Happy Bday Sis!!

yes, it was my sister's birthday yesterday- Dec. 29th. She turned a big 18 years old, which means she is no longer an underage girl ha! She will become a guatemalan citicen in a few days when she gets her id.

We celebrated it last sunday at our house. We had pizza and some delicious strawberry icecream cake! yummie!!!! My grandparents and my uncle's family came to the aparment and we all had a blast. She had lots of phonecalls and post at facebook ha! and of course birthday presents.

My dad was not around because he is in Petén, taking some vacation on his own. 

Little cousin D. had lots of fun playing with T's gamecube and it was hard to get him out of the house. 

Pics will be posted soon!

p.d. we were actually trapped in the house since our car would not start and as it is automatic there was no way to move it, adding that my dad is not here it was up to my mom and I to do something, we walked around the neighborhood and found the right place to fix the car. It took three hours but it finally worked. I think it was close to die but we rescued it ha! my mom and I learned a lot too. I say we were trapped because in this country, taking a bus is not an easy thing to do... when you get on one of those you just pray you can come back home alive. They get robbed all the time! :s sad but true.

Just like my mom said...

there is no Christmas like Christmas in Guatemala.
it is just such a special time. I dont think any other country has such a beautiful Christmas time like we have here. The food, the spirit, people, fireworks. Its amazing, I wouldnt change it for anything!
Pictures soon!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

So I just want to wish everyone who read this a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

I am not even so sure if anybody reads anything from my blog but anyway... It's christmas time and everybody should have the best of times.

Well. tomorrow as every year we will be meeting my dad's family for a Christmas lunch, it is actually the same food we all have at Christmas dinner so we have a double super meal that day.

This year this reunion almost doesn't happen, some of my dad's brothers and sisters are not in Guatemala. We never have had the party at my house (though my dad would die for it) because we live in a small apartment and in the fourth floor, so obviously there would be no room for the almost 30 getting together to eat and "share".

To be honest we have never got along very well with them or we never felt that way. Most of the times my family and I sit by ourselves in a table until it ends. Of course once in a while someone sits with us asks how we are doing and leaves. It is not really fun. I guess the reason is that we hardly see each other during the year. And so we don't have many things in common.

They all are wealthy people, really like to party and travel with their wealthy friends.

We are not poor but just don't have that much money. We party but just differently, it doesn't haveinvolve alcohol :S theirs do. Most guatemalans think that parties MUST have alcohol or otherwise it just won't be good. It is sad. Of course you can have fun without being drunk! I guess it's a cultural thing and usually rich people parties have lots of alcohol. Sad thing isn't?

Well after that my family and I will be heading to my grandma's house and spend the rest of the evening there. Singing karaoke!!! yeah!

Anyway have a great day with your loved ones!! Merry Christmas

I'm adding this picture of Angelina on Christmas day with my dad's family last year. My mom and I picked a special and beautiful dress for her and she looked sooo pretty! Everyone said so. And she was soo good! Though she didn't know anyone and it was so late at night.

This other picture is the next day at my grandma's house, this is my mom and my cousin C. She is a year younger than me and we always have a great time singing and just girl talking! ha! As this was the Real Christmas day we got Angelina this gorgeous red dress. She looked so beautiful! She was tired that day and went to sleep at 8pm. I was constantly checking on her because I thought she would wake up at any time because of the noise of people and the fireworks. But she was sound asleep! My sweet perfect baby!

Just a little late...

I know TOMORROW its Christmas day but I decided to place a christmas background in my beloved blog... nice isn't?

happy birthday B1!

Yesterday, 12/17 was my cousin Byron's birthdya, he turned a big 16 years old!
It is unbelievable how much we all have grown, i still remember when my sister and I were toddlers and he was just a baby and we would make him sit in our doll's stroller and would give him rides in my grandma's patio. Sweet memories! :)
I wish the best for this boy. He has had some struggles on the way, since his dad passed away a few years ago but I know he has a very sweet soul and will be someone important someday. I ask my dear Lord many blessings for him and for his brother B2 (who recently turned 13! see post from a few days ago).
We had cake and pizza and just had fun.
I forgot my camera at home so i have not one picture! :s

p.s. we have most of our christmas shopping done! wohoo!!

So True

I found this in some other blog and I stole it :S
I think it is soo truth and I thought I would love to write it and give it to Angi and Angelina some day, so here it goes:

"We witness a miracle every time a child enters into life. But those who make their journey home across time and miles, growing within the hearts of those who wait to love them, are carried on the wings of destiny and placed among us by God's very own hands." ~ Anonymous

Luces Campero!!

