Gaby.Bustos

Introducing myself
Hi!, my name is Gabriela. I am 20 years old. I’m studying the sixth semester of Computer Engineering. I live 2 hours away from here, in Tepotzotlan. I love going to the gym. I have a boyfriend, his name is José and he studies culinary arts. I speak Spanish and a little bit of English but I would like to learn more to have better job opportunities in the future. I am a student at CU from the UNAM. I have one sister, her name is Angelica and she just turned 15 years old on last September. I live with her and with my parents too, Gabriela and Antonio. I like spending my free time going to the gym and having a lot of sleep. After I finish my college I will have a great job where I will be earning a lot of money.

My partner is David, he is 20 years old and he is studying Chemical Engineering. I like that he wants to continue his studies in another country and that he likes sports in specially soccer. David likes the Simpsons, but I don’t and I think that pulque is disgusting because I hate its texture and beer makes people get fat faster. I agree when he says that he would like to work in Grupo Modelo because they make a lot of money and that company is a really important brand worldwide.

My favorite person
My favorite person is my mother, I think that she is very friendly, nice and gently. Her name is Gabriela, just as mine. My mom is middle aged and medium height too. She is a skinny woman and she has white skin. She also has brown hair and brown eyes. My mother uses glasses, and she has great white teeth, her smile is really cute. She goes to the gym because she is a healthy person.

Dennise's family:

Dennise doesn't have a big family and she only has one sister. Dennise is living with her parents and her sister. She told me that she also has family in Florida but she doesn´t visit them. The only person that she visits is her grandmother because she lives near her house.

** Kitchen tips **
1.When you are making a chicken pot,place a "bouquet garni" inside the preparation. Thay way our pot and sauces will have a better flavor and smell. 2.To avoid the oxidation of fruits an vegetables add some white wine drops in some water and put the food inside the water. 3.When cooking a fish just turn it once,if you turn it twice it will turn into pieces and will be overcooked.

Sentences of frequency adverbs
1. I always want to be next to you. 2. I often go to my swimming class. 3.Sometimes I would like to be somebody else. 4.I usually wear jeans and tennis shoes. 5.I have never gone to Africa.

CEPE´S session:
Things you learn: I learned the meaning of new words like "slice", "hangover" and "seed", and now I know how and when to use them. I learned the expression for "aguas frescas" in English, because in this language many Spanish words do not have a right translation. I knew new places all around the world, their customs and way of life and I think I'm going to visit in the future.

 Thing you liked:  I liked to meet new people and their experiences in life and that’s very interesting.  I liked talking with the group about different dishes and drinks of Mexico. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> I liked seeing new places for me to visit.

<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Suggestions for the next session: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> I want to have more communication and to do more activities in order to meet more people in CEPE. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> I would like to have a class on the garden for us to play games with the group. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> I would like to have a demonstration about the waters and teas that we saw in a session.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The dish that I like the most is called “Spagghetti alla basillicatta”. It´s ingredients are linguini (this is a type of pasta), italian sausage, shrimps, garlic, some red chilli, and olive oil. My boyfriend is the one that usually prepares this plate, he has made it 4 times because I do love eating it. I eat it when we want to be romantic and he cooks for me, so I can not say a specific day that I eat this plate. I like it because firstable I love pasta, and I think that the combination of sausage and shrimp is amazing, then it is a little bit spicy with the red chilli and it becomes an awesome plate.
 * My favorite dish **

Invictus
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How was Mandela sure that the capitan that he chose was not going to fail as a leader? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He wasn’t sure. Mandela only chase this capitan with the only purpose of inspire and motivate him and the team. He wanted to make him know that he trusted him and that he had to develop the knowledge with effort and constant training without leaving motivation and dreams aside.

**​Mexican food**
1. In my country people normally have 3 meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner. For breakfast we normally can have some toasted bread and coffee, or just scrambled eggs with ham. The fruits that we can have the most in a fruit cocktail are banananas, melon, pinneapple, some watermelon with whipped cream and honey on top. Just as in many countries, lunch is the main meal of the day, we usually have a 3 times meal, for example soup, redo or white meat with some salad and some families have desserts like "arroz con leche". And finally dinner, these is the lightest mela of the day, we can have milk and toast.

2. Mexican food has a lot of variety, for example here in Mexico city and around it the most popular dishes are barbacoa, birria and quesadillas. we dont actually have a national dish, because we have a lot like enchiladas and chiles en nogada. In the northpart of the country, food is spicy and normally they only eat meat every day. they have lots of sauces. And on the south part of Mexico its always seafood.

3. Water made out of fruits are the most popular drinks in Mexico. But horchata and basiliscus flower water, are like the top of them. Horchata is made out of rice, milk, cinnamon and sugar, many people use also sweetened milk in order to provide more flavor. Tequila, Mezcal and Pulque are the most popular alcoholic beverages in Mexico,these ones are great because we can drink them straight or combined.

