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Blog 5 - A Meaningful Picture

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Good afternoon, dear students. Hoping you are enjoying this weekend, in today’s blog I will talk about one meaningful picture for me. I consider myself a very sentimental person, and photographs are short extracts of significant instances of our lives, whether these can be representations of relevant periods of our lives or simply instants of our daily lives. These are forever printed memories. In this picture, though, I will describe a part of my heart that is faraway gone.  Her name was Cucky, although in my mind was always Cucky Ramos Valencia. She was a mixed breed and part of my life for 17 years. Besides my human family, she was the only living being that watched me grow since childhood until adulthood. My companion, my pet, my Cucky <3.   This last picture is the relevant one, because the previous one was only the formal presentation to you all hehe. In this picture, we can see a very old and grumpy Cucky, who is taking her last bath in her life. I wa...

Blog 4 - Free Topic

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  Hello, dear students. Hoping you are having a great weekend, today’s blog is free topic, so I will write about the novels that I have read this year so far. Kitchen , by Banana Yoshimoto, the stories of 2 different characters dealing with the death of a loved one are depicted in such a way that it actually makes you believe that you are seeing what’s going on. There aren’t any sudden plot twists nor villains but rather a gentle portrayal of what it feels like when only memories prevail through time   and yet, you must move on in life.   If you are looking for a somehow similar version of Wuthering Heights (one of the most successful novels from Emily Brönte), Fifty Words for Rain: A Novel will not let you down. Kyoto, 1948: Traditional customs, hierarchy, violence, family ties, exceptional moments for tenderness and love that will be a very short respite for the reader, deception and loyalty are clashed in this amazing novel by Asha Lemmie. In Confessions , Kana...