Writing sample of an informal letter by Alejandra García

Dear Yolanda,

Thank you for your letter. I am very happy because you are learning salsa classes. I belive you can dance salsa with you friends soon, in many parties.

In this moment I am studying a course of jazz and singing. The school is very nice, because it has many young people and all classes are very funny, I love it!

I go on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons for two hours to the singing class; and on Saturdays morning for three hours to the jazz class. My teacher is the same for both classes, then every week, we try to do different performance. We show to our parents every month.

Thau, At the moment we are practising a musical

performance, because we are going to compete with other schools and I am the main singer.

I hope you and your family are well.

Kisses,

Ale.

My book Open House

Have you ever had low self-esteem?

The self-esteem lies in the valuation that we have of ourselves. We worry to have a good appearance, for our feelings or for as we always fit with the world. But sometimes the majority of the people have low self-esteem, because in the life we have had a bad experience with someone or for some negatives facts that in our life had happened.

Open House is a book written by Elizabeth Berg, where she emphasizes as a person can has low self-esteem due in the life we have some changes and we don´t  resist these changes. But she shows as we can build a new life, it doesn´t matter the circumstance.

The protagonist is a woman can´t accept some changes that happen in her life. She is Samantha. She is married. And his husband is named David.  She has a son. His name is Travis but they aren´t happy.

They live in the city in a beautiful house. Approximately Samantha and David have 16 years of married. They can´t be together because the relationship has enough dilapidated.   

Samantha loves enough to his husband and she look for ways to win his over. She always wears sexy cloth. She always has a good appearance and she always takes the breakfast at bed. Nevertheless David doesn´t anymore want to be with his wife. He ignores her. They don’t anymore have sexual relationship. Always there were discussions in the home and Travis preferred to go to his friend Ben´s house every Thursday after School to eat dinner and do homework.

One day David wants to separate and to divorce of Samantha. Then he decides to leave his house and he goes to live with other woman. Samantha suffers with this decision. She doesn´t make anything. She always has a careless appearance. She looks for to his husband and she requests him. She wants to come back with him, but he humiliates her and he says no. Then Samantha stays in her house crying every day.

After months Samantha has a new neighbor. His name is Mrs. Gibbons. He is a tall, strong and likeable man. He observes the situation of Samantha and he gets that Samantha makes some activities. Mrs. Gibbons likes Samantha but he never insinuates her anything, he only wants to help her.

Samantha is very happy when she is with Mrs. Gibbons. Then Mrs. Gibbons wins her love and Samantha decides to give him an opportunity. Some time afterwards they decided to live together. But one day David his husband decides to return with Samantha and she says no, that now she is happy and that bother more. Finally she accepts her new life and she is very happy with son Travis and Mrs. Gibbons.

I believe that it is a good book. It has a great message and I am secure that the people are living the same situation; this book helps us a lot. Above everything, I consider that you must love yourself, it doesn´t matter if you are tall, small, thin or fat, the most important is to be happy with our defects and virtues, because the inner beauty is the essence of your person, because nobody is equal to you.

Read this book and enjoy the life.

By Alejandra García Ángeles

History of the Bicycle

I consider that the bicycle is an invention very interesting. Because nowadays still we use it, and I liked to know the evolution of the bicycle.

The Reading shows that the bicycle was an invention during the Industrial Revolution in the XIX century. The first bicycle was very heavy and it wasn´t as confortable and safe as now, because it was made of wood, without adjustable parts or tyres, without pedals, chain and brakes. You had to walk on it. In the beginning only the rich people could used the bicycles and after everybody could get a bicycle. Because they were very cheap and attractive. 

After the bicycle was evoluting. It was of metal and with pedals inserted into the wheel axle. It was less heavy  and more confortable. Because now you could be sitting and to pedal and thus you can move.

In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was created with a huge front wheel and rear tiny. where the people had to have more balance, because the front wheel had the pedals. I like this model of bicycle but if I had this bycicle, I wouln´t ride it.

