Laces with brilliant smiles and shining eyes...

And today was a day just like any other..... :)

2008-07-17T18:52:00.008-04:00

JULY is almost half way over....and it makes me sad. But i have had some great days and fun advantures in this month, which is greater then all the others! ;) ok so i am a little bias since it's my birthday month but HEY what can you do!
Anyway i celebrated my birthday and it was wonderful. I think it was one of my favorites! I had a little gelato , spent some time with family and friends.... and played with sparklers and that was nice.

Then to keep the amazingness of JULY going I got to go to warped tour with some friends. It was my first time and it was real fun. I got to see Angels&Airwaves for the first time and they are soooo great. i feel in love with their music this summer so it was exciting to see them preform live. and then there was JACK'S MANNEQUIN .....
oh man o man were they amazing. I think this was my favorite time seeing them- well if not number 1 number 2 ! And although they only played for about half the time then usual it was perfect. Everything from the time of day to the songs he played...and the songs whoa! it is like he looked into the music part of my heart and knew which ones i needed to hear. hahahah they were all perfect. ahhhh it was sooo amazing :)

well I hope that you are all having a wonderful JULY! with lots of adventures and good memories.

<3

And when the rain comes it'll fall and that's okay

2008-07-07T18:15:00.007-04:00

So for the second year in a row it rained on the 4th of July. It was pretty stressful for a little bit as we set up and were trying to decide to have the party inside or outside.In the end it turned out well. Everyone seemed to have a fun time. It cleared up a good amount by the time that everyone came and we were still able to put on a pretty wonderful firework show.:)
Here are a few pictures...

hope you saw some wonderful fireworks too!
<3

i dont want to miss anything

2008-06-28T11:20:00.002-04:00

a good memory from the summer

Still here for STILLER

2008-05-23T11:22:00.006-04:00

So I met Ben Stiller the other night! It was pretty exciting and finally I have something fun and happy to blog about! :)
Well it all started on Wednesday the 21st of May. We got to DC around 12:30 and then we walked around, saw a few trailers. We walked by the Lincoln Memorial and found out that they were gonna shoot some stuff later that night. So we walked by some trailers and saw one that said "LARRY" Ben Stiller's character in the movie. BAM!!!! we found him! and in less then a few hours! So we sat and waited....and waited....and then waited some more. We sat there for about 2 hours until we realized that he probably was in his hotel waiting before he had to go to the set and not sitting in his trailer. So at almost 6 we decided to go get some dinner and something a bit warmer to wear before we head back to watch them shoot at the Lincoln Memorial.

So we get back to DC around 7:30-8ish and walked back to the Lincoln Memorial and see all the cameras being set up but decide to go back to the trailers to catch Ben Stiller on his way out to the set. So we are back at the trailer and once again we wait...and wait and wait! Then finally after about an hour one of the security guys tells us ...after making us think that he was in there that the trailer we were in front of was not really Ben Stiller's normal trailer it was just a back up?!!! AHHHHHHH..... I know!!!!! so we bolt back to the set and guess who is there...BEN STILLER!!!! we were sooo mad hahahah but we got to see him shoot a scene several times and it was cool. Then at around 11 they break for "lunch" and they start to take stuff done and we are all so super tired. BUT Mike not wanting this long day go to waste says we should check one more spot. So we go. And there we find a few trailers. And once again we sit and wait. But after a few minutes we see AMY ADAMS step out of her trailer to talk to some people and not 10 minutes after that we see BEN STILLER drive up right past us!!!!
We kinda go up to the trailers and ask for an autograph and just as the security people tell us to back up he comes over to us and said sure. He was really nice and signed pictures and took a picture with each one of us. It made the whole day worth it!! :)

So that was my most recent adventure... hope you all are having adventures of your own!

<3

We stood like statues at the gate, vacation's come and gone too late

2008-05-09T19:50:00.004-04:00

So finals are almost over. Just one more left and then I am done!! Well, for like 6 days then the summers classes start! hahah So i realized that every time i write one of these blogs i probably sound really melancholic. So I am just gonna post some pictures instead.

