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JulietaVL
Mexico

 
 
 
 
YOU HAVE TO WATCH THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This is what I can watch on TV here in Mexico everyday...
 
This is one of a series of 32 mini-videos that are transmitted in Mexico due to the next anniverssary of Mexico as an independent country (we`ll be 200 years)
 
Each video shows one state of Mexico, there are 32 states in total.
 
This videos is about SINALOA (where Charmed One lives)
 
I can ´t believe TELEVISA (a Mexican tv channel ) is creating such a good stuff to celebrate Mexican independence... everytime I see one of these videos on TV I want SILENCEEEE...
 
They are simply beautifulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

9 Mar 2010     



Mariethe House
France

oh Julieta! What a great idea this is to celebrate your country! i loved the video! It is so beautiful! Send the videos everyday if you can!Thank you so much!

Thanks for what you say about me...... My dear father used to say I was untamable! And I think he was right ! But accepting the consequences of it  can be difficult at times ! Smile

9 Mar 2010     



me_fig
Canada

Sorry this is very late....  It is hard to find time to check out this site often.  I am busy with school these days.....
 
Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes.  I had a fantastic birthday week so none of you were late in congratulating me.  It was my march break at school so I celebrated many days with different people.
 
I got my hair cut. I got lots of starbucks money.  I went to the USA and my American friend threw me a little dinner party with her sisters and Vicki.  I also celebrated on the weekend with lots of my friends.  It was so much fun to get older this year.  It certainly made up for the last two birthdays.
 
The last 2 years I was either moving to Korea or coming back from Korea around my birthday....so most of my friends weren ´t around or were too busy for me.  This year everyone really made me feel special. 
 
I feel like 29 is going to be a great year!  Gosh I am so close to that dreaded 30.
 
PS - Julieta!  I cut my hair short....REALLy really SHORT!

9 Mar 2010     



anaisabel001
Spain

Julieta---What an awesome video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thanks so much for sharing!!!!! I Heart it!!!!!!!

9 Mar 2010     



JulietaVL
Mexico

Hi pair of gorgeous ladies Mariehte & AnaIsabel
 
I knew you ´d like the video, it really rocks! It is great.... =)
 
Here ´s one more... CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (yes, like the dogs chihuahua, hahaha... there is a state in Mexico called like that)
 

9 Mar 2010     



JulietaVL
Mexico

MELISSAAAAAAAAA!!!
 
a haircut??
 
 
 
You have to send me a picture with the new hairstyle!
 
Oh no, such a long and blond hair is short now???... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
 
P.S Glad to know you had a fantastic birthday :)

9 Mar 2010     



sirah
Argentina

Beautiful !!! I love those pictures!!

9 Mar 2010     



Mariethe House
France

Now, i am just waiting for the next one ! I love deserts with the ripples of the wind on the sand! Thank yeeeeeeee, Julieeeeeeeeee!
I only have photos of frozen things at the moment! I am sincerely fed up with this unterminable; never-ending winter!



9 Mar 2010     



GIOVANNI
Canada

Julieta, beautiful videos.  Mexico is indeed beautiful and very different.

9 Mar 2010     



Sara26
Brazil

Hello everyone !

Thanks for all your nice videos, pics, poems and words!
Julie, those videos are awesome!! Congrats on your country!

Melissa, Happy Belated Birthday !! You really had lots of fun !

I had prepared this post yesterday, but my internet connection went down when
I tried do send it ...Unhappy (I ´m glad I saved it... ) 
So, I just wanted to say Happy Women ´s Day  to all the great women in this nice
community, including Alicia, Anaisabel, Anita, Anna P, Aimee, Cecilia (cecio_13), Damielle, Denisa, Donapeter, Elizabeth (Charmed One), Epit, Fiona, Georgia
(sick_geo),Gloria, Isabelucha, Julieta, Kate, Lana, Lyny, Maggie, Manonski, Marcia,
Mariaelaine, Marianina, Mariethe, Mary-butterfly, Mena, Mirelli, Nancy (giovanni), Natalia (sonn),Nebal, Olga (tea4er), Orit, Paula, Serene, Sue, Teresa (prilli), Tisha and Victoria ! phew ...

Happy Belated Women ´s Day !


"On the term Housewife: A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband!"  Wink

Btw, I found a website for those who want to make a donation for the Chilean people:

https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?idb=992538338&df_id=4695&4695.donation=form1

Off to bed ... 

10 Mar 2010     



isabelle99
Monaco

Hi there,
I ´m going to Catalonia for easter holidays (2weeks). We wanted to cycle around Sevilla, cordoba and Valencia. We are 15 (4 families!). But we have difficulties to find some campsite with nice bungalows or houses to rent near these cities ( originally we thought about spending three nights near each of them). We ´ve been on Homelidays but failed! Have you got any address or organisations or website or any special ideas for us?
BTW If you have any suggestions about things to do you ´re more than welcome (kind of good ideas you never find in a traditionnal guide!). thanks a lot for your help. hugs.

