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In this page I am going to post interesting things about my life. I am also going to have new exciting experiences, like creat videos, look pictures and talk to friends. I feel it is going to be the best help to contact my toefl friends.

SELF PORTRAIT It all began when I was born on March 21st 1989, in Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango, a little town in Guatemala. When, I, little Juan José was born at 3:00 AM. A good start to have a successful life. I lived in a house full of happiness, harmony and many much things to have a fun life. Can you imagine a house full of adults and children? It was really fun. You will ask, why did all of them live there? Let me tell you that it is a good question, I am nineteen years old and I really still do not know. I lived about three years with my mom and my older brother, surrounded by uncles and aunt’s cares, I don’t remember, but I think those were the happiest times at home for my family. Then my mom went to Guatemala city with my younger brothers and my stepfather. My older brother and I were raised by my grandmother and aunts. It was very nice to live with my cousins because we played all day long. When I was a teenager I was really confused about what to do with my life. I had to make a very important decision in my life: I had to decide where and what I was going to study when I turned fifteen. I had to make the hardest decision and at the same time the best, I had to leave my family and friends, even my town, because I was going to study at a boarding school. I went to study agronomic science at a secondary boarding school. It was difficult to leave my family, but these were the best three years of my life, I met a lot of people from different parts, with different beliefs and many different personalities.

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In highschool I worked in the morning from 6:30 am to 11 am. I worked in many places including fruit trees areas, with cereals and other crops. Then in the afternoon I went to receive agronomic courses from 1 pm to 4:30 pm. It was almost the same as the Zamorano system.======

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My space in Zamorano is very peculiar because I live in Maya with a Guatemalan guy. It’s fun to live here, we do a lot of different activities like jogging in the afternoon or cook our dinner. We study a lot too, because we are taking very important courses as chemistry or math. I think my space in Zamorano is very balanced and I am learning many interesting things.======

Conclusion: I have been in many places without my family in my life, I have learned a lot of good and bad things. These is where you have to do the right and appreciat your freedom.
POEM

Drop your remains into the deep and go to bed¡

Invisible kid, never see what he did But doesn´t matter what you see If you see all you want, in these bunch of vanity Perhaps it is all you need Her shiny black eyes, into your deep And you stay alone Just watching her vanity What is this shiny into your black deep? Are just the remains, does the memory remains? I swear I believed you were just invisible But later all your kindness became Best part of you, I swear But how the world says Black with madness and white with kindness Thouth I was the sadness, into the deep But now I see the sun, I see your eyes now You are half black deep inside, with all your regrets With all this stress I saw you, using your black magic eyes And I just have regrets Use your weapons and go to bed Without remains and never regrets Invisible kid, is now out of your black eyes And hope someday, understand how they can forget Conclusion: This poem it´s dedicated to myself, it´s dedicated to my carefree part.  MY DREAMS   Dreams are the images, thoughts and feelings experienced while sleeping, particularly strongly associated with rapid eye movement sleep. Dreams have a long history both as a subject of conjecture and as a source of inspiration. Throughout their history, people have sought meaning in dreams or divination through dreams(1).

They have been described physiologically as a response to neural processes during sleep, psychologically as reflections of the subconscious, and spiritually as messages from God or predictions of the future. Many cultures practiced dream incubation, with the intention of cultivating dreams that were prophetic or contained messages from the divine (2).

The contents and biological purposes of dreams are not fully understood, though they have been a topic of speculation and interest throughout recorded history.  What I call Dreams are my goals, perhaps my dreams are what I want to do in the future. I want to be an agronomy engineer, travel the world to try different kind of flavors and odors, learn a lot of languages and have a big farm in my country.  My dreams seem easy, but I will have to work a lot to make them happen. I don’t care what people think of them, I only think and work for them. = 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams 2. http://www.dreams.ca/ = = = = PEOPLE I CAN COUNT ON = The people I can count on are my family, I have the support of my mom, she always gives me advice and she teaches me how to be a person that always thinks about all actions I take in life. Perhaps she has focused a lot in this part of my personality. Thanks to her I am a person with a big conscience and if I did something that I know is not right, the remorse makes me fix it and this has been a big chance in my life. I love my mom for that me, that makes me special. I also love to my uncles,they teach me how to work in the field and how to manage people in the farm. I have had also their economic support since I was child and their advice too.I can also count on my three brothers, Luis, Otto and Guillermo, they are always there to help me, it doesn’t matter what I need. I can not forget to my friends, I met them since I was 5 years old in kindergarten, I studied with them until high school and now I am here in Zamorano, meeting new friends that I can count on with too. I am so thankful for my family, uncles and friends, I really appreciate their support and with no doubt I would help them immediately if necessary.



I ENJOY I really like to receive math class because I enjoy thinking, it feels really good when you get a good result and you don’t need to memorize, just think and apply the laws, every case it is different and you never get bored. In class I enjoy to pay attention to the teacher, as a consequence later I will not have to study too much because I remember some important points in math problems that help me. Always before a math test, I begin to study all the content that we have received in class because that is the way I can learn more and get a great grade. I like also to explain to my partners and friends when they have some difficulty with math problems, usually the most common problem is the lack of important concepts and lack of practice. I really love math class and that is one of my dreams, be some day a good math teacher and teach my kids when they get in trouble with math problems.

MY PLOT

We started the activities with the building of 10 furrows with 0.75 meters of distance between them leveling each of them. Later we took every scrap of weed from the furrows to have a plot free of weed, because all the scrap becomes new weed if it is left there.

It’s important to mention that the plot has to have a size of 52.5 meters and 2 slopes, the first one oriented north to south and it is the responsible of draining water from the furrows, the second oriented west to east and it is the responsible of draining water out from plot. The first crop we planted was corn with a distance of 0.20 meters between plants making a total of 25 plants, the second crop we planted was bean, I planted the 2 or 3 seeds per hole in double rows with 0.08 meters between plants. The third crop was beet and was planted by seed in double rows and it was covered with dry grass to protect it from pouring rain and wind. The fourth crop was cucumber that was planted at 0.25 meters between plants and I tied a rope to give it a chance to grow upwards because it is a very succulent plant. Crop number five was the carrot and I had to plant it in a double row and thin plants leaving one plant every 0.10 meters. The sixth crop was lettuce and I planted it in double rows thinning and leaving 0.30 meters between plants and was planted in quincunx form. The crop number seven was the hot pepper and sweat pepper, I planted it every 0.3 meters. The eightieth crop was the onion and I planted sixty plants of it, in furrow number 9 was the broccoli planted at 0.40 meters between plants and the last furrow was planted with tomatoes.

It is important to mention that all agronomic efforts were made as weeding every 3 days and watering when the crops needed it. The fertilization also was made with caution and an balanced diet of nutrients.