<3

I promise you this, a little's enough

2008-04-21T23:00:00.008-04:00

So it is that time of year again. A time for presentations, a time for papers, a time for finals, long hours studying and very little sleep. Time just feels different this time of year, going so fast yet so slow at the same time. I always have mix emotions in the spring time. I want the end of the year to come so badly but sometimes i wish i could just stay in this moment, the moment right before the madness of the final weeks really hit me.But what can you do right? You can't stop the future from rushing in. You can't stop the final tests and grades. You can't stop you friends from going home. Yeah, that one stings the most. What do you do when you get afraid that the end is really the end? When you don't know if your friendships will survive the summer or a new life far from you? Well, I don't really know, I have be trying to figure that one out for the past month. You can't help but wonder how a friendship can survive with someone who is a million miles away when you have friendships fade with the ones you see everyday. You hope for the best. You don't let them go. You cherish the moments you have and had......
Ok!!! this is getting a little deep....picture time.

Taken on a beautiful night in DC with my friends.

I was able to attend the mass at the Nationals stadium with the POPE! It was amazing!!
:)

So what do we need these next couple of weeks? A little more sleep, a little less homework, projects and papers. What I need , what i really want is just a little more time. To take everything in, get my work done and just spend with those in my life.

<3

rain makes the flowers bloom

2008-04-02T13:38:00.001-04:00

Well maybe I'm just dreaming out loud

2008-03-24T21:36:00.003-04:00

So I am taking a stand! I am gonna make it a point to keep my head up and face the days with a positive attitude, even when all I want to do is crawl back into my bed and sleep the rest of the semester away. I have had a pretty cloudy outlook on the semester getting discouraged with school and just not wanting to accept all the change that I know will come soon. I think I'm kinda taking steps back from everything and everyone because I'm trying to lessen the sadness or whatever that i know i will have to deal with soon. Must be a defense mechanism or something! But thinking about it i am pretty bummed now as i kinda back away so why be all bummed all the time??? Why not just enjoy the time you have now and not get to stressed out about all the things you have to do and enjoy friends and family and even school ( ok well that might be pushing it! ;)
so i guess i'm just writing this to kinda give encouragement and perspective (or whatever you might want to call this) to anyone who sees this. Life is short and don't be that afraid of falling short or falling away, enjoy the moments and life as it is because when all is said and done what is gonna get you through the tough days...the people in your life thats what! and if you runaway from them just to do it before they get the chance what good is that!

i don't know if any of this makes sense... crazy things go on in this head of mine! I guess i just needed to talk it out or well...write it out.

well maybe this will help you to look at the people in your life and remember why you let them into your life in the first place and maybe encourage you to keep them in your life despite the places life might take you or them .

<3

pictures from break

2008-03-16T11:26:00.009-04:00

So spring break is over!!!!!! It was a good one, although it would have been a little better had it been about 3 weeks longer! :) Here are some pictures of the highlights.

This made me smile, seeing Jack's Mannequin posters around! I'm a dork i know!
:)

The original celebrity stalking gang, reliving where we met Jack Bauer!

Finding trailers and set equipment for a movie shooting in D.C!!!

If you squint you can see Shia Labeouf in the car, he was shooting a scene for a movie. I did not get to meet him but i was like 2 feet away!! haha

Carbon Leaf concert

Picture of the lead singer of Carbon Leaf

Me and Kaitlin got to meet the lead singer!!!!
:)

So that was some of my break, the rest consisted of sleeping, doing nothing and then doing homework. Fun! I KNOW!!! hahah Hope you all had a relaxing break.

<3

Though the sparkle is gone, the smile is in place so that everyone watching can see

