Time To Say...

Thank you! Yeap, because I hate say goodbye, especially to all the amazing people that I had meet in the last 13 weeks. Sadly this would be my only semester in the ESL program but I leave with incredible friends and unforgettable memories. Thank you to Sean, Julie, Vivienne and Maritza; for all the thing that I had learn and for helping me to believe in myself. Thank you to all my classmates, some of them I can call friends now, for making this new beginning easier for me. 

Plans for the future? Well a few months ago I thought that I would be working in something that I love, but for now I'm still waiting for the answer for my application at SAIT and staying at homw taking care of my beautiful niece <3, hopefully this September I will start classes for my diploma. So, I will stay here until the government let me, I have my flight ticket to return home in March 19, but if everything goes well I won't use it

I would love to keep in touch with all of you, make you permanent in my life; maybe in that way I will start to think that coming to Calgary was the best decision. Anyhow, I hope I would see you around, this is all for today folks. Love you with all my heart.

Ive :)

Same Family Different Culture

I have been in Canada several times. My sister lives here since 2011, after one year in Toronto she moved to Calgary and to be honest with you I prefer Calgary but I still don't know why. Almost 3 months ago I left everything that I had in Venezuela to start a new adventure here, only with 2 luggage and my soul full of good memories. I decided to become an immigrant. Even though is not my first time in Calgary it would be completely different from the others, because I came to stay. The lifestyle of Canadian culture is not as different as I thought, what has been a challenge is live with my sister after 7 years living without her.

It's hard for me to fit in on a house with new rules and try to make it my new home, because at the moment it doesn't feel like home. I'm trying to be the same person that I was in my country but is difficult to keep loyal to my identity when there are so many things happening around me -find a way to stay here, get a job, take care of my niece, help my sister with the house. Recently I found that I don't talk with my friends as frequently as I did before and that is starting to bother me, here a have new and more responsibilities leaving me with less time to spear. I need to find a way to balance my life here and what I left in Venezuela, I don't want to lose what I have with my friends, I don't want to become in someone that I'm not but I found difficult to be myself when others critics every move that I make.

Anyway, it's only been 3 months I hope that this whole situation -and not me, change. If not, I will start to questioning if coming to Canada was the correct decision. 

It's All About Qualities

      People always says "Pursuit your dreams and make them come true" even thought this is easier to say than to be done, it's important to know if you have the qualities needed in order to achieve your success. In my opinion the most important quality that you need to become successful is to know the goals that you want, which is not necessary the most obvious nor easiest thing to do, identifying your objectives can be difficult specially when everyone around you had something to say about it. On the other hand, is essential to be consistent; the road to become successful isn't a trouble-free one because of the fact that you will find obstacles that will made you re-evaluate things. However this doesn't mean that you have to quit your chase, on the contrary every time that you fail it would lead you to a better way to reach your goal.

What is Success?

I'm constantly asking myself that question and I think that maybe I'm closer to find the answer. I'm the past I thought that success was totally related with big amounts of money, but after seeing how people can earn money but still being unhappy, I start doubt about that. Right now for me the word success means having a dream, pursuit and make it real. Even though it exist a possibility that you fail in the process, that fail should give you the courage to keep going and trying again and again. My sister has always told me that failing make the success more enjoyable and I think that's true. Because after all, the failures that you can have on the road of pursuing your dream, it would help you to be one step closer of make it possible.

With this I'm not saying that every time I fail I feel happy, that would big a HUGE lie! at the beginning I feel as a completely loser, I cry and I think that keep do it this is just a waste of time. But after "Going home," like Elizabeth Gilbert said on her TED presentation, I think of the situation more with my brain instead of my heart and I find myself trying again.

How do I deal with success? Wow, that's a hard question. I think that in this moment I haven't had achieved my dream. Of course I have done some things that have made me happy: getting my degree, live alone in Barcelona. But I consider this events like single steps to finally achieved my goal: work in something that I love or to love my job, whatever it comes first.

See you soon!

P.d: If you can dream it, you can do it ;)

My English Experience

Hi everyone!

Here are some interesting things about me. My native language is Spanish, but since I can remember I love listening things in other language, especially in English. Maybe that's my sisters fault, she always watch series in English. As a teenager I didn't think that the English that I was learning in High School was enough, so I found myself hearing more and more English music and trying to understand what were they saying.

When I didn't know the meaning of a word the first thing that I did was translate it to Spanish but it was hard for me to remember it. Then my brother in law told me that it was better if I try to find synonyms or the meaning instead of translating, and he was right! To expand my vocabulary I start to read books that I love in English, like Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan (I know that it could sound childish, but I like them), Harry Potter series and that kind of books. In the University some of my books were in English so I also know some academic words (:

But reading isn't that easy if you don't know how to pronounce the words, so I start to watch series or movies with subtitles in English  when I had the opportunity. What do you do to improve your vocabulary? Maybe you could help me to increase mine in a better way!

See you soon! XOXO

Hello Everyone!

Hello bloggers!

My name is Ivelisse but you can call me Ive, is easier to remember. I'm from Venezuela. I came to Calgary 3 weeks ago to start my English course at the UoC and I already love it <3. I try to live a DIY life, if anyone can do it I would try to do it too. I really like photography and I use my little monkey (that's my niece Ana Gabriela) as a model ^^. I have 3 tattoos: a bunch of stars in my ankle, three birds in my back and the letters AG in my left wrist. I love them! And I wouldn't change anything about them. That's all for today, so see you around