United States of America Immigration: Relationship with the countries involved in Asia and Latin America

       HERE IS AN ESSAY I WROTE FOR MY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CLASS AT CHUNG ANG UNIVERSITY FOR MY EXCHANGE YEAR. I FOUND IT AND I DECIDED TO POST IT. THIS WAS WRITTEN IN 2012.           The United Nations stipulates as an international migrant a person who stays outside their usual country of residence for at…

Lord of the butterflies – Andrea Gibson

This book was an special gift, when I saw it my heart took a deep breath and smiled. I had seen videos of Andrea Gibson sharing her poems at Buttom Poetry and I liked how she did it and what she had to say, but I never look any further… until the second of march…

Portland

We stayed in Portland a really short time, two nights and that was it. So, this ends up in one day walking around its streets and visiting the popular places of the city. I cannot say I got to see a everything of it, but what I did see, I liked it, and I liked…

Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola

I had never watched this movie but I had a long time thinking about watching it. It was not until I was flying to Hong Kong, in a 15 hours flight that I finally did. I saw it in the list of options that I could watch during the flight and I got happy. Lost…

My 17 hours in Hong Kong

When I bought my ticket to Bali (from Los Angeles) there were many options for a layover (all of them between the same price), but the one that got my attention was the one that had 17 hours in Hong Kong… I decided to buy that one. Because it meant that I could go out…

Tabasco

I like to say that I am from here. Everytime someone ask me “Where are you from?” My inmediate answer is “Tabasco” even though I have 10 years that I do not live here. In spite that it is a place forgotten for most and that it is just used as a passing through and…

50 years of Tlatelolco

Written the 2 of october, 2018 in spanish: https://elkayelba.wohttps://elkayelba.wordpress.com/2018/10/02/50-anos-de-tlatelolco/rdpress.com/2018/10/02/50-anos-de-tlatelolco/ I remember that my father, who studied at the Politécnico, told me once, long ago, that he used to go to those peaceful marches that happen before the massacre of Tlatelolco. I remembered that he said to me that he couldn’t go to that one and…