I've had a great Saturday and a funny start of Sunday. Yesterday I went to get some more free stuff from SKHLM, went later home to make the movie for Carro&Martin, which I had promised them that I would do...to advertise Boliva as a good honeymoon-country. My movie is lovely, if you want you can watch it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyYlqWbaJwo and the music has been composed by my own maternal grandfather, Julio Martínez Arteaga. He dedicated this song to my grandmother, Victoria Trinidad Machicao de Martínez.
After having made the movie I took off to Carro&Martin's place, where we made a speciality from Vietnam (she had learned it by a Vietnamese friend) and ate it with white wine. Later on I had several drinks made for me. Very tasty! I got home half an hour before midnight, logged in to my usual pages and congratulated a mate from Bolivia on his 22nd birthday. We started to chat on Skype and I got surprised by what he told me. He had not been able to participate in the reunion of our class and he told me what he had heard about the party and about me. The rumours about the party were correct, but when it came to me...they were not, well...not completely! According to the rumours me and Vico had been a couple during the party. He is such a cutie and a good friend, and my "coussin". Such thing would not happen between us...and every time I keep thinking about what Abel (the birthday boy) said, I start laughing. It's just hillarious!
A long time ago I mentioned that I had some posts planned for you. Well, here comes the first one of them. You already know that LPZ has a special place in my heart and now I have made a list of my five favourite places in the city of La Paz.
#5 is the "Stadium Hernando Siles", by night. The lights! Do I have to say more?
#4 is "El Prado" El Prado is the longest avenue in La Paz, and you get to see many buildings and so much life, from early morning to late evenings.
#3 is "Plaza Murillo" Plaza Murillo is the main squares. During the days it is filled with birds and people giving food to them. In the evenings it is mostly a place for couples, where they are cuddling with each other.
#2 is "Avenida Montes" Avenida Montes stands for The Montes Avenue. the reason to why I like this avenue is because you can see the brewery of Paceña, the beer of La Paz, but also because you get too see the bus terminal and the mountain Illimani in the background.
#1 is "El mirador de Killi Killi" El mirador de Killi Killi gives tourists as well as kollas (people from La Paz, etc) the opportunity to view a very big part of the city and observe the beautiful parts of this town. And the best part? I live really close to it, when I'm in Bolivia!
This is my secret project gals and guys! This is my first video that I have done on my own. All of the pics were taken during my trip in that beautiful country. Don't have too high hopes on my editing skills, but I am pretty sure that it is a very good first try. Check it out for yourselves...and leave comments!
These two people in the picture are both bolivians. The one in the left is the vice president of the country and his name is Alvaro García Linera, and the one in the right is Evo Morales, as all of you should now.
This picture is lovely, beautiful and just awesome. Can you tell that I like both of them?
When I last updated you, I told you that I was going on a trip to the tropics. So far, it did happen. The specific place where we went is called Rurrenabaque and is situated in the middle of the state Beni (in the north of Bolivia). There are two ways of travelling to this town, mostly considered a village. The first one is by plane (55 minutes) and the other is by bus (20 hours). We chose the second one, mostly because it would be 75% cheaper but we had second thoughts about it. Why? Mostly because there had been a couple of accidents with deathly outcomes during the last weeks. Anyways, I think that if I have to die I will die matter how I travel. So, we took the bus on Thursday morning and did the 20 hours dangerous trip. Dangerous it certainly was! The roads are so narrow that only one car/bus can travel at a time. When two buses met, we were on the edge of falling down more than 1000 meters. That road is best known as the “Death Road” of Bolivia.
At 6 in the morning we arrived at the bust station in Rurre and we got to know that most agencies open at 7, and that the tours start after 9. We chose to see the pampas since, compared with the jungle, you get to see about 50% more of the fauna in the pampas. And we did get to see a lot of life after the three hours road trip. I have no idea how many pics I have snapped on the first day only. Anyhow, a bit before 16 we arrived at our camp just beside the river and I have to say that the view is AMAZING. Latr in the evening, just before dinner we went to a bar where we could se the sunset. It wasnt anythiung out of order. It was just a sunset...and if we wanted to...we could drink beer, something that I didnt. After seeing the sunset I laid on a hammock and fell asleep. My mother was out making new friends. I woke up when it was time to return back to the camp and on our way we learnt to see if there were any alligator and/or camoens (?) in the river. We did it by using a torch. Alligatorns have orange eyes and camens have red ones. Pretty good to know, right?
