I am visiting Kosovo for work. I came 4 days ago to Mitrovica North, that means, I am in a part of the country that does not really belongs to it, not either to Serbia, although they only speak Serbian and use their currency. For a stranger and someone who doesn’t really know a lot about the Balkan’s background it’s really difficult to understand this whole issue. In other words, I’m struggling to get the complete picture in my mind and understand why Kosovo Serbs don’t feel save going to the South, and why they can’t live in peace together. It’s really hard to understand how ethnicity can influence people’s behavior like that, already for centuries and centuries. Well, leaving aside this whole history, I must say Mitrovica is a nice city. It’s nothing to compare with Western Europe. Instead it makes me think in my home town in Colombia, Tunja and the towns around. The huge holes on the streets, the zebra spot only for decoration, the bus stop used as shelter for the cars, the pathways as parking places, and the people walking in the middle of the street, and many times, just standing there having a chat. I know sounds a chaos, but you get some how use to it.
The weather now is cold, you can see it for the stalactites on the water tubes in front of the buildings, or in the gas stations where they threaten you to fell down any minute. However, the cold sensation is not that bad, maybe because I’m already use to Holland and its humidity or most probably, because I’m most of the time inside in the offices or the hotel, where the heating is reaching the 40 degrees. I’ve never felt so warm in my life during the winter!!!
The food is also something remarkable. I’ve been in East Europe before, and I already knew the food is nice and you normally get big portions for quite low prices. Kosovo exceeds all of them. For less than 8E you can get a huge plate (beef/chicken/turkey… ) that so far I’ve not been able to finish one completely (not at least in only one attempt). Yesterday, for example, we shared one plate with two other girls, and we just couldn’t eat more than half of it.
Social life looks pretty much fun around here, locals and internationals get along well together and you can find a relax atmosphere easily, not to mention parties and good beer (Lav is the one that I’ve been drinking the most)
Well, to sum up my experience so far: Nice people (although serious faces), nice food (in my office they bring food every day as well), huge portions at dinner, good music (although in my hotel a bit repetitive), pretty mountains around, old monasteries (that I only know for references), and most of all, nice colleagues to share my experience in this country, so far away from my land, but so close also in many other aspects.
sábado, 5 de febrero de 2011
miércoles, 19 de enero de 2011
Het begin van mensheid! A tale about IGUAQUE, huge berg we climbed up last year in Colombia. Written in NL!!!
Het begin van de mensheid door de Colombianse Indianen
Lang voordat Adan en Eva bekend waren in Colombia hadden mensen al hun eigen geloof over de oorsprong van de mensheid. De legende vertelt dat, boven de top van een grote berg, een vrouw, genoemd Bachue (betekenis: Goede Vrouw), uit een Laguna (meer) kwam. Zij was niet alleen, zij had een kinf van drie jaar bij zich mee. Ze waren naar de heiling van de berg gelopen en daar hadden zij hun woning gebouwd. Zij zijn bekend als de eerste bewoners ter wereld. Toen het kind ontwikkeld was, trouwde Bachue met hem.
Hun woning en hun bruiloft staan bekend als het eerste huis een huwelijk in de Chibcha cultuur (Chibcha = Colombianse Indianen die in de midden van Colombia wonden).
De relatie van Bachue en haar man werd heel vruchtwaar, die bij elke geboorte tussen de vier & zes kinderen kreeg. Ze haden overal gereisd en hun kinderen achter gelaten. Als gevolg daarvan, was de aarde snel met mensen gevuld.
Toen zij oud waren, riepen zij hun nakomelingen en werden begeleid naar het meer (Iguaque), plaats van herkomst. Bij het meer praatten ze over wonen in vrede. Na dit gesprek raakten ze het water aan en onmidelijk veranderden ze in twee slangen die werden ondergedompeld in het meer.
Sindsdien is het meer tot een heiligdom uitgegroid dat vandaag de dag is nog steeds gerespecteerd wordt.
domingo, 9 de mayo de 2010
The green wave – Antanas Mockus president!
I believe utopia is possible! As many other fellow citizens, I have recovered the hope in my country, a land with two oceans, with biggest mountains, with largest forests, and the most dreamful people in the world.
As you can see in my face book, I am plastering my profile with political propaganda. I now feel the need to explain to my non-Spanish speaking friends and family the reasons why I am so enthusiastic in this campaign.
I am going to be 30 this year. This mean that since I was 22 Uribe has governed Colombia. Although I recognize some advances in security, the prize that my country had to paid was fairly too high. 8 years of scare are coming to an end. And now, we have again the possibility to vote freely for a change.
