Let's write my diary. Day 10 - Our daily bread.
Our typical dish is the arepa, but if they give me sweet bread with sugar on top and a good cup of coffee with milk, I am the happiest woman in the world.
Well, I was lucky enough to have this delicious bread for breakfast with my fabulous coffee with milk. Every day I prepare my coffee with milk and I come to drink it in front of the computer. I love it, and if I could make this day a daily repetition it would be very good.
I have had the opportunity to try other bread in other countries and the truth is that they do not taste the same as ours. And several people in different countries have told me the same thing, they really miss the bread from here.
And it is not just about the shape but about its taste. In Colombia, for example, there are many good breads, but they do not have sugar in their upper layer. There are guava breads, dulce de leche and other varieties. But I couldn't find something like that.
A friend in Peru told me the same thing, and another in the United States. And it is that everyone adapts to their own, although I have tried good ones.
But bread is bread and in the absence of sweet bread with sugar on top, all the others are good with coffee with milk.
Long live bread from anywhere in the world!!
Let's write my diary. Day 9 - Promised is debt
Hello my dear friends. Today we will write day 9 of our diary. Today was a very busy day, on Monday I told you that my grandson, the youngest, started his first class today at preschool. The first class of his life, of many that come in his long walk.
Last night he went to bed early, but he said he didn't want to go to school. I thought: is it going to be like those children who cry because they don't want to stay in school?
Since we don't have a car at home, the poor boy had to walk to school, which is about 20 blocks away. I arrive tired and sweaty since it is quite hot here.
But when he got to school he forgot all his tiredness and looked at everything, exploring everything and looking at those who would be his classmates.
I imagine that they thought: there are many children to play with! Since they don't know what they are going to do to that place on the first day. Everything is a game for them.
So we left him at school and he didn't even realize that we came and that he was left there alone. Rather, the mother almost cried.
After 2 hours we went to look for him. Remember that I told you that you will only go 2 days a week and you will see 2 hours of classes each day. We were surprised that he had fought with 2 children, but he was happy. So we told him that you don't do that, that you play with your little friends from school.
He didn't bring homework, today was a day of recognition among the students and they left their notebooks so that the teacher can put homework for them on Friday when they have classes again.
Today was also my dog's day, today I bathed her and cut her hair. We have had to learn to cut our pet's hair because there are no veterinarians around my house who do these services.
The one that was near my house closed and I haven't found another one to take her. As I already had knowledge of haircuts with my children, I tried and the truth is that it is the same. It didn't look like it was delivered in one of those canine wig shops but I solved the problem of his hair that grows very fast.
In the afternoon we went to church, all together as a family as we hardly do.
It's nice when there is that union in the family. I thank God for that.
And that's how my day went today. With a lot of activity besides what I do every day like cleaning, cooking and other things. Many say that the life of a housewife is boring. The truth is that sometimes it seems to me, but that is according to what we each do. Good night friends.
Let's write my diary. Day 8 - Personal motivation videos.
Hello friends, a big greeting. Today has been a fairly quiet day which I have taken advantage of to listen to several personal motivational videos on YouTube and the truth is that I have liked them very much since they have given me peace of mind that I was missing so much.
I'm not a metaphysician, but the truth is that listening to these videos about how we should do things so that everything goes well gives me a lot of peace of mind.
I was feeling overwhelmed by so many things that I want to do and have not been given to me that I started looking and found these videos by Neville Goddard that explain many of the things that we can do to help ourselves but that I understand that I have a lot left to do learn.
In that I am, and if you never start, you never finish. But I have already started and I hope to continue in this since it is very good for my mental and emotional health.
It is relaxing and helps you find faith in yourself again. If you have never tried it, I invite you to try it. It can start on a Sunday, which is the day we are most unoccupied and hopefully you get into the habit. You will see that you will not regret it.
You can also search for the audios of Napoleon Hill, the videos of this author helped me travel to Colombia in 2016. A trip where I had many experiences, but now I am more aware of what the whole issue of personal improvement is.
Well and apart from all this, tomorrow I won't be able to see my mom as I wanted since I haven't seen her for about a month. First because I got Omicron and now because my niece's husband who lives with my mom took an Omicron test today and it came back positive.
In December 2020 my nephew had Covid and he looked very bad, now he has Omicron but I think that with the experience with the virus they already know how to attack it so that it does not develop.
