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Ok! So, at the University of Florida we had alligators. At Complutense University we had an infestation of Brazilian Green Parrots. Here, at Waterloo University we have Canadian Geese!!! And they are EVERYWHERE!!!!!!


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Lady Beldaran

No puedo echar la vista hacia atrás sin sentir tristeza y nostalgia. Supongo que eso nos pasa a todos los Changelings. En estos momentos estoy sentada frente a un bonito fuego esperando las órdenes de la Reina Morgana. Pronto mis compañeros de aventuras y yo nos veremos enfrascados en otra misión diplomática para intentar detener lo ( Read more... )

Lady Butterfly

Kimi yuku ya                            Te marchas tú;
yanagi midori ni                  verdes son los sauces
michi nagashi                           largo el camino

-Taniguchi Buson (1683-1716)

Despuntaba el alba cuando Li Po Yen salió de su pequeño estudio y se dirigió con pasos apresurados a los jardines del templo del Caballo de ( Read more... )

LA CAIDA DE CONSTANTINOPLA
El despertar de una princesa

El icono de la Virgen Maria cae al suelo. Lagrimas de sangre manchan sus mejillas. Cientos de caras pálidas y asustadas miran anonadadas el suelo y la mancha de sangre que se expande y se expande cubriéndolo todo...ahogando las oraciones de los condenados. Sangre. Sangre por todas partes. Un ( Read more... )

One of the things that stroked me the most when I got here was the amount of foreign people that lived here. It kind of reminded me of London (England) for some reason. Apparently, the University of Waterloo is one of the best universities to come and learn about the internet and technology. The blackberry was created here. It has a state of the ( Read more... )

So far I have been in Canada for a week, and I really like what I see. There are so many cool things here that I really do not know where to start. Well, my first couple of days I spent in Kitchener at the Walper Hotel. It is a very interesting building made in the 19th century. The queen stayed there and Eleanor Roosvelt and even Lady Gaga amongst ( Read more... )

Three seconds. Time stopped for three seconds. Perfection was brewed in three seconds. That is all it took for a whirlwind to rip the red petals from the crimson poppies. Three seconds. The car was surrounded by the red petals...and time seemed to stop. Like an eternity trapped in a grain of sand. Like the universe trapped in a flower. Three ( Read more... )

Are memories residual ideas of the pictures that were taken when they happened? Are these memories more real because they left a presence behind in obsolete kodak paper? I guess we can really make ourselves remember more easily when we look at the pictures of those friendly faces that stare back at us from the past. A younger self, a family member ( Read more... )

The stillness of the night was disturbed by the scream of a woman. Nobody heard her. She lay motionless on the bed, her eyes wild with terror. She tried to find the switch to turn the lights on, but her body felt so heavy that she could not move a finger. She tried to take deep breaths. Slow, deep, breaths. Slow, deep, breaths. She tried to control ( Read more... )