This is a fireworks show a famous restaurant "Pollo Campero" throws every year.

As it is organized in a big park near to my grandma's house it looks like the show is specially for us. We all set in the terrace at 7pm and just look up. I guess its kind of the firework shows americans have in the 4th of july.

We expect this show every year. We have seen it since we were babies...I think, we have seen it for so long that I can't even remember the first time!

It is also a nice time because most part of the time a lot of family members come too and we have a great time. Well, this year there was not as much people as years before but lets say that the ones that are really expected did show up. :)
My grandma did her famous Christmas punch and we had Bollitos Peteneros!! Men those are delicious and only people from Petén (where my family is from) get to taste!

I didn't take any video or pictures of the fireworks this year but I did take some of us! haha

here they are:


In This is one, my aunt Dacia, my cousin Cristina, my mom and my grandma, me of course in the green shirt.

Las Primazazas!

haha thats how we call ourselves.

We alwaays have a great time together... singing!

This three... I love them so much!!

Before leaving for today...

I just wanted to say that.... I miss Angelina sooooo much...

I think about her every day... and remember all the wonderful times we had. I love her so much!!! She is my little Angel.

I never thought it was going to be so hard to get over the fact that she had to leave and left more than 9 months ago. I just miss her and wish she was here or at least that I could she her and hug her and kiss her like I did for 9 months of her life.

I know she doesn't remember me anymore but I won't NEVER EVER forget her. None of us will.

Hopefully I will stop crying when I remember her some day soon :'(

TE EXTRAÑO MUCHO ANGIE!!! TE AMO BEBE!!

The last few days have been really hard for us. Last year on Christmas Angelina was here and we set our Christmas tree and decorations since early November because we didn't know how long she was going to stay with us and we wanted here to see all of the nice stuff, she loved to play with the tree decorations. This year while my mom and I set the tree, we remembered all of those sweet moments and could not help to get teary eyed.

Happy B-day Abuelita Mary & Brandon

It is almost a month after their birthday but we had such wonderful days, my cousin Brandon's birthday is on November 20th and my Abuelita Mary's birthday is the next day November 21st.

Brandon is now a teenager, he turned 13!! Unbelievable!! I am sooo old! I still remember when he was little and got mad all the time at everything... and he would only talk to me :')

I just hope the best for him in the future... he is still very quiet but a really nice boy... and SO HANDSOME!

He lost his dad (my dear uncle Byron) when he was 6 years old. And his mom has not been the best, so we try to give him all the love and care he probably doesn't get at home.

Here is a picture of Brandon with his b-day cake, also in the pic my cousin Byron (Brandon's older brother) I love them SOOOO MUCH!!!

Also we cellebrated my grandma's birthday... to be honest I am not sure how old she is so... We just gave her lots of love and love and love! and as usual my mom bought her flowers... because she LOVES flowers and a delicious cake!

Here's a pic of her and all of her grandchildren... well the ones living and Guate.

We sang in the karaoke both days and had a blast! We love that thing.

I love my family to death, I spend most of my time with them and it's just priceless.

Such a lousy blogger

I am still trying to catch up... it seems like I am taking this vacation time very seriously because in the last week I have been waking up around 10 am!!! Seriously that is a record for me! Usually the latest I wake up its around 8 am but my mom has been really good to us and just lets us sleep as much a we want... well after 10 seems to be more than enough, then she just comes around the room "talking to herself" saying all the things and chores that need to be done.
As every vacation of my life... or better said... all my life! we are visiting grandma almost every day, I think my mom does go every day, if she doesn't we will probably get a phone call asking if we are showing up... if not we get around 3 or 4 call during the day just to check out or just gossiping! ha!
I'm afraid I'm going to get just too lazy to wake up when I have to go back to school :S
I know I should use that time to exercise or do something productive!!!
Anyway... this Christmas time is going fine... we haven't done much of shopping but I hope I get some new clothes! I am waring rags! Its just sad! I hate the fact that my sister won't even borrow me a blouse! >:( Is not as if I am going to stretch it out or anything I am smaller than her! That always makes me mad because I borrow my clothes to her and never say a thing about it but if I even dare to try one of her blouses she goes crazy and gives me dirty looks!!!

