Rage

I called the psychologist to arrange an appointment because I desperately needed help. I thought Sunday would be perfect, because anyway Mrs. Crenshaw had cancelled on me. The psychologist was doubting whether if giving me therapy on Sunday or having her free day, she stayed silent for a while.
During those seconds of silence my mind continued working, and my veins feeling all the rage flowing through them, my feelings were huge and also mixed.

I was trying to clear my mind; my ideas began to appear –calm down, control your self, Wong family and all the troubles can get you crazy- these ideas were gently flowing in my mind. I began to breathe deeply, my neurons and veins began to relax, and the motion inside my body flew slower, my blood, my thoughts, even my feelings.

I was recovering my mind completely from those tremendous and distressing feelings when the psychologist, who was also fighting with her mind to take a decision, answered me with these words “You will have your appointment for Sunday, but don’t be late and don’t you dare to cancel”. When I finally had my therapist answer I felt relieved, so I decided to clear my mind completely.

I left the supermarket without doing any shopping (anyway anything was so necessary) and also did it in a passive mood. By that moment anything can disturb me. I felt my body different and figured out as well that a smile was going to appear a minute later.

Everybody at the supermarket was surprised about the way I acted, nobody expected it: I knew my actions wouldn’t change other costumer’s lives but anyway I wasn’t expecting them to understand me.

That Sunday I had therapy and it changed my life, not immediately but I knew it’ll work. I’ve been in therapy since that day and now not only I’m capable to control and enjoy every emotion, but also to accomplish my work as I should (arriving on time, and else).

That day at the supermarket with all the goods and the “check out twerp” changed my existence in a constructive way.

Electronic Journal

Monday

The day was perfect, the sun was shining and the weather was comfortable. The first vacation’s day, everybody was enjoying their free time by resting, going out to some interesting place or just sleeping.

For me this day was a little different, I had to send by mail a difficult homework, I hadn’t had enough time finish it before, so at that “perfect day” I was sitting on my room’s desk doing my homework.
While doing my assignment I felt anxious and also bored, but by any mean I needed to finish it that very day.
At the end of the day, feeling tired and upset, I send that terrible homework to the teacher and after that I felt finally on vacation. I felt relived and free, at that moment I decided to play videogames for a while and then went to sleep.
It was an awful day.

Tuesday

I had nothing to do this morning, so I decided to sleep until 11 am. Being relaxed and a little sleepy I took breakfast with my mother and bother. After that I was spending my time listening to music and chatting, my uncle arrived and talked with us about a job he was going to do soon. The job wasn’t the main issue he was going to mention, he wanted us to help him to do an inventory for his stationary. Sincerely I was a little lazy and wasn’t feeling in the mood to help, anyway I did.
We stopped with the inventory at night, ate something and rested.
I can’t complain, this was a productive day.

Wednesday

This day was also sunny, the colorful flowers and the trees in the garden of my house were thirsty as I was. This time the weather wasn’t that comfortable, it was really warm.
I was waiting a friend who was going to visit me. I had to wait a lot of time more than what I’d expected because that morning he received a call to apply for a job. He needed to solve some exams, which made him be late. I wasn’t impatient anyway I was at home. When he arrived we all get really happy because he was excited about the job, we wished him luck, but we had to keep curious because we didn’t know when he was going to receive the answer.
Because f the news and also the time we spent together, having fun, watching movies, and else, this day was really nice.
I will go to bed with a big smile in my mouth due to the reason a friend of mine is happy and achieved an important goal in his life.

Thursday

Near home people were celebrating “Semana Santa” which is a catholic celebration, and the politicians let some people to sell things and install mechanic games (that has nothing to do with the celebration) for a while. This event took place at the avenue where my house is placed. The calm and warm day turned into noisy, dirty and crowded.
I didn’t want to go out so I stayed home and watched a movie, which is a really good Japanese animation.
Finally the night covered the sky, and while I was standing in the yard the shiny moon above my head showed me the way to go to sleep.

Friday

I woke up early; the reason was that I was going to be visited by a friend, who I hadn’t seen for a while. Also my mom woke up early, so we decided to go out in order to “buy something for breakfast” but we did a lot of things before it.
We went to my uncle’s house, to look for a bank (which we couldn’t find open), went to the supermarket. We took breakfast at 1:30 pm he he he. Then we went to pick up my friend to a subway station and returned home. My friend and I spent a lot of time talking about funny and interesting things. Ate healthy food and drank an enjoyable coffee.
This day was simple but perfect; by the end of the day I was tired and decided to sleep early.

Help

Dear Amy:

I'm in trouble and I would like you to help me. Let me explain you what had happened. My birthday was last week, and my party was going to be celebrated on Saturday.

I was inviting my friends, but one of my best friends wasn't abble to come because that day was her mother's birthday. My friends and I agreed to celebrate my party together the next Friday, but I was going to celebrate also on Saturday.

