My BIG family

Basically my family is normal I have a mom a dad a sister and a puppy but that's not the big part.

Let me start from the beginning. My dad's mother is from Costa Rica my grandmother is German descent. She emigrated with my grandfather many years ago to Venezuela. She is living in the same city since she came to Venezuela. She has 10 kids, I have 6 uncles and 4 aunts. I love them because they are crazy like me :) and I have 25 cousins and that's just my father family. My mother family is not big as my father family. My mom's parents are from Venezuela from a place called Tachira is a cold place but too much like Canada :) My grandmother had 5 kids, 4 daugher and only 1 son. I has 10 cousins by my mother family.

We always celebrate big parties and we go together to the beach, I love them sooooooooo much and I don't know I woul do without them. When I came to Calgary the parting was hard for them I was only thinking about my grandmothers but I know they miss me but they know that I'm because they want only the best for me because in Venezuela there isn't future for me.

Maybe I will return to Venezuela to visit my family in December and I know they'll be waiting for me with a big party like every year.

My hobby :)

When I was in Venezuela my hobbies were dancing flamenco and tennis. I practiced flamenco for 6 years and tennis for 3 years.

The flamenco was an important part of my life in Venezuela. When I start to dance at the beginning I didn't want because I said that it would be silly and boring but my mom always told me that it would be good for me because when I was little I hab back problems and the flamenco is good for this kind of problems. In my firts day I though that the academy would be a place I woulnd't like but at the firts day I changed my mind I hab a great time wth other girls and after 6 years dancing I coulnd't believe that I didn't want to dance. It realy change my life and my back problems gone.

I hab courses with renowned dancers in all Venezuela and recognized by some parts od Europe and if I hab the opportunity to dance here in Calgary I would do it.

It is true that men and women speak the same language, in my case the Spanish but men and women communicate differently. This difference can be seen in the play of children. They play "house", such games have a great display of communication as the conversations figure prominently. In contrast, the children play "struggles" to "war", "football" in which expressions are rare: they consist of monosyllabic words or sounds. Is for this difference for women is designed to enable communication share their feelings about different situations, both past and present and possible future situations. In contrast, for men, communication serves to make clear, with few words, what is the present situation.

In my contry sometimes is the same thing, the boys always play with boys and girls play with girls. We play in big groups of many people, we were a big group and we hab our differences at some point. These differences were the way we played, for example, we were playing the "atrapadas" the boys must catch the girls but they were very rude with us and always push us and that wasn't very nice. But that was when we were kids that's why we separated. Many years after everything was different we separate in different groups because we all of us were different even when we speak each other. The boys were very rude.

I think that is true, men and women have different ways of commucate for example the womens in Venezuela are very polite when speak with a person more older than her and mens too. My parents always teached me how to deal with people much older than me and I always respect them. My classmates and I joined more our last year os school because we think we've been together so many years that it was stupid that we treated each other in that way. At the end everything went very well.

   I think that men and women have differences when speak and other things but we can solved. I did and that I don't care if men and women are differents. In Venezuela we speak in the same way. There are not many differences when a women speak maybe more polite than men.

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell is a Canadian musician, she was born in Fort MacLeod, Alberta in 1943, her real name is Roberta Joan Anderson Her mother was a teacher, and her father an officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force. After finishing the high school she went to Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, she started playing guitar and singing to make extra money, she started writing songs and people like them. At age of 9 she started smoking and she contracted polio during a Canadian epidemic, but she recovered after a stay in hospital and while she was in the hospital she started singing.

After leave the art collage in June 1964 she discovered she was pregnant and in 1965 she gave birth her baby girl but couldn’t care her baby, so she gave up her baby in adoption, a few weeks after her daughter birth she got married with a singer called Chuck Mitchell and she took his surname. She didn't see her daughter until 1997. After got married with Chuck Mitchell he took her to the U.S, they sang in a coffeehouses together, so she began writing songs for other singers, she wrote "Both Sides Now" and it was a hit for singer Judy Collins, so after many albums and hits she moved to jazz music in 1975. She retired in 2002. During the next few years, the only albums Mitchell released were compilations of her earlier work. She won 9 Grammies, released 18 albums and she worked with many artist in folk music and jazz. In 2006 she has a successful comeback. On February 12, 2010, “Both Sides Now” was performed at the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Mitchell is currently receiving treatment for the controversial condition called "Morgellons syndrome". She is loved as singer and songwriter in Canada and around the world.

Extreme!!

Hello everyone!!! :)

OK, the most extreme thing I've done so far... well I should say that my life is not too extreme but since I'm in Canada I have changes in my life, for example the most extreme thing I've done was going to ski to Fernie.

It was a great experience for me because I had never done before and the beside the pain I feel right now all over my body I feel that no matter the pain because it was fun doing once it and I said t myself " Are you crazy? Why am I doing this?" but It was really funny and I'´ll d it again.