The end of Babel

It was a really good movie in which 3 different countries were connected. There were different borders, specially in the Mexico part with the little children and the nanny. How did the arabic man didn't accept the money? that was really something to admire. He did everything he could to safe the American woman's life and he didn't accept any reward.

The Japanesse def girl was looking for someone to love her and have sex with, but she was rejected because the police officer didn't want and he knew that was not right. She started crying because she also knew that it was not right because she really wanted someone to love her.

And I thought that the dad was the one who killed her mother, because when the officer asked him he was acting like suspicious and well I think he sold the gun because of that too.

QEP IMovie Final Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmeE_xgVC5E

My Imovie is based on my journey to the USA and the opportunity given by Shenandoah University.

Special thanks to my Family and my Friends who are always there giving me their hand to go on even if it's the hardest thing to be away from all of them. Love You<3

BABEL!

We started watching this movie called BABEL, which I haven't seen before. The theme is kind of complicated but if you get concentrated on it, you will catch up on everything.


There has been a lot of borders in between the movie and some of them I forgot, but the most recent was the one of the niece of the Mexican nanny with the kids, crossing the border of Mexico and US and he evaded the police men and ran away. I'm really enjoying it and I'm looking forward to next week, so we can finish watching it and then commenting about it. :)

Carrying the Panama flag*

Last Wednesday, during the celebration of the international week @Shenandoah University, the committee had an international convocation in which all the flags were going to be carried by students, even if they were not from that certain country.

I had the opportunity to carry the flag of my country, dressed with one of the traditional dress of my country and we walked all together to the chapel. In the meeting, there were some guests who were talking about the importance of this activity and how Shenandoah interact with people from all the world.

During the meeting, the president Tracy Fitzimmons announced the places of the GCP program and the groups. The countries are Oman, Egypt, Belize, Peru and Burma. I was so excited about this program but sadly I didn't get it. However, I will be participating until i get it because I still have 3 long years :)

Going Global First Year Seminar Displays

Today we had a convocation on the BSC Ferrarri Room for our QEP Class.

In this convocation some of the QEP First Year classes were displaying their Imovie projects about their QEP Topic. It was a little hard to get to see all of them because all the freshman students were walking around the tables and it was a mess but the ones i got to see were from the Violence Against Women and their Imovie topic was based on showing the different types of problems that affect women. They were very good prepared and also interesting new stuff to learn from. Another group i saw was Please Accept Me For Who I Am and their videos were about how people treat persons with disabilities in their countries. It's a very long topic to discuss about because not all the countries treat disabilities person as they need to be treated and it's very sad.

I really liked the idea of making an I movie for a QEP final project and I'm sure that all of us (Border Identities Group) are going to create good ideas and work as the best we can.
The only thing I disagree was that it was not the right place to show this projects because people was going crazy everywhere and it was kind of annoying!

Imovie - Daddy Yankee, el mejor de todos los tiempos!

Borders in Music

One of my examples is Freddy Sky, a Panamanian "Reggae" singer with his song "Dime que si"
which has a Hip-Hop rythm and the lyric is in Spanish. He made up his own song, only that he used Hip-Hop for it.

Comando Tiburon "Te Pille", with an Afro-Caribbean rythm that is known in Panama for a long time because of our mixed ethnicity and races.

Jimmy Bad Boy - "Sigo Pensando en ti", This song has Trance/Electro rythm that comes originally from Europe.

Music Playlist at MixPod.com

In my country we can find different type of mixed rythms on our music because we have different races influences on our culture. When Panama was starting to grow as a city we received people from different ethnic roots and races. For example: African-Americans, Jews, Europeans, Asian, Indians, and bunch of other different races. That's why Panama is called "Crisol de Razas" or "Rainbow of Races."