The second day consisted in us going on a very long walk looking for snakes. After about two hours of walk we found a big cobra and a couple of minstes later an anaconda. It was very tiredning (?) to walk in the mud, river, and specially when the sun was shining as most. The temperature reached surely over 32 degrees C til midday. Everybody was starving by the time we reached the camp. What happened later? We had 2 hours of siesta and then it wore off to swinmming with the dolphins, but it wasnt an actual swin with the dolphins since they were on their own and the humans were on their own as well. The hot temperature made many people jump into the water but I did not since I saw no reason in doing it...I would not get to swin with the pink dolphins anyways. The day continued in what felt as slow motion. I did not go to see the sunset since I had already seen it the night before. Instead I stayed in the camp and took it easy in the hammock.
The third day would start at 6 in the morning to see the sunrise but I chose to sleep a little bit more. After breakfast we went piraya fishig. It was the second time, that I went fishing, in my whole life and it went very good. I caught, all in all, nine fishes, eight small pirayas and another kind of fish. Only three, out of the crew of seven, ate the pirayas...and I was one of them. It didnt taste strange at all...except that the head tasted cheesy Afterwards we were in a hurry to get back to Rurre, not for any special reason but because nobody looked forward to the three hour long road trip. When we finally arrrived to Rurrenabaque, on our search for a place to stay the night we found the office of the national military airling (TAM Bolivia) and got to know that there were two places left for the afternoon flight the same day. My mother went to the bus terminal to leaver our tickets but since she didnt found the responsible person we remained in Rurre that evening. That was what I wanted to do since I hadnt seen much of the town..nor the town on the other side of the river.The river is caleld Rio Beni (Beni River). The town on the other side of the river is called San Buenaventura and belongs to the state of La Paz while Rurre belongs to the state of Beni. As soon as I stepped on San Buenaventura it definitely felt as home, as La Paz. There was a celebration over there becayse of its 146th anniversary. I think that the town is lovely! My mother sys that she will move to Rurre when she comes back to Bolivia, but I would much rather prefer to move to San Buenaventura. Ther was much more life, music and entrertainment going on compared to Rurre. I think that Rurrenabaque is more for tourists while San Buenaventura shows the true life of a town. Even though it was Sunday, people (read: tourists) thought that it was a good evening to party on. I would have had a difficult time to sleep because of all the noise but I drak a cholada, which is a mix of Bolivian beer (to be more precise a beer called Paceña, from La Paz) and coke. In the beginning it didnt taste very good but after one little cup of this cholada I was drunk already. and after having drinken the whole can of Paceña and my bottle of coke I was ready for bed.
I woke up early the next morning and since I knew that my mother wanted to sleep I got dressed and went out for a walk. When I came down to the reception of the hotel I realized thatit was only 0650 in the morning. When I got back my mother had just woken up and after breakfast we decided to take a quick walk before having to go to the terminal of buses for departure to La Paz. We took a moto.taxi each, and were taken to a place from which we xould see the whole town and the one on the other side of the river.
Now you may wonder what the outcome of this short trip is. Well, it is the collection of over 300 pics, several bites of mosquitos and sunburns (on my neck, my arms and shoulderns). A very pleasant feeling ( except the sunburns of course)!
We arrived in La Paz very early in the morning of yesterday (05.15 am) and got home about one hour latr. Later in the day we travelled to the countryside where my grandmother was born. There was a woman in the bus who wanted to talk with me...but I couldnt understand anything of what she said, but still...she continued to talk in Aymara. Grrr....I really have to learn Aymara. There was a celebration going on in Huarina as well, because of the anniversary of the independence of La Paz, and there was a dog in the crowd of people in search for food. I gave him some of the food I was given...and later on I was clapping the dog. This dog was not walking properly...but I clapped him...twice, and the second time I suppose that he got afraid, and therefore bite me in my right hand. It started to bleed and now I have to search for medical expertis every second day.
Today, La Paz has celebrated its 199th anniversary...and I have just taken a walk to town to take some pics of the celebrations. I think that I will come back next year for the anniversary since the celebrations will be much, but much, bigger. It has already been mentioned that La Paz will be the capital of cultures in Iberoamerica next year.