2008-03-01T12:16:00.002-05:00

That pretty much summed me up last year " the smile is in place so that everyone watching can see" . That is what i felt like, i would smile and laugh with friends and family while on the inside i was struggling to hang out a few more minutes before i could not do it anymore and make an excuse to leave. This year however i have finally be able to move past that and allowed myself to once again open up to people and to be able to share all the crazy thoughts in my head.
And i am sure you all think there is something terribly wrong... but this week i was just reminded of how much i have changed and grown
Little story time, about my cousin
She was the closest thing i had to an older sister i told her everything, who the cute guy was in my math class in high school, to why my friends hurt me or made me mad to how annoying my brother and sister were acting. And then a couple of summers ago i realized how much she had let me down and how much i just try so hard to get her approval. When i realized this it was after she had let me down once again and i just broke. And because of that it change how i handled relationships with my friends and family. I just took a giant step back and put of this massive wall. I began to notice that in most of my friendships i would give all i have and it would seem that my friends would give little or nothing in return. I am sure that i was overreacting a bit or being a little selfish but i just could not deal with it and i just gave up. I stop believing in friendships and stop allowing myself to tell anyone anything! i just bottled it up hoping that someone would notice and help me let it all go.
This year i was ready to just hide from everything and everyone but with the help of a few friends who stood by me and waited patiently for me to let it all out and let them in... i can finally say that i have some great true friends who i can be fully open with even if it still takes me a little working up to spill my thought. :)
Ok so back to my cousin, well for the past few months I have worked on opening up to her more and not pushing her out of my life. It was a struggle it seemed that i was finally ready to let her back in and then something would happen either with her or someone else that would bring me back to that place of sadness and isolation. Yeah i know it sucked! But this week i was finally able to open up to her and we talked for way to many hours and just got everything out and it feels kinda nice. I think I still have to work on making an effort to bring her back into my life fully but yeah it feels pretty nice.

So why did i just write this out to you all ( well maybe to the 2 people who read this haha)...
not really sure. I just think that i finally realized that i am not that person who holds it in anymore and fakes that everything is ok and i just wanted share. Maybe if you feel the same way i really encourage you to let it out. Tell that person that they hurt you or made you mad or just tell your friend what your going through, trust me it makes you feel so much better and the more you allow yourself to be vulnerable the easier it gets!

well thanks for reading all these crazy things hahah sorry if it was a little deep for you all i just kinda needed to get it out now...i'm on a share whats inside high right now i guess ;)

So this song came up on my IPOD while i was writing this. It's by SUPERCHICK and is called IT'S ON and i think it sorta fits....
"And though you wanna quit
Don't think you can get through it
You've come too far to walk away
It's not gonna be today
And no matter how you feel
It's what you do that matters
This is your moment to be strong
Today's your day"

<3

Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat

2008-02-17T11:22:00.004-05:00

This week was a good week. This weekend was even better. The other day i was looking at the resolutions and hopes i had for the new year and one was to go to more concerts...well specifically Jack's Mannequin and well you all know i did that ( although i would like to see them once or twice or ten times more this year ;) but on Friday i saw CARBON LEAF and they were wonderful. I was sad because i only knew 2 songs but still they are great in concert and i got to meet them after so that was very cool.
Anyway my resolutions, the big ones for my are opening up more and telling people how i feel and not bottling it all up and then exploding on people three months later and also to be more spontaneous. The sharing the feeling meh... that ones is coming along... a little better some days then others. The spontaneous one i don't know?? I don't think i have done anything spontaneous i really need to work on that. I still kinda feel like i am stuck, i don't really know whats missing. I don't know if i need to spend more times with friends, with family, with myself??? It all is sort of like life is floating by and i really don't know what is going on or where i am. Although this weekend was fun and very needed. I think i am slowing coming back to normal and finding a place where i can finally feel comfortable in.
So last night mason put on a firework show, and if you all don't know this by now....I LOVE FIREWORKS. 4th of July is my favorite holiday and i just love it!!!! I was soooo happy to see the fireworks the other night. And i am going be really dorking but just standing and watching the show was just wonderful and it kinda brought me back to fun summer times, despite the fact that i was shivering when i was watching them!!

Well thanks for reading my crazy sounding thoughts!

<3

I'm gonna send a little rain to New Jersey..

2008-02-04T20:53:00.000-05:00

So for the second time i wore my rain boots to see Jack's Mannequin in concert. Haha! Ok well i just wanted to start off with I SAW JACK'S MANNEQUIN this past weekend and well thats basically what i am going to be writing about in this blog- so if you are already sick of hearing me talk about this then you can stop reading .....NOW.
"I'm gonna send a little rain to New Jersey" that pretty much sums up the trip except the rain did not just go to New Jersey but followed us all the way from Virginia to New Jersey. It was ok because we got there on time and saw an AMAZING show and every time he sang about rain it was a little more special because of all the rain we had.
So like i said the show was AMAZING!!!! every time I listen to the CD and hear the words mixed in with that wonderful piano i can not help but smile and think....that was pretty awesome. Well let me tell you hearing it live...that feeling was ten times better. After the first two weeks of school and already feeling drained and stressed it was that extra boost that i needed to get back into the swing of things.
I don't know how many of you have ever gotten to see the band you really love preform live but if you have never gone....GO! With Jack's Mannequin what you hear on the CD is what you get live and then some. Just to be able to see him rock out on the piano is the coolest thing and to be there in the mist of all those fans, all the fans that have a special connection to Jack's Mannequin, to a certain song, to a certain line, to be able to share that moment with all those people, with one that i knew and hundreds i did not know.... well that was incredible.