In Great Britain made the creation of the bicycle as we know it today. Because John Boyd Dunlop invented the tyre neumatic rubber chamber filled with air, with which he equipped his son's tricycle, making it more comfortable circulation. Also the women sped off a symbolic precursor of how bicycles were to liberate their sex.

Nowadays we have seen the majority of people have ridden a bicycle. Also many people have a bicycle in your house. I believe that the bicycle was a very good idea. Because it is a cheap transport and you can make exercise with it. Too there is a sport with it, the  "cycling" , where many people have been joined.

I like to ride bicycle, is very funny. 

By Alejandra García  

Painting of Frida Khalo

I chose this painting of Frida Khalo, because I consider that she was an admirable woman, and in spite of her pain and of all her personal problems, she tried of to be a optimistic woman.Because her life wasn´t easy, but in my personal case, she shows me that I must enjoy my life with my parents, friends, classmates, etc., and I can´t leave that my dreams and goals fade.

So in this painting I can see a collection of all the facets that Frida Khalo had. In the background of this painting is the sea, the late afternoon and some hills. Too there are a large table with a lot food and flowers. Then the figure of half is Frida with nails in all her body and with her vertebral column broken. It is because she suffered a motoring accident. Immediately there is another Frida Khalo with a blue dress and in her forehead there is Diego River´s face. I can deduce that is the moment when she married with Diego Rivera. The next Frida Khalo is bare and with a foetus in her womb, where it has as meaning when she wanted to be mother and she couldn´t. The another Frida Khalo, first we can see to big Frida in brown color with an aperture in her chest and with a withered trunk in her heart. After there is another Frida is wearing a red dress and in her arms is carring a man and finally we can see other person is hunging to everybody and in her hands there are roots. In the back part we can see a sun, a face, some trunks and prickly pears. For me Frida wanted to show as she lived in this moment with Diego Rivera. She felt alone and without life. And in front Frida Khalo is a deer with arrows in her body.

The side felt of the painting, little Frida Khalo is suckling her chest in other Frida. I believe that Frida more time she wanted to exhibit her wishes of to be mother. The next to Frida Khalo is wearing a red with yellow dress, where I suppose that in this moment she felt a diffrerent woman, because she seems content. And Finally the next Frida Khalo is wearing a black suit, a white shirt, a red tie and a white and black cap and with a skull behind of Frida. I believe that this painting was last time. maybe because she presaged her death.

I like a lot this painting. I consider that Frida Khalo was and will be an admirable woman in our country. I heve never visited the blue house, but I would like to go and to learn more about of her life.

By Alejandra García

True love

 Before anything else I consider that true love is not necessarily with a couple or with your family. Because even if  we believe that the true love is a feeling that two people unite in marriage. Considering that everybody tought that the girls must wait our blue prince, as in the princess movie. Where everything must be pink color. Nevertheless in many cases our parents told us that this boy should be a good person, handsome, tall, strong, intelligent and rich. These thoughts are ridiculous. Because in the life there are not people with theses characteristics.

                    

Nowadays thera are few parents teach to the children to be realistics people. but everybody don´t  think the same. I can share you with my personal case, we can not want to nobody if not we do not give love ourselves. Because first you must want and to accept your body, qualities and defects and like this you can love another person as mother, father, sistre, brother, daughter, son, husband, wife, or anybody. This way sometimes people give the life for another people. In others words the true love is to have a good relationship with yourself, then you have a good relationship with couple and son/daughter, and you can understand the life of the others.

                                                        By Alejandra García

achieve you your dreams

I consider that everybody have the ability to achieve our goals. Only we have to fight against of everything can intervene in our road, because the perseverance is the key of the success. So common! Everybody can achieve our dreams. the life is wonderful.

weekend

I have a large weekend to enjoy. I can make a lot things for example I can watch movies,to make my homework, to clean my house, to be with family and to rest a lot, because after I have to come back at school.

I have sore throat but I will be positive and will enjoy everything.