TUESDAY QUOTES

I´m so happy it´s Tuesday I can relax and do a simple post that will make me happy and excited. I decided that the quotes of today will be more fun so I did them instead as pictures.

Juanes

Juanes or Juan Esteban Aristizabal is one of the most famous male Colombian singers, not only because of his way of singing but also because he sings for a cause he sings for Colombia he sings for peace. He has been a great image for Colombia and has been helping Colombian people throughout his career. He has made many concerts for peace some examples are the one in Colombia Venezuelan frontier and the one he made in Cuba.

He has been a great person and has not forgotten routes he has not forgotten that he is Colombian he has never lost the passion we Colombians have for our country.

Here are some videos of Juanes his songs his concerts and other stuff:

EARTH DAY

My whole blog has been based on Colombia and I have also been trying to make it about people´s values. People´s values are shrinking and with them the world is to. Our earth has been terribly affected by huamna beings in many aspects.
Here are some interesting facts of some of those aspects:

• The rate of warming is increasing. The 20th century's last two decades were the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for several millennia, according to a number of climate studies. And the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that 11 of the past 12 years are among the dozen warmest since 1850.
• Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its first completely ice free summer by 2040 or earlier. Polar bears and indigenous cultures are already suffering from the sea-ice loss. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1206_041206_global_warming.html
• 80% of the world´s forests are gone
• 2000 trees a minute are cut down in the Amazon alone. That is seven football fields a minute.
• Over 40% of all tropical forests have been destroyed and another acre is lost each second
• Raw sewage, poison runoff and other pollution have caused 8,000 beach closures
• Gas from cows is a big contributor to global warming.
• Coral Reefs Can Be Used As Global Warming Indicators
• One of the many global warming interesting facts is that coral which grows in the ocean can be used to determine the effects of this phenomenon. These underwater reefs are extremely sensitive, and even a temperature change of one or two degrees in the water can cause the coral to die off. This will alert scientists to areas which are increasing in temperature.
• Rising Sea Levels Will Affect Hundreds Of Millions Of People
  Rising sea levels are a big cause for concern. Currently more than one hundred million people live in coastal areas which will be flooded, and this can include entire states and countries, as well as islands.
• Global Warming Can Cause Many Species To Become Extinct
  Global warming interesting facts include the number of species that will become extinct if this trend is not reversed. Over a million species will no longer exist, except maybe in history books or museums, unless steps are taken to correct the issues and protect the earth.
• The Last Thirty Years Have Been The Warmest In Almost Half A Millennium
  In the last three decades the earth has seen warmer temperatures that were recorded in more than four hundred years before this point. More people, industrial plants, and pollution mean the problem is growing bigger and speeding up.
• http://www.bionomicfuel.com/top-10-global-warming-interesting-facts/

This is just a small portion of what´s happening I hope you do something to cange what´s happening in our earth.

A video from Shakira

This is one of the most recent video of one of the most famous Colombian Singers Shakira:

Gypsy
This is a video with the tenist Rafael Nadal

TUESDAY QUOTES

It makes me happy to think that on Tuesday´s I can come home and post quotes on my blog, it´s my favorite day to blog.
I hope you are enjoying them because the joy I feel by posting them is incredible.

"Life is just a chance to grow a soul."
-A.Powell Davies

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
-Abraham Lincoln

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
-Agatha Christie

"All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out."
-Albert Camus

"Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise."
-Alice Walker

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."
-Anais Nin

"Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process."
-Anne Wilson Schaeff

"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."
-Arthur Rubensteins

"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light."
-Barry Lopez

"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
-Carl Jung

And the quote of the day: Life´s uncertain, eat dessert first.

Just Monday

Every Monday is the same for me it´s not exciting and really gets on my nerves it doesn´t fill me totally with happy endings but at least it gives you things to talk about. Today was probably the most embarrassing day for me ever yes it was and the explanation would be even more embarrassing and I´m getting out of topic. Anyways I couldn´t be talking any better about Colombia´s beauty and kindness but it´s what the blog is about so you better be liking it because what we have is time, space, creativity and a person (probably more) trying to change a false perspective.

Today I will give you some interesting pages you should check out, they will be of the different topics I´ve been talking about here in my blog
COLOMBIA-SA: the best page I have found so far it has all the information you need to know about Colombia including music, maps, facts and much more.

Colombia- Official Site For Tourism: the best site for those encouraged to come and visit Colombia´s incredible places.

Colombian Food: this is a great site to find more detailed information of some of Colombian food.

Colombia Fairs and Party´s: Great place to see the different carnivals, party´s, celebrations, fairs and much more, and why not see if you might come to one and enjoy.

Some Foods

Colombia has plenty of foods to enjoy their flavors come form the saltiest to the sweetest and are so tasty they become irresistible. In this post I will show a picture of some foods describe it and where it´s from.

First let´s talk about the best rice you can ever eat: Arroz con coco/ Rice with coconut

This rice is from the Atlantic Coast of Colombia and it is incredibly delicious, it is a rice with a coconuty taste that will live in your mind forever.