ok i think by now you all think i am pretty lame....so i should just stop now!! haha

ps. I <3 Jack's Mannequin- in case you did not get that! ;)

<3

But everything looks perfect from far away

2008-01-29T08:29:00.001-05:00

So school has started and after the first day I was already overwhelmed. After the first week all I wanted to do was sleep. And after the first day of the second week I had my little break down. Yep, i feel like this is gonna be a good semester already! haha Well hopefully now that i got that all out of my system i can just stand up and move on....but yes that is where my head is at right now. Just trying to get everything in it's place so i don't feel like i'm floating. It is just a struggle to balance everything, time at home, time at school, time with friends, with focus, ccm. I feel like there is no time for me anywhere in there. I am gonna work on that more, i need to work on that more.

So added to all that push and pulling of my life, today marks a year since my dad's restaurant closed and i am kinda blue about that. It was probably one of my favorite places, not just to eat but to be. That place was dad, that is what i saw when i thought of my dad. I knew that place inside and out, i can still picture it in my head how it looked, all the tables, the kitchen, the attic where i use to play with my brother and sister and everything else. It was one of the few constants in my life and after it closed it hit my pretty hard, and i can't believe that it has been a year.

well i hope that the next time i write this, i will have put everything in it's place and that i will have a little more breathing room and be more relaxed. well that's my goal anyway!

hope life is treating you well my friends.

<3

A flicker of peace that I finally found

2008-01-09T18:35:00.000-05:00

The start of a new year has begun. 2007 ended nicely enough. It was a rough year, I won't lie but after some tough days, teary nights, scary hours I look back at the year and can't help but smile a little.
There are many things that I wish I had the courage to say or do, and my goal, my resolution this year is to do just that. I want to be able to speak more freely, to not be afraid to tell someone that they hurt me and on the other hand to be able to tell people that they have helped me how much they mean to me. I want to open up more and to not always think about the hurt that I carried around so heavily this past year. I want to be more spontaneous! I don't want to have everything planned and organized, well I do. But! I want to look back at 2008 and laugh at the crazy things that I did and saw with my friends. I hope to be happy. Yes, I know that one can not always be happy, it is life after all, the tears and sweat are what makes life truly beautiful. But I hope to have those flicker of moments when life seems like a dream, a wonderful dream, only made more wonderful because it is not a dream but life. Wow that was a little deep wasn't it! Sorry! hahah

I hope the new year is treating you all well. And I hope that you all are able to experience a flicker of happiness that you thought could only be found in your dreams.

<3

it's thoughts like this that catch my trouble head

2007-12-15T22:18:00.000-05:00

Finals are almost over, they can not end fast enough. This past week has been a blur of slow moving days. I have really just been barley scraping by, just trying to make it to the end.

I feel like i have been in some strange stage where i am kinda floating by. I don't know how else to explain it, i think it is the stress of everything , my body probably had enough and decided to shut down for a little. Hopes that it gets better after i finish finals.

I will be so happy when my last final is over on Monday. Then I will be able to some what relax before thinking of all the things i have to do for Christmas. But at least it is better then thinking about tests, quizzes, and papers.

well hope you all are having a better exam week then I am.

<3

'cause we all need a little bit of room to live

2007-12-03T15:42:00.000-05:00

So i have pretty much given up on school at this point. It takes all the energy i have to do anything especially homework. But i only have one more week left and then a week and a day of finals then i will be done. oooo i'm just counting down the days!!
So today instead of working on more stuff i decided to take some pictures of stuff in my new room....hahah . Well i did do some work but i just took long breaks in between, this being one of them.

Here are a couple of my shelfs. You can see my picture with Keifer Sutherland and then his autograph in the other shelf. Then i just have pictures from Italy and of me and my cousin and basicly anything that is red, white or black i put on there. haha

This is my messy , messy desk. You can't really see my pictures or anything, but i really liked the lamp and then my memo board( or whatver you call it) its cool, i like the Farruggio thing and my picture of fabio cannavaro, you can also see AM pins , pictures of joes and the office stuff.

