El Salvador Trip Pictures #2

Here is the second addition of photos from our trip to El Salvador in 2011. These were taken on New Years Eve of 2011, I wish I had more because the party got crazier. The bolos came and they danced their drunken butts off and my uncle burnt his face by accident with one of the fireworks.

I was trying to help my brother brake open the piñata. My abuela
(pictured to the right) had gotten this piñata for my brother and
a dora piñata for one of my little cousins.

My sister and I.

My mami, sister and dad (my sister looks hilarious).

I had my laptop In hand, so i finally got to typing.

    My last blog post was in november, I hope you guy weren't thinking 'is he dead?'. Well I'm not so great at constantly writing blog posts, I'm lazy and a huge procrastinator! Sorry for having to keep you guys waiting for 3 months.
    Hurricane Sandy came and left, swaying our casita from side to side. It wasn't the best experience. At times I thought that the windows were going to burst open or that the house was going to topple over. Some of my dad's family came to stay with us over night while the storm passed, it wasn't so bad, except for the fact that the power went out! We were without hot water and power for 2 weeks (gracias LIPA)! Also, my sister and I didn't go to school for those 2 weeks, but the state took our winter brake (damn you NYS).
    Moving on to something more positive, I am almost finished with my freshman year in high school, just 3 more months (well technically 4)! I am very proud of myself because this year I got some of my highest grades ever! My current average is a 94 and I am in the High Honor-roll (I am not gloating). We all ready made our schedules for 10th grade, so these are the classes I will be taking next year:
English 10 Honors
Trigonometry/Algebra
Spanish 3 Honors
Painting and Drawing
Health
Culinary Arts
Global History 2 Honors
Chemistry
Physical Ed.
I will not be taking lunch next year, just to fit in an extra class.

I guess I'm done for today mi gente, hopefully I'll post again very soon.
Adios or as we say in El Salvador 'Salú'.

HOLA MI GENTE!!!!

Hello people of Earth, this is your "cipote" speaking. Yeah I know, you all must think "whats wrong with you?, you haven't posted in months?, you lazy puerco!" I know, I know I haven't posted since July and the year is almost over. Well let me say a lot has happened, I or as I should say we moved from Queens,NY to Long Island,NY, I started High School (freshman rule!) and I WENT THROUGH A MALDITO HURRICANE!!!! Yes people, I was visited by Sandy, she took my power, hot water and heating, how rude.... But on the bright side I got two weeks of vacation and the power came back on the 7th, I think. Time goes by pretty quickly, doesn't it?
I'll keep you posted mi gente, stay safe and...................................................................................................................wait for it................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................why so impatient?................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ YOLO!!!!

El Salvador Trip Pictures #1

So I have decide to show ustedes my pictures from our trip to El Salvador back in December 2011. It was a fun trip, but we did have our ups and downs. Also, my nerves were up for the first week because my cousin and I had to learn a dance routine (which we didn't and up dancing) for her quinceañera, it was fun though and I totally felt appreciated since I was her chambelan de honor. Here we are at the airport in NY:

Lol, my brother, sister and aunt

Awkward? My dad.

My brother and aunt, he had taken my cousins book.

Spanish Friday Translation

So, I apologize my friends, I have been very lazy, since it’s summer and theres no school, I can wake up late. A lot has happened since the last time I made a blog entry, I graduated 8th grade, I went to prom,I went to a sweet fifteen, I went to Splish-Splash (a water park), etc, etc. But, sadly, almost all of the days have been VERY BORING, it makes me sick because I always tell my parents “lets go to the beach (my mom doesn’t like the beach), let’s go to the museum, lets go to the zoo.......,” and my dad always says “hopefully this boy is going to be a doctor.” This man! I’m going to make another blog entry soon (hopefully), have a good day and a fantastic summer!