This weekend I am going to the countryside again, but I will definitely try to update you more often now...depending on what happens here.
I didn't do much today...more than listen to Dima Bilan and his songs. No studies, since I wasn't in the mood....but I had a couple of surprises during the day, both good and bad.
Good:
My mother loves to shop, something that I hate to. If I go to a shop, I usually leave the place in less than two minutes unless I find something that I'm interested in. Not my mother. So, she was in the mood for shopping and she bought three clothings for me. And for once I agree with her taste. Now I can fill my wardrobe with two dresses and a fine shirt(?) -->
We know now that we'll travel to Bolivia on the 12th. I've already began to pack my bag.
Bad:
I thought that my essay that had to be handed in two weeks ago was perfect. Apparently, my teacher didn't think so. She read the first page and refused to continue reading the rest of my essay. So now, I have less than two days to fix my essay...
The woman whom's dogs we've taken care of before, refuses to pick up her phone since she knows that she'd have to help us out with Muñeco. What a person! We helped her twice, without even asking for any kind of compensation. And now she doesn't even have the gutts to say: "No, I don't want to take care of him." I'm so I'll have to look for a caring and loving person for my son elsewhere.
René Vargas was walking in the streets of Santa Cruz de la Sierra wearing a blue coloured shirt. Supporters of the opposition who are on a hunger strike saw him and suddenly started to run after him. Blue is in Bolivia the colour of MAS, of the movement towards the socialism, and red is the colour of the rightists. Do they have any rights to act in this way against a man who hasn't done them anything wrong? I really hope the same happens to them. Blood will run through the veins of Bolivia, soon.
The Bolivian president took the decision to have another constitution where the Bolivians will vote if they still have confidence in him and whether they have any confidence in the six prefects who belong to the opposition. Four of them travelled to USA to present their complaints about the new constitution that was approved by a majority a couple of weeks ago. Because of them, the UN sent some representants to verify and see what's really going on in Bolivia. Evo Morales, the president of Boliva, has always said that he welcomes international observers.
I mentioned above that a referendum will take place about the confidence in the president. Evo Morales has said that if he doesn't achieve the same or a higher amount of votes than the one he got in the presidential elections in december of 2005 (53.7%) he will leave the presidency and call for election. The prefects in the opposition say that they are astonished by this act but they don't even mention the several tries that Morales has done to have a dialogue with them.
The 9th of december the writing on the new constitution came finally to an end with the approval of more than two thirds of the representantses, out of 255 elected ones 164 were present in Oruro. The atmosphere was calmer here than what it had been the latest weeks in Sucre. There were nine different political parties presents in the meeting, but not the biggest oppositional party Podemos. The people who support Podemos refuse to admit the approval of the consitution since they were not present! Aren't they funny?
That the proposal to a new constitution has been written by representants elected by the people is in itself a historical event. A referendum will be held within six months where the people will either accept the proposal or reject it. The new constitution gives more political power to the majority of the Bolivian people at the same time as the rich minority won't remain having the same number of privileges. With the new constitution several changes would imply in the everyday life of Bolivia. Some of them would be:
Bolivia would become a plurinational country (between 30-40 ethnical groups exist)
Sucre will be the capital of Bolivia
In the congress a fair number of representants from the nine states would be present.
The president will have the possibility to be re-elected.
Crimes (as g.e. corruption) done by politian will not expire.
Traitors of the country will be sentenced with 30 years.
The higher government revenues from the natural assets of gas will go directly to the people of Bolivia, as for example -an old-age pension.
Although the support for the Bolivian president is not very high at the moment from the middle class in the society, mostly because the news are angled from the private news agencies, the support form the observers from UN is high. Evo Morales has been compared with Nelson Mandela since he after all fights for a change of the unequal society. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, the reporter of UN, even showed an open support for the new constitution.
This past Saturday, four of the oppositional prefects handed in their autonomical constitutions to the government. These states say that they want to have their own police, their own system of taxes and a separate government. The Half Moon (La Media Luna) want to have a bigger controll of the natural assets, and it's very ironical that they want this now that Evo Morales and his government retrieved this with the nationalization of the gas resources.