Well, I'll have to wait. Everything is for everyone's health. So far my short lines from my diary. I hope tomorrow I have many more things to tell you. Good night friends.
Let's write my diary. Day 7 - Back to school.
Hello dear friends. I hope you had a spectacular and well-rested weekend. The classes, oh God, I thought my grandchildren were never going to go to school again. But today, after almost two years, they have returned to the classroom. Today it was my two granddaughters and my grandson, because he is preschool, he will go on Wednesday.
In 2019 we already had problems with electricity and lack of water in schools, for this reason there were many days that classes were suspended. Then many teachers migrated and the schools were left without enough teachers to cover the number of children who attended the schools.
On the other hand, we migrated to Colombia that year, but my daughter could not enroll the children since she did not have enough documents to prove that they were studying those degrees here and they could not take the opportunity to study.
Then the pandemic, you know, paralyzed everything and there were no classes anywhere. In 2021 we came to Venezuela, but there were no classes since in my city the rebound of Covid was increasing until this month of December of the year that just ended.
With great fear and care, my daughter enrolled them in a school relatively close to home, a public school. There they must wear their mouth cover, the teachers told the girls that they cannot lend their pencils, their school supplies or their notebooks. So the day they don't bring a pencil to write, they won't write anything down because no classmate can lend them to them.
They are sitting a desk apart from each other in the classrooms and they only attend 2 days a week and for 2 hours each day, that is, they will only see 4 hours of classes a week.
All the care they are taking to avoid contagion is very good. The only undeniable thing is that this generation of students is the one that will learn the least from the schools.
Although we, or my daughter, have enrolled the girls in an escuelita (a teacher who gives private lessons at home to help herself and the children) it is not the same as attending their normal classes and doing all their homework and taking all his subjects.
Nor is it the same if they are given classes at home with a person who is not the right one to teach classes like the mother or the father, unless they are teachers.
There is nothing like attending classes and seeing face-to-face classes with a staff duly trained for that as the teacher. The virtual classes did not help the student to concentrate, the fact of being seen by the mother or by a relative made the child nervous.
And not to mention those children who did not have access to the internet or a good device to receive classes. I witnessed how a niece received classes online and her mother wouldn't let her concentrate, telling her: you answer, the others answer and you don't, come on, intervene in the class!
I feel that despite all the attention that has been given to my granddaughters they are not prepared for the grades they are studying. Hopefully soon they level up and can learn what they have stopped learning during all this long time.
For Wednesday I will bring you the photos of my grandson, the youngest, who starts school for the first time in his preschool. We hope he likes school and doesn't cry when he is dropped off in the classroom.
This was all for today, tomorrow we will be talking to continue with our diary.
Let's write my diary. Day 6 - What do I do on a Sunday?
Hello my dear friends. I hope you have had a happy weekend. Today I want to share with you what I normally do on a Sunday and surely many of you will agree with me.
Sundays are for sleeping late, but in my case I get up early to go to church. Like every first Sunday of each month we celebrate the Lord's Supper, this is a commemoration of the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, where by order of Jesus himself, we take bread and wine and we must do so until He comes back to earth.
Our church is small because it hasn't been open for long and many people in the parish don't know that this church is there to serve everyone in the community.
For some time I was looking for a church like this, where I could have the chance to talk with the pastors, not like those where you can't even greet the church leaders. This gives me satisfaction.
The holy supper can only be taken by those who are already baptized. We recently had our first group baptism, it was very nice and well organized.
Today was also a day of blessings as we were able to deliver lunches or manna from heaven to our parishioners so they could take a plate of food home. Many of them do not have enough to eat 3 meals a day and this is a great incentive.
Today the menu was rice, black beans and arepa. On other occasions they have been given ground meat, rice and bread. For next week we will also have to share the program since some already brought the ingredients to make buns and rice.
And of course a drink to accompany the meal, a refreshing paper drink or brown sugar bar. Very rich and took away the heat.
A very nice act that is done every Sunday is the presentation of children before God, when they are a few days old they take them to church to present them before God and show that they want their child to be a child of God, from now on and forever.
Something that the church has not done yet is marriages, but they are already registering, expressing their desire to get married in this church. I'm already excited, I like marriages a lot, so when the first one happens I'll bring them to you so you can see it.
