US life Part: I:Moving to a new existence

During 2007 I studied in the United States. I’m going to write a series of entries about it. First entry is named “Reflections of the US life : Moving to a new existence”
About 2 years ago I started applying to study abroad. I had been waiting that since I started college. I was hard to convince my parents. They have always been very overprotective. I applied to go to Angers in France, but there were just two places in that University and 2 friends with a better GPA than mine got in. I got accepted to Belgium instead. (I’m glad they didn’t accept me. God knows why He does things and He had a very god plan for me) My French wasn’t that good, but anyway I was convinced to go. I was about to fill in the second part of the paper word the Walt Disney College program came to my university to give a presentation about the program. I attended and I fell in love with it. I did the interview and then they asked me what I wanted to take. There was an option of studying in North Carolina first and then going to Disney. I was so confused I didn’t know what to do. I ended up choosing the Greensboro- Disney program for many reasons. Between them was the fact that I have always like the US and that I had been 3 times to Disney and I love it.
I sent in my paper work by mid October 2006 . By then it seemed a very long way until January 2007. But time is treacherous and when you want it to stand still it rushes as if it was on a race against something. I closed my eyes, I opened them and I was packing to go away from home for 1 year. I left the country on January 1st 2007 exactly after the New years party. We drove from the Party to the airport. As soon as I step on the airport an copious sadness invaded me. I am/was one of those persons that are very close to the family. I wasn’t going to see my mom, my dad, my sister nor my brother. I was going to be on my own…. When I saw my mom crying I just couldn’t kept being strong and I started weeping. I was traveling with one of my best friends who was taking the same program as I. We had to arrive there 1 week before the classes started for introduction.

We got to Greensboro in North Carolina on January first around midday. We went to eat to McDonalds (How original, huh?). We went to bed and didn’t wake up until the phone rang and they delivered one of my suitcases and then we woke up the following day when somebody from the university picked us up at the hotel. We got the university. It was huge! Nothing to do with the one I go to. We had applied to an apartment type dorm, but We didn’t get it and stayed in a place called The I-House (International House). I got a room with a British red haired weird boy. I was so nervous in that new life. I remember I would go to bed the first nights and I dreamed that I was still in my home. I would wake up wishing to be back home…I regretted going to study abroad so much. The idea of going back to Mexico crossed my mind….But suddenly everything started looking better….

Eclipse

I finished reading the 3rd book of Stephanie Meyer on the vampire series. As I mentioned with my review of the second book, it seems like a really long novel split into 4 parts.

I would say the main idea of this book is the fact of being in love with two persons at the same time. Some may think it is not possible, but I think it actually is. The same with the book, it states that it actually is. You can be in love with two, so in love with two, but You always will love one more than the other…. you can’t just live without one of them, and at the same time You will suffer from the one you chose not to be with.
Inside You always know You can just live, love and be with one. ( Unless You are from one of those religions that allows marriage with two or more, and You are male)
Remember Bella is in love with Edward. Edward is in love with Bella. Bella is friends with Jacob. Jacob is a werewolf. Edward is a vampire. Vampires hate werewolves. Edward hates Jacob. Jacob is in love with Bella. Bella feels a very special love for Jacob…could it be love?
It is a really fun love story. It takes you from joy to the feel of fighting for the one you love. Love is a battlefield where everything is allowed, right? But at the end, You’ll give up to the one you love if that makes her happy. You rather not be with the one You love and her being happy, than be with her and she loving someone else.
When I finished reading this third part I immediately wanted to start reading the fourth and last one….The proof that You are totally in love with somebody is when are willing to give your live for that somebody. Bella is willing to give something even more….She has chosen to share an eternity with him, giving up to live a normal life…

"BELLA?"

Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again.

This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine—like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.

* * *

As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob—knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

Here is the final trailer of the first movie based on the first book:

The Dark Love

Now is time to write about my third book. The last I have finished and the best one so far, I dare to write. I wrote that book in about 11 months or less and It is longer than the first two. I think it was the year I wrote the most. The ideas and the writing just seemed to flow. I had been planning that book since I started writing the first one. It was as if it had been on my mind for 3 years just waiting to be turned into words and materialize. If you read the first book and the second book ( And I mean really READ it. Read between the lines and analyze the clues) you can imagine what is going to happen in this third book. It is a more mature story than the first two, it’s a story that involves feelings, betrayal and a lot of action.
The dark love in this story and for me, it is when you love somebody that much but at the same time you hate it with all your body and heart. You love somebody that much that You will even give your own life to save him from death and protect him from everything… but Can you protect that somebody from yourself and your hate?
In this story it is also implied that each human ( wizard) has a good and a evil side. They control their good side, but from time to time their evil side take over them. When the evil side is dominant over their good side they turn into witches and sorcerers.
The last chapters of this book are so intense. Most people that have read it, have told me they cried at the end. It is just too emotional. I remember that at the end of it, I just couldn’t stop writing.
I finished his book during the summer of 2005. Right before taking the filmmaking workshop. There are a lot of quotes and life explanations in this book. Like the one I posted before. And there’s more that I’ll post eventually. (Like this week’s quote)

