And Superman is really dead...

There was a time in my life when I believed in superheroes, the kind of superheroes you watch in cartoons and in the movies. The ones you look up to because they always do what is right, and they have this amazing powers you can only dream to have. 

Later in life, I believe it was around the time my grandma passed away, I realized my heroes and heroines weren't on the TV, they were real people. I could talk to them and spend as much time with them as I wanted. Sure thing they couldn't fly or save an entire city in one afternoon; but they made a much bigger impact in my life, and for that I'll be forever grateful. 

There was my grandma, who could make single person feel at home; there is my mom, who is honestly the most strong person I've ever met, and who I believe has held our family together after all these years and who I think can secretly read minds; there is my dad, who besides having gone through a lot of shit in the past is simply one of the happiest people ever, and he never fails to make me feel better when I feel like crap. There's my uncle, who is like my rock, who has taught and given me so fucking much. There are my best friends, who are the best people on earth.There is this certain website which literally saved my life. And many, many others... If that is only with MY life, imagine the amount of heroes in other people's lives. 

 A couple of them have passed away already, but I was too little to understand. Now I've come to a point in my life when I can clearly see that all of those heroes are lacking the only "super" power I wish they had, immortality. Now they're fighting against high blood pressure, heart attacks, surgeries, memory loss, every day life...

It's not a secret that my biggest fear is to lose people I love. Which makes it so much harder to make new friends or be with someone, because I know I'll eventually have to say goodbye. And even with the family and friends who surround me, it hurts to see some of them won't be around for long. 

Every New Year's Eve, my great-grandmother used to say "I wonder how many of you won't be here at this time next year." &hearts, she always included herself in the ones who would be, even though she was the oldest person in the party. 

I guess all I can do is enjoy the time I have with them, cause who knows maybe I'll be the one who won't be here next year. 

On the front lawns of america the papers they all read,
Your kids are on heroin and superman is dead.

Happy Independence Day

Yesterday was lovely.

My grandpa came over on Monday and stayed with us for one night. I'm not really close to him, but the look on my dad's face whenever he's around is priceless. It's just so great to see him smile so big, he truly does love his daddy despite everything that happened. 

Funny story, my dad wears a beard, he ALWAYS has, I've never seen him without it in all my life. Once when I was in first grade, one of my friends told me "there's a werewolf at the entrance! Look at him! It's so scary." So to the window we went and saw my dad... I slapped him and I got in trouble with the teacher. Excuse me but that was rude. Haha, she didn't tell my dad tho, I guess it would have been a little uncomfortable to tell him why I had slapped the kid. 

Back to this week, for Independence day in my school we have to wear typical dresses so I wore something similar to this: 

...but orange. I might post a picture later, one of my kids wore a Miguel Hidalgo costume and I HAD to have a picture with him. He looked adorable. 

BY THE WAY, BEST COMPLIMENT IN MY WHOLE TEACHER'S CAREER (after the "You're the beast teacher in the word" of course) 

A boy said to me while I had my complete costume on: "Teacher, did your junior high school had a dance too?" HAHAHAHA ♥ bless him.

I wore the costume the whole day and mind you it's pretty heavy, after a tiring day at school I went to my aunt's house and had a great mexican dinner with my family and an amazing chat with the best cousins in the world.<3 

I really am  a lucky person, I just forget it sometimes. 

Other plans are coming together quite nicely, I'll tell you more about them when I can.

TTFN

PS. I watched the first episode of Glee and LOVED it. I highly recommend you to watch it. Mostly because this song gave me chills: 

I'm sick of summer and this waiting around. Man, it's september and I'm skipping this town...

Today's my sister's birthday.

And instead of sleeping all afternoon I'm being dragged to party. I'll probably end up falling asleep in a car or something. 

On the bright side, it's still raining. And I downloaded the soundtrack of A Very Potter musical and I'm now putting all the songs in my ipod. If you haven't seen that go HERE. It's amazing.

 

ttfn

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I can't say much about yesterday, my mom and sister were watching a documentary about 9/11 on discovery channel and I couldn't even look. Even today, after 8 years, despite being miles and miles away, and not even knowing anybody who lost a family member or a friend, I felt sad. People just shouldn't suffer like that. 

Introductions

I guess I should start by telling you who I am, althought most of you will probably already know by now but still. 

This is me:

My name is Paola but my friends call me Gaby (middle name) 

I'm a translator but right now I'm working as a teacher

And every morning I get to wake up and look at this: 

Pretty, huh?

Basically, I decided to start writing again; I still have a journal here, but I thought I would keep that for more personal topics. I just want to share ideas or post links but still trying to keep it child appropriate, so that if my younger cousins (or I don't know, my boss) ever come across this I won't feel embarrased. 

Blogging is interesting, it brings people together; besides writing keeps me sane, and hey, if this can give you a chance to go to freaking Antartica, I guess it must not be so bad. 

This week was hectic, I hadn't been so tired since my AA days (yes, I worked for American Airlines ;-] so? ) but so many good things happened that I think it was an amazing week. I'll tell you more about it later if I can. 

Right now all I'm going to do is tell you about these awesome people who inspired me to get a blog and who you should probably go read right now because they are far way more interesting than me:

Hayleyghoover 

MaureenJohnsonbooks

and last but not least, John Green

Basically, I wish I could be a combination of miss thrusday and MJ so I could get a guy like John :)

I'm gonna leave you with this song, because it has been stuck in my head for two days now: 

I guess that is it for now

dftba<3