Something that makes me laugh since it's very comical is that in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, one of the states where the prefect handed in an automatic constitution this Saturday, has the major supporters of the president. Is autonomy what people want? Is it the will of the people? Or just the will of the rich minority of Santa Cruz?
Last time I wrote about Bolivia and the events taking place over there was 26/11-2007. I wrote about the three people that had been killed. Two civilians, a student and a lawyer, supporters of the opposition were killed. Rumours started to spread, the rumours told that the police or military had shot them to death. Therefore, the third person that was killed was a police, he was attacked by a mob who wouldn’t stop till they could take out a revenge on the two civilians that had died earlier on Saturday completely but lynching the police man, outside the military base where the elected representants of the constitutional assembly. On Sunday morning, the body of the police was found, barely recognizable. The world is cruel, we have to face the truth! However, the vice president of Bolivia (Álvaro García Linera [picture]) was interviewed late on Sunday evening about the events where people had to die in Sucre, and he stated that he had overheard a conversation of “La Media Luna”, a movement in the eastern parts of Bolivia who want to create their own country (they are rich in natural resources and those involved in the movement are mostly foreigners from Yugoslavia and some Arabic countries), were they mentioned two people who had been killed by the police/military. But their conversation happened a couple of hours before the real event took place! And it was revealed on Monday morning, the shots didn’t belong to the weapons used by the police nor military! It seems like the opposition decided to kill people of their own to blame it and it would not be the first time!
The opposition is claiming that Bolivia needs help from abroad since decisions shouldn’t be taken in military bases, but what can be done if the parliament is stopped by people who don’t want to admit the procedure of a democracy.
A new referendum will be held, to state whether the proposals made for exactly twoo weeks ago by 136 out were sane or something against the Bolivian benefits. This referendum was proposed by “La Media Luna” and Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia accepted their demands to show that democracy does exist in the country opposed to what the opposition claims. This unnecessary referendum will take place within 4 months, it can’t take place earlier since a lot of money needs to finance, an amount of around 50 million Bs (around 5 million dollars).
The opposition is also criticizing the decision of MAS to have the constitutional assembly in Chapare, Cochabamba. Before, when the assembly was moved to the military base, a leader of the opposition said that he would never send members of his party to that meeting since decisions had to be taken in a building with good reputation where independence was created. And now, when the assembly has been moved to another place with a wonderful nature, people of the opposition start to criticize.
I've been sitting in the U since early morning writing essays. I work better here than home (I tell myself anyways ). Each single day of this week I've bought my Café Latte (Oki, there are so many ways of spelling the same coffee-kind and I really don't know which one is the correct one to use! ) I really it, and it tastes so good! I'm in love...
However, I was writing when I suddenly noticed some fingerprints on the screen of my computer...and I tried to remove them with my sleeve. It didn't work out very well. A man, who works as "Computer-helper" (that is, if there are problems with the computers or if somebody do not understand how to solve a "computer"-problem they can ask him...I guess he is called Computer-support, but I'm not sure. Anyways, he sat next to me and saw that I was trying to get the fingerprints away from the screen...and said that if I looked for his computer he would go and get some piece of material for the screen. When he came back he gave me those "towels" and now my screen looks as new! How kind!
News: I'll be writing articles and translating news about/from Bolivia for Hands off Venezuela
Now, I'll continue with the translation of Evo Morales' page...See you round the "corner"!
Since the beginning of Evo Morales' term of office, he has always been thinking about what would be the best for the people and for the country. The opossicion has come up with many false accusations (g.e. that Morales is the puppet of Chávez and Castro, etc) and have tried to divide the country into two [one of them would be called according to some jerks 'La Nación Camba']. This division of the country would destroy not only lives but the economy that lately has been on a substantial upswing. The states with more nature and the ones who has been less exploated would become a country. Those people who want have been organizing themselves in the division of the country are not natives nor mostly Bolivians...on the other hand, they are immigrants mostly from the former Yugoslavian Republic who escaped durings the wars with their pockets filled with money and entered Bolivia and started to buy companies from the former corrupted governments. This is just a little bit of background information for you who don't know a lot about the latest Bolivian events.