First job...NOT

Well as I said in my last post, I started looking for a job.... like almost a month ago, and I did actually send my resume to 6 different places, 3 of them didn't work because everytime I e-mailed it, it just kept coming back, so I just gave up with them... the other 3, one of them didn't call back but I did have 2 calls back from the other places, (they were all call centers by the way).
I sent my resume after giving it a lot of thought and because as usual I was very busy. Everything seem to be doing very well, with those two they were actually the ones I thought were the best and the most likely to hire me. My english seems to be good enough for them, my english interviews went really well and they seemed interested in meeting me and to be honest I had practiced in my mind many times before my speech. HA!
At the end the schedules were just not what I was looking for, just too many hours and though I will have much more free time next year doesn't mean that I can neglect my studies. I have had a couple of bumps in the road to becoming a dr. but neither of them has stop me and nothing else will.
My mom and I decided we should leave the job thing for later on in the year 'cause we might be having a vacation trip in a few weeks! yeiiii I am really looking forward to go to the beach!! white sand! the sea.. the sun...(sigh) :)

quest for my first job

since i will have free time next year I am trying to find a job to help out my family and to finally become a little more independent from my mom and dad... i feel like this is a must for my right now because i failed and that means that not only i failed myself but i failed to my parents, to my family and they are the most important thing in the world to me,
So in a way to redime myself and to be finally able to buy some stuff for me without asking my dad for money will be a tremendous step for me.
This year has been rough on my family and me starting to work could be a huge help for all of us, so i will do my best to find something.
I am trying at call centers because they are the new thing in Guatemala, there are lots of them and they dont ask for much to hire people, i think my english is not bad so im giving it a try. If I make it i will be earning aroun Q.4000 a month and believe me that its waayyy more than I ever expected to have in my hands!
Wish me luck if you are reading this and if you can leave a comment about my english it will be truly appreciated!

Belated Halloween

I know it is kind of late and I didnt even do anything to cellebrate it because I had an exam two days later.... but Angi did send us some pictures of her babies Andrea and Angelina in their halloween costumes and I just have to share them.

This was Angelina's first halloween in the US, and from the pictures I can see she was having fun + she was looking sooo pretty in her pumpking costume. I wish I was in TN with her... I miss her so much!

Now on to the pics

Yes Andrea we are the cutest pumpkins ever!

It seems like Angelina enjoyed her candy!

little miss Andrea! congratulations on your 2nd birthday sweet baby!

On to the fun! Trick or treating!

Finally I'm Free

yes! finally I am off school! This has been like "the year" for me. Lots of things happened... i learned a lot but it seems like though there is a ton of new information in my head, it was not enough :(
Due to some mistakes a made that at that time didn't seem as important as they look to me NOW, I won't be able to go ahead with my career and will be losing a year!
That TRULY makes me sad, I know I am a smart person but it seems like I didnt make the big effort I should have. I am getting delayed for 2 them subjects because I needed 2 more points at the damn final exams!
I still can't believe I change 2 or 3 or my final answers before giving the answers to the dr. I they were the right ones!!! arggg! I always do that! I pretty much of the times screw it up!
NOTE TO SELF(AND TO ANYBODY ELSE READING THIS): DONT YOU EVER CHANGE YOUR FINAL ANSWERS! THE FIRST THING ON YOUR MIND IS MOST PART OF THE TIME THE RIGHT ANSWER!

Now I know that! All of that information was somewhere in my head but sometimes I am just ssooooo nervious that I just block it! It is frustrating and I know it happens to a lot of people but in the circumstance I am, med school and the university itself, just doesnt allow me to deal with this! My university just wont help you a little tiny bit even if you are 0.10pts away from the winning grade!

Well... I know I need to get over with this.. I am planning to star working FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE! and learning new lenguages... like.. italian, english and portuguese maybe? haha

And I would like to add this since it really means a lot to me and I just can't say it enough... Thank you God for the loving and understanding parents I have!! I love them sooo much!
im adding this picture of myself... to remind me of how i look now, a fresh 20 year all.... and like my sister says... I'll never be as young and pretty as we are now.