Well, I decided not to invite her on Saturday because anyway she couldn't go, and I will invite her the next Friday. She noticed that I made a party and that I didn't told her, so she got really angry and stoped talking to me, and to the friends that went to the party. She also canceled the next party for Friday.

I don't know how to tell her I'm sorry, anyway she wasn't abble to go. But I don't want her to be angry at me. What should I do? Can you help me?

Hope to read your answer soon.
Azucena

Short story

Year 2000 – The chaos started 2 hours ago, I’m still in shock, nobody thought this could happen. All the members of the secret agency, including myself, started to blame. We could not trust anyone anymore.

The place still had smoke, it was so difficult to breathe and everybody wanted to go out just to feel air through their lungs. The civilians that were here, while the robbery happened, had to stay in the building in front of the big clock, just to give statements to the cops of what they saw. I’m sure most of them couldn’t notice what was going on because of the white smoke that suddenly appeared.

Me and the other detectives were searching for some evidence, but it was hard to find something, even to get to the place when the clock was taken. That clock was really famous, it was a relic, the watchmaker told everybody that the clock was designed to work forever. The clock was made in the 17th Century and it was still working. It was placed on a tall tower in the city.

The only evidence that we could find was a wrench, motorcycle prints, and a note. The note had a name, which was of a famous thief called “Mouse”. Mouse had robbed many huge things before such as art pieces and jewels. The clock seemed impossible to steal, but as Mouse wrote on a note before, nothing was impossible for him.

But while we were working on the crime a mysterious guy appeared, he told our boss he knew Mouse, and that he would help us to find him, everybody was amazed and could not understand why he was there to help. He explained he wanted to help because he was jealous of him, they had “worked” together one time, but Mouse refused to pay as he promised.

The man took us to the place where Mouse was hidden, the clock was there, and we all were surprised when we noticed that the clock had stopped. Then, Mouse talked with us, while we were surprised, he explained he used to steal things in order to preserve its romanticism and illusions.

As he said, he used to steal things which people liked and had a special meaning for them. Like the clock, people thought the clock would not stop, but in fact it was going to stop the day that he stole it. He did it because he didn’t want to see people disappointed.

We felt touched by those ideas, and decided to let him free. The documents that contained the whole story about the robbery were taken from the agency by my boss and the man.
We let time pass and the culprit was not found. They threw the documents into the fire. No one would ever know their secret.


I think my grade is: 15/20

Profile

My name is Azucena, I’m 22 years old and I’m studying Metallurgical Chemical Engineering at UNAM. I’m also taking a writing course at CELE because I want to improve my English.

I like arts in general, Mexican art, colorful art, and also many styles such as abstract or expressionism. Another thing that I like is music, I love to spend time listening to music because it reminds me about special moments in my life, there are many kinds of music that I adore, these include punk, pop, opera, classical, jazz, and others. Something I can really enjoy is food, flavors are really important to me; I can be delighted by a candy, a chocolate, coffee or a soda, or many kinds of food (traditional or international). And obviously I love my major.

It’s time to tell what I dislike; I don’t feel comfortable when I see blood or crowds and I have a bad memory.

Well, sometimes I can be considered as a cold person, but I know I can be friendly once you get to know me.

Letter to a canadian

Dear visitor:

Maybe it's the first time that you visit Mexico, and I think you've heard something about this country.

There are many interesting places you would very much enjoy, regardless of the activities you prefer. There is a large variety of landscapes. You can find attractions ranging from the beautiful beaches to the colourfu colonial cities.

You will be surprised by the taste of our traditional spicy food. I recommend you to try pozole, cochinita pibil and mole (a food made of chiken meat, chilli and chocolate).

Mexico has a lot of traditions like the Day of the Dead or the Anniversary of Independence.

In Mexico City, you will find several things you can do and places you can go to. The architecture is really diverse, in the downtown you will find a lot of historical buildings that are amazing, like Bellas Artes or Palacio de Mineria. We also have many museums which show many art styles or historical events, for example the Chapultepec Castle or the Modern Art Museum.

You can also ride on the "turibus" which is a bus that goes around the city and see the different places of the city.

I hope you really like the city.

Best Wishes
Azucena

Expectations

The reason why I'm here is because I'm not very good at writing. I want to improve it. I also expect to learn some techniques about writing, like how to use formal - informal registers.

In every English course that I'd taken I learnt different vocabulary and some expressions because of the way the teacher or my classmates speak, I also expect to learn from them what is useful to me.

Another expectation is that with practice I will be abble to express, by writing, many thoughts, ideas, plans, or just something that I will like to share, because now I have some trouble with it.

Sometimes while I'm writing I have black outs and I just don't know how to continue or what else to write, so I think practicing will be very useful to give me the fluency that I need for writing.

I know this course is going to be a little hard, but I will try my best because I want to improve as much as I can.