Where I am From

I am from Panama, from the loud city and the Cinta Costera

I am from the tall buildings of the city

From the high platano tree behind my house, and the beautiful smell of the roses in my kitchen

I am from the family dinners on Saturday with my mom, to week night dinners with my sister and dad, my nanny's arrepas and my dads french toasts

I am from the sports fanatics and the artists

From the "calm down" and the "stop running around"

I am from no religion.

I am from the days my dad broke his arms in a car crash, the day my uncle accidently burned his room, and the first day on my moms new school

I am from those moments all around the world, the good ones and the bad ones.

My life is like a palm tree divided in two
Planted in one seed, but then divided

Catastrophe in Japan

On March 11, 2:46 pm, in a country called Japan, a crucial and devastating earthquake their nation and then was followed by a huge tsunami that destroyed copious amounts of lives and houses. Both of these catastrophes left a pang of sadness around the world and in Japan.

The final magnitude of the earthquake was 8.9 (researched by adept scientists). Hours after the disaster, the government deployed groups of people to help the missing and injured. Not even that helped facilitate the situation. Japan will never be cured from this fitful day. There are copious amounts of damage done and the tsunami never decelerated from destroying everything in its path.

Now the world is fastidiously watching what happens next to this torn up country. Thankfully a lot of countries are sending capacious planes and boats filled with food, water, and supplies over to Japan.

Pray For Japan

Paulo Alfaro
Mrs. Meadows
Period F
March 2, 2011
Lance Armstrong
It’s Not About the Bike





This memoir is all about Lance Armstrong’s life. Lance Armstrong wrote this memoir in a way that shows every detail of his life, the hard time, the sad times, the good times.

This memoir is organized in a way that it starts you off from his early childhood and talking about his relationship with his mom and how strong it was. He goes on explaining about how his career as a cyclist started and all the triathlons he won.
Then tells us about how cancer almost ruined his career. Later on he tells us about how he won the Tour de France. He also talks about how he met his wife.

Lance Armstrong came to know about himself is that not every time things will go his way, that sometime things will try to hold you back, but you will have to keep on fighting.

I thought this memoir was very inspiring and I am sure it has made many teenagers to try sports and give it all they have. I loved how he explained little by little how he went growing up with his bikes and how he ended up being so famous by never quitting and giving it all he had. I also liked that he never stop talking about how grateful he was with what he had.

What Lance realized about himself at the end of this book was that everything he got through out his life, all the hard times of his career, and all good times he had, brought him to where he is now, a champion.

Lines I loved
1.) I made an acronym out of the word: Courage, Attitude, Never give up, Curability, and Remembrance of my fellow patients.
2.) I don’t do anything slow, not even breathe.