I suck at blogging!

it is unbelievable how bad I am blogging?
It's been forever since my last post! And there are so many things going on... not on the love part of my life... but in every other way!
I promise I will find some time to catch up with everything
maybe even post some pics of myself! haha

catching up 2nd part - Going Wild!

so... last september I had my first real kiss ever... I know its lame that I am 20 years old and experiencing a first kiss. I am unique what more can I say and I should add that if I wanted I could have had a kiss before but I just didn't think it was the right time for me... sadly the time I chose to be THE ONE, was not quite as special as I always dreamed it could be. It was with one of the school's hotties but we both had drank a little bit too much punch. I had only spoke to him a few times before, I am not even sure he even knew my name. I felt stupid after it happened. And it is sad it just confuses me that most part of the girls do it that way and it seems just like normal but I think going out and making out with as much boys as they ask u for a kiss is not right.
And the next day... my second kiss ocurred, in a pool with a boy who I had known for 1 day, he was kind of cute... I know it was a wild weekend. I must say that I am not proud of what I did but to be honest I think it was about time that I take a break from trying to be perfect all the time and just be a girl my age!
The friend who drove us there in his car crashed the bumper onto a light post, yes he was drunk too, a lot more drunk that all the rest of the people in the car now that I think of it, he freaked out and left us (me and 2 other girl friends) in Antigua! ('cause it all happened in Antigua)
I had to call my parents so we could get to the Guatemala City again, thank you Lord I had enough common sense and told my parents the truth. The other girls told their parents a whole lot different things.
If my parents had found out I was lying and all... believe me... I would have lost all the credibility I have earned for years, I know how that is... it happened to my sister :s
I love my parents, they are just great... and that's all I have to say about this

hmmmm... since this is the place I can tell anything I want... I can confess that... with the boy of the first kiss... I was not just a kiss... but it was not sex itself either and it could have been better. Maybe it is a little too much information but... LIBERTY OF SPEECH AND DEAL WITH IT HAHAHAHA

catching up 1st part - School

so from the 100 pts post, there has not been a lot going on, so i will only post the highlights of this few weeks. First of all I have been studying hard for the last points I could get, believe me even a 0.1 can mean that your whole year was a waste and you will have to repeat that class another time.
I have a hard task ahead, and I am willing to do anything I can to beat it and get to my 3rd year in med school, I know I repeat this in almost every single post but it is the most important thing in my mind right now!
And talking about studies I did great in my last Anatomy test, well in my last 2 labs and in the big test. It took me and my lab partners to buy and expensive cake and take one of the drs. to drink as much beers as he wanted.
I have to say that at the end he was kind of hiting on all the girls of the class but well, we did get our 2 points. God bless him and his drunkness hahaaha

waaayyy behind

it has been so long since my last post... there is also lots of things added to my history haha I promise I will catch up as soon as I have some free time 'cause right now I am like super busy studying for the final exams and I have some subjects Im kind of worried about... I just cannot lose a year for only 1 subject so I need to swallow my books or something to have the great grades I need to get to the 3rd year of med school!! hahaa

New pictures of Angelina!!!

Angi sent new pictures of my sweet baby girl.. men I wish she could see how are faces lighten up whenever we see her videos and pictures... she just makes us so happy... Angelina is truly a blessing in our lives, since the day she came to our home she brought so much happiness and everything seem to be more beautiful, she also taught me so many things, like was is like to be a mommy and opened my eyes to so many things that I just didn't want to see or refused to.

Well, even though Angi doesnt read this blog, we will write to her tonight to thank her a thousand times as everytime she sends pictures. ha!
And... I LOVE YOU ANGELINA.. AND I PROMISE I WILL SEE YOU AGAIN AND HOLD YOU AGAIN AS I DID FOR THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF YOUR LIFE!

I got a 100!!

omg!!!!
i got a 100 in my hospital practice exam!!!
i could not believe... it is true, i stayed up all night reading that book but i thought the questions were going to be a lot harder.
And I was lucky enough that I got the patient we had seen the week before in another floor, she had been transfered 'cause she was a whole lot better than the week before.
I guess I did good, my clinic chart had a good grade too!
there is no doubt...I ROCK!!

by the way.. the rest of my classmates did not do very good, only me and another girl got a 100;
I wonder if the doctor liked me and was not very hard on my, I work hard every class at the hospital so I guess my hard work paid off.
WOHOOO!

:S Hospital test tomorrow!

Tomorrow I have a test at the hospital... I need to study a whole book for it!!
I have no idea what am I doing posting this... but I need clear my mind before starting and I thought that letting this out would help.

I am praying to God that the dr. will be nice and won't ask me to do something too hard... and I hope I get asigned a patient who doesn't have such a bad attitude... I know being in a public hospital in Guatemala is not the most pleasant thing so I totally understand when their not helping us students.