Antanas Mockus is candidate to the Presidency of Colombia. He is not a traditional politician, I almost not dare to call him a politician, I would rather refer him as a thinker and strategist. He was twice the Mayor of Bogotá, and the change he and his team brought to the city was completely amazing. Now, we have in our votes, the possibility to see it happen in all our territory.
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=0MKNIESG (Copy and paste it in the browser)
Just to ponder on the possibility that Antanas would reach the leadership of my country makes my hart go quicker. I believe he can lead us to a fresh and new way to live with which other, where guns are not longer the priority, but pens and books, where the difference is not more a reason to discriminate, but to learn from it, where the Constitution and the law are deeply respected and not just a tool of the one in power, in one sentence, as a creative has said, I believe the utopia is possible with Antanas Mockus as our new president.
Among his proposal are: Education as the key, each life is sacred, public resources are sacred, environment respected. He will continue the good policies Uribe has done, but he will go further and from a different perspective. He won’t tolerate violations to life, or any other form of violence. He will educate our children to become responsible citizens. He will build the basis for a new society. Naturally, I do not see him as a savor, but I trust in his endless will to make the change real.
There is only 20 days left, and unfortunately, we are on danger of fraud in the polls and unfair competition. Mockus is now heading the opinion polls, but the real fight will be 30th May. I hope I can be writing a celebration note by then.
lunes, 8 de marzo de 2010
INBURGERING IN THE NETHERLANDS
I was still in Spain when I heard for the first time about the inburgering. A good friend of mine had to do a Dutch language exam before she moved to The Netherlands to live with her boyfriend. She followed a course with a Dutch professor in Colombia for more than two months, she passed the exam and then she was here, waiting to start the inburgering course.
I come from Colombia, but I was living in Spain for the last 4 years together with my Dutch husband, thanks to it, I enjoy the freedom of movement within the Shengen territory for at least three months, and it also changed my status when enter the Netherlands. Even if I still national of a third country (Non EU countries), I didn't need to present the exam or to follow a course once here. I did want though. That was my intention when I went to ROC Leiden and ask for a Dutch course. They told me about the different courses they offer, the inburgering process and the possibility that all this courses could be paid by the city hall. The forwarded me to the social service office and then I was offer to do a language course with the only consideration of my good performance.
They explained me how I was not abide by the law to follow the inburgering procedure (because of our previously residence in an European country), but since I was interested in learn the language, they will pay it for me. After checking out my academic background, they decided to give me the personal budget, wchich means no other thing that I could choose the school of my preference to follow a course, with the only condition to choose the best one. Leiden University taalcentrum was the best option.
Since January I've been taking Dutch lessons twice a week, three hours a day, plus several hours of homework. And since April I will be doing it even more intensively (4 days a week).
One of my classmates is in the same position than me and she will be also doing the intensive course with me. We are more than pleased with the Government policy to support the foreigners to learn the language and even to make it mandatory for all the people living or willing to live here.
I must say, in honour to the truth, that not all the people is as lucky as I am, and not all the City Halls have the same inburgering policy as the Gemeente of Leiden. I've recently met a lovely girl from Russia who had to do 30 interviews for her inburgering course. She could make herself clear in Dutch, despite she was not happy at all about the way the inburgering course in her school is been developed. She agrees with the inburgering as a mandatory process for all the immigrants, but she thinks the whole idea must be reviewed. She told me how after only one month of learning the language they started to studying the political, health care and educational systems, amongst other topics. She didn't feel prepared enough to jump out from the “Indefinite article / Present tense” to discuss the political system in The Netherlands. She would like to study instead more vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, so she can really feel an independent-user of the language.
Happily, the shiny star is still upon me and even when I have not been such lucky with my job hunting, I am following a plan to achieve the job of my dreams. And I am sure sooner or later I will do it.
I come from Colombia, but I was living in Spain for the last 4 years together with my Dutch husband, thanks to it, I enjoy the freedom of movement within the Shengen territory for at least three months, and it also changed my status when enter the Netherlands. Even if I still national of a third country (Non EU countries), I didn't need to present the exam or to follow a course once here. I did want though. That was my intention when I went to ROC Leiden and ask for a Dutch course. They told me about the different courses they offer, the inburgering process and the possibility that all this courses could be paid by the city hall. The forwarded me to the social service office and then I was offer to do a language course with the only consideration of my good performance.