The Bolivian President called to a referendum in July 2006 where representant of his political party, MAS, togehter with elected representants from other paries would work together during one year to establish a new Constituion. The work would start on the national day of Boliva, the 6th of August and come to a termination one year later. This didn't happen! It's not unusual when deadlines are set that they are delayed, not in Bolivia anyways. The latest discussion has been about the capital of the country. Bolivia, in the same way as The Netherlands, has two capitals. Sucre is the constitutional and historical capital as well as the seat of the Supreme Court, where for example, the independence was established. La Pazhas the president and the congress. A political power struggle took place in 1899 and an economic shift led to the establishment of two capitals. There has never been a problem or even a discussion about moving the parliament to Sucre, and this year that suggestion was brought up during the assemblies in Sucre.
Evo Morales said that a closure of the assembly had to be achieved as soon as possible (for a while ago). So, this Saturday, 136 people voted in favour of the suggested Constitution, 'La Carta Magna', where the whole Bolivian people would be more social and participative in decisions, not only local and regional but also in favour of the whole country. According to some sources, the representants of the assembly called for a meeting this weekend, where all of the elected representants were invited to attend. Only 138 (out of 255) showed up, and 136 voted in favour of the new Constitution. For a law or constitution to be approved 2/3 of the votes must be fullfilled in favour, and it happened this past Saturday. Since the Carta Magna was approved with the majority in favour the only thing left is the details, something that has to be done to the 14th of December, when the deadline is set to. This doesn't mean anything really, the people of Bolivia will after the 14th be able to participate in a national referendum and make their voices heard according to the proposal of the Carta Magna. However, what's been on the news is not only about the majoritarian election in favour of the Carta Magna, but also about the protests in Sucre where three have lost their lives and many have received injuries. Many people have gone out in the streets and destroyed historical buildings and not so historical buildings as well. I don't get those people, I can't understand nor accept their actions. JERKS! Nothing is solved in that way, FUCKING MORONS! .
What's the Carta Magna? The Carta Magna wants to establish a pluri-national state, the re-eleccion of the President of the Republic, the autonomies of the natives and a communitarian state. Nothing wrong there, right? I see this as very positive, when the people are able to express their opinions and make changes. That's what the opposition is fighting against. They would lose their possibilities of making a lot of money by exploating not only the people but Bolivia, the country, itself.
Something positive of the events from the past weekend is the announcement of the President, that the Bolivians will have a new Constitution as a Christmas present!
I slept today right after work..first now I'm starting to feel that I want to write something so I started to search for information to my essay about Evo Morales Ayma (President of the Republic of Bolivia) and I get, constantly, astonished by how the politicians in Bolivia are!
In the speech that the President held after one year in the power he mentions about the incident year 2002 when a couple of Ministers forced him to quit in the parliament.
Me acuerdo exactamente el año 2002, después de un gran debate acá, empezaron el debate el 22 de enero del 2002 y acabaron con mi expulsión al amanecer del 2003, no arrepentido, no me estoy quejando, mas bien agradecer al ahora Senador por Podemos, antes diputado del MIR, honorable Luís Vásquez Villamor quien encabezó mi expulsión del parlamento, agradecer porque así me dejó en la campaña como jefe hasta que llegué a la presidencia, muchas gracias.
A short summary of the quote above: Evo Morales was forced to quit his work in the parliament year 2002 by a couple of ministres, with a delegate of a left party MIR as the leader of the action, whom nowadays is a senator for a right party PODEMOS ( )...the President sends his gratetude to that senator because it's thanks to him, and the others, that he has been able to reach as far as where he is now, to become the President of Bolivia!
Evo Morales has done so much during his 1.5 years as President. He has nationalized the gas company, he has introduced a monthly child allowance for families (something that exists here in Europe and specially in Sweden) and so much more. I really look up to that man:
Hermanos de Bolivia, estimados parlamentarios, a todas las instituciones, a los movimientos sociales, en esta primera etapa vamos a aplicar una fuerte política de austeridad. No es posible que el salario básico sean 450 bolivianos y los parlamentarios ganemos más de 20.000 bolivianos, no es presidente que el presidente gane 27.000, 28.000 bolivianos y el salario básico es 450 bolivianos. Por moral, por nuestro país, tenemos la obligación de rebajar el 50% de nuestro salario.
Evo Morales Ayma was the first president who lowered the salary of the ministers with more than 50%. Before a Bolivian worker could have 450 Bs. per month while the ministers earned between 27.000 and 28.000 Bs. I know...strange, but true!