This is one of my night stands, i just like it because it has the leaning tower of Pisa on it. I got it when i was there and it just makes me smile.

And this is just my new chair, and i love it, It is comfy and cute :)

I still have more stuff to do, mostly put up my pictures on the wall.
Well, hope you all enjoyed that, sorry if you did not. :)

hope your week goes well, good luck with you last week of school and finals!!

<3

A Spanish Thanksgiving

2007-11-25T20:51:00.000-05:00

Here are some pictures from my Thanksgiving with the Spanish side of my family.

playing an italian( yea i know it'd suppose to be spanish :) card game - thanksgiving night

Rosario and Jose during the game

Jose as the dealer, he won a lot :)

Mom and her sister, Tia Maria

My Grandparents, abuelo and abuela

hope you all had a nice thanksgiving week

<3

Now this is my time, I'm gonna make this moment mine.

2007-11-17T18:48:00.000-05:00

So i have been up since 9AM doing homework. Yea i know i'm weird!! But i have a lot to do. And sure i probably should have started yesterday but i wanted to fix up my room a little since we finally got all the furniture in it. I am in the process of finalizing my pictures that will be put up on the wall and in frames.

So today I worked on my accounting project, Spanish ( we have to write a story..gross... i am just writing about how this girl and her friends meet keifer sutherland...i know!!! I don't know where these ideas come from;) and also i am studying for a test! woohoo :( And i went to the doctors yesterday and for a check up telling her that i was getting these pains in my side and she said it was probably from stress....so i must be really stressed up cuz they are killing me right now.
Which is why i'm blogging instead of doing hw. :)

So today i did homework alllllll day but in the middle of the day i just stopped and went to my backyard and took pictures of the leaves. I wanted to shoot some pictures before they all fell down.
well i guess i should start working on my accounting again that is the next thing on my list.

<3

have a happy thanksgiving

The following took place between 11AM-4PM

2007-11-07T23:17:00.000-05:00

So Saturday i missed my chance to meet Kiefer Sutherland because i decided not to go with my friends. Sunday i missed my chance to meet Kiefer Sutherland because they wrapped up shooting for the day!
I was not going to let that happen again. Today (wed) my friends and I went to DC to try to track down the ever allusive Jack Bauer.....wait i mean Kiefer Sutherland.
So this is how it went down... im going to break it down 24 style:
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11am: we left campus and drove through Georgetown and where we had seen production trucks on Sunday. No sight of the 24 crew.Then we saw something .. could it be a production crew... we then try to look for a parking spot.

12:00 : we park close to the capital and walked away from it to the ww2 memorial. We saw where Mike meet George Clooney, took some pictures of ducks and fall leaves. When we get to where it looked like the production crew was we see that we were wrong
12:45ish: get back to my car and decide to drive around. Drive by the verizon center, china town ....and still nothing
1:15ish: we spot some trailers, the 24 trailers!!! they are shooting in front of the capitol. In the opposite direction that we walked when we first got there. We look for a parking spot again.
1:30 : we are by the set!!! We see cameras, production crew and could it be....kiefer sutherland himself!!! yesss
1:45: They wrap up shooting to go to lunch.... kiefer is on the move....could it be the moment we have been waiting for???? yes!!!! we ask him as he walks to us for an autograph and picture.. he said sure ( he just needed a second to finish texting!! :) He signs a picture for me and Kathleen and takes a picture with both of us!! amazing!! he was nice and after it was done i noticed that there was a crowd of people around wanting is autograph and picture but he said sorry and walked back to his trailer.

1:58: we had just meet Kiefer Sutherland!!!! JACK BAUER!!!!! we were flipping out !!! we chilled for a bit let it all sink in then took a picture in front of what we thought was his trailer :)
since they were on a lunch break we decided to go on a starbucks run.

3:00 we go back to watch some more 24 filming. The next scene the shot was just Jack Bauer going in and out of a car. We were able to stand like 30 ft from where they were shooting!! Then when they finished that scene they started to prep another one and we got to go up to where the cast chairs and the director chairs where .. not sure if we were suppose to be there but we took pictures until they started shooting and needed us to back up
4:00 we begin our walk to the car and head home.

it was a fun day and I am glad that I was able to step out of the box and have an amazing adventure!!!!