Today the collection of the offerings was in charge of two of the male servers, I am one of those who collects them, but they surprised me with the total change of protocol. It is to give the other servers the opportunity to also participate in the work of the church.
That's my Sunday morning, then we come home to have lunch. Today we went with the children, my 3 grandchildren who live with me. After lunch I rest for a while and sit at the computer to write or scroll through YouTube videos.
I love to watch television, but as for now there is only 1, the children watch it. So it is better that they are calm watching their comics. This is normally a Sunday for me. And for you, how is your day Sunday?
Let's write my diary. Day 5 - I don't understand US politics.
Hi friends. Today we will write day 5 of my diary and we will talk about some things that have always worried me about the policy they have in the United States to give or deny a visa.
Watching videos on YouTube I realized the news about the denial or exclusion that Venezuelans have about the H2B visa and about any visa petition.
I understand that due to the political problem that we have in Venezuela, measures are taken to let the president know the discontent that his counterpart has in the United States, but that only affects Venezuelan citizens and not the high leadership of the government.
Venezuelans who are in US territory are being well cared for and well treated by that country and all its inhabitants, much better than in others where xenophobia is destroying them.
What does not seem logical to me is that if they want to help Venezuelans migrate to another country, they have to do it illegally and by trails.
It happens that Venezuelans were excluded from the Visa Lottery programs and recently they were also excluded from the H2B, H2A and all other visa programs.
For this reason, Venezuelans have no choice but to enter illegally through the Mexican border, where many have had to lie since they are not in danger of death (because of the situation we are, but that is not an argument to request asylum ). So they prefer to listen to a lie of credible fear, although for us it is, but for them it is not enough, since otherwise we cannot enter that country.
In 2016, when the American embassy was still in Venezuela, I went to ask for my visa. And when they asked me: Do you have any relatives living in the United States? I answered yes, because it was the truth. But then my visa was denied.
Could it be that if I had said that I did not have anyone from my family there, they would have approved it?
So, now with the work visas, they are in need of workers and it would be a way to help many Venezuelans to enter legally as it should be and it would be a way to filter out many people who only want to go there to create problems. But then they close all the legal doors on us and leave the door of illegality wide open.
Maybe they should review the rules and improve some things. Or is it that now we must lie? It is the country of opportunities and we all want to be included in those opportunities. The gesture they have towards those who are there is appreciated, but they should think about those people who want to enter legally.
Hopefully everything will be fixed so that we don't have to leave our country and that we don't create problems for others who have treated us so well. On behalf of all my countrymen, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
What do you think about this? What knowledge do you have of these visa petitions? Tell me if you agree or not. I will be reading them. See you tomorrow friends.
Let's write my diary. Day 4 - Covid and Omicron
Hello my dear friends. Today we write my diary with some regret, I am very moved by what happened to a neighbor of mine who died today from the Omicron virus. And this virus continues to do its thing.
Next March will be two years since the Covid 19 pandemic was decreed. I have lost many friends because they did not believe that this virus was so strong or because they thought it was more fuss than reality.
The truth is that throughout these two years I have seen up close how this invisible bug has taken so many people, with or without money, from high or low society. It doesn't distinguish between social status or anything.
And it is that at first people got angry because he had to be locked up and because he still has to wear a mask. I have seen how many people have had to be forced to wear a mouth cover for their own safety.
I remember that in a square a policeman stopped to ask a citizen to put on his mouth cover properly, since he was wearing it on his chin. He asked her to cover her mouth and nose. And the man was upset because the policeman was only taking care of him.
In the city center I have seen many people without a mouth cover, they say they are tired of wearing it and that they sweat and it bothers them a lot. But it is so far the best way to take care of ourselves and prevent contagion. In any case, I think that we are all going to get Covid and/or Omicron.
They are told by a person who already gave him the two variants and thank God he lived to tell about it. But there are many people reluctant to continue taking care of themselves and caring for others.
My neighbor was a young man, but he smoked and they say that smokers are hit harder because the airways are atrophied by nicotine. The most unfortunate thing about this whole virus is that the person cannot be watched, they must be cremated to bury it once and for all.
What seems saddest to me about this situation is that the sick person cannot be cared for by any family member, unless they are at home and only one person takes care of the sick person, as my mother did. My sister hospitalized her at home and she did not receive visits from anyone, all the eating utensils were separate from those of others.
