You should travel to Puerto Rico, it's a beautiful place with beautiful and lots of places to visit. Puerto Rico is a mixture of historical and current culture. It has latin and american food and gorgeous beaches.
If you're looking for a place to stay, a great place to stay would be Hosteria Del Mar in San Juan, Puerto Rico's capital. The hotel has a pool and you can get your own mini apartment with a kitchenette during tourist season for $244-$264 (or #199-$209 in the off season). The address is Calle Tapia 1, San Juan 00911. This hotel is perfect or just some relaxation after a long day of site seeing.
Awesome places to visit while in Puerto Rico include El Yunque Rainforest. It is such a gorgeous place to just walk around and to see the beautiful waterfalls, plants and flowers, and to watch the different animals interact with one another. Or if you're more into architecture, you could visit the Castillo de San Felipe Del Morro. It was built in 1540 as a fortress to defend Isla Verde, but now it just serves a a museum. There is also Casa Blanca that was built in 1521 and was home to Juan Ponce de Leon's descendants for two and a half centuries. Afterward it was used to house military officers. Now, it serves as the Juan Ponce de Leon Museum. There's also La Casa Del Libro that is the home of many acient books and scrolls of the country. Or if you are looking for something the kids would like, you could always go to Time Out Family Amusement Center. This place is like a huge arcade with games the whole family can play and keep busy, it just doesn't have any rides.
If you are looking for somewhere to eat, there are three great places to go depending on what you want. If you are looking for what we eat in America, there's El Hamburger in Puerta de Tierra. They sell the usual hamburgers, cheeseburgers, french fries, and more. Then again, if you are looking for something more traditional Don Tello in Old San Juan is a good place to go. They sell traditional Puerto Rican food such as a variety of sea food, savory chicken stew, steak, and more. Or there is Metropol located at Club Gallistic, Av Isla Verde, Isla Verde, that serves a mixture of Cuban and Puerto Rican food. The menu offers such dishes as Cornish Game Hen stuffed with Cuban rice and beans, the Black bean soup is to die for, or you could even get a marinated steak with an egg on top of it most served with plantains and yucca.
Of course you are also going to want to go shopping. If you want to blend in with the locals Hecho a Mano sells locally made clothes and jewelry for women. Perfect for looking like a local. Ole is a little store perfect for crafts or souveneers. They sell things such as woven hats, Silver from Chile, ornaments from Peru, Santos, and many other things from the Latin countries of the world. Or there is El Alcazar that sells antiques if you collect things such as silver, crystal, porcelain, furniture, and more, most of it being from Puerto Rico.
It's just a great little country to visit. You will love it.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Sunday, October 2, 2011
You.... What's the point?
What's the point of loving you if there's nothing there? All you do is stare at me... I i meant it when I had told you I loved you. Yet you, you just don't care about anyone but yourself. Maybe I should just leave you to your own devices and let it die. There's just one problem with that senerio.... I don't have the strength to leave you.... I love you way too much for that. Curse you for all your charm and manipulative ability... And your vivid eyes. "As I lie here dying, you haven't lost a thing."~ Elysian Fields
Monday, May 23, 2011
Monday- Poetry Terms
Alliteration- the repetition of an initial consonant sound
Anaphora- the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses
Antithesis- the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases
Apostrophe- breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character
Assonance- identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words
Chiasmus- A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed
Euphemism- the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit
Hyperbole- an extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened affect
Irony- the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
Litotes- a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
Metaphor- an implied comparison between two unlike things that actually important in common
Metonym- a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Onomatopeia- the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with objects or actions they refer to
Oxymoron- a figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side
Paradox- a statement that appears to contradict itself
Personification- a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities
Pun- a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words
Simile- a stated comparison between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common
Synecdoche- a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part
Understatement- a figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Anaphora- the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses
Antithesis- the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases
Apostrophe- breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character
Assonance- identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words
Chiasmus- A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed
Euphemism- the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit
Hyperbole- an extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened affect
Irony- the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
Litotes- a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
Metaphor- an implied comparison between two unlike things that actually important in common
Metonym- a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Onomatopeia- the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with objects or actions they refer to
Oxymoron- a figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side
Paradox- a statement that appears to contradict itself
Personification- a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities
Pun- a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words
Simile- a stated comparison between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common
Synecdoche- a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part
Understatement- a figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Black Veil Bride Lyrics- Knives And Pens (Alliteration)
One final fight, for this tonight.
Woah...
With knives and pens we made our plight.
Woah...
And I can't go on without your love, you lost, you never held on.
We tried out best... Turn out the light,
Turn out the light.
Woah...
With knives and pens we made our plight.
Woah...
And I can't go on without your love, you lost, you never held on.
We tried out best... Turn out the light,
Turn out the light.
Friday, May 20, 2011
A letter To Juliet
My Fair Juliet,
I cannot believe thou art dead. My love, more beautiful than the moon itself. You left this hateful world. Now lovely Verona has turned from heaven to the pits of hell without you. It would make me marry indeed to see thy stunning face again. Thy face that makes Hera weep in envy and jealousy. I miss thee more than the lily misses the spring sun. I am dead without my stunning lily. Your petals have withered and are black now. My very soul weeps at the sight of my dead flower, the very flower that lit up my life. How am I supposed to continue my life without you. My very love that makes the moon envious. I shall end my life, fore i cannot live on without you, my angel. So, I drink to us being reunited in heaven and there we shall live out eternity together, without the hate of our families' feud. My fairest Juliet, thou art my life now, my whole life. I shall see you in heaven my fair angel.
My heart is forever yours,
Romeo
I cannot believe thou art dead. My love, more beautiful than the moon itself. You left this hateful world. Now lovely Verona has turned from heaven to the pits of hell without you. It would make me marry indeed to see thy stunning face again. Thy face that makes Hera weep in envy and jealousy. I miss thee more than the lily misses the spring sun. I am dead without my stunning lily. Your petals have withered and are black now. My very soul weeps at the sight of my dead flower, the very flower that lit up my life. How am I supposed to continue my life without you. My very love that makes the moon envious. I shall end my life, fore i cannot live on without you, my angel. So, I drink to us being reunited in heaven and there we shall live out eternity together, without the hate of our families' feud. My fairest Juliet, thou art my life now, my whole life. I shall see you in heaven my fair angel.
My heart is forever yours,
Romeo
Thursday, May 19, 2011
My First Blog
I honestly have never blogged before... This is going to be a major learning experience for me. It'll be nice not having to write everything. I'm better with computers anyway. Poetry is also one of my favorite things, so this unit will be fun. (:
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