person or when someone makes me feel guilty of something.
• · Many things helps me to relax:

1. To laugh

2. To go out whit my friends

3. To stay at the school talking with my classmates

4. To stay at home with my family watching TV and having dinner together

5. To do my homework at time

But, in conclusion, I’m a very relaxed person.

• · I really detest liars and aggressive people.
• · There is not too much that stressed me, but the few things that make my stressed full are the teaching practicum and the preparation for it, to share time with people I cannot support and cannot sleep.
• · I’m just thinking so much and I really don’t find something that makes me feel embarrassed.
• · To share time with people I love, to listen to music, sometimes to read and enjoy each moment with people around me makes me so happy.

LIFE`S UPS AND DOWNS

• MY CLASSMATES, THE TV PROGRAMS AND MY FRIENDS MAKE ME LAUGH.
• ONE THING THAT REALLY FRIGHTENS ME ARE THE SPIDERS.
• THE CRITIQUES MAKE ME DEPRESSED.
• THE MUSIC MAKES ME RELAXED.
• I HATE WHEN I SHOULD GO TO FAMILY`S MEETINGS.
• ONE THING THAT REALLY STRESSED ME IS THE ACADEMIC BURDEN.
• I FIND THE MISTAKES OF WORDS WITH UNKNOW PEOPLE VERY EMBARRASING.
• THE BLUE SKY MAKES ME VERY HAPPY.
• I LOVE WHEN THERE ARE CALM MOMENTS.
• ANOTHER THING THAT REALLY FRIGHTENS ME IS WHEN I FIND SNAKES IN MY HOUSE.
• I JUST CAN`T STAY WITH MY FAMILY IN A PARTY.

THE LIFE AS LAURA :D

I am Laura Andrea Medina Diaz, I was born in May seventh in 1991 in León XIII in Medellin. My mommy felt worried because I was in the hospital many days.

I am thin and my height is 1.60 mts. I have dark skin, and small brown eyes. My hair is straight and short. I used to wear comfortable cloth which lets me easy to do many physical activities.

My days are differents because I live in the Poblado and I am doing the last semester of Ciclo Complementario in the Normal Superior Maria Auxiliadora in Copacabana. On Vacations, I help my parents with the familiar business: my father has trucks and he administrates them while my mother follow the follows the expenses.

My childhood was very happy. I lived with my grandmother until I was seven years old. When I was three years old, Camila was born; she is my cousin, although I was still been the favorite in myfamily. This is one of the reasons to have bad-tempered. I have been independent since I was eight years old I did homework by my own self and I lead many activities. In the last years of High school, I created and lead choregraphies and plays. Since nineth grade we won the first place in cheerleader competence.

Another passion I enjoy is Theater. I have been one of the person who started with the group "Teatro Intercultural Colombo-alemán" and I have played five plays which the group has showed in different parts of the country.

Another hobby are dancing, going to cinema and watching movies in house. I am fan of the T.V, specially cartoons such as Phineas y Ferb, Tru Jackson and Sueña conmigo for that reason while I am doing the homeworks, I watch T.V.

My favorite music is Blink 182, its musical gender is punk rock/ skate. the group began in the 90s with three members: Mark playing the bass, Tom playing the guitar and Travis in the drummer. They have had a good career. Through their musical career have played many concerts around the world. Some of the best albums are "Buddha", "Blink 182 take your pants and Jacket", " The Mark", and " Tom and Travis show", this lats mentioned was recorded on live. Besides, it is a famous songs compilation such as "All the small things", "man overboard", etc but my favorite song from them is "First date"

As I said peviously, I have bad-tempered in the way my realtions with everybody seems affected because I say my opinions, even I do not have the reason. With that way of being I have had many responsabilities which made me feel more mature than others from my age.

It bothers me when my interpersonal relations are based on lies, that feel me distrustful and radical in my position as woman. I do not like contradicting myself and I know, I need to improve in that aspect.