Monday, January 31, 2011

What Does A Community Service Letter Look Like

Kazan, the arrival

For my first 24 hours here in Kazan, so I think that I can give my first impressions and adventures here.

all started from the arrival at the airport in Mexico City, I had no setbacks and joined the rank of Aeromexico's Club Premier to document, then I threw my sister's hand not and persuaded the airline's kids so she could go faster that way.

I thought I was going to charge for excess baggage (he had two bags of 19kg) but I had no problem, the only detail is that the lady wanted to give me the tickets and the keys to direct the baggage arrived in Russia, but I said "I'm watching your bags sent to Russia" to which I replied "that would be great," and says "but I can not," ouch, so either way, would have to pick them up in the U.S. and re- document.

I went to Wings with my family and had a good breakfast, I started a skirt to tampiqueña, the last MEXA dish I was going to throw in a great while, so I jumped and super comfortable. In that a person approaches me and asks me "I can take a picture with you?" I took a lot of cool, and I well "as it?" As I already saw it and asked me "you is not TV Azteca? "," errmmm no! "," oh you apologize ", and goes, really gave me a good laugh the matter.

Well, way to the waiting room and everything fine, no delays or anything except click a thousand reviews (I insist, is purely psychological question no real effect) entered the plane, and start the journey. He was very happy because I was in the window seat but no one in the middle, then had two gustisimo seats to make me and the truth is that the girl next door was not a bad view, but did not cross word, I was not in a good mood. The flight was good but what if they gave us breakfast there (if, I had breakfast twice, big mistake) was the most horrible thing I've tasted in my life were a few eggs were cooked sausage but as mass were all hard and chewy, sweaty separate the aluminum container, as well as that hurt me, and the time will clarify. New York

looked good from the air, all gray and snowy, adds a rather interesting that I had not touched to see one day come back to these times to see detail. We landed at JFK airport and go migration was quite fast, there was no other flight so that the line was very light, so if the officer does not find my visa and asked me "have you lived here?" I so "no", "is that it brings visa, and I thus" if there is, "" no, not here, you take my passport and I open the page where I was and I put mug and "that dude you", I said nothing, just "okay, go" hahaha I was laughing inside.

Anyway, I go to check-in area and go to the Aeroflot counter to document my next stop, Moscow, I met a guy there and in India it that caught my attention, but the whole process was quick, so do not beat me is that after you weigh your luggage checked and had to take him to a safe area to document it, as it gave me a bad feeling that. Soon I

at JFK, about half an hour without doing anything, because the other times the invested in the classic procedures of documentation, migration, and others. Finally we entered the flight to Moscow and the truth was very impressed by the Aeroflot planes, super modern, an A330 Airbase or something, but very comfortable, and something caught my attention is that the Russians going to know how to travel by plane all with comfortable clothing, slippers to walk barefoot all the time, and with their pillows and more.

The food in this plane was delicious, but was beginning to upset the breakfast hours ago. In this case I ate a beef stew with mushrooms and a salad of beans and yellow corn, all very rich, tomato juice, you know very different to American, but rather sabrozón. Contrary to what I came to pass in Ukraine, the extremely nice, very decent and friendly people, I really liked, there was also helping an American girl to complete their entry form to Russia, although I do not have much idea : P, but I had pretty eyes, so who was I to refuse. They also gave us some breakfast pancakes that were not obvious that, in fact half scared me because I missed something that had the color and shape of scrambled eggs (lurid images came Aeromexico breakfast to mind), but hey I knew I would have to endure many flavors that may not be to my liking, but oh great surprise, it was not egg, was a kind of cheese rich enough, I really liked it quite well.

Shemeritovo landed at the airport, and everything was also very quiet, it took me a while to pass migration because the official had never seen a visa like mine, even had some as portable microscopes and was used to examine in detail each part of the document. Then finally scanned my passport and let me pass, the cold was very relaxing, -4 ° C, but what if the jet lag was starting to hit me really hard, also began to feel the ravages of bloody breakfast Aeromexico nothing serious, but it seemed that two aliens were fighting in my stomach, a growlery impressive that I even felt sorry for loud.

took me almost an hour to collect luggage, but thankfully arrived safely, the document for the transfer had a problem since the weight limit is much less, so I finally had to pay excess baggage. It also took ratote another because the system did not allow them to charge but not left to register the case, finally got the supervisor's supervisor and shift manager unlock the system, also noting that the deal was amazing, really did not expect the Russians wow that good detail.