Please Lord let me do good... I will be studying all night long today or should I say today and tomorrow but... I swear sometimes I am just so tired I feel like I didn't even open the book.

I did good today in my last fisiology presentation wohooo! I got the whole grade a big 0.75!!! haha isn't it just miserable? haha

Siblings

I made this slide of me and my younger brother and sister, Tonito and MOlly.
I truly love these two, though they can drive me crazy some times.
I picked my favorite pictures from the last days.
Here it goes...

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My 2nd date...FAILED!

yES.... it was my 2nd date ever...and it failed
fortunatedly I think it is the best thing could have ever happened.
This boy... I have been talking with him for months now, he's nice, good looking...not
I am a good looking girl and have lots of virtues, to be wasted with someone that I have serious doubts of his interest in me PLUS he has serious vices that I absolutly dont share.
So yesterday he texted me asking if I wanted to go to the theater with him, i was excited I have to be honest... i was... but I also had doubts, which I think is something that should not happen in this kind of situation.
Oh and I also have to mention that it was incredibly HARD to convince my mom and grandma to let me go... since I have not seen this boy before, only talk to him through the internet and cell phone. You should have heard them... they were like:
"don't go! we probably won't see you ever again!"
"what if he is a psyco?"
"your sister has to go with you and watch you from a proper distance at all times"

I mean... I am 20 years old! 20!!!!!!!
its true...Guatemala can be a very dangerous place but... I don't hang out with crazy people!

Anyway... he texted me around noon today saying he is going to have to babysit his sister and nieces... whatever!!!!
I showed my mom one of his pictures in Facebook, these were her words:
"you are not going out with him...never ever"
I guess the can of beer and the cigarrete in his hand didn't help at all. I already knew he wasn't the best guy for me... but I really like him...well... the way he talks to me...
I guess I am starting to feel really lonely
Thank God I have this journal to get this weight off me.

My baby Angelina can stand all by herself!!

wohoooo! my baby is standing!!!!!!
man! that makes me soooooo happy and sooo proud!
I remember when she came home... such a tiny little peanut... and I loved her to pieces since the first time I saw her. She is learning to do so many new things, it is really sad to be so far away from her and not be part of her everyday life. I miss her like crazy!
I thank Angelina's mommy so much for keeping us updated, she is so kind! even sharing 1 or 2 minutes of this baby with us makes us so excited!
So here goes the last video of my baby girl standing! she is the cutest child on earth!

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Now I know why!

Now i know why my pictures would not upload to my post! haha I really need help with this

computer issues!!

Well here they are... it is funny after they left I really missed having to feed and clean them. I

really hope they are doing just fine with the rest of Maco's pets.

I, Hate & You... I promise I will always remember you... and I am sorry for naming you with those ugly names hehehe...

Oh! and you were so brave everytime I gave you those testosterone shots. I hated to do that.

Though it was really gross the way you pooped every 3 minutes....

My little chicken

So.. here is a few pictures of my chicken... they were really good pets... sure they pooped a lot but at the end they dealt very well with the daily shots and everything.
By the way I forgot to say in my last post that.. at the begining I really hated having to feed them more than 3 times a day and having to clean all of their messes, so I named them I, HATE and YOU. I know they're really bad names but... those were my feelings at the time...ha! oooh! and they are going to become beautiful roosters some day... they were boys.

Well... lets get to the pics

:( i could not upload the pics ...
i will try later....

In memory of I... HATE...and YOU

Well, I want to make this post to remember my three little ones... I, HATE and YOU... my three little chicken who I took care for 9 days.
It all started with an experiment we were asked to make in as part of the Fisiology class (I have no idea if it is called that way in English... anyway) all of the members of my group own dogs, cats or other pets... even ducks. We are about 15 people in this class, 12 of us are in the same group, half of the group were smart enough to choose the gold fish we also had to experiment with... I forgot to mention this was even before the exams week came... so everyone in the group said their pets were going to kill the chicken... to be honest I am not an animal lover, niether is my family plus we live in a small apartment in a fourh floor so... believe me there is not enough space for any kind of pet here PLUs we are barely home and everyone is just so busy with their own concerns that we even eat at different times.
At the end I could not find a way to convince them and I had to take care of the chicken for a week that could turn into 2 weeks... and give two of them daily testoterone shots!
Let me tell you people this chick ate all the time and pooped every 3 minutes!
I took care of them fairly well... they were fat and strong by the end of the week and every one in my family was in love with them... I kind of ended up loving them too.
I had to let them go... but we missed them the first few days. They are with other farm animals now. I might post a picture of them later.... by now I have to go to a mom and daughter day out! finally! a break from school which i skipped today! ha!

