Miroslava

INTRODUCING __TION__ MYSELF Hi! My name is Miroslava Rivera. I'm 19 years old. I'm studying law at "Facultad de Derecho". I love reading, and my favorite book is The tin drum of Günter Grass. I like to spend my free time with my family, friends or my boyfriend. We love to eat all the time (In my case, I love "pulque" of pinion and "carnitas"). I like watching art movies, visiting museums, walking around the downtown and traveling to know new places and meet new people. Actually, I don't speak other language, but I want to learn English because is necessary for a scholarship.



MY FAVORITE PERSON My favorite person is Javier. He's 24 years old. He's a communicologist and photographer, so he studied at FCPyS where he was a teacher. He's tall and slim. He has dark almond eyes, curly hair and beautiful smile. I love it. He's very funny (a lways makes me laugh), intelligent, interesting, honest and very polite. Javier is my boyfriend, and I love him.



SAMARA'S FAMILY Samara has a big family. She lives with her parents and her only brother, but she lives with her grandparents, cousins and guys, too. That's a big family! She has family in USA and she's keeping in touch with them only on Facebook. She see her paternal grandparents everyday, because they live together.

ABOUT MY PARTNER My partner Javier's studying engineering and he loves his major. I think the same of my major, also his major is very interesting. He said he like doing excercise, but in my case I don't like doing excercise. We agree that we don't like the cigarette. And bouth have a relationship.

MEETING PEOPLE I met Niurka, Latin Lover and the actress of Divan de Valentina at mall, five or six years ago. Recently, I met Cuauhtémoc Cárdernas in the Historic Center. I think I'm lucky girl!

KITCHEN TIPS For rice no to get flawr, add a little lemon juice before you put tomate sauce. I mean, when the rice is frying.

DISHES I'm going to tell you about Migas. It's a famous dish from Tepito, but I don't know its origin. The Migas is one of my favourites dishes. My mother usually makes it for breakfast on weekend, because is easy to cook and is very light. The Migas is a soup of hard bread with egg, and some people make it with pork. You can accompanied with epazote, crackling or cheese quesadillas. Well... Its appearance is not good, but it tastes delicious. Yumi!

MAGIC GELATIN
 * 3 cups boiling water
 * 1 pkg. (6 oz.) or 2 pkg. (3 oz. each) Strawberry Gelatin
 * 1 tub (16 oz.) cream

1. Add boiling water to gelatin mix. 2. Stir 2 min. until completely dissolved. 3. Add cream to hot gelatin. 4. Stir with whisk until cream is completely melted and mixture is well blended. (Mixture will be thin.) 5. Pour into 10 glasses. Refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.

CEPE Things you learn: I learned the meaning of new words like "slice" "hangover" and "seed". I learned the expression for "aguas frescas" in english, because in this language doesn't exist the word for it. I know new places, I think I'm going to visit this weekend.

Thing you liked: I liked meeting new people like Liz, because she's very interesting. I liked talking with her about diferents dishes of Mexico. I liked knowing new places for visit.

Suggestions for the next session: I want to do another exercises for meet the people in CEPE. I want to have a class on the garden for play to games. I want to play karaoke or similar activities.

ENGLISH ABILITY I think I'm good at understanding reading texts, because It's not difficult for me to use the gramar. Sometimes I relate the English with Spanish, but they're not the same. I like my pronunciation, I think It´s not very bad, but I have to expand my vocabulary if I want to talk more. I find it difficult to understand the listening passages in general, because I'm not practicing much. Speaking English makes me a Little scared.

HOLIDAYS Most of the time I was __in my house__ watching movies like Forrest Gump, Eternal Sushine of the Spotless Mind and Midnight in Paris. Sometimes I slept till late, but I woke up 1:00 PM, l loved it. On thursday I went with my family to Guanajuato, specifically to Conmonfort and Soria, in the first place are the best ice cream I've ever had. I ate a lot of ice cream of coconout, mamey and lemon. It was a great day. On weekend, I saw my boyfriend and we went to perfomance on Frida Kahlo Museum. It was fun spend my time with him. Fortunately, I didn't have a lot of homework, so I was very quiet this week.

TRADITIONAL BEVERAGES PUNCH FRUIT Things I learned: 1. It's a traditional __m__exican beverage. 2. Make it with different frui__ts__.

Things I liked: 1. It's a funny bevarage. 2. It's a comfortable hot beberage.