The Bandeja Paisa, probably the most known of Colombias cooking, it comes form the Coffee zone of Colombia and it is conformed of rice, beans, fried platain, ground meat, chicharron(a kind of bacon), white arepas, chorizo (a kind of sausage) and avocado to make it even tastier.

Arepa de Huevo, yes the egg is inside the arepa, a perfect way of making the best breakfast. This comes form the Atlantic coast and the arepa is fried with a cooked egg inside. Irresistible.

Sancocho de Gallina/ Chicken soop, this spectacular soop comes form El Valle del Cauca. It is made up of cooked platain (not fried), yuca, chicken and a special herb called silantro which makes it the best sancocho you can taste.

Empanadas, they are done basically all over Colombia in different ways, some are done with meat, potato, sometimes they put chicken and the outer part is made out of corn. In many places of Colombia they are fried with different ingredients.

Something Sweet

Manjarblanco, wow it is the best thing you can EVER taste it is a kind of caramel only MUCH BETTER it is made with milk and sugar in a big copper pan where it´s stirred until it becomes chewy and delicious to eat. Manjarblanco comes form el Valle del Cauca.

It´s so much food it is uncountable I will talk about this some other day I hope you enjoyed and are willing to come to Colombia and taste some of it´s outrageous tastes.

What´s Going On?

My, oh my, this world is a total disaster while some people don´t know what to waste their money in others just can´t buy a thing, not even something to eat. I know I already wrote about this but I think it´s never enough, because it´s such a big reality. It´s all over the world everyone knows about it but, few do anything about it.



I just want to make you think and reflect about the things you worry about at the end they are simply stupid and ridiculous. I mean the world doesn´t spin around anyone. The world is not based in one single persons life or reputation or whatever it´s based on the whole world and off course the whole world makes it a disaster I mean you, me and evreyone makes it worst all the time. We polute it treat wrongly and underestimate what it can do to practically destroy US.



Oh well I know this is probably unworthy of my time to do but trying won ´t make me lose anything. Afterall everything was done trying the hardest as anyone could.



Know I want to show some videos of the world´s reality:

TUESDAY QUOTES

Guess what people? It´s TUESDAY which means it´s quote day get ready for todays quotes!

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today among human creatures."
-Abraham Lincoln

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
-Albert Einstein

"Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me."
-Anne Morrow

"Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose."
-C.Wright Mills

A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You're free at last.
-Charlie Daniels

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
-Adlai Stevenson

"I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home."
-Henry James

"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
-George William Curtis

"A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth."
-Henry Ward Beecher

Quote of the day: "It´s not about waiting for the storm to pass, it´s about learning how to dance in the rain"

Pictures

I´ve been thinking and I have been writing a lot but I haven´t put pictures of Colombia. Today I will put a few of Colombian pictures for you to enjoy.

Colombia is an incredible country and I´m trying to show it through this blog, I´m also trying to make it as entertaining as possible and that´s why I´m not writing every single day.

I´m just trying to show that Colombia is just like any other country and that it has problems like any other.

Today!

Because it´s Sunday I consider it would be better if I do something entertaining so I decided I will post a few videos about Colombia because it´s not that pleasant to read on Sunday´s.

BARICHARA

Last week was spirit week and for this holiday I visited Barichara a beautiful little village with colonial houses and streets. Barichara is a Colombian National Monument, and has many activities that can be done there and in near villages. In Barichara you can appreciate the Colonial art and aswell do some street walking and buy some Colombian artesanias (artcrafts). In the near areas you can enjoy different caves both for extreme explorers and children, also in the near villages you can go to beatiful cascades where you can do rappel and other extreme sports. You can also enjoy of rafting in the river and do the walk to Guane a beatiful village near to Barichara where the Guane Indians used to live. Just one hour away you can go to the The national Chicamocha Park.

TUESDAY QUOTES

Yesterday I forgot about Tuesday quotes because I was just updating again after spring week, so I will post them today Wednesday just for this time.

"Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches."
-Harold Evans

"I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing."
-Ricky Martin

"There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype."
-Joan Chen

"I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force."
-Albert Enstein

"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights."
-Bishop Desmond Tutu

"The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating."
-Cesar Chaves

"Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death."
1908 speech
-Eugene V. Debs

Finally quote of the day:Be who you are and say what you want, because those who mind don´t matter and those who matter don´t mind.

Events in Colombia

Los Juegos Suramericanos de Medellin

This games are competitions between Latin American sports, this year they took place in Medellin- Colombia. This games where historical for Colombia not only because they toook place in Medellin but also because Colombia was champion and beat the record imposed by Brazil in 2002 with 322 medals, Colombia wone 372 this year.

Here the table of the Medals

Also the Iberoamerican Festival of Theater took place In Bogota From March nineteen to April the fourth done in Honor of Fanny Mikey, the creator of this festival