Let's pray that this plague is over, but let's not forget that we must continue to take care of ourselves. Thanks for reading today's lines, we write tomorrow.
Let's write my diary. Day 3 -Receiving good news.
Hello my consistent friends of this platform. Thank you for accompanying me to write my diary on this third day. Remember that yesterday I told you that I was a little stressed about a call that I was waiting for? Well, today I received it, and although what I'm looking for hasn't materialized, it's good news.
Has it ever happened to you that you think of someone or mention them and after a while or the next day you hear from that person? Well, I feel like that was what happened today and it really changed my mood and made my day. That photo you see there was what we had for lunch today and it is part of the stress I have.
I have to be thankful because there are many people who don't even have enough to eat and we have that dish that was very tasty. So the day improved remarkably with that conversation with that person.
I am taking care of my sister's two cats who moved to my mom's apartment while covid was passing, today they asked me for dinner 2 hours before. They are also stressed without their owner and without so many people they saw coming here. They miss the activity of humans.
I don't know if you noticed that I upload another photo to the publication, I'm liking this little by little and I'm getting to know it better. So soon you will see some pleasant, beautiful and excellent publications. I like to learn and that is what I am doing now.
It was very hot today, 33 degrees centigrade. In my city Maracaibo this should be normal for its inhabitants, but the truth is that we are still not used to it. We live all day locked in a room with air conditioning.
Today I also had news from my beautiful mother, who is saturating well and is quite stable. But my sister is worried because she feels a bit of a cough and she doesn't want her to get the flu because that would mean that my mom would catch it.
But I pray to God that it's nothing, that that cough goes away. They are passing the Covid and the medicine they took was a lot, so there must still be an antibiotic in their body. I think that next week they will let me go see it because I already have many days before the Omicron passes.
I will keep you informed, I will take several photos with my mom. So far today, the page is over hahaha. By tomorrow I will have a new one for us to write, yes? Good night and see you tomorrow.
Let's write my diary. Day 2
Hello dear friends. Today is February 2nd and it is my second day writing this Diary together with you. Today I wanted to write it in the English language to see what results it has, if you like it or not, or we leave it in Spanish and do it in both languages.
Today was a day of great anxiety since I am waiting to receive a call and I can't get it to go through, well, in God's time. I am a person who believes in God and I must leave everything in His hands. He will know when the time is right.
I'm still learning things about the page about markdown, little by little I'll learn how to handle it to make excellent publications. I like to see my writing all justified because there are no short and long lines, but they are all the same size.
In the afternoon I went to the church where I congregate, there I find a lot of serenity for my problems and it calms me down a lot. It seems that every time I go they talk about me, about what I'm feeling. And I don't tell my pastors anything, but it seems that they know everything about me and my problems.
Whenever I come back from church I feel that I arrive renewed, I talk, I get distracted and I also make my requests to God. For some time now I have noticed the changes in my life, material and spiritual. And that is because I now pay more attention to what is happening around me that comes from God.
I have always had blessings in my life, but the previous occupations did not allow me to see it. Now that if I pay attention to him I see them and I have been amazed at the things he does for his favorite daughter.
When I was married I always wanted to go to church as a family, my husband, my 3 children and myself. But my husband never liked me, so now that I'm alone, without a partner, I can go to church and congregate and come whenever I want.
I've already had dinner, I'm reviewing things on my pages and then I'll go to sleep, I like to go to bed early because I get up early. Tomorrow will be another day and it will come with new blessings and new teachings. See you tomorrow friends.
Hagamos Mi Diario juntos. Dia 1.
Hoy se me ocurrio hacer algo en conjunto con ustedes. Hoy abrire las puertas de mi alma y mi corazon para comenzar a escribir mi diario de vida, o lo que queda de ella. Lo cierto es que cuando joven nunca me gusto la idea de escribir un diario porque me parecia que cualquiera que lo encontrara se sentiria en la curiosidad de leerlo.
Pero hoy lo haremos juntos, ustedes y yo. Quizas haya algo que aprender de este escrito o algo que podamos conocer en conjunto, entre mis vivencias y sus comentarios. Este diario no tendra un cuaderno, se ira escribiendo segun lo que haga durante el dia y lo que me salga del alma.
