An Unforgettable Journey

Now my final blog it's going to talk to you about an incredible experience I just can't forget. Maybe someone else can describe this journey I made as something normal, but I really enjoyed it. Now, I hope you enjoy reading it.

Well, it was ending November in 2008. Me and my family decided, as usual, to go in vacations to Boston, New York, Pennsylvania, and the Niagara Falls. This would be one of the longest trips I had done in my life. Of course in some places we took flights, but we also traveled hours in the car. In this trip we reached Boston first. When we get there it was a nice weather, I love the cold air so it was awsome. We went to a lot of places, but the place I loved the most it was the Fenway Park. Baseball has had a broad impact on popular culture, both in the United States and elsewhere. This was one of the most popular stadiums in the United States, probably the one with the bigger history. When we get there we saw a videoclip where all the history was gathered together. This team has passed for so many difficult things, but now it is one of the best teams. The thing that impressed me more was reaching the field, getting into the pitcher base in the middle of the stadium and closing my eyes just imagining thousands of fans looking at you, just wating for the last out. It was unbelievable. Another huge detail was "the green monster". I don't know if you know about this thirty-six foot, two-inch high left field wall at Fenway Park, but it is historical and unique in the sport. When I saw it with my own eyes I got shocked because of its size!

Well days later I reached New York City, The Big Apple, The City That Never Sleeps, The Capital of the World, I don't know how you call it, but I can say it is my favorite place in the world. It is a awsome city full of people everywhere, a lot of popularity, lots of celebrities and more. There I went also to the Yankees Stadium, it was huge, but the thing that impressed me more it was Central Park. Imagine a park in which you take more than one day walking it, full of flora, but you can also see movies getting recorded there!

After that it wasn't over. We hit the road and went to Pennsylvania. We just spend one night were so the only thing I remember is being on a italian restaurant watching the snow falling outside, this was one of the first times I saw snow. It was a incredible feeling. The day after, we reached Niagara Falls. The place in general it wasn't the best, but when you see those huge water falls and the beautiful rainbows forming below, you forget about everything. It was a unforgettable moment when I was below one of the water falls, feeling the freezing water in my face. This was the moment that shock my life. It was just amazing watching in the night the water falls illuminated and the snow falling lightly.

At the end we returned to New York, ate a hot dog and returned to Guatemala with a big smile on our faces. This was an unforgettable journey.

Fighting The Weather or Fighting My Body?

Well, this story is about an experience I had in the United States doing one of my favorites sports, snowboard.


All the years with my family I travel a lot. Saying a lot I mean traveling to different countries about 10 times at year. Like 3 or 4 years ago we put a rule on our trips. One year we were going to cold places with snow and places with temperatures below zero and the other year we were going to beach places with high temperatures.


Last year we decided to go to California to visit my family there. When we finally reached Los Angeles after a tired 4 hours flight, we could be with our family. We were there in winter season, so just imagine being on the car with a hot Starbuck's chocolate seeing to all those homes that look like toy houses with the snow on the roofs and all the kids playing on the sidewalks with snow balls. It was something that is simply beautiful. Well, when we reached our house there and we were all togeteher, we decided not to remain only in Los Angeles but also go to Big Bear Lake to take benefit of the snow there. We took the trip, we pack our things and we hit the highway. It was almost a road to the clouds! We passed beautiful mountains and frozen rivers, but it was so high that when we reached to our cozy log cabin up there, because of the pressure, our Cheetos bags explode under the seats of the car!

One day over there, we decided to go to a snowboard mountain with my uncle. We got gear up, I buckle my board and got into the top of the mountain. When we both reach the top we started on our journey downhill. I enjoyed it because I love to feel the cold wind hitting my sweated forehead, but I hate to feel heat on all my body and having a freezing nose. All things were fine, we got into the end and we climb the top again and again. After a few ours sun came out so the snow got a lot more loose and it was harder, I was getting tired and the only thing I had eaten was a waffle and one apple. This cause me more bad symptoms like headache, bone pain, and I started to not feel my foot fingers. I was almost on the half of the mountain I thought that I would end the downhill nice and slow, but to control the board requires a lot of energy. This cause me fatigue and a crushing pain on my legs. In one moment I lose control of my moves, my legs were shaking and I fell on my butt. My uncle said to me if I was fine, in this moment mind know that I was having a bad moment, but my body even having a lot of pain was still going. I stand up and keep my way down beacuse sitting on snow it was more cold to my legs. I didn't stop falling all the way down, but finally I was there with my parents. The weather got worse and we couldn't go out because we didn't had chains on the wheels. Then a doctor saw me. I still remember his name, Kevin. He helped me a lot. He gave others pants because mine were wet and cold, so this wasn't helping at all. Also I was taken to a local hospital and there I wait with a awesome electric quilt until my dad got the chains on the wheels.