10 Mar 2010     



anitarobi
Croatia

Isabelle99, wish you a pleasant trip. Can ´t help with suggestions, but you might want to pm some of our Spanish members - perhaps that way you ´d get more answers, as many of them are not here right now, and I ´m sure people would help if you asked them personally.
 
Hi everybody!
It ´s snowing again in Croatia today, a blizzard actually, so I ´m snowed in my house. As much as I absolutely love Mariethe ´s pics which have taken on a fantastic artistic turn this winter, I ´m really fed up with snow. Women ´s Day is over and it ´s really time for some spring, real spring, in this part of the world. This is what it looks like(actually looked like this morning, and it has been snowing heavily the whole day)...
 
...and this is what I ´m wishing for...
 
You know???
 
 
Btw, check out these links...
 
 
Wishing you all a bit of spring in your hearts - as soon as possible!!!
Anita
 
 

10 Mar 2010     



me_fig
Canada

A comparison...
 
Ha ha I need to learn how to make my smile much smaller and less scary.

10 Mar 2010     



anaisabel001
Spain

Hi,
Sara--great photo! Thanks for the link to send donations to Chile!
isabelle 99-- I ´ve sent you a PM.

Anita--It ´s also freezing here. Yesterday it snowed heavily in many places. Look at this almond tree:
                        

The beach in Barcelona:


                                    


But trees are  blooming.....spring is coming!!
                         

 


10 Mar 2010     



mirelli
Brazil

Hello my friends, are you OK? I hope so....

Sara, thank you so much for the wishes!!! Where have you been???I haven ´t seen you around lately.
 
Anita, I ´m wishing the opposite....I looove the cold weather, when I used to live in Salt Lake City, Utah, in winter we had a lot of snow and I used to like very much, of course is not nice to drive, it ´s very dangerous,but I love it. Here in Brazil is Hot and in my city will never snow....Cry
 
Julieta, are you feeling better after drinking cachaça???
 
Anaisabel, hiii, how are you?
 
Me fig, your picture is nice, there ´s nothing to scareBig smile (llok at your smile!!!)
 
Where ´s Euphe????Fiona????Glorinhaaaa???????
 
Mariethé, I love the picture...as I said, I LOOOVE SNOOOW, I still have that picture that you wrote my name on the snow!!!!!
 
Isabelle, I ´m sorry but I can ´t help....I wish to visit Spain, tooo!!!!!!
 
Well, it ´s time to go... I have to make myself ready to go to workd...
 
See you later!!!
 
xoxo

10 Mar 2010     



anaisabel001
Spain

Hi Mirelli,
Our posts got crossed!
I`m OK, thanks. You would have enjoyed yourself in Barcelona yesterday. It snowed heavily!!
Time to work!!
Have a nice day!!

10 Mar 2010     



Mariethe House
France

 Just before going to bed ( very early but this cold just numbs me)

Thanks for those beautiful and surprising photos dear Anaisabel and Anita . Mirelli I need some of your heat ... And you can have all the cold here!!
Mifig, I really prefer you with short hair if you don ´t mind me saying!! It really suits you!

Sending all of you girls all my love and affection! I ´m off to beeeeeeeeeeeed!!

10 Mar 2010     



gloriawpai
Brazil

Sorry girls, sorry boys...

I ´ve been quite busy lately. Classes have started. Smile Can ´t complain!!

Mel - I like your new look! Thumbs Up

Mirelli - I ´m hereeeeeee!!

Mariethé - Please do join us. It ´s hoooot here!!

AnaIsabel - beach looks so weird, with snow.

Yeahhh!! Thursday and then Fridayyyyyyy!!!


11 Mar 2010     



Lana.
Ireland

http://dailyshite.com/2010/03/why-men-should-not-write-advice-columns/

11 Mar 2010     



Sonn
Russian Federation

11 Mar 2010     



JulietaVL
Mexico

 
 
How are you all??
 
MARIETHE... Spring is coming to your village, instead of seeing wonderful winter pics now we ´ll be fortunate and will see wonderful Srping pics, right?!!
 
It is hot here, I use light clothes
 
MELISSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
 
 
 WOOOWWWW!!!
 
You look great Mel!
 
NANCY: thanks for your comment
 
SARA: nice to see u around!
 
ANITA: did u know there are more members from this site who will be parents too??? :))) I know about a Canadian lovely lady wit the name of a color who is pregnant too :) and I know that a guy from Hong Kong will be daddy too
 
ANAISABEL when is Spring coming to Spain? (very nice pictures)
 
 
MIRELLI, yes, yes, I ´ve felt better with the cachaça... no flu... one more please
 
 
Hi Lana, Gloria and Sonn... (nice video Sonn :)))
 

11 Mar 2010     



JulietaVL
Mexico

ONE MORE VIDEO...
 
TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO
 
 

11 Mar 2010     



anitarobi
Croatia

Hi, everyone!
Julieta, I know about them, too - so happy... We were kidding that ESL obviously has more than one bug going around.... This is a good one...
 
Lana, the guy ´s advice column is unbelievable, though quite believable... I ´ve just sent the link to all my friends and colleagues. Hillarious and a bit sad...
 
Gloria, haven ´t seen you in a while - welcome back...
 
Mirelli, I know - opposites, eh? Jayho asked me yesterday to send some snow to Australia, too. It seems this year really has been climatically interesting to our weather people, but for the rest of us - too much of everything. I suppose in a couple of months we ´ll be exchanging positions - I ´ll probably be asking for snow. Though, I ´m really a spring person.
 
Wishing you all a lovely weekly send-off (this Thursday and Friday) and then a romantic weekend to follow...
Hugs
Anita

11 Mar 2010     



anaisabel001
Spain

Hi everybody,

Gloria, you ´re right   the beach looks a bit weird, but I love it!!

Mariethe--Thanks for the video! Beautiful!!!!Clap
Julieta--    Another great one!!Clap
Son--Where do they get dancing classes?Let me know, please!!LOL
Lana,Really funny.LOL

Anita,have a wonderful romantic weekend! As you are longing for spring you may like this video:




Have a nice day all of you!

11 Mar 2010     



Homeless Turtle
United States

Hello to all my friends at the café! I wanted to stop by and see how everybody was doing.

 

 

It has been a really hectic last few days, my school is getting ready for graduation! The students are all very excited, but the teachers are all stressed! And then there were a few problems with a worksheet I uploaded, that didn’t help. But anyway…

 

Julieta: Thank you for my wonderful necklace! I will wear it as I drive around and show off my new turtle-mobile! I got you a little something too…

 

I think it looks good on you! BTW, I have really enjoyed all the videos about Mexico. My wife and I visited Mexico two years ago and we had a blast! We rode horses on the beach and ate fresh fajitas and drank margaritas at one of the nearby restaurants, while being serenaded by Mariachi musicians! It was wonderful! We were only able to visit Tijuana and Rosarito. We were unable to venture any further, due to time constraints. So now we are planning a return trip. I really want to visit Jalisco (and quench my thirst, ha-ha) and my wife wants to visit Mexico City. Would you please post those videos when they become available?

 

Anaisabel001: I can’t believe that the beach in Barcelona looks like that! I am ready for spring!

Anitarobi: I thought I had it bad when it snowed here yesterday, I’ll stop complaining now!

Me fig: Remember, it could always be worse…

 

Lana: Thank you, that was hilarious! Here are a few things I’ve learned after being married…

 

1.     Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, and when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that instead.
2. Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.
3. I married Miss right; I just didn ´t know her first name was Always.
4. It ´s not true that married men live longer than single men, it only seems longer.
5. It doesn ´t matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.

Sonn: That video was awsome! Dancing monkeys…I love it!

11 Mar 2010     



anaisabel001
Spain

Hi Homeless Turtle,
You ´de better believe it was the beach in Barcelona!! Today it ´s snowing in the north of Spain: Look at the beach in San Sebastian:

               




Funny quotes!!

Some more:

·         The Three Ages of Marriage: Twenty is when you watch the TV after. Forty is when you watch the TV during. Sixty is when you watch the TV instead.

·         Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, ´You ´re only interested in one thing, ´ and you can ´t remember what it is.

·         My husband said he needed more space. So I locked him outside.            

                                              


11 Mar 2010     



magita
Croatia

Dear everybody,

Does anybody know any good web sites for Italian language teaching?

Thanks,
Ivana

11 Mar 2010     



magita
Croatia

Dear everybody,

Does anybody know any good web sites for Italian language teaching?

Thanks,
Ivana

11 Mar 2010     



anitarobi
Croatia

Hi, Ivana!
I ´m sorry I can ´t help, but perhaps you should ask that question at the forum - there are plenty people there and I ´m sure they will help. You might also try sending pms to some of our Italian members - perhaps they ´re not around, and they ´ll get the pm as soon as they log in... Best of luck!
Anita

11 Mar 2010     



Mariethe House
France

It ´s snowing ! What a nice change! Well, guess what I am doing!

http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=381675#thetop

Thank you all for trying to cheer this café up! All these beautiful , colourful , lively messages and poems and videos and music... tempting me out of my cavern where I am back to hibernate!!  I just feel like a big bear  having been disturbed by a few sun rays out of his long winter sleep! back to it again! Little bees are not running around yet to make the delicious honey that would convince me out !! So see you later when spring is really here! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ



For you all
  and for me too!


11 Mar 2010     

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