Passions!

        I think that writing about photography might be one of the hardest things to write about. It is one of my passions too. I think is really hard to write about it because I can’t explain what I feel when I take pictures, is just an unexplainable feeling. When I take a picture of a sunset or the nature and then look at the picture, I just don’t have words to explain how beautiful it is. I realized all the amazing things that we have in our surroundings, what the world is giving us and  never have time to appreciate or to see how it is. Also, I stop and think about all the blind people, I just can’t imagine life without being able to see all these incredible things. I can’t imagine life without being able to see colors and all the nature and people, is just that it would all change. However, taking photos makes me feel really happy because when I take a really good picture, I am just so proud of myself that makes me feel happy. Besides, taking pictures also helps me to save a memory and to admire something that I might never see again because you never know if you are going to be able to be there and see the same thing again. On the other hand, another thing that I like about taking pictures is to capture random things, candid pictures, without the people posing, natural pictures. In my opinion candid pictures are better because you can catch an emotion and if they are posing, they might be smiling at the camera, but you don’t really know if they are happy or not because they might be just pretending. Moving on, other things that I like about pictures is to put different effects, like black and white, convert the colors, focus it more and all the other different ways. I like to put effects because I think they look unique and it makes them look better. On the other hand, taking pictures might seem something with no sense to other people, but if they felt what I feel they would change their perspectives for completely. However, taking pictures has always a positive side and even though people might not think that taking pictures can turn into a passion, I hope with the things that I described, you can change your mind and see how beautiful taking pictures can be. However, I am just trying to explain everything about photography, but is just too hard to write about. I have so many things to say, but I don’t find the right words to say it. Although I am not a great photographer and I am not taking pictures all the time, I enjoy doing it. I hope you understand how much I like to take pictures. I am just trying to explain it the best I can, so my blog can be better and people can see how I really feel about all these things. Even though I am not that good at expressing my feelings, I would like to catch other people´s attention and to say why I enjoy doing all these activities. On the contrary, I just think that taking pictures is something that is easy to do and you just need to do it with your heart so even though is not a great picture people can see you did it with the heart.        These are pictures that were taken by other photographers.

         Golf is something that I really like and it is also one of my passions. Although is something that it might be boring sometimes, it is also be incredible. Every time I play golf I feel really happy because is something really calm and there not a lot of noise in the field, so I feel really peaceful. Also one of the things that I like the most is the view that you have. All the wholes have different views. All of them are full of trees green grass and you can see the beautiful sky and some parts have beautiful flowers of many colors. Besides in some places, from the golf course, you can see the most beautiful sunset you have ever seen. Moving on, most of the time when I go to the golf course, I practice in the driving range. For the ones that don’t know what a driving range is, I am going to describe it. The driving range is a place where you go to practice. In the driving range that I practice is like this: it has a rectangular shape and it is all cover with grass. It has two long, parallel ropes that go from one side of the driving range to the other. Between the two ropes there is a big space were you hit the ball. Behind one of the ropes there are metal things with the shape of the golf clubs, there you put your golf clubs and the basket of balls. Far away of the ropes there are little signs that indicate the distance from where you are hitting the ball to the location of the sign. At the very end there is a big, black cloth, so the balls don’t go any farther. Behind the driving range there is a big lake, with green trees around and ducks swimming inside. The lake is kind of green and the trees around it are very tall.  In the entrance of the driving range, next to the lake, there is a little place with benches, were you can rest or cover from the sun. The place is made out of wood and next to it there is a trash can. It is a very hot place, green and beautiful. However, all driving ranges are different, but still amazing.  Moving on, golf might seem boring, but it is something beautiful. In conclusion that is why I really like to play golf and why it had became my passion.

   Besides dancing ballet, another thing that I really like to do is to play the piano. When I was a little kid my mom decided to buy a piano. I always went there and tried to play something, but since I didn´t know, I just played random notes and I thought it was too hard. One day my cousin came to my house and started playing the piano. I was amazed of how he played it. He was so good at it and the songs that he played were really cool. That day he taught me a song and it was the first song I learned to play in the piano and it is something that I will never forget. Consequently, after that day, I told my mom that I wanted to learn how to play the piano and later I started my lessons. I started at the age of 10. My piano lessons took place in a school of music and later on, since I moved to another country, I started lessons at my house.  Even though I lost a couple of years, I went back and started all over again. It was hard because I forgot most of the things I had learn, but I worked really hard, until I became as I used to be and even better. After various years of playing it became a passion. As I said before, I really like to play the piano and is something that I enjoy because it lets me get out all my frustration, in other words my emotions and relaxes me. In my opinion playing the piano is something easy and fun, if you really like it and you dedicate time to practice it. I take lessons once a week for one hour and I practice for the rest the week. Another thing that I work on is on getting the notes of songs that I like just by listening to them. Although is really hard, is something good because it helps you to improve in piano and later on that can help you to create music by yourself.  Because of all these reasons I like to play the piano and I hope that I can continue improving and becoming better at it every day.

          I think that freedom of speech is one of the most important rights that everyone has. It can mean many different things to people and all depends on how you are. But for me, freedom of speech is the right to express yourself and to be free to say whatever you want and think what you believe to be true, but without hurting someone else. I think that expressing yourself without any consequences, is something great, but only if you are not hurting someone else. I think that, because if we didn’t have the right of freedom of speech we would all be in silence and nobody would give opinions and there would not be symbols for peace and things like that because those kinds of symbols express something. However, I thought that it was a really good idea from Ms. Rumford, to ask us what freedom of speech means to us because I would never had thought about it and now people is going to see what I think about it and hopefully give me their opinions. Another thing that I think about freedom of speech is that is a positive way of expressing yourself, but if you start harassing a person, that would be off the limits. I believe that because something is to say what you think and another thing is to hurt someone’s feelings.   So that is what I think about freedom of speech and I think that is always good to say what you want but in a polite way. However, freedom of speech relates to us as bloggers because we have the freedom to write about whatever we want and to express our feelings.