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On poetry and culture shock
Because the blogosphere needs haikus.
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GUIRI: In Spain, a foreign person, especially a tourist. For my friends, it also applies to me, a Spanish woman who likes to live in English-speaking countries.

I have wanted to be online for a long time, but I never found the time to teach myself how to make a proper website. Now that getting a blog is technnically as easy as getting a Yahoo email address, it seems a start.

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Brief comments on what it means to be a foreigner in an American University town.

Poetry, mostly my own, and bits of other people's.

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The Oscars
I’m not going to write about how the nominations, the speeches and everything in general tried so hard to avoid politics it was embarrassing. And I’m not going to write about the actresses, so skinny it was painful to look at them. Human stomachs are not supposed to be convex. I’m not going to write a love song to Kate Winslet for looking bravely human among the stick insects. I’m not going to write about my dislike for black dresses on young blondes. And I’m not going to write about how acceptance speeches are blander every year. And I’m definitely not going to write about how one look of Imelda Staunton beats the whole of Hilary Swank’s career.

I just want to say that I love to be in a time zone that makes watching the Oscars easy!!!! In Spain it was a question of going to bed at ten and waking up at 3am on the years I had a morning shift, and staying up, going to bed at 7 am, on the years I had an afternoon shift.
 
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Pues es verdad... ayer los vi desde UIUC.. y no veas qué gustazo eso de verlos mientras cenas. Y sí, los agradecimientos dan un poquillo de asco... porque vamos, es que se pasan! Jorge Drexler me encantó, qué manera más elegante de demostrar quién era el que tendría que haber cantado.. y no Banderas. En fin, un saludo desde Illionis, qué envidia me das, con tanta montañita :)
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