I'm now going to continue translating the homepage of Evo Morales to Swedish!
Gosh, how many things have happened this past week? Dunno, not many important things...not that I can remember anyways! I've skiped some classes this week, more than half of the week! What's wrong with me? Don't have any interest of going to school but I'm studying so that's a comfort I suppose!
On Friday I worked alone, it was so wonderful to be given so much responsability! And, the best part was to do everything (almost) correct! I've been thinking about going on a diet, not because I'm obessed, more because I would like to try it (never done it) so I did it for a day...and then I thought of buying some VLCD-drinks after work but I didn't because of lazyness. And guess what I did today? I bought so many things I shouldn't eat if I want to try a diet . I bought chips, coke ( ) and candyyyyy ,sat in front of my wonderful Mac and watched different episodes of various series from a Swedish channel. My diet is not working as well as I would like it to work... The question I should ask myself is if I really want to go on a diet!
My biggest secret I had towards my mother was about the tattoo I did for a while ago, and has now been revealed! She had entered the web on my computer while I was out strolling w/ Muñeco and I had forgotten to log off from MyOpera...and here I have a pic of my new haircut and the tattoo on my back (if you don't remember) and she saw it. When I was back home she didn't say anything, she probably forgot about it..one day later I was showing her the video of Vincent (the Swedish singer that I posted about before) and if you didn't notice he has two visible tattoos (so beautiful ). When my mum saw them on him she asked me whether I had done a tattoo and took the liberty to look for herself. Then she asked me whether she had given me permition about the tattoo (I've asked her several times before June and she has always said "" to my attempts of making her accept a tattoo on myself ). She didn't react as bad as I had expected, but now she has given me a deadline to remove it before the end of this month! We'll see how it goes with that (I won't remove it (don't want too)...but who know what happens in less than a fortnight.)
I should be done with two essays for next week, and one of them is about the revolutions in Mexico, Cuba and Bolivia from the beginning of the 20th century untill now. When I was in Bolivia last year, there was a meeting in a square in the centre of La Paz where the Honorable President Evo Morales was going to give a speech and when the meeting was almost over there was a group called Arawi who dedicated a song to the President and to the whole country. I would like to include the song in my presentation that I will give on Wendsday, I tried to download the song with Limewire but it hasn't worked. If you could help me out with that it would be WONDERFUL! The song is called "Ya somos más" --> you can hear a bit of the song if you press here!
I have finger-ache in my right little-finger! I guess the answer to it is that I've been next to the computer writing a lot during the past days and I've written a lot by hand too And I will probably not be able to use my right hand next week after my exam on Wensday and the essays..
Since I have the two essays and the presentation to do I will try to not go to bed until at least one of them is done...so I think I'll go and get a can of cidre!
Check out the following video from Youtube, the dogs are far more intelligent than most people think. They are simply the best and clearly better than cats ( ) Dogs CAN TALK!
Advance Patrol, also called AP, is a Swedish hiphop-group from southern Sweden, and the songs are in Swedish, Spanish and/or English. The group consists of three men; Gonza, Juan Havana and DJ Lucutz. All of them have their origin in South America [Gonza and Juan Havana in Chile, while DJ Lucutz in Bolivia ]. Their songs are typical socialist-hits...and my favourite Swedish band! They've done so many wonderful songs...and the one below is the latest! This song is about the extreme right party in Sweden called "Sverigedemokrater" and their success in the elections of last year here in Sweden...and how their political views are just crap, g.e. they say that every person that doesn't have all of their roots from the vikings should be sent to another country...since 'Sweden belong to the Swedes' ...They are completely psicho...but hey, we have FREEDOM OF SPEECH!
