The Snowman

Hi friends!! With the snow that felt down on friday I did my own Snowman. Actually that was posible with the help of my kids, really it was a big Snowman. We were very happy when we finished our work, and after that we took some pictures. That morning I enjoyed to play with my kids on the snow doing snowballs and throwing to our bodies each other. It didn´t matter the cold weather it´s was more important the joy of the moment.....

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novel was written in 1886 By a Scottish man called Robert Louis Stevenson. I love this kind of literature because it has a lot of intrigues and some of the characters are very mysterious. Yet, I don not what is the end of this novel but I am trying to imagine what will happen. When I finish to read I will tell you.

Quenas and Zampoñas

Hi friends!! Today I wanna tell you about some music instruments such as Quena and Zampoña, those instruments are wind instruments because you need to flow air inside of them if you want it to produce sound, those intruments were played for the ancient people in Peru when they wanted to play songs. It is not easy for me give you a description about them because I can not find the words that I need inside my brain, but I have given you some links where you can see by yourself what I want to show you, the first link is a song played with acustic and wind instruments, and the second link is a song played by Simon and Garfunkel (musicians from New Jersey) both of them playing the same song called The Condor Pasa. Enjoy it !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP1nlZmawD4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuG35Tbrtbw&feature=related

THE CONDOR ANDINO

Beginner playing guitar

Hi everybody!! the last friday Daniel and me (Daniel is my son and he is 13 years old) was looking for a music store because we needed to buy some strings for electric guitar, my son is starting to play the guitar, when we was crossing Old Country Rd we saw a big one, then I drove my car into the parking lot and after that we entered to the store, inside we saw a lot of music instruments such as guitars, drums, violins, pianos, it was amazing some instruments were electrics and others were acustics, we heard sounds of music instruments all around the store. My son and me were very happy. When we returned our house Daniel started to play the guitar he was very excited and he started to play his firts musical notes, I am very happy too. Daniel is a good boy, Go Daniel!!! you can do it!!!.

Wow!! She is reading.

I am very happy because mi little daugter is starting to read in English, She is 6 years old. When we came to this country she was 3 years old and she only spoke Spanish, in that time I was worried because I tought that she will have some difficult speaking and listening English, but now I am very astonished how fast a kid can learn this language and now I am very worried for me, I want to be a kid again!!!!

QUECHUA - Native Language

The Quechua language is a native language spoken by ancient people who lived in the Andes of South America, rencently census revelead that aproximately 6'000,000 people still speak this language in Peru and Bolivia and a little number in other countries like Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Argentina . This was an official language used by the Incas. If you want to know some words of this language try to open the link attached to this blog (You can see the quechua, english and spanish words). Enjoy it!! http://ullanta.com/quechua/Vocabulary.html

How big is the Universe?

Do you can imagine how big is the Universe? I was looking for on the web about something that could give me a idea about this, for a Little while I could not find anything that can answer my questions, but I continued trying to find something that can help me to understand it. After some time I could find some video on Youtube about this, I am going to give the link on the web about this, I am inviting you to see by yourself what I see, it is unbelievable how small we are. See it by yourself!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGxRWCmwSDE

Hi everybody, the last time I spoke about the jungle in Peru, now I will speak about the mountains in Peru that is called Sierra, we have a big mountains this group of mountains that travel from South to North is called Cordillera of the Andes, and divide to Peru in two parts, Some of the world's highest mountains can be found here, like The Huascaran (6,768 meters) a

nd Yerupaja (6,634 meters). In the south of Peru there is a canyon Called Colca Canyon (3,400 meters) and is twice deeper than the Colorado Canyon making it the deepest canyon of the earth. The temperature in the nigth is about -4 celsius degrees and in the day can reach 24 celsius degrees in the sierra of Peru. Also in the part south of Peru can be found the highest navigable lake of the world called Titicaca.

The Huascaran

The Colca Canyon

The Titicaca Lake

The Peruvian Jungle

Hi friends!! I want to tell you something about the Peruvian Jungle, it is a beautiful place located in the northeast of Peru, also is called Amazonas because is part of the Amazonas Jungle, in there you can find a lot of kinds of trees, plants, animals and insects. Also this part of Peru is important because the Amazonas River born here, as you well know the Amazonas River is the longest (about 6,800 kilometers) and widest river around the world, and transport more water than the Misisipi River, Nile River and Yangtze River together. The Peruvian Jungle is a beautiful and wild place you can see in there some animals like otorongo (big cat), anaconda (big snake), parrots, dolphins, etc. If anytime you want to visit this part of Peru you will be welcome!!

Peruvian Jungle, Amazonas River and some animals.

I like the music especially classic rock. The last night I was listened one song of The Eagles. Did you listen about this music group? They have several songs very famous, for instance one of them is Hotel California. When I was young I heard this song and I liked very much, but I did not understand the letter (In those years I was not worry by understand English). But the melody and the sounds of the instruments in that song it liked very much and still it like me. About the letter of this song I guessed that they were singing about a place (the hotel) where a couple can go and to have a good time (you know....). But now that I can understand the English a little bit, I could understand that they were singing about a haunted place, a pleasent place where you can check in any time but never you can check out. Now it seems that I am listen a new song and it like me even more. Thank you teacher!!

Roberto

Note: If you want listen this song please go to this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbjKMobts5U

The Nazca Lines

Hi everybody. Today I want to show you something amazing. Nobody knows who did it, or why. My son Daniel was impressed when he saw it for the first time in his life. These pictures show strange images that were made on the ground, you can see drawings of some kinds of animals like a monkey, humminbird, fish, etc. One of these drawings can measure about 200 meters across and were made by using a strange technique based in carving the ground until you reach white rock located under the soil. These Pictures were found in the Nazca Desert, Peru. And are called THE NAZCA LINES. Some scientists think that the lines were some kind of an Astronomic Calendar. What do you think about the lines? Do you think that were made by men or somebody else?

The Humminbird

The Spider

The Astronaut

The Monkey