Happy Thanksgiving day

To all my american friends reading this blog, we don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Guate but what better day to be thankful for friendship and all the blessings in our lives?! Of course we have to be thankful everyday.
Well, the days when we stuff ourselves with delicious food are coming so I'm just going to be patient... I already have a few more pounds on me so...

We had another earthquake today... God! It was soooo scary!! I know I always say that but this one was really terrible! My mom was so close to a panic attack, I was on the verge of tears and we were about to run down stairs and out of the building when it stopped.
According to the news it was 6 degrees in the Richter scale and happened in El Salvador, though we could feel it in many places here.
There were reports of material damages in houses and buildings but no one got hurt, thank goodness.

My grandma is back from her trip, she's very happy, had a great time and came back with lots of funny stories to tell, believe me they are all very special. It's great that she got to be with her brothers and sisters, she hardly ever sees them, specially sinces my great-grandma passed a couple of years ago. We've got to make this kind of reunions more often!


We got to skype with "sweetpea" (Angelina decided that is her new name) and her family. We got to meet her aunt and uncle, her grandma and our dear friend Joan were there too. Andrea and Angelina are so cute! Andrea showed us her pink skates and Angelina just wanted to sing the "monkey's song" and jump in her trampolin. Truly adorable.
I am thankful for Angelina, for her wonderful family, for getting to see her grow up and just know how loved she is and how happy she is with her family. We sure miss her a lot, and think about her everyday, but we know she is doing great. And that brings peace to our minds and hearts.

the pics... finally

I am so sorry it took me so long to upload the pics, I've been using the laptop lately and I have no pics or anything there yet.

I'll let the pics do all the talking and show the fun. I'm doing a double post and I'm adding pics from my night out last week and some from November 1st, when we celebrate "Dia de todos los Santos". Families gather, visit the graveyards to put flowers to their gone loved ones and eat Fiambre a delicious dish with all kinds of ingredients and it's yummie!!
For some reason some pics are a little grainy but I think they do the job...


Now, here are some pics of November 1st at my grandma's. I have no pics of the graveyard because my sister took the camera, we went there on the 31st because it gets way too crowded on the 1st, even if it was a day before the holiday there was a lot of peoples and flowers where everywhere, pretty nice! Abuelita Mary made a beautiful flower arrangement for my uncle's grave.

we had a little photoshoot right before eating, we are all so grown up! He looks so proud!

Abuelito Tuti ROCKS!!

Grandchildren

a close-up to the Fiambree! DELICIOUS!

we really enjoyed the time together, we bought this Fiambre from my uncle's mother in law. My grandma used to make it herself but it takes time and money to accomplish this.

with our bellies FULL!


NIGHT OUT WITH FRIENDS!!!

"little" Max being funny ¬¬

sipping some "playa azul" - those were good!

MARGARITAS!!

I don't know about you but I think the waiters shirt's were AWFUL!!!

I think we look cute in this one, I love the blouse I was wearing (thanks daddy!)

Can you tell we were having fun??!!

cute gurls!! Those drinks are "sex in the beach"... what a name!

After four rounds of drinks and food, we headed (well not all of us, just me and 3 more girls) to Ana Lucia's house for a sleep-over night. I wont post any pics of that since all the glamour was gone and we just chatted until 3 am. My mom showed up at 8:30 am when we were just waking up... the woman can live without me lol... we are inseparable.


Hope you liked them!


xoxo

wondering what happened?

Well, no job, my guess is that they didn't like the fact that I am a med student and I am most likely to quit after a couple of months. They didn't want to give me neither the full time nor the morning part time schedule! arghh! They did point the fact that my english and accent is pretty good and that if I stayed I could be promoted quickly... anyway what they were offering did not work well for us, the whole idea was to drop both me and my sister in the morning and then pick us up at night... Anyway... I don't know if you picked it from the last post but I didn't really want to work! (don't tell my mom! and...was it really obvious?) Oh and please don't think I screwed up my own interview, Im just not that kind of person, I gave my best, they didn't want me.
It was a call center for a Texas Energy Company, basically they answer calls from people who has trouble with their electric bills, whose energy service was cut or whatever... my sister said you get yelled at all the time and people are very rude. As soon as she noticed what account it was she said "This account sucks! don't take the job".... my answer? ¬¬

In other news, I opened a facebook account for my mom today, a lot of her childhood are showing up and they all ask for a fb account, she had to have one! we spent over an hour searching picture files and picking pics to upload to her profile! she picked 8, she wanted more but I was starting to get exasperated, seriously we have tons of pictures!

It's little Andrea's Birthday today so a BIG

HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY!!

for her, she is such a beautiful child, inside and out.
We love her so very much!

I'm sorry I will leave the pics for tomorrow, this thing just won't upload them and it's making everything go super S-L-O-W!


xoxo

Night out , Update & New Job??

I got my grades today and I am oficially off of school for this year, I am on vacation (finally!!!)
I was really longing for some free time and so I thought this next two months I would be home with my mom and brother and keep feeding my internet addiction as long as I could until it was time to put full focus on my studies again... WRONG!
I have a job interview tomorrow, if they hire me I'll be working full time for the next two months doing costumer service in a call center getting calls from all over America... this call center has several accounts that provide different assistance of which I have no idea. I have to go under a training period of time and then I'll start answering calls. Not my idea of a vacation to be honest but at least I will have my own money for the first time, and I can even get Christmas presents for my family and some clothes for myself which I really really need! Ooohh! and save money so we can get our visas! I HAVE TO SEE MY BABY GIRL!!
I'll let you know how the interview goes... I got the call like an hour after I sent the email, so now can you tell how much the fact of speaking english can help you when you want a job??



