ABOUT MY FAMILY

By Rocío Cadena Cerón

I live whit my mum, my husband and my son´s. My mother´s family is Nariñense.

The principal person of my family is my grandmother, her name is Lia, she has ninety years old, she lives in Pasto.

My family is very big. I´ve  nine aunts and four uncles.  They live in Armenia, Bogota, Manizales and Pasto.  I´ve a lot cousins, they are Engineers, Doctors, lawyers, psychologists and university students. They are tall and slim, their eyes are blue and green, their hair are straight blond or brown. They are pretty and wear nice clothing.

Andrea, Camila and Diana have a job but Santy, Ignació and Maria Jose no yet. They are student.

Santy gets up early in the morning and go to university by bicycle at six o´clock on Mondays and Tuesdays, he has lunch on weekdays at twelve thirty and on the weekends Santy has lunch in the afternoon at about four o´clock pm.   The girls have to take a taxi or Bus every day  to get to your jobs or university. 

They go to bed at about eleven night o´clock, but on the weekend…..late!

They are my cousins:

She is Camila

Camila is petroleum Engineer, She is my aunt  Mercedes´s daughter, she live in Bucaramanga, she likes the mathematics, her favorite activities is go to the Gym, She  loves to exercise. She get up early in the morning and  go running for about an hour.

She is Diana.

Diana is lawyer, she live in Bogota, she´s from Armenia, she has beautiful blond or brown hair.  She´s tall.  Her boyfriend live in Cali, so, they travel to visit. She has to  take a taxi  to get to work.

She is Andrea 

Andrea is a Doctor, Andrea and Diana are sisters, They are my uncle Gerardo´s daughters.  Andrea Works in a Hospital in Armenia.

She is paola

Paola is a psychologists, Her eyes are Green, and her skin is very white, she has a lot  freckles in the face. She has twenty-seven years old. She is married. She works for a big computer company in Bogota, she starts work at eight o’clock in the morning. She get home at night, usually get home at midnight.

He is Santiago,

Santy  studies Mechanical Engineer. He lives near the university, he has a part-time job in a restaurant. He get up at  six in the morning on weekdays and start study at seven, he has lunch at twelve thirty on weekdays and about at three or four on weekends. Santy  goes in bicycle to university on Mondays and Tuesdays.  The girls have to take a taxi to get to their jobs, because  they live very far.

I like these things

by Carlos Castillo

I like rock and metal music, Therion is my favorite band, it combines the metal and symphonic music, its lyrics are about mythological characters or situations.

I like to read about philosophy and history, my favorite thinkers are Montaigne and Nietzsche also I like the documentaries about these topics.

I like science fiction movies because show us another possibilities.So,  some of my favorite saga movies is The Matrix, this films are very philosophical.

But my favorite movie character is the Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

I like the blue color, because I think it is calm and profound.

I like the mountain-bike, because I like to challenge to my body and I like take travels.

I like red wine since I was university student and I like so much the chocolate and sea meals

…And I like know diferent people, because with them I can know another world visions.

My occupations

By Carlos A. Castillo Lara

I have a degree in philosophy from the Universidad del Valle and other degree in pictorial techniques from IPC (Instituto Popular de Cultura).

So, I’m a social science teacher since 5th grade to 11th grade and artistic education since 6th to 9th grade.

I work in El Carmelo school. I started to work in this school on 2016’s february. From then on my routine is this:  I wake up at 4:15 and I sit on the bed’sedge to open my eyes wide. After I get up at 4: 20 a.m.  and I exercise.

I take a shower at 4:40 a.m. , after that, I get dressed (the last weekend I ironed my shirts and my pants). Sometimes I take my breakfast at 5:15 a.m. or 5:20 a.m. (sometime I eat arepa, other times bread), after I brush my teeth, but sometimes I eat breakfast and brush my teeth in my job place.

I go to work at 5:45 a.m. I pick up a co-worker on my motorcycle. I start to work at 6:25 a.m. (our work day is from 6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. sometime we finish at 4:00 p.m.). 

Always there is a pray before the class at 6:45 a.m. We begin the class at 7:00 a.m. First, I always greet the class, so I give the instructions to my students, sometimes I ask them about the last class or the homework or the day topic.

There is a break from 9:30 a.m. to 10:00a.m. I eat lunch at 12:35 p.m. I heat up my food in the microwave and I go to my desk to eat it. Often my food is chicken with vegetables, sometimes it’s meat with potatoes.

The last class start at 1:10 p.m. to 2:oo p.m. The students go to their house at 2:00 p.m. I have to watch the van’s exit. At 2:30 p.m. sometimes we have meetings or sometimes I work to checking test sor notebooks or I fill forms. I finish my day work at 3:30 p.m. , sometimes at 4:00p.m. 

I go to the university at 4:15 p.m. Over there I read or fill more forms or I draw. I go to English class at 6:00 p.m. and it ends at 8:00 p.m. 

I go to parking lot at 8:15 p.m. over there, I wear the elbow guards, knee guards and helmet, so I ride my motorcycle, I turn it on and I go to my house. Sometimes I pick up my girlfriend and take her home. 

I arrive to my house around at 9:30 p.m. I eat dinner at 10:00 pm. Sometimes I prepare class or fill forms or check tests and check e-mails to midnight. So, I brush my teeth at 12:00 a.m., I go to sleep at 12:15 a.m. Sometimes I take off my clothes, sometimes I dot take off my clothes because I just fall in my bed.

The school’s address is carrera 27 # 7-79. Behind the building, at the next block is Cervalle (it’s a butcher shop). Across the 8th Street, at beside block, in the right side, there is a marketplace, it’s the Galería Alameda, it’s the neighborhood’s landmark. At the next door at the school, in the right side, there is a restaurant and in the next door (at left side) there is a small store. In front to school there are some factories.

Some block more to south are the Canchas Panamericanas, that place i son the 9th Street. Over there we can buy the traditional and delicious cholados. Near to school also is the Biblioteca Departamental, it’s just 3 blocks to west on the 5th Street. 

My first occupation is like teacher. My second occupation ir like artist. I draw and paint portraits and other pictures. I have exposed in some place and I have ilustrated short stories in some academic magazines. I like to draw and paint aimals ful of colors and very expresive eyes in portraits, because the eyes are the key to expression. I am a figurative artista, but sometimes I like to be some no-figurative or surrealistic. I think art is the humankind mirror.