Barb G-english

Fiestas Patrias is very quiet for me. Each year, I visit home, I dress myself to participate with the musicians’ school at the parade, and then spend time with my family. This year I have to admit I decided to skip classes to get home early; so I did. experience pretty much told me that the traffic is a disaster during holidays, so I prefer to travel early and skip all that noise and disturb. I was able to go to "fondas" and participate in the inauguration. We, as the musicians’ school of the town, each year open the "fondas" with some typical songs, like “Casamiento de Negro”, “Qué pena tiene el alma”, “La rosa con el clavel”; everything arranged by the professor for the band. We also play the national anthem and also the local anthem of the town. This was in September 15th. Days after, in September 18th, we also play for the parade. We’re the last to present in front of people and the local authorities. That day we only did one parade, but I remember some...

I’m writing this story from the future. It’s actually November 24, the original date of the blog entry was September 14. But, something I did last weekend was traveling home, see my family and participate voting for the elections. My sister was really happy to see me and she even accompanied me to the school I was assigned to vote; I’m happy to think that I’m giving her a good example, because she’s still young (she’s only 11). Besides that, my grandmother was really busy with pastry work; she started doing “pan de Pascua” as every year for the occasion, and I saw her really tired and her feet were swollen. I wish I could be with her soon to help her in her work (she actually pays her debts with the pastry work, and I really wish I could have an income and help her… I wish she could have a quiet life now she’s with me. Money it’s always a matter in families nowadays, sadly). I was supposed to be writing for my seminar, but I knew myself and I know that I never use the ...

Something that I AM really grateful about learning to play an instrument is actually being able to participate in an orchestra. I started late to learn an instrument, but it was not an impediment to play as second clarinet and actually learn tenor saxophone to catch up with the big band songs. But a special concert was when I was 18. The boy I had a crush on was going to play a song he composed by himself for the first and only time (he’s my friend, I have to say that he’s now in Germany learning to be a director someday,  and he hasn’t played this song again). I was in the tribune, because by that year I wasn’t in the musicians’ school anymore, so I only went to see the concert. It was breath-taking and heart breaking. He broke up with his girlfriend by that time and the song was so bittersweet I couldn’t react. It was like being born; passing by the sweet childhood and then it comes love, the beauty of it, and then, the pain and death. It was mostly played by...

To be honest, when a free theme appears I need to have a little time before putting my thoughts on paper (or, in this case, write something that could at least be interesting for you). And I had two ideas, I could talk about music and a new band I found out about the weekend, or I could talk about a game that I've been playing for three months by now. I Decided to do the second one, Because is kind of an unknown topic and I've only seen a very few people playing the game (but if you're interested in the music band I found out the weekend, it's "Kodaline" and The video that captured me was "All I have part 2"). So, getting back to the subject, the game is an " otome" platform for cell phones. For those who are not familiar with the term, an "otome" is a dating game developed mostly by Japanese companies. Mystic Messenger starts with the fact that you go to a hypothetical apartment that contains classified information, wit...

Since I can remember I’ve been drawing in books and loose papers, but I have to admit that consciously, I’ve been drawing “good” since I was 14. It started as a hobby with internet friends with whom I got to share drawings of the same series we enjoyed watching. Unfortunately, I don’t have the same amount of time that in those years and we have lost touch, but those good memories remain in me. I usually do a lot of sketches as daily basis. When I don’t draw, I feel like something is missing in my day… And when I have time, I easily spent about 6-8 hours from one day to paint in digital. It may sound a lot of narcissist, but I’m pretty good at drawing and painting in digital. I used to draw commissions for foreign clients… But I have lost the confidence to keep doing them. So I might share with you a simple process of the way I paint nowadays. I start with a rough sketch that can be drawn on paper or digitally (image 1). This is the first idea, and it doesn’t mean that is...

This photo was taken one year and half ago. It was my first travel abroad, I earnt an international scholarship to Spain in 2015, and the travel was set for January 21th, 2016. We were in the International Airport. It was my first time, and, if I have to be honest, I cried a lot saying goodbye for such long time (6 months, wich, now in retrospective, doesn't seem that much) and being afraid that an accident might happen in the flight and I end up dying in the middle of the sea. From left to right, my grandma is the little old lady. I'm in the middle, the tallest one in the family. Then, there's my little sister, who's being held by the shoulders by my mother, the last one. This is actually one of the few photos we have, the four of us together. We don't take that much pictures, as groups, if I'm honest. It's probably in this situations, where something important happen, that we dare to took a photography. Realizing this. I guess I will talk to this ...