I went back to the area of \u200b\u200brooms, and a curious thing, as each country adds its touch to the security here was very quiet, but for example, you got a pair of shoes such as a surgeon for you stretched them out and did not walk barefoot, and are not as sangrona as in Mexico or USA.

While there I spent a very bizarre, jet lag brought him everything that was, so much so that not even started While the time and thought it was half an hour when in fact going to be about five in there, I tried to go to the bathroom to see if that slowed my intestinal fight aliens, but there was no toilet paper, so I put up with the growlery, and besides I was so tired I wanted to sleep, but I was sitting with some cold (the room was at room temperature) I started having a series of bad trips rather intense. Just close my eyes and began to dream strange things, but linked to what was happening at that time, gave some indication of the speaker and listened to my dreams in English, and woke up when Cannon dozed well apart, on top worse, I forgot my book, and I lost my laptop's battery in New York, so nothing else was making time to wey, how horrible is waiting with nothing to do, I was watching the news on the TVs, and I chute two-hour special of the crisis in Egypt, where they repeated the same five pictures over and over again. Finally

room assigned to my flight, which was also a mess because there were like five flights to Kazan and all of Aeroflot, and the room for my flight brought another flight information on your screen, the trouble is that we had to address a bus in the cold to go to remote terminal and I had not changed, brought clothing to move in Mexico, at -15 ° C as the temperature had fallen, but there was so much trouble, and that brought astronaut jacket, put it with no problems, only that the bus took about 20 minutes to reach the remote location and to hold the tubes were frozen .

I finally boarded the plane, not to lose the window and I had no one in the middle seat, just a strange girl in the aisle seat, which manages the seat is literally next door, but I did not care, I just sat back and tried to sleep while the aliens were already struggling to get out through my chest, I swear it was a symphony that horrible.

After an hour and a half, Captain gave notice of commencement of the descent, I could wake up and realize that nothing could be seen, the mist of all that did not even see the damn wing, in that the plane began to sway from side to side with some violence, like in those cartoons where the pilot tries to hit it to the track, there was a crosswind and it was just super beggar at that moment that I could see the ground, could not tell because everything was white with deep snow, but we were about twenty feet high, I apaniqué but if I changed a little. Zigzag kept dropping until it was above the door, and just a meter before touching, could literally straighten the ship and said "now or never" and left down the plane on the runway, if it was a rather strong impact, but at least it was flat, not skidding or felt anything like the truth if it felt close.

Finally at the airport I was expecting a college kid, cool, collected the luggage (there if I called the baggage tickets, as they often do in Mexico) and we left the parking lot. With the war in aliens and fatigue was an ordeal, walked about 300 meters in the snow, dragging suitcases, pack ice sometimes helped, sometimes bags are sinking and you had to strain to drag, finally almost reaching the I had tremendous car slip (the first of many to come) and I fell buttocks to the ground, fortunately only hurt the pride (as all times).

In the car I had my first impression of Kazan, the truth is that at times looked very modern, asks nothing in a matter of architecture to cities in the northern United States or Canada, to get me Masha and her family received , fine people, I made dinner and pork, and had a super pleasant conversation, perhaps only overshadowed by the noise of my guts, no manches, I lasted two days and took off from nothing, that was my epic arrival in Kazan I hope in the coming days is to post what is even more interesting: D

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

How To Relieve Sore Muscles From Snowboarding

One day, a motivation

Sometimes I would twitter power on the street or mental way could compose tweets or blog entries without losing attention to my surroundings, there are many times when I think that creativity comes to me just when I'm walking down these dark streets city, feeling the cool night breeze and in the face, but anyway, I'll have to settle for reaching my home and make a real keyboard and a glass of water to bring back all those experiences a few moments ago.

wore no time to travel around the city as well, walking alone, enjoying my solitude, but best of all, going for a while in this technologically Javer, systems, etc. and focusing on other things that 90% de mi vida consideraría intrascendentes, pero que de vez en cuando resulta sabroso para relajar la mente.

Es muy interesante observar a las personas mientras caminas, tratando de entrar en sus mentes, armar una historia acerca de ellos, ver como varios llevan esa cara de fastidio y las ansias de llegar al hogar, ver como para otros tantos el día apenas comienza, y algunos como es que la vida simplemente los lleva, un simple ir y venir, en una existencia monótona y vacía. A veces no me explico como podemos estar tantas personas tan interconectadas, compartiendo espacios y tiempos, pero a la vez en una situación de aislamiento absoluta, muy en el fondo no me molesta ya que a final de cuentas mi fuerte no son las relaciones interpersonales, but sometimes that makes me very curious as my mere presence could alter the fate of others, from the simple fact of a discreet push addressing the Metrobus, a hostile look, the humor out of someone's armpit more.

