Blessings

Blessings,
waking up today
feeling the breeze
taking a walk at the park
being able to see

Blessings,
getting a job in the middle of the crisis
living in a country that have peace
having a roof over my head
learning a new language

Blessings,
having a wonderful wife
talking to my family by skype
receiving a hug from a good friend
having a faith and a hope.

It is a blessing to see you smile even life is not perfect.

LIFE IS HARD SOMETIMES!!!

Hi Ludmilla,I just want to say something about your blog.

I feel litle sad becouse you may have to change the state or go back to Brazil. I enjoy when we share time in class, but in this time life is hard, but it can be good for you may if you switch the state meet more nice people lake me, or if you go back to Brazil when you came back you can bring me a good-looking boy it can be wonderful for me. Well I just try to make your selft feels better. I hope the best in life and I know that you can do anything you want, becouse you are so smart and beautiful. The last thing I want to mention is that you can count with me like your friend and be positive ok.

I don't want say 'goodbye memphis'...

All my friends are writing here about how they are missing their countries. But today i will tell about Memphis. Because it's what i will miss in the next weeks. Will be not easy leave this city. All the time i was thinking how wonderfull could be live in NYC or Chicago, Florida or California, but now i need to leave and this makes me think how much i like being here. The weather those two last weeks it's just PERFECT, i'm loving it. Also i will miss my friends, going out with them, the parties at Carlos and Vaca's home, the au pairs and my host family too. Here i learned that the distance depends how excited you are to do something and driving alone singing can be funny. I have learn so many things, know so many people, had so many fun, and this 'little' things i will never forget!!! I'm sure i will return here some day again, yes i will!!!!

Next summer

Summer is coming.
That's give me nice feelings; sun, friends, relax, and vacation; and what? No more vacation.
This is one of the big cultural differences between USA and the other countries that I have lived in.
In the European countries you have at least two weeks vacation guarantied already from the first year you work. There are also a lot of different holidays, probably at least 10 other day during the year.
USA have only 4 July, Christmas and New Year.
People here go from home to work and from work to home.
I'm missing the small talking with friends and the extra days off with excursion to the beach by car or by train.
This summer will be different; I will spend my time in my office box working at the computer, thinking of the "Bella Italia".

I miss Guadalajara, Mexico.

The most I miss from my home town, is when I west my time with friends and family.
I miss the nice places that I was visited with them. I also miss the food, because there taste delicious. Well I miss to went I was in high school, because I was have fun with my friends and theachers. I almost forget the other important things like nature, and weather.
There in Mexico we can walke if we want to get something from the stors and restaurants also we can walke all the way to the school. But I do not miss politics, or vandalism.

I just miss my country....

Rome

Rome is one of the must city visited in Europe. There you can visit very interesting and historical places like the Coliseum, the Vatican and the catacombs, and many fountains.
There is also god food you can eat, specially pizza and ice-cream. You can meet people from all around the world that want to visit this place that everyone known as “citta’ eterna”. If you have a chance to visit Italy don’t miss Rome.

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I chose an exchange program to USA because has so many positive points. At first is a good choice because it's cheaper than travel by vacation alone, and you can work and pay your own things. You can learn the american way of life and the best thing, learn the language. You can also meet a lot of people from the whole world, have fun, travel and make friends. You have the chance to experience a new life, havinf fun, and making unforgettable memories. Comparing to the anothers countries US has many cultures, and many cities than looks really intresting. So if you are looking for an good year, choose USA and the many positive points that comes with this choice!!

2nd OF NOVEMBER (DIA DE LOS MUERTOS)DAY OF THE DEAD!

The catolic church began whit this tradition many years ago. Consist on two days preparation and one more day celebration, on the first phase, people prepare altars at home, which contain prefer food, pictures, candel, coloring papers and flowers for their love ones.Alsothe people clean tightly packed graves of the dead people. At Octuber 31 tourist walk for all the open houses how has altars, on November 1st and 2nd the stret cover full of flower because families make ornaments for the graves.

November 2nd at the afternoon people went to the cementery, they pray to God for their love ones also sing and spend all day there, but wen the dark comes canle glow all around the place and looks wantherfull because they use incense and flowers whit beautifull odors.

But in the schools the studets write a calaberas is like funny poem with reference of death and they buy or bake delicius bread decorated with sugar bones.

There in Mexico sell sugar skeletons that you can buy them and eat.

Well I think the people from Mexico sow the dead on difrent way at this day, tri to recognizing the cycle of life and death thar is human existence.

Is the end the end?

Last Christmas I went to Uruguay. One day we visited the art museum in Montevideo.
At the entry I saw a big poster that had writing this phrase:
"Remember that you will die".
A friend of m said "wait, I will put this on my agenda".
Even though this argument some time disturb us, it clear that is something that we have to deal with, an existential point.
In some moment we face death in people that are close to us. Sometime it's happen suddenly other times we have time to be prepare, to reflect on it.

I think that each of us live our life according to how we believe on what's happen when we die and after that.
That's why this is an important issue.

On this multicultural world we meet people that have different understanding about it. The most known answer that people believe in are: when you die the soul go back to God or to hell and you can do something to change your fate; there is nothing after you die not hope, and people that believe on incarnation.
There are other angles on all these points of view.

The first experience with death I had close to my life was when I was three and half years old. I don't have a picture on my mind but I have see how much this experience had had a so big impact on my life. It was the death of my father.

For us that are on live, when a person die we miss that person completely, totally.
If we could have only the live body from that person would not be complete; in fact we call this type of situation a person on a "vegetative state". If we have the soul of the person, but we can not hug him or her, look at the person, see his or here expressions, something is missing.

I have think about it for a long time.
I grow up as Christian and I'm still one; I heard different answer about this argument but the idea of separation between body and soul, that some people arrive first to heaven and that the soul go to God after you die never convince me.

Few questions come to my mind.
Why, if God is love as a basic characteristic will leave the human race suffering here and eventually allow the dead people go happy up to heaven and see us from above whit out the possibility to do nothing for us?
If there is a better life after we die why not "kill your self" and go to a better place faster?
If God give us life putting together body and soul to make the existence (this is what we see when a child is born), why he will separate it at the end of life for an other life?
If this is idea is right,where is God justice?

I looked and study the Bible, what for Christians should be the life guide.

There is a lot to talk about but if we just take the best reference experience, I mean Jesus him self there is something interesting from my point of view. When he meet Maria after the resurrection Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' " Jhon 20:7
The text is talking about Jesus him self immediately after he has resurrected and as we notice he had not returned to the Father during the time he was dead (the Father is clearly in heaven); therefor, how could the normal mortal people go immediately to heaven after death if Jesus didn't go?

What Jesus said when he had situations whit people that have died like Lazarus he said; "Our friend has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up." We know that when we sleep there is not comprehension about what's around us; so we presume that this is what's going on wile a person is dead, nothing, no existence, no communication.

So, as I understand in a Bible Christian perspective, after you die nothing happen until Jesus will come back and resurrect the people."For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own turn: Christ, the first fruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. (1 chorinthian 15:22,23)

If Jesus resurrected, if he resurrected Lazarus, if he created the word from nothing, he will for sure have the power to recreated the human from the dust and give him the breath of life again.

I found on this answer comfort and hope for us people that are alive. I have a hope that one day I will met the beloved that have died again, soul and body together, completely.