run!

We ran down the corridor. Smooth stone floors, brick walls, I can hear the flip flop of our shoes as we run as fast as we could down the hall. Wind whipping through my eyes and ears. I can hear my brothers breathing, it was irregular hyperventilating unnatural, . I look back and see him turn the corner right behind us. I stop and shoot at him, red fire cracks out of my wand as I sent out a desperate shot. He, strafes. “keep running!!”  he shoots green at me, I can feel the evil eradiating in the room as his shot gets closer. I deflect then I turn to see my brother stopped. He turned around at the sound of my deflection as it hit a wall exploding parts of it. Shrapnel hitting me and my brother on our head and shoulders. The fear in his eyes is far too great. He was pale. His brown skin was no white, almost transparent. “run dammit!” as I shove him forward to get his feet moving. I fire back my red without looking to buy us some time.

He flinched as a shot flew over his head and cracked more brick and dust on us.

Damn. How did this happen. We see the light at the end of the tunnel and the light. I cant see outside, only bright light searing our retinas. I turn back once more to see him gone into the darkness. Uh oh that’s not good.as I turn back I notice we are outside What ever, we kept running. We hear the hustling and bustling of the city. I cant see anything. as my eyes adjust to the light I reach for my brother and pull him to the alley right next to the building. “this way!” if we can make it to then end of the alley we should be safe. I ran ahead of him. We ran as fast as we could. Running into the darkness once again. It consumes us. I light up so see. The position of holding the light up slowed me down. As we ran it slowly began to light up, I couldn’t see the other side behind us. This street is empty, dead quiet. We only hear our breathing, and we see our breathes. It was cold.

“this way” a familiar female voice says. We turn and I am filled with relief. “lets go” I said as I grabbed my bothers arm pulling him towards a building. We go into a building and down the stairs. “wait here” she told me. I wait at the door. I turn back to see my brother to safety. He was at the bottom of the stairs. To brick walls and stairs are mesmerizing, like looking at a mirror through a mirror, never ending bottom to the darkness. My breathe is sucked out of me, like the vacuum of space after opening an airlock,  I cant believe what I am seeing. How was it possible. He was no where near us. We were gone and hidden from him. How? I see him at the bottom of the stairs, my brother unaware of whats going on.  I see the snare on his face as he aims at my brothers back. He looks up at me, wand still aiming and glowing green. Pauses, smirks,  opens his mouth but I cant hear his words. Im too late. I react, aim my wand but wait I don’t move. I gasp as I come to reality

 I see once again my brother and her trotting down the stairs. I sigh a relief. He’ll be safe for now. I follow them down the stairs. As I study my feet and the stairs as I go down, I realize I am at the bottom. I turn to the right, and down a corridor. There were rooms, with doors. The doors all were green and had a viewing window on them. Everything was in uniform, same color same everything. As if it was a background in a cartoon that doesn’t change.  It seemed never ending. A door closed. I run to it. It must have been 25 doors down. I open it. And I see him, wand in hand, the look of death. He was pale and uncovered. His hood was down his robe was black. His eyes were pure black, his skin was pale, very unnatural ,dead. He slowly raised his arm and  aimed right at me. His face turned into a sneer, then to a leer. I can see the frustration in his eyes and body language. He gives out a loud yell that I cant hear, his voice was muted but I can feel it. I smile at his frustrated face, “good luck finding him” I said as everything turned green, then black. 

Amazon meets the Mississippi 3/11

              It was a jungle. I had a flashlight. I was looking for something. I found a ravine, vass of green trees, and blue skies, and brown soil. My eyes were amazed at the beauty of it. Exactly like a photograph. I close my eyes to let the image singe it self into my mind taking a mental picture.  We hack through brush only to get to the cliff edge. We shimmy our way thought 2 feet earth. With our backs tightly against the cliff we shimmy down it. Climbing, slowly, carefully, strategically choosing our next step. We made it down to the bottom. As if in a blink of an eye. They people following me keep changing. As if haunted by my past , demons that I need to overcome. We come across a horrendous smell. I eyes begin to water and I begin to asphyxiate. The horrid stench causing me to gag. I was dying, literally dying, at this mysterious smell. I become disoriented as I continue though the brush. I hear a trickle. A river! A river? That’s not on the map I remember. My sense of smell is gone, my nostril hairs are killed by the stench. A mixture of fish, salt, maggots, flies, manure, and blood. I reach the water. A small stream about as thick as a piece of paper flows steadily though the rocks and soil. I follow it up stream around a corner. As I walk I step on rocks. The rocks slowly come loose and reveal more water. I was looking down at my feet at the rocks. I stop leaping to catch my breathe only to see a more steady stream of water. Calf high as wide as a 8 feet. It was sudden. Out of the blue. Where did this come from.?i turn another corner and I see it. The cause of the stench. I see huge boulders the size of a house al piled 2 stories high. As if a cliff collapsed and the edge of it a pool of water about the size of a car. The edge of that pool closer to me is a pile. A large pile. A pile of hundreds of dead, red koi fish. Or salmon. Some trickle down stream. Against the boulders inside the pool is a tiny stream of water sneaking its way past the boulders. How quaint. I jump from rock to rock to get a better look. I land on top of the pile of dead fish. I look to the tree line and there I saw you. Asking me if I found it. I don’t know. What am I looking for?

“wait a minute! “ I yell back.

