One day at the Library

Sitting at the Library across the street from my highschool, Cypress Bay, I realize that I have only 8 min remaining in my computer session, and only 2 days of high school. No more homework or assignments, no more crowded hallways, no more waking up at 6:30 am to go to school. Now I'm going to graduate... Now I'm going to move on to another seccion in the story of my life. I look back at all I have acomplished and all the new faces I met and lost. Im proud and happy and ready for what is yet to come. I will continue with my blogs so I can continue to see the infinite possibilities of what I can create and what has been created.
My boyfriend Daniel and I, will be going to Cancun for my prom and of course I will introduce him to the excitement and beauty of my beloved homeland :) (and to party legaly!! yeeesssss!!!!) anyway... haha
I'll leave this as a reminder for me, because I know no one who reads my blogs...
The mind is super powerful, you can achieve whatever you set your mind for, AND Above all Things You Shall be Glad and Young.


ps: I want to follow blogs and the news.
start here -> http://the-unique-people.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-11-03T07%3A41%3A00-07%3A00

Tomorrow TOMORROW!

TOOOOOOOOMOOOOORRRRRRROW !!!! is my final WISE presentation where I will present all my "experience" during this semester of blogging and researching about architecture... oh yeah ...
Some people that I wanted them to go aren´t going to be able to go , but my Danielito is going haha
I KNOW the presentation is going to be fine, awesome and very long hahahaha
I´m ready bring it on!
reaadyy...
oh yess

When finally luck turned

I was looking through Facebook today, because I just found out that I´m going to go to Cancun for my prom over there, with the middle and high school class I’ve been with since 6^th grade J ( I really don’t know why I hadn’t planned this before… that’s my true class that knows me) So I was looking for flight tickets and I had to let my friend, Natalia,  know that she will be receiving me(and maybe Daniel!) on July!  -She had offered to take us in before she went back to Cancun this past weekend.--  The point is… that I was checking Facebook and I saw that Natalia fixed her memory card and posted all the pics from Orlando!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so happy J

Here are some pictures!!!! wuhuu

Happily on our way to Orlando

i-4 , where we pulled over for 2 hours...

Ready to enjoy our day at the park :)

At the Simson´s ride

My new book :)

Guess what!? Today, like every other, I saw my boyfriend Danielito… he had told me some days before he had a little present for me… so he sneaked up to his room and brought me a book J  … It was an architecture book he had read several good reviews about it.
The description of the book says something like this:

“The design of cities and buildings affects the quality of our lives. Making the built environment useful, safe, comfortable, efficient, and as beautiful as possible is a universal quest. We dream about how we might live, work, and play. From these dreams come some 95 percent of all private and public buildings; professional architects design only about 5 percent of the built environment. While much of what non-architects build is beautiful and useful, the ugliness and inconveniences that blight many urban areas demonstrate that an understanding of good architectural design is vital for creating livable buildings and public spaces. To help promote this understanding among non-architects, as well as among those considering architecture as a profession, award-winning architect and professor Hal Box explains the process of making architecture from concept to completed building, using real-life examples to illustrate the principles involved in designing buildings that enhance the quality of life for those who live with them.”

So, I´m pretty excited to start reading this book … I opened to the first chapter and turns out that the author lived in Mexico for a while, so the book contains really cool pictures of the colonial typical Mexican architecture J ( I love my land, mi México Lindo y Querido)

For future plans I had actually thought, and talked about it with my dad, about going to Mexico for a Summer or semester and study architecture there too, so I can get the architectural style for my future designs.

( Don´t tell Daniel I told you ;) ... but, when I opened the book I saw that he had written a little note that said :
"The best gisft one can give is a meaningful step to the future, and I try." )
SOOOO BEAUTIFUL<3

eVolo

If you´ve read my prior blogs you might remember the architecture magazine I found on the internet called eVolo, at eVolo.us, well I´ve been looking through the posts they have and I have found the weirdest most creative projects. There are various pictures of skyscrapers that won contests or got to be finalists in the skyscraper competitions.

Here are some of the skyscrapers I found:

Finalist
2011 Skyscraper Competition
Rochambeau Cyrille, Bertin Joel, Herizo Randrianarison
France

Finalist of the Skyscraper Competition that include underground cities, vertical farms, bio-fuel power plants, and contemporary skyscrapers that would redefine the city of Paris. Other proposals use laminated wood as building material, propose hydro-thermal high-rises, redevelop abandoned oil rigs, and use shipping containers as habitable units for the modern urban nomad.

