Shakira is one of my favorite singers. I love her music, style, and originally. She is from my city in Colombia, which is Barranquilla. As you know Shakira sings in different languages specially English and Spanish. There are a couple of her songs that are in both languages, but even though they are the same songs, or better to say the same rhythm, the meaning changes a lot, to make it in other languages changes a lot what the writer of the lyrics want to say and transmit. The song that I chose to talk about is Objection, and in Spanish Te Aviso, Te Anuncio. You can find the video in http://youtube.com/watch?v=7DRt7TRzO0A that is in Spanish, and in English http://youtube.com/watch?v=l_QQOGLdOCo through the videos you can notice how they are pretty much the same at least the rhythm and music is the same. Lyrics are what make all of this different and make the contrast between them. Most of the time artist try to keep the meaning of the song, but that is really difficult and sometimes impossible. You can have one of the feelings that you want to show in the songs, but to transmit the same feelings and ideas is not going to be the same. I have try to do that, yeah !!! to transfer from Spanish to English, or vice versa, and let me tell you and is so difficult to do it following the music, you can do it, but if you try to sing it will be horrible.

Two Pieces of Art

This painting in some ways are the same, but by different artist and style. To the left The Mona Lisa by Fernando Botero a Colombian Painter, to the right The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci. The idea of these two paintings is the same, a beautiful

woman that is standing to be paint, the colors are pretty much the same the only different is made the time of one of them. Even though they transmit the same idea, they show us beauty with different eyes and volume. In art we can find many paintings as these that share a few things, but at the same moment they show so much contrast and that is what make art different and special. The other different that we can found is the time between the painters one of them is a contemporary artist and the other one of the famous painters of the Italian Renaissance.

Fernando Botero is on of my favorite painters not just because he is from my country, but he show beauty with different emphasis in a world where to be thin is an icon of the beauty.

Two people I know

There are a lot people that is really important in my life, and definitely my mother is the most important. Her name is Marelvis Monzon. My mother is always in my heart and in my mind, it does not matter how far away I go from her. My mother is really sweet and patience, she always try to help people as much as she can. She did not finish school, but she is really smart and intelligent. Thanks to God wherever I go, I have always found people that does not take the place of my mother, but became something pretty similar, they became like a mother for me. In this case I met a wonderful woman in Milwaukee, the city where I arrived for the first time in the U.S. Her name is Barb. She finished not just her high school, but her college and became a teacher. Their lives have been really different in many ways, my mother had the opportunity to have three children while Barb could not have any. But now their lives have something in common and that thing it's me, yeah ! Now that I am part of their lives I found many things in common, they are sweet, smart, kind, and full of pure and sincere feelings. They are like one in my life, it is like have a mother all the time, here in every single second, a person that I can ask for help, and a person that listen to me and give me her advice, and then back in Colombia is my mother, my best friend. The only things that I can do is give thanks to God for this gift.