I try to get a closer look at the stream poking through the boulders. As I look my foot slips inside the pool. I hear a gurgling sound. The same sound you hear when you unplug the tub and the last of the water is making its way down the drain. I can feel something building up, I feel the earth tremble, no I hear it. What ever I did, its going to be huge. I leap from where I am at to get closer to you and the tree line. *squish* my right foot lands on the pile of fish. I don’t slip. I leap off my right foot and extend my arm as you extend yours. But I am shoved in my back. Our fingers brush each other. I see the look of terror as I am shoved away by the water. Your eyes wide, skin pale, mouth aghast.

“no…” you whisper. I don’t hear it over the cacophony of the water. But I see your mouth as they say it.

You yell my name, and again its drowned out. I am body surfing the gush of water. The water has crested. This is my chance. I turn my body to the right and reach. For something. Anything I can grab onto. I see a yellow parking pole. I slap it. I was moving to fast and I couldn’t grip the pole. The water level quickly rises. Or it is going down stream into the ravine either way I can see it is going to drop. Theres a rock peeking out of the side of the ravine. I am traveling fast and hard. But still on the crest of the wave. I paddle to line up with the rock . it was flat and tall. Perfect way to stop. The wave keeps growing. Soon enough I will be at the top of the rock. I hope its flat. I time it right. I tuck my head down and position m body to roll. The wave was 1 foot above the rock. So I tumble in the water on top of the rock. I lay unconscious in the 1 foot of water that has no longer enough inertia to move me. I lay motionless. Exhausted. Terrified. Grateful. Sore. Hurting. Beat up. I turn to lay on my back. With my eyes closed I wheeze to catch my breathe. I can hear the water rushing to my left down into the ravine. I smile. I did it. I save them. Wait. Where are you? I yelled. But it turned into a cough, my lungs hurt from the breathing. I turn to my side and I see you on the other side of the river bed. Standing. In awe. In shock. In tears. I awake to a warmth. Still in the 1 foot deep water. A warmness takes over my body. I feel light. I cant move. Am I breathing? I cant hear. Cant see. Cant smell. Only feel. I see you. Well not see but ‘see’ my eyes hallucinating you as I pass. I don’t know whats going on. But its over now. Time to rest. 

Culture

One of the hardest things to define. Even more when you live with two different ones at the same time. You go out and see a world that is completely different than that of which is at home. You are torn between two different worlds, societies,cultures, worlds. You can never join one side because you have the other side weighing you down. You can't be accepted. It just can't happen. You have to know Laura and Oprah. You have to know about Los tigers del Norte and about the Rolling Stones. You have to know Spanish and English and they are never perfect. But you know what? That's who I am. A person torn a apart from two different societies. That's what I love. 

Being born and growing up in America, although being at home it is like I am in Mexico, it has allowed me to connect to two diffrent worlds. I can join in on a conversation about America and pop culture here. And at the same time and maybe even the same conversation I can have a discussion about pop culture about Mexico. The only thing is that the native people of each country will never accept me for who I am.  I can never belong to one. World Cup: I get to cheer for two countries. 

Random fact about the body

Biggest organ : the skin

Strongest muscle proportional to its size:tongue

Biggest bone in body : femur (thigh bone)

How many bones in a human body: 206

 

the moon

there is a face on the moon that i visible by the naked eye. and when its full and on the horizon it looks amazing.but did you know that the moon is actually rotating on an axis, just like planet earth, while it is orbiting the around the earth?want to know why the face of the moon is the only side we see? well here is why. Earth has a rotational period of 24 hours. so each hemisphere can get equal number of light from the sun. the earth's orbit period is about 365 days. that the amount of time it takes the earth to rotate around the sun.(keep that in mind). Now the moon, has a rotational period of about 27 days, its orbital period is about 27 days. so when the moon is opposite of the sun and is very bright we will always see the same face, and when the moon is dark it will be closer to the sun so the moons own shadow from the sun prevents us from seeing the other side.its not a big mystery, but just a random fact many people may ask.

Organs

Wow, just learned some even more crazy stuff.aparrantly as a fetus in the womb we have both sets of sex organs the male and female. And if our body does not produce. Certain hormone at a certain time our organs began to develop into the female organs. But if it does begin to develop then the organs develop into the make internal sex organs.the two type of systems are called müllerian system (for the female sex organs ) and wolffian system( male sex organs). So it goes into much more detail but that is pretty much the summation of what goes on.naturally a fetus wants to be a girl, but certain hormone does not allow for it.
-credit for the picture goes to "physiology of behavior eleventh edition by Neil R. Carlson."

Sleep

Wow. Sleep is crazy, it's hard to explain, but the there are 4 stages of sleep, stage 1,2,3,4 and REM sleep. Your brain is most active in REM sleep. You go through the whole sleep cycle every 90 minutes, every 90 minutes you wake up and then immediately fall back asleep. As the night progresses, you do not enter 3rd or 4th cycle, you'll go into REM sleep.
REM sleep (described as rapid eye movement) is when the brain consolidating all the material that it has seen and Experienced. Baby's sleep in REM about 2/3 of the day. So as you can see sleeping is good for you, it allows for the mind to refresh it self and store all the things you experienced throughout the day. Most of the mind is being used while sleeping, even more than being awake.your body does go into a state of paralysis that allows it to relax and let the mind refresh.