Third Place
2011 Skyscraper Competition
Yheu-Shen Chua
United Kingdom

The current public amenities of the world-famous Hoover Dam in the United States consist of a viewing platform, a bridge, and a gallery scattered around the entire site. This project aims to reconfigure these programs by merging them into a single vertical super structure.
One of the main purposes of the project is to allow the water from the upstream river to engage directly with the visitors through a series of containers. A hanging tower above the 700-foot drop into the Black Canyon would be used as gallery and a vertical aquarium.
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"eVolo is an architecture and design journal focused on technological advances, sustainability, and innovative design for the 21st Century. Their objective is to promote and discuss the most avant-garde ideas generated in schools and professional studios around the world. It is a medium to explore the reality and future of design with up-to-date news, events, and projects.

Since 2006, they have held a futuristic skyscraper design competition."

Putting together my presentation :)

Putting my “Wise Experience” final presentation together has been actually very fun. I´ve been reading through my first blog posts and remembering all my time organization problems at the beginning and all the project options I had before choosing architecture. My experience is built up with various architectural projects I found and loved, interviews to architects,  my visit to FIU, etc … I´m making the presentation a long PowerPoint slideshow ( I love making PowerPoint presentations )

Back to reality

Yesterday we got back from Orlando at about 7 pm. Turns out I needed to finish a project for my lit class. The project asked us to create a toolbox in which we would use numerous assignments of a major text generated throughout the year… AND now I found myself having to finish this major project… yeah.

The trip was pretty fun; it was a very eventful and surprising trip. Of course it wasn’t very well planned, so it gave space to the unexpected and chaos. The drive over there was pretty nice and comfortable, until… we arrived to Orlando and the GPS went crazy and we missed an exit and had to make a U-turn in the farthest place ever, only to miss the exit again due to the crazy GPS…

The plan was to leave Weston at 11 and get there at 3 to go shopping. But we got lost from 3 to 4 where we kept trying to find the exit from the highway to a road that led us to the giant mall we kept circling. Time flew and everyone in the van was getting anxious to get out of the car we´d been in for the past 5 hours… suddenly we hear a weird noise. It was the tire. We think it was the temperature change in the tires after having been in the hot asphalt from the turnpike to a necessary U-turn crossing the grass that created the grapefruit sized balloon on the tire. We were very concerned of that grapefruit bump in our tire, what if it exploded in the middle of the highway! Who knows what would have happed…

So we stopped on the side to call the roadside help insurance Daniel, my boyfriend and driver, called  the insurance card number his mom gave him, but because it was his mother´s card she had to be there! And what? Is she going to drive all the way to Orlando to save us? No! So we waited until she added Daniel to the insurance card. When they called he was listed in the card a roadside helper showed up. The helper is specifically for the “i-4” and he changed our tire for free!  We felt so lucky… that took 2 hours… so it was already 6 and we were road dirty and wanted to go shopping! J

                …. And so we did…

That same day we were going to meet up with some friends that live in Orlando, whom we know from school in Cancun. They were going to see us at the Premier Outlet, and we waited for hours! The crazy thing is that we were supposedly at the same store in the same mall ( at the door) obviously we had to have found each other hours ago! …. TURNS OUT… they were at ANOTHER mall with the same NAME!!!!!!!!!!!! What?

Ok, ok …  so we found each other and we slept over at their house- to get ready for the next day—PARK DAY! WUHU—

Daniel and me were ready by 7 and we tried getting everyone ready as well; but, it didn’t work, our friends from Orlando had the annual pass and had visited the parks approximately… a MILLION TIMES! …so we went to the parks at 11 and we bought tickets for Island of Adventures and enjoy a thrilling day and meet Hogwarts! But the parks weren’t accepting the annual passes at Islands… so we went to change the tickets for Universal Studios J

I had never been there, and there was going to be a free “30 Seconds to Mars” concert at night. We had a good day and enjoyed the rides and shows at Universal Studios. Took lots of pictures … then went to sleep late and got ready to go get a new tire the next morning. The next morning Natalia´s memory card went crazy and we lost all the pictures we took at Orlando.

Such an eventful trip and not even one evidence of it.

Does anybody have a lucky clover for me? 

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