Suggestions: 1. Bring us a sample. 2. Present in the right season to find ingredients.

RUSSIAN TEA Things I learned: 1. Russians drink black tea all the time. 2. Offer a packet of tea to Russians is an offense for them.

Things I liked: 1. How to preparate. 2. Cookware used to preparate the black tea and drink it.

Suggestion: 1. Bring us a sample. 2. Talk a little more about their culture.

ENGLAND TEA Things I learned: 1. Herbal tea isn't considered as"tea", only the black tea, oolong and green tea. 2. Tea time or "Tea break" is at four o'clock.

Things I liked: 1. Paul McCartney's song "English tea". 2. Different designs of the teapot.

Suggestions: 1. Speak more English, because the country is England. 2. I liked the tea with milk, I don't have more suggestions for it.

TEPACHE Things I learned: 1. Ingredients of Milpa Alta's Tepache: anise, cinnamon, "chile ancho" and pulque. 2. There are many ways to preparate it in Mexico.

Things I liked. 1. Tepache's flavor. 2. Conference in nahuatl.

Suggestions: 1. More conference in mexican dialects. 2. Slides the subejct "Beverage: Tepache".

LUTUKA Things I learned: 1. It's from République du Congo. It's for reconciliation and unity of the people. 2. It's obligatory drink it at weedings.

Things I liked: 1. Expressions __for talk a__bout it, like "Vamos a hablar con un vaso de lutuku" after a conflict. 2. Venance, LOL.

Suggestions: 1. Bring us a sample. 2. Speak more in French, because I like it.

__ OBJECT MOST IMPORTANT __ Is a gold bracelet that my grandmother gave me when it was my fifteen birthday. It's not very old, but is very important fo me because my grandmother was like my mom always. Unfortunately I lost it a few months ago, and I'm still looking it.

SHORT HISTORY It was the most beautiful painting, and the most dangerous. She knew that painting comes from shrine Sixtina, and she knew that the police was looking her. There not way to scape, because the police know her adress. When the police arrived on her house, she was dead.

E-MAIL Dear Natalia. We are CELE students. We were in the auditorium when you presented a traditional beverage of your country. We love your presentation, you did it very nice so we could understand how prepare black tea and we learned how important it is in Russian culture. Even thougt your presentation was very well, we want to suggest you, if is posible, to use the microphone as some people couldn't hear you very well.

Thanks for your participation on this activity and we hope our suggestion will be useful to you. We would like to meet you again at another time, and learn more things about your country.

WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD... When I was a child used to sleep with my grandmother. When I was a child my mother use to wear me like a boy. When I was a child used to watch comics all day.

VOCABULARY FROM "THE HUNGER GAMES" 1. SCRUFFY: (Adjective) Dirty or untidy. Ex. Another year, they tosed everybody into landscape of nothing but boulders and sand and __scruffy__ bushes.

2. WAGON: (Noun) Railway/railroad truck for carrying godos. Ex. I've never been in a car before. Rarely even ridden in __wagons.__

3. MERCIFULLY: (Adverb) Used to show that you feel somebody/something is lucky because a situation could have been much worse. Ex. Then we're allowed inside and the doors close __mercefully__ behind us.

QUESTION ABOUT "THE HUNGER GAMES"

Will young people let the government use them as entertainment? (//Fabrizio)//
At present, the government controls the people through media, with TV programs like reality shows.

Will the thirteen districts have some relation with the USA? Why do you think it? (Miroslava) Yes, because in USA there thirteen states, and t is the country that controls the world's economy.

WRITE A NOTE Hello, Rodolfo I won't be able to go to your party. I feel sick. Sorry. See you next week!

Rodolfo write: Oh, it's ok! You should rest and drink a lot of watwr, perhaps eat some fruits. My best wishes!

MEDICAL TREATMENT Fernando told me that he hasn't never been in a hospital and he hasn´t never break a bone.

Hi Miroslava!

One of the things that __take__ my attention is your kitchet tip "Magic Gelatin". One day, I will prepare it because it sounds delicious. Talking about your " used to" sentences I don´t know If it is real, but I am identify with the first two. I love my grandmother too. I am agree with you about the relation between the movie and the real life, because in our days people are controled by the goverment through news, TV programas, etc. I really like you page, it is very complete and I think that your vocabulary is wide.

By Mariana R.