As today was a day of my reconnection to the world, where I escaped for a while me and my immediate environment, to experience and live with what I have around.

All this prompted by an external agent might call date, an exit, but it was just a coffee, and unleashed a series of events that do not become very common. I have the custom to dress up once a day, unless very special occasion or formal Pandrosus my style is definitely not fake my appearance because I have a pretty dress hides your idiocy only until you open your mouth, and I am of those who prefer to be underestimated by first intention, until these people realize the capacity of one. In short, this is discussion for another time, the fact is, today I managed that, I changed my look for my work Pandrosus more formal look.

The real reason I did is a bit uncertain, sometimes even I understand my emotions and impulses, but try to explain with words just as scarce given me written language. I know a girl can not say I'm in love with her, but I can not say is inconsequential to me, I can not say I like for my taste has always been a very tricky emotion, you may like a juicy steak, but when you just ate plenty of it is difficult to want to know about it, the tastes are very married to your mood and the situation you're in the moment, a day can dawn thinking about a girl and liking it passionately, and one day you wake up bad and do not want to know about it. No, I do not like it's definitely not that way, I could not take it into that category where everything is subject to my hormones, my state of mind or just a whim.

describe it then becomes difficult to transmit that feeling is still closer to the impossible, I perceive more as a source of inspiration, something of a muse and a person you admire, we have crossed a very short time conversation, but there are details and features in her very hidden from any other eye but I find them remarkable. Curiously, our destinations safe walking trails far apart, probably because his mind does not pass any of this, but at least adjust my behavior, alter my thoughts, and makes me feel good. Reminds me in some respects (remember? That means that I'm not so?), I'm surprised its moments of strength, but also comforts me knowing frail lady, and have these just as scarce seconds to comfortable, dimly protect and make her feel safe. Love? I do not know, but it motivates me to make the best of me, still be me and not wanting to excel in what I am.

might say this, but not the time nor the way, as you said, everyone is on their trail, we met occasionally when the truth is that at least for me is a unique experience, unfortunately our paths will separate a good stretch of time, she lives her life, and I will be fighting on this side, and things happen, but meanwhile, I can stay with satisfaction and eternal gratitude for having shared with her a day like today.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Should A Towel Ring Be On The Right Or Left Side

bullfighting

confess that if something I envy the talent and intelligence, and the text of Don Mario .. envy has made me much more .. That desire to have written this!

bullfighting and other evils - Mario Vargas Llosa

Enemies of bullfighting is wrong to believe that bullfighting is a pure exercise of evil in the irrational masses to overturn an atavistic hatred against the beast. Indeed, behind the Fiesta, there is a loving and devoted cult in which the bull is king, the bulls won there because there are runs and not vice versa, if the party disappears, inevitably disappear with it all herds of bulls, and these in turn to carry forward the Bonanca vegetative life, swallowing grass in the pastures and away flies with their tails they want abolitionists, will the simple absence, and I dare to assume that if left to choose between being a bull or not, it is likely that the magnificent beasts, a symbol of life energy from the Cretan civilization, choose what they are now rather than nothing. If the abolitionists

visit a cattle ranch fighting bulls, they would be shocked to see the infinite care, dedication, and the excessive effort, not to mention the material cost which means raising a bull from being in the womb until it exits to the plaza and the freedom and privileges it enjoys. Therefore, although some people seem paradoxical, only in bullfighting countries such as Spain, France, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Portugal, we love the bulls with passion, so there are nuances that these strains have to do with local traditions and customs constitute an entire culture that has created and cultivated with great dedication and pure love without a variety of animals whose existence is a very significant part of the work of García Lorca, a Hemingway, a Goya, a Picasso, to name just four of the very long line of artists of all genres for which the party has been a source of inspiration for teachers creations, would be quite impoverished.