“After having been kidnapped Joe will have to face his worse enemy: himself. He’ll know the worse of feelings: the dark love, which will make him know his other truth and his dark side, which was hidden for many years. Now that Kukulcan has returned, He needs the Mystic Rose to recover his body and, along with his new allies He plans to use Joe himself to achieve his goal. Will Kukulcan be able to control Joe now that Joe has started feeling the Dark love? Will Him be able to face himself without hurting somebody else? What will happen when He discovers the secret that so jealously have been kept since his birth? The Dark love is a story filled with intrigue, suspense, and an ending that will mark Joe’s and Fantasy’s destiny forever….”

Quote of the week

This quote is from my third book too. I wrote it almost at the end of it. In spanish it says: "EL Hubiera es solo un deseo de lo que pudo haber sucedido y no pasó"

"Could have been is just a wish of what could have happened and didnt do..."- JCG

Quote of the week

"Even after the longest and darkest night, a big sun of hope will rise" - Zelen to Joe in "The Dark Love"

I wrote that back in 2005 at the end of my third book. And that`s how I feel. No matter how dark and long the night was, the sun will always rise again....

The abstract world of words

We think, We write, We communicate with ourselves and with others with words, but…What is a word?... A combination of letters, but that, by itself means nothing. What makes them so wonderful is the meaning we give them …What I like about them, is that they belong to the abstract world of ideas…You can not touch a word, you can touch the paper where it is written, you can see it, hear it, but you can not touch it…that’s what makes them abstract…The most amazing thing about them is that even when they are something conceptual they can make you cry or laugh…It is something abstract like love, something that makes you feel….The weirdest thing is that they are something you can not touch, however they make you experience a series of different emotions…and this is what I like to most about writing…There are millions of words, millions of different meanings…A simple combination of 4 letters can produce in your mind a revolution of ideas that will lead to a feeling “LOVE”….a few words put together might take you to tears: “At the end, She found him dead, that was when She realized that her world must come to an end, as She wouldn´t be able to survive without him and knowing that she was the reason of his death….”
What I love the most about writing is what I just mentioned. I can touch my book, but that’s what I’m touching, the cover and the paper with letters printed with black ink…I can open it and read the words, read them, but never touch them….and even when there’s just 300 pages, in my mind, while I read those words, I can create a new world and have feelings produced by the abstract world; The world of ideas, of imagination, the world of the non-existent becoming real, the world of words….
I love that with words you can create parallel worlds, you can make people feel what the abstract character is feeling, you can take him to tears or make him rejoice…There’s people that find confront and relieve themselves with words…You can take your mind and feelings way beyond the universe and create an intangible life worth telling and all that, just with different combinations of 27 letters….

Joe and the Everlasting Night

Joe & Everlasting Night

Now Is the turn to write about my second novel. It is the following story to the best seller ( Just kidding…Dreaming is free) Joe and the Black dragon Legend.
I think I hadn’t mentioned it before, but the original name to the first book was: The Prophecy : Joe and the Black Dragon Legend, but the publisher said it was too long, so they shorten it, taking out “The Prophecy”. So , as You can imagine the original name of the second book was “The Curse. Joe and The Everlasting night”. Nobody has told me to shorten it yet, but I simply did it.

To begin with. “Everlasting” is a word I love, I like the sound and meaning of it. Just by thinking of the synonyms of the word makes it even better: Endless, never-dying, perpetual, eternal, unending….There’s a lot of people that doesn’t like the night because of the darkness and that just stand it because at the end, the light will come again…Darkness is related to evilness, to fear…The night is the time when people sleep and when others take advantage of the darkness and make evil things, they kill, the steal, darkness is the time where vampires are supposed to be awake…

I got this idea when I did the brain storm for the first book. Originally this was supposed to be the 4th book in the series, but it changed to be the second. It is 100 word pages longer than the first one however it took me less to write it than the first one. It took me around one year to finish it. May be the reason why I wrote it faster than the first one is that during that year, one semester I was just taking 1 class, so I had a lot of free time I used to write (Oh…Good days….)
In the first book it was time for the prophecy to be fulfilled, the chosen was born…Now is time for the curse.

In Joe and the Everlasting night the curse made by Kukulcan is about to be fulfilled. His return is marked by the darkness, a night that is going to be eternal. Not only Kukulcan could be returning to the magic World but two other feared powerful beings are about to do so; The count Darius Vlood is about to awake and Giagon is about to be freed. Joe is just getting used to his magician life, but He will have to face a new challenge beyond magic...is friendship stronger than magic? Joe will realize friends can betray you, He’ll learn that love is not a game and that darkness is just the cover up for evilness now that everyday is darker and that light and hope is extinguishing …New and old friends, more magic, laughter and tension is what you’ll find out in this new adventure….

I imagine the cover more or less like the one I uploaded. But I would like to see the shadow of a bat on the moon.