Tjenare Hejsan, Tjenare Hejsan, Tjenare Hejsan, Ni blir inte av med oss Tjenare Hejsan, Tjenare Hejsan, Tjenare Hejsan, Ni blir inte av med oss Vi laddar, vi laddar, vi laddar, Skiter i Vi laddar, vi laddar, vi laddar, fyrverkeri
- ... Träsked i munnen Än idag känner jag smaken i gommen… Tvii, jag skäms över att vara svensk, önskar att … önskar att jag var mer utländsk Nu är jag redo att stångas mot Sverigedemokraternas valframgångar Ämnet är väldigt väsentligt Inget hemligt att Skåne är främlingsfientligt Håll i hatten – här kommer Sveriges favorit blatte Jag slår tilbaks på diskrimineringen Försvarsmekanismen mot nedgraderingen Döms efter etnisk bakgrund – inget för en pratstrund Jag förmodar att det är nu vi försonas men jag betonar FUCK Landskrona - Vi laddar, vi laddar, vi laddar, Skiter i Vi laddar, vi laddar, vi laddar, fyrverkeri Spring spring spring…för så fort… Spring spring spring - För vi kommer att tar er - Shit, vi måste visa vad vi är gjorda av Vi kan så mycket mer än bara ta barnbidrag, städa stolen, toaletten eller laga mat Vi måste höja vår röst – öka för mandat Kroksbäck, Mälmöstad 2006 Vi förenas - Kasta stenar mot din… Känn press om du är svartskalle idag För 7.5 % dröjes kvar Det snackas om att skickas tillbaks, sätta oss alla på nån plan Skicka hem kvinnor och barn – det låter som någon KuKluxKlan Snackar om Sverigedemokrat som bara vill spridas idag Idag har luvan åkt av, men titta där går en KuKluxKlan - Vi laddar, vi laddar, vi laddar, Skiter i Vi laddar, vi laddar, vi laddar, fyrverkeri Vi laddar, vi laddar, vi laddar, Skiter i Vi laddar, vi laddar, vi laddar, fyrverkeri - Det här är mitt land, Här ska jag få mina tio barn Ja…det här är vårt land Det ska jag säga till alla mina barn Titta idag i det svenska samhället Det här är det svenska samhället Främlingsfientlighet och hat - Vi älskar Sverige, vi är Sverige och vi är den svenska framtiden ORDUPP 2007 DJ Lucutz, Juan Havana, Extravagonza är tillbaks… - /// Mizz Martínez
At midnight (evening in Brazil) a plane of the brazilian company TAM crashed into a petrol station in Sao Paolo. It says that around 200 people have lost their lives:cry:. We use to fly with this company to Bolivia, and now that this has happened it makes me really afraid.
I want to express my condolences to all of you who've lost your beloved relatives and friends... I hope God gives you all the strength you'll need!
I was surprised when I saw a note on a webpage (news-webpage) where they mentioned Bolivia as a headline...You can view it: Bolivia-snö.bmp It says that the heat is coming here but that the Bolivians woke up with snow this morning... You can check out the article here too: Bolivia, snö, del2.bmp
there! I'm sitting in front of the computer at "work" and I'm bored. What have I been doing the last six hours? Nothing really...I have just been scrolling through different pages, looking up other blogs, viewing the latest news...and I have also learned about different energy-technics and programs. I think I'll go home in a couple of minutes, why should I be here if I don't have anything to do... My advicer will "give" me a building tomorrow, and I will simulate that building w/ a calculation-program to see how much energy is used and let out to later compare with the building and real data. The purpose of the study which I will do is to make an inventory of energy. I can't imagine that this one will take one month to do (my advicer will be on vacations for a month!). If nothing will be planned for me after the study, I'm thinking of just being here 4 weeks instead of 6...I don't want this to be too boring (). I can't say that I haven't learned anything during this past weeks (1.5 weeks to be accurate). We'll see how everything develops...
Enough written about "work"! Let's write about my upcoming Tattoo! It's only one day left for the torture I will have to endure...but I know that I will wear it with proud! For those who do not know what the sign of Trinity means, I will here tell you a little bit about it. Trinity states that God is one being who exists, simultaneously and eternally, as a mutual indwelling of three persons: the Father, the Son (incarnate as Jesus of Nazareth), and the Holy Spirit.Source. This is how the sign I will have looks like --> For me, it has two (three)meanings:
Represents my belief, and what I stand for.