Is it morally serious violence that may result from aesthetic and artistic reasons than pleasure derives from the ventral?, I wonder after reading an article by Albert impressive Boadella (ABC 04.18.1904) accusing Pharisees who horrified by the cruelty of bullfighting request to close the streets, and have no qualms in choking yet tasty Catalan sausages. What requires the development of the quality of this exquisite delicatessen Mediterranean? that two million pigs live their entire lives in just two square feet, while constantly trying to elevate your legs on a flowing bars by their droppings, their only movement possible is reduced to slightly tilt his head to eat feed, as transport to slaughter is carried out under identical conditions.

pigs are not only brutally tortured to satisfy the palate of human whimsical, almost no edible animal to increase appetite and enjoyment of the guest, not be subjected without anyone seem to care much, a baroque variety of tortures and atrocities, from the liver of birds artificially inflated to produce the silky pâté, to lobsters and shrimp are tossed alive into boiling water because apparently the final agonizing spasm experienced charred flesh seasoned with a special bonus, and the crab to which a leg is amputated at birth for the other is deformed and dramatically and provide more food to fine taster.

I say about hunting and fishing, so widespread and prestigious sports on five continents, it is true that Anglo-Saxon countries, there are periodic campaigns against fox hunting, animal is gutted by the thousands at each station is just open season for the sheer pleasure of killing hunter shot an animal whose meat is not going to eat and whose skin is not going to entertain, but also true that if the reproduction is not somehow contained within certain limits, would end up causing real ecological disaster. As for fishing, an activity that so far as I know, with the exception of whaling, it has not mobilized against the militant animal rights front or the peace at any cost. I recommend to lovers of literature and especially sadistic practitioners of sadism, read an article where Luis Maria Anson ("The recreational fishing and bullfighting," "The Reason" 28/11/2004) describes the details of the pike fishing on a river between the mountains caracoles Swiss. Although different, no blood flows, the operation is a refinement in the performance of the cruelty that makes the hair stand on end, especially at the end of the long agony when the fish, with the palate and destroyed by the triple hook tip, is dying suffocated with bulging eyes and astonished between tail going off in slow motion. Mal

many consolation of fools, I'm not trying to prove anything to these examples that could extend to infinity, but saying that if it comes to putting an end to the violence that humans inflict on the animal world to feed , dress, play and enjoy, ideal perfectly legitimate, indeed healthy and generous offers frightful consequences, we must make a definitive and comprehensive, without exception, yet at the same time sacrificing the bulls and the zoo and of course the gastronomic pleasures especially carnivores and fur, and all clothing and utensils, leather goods , skin and mop up campaigns and eradication of certain species of insects and vermin. What fault can have the female Anopheles transmit malaria, plague, rat and bat rabies?, Is perhaps humans exterminated carriers of AIDS, infectious syphilis or cold?, Better than the world reaches that utopian perfection in which man and animals enjoyed the same rights and privileges, but of course is not the same duties, because no one will understand a hungry tiger or a snake that was moody prohibited by morality and the laws morning to a biped or strike him a peck. While there is utopia to materialize, I will continue defending bullfighting so beautiful and exciting can be a matter of course, trying to drag them to anyone who rejects them because they're bored, or because violence and blood in them runs repugnant.

also repugnant to me because I am a more peaceful, and I think that happens to the vast majority of fans, what moves us and embellished in a good run, is just the fascinating combination of grace and wisdom, courage and inspiration of a bullfighter and the bravery, nobility and elegance of a bull, get a good task, in that mysterious complicity that binds, overshadow all the pain and risk invested in it, creating images that participate at the same time the integrity of the music and dance movement, plasticity pictorial art and the depth of a theatrical ephemeral. Something that is rite and improvisation, and is loaded at a given moment in religion, myth and symbolism that represents the human condition, that mystery that is made this life of ours, there is only thanks to its counterpart which is death.

Bullfights in the spell remind us that we join in the good afternoon, how precarious is the existence and as a result of this fragile and perishable nature that is yours, can be incomparably wonderful. Mario Vargas Llosa

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

How To Sooth A 3 Year Old Stomach Ach

Put Attention! Slaughter in ambulances

Or what is the same, damn stress!

vent I've tried all different ways, so a cry over this side is not bad.

Finally, the fact is I've been making plans for a big event for three or four months, all well planned and calmly, without omitting any single detail, to get a bunch of bureaucrats and begin to spoil everything , demons, fortunately all is not lost, for now, but it is forcing a number of steps in the last minute of the term, which also makes me quite bad, because if something can go wrong, it is especially these moments.

It bothers me because people do not know what it really means to me is part of my life plan if they want it to land in a few words, there is much at stake, many parts of me that need this, I got too much time, money and effort, and everything to be put in this situation, and then grinding to finish I have to sit and wait, I can not take any proactive action, except to hope that no third parties involved and do their chamba cooperative and things I come at the right time and right place for it then yes, you can take action on the matter.

Damn it ... bad is that in the meantime will continue with my insomnia ... I