Yesterday....At hospital training

I am such a lame blogger! ha! im always so busy it is so hard to find time to keep up posting... as usual there has been a lot going on in this busy family and study life
Soooo... first of all... another week of test gone, they haven't released those grades but im praying to God they are better from the last time.
Me and my friends have been working on calculating our scores for the finals and checking if we get to the 41 points we need to have the right to get our final tests.
This is getting really scary!!! I am so afraid... if I can make it, it means I am going to be another year behind! I know I have been a little lazy but I promise I will be better there is no way back now.
I even have a good place among all of the students in the same year as mine.
GOD PLEASE LET ME GET TO THIRD YEAR IN MED SCHOOL!!!
I am learning so much! but sometime it seems like my brain thinks it is waayyy too much! ha!
Yesterday I spent around 4 hours at the hospital... I made a fairly good clinic chart to the patient I was asigned to. Though she didn't talk much. It is hard to get words our of them sometimes.
Thank God the dr. teaching us loves me! ha! when he was asigning patients and it was my turn he said..."lets see... I like you so lets find an "easy" patient for you"... at least he tried... all of the "easy" patients where taken! :s
My mom took so long to pick me up I even had to wait outside! IN THE STREET!!
Believe waiting alone outside of a public hospital in Guatemala City is not an easy thing... there is a lot of violence out there PLUS I am an overprotected child!
haha

I just have to...

I just have to show my baby girl Angelina in the latest video her mom sent us!
She has grown so much and she gets prettier and prettier every day!
God I love her!!!!!! and her mommy and Joan for keep sending us these videos and pictures!!
I wish I could be right there too... every time I see them I just want to hold her like I used to...

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p.s. i have never posted a video here so... i hope it works!

Another week of hell its almost over!

Gosh i am sooo busy i have only managed to write a few post! I have a word for that LAME!
I made this blog mostly to practice my english.... though a have nobody to correct me or even post any comments... yet!
It is also a great way to take some of the stress away... even when I have lots of people to talk to right here in my house... maybe its because there is 5 of us living in a small apartment and I just need a lonely time.
This round of exams went fairly better than the last ones.... which means there was a lot less sleep! which also caused me a terrible cough! I had not been sick since... I am not even sure...March? February?... All I know is that it was before Angelina left for her forever home.
Man i miss that baby girl! Angi (Angelina's mom) has been very very kind to us and has kept us updated with all of Angelina's achievements and also with Videos and Pictures!!!!
My mom and I are absolutely thrilled with them! Angelina and her big sister Andrea look sooo happy! They are both such beautiful girls. Hope someday I can see them again, I really feel as if they were my family. I love those girls to death!
And believe I will get to them sooner or later.

I know... the title of the post has nothing to do with its content but... what the heck? it is My Blog after all! ha!
I still have one more exam tomorrow.... after that the party time is supposed to show but... with this cough all i want to do is lay in bed! I bet i will find a way to fix that!

Catching up... part 2

Well... to keep on with the story... a few days after the casting took place my aunt Cynthia called from Chicago, where she has reside for about 18 years now, and tells my grandma she and her family are coming to visit for a week in July (see it is a catch up...almost a month ago!) so... we are all super excited 'cause we haven't seen them for almost 5 years!

I guess she doesn't miss living in Guatemala after all... I don't blame her if I could live in the US... well, I am a patriotic and a family person so I guess that even if I lived in some other country I would come back to my country often.

So my aunt Cynthia, uncle John and my cousins Matthew (9) and Joshua (13) are coming, as usual my grandma complete freaks out getting her house ready for the arrival... as if they were royalty, my mom kind of freaked out too... she bought all the beds new quilts, courtains and all that bedroom stuff...there was a big sale at the time in this big department store so we were there like 3 or 4 times in a week!

So... it was the day of the arrival... unfortunatedly it was a tuesday.... which meant I had a anatomy lab the next day... I had been lazy the weekend before and had other homeworks so I had not read ANYTHING for that lab... and believe me.. it is not one of my favorite subjects...meaning... not very good grades :s

My mom insist I should go to pick them up in the airport... we all thought it was going to take about an hour or maybe two top... so... I was stupid and said yes.