They explained me how I was not abide by the law to follow the inburgering procedure (because of our previously residence in an European country), but since I was interested in learn the language, they will pay it for me. After checking out my academic background, they decided to give me the personal budget, wchich means no other thing that I could choose the school of my preference to follow a course, with the only condition to choose the best one. Leiden University taalcentrum was the best option.
Since January I've been taking Dutch lessons twice a week, three hours a day, plus several hours of homework. And since April I will be doing it even more intensively (4 days a week).
One of my classmates is in the same position than me and she will be also doing the intensive course with me. We are more than pleased with the Government policy to support the foreigners to learn the language and even to make it mandatory for all the people living or willing to live here.
I must say, in honour to the truth, that not all the people is as lucky as I am, and not all the City Halls have the same inburgering policy as the Gemeente of Leiden. I've recently met a lovely girl from Russia who had to do 30 interviews for her inburgering course. She could make herself clear in Dutch, despite she was not happy at all about the way the inburgering course in her school is been developed. She agrees with the inburgering as a mandatory process for all the immigrants, but she thinks the whole idea must be reviewed. She told me how after only one month of learning the language they started to studying the political, health care and educational systems, amongst other topics. She didn't feel prepared enough to jump out from the “Indefinite article / Present tense” to discuss the political system in The Netherlands. She would like to study instead more vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, so she can really feel an independent-user of the language.
Happily, the shiny star is still upon me and even when I have not been such lucky with my job hunting, I am following a plan to achieve the job of my dreams. And I am sure sooner or later I will do it.
lunes, 18 de enero de 2010
My heart with Haiti
Since it's been busy weeks, I had the idea though to write about many thoughts, but I haven't finished any yet. Now, most of my mind is in Haiti, and my heart. But now it's all a mess and I don't want to carry coals to Newcastle....
Instead, I received this nice article that shows some reflection over the amazonia. I just want to help to disseminate this mindful answer!
Hope you enjoy it, as I did:
During a debate in a US university over four years ago, a young US ecologist asked Cristóvão Buarque, then the Workers Party governor of the Federal District of Brasilia and currently Brazil’s minister of education, about his ideas on internationalizing the Amazonia, so often described as the “lung of humanity.” It was then and still is a theme strongly sustained in Washington’s power circles.
“From a humanist perspective...”
“As a Brazilian I would always argue against internationalizing the Amazon Rain Forest. Even though our government has not given this patrimony the care that it deserves, it is still ours. As a humanist who fears the risks posed by the environmental degradation the Amazon is suffering, I could imagine its internationalization, just as I could imagine the internationalization of everything else of importance to humanity.
If, from a humanist perspective, the Amazon must be internationalized, we should also internationalize the world’s petroleum reserves. Oil is as important for the well being of humanity as the Amazon is for our future. The owners of the reserves, however, feel that they have the right to increase or decrease the amount of oil production, as well as increase or lower the price per barrel. The wealthy of the world feel they have the right to burn up this immense patrimony of humanity.
In much the same way, the wealthy countries’ financial capital should be internationalized. Since the Amazon Rain Forest is a reserve for all human beings, no owner or country must be allowed to burn it up. The burning of the Amazon is as serious a problem as the unemployment caused by the arbitrary decisions made by global speculators. We cannot permit the use of financial reserves to burn entire countries in the frenzy of speculation.
“Let’s internationalize all the world’s children as patrimony of humanity”
Before we internationalize the Amazon, I would like to see the internationalization of all the world’s great museums. The Louvre should not belong merely to France. The world’s museums are guardians of the most beautiful pieces of art produced by the human genius. We cannot let this cultural patrimony, like the natural patrimony of the Amazon, be manipulated and destroyed by the whims of an owner or a country. A short time ago, a Japanese millionaire decided to be buried with a painting by a great artist. That painting should have been internationalized before this could happen.
The United Nations is holding the Millennium Summit parallel to this meeting, but some Presidents ohad difficulties attending due to U.S. border-crossing constraints. Because of this, I think that New York, as the headquarters of the United Nations, should be internationalized. At least Manhattan should belong to all humanity, as should Paris, Venice, Rome, London, Río de Janeiro, Brasilia, Recife... Each city, with its unique beauty and its history, should belong to the entire world, to all of humanity.
If the United States wants to internationalize the Amazon Rain Forest to minimize the risk of leaving it in the hands of Brazilians, we should internationalize its nuclear arsenals, if only because the country has already demonstrated it is capable of using these arms, causing destruction thousands of times greater than the deplorable burnings done in the forests of Brazil.