Escribamos juntos mi diario, un dia a dia de acontesimientos que desde hoy sera publico y un libro abierto para que todos ustedes opinen. Bueno, comenare diciendo que hoy fue un dia de esos en los que pienso mucho, me preocupo. Relativamente siempre son asi mis dias, yo creo que casi todos tenemos preocupaciones, no ?
Vivo con mi hija la soltera, mi hija la casada, su esposo y mis 3 nietos. Mi hijo mayor y mi nieto viven en Colombia. Pais el cual he visitado en 2 ocasiones y me ha gustado mucho la verdad.
Todos los dias me levanto y me preparo un rico cafe con leche, soy adicta al cafe con leche y mis hijos me dicen que lo preparo muy bueno. Me gusta cocinar, pero cuando hay de todo en la despensa. No soy de inventar y mucho menos si no hay nada para cocinar. Cuando hay, soy toda una chef profesional.
Hoy es 1 de Febrero, se me hizo largo el mes de Enero, no les parece ? Enero siempre tarda en terminar, en cambio Diciembre se paso muy rapido. Este mes cumple años mi nieta, la segunda, y ya estamos pensando en como se hara, que decoracion tendra y de que sabor se hara la torta. Ella la quiere de 3 leches.
Ya tendremos tiempo de compartir todos los cumpleaños de mi familia, que son bastante. Aunque antes eramos mas, pero con esto de la migracion de mi pais estamos quedando sin gente. Vendran tiempos mejores, las esperanzas son las ultimas que se pierden.
Hoy pase el dia escribiendo y haciendo comentarios en las publicaciones, pero tenia dias que no escribia ya que tengo a mi mama enferma. Le dio Covid 19 a sus 83 años, pueden creerlo ? Y lo supero, es una guerrera esta madre mia, bendito sea mi Dios. Y no solo le dio Covid, sino que junto con eso le dio un ACV.
La doctora que Neurologa que la vio dijo que le dieron 3 ACV, dos leves y uno mas fuerte que fue cuando se quedo sin habla, se le paralizo la mitad de su cuerpo, la parte derecha y hablaba como si tuviera un trapo en la boca. No tenia mucha coerencia, no prestaba atencion cuando se le llamaba.
Milagrosamente ya salio del Covid y ahora estamos haciendo los esfuerzos para los tratamientos del ACV que tambien son costosos. Mi hermana me prohibio que visite a mi mama para que no se contagie de Omicron que me dio hace 15 dias, ella todavia esta muy delicada y una recaida con Omicron no seria muy conveniente.
Como ven mi dia a dia es muy tranquilo, sin mucho que decir. Pero queria compartir con ustedes todas mis cosas y que intercambiaramos ideas y asi saber yo un poco de las cosas de ustedes. Mañana estare haciendo mi publicacion para contarles que tal estuvo.
Nos escribimos.
My introduction to this social network.
My name is Isabel Peña and I am Venezuelan. Since I turned 40 I have been looking for a platform where I can publish and be rewarded to have an income since the culture of my country does not allow a person of that age to continue working in a company office. For these companies you are no longer suitable for a work rhythm, whatever it may be.
I gave up taking resumes to the companies since I was just wasting my time and the little money I had in paying buses to go to those companies just to listen We will call you. With that expression they annihilate the job applicant and you know that what it means is that they are not interested in you, otherwise they would have said yes immediately.
Thank God my search had good results. In 2017 they told me about a page that would pay me to comment, publish and vote on other publications. I had already heard many people talk about Bitcoin and how difficult it was to manage a page like that cryptocurrency and get rewarded with it. But this so easy, it seemed to me that it was not true.
I took the risk of trying since I had no other option and I registered on Steemit, the page with which I started in this world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. I found the ecosystem fascinating and much more the way of obtaining profits. Now this page split and they created a very well based one called Hive, I recently got a social network where your posts are short and you get paid for a simple comment called Noise.Cash and now it's Read.Cash.
As you can see, the solution for those of us who are older and want to continue doing something to earn our livelihood or for those who are out of work due to the pandemic situation, or for anyone who wants to try new things online, here are these options very good, proven to not feel bad for not having a job and stop begging a company to enhance your values as a worker.
And the best of all is that you can go at your own pace, faster or slower, do it at the time that suits you best, from your home and all the advantages that this type of project offers us. A very cordial greeting, and that this is my first publication of many of the interest of all of you.
@isa07