<3

Previously on 24… nothing happened since I did not meet JACK BAUER

2007-11-05T20:51:00.000-05:00

So this weekend I learned that i need to be more spontaneous, to not think so much.
I learned that by not taking the chance i had to go down to Georgetown to watch the them film scenes from "24". And with some stupid excuses i ended up not going and missed my chance to meet Kiefer Sutherland. Yea Jack Bauer himself, and i missed it!!!!
Then Sunday me and friends decided to see if we could track down "24" again . We drove and drove all around DC looking for trailers and production crew trucks and nothing. Just as we decided to give up what do we see? a whole street of production trucks..... YAY!! we were one step closer to meeting Kiefer Sutherland!!!!
But sadly the production dudes said that they had wrapped for the day and that they would not be shooting anything else until Wednesday. Now i don't know if that was a line that they say to keep people away from the set while they are shooting but you never know, i am gonna believe that they are telling the truth and I hope that i can make it out there sometime...if only to catch a glimpse of the amazing JACK BAUER!

<3

You just never knew. Forever was so many different things.

2007-10-31T22:32:00.000-04:00

Another crazy week is almost done. Now all that is left is a test to start studying for, a girls night in and maybe a trip to IKEA!!!

hope you all are having a good week.
:)

my snowglobe was thrown into fire then eaten by sharks

2007-10-23T22:49:00.000-04:00

So the week is going well. I finished the hardest thing of my week, accounting test. Hope I did well. Now it is off to think of sweeter things like the bake sale this weekend. YUMMY!
Well don't have much to say, sorry . Hope you all are having a great week.

<3

here is a fun link, well i think so, if you like the office and JIM HALPERT, watch it!

and you didn't even notice when the sky turned blue...

2007-10-07T17:39:00.001-04:00

This is Andrew McMahon, lead singer from Jack's Mannequin. This picture was taken earlier this year when I went to his concert.
****

So here is another picture for
my wall. In the next week I will be painting my room so now I need to make sure I have all my pictures ready to hang up.

Life is been pretty crazy these past few days. With running around getting pizza, school work, an accounting project, babysitting and not really getting enough sleep. MADNESS!!! I don't know when it will slow down...Thanksgiving, maybe??? My guess is after I take all my finals! hahah

<3 rosabel

Relax, take it easy...

2007-09-26T21:23:00.000-04:00

So just finished my craziest week so far... and it has only bee a month!! Hahah. Well 2 Spanish paper and 3 tests in 2 days is so totally crazy but it is also so totally over. I am actually going to have a weekend where i can do something then homework... woohoo!!.
Nothing much has happened these past few days... just school, homework, test, and Spanish o yea and The Office... it makes me laugh (random i know).
Want another random fact... so when I was in Italy this summer there was this ice tea ( in Italian...THE) anyway it was so good i was in love with the peach one....THE alla pesca!! anyway they don't have it in the states and i would get the peach Snapple or the Lipton peach and none were good enough. BUT today i went to this Italian deli and they had it there!!! i was freakin out!!! so i got a whole pack .... man it made my day!

Anyway, I feel like there was some point to writing this but i don't really remember. So i guess I'll stop now.

<3

LOVE in the sky

2007-09-22T12:50:00.000-04:00

"Life is beautiful, but it's complicated. We barely make it.

2007-09-11T09:38:00.000-04:00

So you know when you are a little kid and you think the world is perfect, you have the perfect family, the perfect friends, even the imaginary ones, i did her name was Elizabeth. But as you grow older you start to understand the news and that not everyone gets along. You learn things about your family that you never thought would or could happen because you all love each other so much , or so you thought. Then it no longer takes sharing a lunch time sweet to fix a friendship, one that you thought would last forever.
I am learning to realized that just because it happens in the movies does not mean that it can't happen to you too. I usually have a pretty positive outlook and feeling about things but i have been kinda doing a replay for the past week or so and have realized that life sucks some time. And i am sure that it is worse for others and better for some but i guess tha'st life and you just have to try to move on, try not to dwell on the really hard parts and not relive the really sad parts.
just thought I'd share.. sorry there are no pictures today my laptop is being stupid.

