Peter

My self portrait Well I think I’m a regular guy. Before I started my new style of lifestyle in Zamorano, I was not a strait As kid but I was not bad in classes. In school, I was kind of a popular guy everybody knew me and I got alone with teachers. After school, I would usually go to at my aunt’s house until my mom got out work and came to pick me up. I helped my little sister with her homework’s at my aunt’s house. Sometimes my aunt would take us to our house if my mom didn’t pick us up. At home I didn’t have much responsibility. I practice two hours of guitar in the evening, I didn’t have guitar lessons, and I learned by myself. I used to do a lot sports. Most of the time my friends organized soccer matches. With my friends we kind of had a soccer team; we played, like three games a week, I was also part of the volleyball team. If I didn’t have that much to do like homework or soccer nights, I would spend my free time with my girlfriend. We had kind the same hobbies, I really liked to go to the movies and she liked too, so we would go at the movies at night, or go out for a dinner. I had a good relationship with my mother in law, and I could spend the time with my girlfriend and her family. During my summer vacations, I went to work with my father at the shrimp farm and most of the time that I was on vacation its was harvest time, so there was a lot of work to do. My work was to supervise during the harvest, and it was tired because harvest is during the night. I really like it because I was in charge of it, and I could make decisions. It was fun to socialize with the workers. They made work fun. The First day I arrived to Zamorano I was excited. That the first night I couldn’t sleep. In the morning I was nervous, I thought of all the things that people had talked to me about, Zamorano and it was a challenge well it is a challenge for me. Starting, classes and then changing for Work at the middle of the week, for me was weird at the beginning it was stressing because of the heavy work and while the weeks went on I was getting used to it that I stop notice it. Now that I see myself I know that I have changed, because now that I go to my house, I can’t stand not working and I help my mom and dad in whatever I can. I feel that I take everything with responsibility and I have learned how to manage my time, not that well yet, but I try to keep up with everything,. In my classes I feel that I have been working a lot to improve. I hope to keep going the way I am doing, right know, and improve as a professional and as a person.



Poem

** Sword and Shields **

So tell me more about your world if there are angels without swords Is power a meaningful word in your own state of mind help me forget that I am shield A dream from my sins saying goodbye to the ones I meet Afraid of you and those who live I am going where nobody can see Listen to the sound of a door being so old Let me run through the deep whisper of odds stopping until the way is doomed by the moon where my sword and shield can’t protect no more

By Pedro Martin

Dreams From what I have heard about dreams, my friends say that they are wishes that we can’t fulfill. Scientist say that we dream everyday, in our sleep, and we remember those dreams that makes, us have feel fear and happiness. According to Greek mythology there were four brothers who controlled dreams, but the most important one is Morpheus. His abilities where that he could shape dreams, in other words he was the dream shaper, he was responsible for the Kings and Heroes dreams. In my own words, dreams are like something we can’t live or are things that we have in mind all day, these situations come out, and in our sleeps we bring them back. Sometimes when I have seen a scary movie or when I have been talking about legends and myths with my friends that are scary, when I go to my bed to sleep I am thinking about these things and I battle to sleep, the next day or during the nights I wake up afraid, and thinking about my nightmare. It is not always, is about nightmares, because sometimes when I have nice thoughts or have spent a nice day with my family, I have dreamt about them and having nice thoughts, that sometimes they help me in my daily activities and that they make me feel a sense of humor. Reading about the scientific facts that they say that we dream everyday but we don’t remember. I think our good and bad dreams depend of our humor in the day. Sometimes when in your daily activities, or when you are at work or at school, or when you are doing something, you have the sensation that you already had live about the moment or seen it. Well they call this a DÉJÀ VU it’s a French word that means “all ready seen” this doesn’t always happens but always but we have the sensation that we have lived it some how, it might be that we have dream of it and its like you can see your future, but it’s just a sensation. My grandmother, she was born in a small town, and she has so many beliefs, One of them that she has talked to me about is, about dreams that she says that if you dream something and if you want the dream to be come true, you must not tell it or talk about it to anybody and the dream will become true. Another thing she has told me is that whenever I have a nightmare I must talk to somebody about it and the nightmare will never become true. Well in my conclusions I can say that dreams are its something real and we most enjoy it, like life and learn from them.



Subject I enjoy the most

Ancient History and Modern History are subjects that most people say are boring, but really this subject tells a lot of our roots and who we are. Usually this classes are taken during high school, not everybody that likes it so the environment in the class is boring and it’s not the teachers fault. Ancient history is really important and so interesting because of the battles and most of colonies and monuments around world You can learn a lot about how humans have evolved in technology and the amazing fights of the last decades and heroes.

Sometimes I think we should take Ancient governments for example and we can learn about history and modify our future, because we are living a situation that we will have to stop depending of many situations that during ancient times were done by us. One of the things that I admire most of this is the loyalty and the distances they fought for their nation and how society was marked and the respect to authority, it was not all perfect but people’s minds were not so corrupted as today, and everybody had a job and there was education. I imagine it was a different world to live in. Well, like I have said we can learn about this and there are so many books and really we don’t give that much attention to this class, but it’s important somehow because in the future it will help us. For me I think I enjoy this class I imagine myself living in medieval times and when I see movies it gives me a great joy.



People I can’t count on  Not necesarily,your family or best friends are the only people you can count on, and not always the people you think you can count are going to be there for you, but some how it doesn’t necessarily means that you need to know people very well to count on them, but everyone knows who to ask for help, who to never ask My parents are the first people that I can’t count on, because of my good relationship with them and because we talk about family problems. They know that they can count on me and I can count on them. Not everybody has a good relationship with their parents, but they should because they are always with us in bad and good times. The Second person I can count on is my cousin Augusto I have lived with him almost all my life and he is like a big brother to me. He talks to me and gives me advice in everything that I ask him, and he knows that he can count on me for everything he needs. It will be something natural I would never think twice if he ever needs my help and I know he will do the same for me.. After my family members I can count on my ex-girlfriend we get alone so well, that I have a lot of confidence in her and with her family I know that they will support or help me in whatever they can. They have to prove to me cause even that I am far from home they keep in touch with me and they always have told me that I can count on them. In conclusion, I guess we all have friends and family members that somehow we know that we can count on them, but the people we are closer to are the ones that we can count on. We should ask first to our family than friends, because they are always next to us.