In their debates, the US presidential candidates have defended the idea of internationalizing the world’s forest reserves in exchange for debt relief. We should begin by using this debt to guarantee that each child in the world has the opportunity to go to school. We should internationalize the children, treating them, all of them, no matter their country of birth, as patrimony that deserves to be cared for by the entire world. Even more than the Amazon deserves to be cared for. When the world’s leaders begin to treat the poor children of the world as a patrimony of humanity, they will not let them work when they should be studying, die when they should be living.
As a humanist, I agree to defend the internationalization of the world. But, as long as the world treats me as a Brazilian, I will fight for the Amazonia to remain ours. Ours alone.”
”
Instead, I received this nice article that shows some reflection over the amazonia. I just want to help to disseminate this mindful answer!
Hope you enjoy it, as I did:
During a debate in a US university over four years ago, a young US ecologist asked Cristóvão Buarque, then the Workers Party governor of the Federal District of Brasilia and currently Brazil’s minister of education, about his ideas on internationalizing the Amazonia, so often described as the “lung of humanity.” It was then and still is a theme strongly sustained in Washington’s power circles.
“From a humanist perspective...”
“As a Brazilian I would always argue against internationalizing the Amazon Rain Forest. Even though our government has not given this patrimony the care that it deserves, it is still ours. As a humanist who fears the risks posed by the environmental degradation the Amazon is suffering, I could imagine its internationalization, just as I could imagine the internationalization of everything else of importance to humanity.
If, from a humanist perspective, the Amazon must be internationalized, we should also internationalize the world’s petroleum reserves. Oil is as important for the well being of humanity as the Amazon is for our future. The owners of the reserves, however, feel that they have the right to increase or decrease the amount of oil production, as well as increase or lower the price per barrel. The wealthy of the world feel they have the right to burn up this immense patrimony of humanity.
In much the same way, the wealthy countries’ financial capital should be internationalized. Since the Amazon Rain Forest is a reserve for all human beings, no owner or country must be allowed to burn it up. The burning of the Amazon is as serious a problem as the unemployment caused by the arbitrary decisions made by global speculators. We cannot permit the use of financial reserves to burn entire countries in the frenzy of speculation.
“Let’s internationalize all the world’s children as patrimony of humanity”
Before we internationalize the Amazon, I would like to see the internationalization of all the world’s great museums. The Louvre should not belong merely to France. The world’s museums are guardians of the most beautiful pieces of art produced by the human genius. We cannot let this cultural patrimony, like the natural patrimony of the Amazon, be manipulated and destroyed by the whims of an owner or a country. A short time ago, a Japanese millionaire decided to be buried with a painting by a great artist. That painting should have been internationalized before this could happen.
The United Nations is holding the Millennium Summit parallel to this meeting, but some Presidents ohad difficulties attending due to U.S. border-crossing constraints. Because of this, I think that New York, as the headquarters of the United Nations, should be internationalized. At least Manhattan should belong to all humanity, as should Paris, Venice, Rome, London, Río de Janeiro, Brasilia, Recife... Each city, with its unique beauty and its history, should belong to the entire world, to all of humanity.
If the United States wants to internationalize the Amazon Rain Forest to minimize the risk of leaving it in the hands of Brazilians, we should internationalize its nuclear arsenals, if only because the country has already demonstrated it is capable of using these arms, causing destruction thousands of times greater than the deplorable burnings done in the forests of Brazil.
In their debates, the US presidential candidates have defended the idea of internationalizing the world’s forest reserves in exchange for debt relief. We should begin by using this debt to guarantee that each child in the world has the opportunity to go to school. We should internationalize the children, treating them, all of them, no matter their country of birth, as patrimony that deserves to be cared for by the entire world. Even more than the Amazon deserves to be cared for. When the world’s leaders begin to treat the poor children of the world as a patrimony of humanity, they will not let them work when they should be studying, die when they should be living.
As a humanist, I agree to defend the internationalization of the world. But, as long as the world treats me as a Brazilian, I will fight for the Amazonia to remain ours. Ours alone.”