<3 rosabel

This is the start of something new

2007-08-29T16:28:00.001-04:00

Here we go JUMPING into a new school year, a year to meet new friends, learn new things and of making new memories with the people that are not so new in our lives.

As i am here almost at the end of the first week of school things are looking pretty good, well minus the whole school work thing! :) For the first time in a long time i am actually excited at seeing whats in store for me.. i was fighting this new year for a while after a crappy past one but i don't know there must be something in this hot humid air that is giving me a great feeling for the year to come.

hope this week is going well for all of you!

<3>

I know we’ve come so far but we've got so far to go

2007-08-26T00:36:00.000-04:00

School starts in two days and i still have so much to do...with getting stuff ready for classes and meeting new freshmen, planning activities and trying to get a decent amount of sleep i almost don't have any time to myself let alone time to think of ways to make my room better. But i was looking at some of my pictures and i decided on another one for my wall.

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This one is of my nonna
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(grandmother in Italian). I just love how her expression is so natural and you can see the imperfections in her face that make her look so beautiful, and seem to share a little of the story of her life.

<3 rosabel

pictures for my wall

2007-08-14T15:39:00.000-04:00

Its been a week since i have been back from Italy and i am concentrating on my next big thing ...
so i am redoing my room and when it is all nice and done i want to blow up some of my pictures and put them on the wall and since i want this blog to be photo based and i have not really written anything in a while I'm gonna share a few pictures that i have chosen as sure things to be the first to go up on my wall ...

This is for my dad place that closed down ....its my little reminder of the the memories i had there.

I have always wanted to go to the Colosseum and when my family and I went to Rome my dream came true !!! it was amazing being in a place with so much history and i really love this shot.

It has always been a dream of mine to go to Pisa and see the leaning tower and i got my chance to see it and i wanted this picture not only because i really love this shot but also because it is a reminder that dreams come true .... hahha

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Every Second Counts

2007-08-07T07:59:00.000-04:00

I'm back in the states, sorry for the lack of updates. Once i reached Sicily internet access was impossible to fine and when we got to Rome we only had a few more days and our hotel charged too much for access. So I'll just give you a little summery of what happened, and i will be added pictures to facebook and my webshot accounts in the next few days.
First lets start out that it is 8AM here and i have been up since 7Am because in italy it is already 2 in the afternoon, yea jet lag is gonna be a killer so sorry if i don't reach out the next few day i am just gonna wanna chill and get back to the routine.
So SICILY was amazing!!! At first it was a little awkward seeing everyone again when it has been 10 years since the last time, everyone was do diffrent, and the town so small. It was a quiet first couple of says spent in little silences because neither my cousins or us new how to speak the others language , but we soon overcame that, and but the end i could hold my own in a conversation, although not always grammatically correct. :) But it was great being in my dads town, staying in the house where he grew up and was BORN IN!!! We went to the mercato on monday ( the highlight of the week) and spend out nights at the local bar eating getlato trying the local hot drink and just trying to tell each other about our lives and friends and the things that we like,
BUT let me just give you a quick summer of how my days went.
woke up around 10ish
ate some bread with nutella ( it is like part of their life) and milk
got ready for the day , went out shopping or some light activity
@2 we ate lunch - pasta ( which my aunt makes and is amazing) followed by salad, sausage, cheese ( which they make themselves , my uncle and family) and then some other type of meat
we usually finish LUNCH by 4 this is how it was everyday
then we would relaxing , take a nap since it was too hot to do anything then around 6 or 7 we would get ready to go out a night , which meant we we go walk around town or take a car ride then at 10ish we would have dinner which most nights would be a pizza at my uncle and aunts restaurant but when we were all together it would be like lunch all over again ( but more!!) then after dinner around 12ish we would go out.
This would either consist of going to ALDO's bar or going to san leone which is kinda like a georgetownish place, we would walk around by the water get a gelato or get a drink.
but most night we would go to ALDO's and get a drink or gelato or and hang out there till our parents pic us up around 2ish , since we were staying at our cousin house that was 20min out of town .
yep those were the days
We also spend 10 days at beach which was nice. the water was so clear and calm , so so beautiful. It was the same beach were we spend 2 months when i was 7 so was nice to go back, once again i remember it being bigger. :) But our cousins would come and we would play in the water catch little crabs by the rocks and talk walking and we even carved our names in this rocks there ( i have pictures don't worry ;)
It was sad to leave Sicily because we had reestablished all our relationships with our cousins, they were not just the family in Sicily it was zia katarina, and clelia and floriana and well i cant name them all but now we have to go back and maybe some of them might come here next summer. But it was really great , i wish would could have stayed there longer.
Then ROMA!!!
AMAZING , BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL!!!!
seeing the COLOSSEUM was one of the most awesome things eve. Just walking around rome was an experience , you have all these building and cars and then all of a sudden in the middle there will be these roman ruins, so cool!!! We went to the trevi fountain which was beautiful and its the one were you are suppose to toss a coin and make a wish and they say if you do that it means not only is your wish suppose to come true but that you will return again to rome.
YAY!!! thats good because i still have so much i want to see and do!!!
well im gonna stop writing because im tired and hungry (i wonder if we have nutella ??:)