Represents the love I have for my grandmother (her name was Trinity if translated from Spanish - Trinidad) [
Represents a city in Bolivia (from where I don't have my roots) that I love, and the people over there because they are really friendly and warm (as the weather in general in that city)]
I'm going home now...in a while...Take Care /// MizzMartinez
For 11 years ago, my maternal grandmother left the Earth-life to unite with God. If I could turn back time, I would! I would have loved and enjoyed spending more years with her. She was the one who always had time with me, she was the one who always had patience for me, she was the one who taught me how to play the piano, she is the one who left me the best heritage one could ever get (my belief, the appreciation of my culture and the knowledge of the history of the Machicao-family). I so love her...and sometimes it feels like if I would have taken another decision I would have been so lucky. I know that I was/am not the only one who misses her, she left traces on every path she wandered, but I miss her still and I feel like I have to write it down!
In 1996, I took the Holy Communion for the first time. SHE could not be there and I dedicated it to her. If I would have not bothered about it and decided to not take it in Bolivia she would have been around a little bit longer...I was asked by my mum if I wanted to stay in Sweden during 1996 but I was so decided about taking my second Sacrament that I said no. My aunt had been with my grandma for a couple of months and even though the Swedish government offered her residence permit, she said "how could I ever stay here, in this rubbish country!" and since my mum was in Bolivia with me and my grandmother didn't want to stay alone during summer she travelled to Bolivia...after a couple of weeks, she had a cold so we went to a hospital in La Paz. The doctors said that she just had a cold but that it would be good if she stayed over the night...so she did! But for every day that passed by she got worse. One night she had had need for going to the lu, but the nurses that worked the night-shift didn't come so she urinated on her bed. Even after that she tried to call them but they never came. So she slept on the urine (in winter), so of course she got worse. Within a week she died, 9 days before her Birthday...which my mother had been planning to have a big party for!
If I would have said, oki, let's stay in Sweden...she would have been able to teach me more about life, to tell me more about tolerance, to tell me more about herself.
I thank her for everything I am... I thank you MAMI TRINI! TE AMO, TE ADORO Y LO HARE HASTA EL FIN DEL MUNDO!
My movie is lovely, if you want you can watch it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyYlqWbaJwo and the music has been composed by my own maternal grandfather, Julio Martínez Arteaga. He dedicated this song to my grandmother, Victoria Trinidad Machicao de Martínez. 
speciality from Vietnam (she had learned it by a Vietnamese friend) and ate it with white wine. Later on I had several drinks made for me. 
Very tasty! 
He is such a cutie and a good friend, and my "coussin". Such thing would not happen between us...and every time I keep thinking about what Abel (the birthday boy) said, I start laughing. It's just hillarious! 
speciality from Vietnam (she had learned it by a Vietnamese friend) and ate it with white wine. Later on I had several drinks made for me. 
I woke up when it was time to return back to the camp and on our way we learnt to see if there were any alligator and/or camoens (?) in the river. We did it by using a torch. Alligatorns have orange eyes and camens have red ones. Pretty good to know, right? 
The day continued in what felt as slow motion. I did not go to see the sunset since I had already seen it the night before. Instead I stayed in the camp and took it easy in the hammock.
It didnt taste strange at all...except that the head tasted cheesy 
There was a celebration over there becayse of its 146th anniversary. I think that the town is lovely! 
except the sunburns of course)!
There was a celebration going on in Huarina as well, because of the anniversary of the independence of La Paz, and there was a dog in the crowd of people in search for food. 
We helped her twice, without even asking for any kind of compensation. And now she doesn't even have the gutts to say: "No, I don't want to take care of him." I'm so 
I'll have to look for a caring and loving person for my son elsewhere. 
The world is cruel, we have to face the truth! 
And now, when the assembly has been moved to another place with a wonderful nature, people of the opposition start to criticize. 
it, and it tastes so good! 
I'm in love...
but I'm studying so that's a comfort I suppose! 
,sat in front of my wonderful Mac and watched different episodes of various series from a Swedish channel. 
She had entered the web on my computer while I was out strolling w/ Muñeco and I had forgotten to log off from MyOpera...and here I have a pic of my new haircut and the tattoo on my back (if you don't remember) and she saw it. When I was back home she didn't say anything, she probably forgot about it..one day later I was showing her the video of Vincent (the Swedish singer that I posted about before) and if you didn't notice he has two visible tattoos (so beautiful 
" to my attempts of making her accept a tattoo on myself 
) 
there!
). I can't say that I haven't learned anything during this past weeks (1.5 weeks to be accurate). We'll see how everything develops...
She was the one who always had time with me, 