Spanish Friday

Todays spanish friday (I may translate it soon, but it takes a lot of work and I hate google translate):

Pues, discúlpenme mis cheros, que yo he estado bien perezoso, como es el verano y no ay escuela, me puedo levantar tarde. Mucho he pasado desde la última vez que yo hice una entrada de blog, me gradué del octavo grado, fui al baile de graduación, fui a unos quince años, fui a Splish-Splash (un parque acuático) , etcétera, etcétera. Pero, con tristeza, casi todos los días han hecho BIEN ABURRIDOS, me da asco porque siempre le digo a mis papás “vamos a la playa (a mi mama no le gusta la playa), vamos al museo, vamos al zoológico......,” y mi papá siempre sale diciendeo “ojalá que este niño  sea doctor.” ¡Este hombre! ¡Voy hacer otra entrada de blog pronto (ojalá), tengan un buen día y un verano fantástico!

¡El Tango Argentino!

So today a few of us kids went to a trip for spanish class, we went to a restaurant called Buenos Aires Tango. ¡Qué chido! Right? O.M.G, I had an empanda as an appetizer and it was delicious, WAY different then the Colombian ones. As a main course I had grilled chicken with rice and french fires and flan for dessert! Before the main course was served, we learned the basic steps of tango and it was fun! The steps are easy, just UNO, DOS, TRES, CUATRO, CINCO, SEIS y ¡Olé! A lot of the people that I danced with told me that I was the best partner they had had! A little while before we started heading back, they put on bachata, merengue and salsa, now this I'm used to! My spanish teacher took me out to dance, how nice of her! Then I danced some bachata with one of the other teachers. The train ride was the usual, noisy ghetto (or as I should say ratchet, which means ghetto and is really starting to catch on in NY) KAPPA VI kids, oh how I'll miss them!

Senior Trip!

So just a little while ago (June 5) all us crazy 8th Graders piled into two coach buses and headed for Club Getaway, in beautiful Connecticut! We had an awesome time hiking, rock-wall climbing, zip lining, bungie trampolining, eating and even dancing! We even got some of our teachers to dance, that was funny. What really surprised  me was that I actually danced, but not just that, they PLAYED the song Danza Kuduro By Don Omar, who would think that a bunch of mostly "morenitos" and "gringos," with a few "latinos" would be dancing to a popular latino song, I'm mean seriously that's very rare! I took a few pictures, which I now present to you!

My friends Karen and Victoria!

My Salvadoran cheras (friends)!

Victoria and Keith who has been my friend
since Elementary School!

Gigantic Arif!

Me at the top right corner with my best friend Anthony
and the Salvadoran cheras!

In front of what we call La Vaca Rosada (the pink cow)!
Which was actually a small store!

Me and crazy Kiesha!

All of us besties!

Me "smiling" for the camera!

Lindsey's Luxury Living......

So I decided to be a 'nice' brother today, I helped my sister clean out her dollhouse (How nice of me).
I gave her some of my old toys since I was cleaning out my closet yesterday (by myself), It was a very dirty job and you do not want to get me started with the 'stuff' that I found in there.
So heres how her house looks now (Thanks to me):
                                   Lindsey's Luxury Living

  

This is the entire house, how big and beautiful!

This is the first floor, with the kitchen on the right and 

children's playroom on the left!

Here we have the second floor, with a large bedroom!

Finally we have the third floor, with a spacious eating

area with a gold chandelier, large fireplace and big balcony!

In Total Bloom....

Today, to my surprise I found 4 buds that have bloomed, this is great compared to the other two that died. It's great to see something that I have grown, blossom into something beautiful!The only downside is that they die after they bloom.

They look awesome, I can't wait till the rest bloom!

 

The Ugly Wall.....

Lets say just yesterday or was it the day before? Well I don't remember, so the construction guys came to plaster (or whatever you call it) the walls since they had opened holes for the new smoke alarms (renovations in my building). Do you think that these idiots have come to paint the walls, NO! Plus they haven't changed the doors in my apartment, I mean, really? They were supposed to do it 2 days ago! My best-friends mom went to complain about how sluggish the men are and that they aren't doing a good job (so true). How lethargic....

