My best friend Her name is Blanca, I met her about ten years ago in my job, we were cashiers in a casino. We used to spend a lot of time together during the job and outside it. Those were my bests years, we were young and we loved dancing and having parties. Some times we used to stay at my apartment or her house, it wasn't important we shared clothes anyway. Nowadays, she has two kids and she works a lot to give them a good life, I moved to Canada so we barely speak with each other. Even thought we speak less than years ago, we know that we are there. I really miss her. I miss to talk about my day with someone that would tell me that I'm boring because I don't want to go anywhere. I miss to talk about my issues and the small they are comparing with her issues. I feel blue or gray as she always said.

La presentacion Bonjour! Je m'appelle Gabriela, je suis mexicaine. J'ai 30 ans. Je suis en couple, je n'ai pas d'enfants. Mon couple travailles en IT a Montréal. J'étudie le français le fin de semaine et je suis femme au foyer en semaine.

Volunteering A couple of weeks ago, I started volunteering in a retirement house. I've never done volunteering work before, so I decide to start doing just three hours per week. I help to serve breakfast for elderly people with some mental illness. The first day, I was a little nervous because during the induction they told us that we need to be careful and always ask if they are allowed to eat or even drink something. Some of them have difficult to eat and you have to help them. I met a lady that reminds me my grandmother. Another lady always wants to share her food with me and her babies (two dolls). Some of them are very confuse, but even though they look very happy drinking coffee. They love coffee!

Traveling to Mexico This weekend I'll be traveling to Mexico. I'm very happy, even if I'm not going to my parents' house, I'll be in my country for a few days. I really miss a lot of things from there, my family, friends, the food... Oh my god the food! Since we got here, I've tried to find all those ingredients to make an authentic mexican food. It has been difficult, some of them are similar, another ones are available only in some places. So I've tried to cook as good as I can. Anyway I'm really excited I'm going! I'm going to eat a lot there! If I could, I will bring all the things I need for cooking for a year. I think I'm going to get back with 10 kilos more and I don't care at all. :)

A hot week in Mtl All the people in Montreal is too happy because this week is pretty hot. They love hot weather, maybe because they have long and hard winter. Since the spring started, you can see a lot of people outside walking or riding their bicycles. They seam enjoy hot and sunny days. I still don't enjoy hot weather as much as they do, maybe in a couple of years I'll be like they are now wishing this weather. This week has been hot and there's a lot of humidity, the good thing it is windy too, so is not too difficult to handle it.

Elections Mexico Yesterday in my country Mexico were the presidential elections. Won a candidate who has being in the competition for the last three elections. He says is "the hope of Mexico". Mexican people were tired of the last mexican presidents, all of them promised things that they never did. I really think that first of all we need to start for ourselves changing the way that we are, the way that we do everything. Mexico has a lot of good and worker people, but there are also those who don't like to do lines, to respect the institutions, to do their part. For example I used to live in a small and quite city in Guanajuato, recently that city was called the most dangerous in Mexico. That's very sad because I have family and friends there, but the saddest thing is some people only complains about the situation but they continue buying illegal gasoline (it is the principal reason for violence the oil traffic) Even when I'm not planing go back to Mexico for now, it's sad how people want to others do the right things but they don't want to do it. I grateful my parents educated me to don't expect nothing from anybody and work for myself since I was a girl. I know that all that I have or don't have is because of me and nobody else.

New apartment We just move to a new apartment in Montreal. I love it! It's a charming small apartment with a wonderful view of the city, it's a very nice place to enjoy the summer evenings. I like to spend the time outside in the balcony, drinking coffee or just staying there seen the sunset. I started gardening too, I have some plants there as peppermint, oregano, coriander, basil and others that I can use for cooking or making tea. I wish we could stay here longer, but unfortunately we'll be here only for the next four months because the guy who rent us the apartment went to Vancouver to do an internship. I'm wishing my best for Martin. If the company hire him, we'll keep his nice apartment. :)

Comfortable zone When I got to Montreal, I thought it would be difficult to get involved into the society and yes it is! I've been here since March and sometimes I still feel as I don't gonna make it. I'm a desperate person I stress out easily if I don't have a job or something to do, specially if I'm in a new place and I don't know people here. A month ago I was not feeling well, I wanted to go out, do something. I got a job packing beauty products, but unfortunately almost all my coworkers were Latin speakers, that was nice at the beginning, but then I realized I needed to push myself, try to go out with people who's speak English and even if I'm not pretty good in my speaking, do it. I really think if I try harder by the end of the year I will be better in English, but I'm also convince I have to go out of my comfortable zone. I decided to quit my job and be fully dedicated to read, listen and speak English.

Avengers Infinity War (Spoiler Alert) Yesterday, my boyfriend and I went to the movies to watch the avengers movie. It was a sold out, so we had to be in the first line, it wasn't so good because the big screen seemed weird, but anyway we wanted to watch the movie. My favorite character in that movie was Loki, guess who started crying in the very beginning? Thannos killed him! The rest of the movie was good, it was a lot of action scenes, blood everywhere, just like you could imagine. I didn't care much to the rest of the plot, because Loki, my love was already dead. So if you want to know what else happened in the movie, just google it and you can find a lot of spoilers there.