Italy, summer 2014

Italy is one of the most magical places there is. In July 2014 I went on a trip with my mom and dad to Italy. One day, several months before the trip, an interest to go to Italy, specially Venice, sparked in me. I told my parents about this and they decided it would be a good idea to go. We also went to Rome, Florence, and Milan, which were also incredible places.

The first place we went to was Venice and we stayed there for about 2 days, we were going to come back again. Venice had a heartwarming feeling, the small houses and canoes in the place made it feel like those villages where grandparents lived and always talk about. The architecture in Venice, mainly white, was also a piece of art and made it great. We took the vaporetto to get to places and I just loved watching the water but the sun was extreme and it was very annoying when it would hit me or reflect on the water burning on the eyes.

Then we went to Rome, and saw the colosseum which I always wanted to see and inside even though it was full of fallen pieces of rock, it was very interesting. My parents wanted to see lots of things and we walked all day and under the sun that Rome had, it was pure torture, I was always thirsty. My favorite thing from Rome was by far Saint Peter's Basilica, it had many interesting statues, beautiful paintings and tall columns and I was just fascinated by it. We spent about 4 days on Rome.

About Florence and Milan I really don't remember much even though Florence is home to the greatest painters of the Renaissance. We did see paintings in Florence that I did like but I don't remember much about them. I also remember a palace or something like that connected to a bridge which had houses if I am not mistaken. In Milan I think we didn't do anything at all, we just walked on a Plaza visited briefly a church and that was it. We spent 2 days in Florence and 2 days in Milan. We then came back to Venice, spent another two days there just wandering since there wasn't much left to see but it was still beautiful, and then came back home.

The trip I had to Italy was probably the most exhausting I have ever had but it's also one of the most rewarding and I'm very happy and grateful that I had the opportunity to visit Italy.

The significant event in amiran's childhood

One time in 2008,  Amiran came on a Friday starting Easter break to his house in Torreon and heard his dad say something that really surprised him. "Let's go to Cuatrocienegas lake tomorrow Amiran," his dad tells him. Amiran became really excited and agreed to go. The trip was about 3 hours long and Amiran was really happy when he got there but when he saw the place he became dissapointed.

It was pretty and people were bathing and having fun, it all looked joyful but there were rocks in the water everywhere. Amiran wasn't dissapointed as much for the rocks as he was for the fact that his parents didn't let him go swim because of the life-taking rocks, which he considered ridiculous. At one point, when his parents weren't watching he went running to the lake but the sand around was as slippery as ice. He fell and cut his toe, which had an imprtant artery so they had to get him healed by sewing the injury. When he got to the doctor, the hospital was so terrible, they didn't even have anesthesy, so he suffered torture being sewed without anesthesy.

Once the suffering finished, Amiran was crying hard and his parents decided to go back home to Torreon, where he lied down many days because walking with that injury was more painful than walking over hot charcoal. That experience teached him to obey his parents when they warn him about danger and he also learned that he should always to watch his step. He hated Cuatrocienegas a lot ever since that day and will hate it forever.

A very stressing graphic novel

School is a very stressing place, first of all I hate getting up at 6 am, it is to early for me, my eyes are on fire and I am as clumsy as a drunk man. Even on the few days that I had the chance to go to sleep at 9 pm, I still wake up feeling horrible. Homework also makes school stressful, I hate when teachers seem to not talk with each other and give out projects, tests and assignments and a lot of work for the same week or even the same day but then suddenly after those stressing days there isn't homework from any class for a few days. Then after those days lots of teachers give homework at the same time and the cycle repeats. If there is something I have learned is that procrastination doesn't help at all with this, which is obvious, but I have also learned that I have an exagerated procrastination problem.

My english teacher on about October 26, 2015 assigned a short graphic novel of about 36 frames for November 6, 2015. We had to make a storyboard, which is a rough draft of the novel, for monday November 2 which I didn't do because I heard that it can be handed in with the novel on November 6 and not lose points. During the whole week (Nov. 2-Nov. 6) I was really stressed because really I wanted to start and divide it into a few days so it would not be so overwhelming. As the week was going back, while I just laid in bed doing nothing, watching dumb videos at most, the fact that I had to do it was always bugging and I always said to myself, "finishing this video I will start, which I didn't. I kept on procrastinating, Thursday came and I didn't even began my storyboard. I even procrastinated on that Thursday, I came from school at about 3:30 pm and thought to myself I would briefly rest and start but time just flew by, I don't even remember on what, and I started doing the story board at 8:00 pm, and I finished it at about 11:00 pm. When I had started the storyboard I wanted to do nice drawings but then thought on the fact that I had little time so I decided to make stick figures. When I started doing the storyboard I wanted to atleast make good looking stick figures and add cool effects but as time passed by, I stopped caring and started drawing whatever was recognizable, looking at the clock every 20 minutes and sleepiness starting to kick in. When I finished the storyboard, I started doing the novel. Since the novel was the same as the storyboard I but bigger I was more relieved or maybe I just didn't have anymore energy to be stressed. At about 3 am I was so sleepy that I had to put an alarm for 4 am, nap for an hour and continue. When I came to school I was still finishing my graphic novel. I worked on it on recess and I barely finished it in english class which is on the last period but I was very relieved when I finished it.

I shouldn't procrastinate so much and I has lead always to problems or to extreme lack of sleep but still, even if I don't that doesn't change the fact that at this moment teachers, especially english and Spanish, are assigning to much things. Teachers should talk with each other so that the homework we have is balanced and not all for one day, they should avoid overwhelming students so much.

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