Plans for the future!

Well, for one I'm going to spend Christmas and New Year here in Calgary, it's going to be the first time that I spend the holidays afar from my family, and I still don't know how to feel about it (the two things that makes me really sad is that I won't see the premier of Star Wars with my family and that I wont be going to my cousins wedding). My dad told me that he and my brother might come to play me a short visit, but nothing is for sure.
I don't know what I'm going to do with so much free time after the course is finished, but I guess that I would explore the city. I'm also kind of nervous about winter, this is the first time that I have being exposed to such low temperatures and for what everyone has told me I have yet to meet what is cold!
About next year I will be taking the Winter Program and after that I'm going back home, I would probably get a job and go living with my sister as she lives in the city in which the University that I would go on September is, but nothing on that matter is for sure yet.

Adapting to Culture?

About a year ago my parents started to consider the possibility of sending me to Canada so I could improve my english; I was in my last year of high school and tried to dissuade them from doing so as I didn't want to delay my University studies, moreover I didn't trust my father's world. At the time I felt conflicted; for one I had always wanted to visit Canada, but for another I didn't want to made myself any hopes and getting them crushed later. Only thinking about it made me feel beleaguered, so I talked with my brother and gave vent to my emotions. After he listened to me and gave me his advice I felt a lot better.

In stark contrast to my feelings before I knew if I was or not going to come here, after I got enrolled at the ESL program I felt pretty much nothing, I was not exited nor worried; it didn't even seem real for me. Even now the whole experience feels unreal, while I miss my family and friends and sometimes feel isolated, the feeling is the same back at home. I though it was going to be a big challenge speaking english and understanding others, but I find that is almost the same that it was back at high school. The biggest problems that I find is adapting to the Canadian lifestyle; having lunch at 12 and dinner at five; and trying to fit in (but then again I have always had that problem back at home)

To be Successful

One main quality that a person needs to have to obtain success is being a hardworking individual. Hardworking individuals, who never stop trying no matter how dim the situation may seem, are usually the ones who success later in life. They are reluctant to give up on their dreams, because they know that everything comes together at the end of the road. They are commonly independent folks that are used to do things on their own; always trying to keep the pace of the situation as they frequently have or feel to have little, if any, back up whatsoever. “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is more important than the outcome” said Arthur Ashe, this is why hardworking people are commonly the ones to achieve success, because while they may focus in the result of their actions, what is important for them is the effort that they put to those actions.

What is success; is it happiness, money, cats?

To me, success is all about achieving your goals, but being successful can also be an abstract concept. To some people you can be successful at school if you graduate with honors or at work if you become CEO of a company, just like for some people you might be a failure if you didn't graduate university or if you are an unemployed. To many people money is important and to others happiness is what matters the most, but to achieve happiness you need to think of what matters to you and not others.

About a year ago they gave me a talk at college about how to and not to choose your career, something that I had a difficult time at, and one of the things that it was said was that the best you could do was study what you loved and you would not work a day in your life. So I guess that getting paid for doing what you love to do is pretty much what I would call being successful. To be able to have the work of your dreams might not be easy and many people will meet first failure than success, but it all comes to how you deal with it, if you keep trying or if you give up, but something is for sure, giving up won't led you to success and neither will it make you happy. You just need to remember that there's always a rainbow at the end of the road :D

Hi!

So here I am (again), this time I will tell you what I do to expand my English vocabulary, the answer is simple: I read and read and write and read in English! To me and to anyone who enjoys this activity, is very easy, but I know that not everyone likes to read. To these people I can say that they haven't found yet their ideal "book", it doesn't need to be a long novel or a scientific journal, comic books and manga are also awesome! You can also try books with CD's and listen while reading, it will help you expand both your writing&reading and spiking skills. But if you still find yourself without a enjoyable reading material, you might as well watch movies (if with subtitles, then English subtitles).
http://www.bookrix.com/download-free-ebooks.html you can start with this!

Last Wednesday I gave you a small introduction about who I am, today I will tell you more about my furry babies!
I have six furry babies; four cats (Cuxum, Tuzo, Dash and Flavia) and two dogs (Archibaldo and Benito), five of them were rescued from the street, and one of them (Tuzito) was born in my house.

This is Cuxum (a word in maya), she's a lady and she is six years old.

This is Archibaldo and he is five.

Benito is four years old.

Flavia, the craziest and youngest of my cats is two years old. 

Tuzito named after her mother, is three.

And Dash who is also three.

My name is Alison, I'm from Mexico, but for the next few months I'll be living in Calgary and attending to an ESL program so I can improve my English.
My hobbies are reading, writing and baking. I want to study literature and hopefully some day work as an editor. I love the color grey and animals, at home I have four cats and two dogs.
I'm the youngest of three children, my sister is 23 and my brother is 20, we are very close.