Well my uncle was already waiting there and had an hour standing in front of the door when we arrived... as a nice coincidence the choir my sister and I belonged a few years ago was there waiting for an orchestra from who knows where... so we entertained ourselves talking to them and catching up for it had been years since the last time we saw them.

Well.... we kept waiting and waiting and waiting for almos FOUR HOURS there!!

I was really really close to shooting myself and finally they showed up thru the door... we went back to grandma's house and had a really late dinner of dry chicken and other stuff....overall it was good but I WAS GOING TO FAIL THE LAB THE NEXT MORNING.... what else could I do?

It was almost midnight by the time we got home and I had to read about 40 pages about the liver!!! not going to happen!!!

So I read what I could and still FAILED!! AARRGGGG!!!

I blame my mom and myself!!

I am trying my best honest to keep up with my schooling.... it is hard! What the hell was I thinking when I decided to study medicine? I really like it... but i think it would have been a lot easier if I had studied in law school!!! whatever... I am still doing my best and WILL BE A DOCTOR SOME DAY... or die in the attempt ha!

oh! and we had a blast with my aunt and her family... my cousins are older now and so we can interact a lot more than the last time we saw them... well Joshua is autistic so... he doesn't have much to say and I think you can't get really close... but... Matthew is hilarious!

They were here for a very short time so.. hopefully next time we will have a lot more fun... I wish I had gone to the same waterpark they went... but life is life...

my family says I am very alike to my aunt... have the same kind of character, attitude, etc. and my sister is like my mom... we are the only granddaughters, the rest are all boys! and I am the oldest and my aunt is also the oldest of her sibblings.

I don't think I look like her... but we do have a lot in common.

catching up... part 1

well, it has been quite a while now since my last post... there has been a lot going on... so i have been busy trying to survive.

I am not even sure of what my last post was about...i think it was about the 3rd row of exams, they already passed... i got dreadfull grades this time.. i was doing soo good, but i didn't have a good start that week and the rest of it was as bad as the begining.

The reason I didn't start well was because the friday before the exams week my sister attended this big casting from a reality show called "la academia", it was very famous a few years ago... non of the contestants became a really famous singer but they did appear on tv! ha!

My sister sings really good so we thought it could not be that hard... so we showed up that day at 6 am, it was my sister, her boyfriend, my mom and me... I had class later on that morning so my mom and I left at about 9 am... my sister didn't perform until 12pm!!!!!!

Believe that line was as long as the whole block!! there were 6000 people doing the casting!

well at least it was worth it...SHE PASSED THE FIRST ROUND OF CASTINGS!!

we were all super excited!!!!

Here she is... I took this picture when we got home...we were all so proud of her!

She had to show up the next day at 10am to the 2nd round, so that morning we were there at around 8 am...at noon all the contestants (a lot less than the first day), started casting, my sister was informed they were too many and she and a lot of other people had to be back at 5pm!!!! We were SHOCKED! We had been waiting for 5 hours at that point and home was too far away and gas way too expensive!

So we waited and waited and waited... we were lucky she didn't have a really high number in her bracelet! At 6.30 pm she was out... THEY DIDN'T PICK HER!

Siriously, she sings really well! but after casting more than 6000 people... i guess they were searching for something else... or someone a little bit more an actor than a singer... whatever...

it was not the end of the world.... JUST THE END OF MY MEDICAL CAREER!!!

i had to read 13 chapters of my fisiology book in one single day! It is hard enough to even finish two chapters in one day! and after spending almost a whole day standing under the sun and the rain I was complete exhausted!! But of course the drs. at school would not understand that! I did my worst fisiology exam that day.... :(

Not even blood tears could fix that... so the next step is burn my pretty eyelashes on the next exams to balance my grades... something hard enough to do....

wELL It was a really nice experience... I even got a picture with someone "famous" ha!! and I was there to support my sister... to be honest I would have love to do the casting myself... but I can't sing that good and I had to pretend I was really worried about that exam :p

Finally... this HELL of a week is OVER!

wEll... as i said in my last post... i had a week of exams, which means i could bearly sleep a few hours! yes.. i have huge purple shadows under my eyes...ok, to be honest they are always there but never were as big as they are now!