”
miércoles, 30 de diciembre de 2009
MOVING, STUDYING, WORKING, ADAPTING TO THE NETHERLANDS
It was sometime around 2007 when I came up with the idea to move to The Netherlands for a long term. My husband, Dutch, didn’t seem as keen as I was with the idea, despite all his support with the idea that we had back there to study a Master in Holland. We fought against the clock to gather all the documents on time to obtain my acceptance in Utrecht University. I finally get a provisional acceptance some time in 2008, but I needed to improve my English, especially my writing skills if I was to study. Enthusiastic, as I always tried to be when I commit myself to a new project, we decided to travel to Ireland and stayed there for a couple of months so I could prepare myself better for the IELTS, which I did successfully. When everything was ready to move to Holland to start my new studies, I learnt I didn’t get the scholarship, more than necessary to start a new life in a north country. We decided to move still, we had clear that no matter what hurdle we have to face, we will make it.
It was July last year; when the global economic crisis was at its height. With just a few savings, and with almost no knowledge of Dutch language, the decision was risky. Nevertheless, we decided to keep on going, that’s why, after more than ten years living independently, we moved to my mother’s in law house in Nijkerk. The staying at her house was warming and joyful, I should say I’ve been blessed with a wonderful family in law, just perfect to tackle with the homesickness I always feel. Two weeks later, we were moving to our new rent apartment in Leiden, a small place, perfect for two in loved couple.
As soon as we were set down, I began looking for a job, soon I realized the importance to get some experience in the Netherlands, and thanks to a close friend I knew about ACCESS. I went to the interview with many expectations but nervous as well, and luckily, one week later I was beginning my training in THD at the City Atrium (ACCESS office in The Hague). It’s been four months and I have learned many things and met wonderful people. ACCESS has given me precisely what I was looking for: experience and friends. Likewise, UNOY the international organization where I am doing an internship has given me the opportunity to boost all my capabilities.
Aware of the importance to learn the language, I started to study by myself. Then, thanks to the gemeinte of Leiden, I am going to do a Dutch course at Leiden University since January 2010.
Even when it seems unlikely that I can ever study in Utrecht University, all that I have done to achieve my dream wasn’t worthless. It led me and my husband to our most amazing adventure together to discover the colorful Ireland, I improved my language skills, and I realize more than ever, that learning is an endless process and I try to make it always fun. So, despite the hurdles, I didn’t let them put a dumper on my dreams, which was actually live and enjoy the Netherlands, their culture, their language, their opportunities, and more than everything, my husband’s family.
My dream for 2010, aside the possibility to keep enjoying all the good things this country has given me, is to find a good job, a paid job, that allows me to live independently again, and one that gives me the opportunity to be useful for someone, not the boss, but my own people, the people from Latin America, and demonstrate all that I am able to.
It was July last year; when the global economic crisis was at its height. With just a few savings, and with almost no knowledge of Dutch language, the decision was risky. Nevertheless, we decided to keep on going, that’s why, after more than ten years living independently, we moved to my mother’s in law house in Nijkerk. The staying at her house was warming and joyful, I should say I’ve been blessed with a wonderful family in law, just perfect to tackle with the homesickness I always feel. Two weeks later, we were moving to our new rent apartment in Leiden, a small place, perfect for two in loved couple.
As soon as we were set down, I began looking for a job, soon I realized the importance to get some experience in the Netherlands, and thanks to a close friend I knew about ACCESS. I went to the interview with many expectations but nervous as well, and luckily, one week later I was beginning my training in THD at the City Atrium (ACCESS office in The Hague). It’s been four months and I have learned many things and met wonderful people. ACCESS has given me precisely what I was looking for: experience and friends. Likewise, UNOY the international organization where I am doing an internship has given me the opportunity to boost all my capabilities.
Aware of the importance to learn the language, I started to study by myself. Then, thanks to the gemeinte of Leiden, I am going to do a Dutch course at Leiden University since January 2010.
Even when it seems unlikely that I can ever study in Utrecht University, all that I have done to achieve my dream wasn’t worthless. It led me and my husband to our most amazing adventure together to discover the colorful Ireland, I improved my language skills, and I realize more than ever, that learning is an endless process and I try to make it always fun. So, despite the hurdles, I didn’t let them put a dumper on my dreams, which was actually live and enjoy the Netherlands, their culture, their language, their opportunities, and more than everything, my husband’s family.
My dream for 2010, aside the possibility to keep enjoying all the good things this country has given me, is to find a good job, a paid job, that allows me to live independently again, and one that gives me the opportunity to be useful for someone, not the boss, but my own people, the people from Latin America, and demonstrate all that I am able to.
martes, 15 de diciembre de 2009
Un fin de semana de cine!!