4.If you come to Mexico you will enjoy the most delicious natural flavored and spicy food and you will be able to marinate the dishes with our drinks. welcome to Mexico!

Drink description
1) Agua de jamaica/r__osemallow__ water

Hibiscus flower? Emma
2) Rosemallow, water, sugar and ice.

3) You have to drink it very cold because it’s refreshing to our mouth. It cleans our tongue and prepares us for the next course when we are eating. We can drink it everyday but is more common to drink it in September <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">for our independence day. We can also drink rosemallow water with our relatives.

4) It also helps us in our health. On diets doctors and nutriologists recommend this water because it makes you lose weight it also helps us in our mouths health and actually in the blood circulation.

5) Jamaica - Pito Pérez

My English ability
I do understand English language, but when it comes to the listening part I understand just the basics not the hole thing that the person is saying. When I have to read I almost read and pronunciate everything correctly, there are just some words that I don’t catch.

If I have to speak with someone I really get nervous and it frustrates me. My vocabulary is quite good, I just need to concentrate and study more. What would really help me is to read books written in English and watch non subtitles movies, that way I will be able to improve my speech my listening and my vocabulary.

My Holidays
On my vacations I went to Querétaro and to Guanajuato with my family. We went to several museums and the weather was so hot. We also passed by Tequisquiapan. After being in there we decided to visit Guanajuato,specially San Miguel de Allende and I have to say that the best part in there were the ice creams that we ate,they have some really tasty ice creams.

Art and music
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">An object that is important for me and my family are some letters that we have from the Mexican Revolution. These letters come from 1920 and we got them from a captain in that revolution. These letters are really important because my grandfather was shot during the revolution.

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Do you think people are too concerned with being young in today's society? Yes, unfortunately we live in a society in which if you are young you are beauty, you can get a job. If we are young we are able to do more things than old people. Our society is really concerned about being young, that's why we see mothers and older people in the gyms and having facials, they only want to feel young again.

'Your personality is written on your face'. what does this quote mean? Do you agree with it? It means that the gestures that we make, the wrinkles that we have, our smile and our eyes can say everything about us. For example if we are sad or angry, we can even judge if someone looks like a good or bad guy. I'm not agree with the quote, due to the fact that we are judging a person without really knowing them.

**Short history** <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I thought that the sculpture was the most famous in all the world but I was incorrect because the sculpture was just a copy of David. I was angry because I bought it on the internet at mercado libre and I paid 100.000 000. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I decided to start an investigation about the guy I bought it from and he was from Nepal. The police get to him 4 months after this thing happened, now I’m glad he is in jail.

Eduardo's experience
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I would suggest Eduardo not to fight back with a teacher, at the end your grade is in their hands. You could have told her to provide you with five minutes to change yourself or if you were able to make it other day with less grade.

e-mail ​
Hi Amairani and Alan!

We are Patricia, Jessica and Gabriela. We hope you are fine. We were in your presentation at CELE’s auditorium, last March 22 and we liked it. In your presentation, we learned that we can add hibiscus flowers to the punch and that the punch’s origin isn’t in Mexico, the colonization brought cultural elements to our country. The things we liked about the punch were that the punch is a symbol of our Christmas time also the punch’s flavor is sweet. A good idea for the next session is that you should bring a sample of the beverage, even though we know that punch is difficult to prepare because most of the ingredients are only available in December. That way we can have a explanation while we are tasting the punch with hibiscus flowers. Thank you for your time of reading this letter. We would like to see you soon talking about another Mexican drink.

Greetings from Patricia, Jessica and Gabriela.

When you were a child...
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5;">When I was a child I used to play soccer. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">When I was a child I used to have parties with piñatas and cakes. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">When I was a child I used to sleep with my cat.

Concert
Last march I went to the Vive Latino 2013 with my boyfriend. The most important bands that played were Division Minuscula, El Tri, Fobia, Panteon Rococo, Ska-p and Los fabulosos cadillacs. The concert took place at the Foro Sol and there was many people in there. With El Tri and some other bands, the crowd went crazy. I had a nice day because even though it was really cold, I was with my boyfriend singing, dancing and eating. At the very end, we went to see just for minutes to Carla Morrison, and as it was very cold we decided to go home. I did enjoyed the concert a lot.

Future questions that I make myself according The Hunger Games
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">1. Will we have to fight in order to survive? (People has to be sacrificed) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">2. Is the world going to be divided in districts instead of countries? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">3. Is the world going to be that disturbed that we are going to see on TV who dies and who don’t? (In the novel they show on TV the challenges) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">4. Is everybody on the planet going to be needed? (In the movie, people doesn’t have too many resources to live) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">5. How is the media will be affected? (There are no phones, no computers shown on the film)

Hi gaby.
=== As you know, I´m studying engineering too, however it´s diferent beacause I´m studying engineering in Telecommunication, there´re a little same though I want to learn more about programming in JAVA, I hope some day you help me please. ===