but stay on the lookout for pictures , i'll put up links .
ps i hope this post makes sense in still a little out of it.

ciao

<3

Guess today's gonna blow us away

2007-07-13T13:08:00.000-04:00

Last day in Firenze....so sad :( it was a pretty chill day just went out and bought a bunch of little things...YYAYYAYAYAY It has been a great trip here and i am excited to get onto the next part of my trip SICILY. It will be nice to see family that i have not seen in forever and also beach time !!!!

And i was all excited to show you guys my awesome pictures from my big camera but the pictures won't load on my brothers computer so i only have the ones that i took with my baby camera :)

Here is me and my dad and my first GELATO in Italy .. don't ask me why he has that face!!

Here is the view of il DUOMO from the bell tower next to it... i had to climb 453 steps for this shot... yea it hurt but look at that view it was totally worth it!!!

Here is GABY and ROSARIO while we were in line at this art museum... 1 1/2 hour wait... yikes!

Here is me and GABY in front of this restaurant that we ate at. It was good , i had the pesto yummyy!!!!! Anyway the reason we took the picture is because the famous soccer player LUCA TONI ate there, he actually plays for the FLORENTINA team ( i wanted to go see the stadium but no one else wanted to ... but i took pictures) so when we found out that he ate there we took a picture in front of it ... thats as close as i'll ever get to TONI i guess :( hehe

well i guess i have to go , gotta eat dinner soon even though it is lunch time there for you guys.
I'll try to update a much as i can in SICILY not sure how the internet access is gonna be there and also i'll be sure to take more pictures with the baby camera so I can post them up.

ciao

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21 and invinceable!!!

2007-07-12T17:42:00.000-04:00

Ciao Tutti!!
It has been crazy these past few days, filled with old buildings , beautiful churches, a leaning tower and of course gelato! My birthday ( yaya im 21!!) was amazing. We went to see the duomo , this famous dome here and got to climb up a million stairs (it felt like) to reach the top to and amazing few. This was followed by a yummy dinner at the rooftop resturante at our holtel.. once again amazing few. Then yesterday we went to PISA!!! dream come true were we took our traditional silly pictures with the tower. Today was spent walking around and climbing a bunch more stairs to another amazing few. It has been great!!!
But sadly all things must end because tomorrow is our last full day here in Firenze and there is only one more thing left to do.. SHOP!!!
hehe
ci vediamo!!!

ps . hopefully tomorrow i will hace pictures of FIRENZE

ciao

L`talianoVero

2007-07-09T16:03:00.002-04:00

Ciao de Firenze!!!
I am finally here! Afer 3 plan rides and no sleep for a really long time I am finally here. :)
It is amazing. I had my first Italian pizza and of course GELATO . I just want to check in and say hi and i will update as much as i can and hopefully in a few day put some pictures on.
ciao for now mi amici
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Let the Italian Adventure Begin

2007-07-05T14:11:00.000-04:00

The 4th of July is gone. It was wet and cool but beautiful.

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But now it is time for my next summer adventure... Italia! There is so much to do and get and pack i don't know if I am going to have time for it all. Before I attempt to do any of that I decided to create something for my friends left back in the states (sorry!) . I am going to try to keep up this blog so you all can go where I go since there is not enough room in my suitcase for all of you !!!
I am leaving on the 8th of July this Sunday!! and won't be back until August 6th . I am going to go to Florence , Sicily and Rome so check in every once and a while.

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