I so enjoy seeing Angie and her family every friday night, I guess that will have to change. Angelina is getting so big, she's going to school now with her big sister. They are both so smart! I love the fact that she knows who we are and that we love her beyond words.
She is quite the dancer let me tell you, and LOVES her mommy, she gets prettier by the day and her temper is the same than when she was here with us. Little Andrea on the other hand is full of energy, she never stops but is the sweetest little girl, LOVES her mommy and sister and has a crush on my brother LOL she goes wild every time she sees him. They are both super cute!

Oh I went out with some friends yesterday, we went to this place called LaPlaya (the beach) they pull this thing on tuesdays and thursdays where all the drinks are 4x1 for women!! we had to take advantage of that! LOL we were celebrating we are on vacation and free of school for long enough, next year will be rough and only to get even more rough in the years to come... living in the hospital and stuff... (sigh).... long and hard road ahead. Lets pray for the best.
Pictures are to be posted tomorrow! stay tuned!


xoxo

Girls Night Out

A few fridays ago, I had a night out with my friends from high school. I have known them from 6th grade, when we moved to the city. I was eleven years old and now I'm 21! We've been friends for 10 years!
We don't see each other very often since got out of school, but every time we get together for a birthday or whatever we have a blast... It is very very hard to get our whole group to be in the same place at the same time. Luckily my friend Fallon offered her house (she calls it house... we call it mansion) for the meeting... so we could stay over to sleep... her parents and most of her siblings are away in Spain!
0ne thing I know for sure... we are BFF!!

We talked about a lot of things, like who has kids.... who's married... (OMG! can you believe that?), our teachers, boyfriends (I am not included in that but still like to hear about it lol)... school... anyway, girl talk. We had a LOT of FUN!

on to the pics!

Here I am, pretending to play the guitar... and loving it!


Yep... there were cards games and music and drinks and pizza!
(don't worry... all of those bottles where there just to be looked at!)
Oh and Rita and Nadyesdha are not in this pic...

Meet our friend... Mr. Chile! The only "man" around!

Jumping in Fallon's trampolin in our PJs after breakfast... So much fun!

The view from the house' backyard. Lovely isn't?

My birthday is coming!

It's my 21st birthday next friday, June 26! Oh my Lord how did that happen??
This is it, from here I am starting to be a grown up, I'm getting old! :( LOL
At least I am an adult everywhere in the world now, and some day I will get to VEGAS! haha
My birthday also means its the first anniversary for my blog! Wow! I didn't even hit the 100 posts but I really enjoy writing here. And I made some wonderful blogger friends! I that is just GREAT, I love it!

My friends and I are planning a dinner out tomorrow to celebrate since tomorrow is Teacher's Day and is an official holiday we have NO SCHOOL! and that doesn't happen very often.
We are going to a mexican food restaurant with FREE margaritas for the girls! (yikes!)
I'll post how that goes... it's not easy to get my friends all together in a place at the same time but we'll give it a try.

Also, it's sunny again! I hope it stays this way at least for a few days, rain sucks! haha

Sticking with the dear friends theme

Last week I got to meet two dear blogging friends that happened to be visiting Guate City to see their baby girls. They are Pam and Brittney, they are really wonderful people, loving mommies, courageous women and a lot of other good virtues.
Lucky me, I got one of my labs at school cancelled and so I dropped by their hotel to chat a little and get to meet them in person after following their stories via blog.
I truly had a wonderful time with them and beautiful Kinsey (I LOVE her curly hair!).
I definitively would love to meet with them again in another visit and take them to really know GC at least :) and also I'll keep on praying so they are able to take their beautiful angels home to their forever families VERY VERY SOON!

Party with dear friends!

Well, it was my best friend Rita's birthday on April 16th. She turned 21 so her parents let her throw a little party in her front yard on the 25th.
She invited some friends both from high school and from university, so we had a lot of fun and it ended up being some sort of reunion for me since I hadn't seen some of my old high school best friends since we graduated. We laughed and laughed and really enjoyed our company and all the school stories.
Let's move to the pics!


Here I am with my dear friend Rita, we are friends since I started in Bethania School in year 2000, when we moved from Flores, Petén to Guatemala City. We are so alike, maybe not fisically but we share so many thoughts about so many things we call ourselves "sisters".
She is such a nice girl.


Here's one of my high school friends, the one in the glasses is Mimi and the guy by her side is her boyfriend, then on her other side with the funny face is Fallon, she is a very very SPECIAL girl... kind of CRAZY but I can tell you she has a BIG HEART (see how I exagerate those words?)
Then comes Nadyezhda (weird name huh?) she is like the smartest person I know.



Yes, we had some tequila shots in honor of the birthday girl, 'cause you know... Doctors party too! lol! We were a little extra happy when the party ended... :s
*note to self: do not mix vodka and tequila EVER!



And here's the last one.... just so can have and idea of how much we laughed!
Happy Birthday Rita!


p.s. I am craving for a new cameraaaa! + we had and earthquake while I was writing this... that or I am having some serious palpitations :s