At the end weather got better. Weather got me on those problems, but this could happen to anyone because weather is unpredictable.

She's The One

One day did you ever have the feeling of been the new guy or the freshman? Well, I enter this school 3 years ago in 7th grade and I've already had that feeling. This isn't about me, is about the new girl that also had this feeling, but she entered not only to school, she entered into my heart.

 

Last year, I fail in a class.. math class. Unfortunately I had to stay all november getting this class with all my classmates and with the new students that were coming to school. The first days it was boring getting early to classes on vacations! Hearing the alarm of my old-fashioned clock, getting a shower with the november cold weather, and hearing the annoying voice of my teacher. Boring! One day of this extra classes, a new girl student was coming. With all my friends we were wondering how this girl was going to be. Is she going to be pretty, ulgy, or will she going to be a nice classmate, we were all wondering. Finally, our answers were going to be answered, the coordinator introduced us the new student. She was basically a normal girl for us, not an angel, but not an ogre. Middle height, curly brown hair, light brown eyes, and a beautiful smile. At the beginning she wasn't the girl I was expecting, but in some way she attracted me. She had me for a moment, so I started talking to her because of a friend mine. She was a very nice person and very sociable.

 

One day that I was talking with one of her friends, she told me that this girl was totally into me. I got exited because I like her too, so we talk and she confess me the feelings she had for me. Feelings? Really, I was not looking for a girlfriend. I was looking for nothing but a good time. When I noticed she was taking this seriously I told her this, that actually I didn't wanted anything more serious. At the beginning she took this ok, but I realize she was not giving up on love. She was winning my heart every day more, even when I didn't wanted to. Then, finally, she got my eyes, my attention, my caring, my heart, and my everything. I noticed that in front of me I had this beautiful funny sociable girl and I was not letting this girl go. I started winning her trust and the best part, her heart. Now at day, she's the one, she's my girlfriend.

Always A Weird Feeling

You probably think that in life there are no shocks stonger than the sentimental. In most cases that's true, but I was victim of a physical hit that shock me a lot.

Since I got memory I love all kind of sports. Extreme sports, mental sports, old-clasic sports, they were all the same for me I like them all. I had done sports like parasailing, water ski, soccer, and many more.

It was a normal day, having 8 or 9 years old, I was on my other last house doing one of my old favorite hobbies, riding my haro bike. I had been doing this for not much time, so I was like a rookie on this. This day I was with my neighbors and friends that also ride bicycles doing nonsense. In the whole day everything was normal and no one got more than a scratch on his knee or elbow. To end the day, when the sun was hiding, we think to do a race with some guys. My friend Jorge was going to do this race with me. I already saw me losing because this guy was older than me and more experienced. The race got started, we were both far away from our homes and in a pretty deep long downhill. Everyone was watching us. We both had a nice start without problems. Suddenly I got the lead, but I knew I was going too fast for this type or concrete. Without any kind of protection I got scared in some point of the race. When we were getting to the end of the downhill my bike started doing like speed bumps, so I lost control of the breaks. Unfortunatelly there were cracks on the road. In one of them my front wheel got stucked and I pass over the steering wheel flying like 10 feet across the air. I just remember looking the ground getting closer and closer. After the hit I remember looking into the sky with a excruciating pain in my back, my right hand and the side of my right leg. My friends and a security guard from a close neighborhood took me to my house in car. When my parents saw me they didn't know how to react, to scold me or be concerned. One thing I know they did, they took me quickly to a hospital and made me x-rays. My back, the thing that concerned me more, was okay the only things that I get in the back was scars. The doctor told me that I got lucky because on the air I do a complete flip and didn't hurt my head. At the end I just had 3 broken fingers that got stucked on the breaks of the bike and lots of bruises.

Now at day I don't keep riding this type of bicycles. I just have a cruiser honda bike, but I am more mature and I'm not doing stupid things like that one before.

In conclusion, the thing that get me an awful feeling in the pit of my stomach is when I'm going high-speed on my longboard or when I see a huge downhill in front of me. This kind of things and heights are the weirdest things I got on my life now.