LA SOMBRA DEL CAMINANTE
Last weekend we went to a Colombian film festival in The Hague. Well, technically, we just went to the first day of the festival. We watched two movies; the first one was more a documentary about the life of our Nobel Prize, Garcia Marquez. It was interesting only if you knew about his life and his masterpieces. I enjoyed it but it seems to me, it leaves a huge gap in political life of Gabo. But, in any way, he is first a writer and that is the main reason we as Colombian feel proud of him.
The second was a touching movie; it showed the clash of two stories, if not completely real, very close to the reality many of our fellows have to endure. Two men bear the burden of his bitter past life; one with strength of mind, the other with physical force, both with determination and a glimpse of hope for the future.
The first is missing a leg; the second misses his own forgiveness. I don’t want to tell the story but what I learn from it. Determination, friendship, forgiveness! Only when you endure tough situations you can really understand what is all this about. I am so lucky in life, and most of my friends are too. We complain too often about our lives, but if we just stop a minute and look at the world, the we will realize we are privilege and, instead of complain about our jobs, and frustrated plans, as travels or money that we don’t have, we better use this energy to help some one in need.
It is within the human nature complaining about life, I still doing it, but from other perspective. I am now, more than ever, aware of my position in life, of all that the angels (or however we want to call our supreme power), has granted me. And I am grateful instead of disappointed when I realize the weak hurdles life has given me to overcome.
The characters in the movie hold this strong determination in life that staggers you. They keep fighting and even after they realize the cruelty of the coincidence that brought them together, they are able to give more.
The movie is great; I recommend it to all of you. It’s in Spanish, but has English subtitles, it is sad because it’s real in a way, but it’s our reality and if we turn the back to these facts, we’ll be forgetting our essence.
You can see the trailer in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agqPLUMod24
EL SECRETO DE LOS OJOS
To end, we also watched a really good movie on Saturday: The secret of the eyes. It has been so far the best Argentina’s movie I’ve seen, and I must recognize, they use to make good films…
It has everything: love, comedy, suspense, friendship, and outstanding actors, such as Ricardo Marín. I won't say more because it is really worth to see it, I will see it again for sure, with subtitles, spanish subtitles, to get all the argentine-spanish touch.
The trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHkTSqeGoU
Finally, we could watch the professional version of 2012 and the only thing that I kept from it was the question: Why did I lose two hours of my time in this movie?
Last weekend we went to a Colombian film festival in The Hague. Well, technically, we just went to the first day of the festival. We watched two movies; the first one was more a documentary about the life of our Nobel Prize, Garcia Marquez. It was interesting only if you knew about his life and his masterpieces. I enjoyed it but it seems to me, it leaves a huge gap in political life of Gabo. But, in any way, he is first a writer and that is the main reason we as Colombian feel proud of him.
The second was a touching movie; it showed the clash of two stories, if not completely real, very close to the reality many of our fellows have to endure. Two men bear the burden of his bitter past life; one with strength of mind, the other with physical force, both with determination and a glimpse of hope for the future.
The first is missing a leg; the second misses his own forgiveness. I don’t want to tell the story but what I learn from it. Determination, friendship, forgiveness! Only when you endure tough situations you can really understand what is all this about. I am so lucky in life, and most of my friends are too. We complain too often about our lives, but if we just stop a minute and look at the world, the we will realize we are privilege and, instead of complain about our jobs, and frustrated plans, as travels or money that we don’t have, we better use this energy to help some one in need.
It is within the human nature complaining about life, I still doing it, but from other perspective. I am now, more than ever, aware of my position in life, of all that the angels (or however we want to call our supreme power), has granted me. And I am grateful instead of disappointed when I realize the weak hurdles life has given me to overcome.
The characters in the movie hold this strong determination in life that staggers you. They keep fighting and even after they realize the cruelty of the coincidence that brought them together, they are able to give more.
The movie is great; I recommend it to all of you. It’s in Spanish, but has English subtitles, it is sad because it’s real in a way, but it’s our reality and if we turn the back to these facts, we’ll be forgetting our essence.
You can see the trailer in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agqPLUMod24
EL SECRETO DE LOS OJOS
To end, we also watched a really good movie on Saturday: The secret of the eyes. It has been so far the best Argentina’s movie I’ve seen, and I must recognize, they use to make good films…
It has everything: love, comedy, suspense, friendship, and outstanding actors, such as Ricardo Marín. I won't say more because it is really worth to see it, I will see it again for sure, with subtitles, spanish subtitles, to get all the argentine-spanish touch.
The trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHkTSqeGoU
Finally, we could watch the professional version of 2012 and the only thing that I kept from it was the question: Why did I lose two hours of my time in this movie?
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