About the grades for the tests... not sure yet... i have been doing pretty good so hopefully i didnt screw it up. As i am going to be a dr. and still have so many years of study ahead i really have no time to lose. I am trying to do my best but sometimes im so tired, sleepy or just sick of sitting with a book in my face everyday that it turns so hard to keep reading.

All of this studying leaves me almost no time to have fun...which means... watch tv, listen to music, read (not my medical books of course!), hang out with my friends who are also studying.

Anyhow... i feel a sort of preasure from my family too, if i make it i will be the first dr. in my family, they are all so proud of me and i just cant let them down! they mean so much to me and i would not be able to dissapoint them.

I am truly a family person and as I am single and have always been i have no other concern in my mind that them... and my dearest friends.

Being single had not been a problem at all so far... but lately.. i have started to feel very lonely.. maybe is because most of my friends have boyfriends or girlfriends and in the past few months some boys kind of... showed some interest towards me.

I dont want to build illusions with no foundations but... its hard not to! haha

Its fridayyy! and i wish i was out DANCING! or hanging out with friends but... anyway better not think about it!

Oh and i have my new glasses finally! i love them i se everything so bright now and also.. i look like the biggest nerd!

braces+glasses+book face= nerd!!!!! right? hahahaa

still i like the way i look in the picture!

Bday cellebration!!

well, i had my birthday cellebration.... which i really really wanted... since i spent most part of my time studyin.. and i really like to hang out with my friends and DANCEEE AND SING!! hahha

i got a bunch of my friends to come to a nightout party... believe it is hard to get them all to come but we were enough to make it fun and loud!

you wouldnt believe what happened to me there.... me... the forever single girl... got three different guys there to be with her.. one of them didnt have good intentions but anyway.. he was there! the other i dont even know him in person but he got there to meet me... too bad he got there at the same time we were leaving! and he didnt dare to even say "hello"! .... lame... thats what i thought.... the bad things is that now im dying for him to talk to me and that is the last thing he seems to want... :s

the other guy... he's kind of cute... pretty decent.. seems to have good intentions.. he's a little sick and will be leaving to Italy to study but... unfortunately i dont feel any chemistry between us... sad right?

right now.. i really dont want anything serious with nobody.. i really need to get to the 3rd year of med school.... and boyfriends dont seem to have a part in that mission... though i would love to have someone to kiss and cuddle with...

Anyway... i had a blast!!! it was sooo cool! hahah we didnt get to dance... because i forgot my id!!!! wtf is wrong with me? haha and because i look like 4 years younger of what i really am!

it was fun fun fun! i really love my friends... and wouldn't change them for anything in this world!

i will add some pictures of me and the people in the party... i truly love this pictures!

i will have some important exams coming soon ... so i wont be able to post this week... i guess... and cant even think about it next week.

Me and my friends...

the hot mommas of the night! hahaha

Happy B-day to ME!

YEP... its my birthday today.... it was nice.... 20 years old... can't believe.. i actually feel like this is the start of a whole new me... but im still afraid of it...i would love to dare to do so many things that just keep putting aside, well time will let me know the right time.

right now im... tired..a little worried...anatomy lab tomorrow, its amanzingly not much to read but it is hard and scary enough. if could just stop myself from falling asleep everytime i open that book! haha

i had a really nice evening with my mom, brother and sister... my dad is away on a business trip and wont be home until saturday or sunday. We had lots of food..delicious tres leches cake... besides from the food my friends invited me to eat at university... french toasts wich i looovee! and orange juice for breakfast! and they made some cards for me... they were soo lovely! im attaching some pictures of that.

My mom and grandma organized a big family lunch at my grandma's on saturday... im absolutely gaining all the weight i had lost. :s

Another thing worth to mention is that.... i am finally going out with my friends! i need that sooo much! Jesus i have not been out at night in a long long time!

I JUST WANT TO DANCE... well maybe a little drinking and meeting cute guys haha!

thats another story...

also i am missing my baby Angelina soo much.... last year today she was 23 days old and she made me soo happy !!

ill let you know how everything goes tomorrow night!

My brand new blog!

Can't believe I finally got a little bit of time to create MY BLOG!

I have wanted that from a long time but since I'm a medical student and don't really have free time to do things like this... still I love my life and keep on working on my studies and life!

Im almost 20 years old... my birthday is next thursday, june 26th!

Im from Guatemala, live in Guatemala City, a wonderful place that needs a lot of work to do to make it perfect... but still has lots of good things...

There are lots and lots of things I would love to say about... EVERYTHING!