(Heres an example of their slow progress, above my bedroom door.)

I'll have before and after pictures of our kitchen up soon, it now looks modern and 'not so 70s'!!!!!!

Banda Blanca-Sopa De Caracol

                                                   Haha, makes me want to shake my nalgas (butt)!

Aniceto Molina-Fiesta Cumbiambera

                                 One of my most favorite songs of all time, brings back so many memories!

Secreto-Papa Dios Me Dijo

                               This song is awesome, makes me want to get up and move my feet!
                                                                   

SNEEZE!

¡Dios mío, I'm sneezing to much, it's all this dust from the construction......AAAARRRGGGG!
It's like, puchica vayanse, my nose is all itchy and blah.....theres this idiot construction guy who always goes around with his radio playing rock music, it gets annoying........like the song says 'me duele la cabeza.'
At least the parakeets are in my room for now, their a little quiet (for now)!

Earth Day

Awesome day today! Went out to do some volunteer work at the beach for earth day, my two best-friends   and i helped make kites, the rest of my friends helped do other stuff. The good thing was that everything was for free! I got flowers, a t-shirt, I made a UV bracelet, a clay habitat and a "surviver" bag! It was hard to fly kites today, not so much wind.
There were these people called Rockaway Toca, they had corn, pozole, hibiscus tea and other stuff. The ASPCA came out. There were so many stands I can't remember!
I'll put pictures of the stuff that I got soon!

Michel Télo-Ai Se Eu Te Pego

For some reason this song popped into my head during gym, I started singing it out loud like a crazy idiot, 

I don't know it's just really catchy!

Mi Amiga y El tercer Día De Los Examenes.....

Today is Spanish Friday, english translation below!

Español:
¡Buenas Tardes! Hoy fue el tercer día de los examenes del estado, yo creo que no me voy a sacar un buen grado, quizas un dos, pero no un tres, me dan ganas de golpear me en la cabeza con un libro por no poner atención en la clase de matemática. En otras maneras yo fuí a recojer a mi hermana del escuela con mi mama, mi mama se bajo del carro a ir a buscar a mi hermana y yo me quede en el carro con mi hermano pequeño, yo mire afuera de la ventana y yo note que mi amiga del escuela hiba pasar en el frente del carro, abri la puerta y le grité ¡-----! Pero ella no me puso atención, lo mismo ocurre de nuevo cuando ella hiba con su hermana para la casa, ni siquiera me mira.....
Yo no sé por qué ella hace esto.
¡No estoy enojado, solo me rio de estas cosas tontas!
English:

Good afternoon! Today was the third day of the state exams, I think I will not get a good grade, maybe a two, but not a three, I want to hit myself over the head with a book for not to paying attention in math class. In other ways, I went to pick up my sister from school with my mom, my mom got off the car to go pick up my sister and I stayed in the car with my little brother, I look out the window and I noticed my friend from school was going to pass in front of the car, I opened the door and yelled -----! But she did not pay attention, the same happens again when she was going with his sister to her house, she didn't even look at me .....I do not know why she does this. I'm not angry, I only laugh at these silly things!

Arroz Con Pollo

Hahaha, this was todays dinner, so sad I should have checked the picture
(Photo taken at Alex's Professional Bedroom Studios, we use the best iPad)
Haha, really taken by me and yes on my iPad!

NYC Issues

Another idiot of a New York City teacher has recently been accused of sexually assaulting a student, so sad, this is the 8th time a teacher in NY has done this, who knows how many more of these sexually assaulting teachers are out there......

Also, two NYC High Schools are set to be closed, wow, just last year the local High School in my neighborhood was closed, 5 schools are now housed in the building (4 High Schools and my middle School).

Random here: There are police lines outside of my building, interesting, what sort of crime was committed   here?