Some time ago, I read that Colombian singer Shakira
put her Miami Beach, Florida mansion back on the market for $13 million, and it’s
2 million less than the “original” price from 2011 and 2013. What is
interesting in the fact that she bought this mansion in 2001 for $3.38 million,
so it’s $10 million more expensive. It’s
the third time Shakira has attempted to sell her Miami’s house, which boasts
six bedrooms, nine baths, an edge pool, and some celebrity neighbours,
including Matt Damon, Cher and Ricky Martin. The mansion has 8,355 sqft and was
built in 1951.
The house is awesome, If I were she I would save it
for me. As she don’t need the money, it’s unnecessary selling it.
Many times I think that it will be great to spend some
time in Miami, as we can consider that this city is bilingual, where we can
improve Spanish and English. Of course those two languages spoken in south
Florida, are not the “standard ones”, but there are many people, like me who
like it. Miami is almost like a small Latin America, where you can see a little
bit of culture of Cubans, Colombians, Mexicans etc. The most important thing is
safety, as many cities of Latin America are rather dangerous, and in Miami is
easier to live in prosperity. The best thing of south Florida for me is the
weather, which is almost Caribbean weather, and I like the vegetation too. To summarize
the are 3 most important things about Miami I love: languages – Spanish and
English, Latin culture and the weather. It’s a pity that we Poles need a visa
to get there, and to stay there for living is really difficult. I hope to get
the chance to visit Miami in the near future. J
A few days ago, when I was ill, I was watching TV, and they
said that drinking a tea with lemon is unhealthy. It can cause Alzheimer when
you drink a lot of tea with lemon. As many of us, feeling bad, with intentions
to feel better I drunk numerous number of cup of tea with lemon, and I was
shocked, because I was sure that it is a good way to recover. Also they said
that it can cause allergy because of chemical substances, which are needed to
transport lemons and the others citrus from South America for example. Since
then, I don’t use lemon despite I like them a lot. To eat healthy citrus we
need to go to the place they grow.
As many of you know in Latin America there are a lot of violence, because
of drug trade, political situation, guerillas and many more things. The perfect
example of all those stuff is Colombia, which is now on the way to end more
than 50 years civil war. But one of the most important factors of the situation
of Colombia is a lack of education. Many of members of guerillas don’t have any
kind of education. To avoid a possibility of children entering in guerillas,
and give them chance to get out of poverty and escape from violence, Colombian singer
Shakira in 1997 in the beginning of her musical career created a foundation called
Fundación Pies Dezcalzos (Barefoot
Foundation). The foundation’s main focus
is building schools, nowadays there are 5 schools across Colombia, and they
will build more. The organization provides education and meals for more than
4000 children. Pies Dezcalzos schools are not only schools, they are like a center for meeting and community development around
education, coexistence and respect. I believe that education is a key to
country without violence, if more children attend to school there are less possibility
they will be on “the bad way” in the future. I hope Colombia, and the others
Latin American countries will be considered as safe places without violence. J
Easy, authentic Mexican recipe that my Mexican friends
taught me. It's a casserole of tortilla chips mixed with eggs and salsa, and
topped with cheese. Serve with refried beans.
What you need:
2 cups oil for frying
1/4 cup chopped onion
corn tortillas, torn into strip
4 eggs, lightly beaten
2 teaspoons salt
tomato sauce
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup shredded Mozarella cheese
In a large, heavy skillet, heat the oil to 175 degrees
C. Carefully stir in the onion and tortilla strips. Fry until tortilla chips
are crisp and golden brown. Remove from heat, and drain on paper towels. Drain
the skillet, leaving only a thin residue of oil.
Over medium heat, return tortillas to the skillet, and
stir in the eggs. Season with salt. Cook and stir until eggs are firm.
Mix Mexican style hot tomato sauce and water into the
skillet. Reduce heat, and simmer until thickened, about 10 minutes. Top with
cheese. Continue cooking until cheese has melted.
I want to tell something about Selena
Quintanilla, who was a very promising singer of tejano/ latin pop music. She
was born in Lake Jackson, Texas, her parents are Americans with Mexican descent.
She was singing in Spanish, although her first language was English. It was an
idea of her father Abraham Quintanilla to sing in Spanish, A.B Quintanilla
brother of Selena, member of the band was a main writer and composer of Selena’s
songs. In the beginning she was almost unable to make an interview in Spanish,
but her father convinced her to learn more the language of her ancestors, because
he knew that it wasn’t enough to sing in Spanish, she had to speak it well. In
early 90’s she became a superstar in the U.S and Mexico particularly, also she
was touring in all Latin America. She was to make a crossover to “Anglo market” (she recorded only a few
English songs preparing her first English-language album) when she was killed at
a motel in Corpus Cristi, Texas on March 31, 1995 by her friend and president
of her fan club Yolanda Saldivar at the age of 23. This March 31 is 20th
anniversary of her death. Her life was very interesting, if you want to know
something more find more information on the Internet or watch a movie based on
her life “Selena” where Jennifer Lopez plays main role. I strongly recommend
this movie.
Here’s her last recorded concert,
about one month after her death, which took place in Houston, Texas. She sang
her hits and some of the classics like Donna Summer or Tina Turner. :D
And here one of her songs prepared
for the English album.
This is signature phrase of GloZell, an American comedian and YouTube personality. She was born July 30, 1962, currently living in Los Angeles, California. She is known as one of the funniest youtubers, and I’d like to share with you one of her videos. But after that is good to say something about her. Can say that she’s YouTube star. Many of her videos may seem a little bit stupid, but I always laugh, even I don’t understand everything what she say. She established her YouTube channel in 2008, with video interviews, comedy about her life and song parodies. In August 2014, the channel had accumulated more than three million subscribers and more than 500 million total views. Six of her individual videos had each been viewed more than 10 million times, such as her "My Push up Bra will help me get my man" video (23 million views) and her cinnamon challenge video (40 million views). She gained wide notice when her vlog about meeting Elijah Wood was mentioned by the actor during a 2011 interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. In 2012, she appeared in the web series Dr. Fubalous. In January 2015 GloZell interviewed Barack Obama in a YouTube livestream hosted at The White House. Here is my favorite GloZell’s video, which is named HOT PEPPER CHALLENGE
