15 días / 2 miradas, my experience.

In January I made a post about this collaborative project called 15 dias / 2 miradas (15 days / 2 looks) created by Arlette Montilla, which consisted in portraying the Venezuelan's daily life outside the country and each participant has to take one photo for 15 days. Then she will try to look for similar situations for a comparative of our lives.

From April 17 to May 1 it was my turn, I believe our results were pretty interesting. A lot was happening in these 15 days so I had some cool stuff to document. I loved the challenge, and it seems that I can't stop taking daily pictures. 

Here are all the pictures we took, tell me what do you think of them in the comments :) 

Hope you enjoy them.

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My life lately... (Part 2)

This is the beginning of a great year because:


 1. I changed my glasses. 

2. My mom visited along with her husband, so much to do so little time.

3. She brought a lot of awesome gifts from friends, delicious candy, food and rum

Did I tell you it was a lot? 

4. It was our anniversary, which we enjoyed at "Los Amigos Invisibles" concert

 5. And lastly we moved to a new better place. I'll post some pics soon.

That's all for now! Have a nice sunny weekend.

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Top 5 videos of 1 second everyday for a year

I've been kind of obsessed by the idea of filming 365 seconds of a year, that means 1 second everyday for a year. I've also been watching all sorts of videos from awesome and interesting people. So my quest this year is to make this video and so far I have 8 seconds recorded.

I don't have an extremely interesting life, I'm not very adventurous, I don't have a lot of friends, and I'm kind of an introverted person, but I know at least 1 second of everyday it's going to be awesome.

I gathered a bunch of videos of awesome people, here are my top 5 videos:

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Adventuring Granville Island

It was our second time adventuring the very chic and warm (even though it was freezing) place called Granville Island. We decided to go through a different route and found the most beautiful stores I've seen. One of them was Paper-Ya, my heart melted every step I made into the store. It's a must visit.

Then we went to the Public market wanting to eat everything at our sight. We bought some delicious and fresh ricotta and sun dried tomato raviolis to die for. And there is actually buffala cheese, but its too damn expensive -sigh- one day.

I leave you with this cute pics I took at the market. 

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Instameet Vancouver in October

Yesterday was a really fun day, I finally got to meet cool people from instagram. This instameet it's organized every month as a photowalk. I brough my camera with me and these are my favorite photos, I didn't take that many because Gian and me had to leave early to the whitecaps game :)

The fashionable girl bellow @beyunique was posing for me, loved her animal print hat.

I've been following @bryceevansphoto since I was living in Venezuela, it's nice to see one of your favorite insagrammers in action.

We went to the Science World and got cool shots there.

Sick photographer @artfuldesperado, @girloclock (organizer) and @bryceevansphoto

Captured @lisawoodenshoes taking photos of the fall. She was an interesting subject to photograph.

And this was the whole group, the pic was taken by @girloclock in front of the salt building near Olympic Village station. Hope I can see them all again next month.

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Thank you for reading!

As you know (or don't know) last Sunday the Venezuelan elections were held, Chavez won... again. I'm not going to talk about politics because I kind of hate that topic.

Ironically the Monday after that was Thanksgiving Day here in Canada, but I could only be thankful for one thing only, being away from my country, being safe. I'm not going to be a downer here, but I'm going to focus on the thanks thing.

At one of my bus rides.

Canadians are famous for being very sorry or very thankful. In a normal day I hear people say sorry or thank you about 10 to 20 times, so this guys are very polite. Even when they get off a bus they scream "THANK YOU!" to the driver, and funnily enough they sometimes say "YOU WELCOME!", and I sometimes do it too.

So I was wondering how many times did I hear someone saying thanks to their bus driver, did I ever say it back in Maracaibo? Of course not, those are radically different cultures, but what if you start saying thanks to someone who don't get that too often?

I don't imagine people in Maracaibo saying a legitimate "Hey! bus driver, thank you for not letting us all get killed this time!" because let's face it, its hot as hell, there are like 100 sweaty people touching you and the driver is a maniac, but it could be fun if we start being polite to everyone around us.

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Day 3 and 4. BUSY!

Believe me when I say we don't have the time to surf the web,  next week I'll start with the regular posting most probably.

Gian and I went cellphone shopping and apartment hunting. So I don't have Lots of pics to show you other than these.

The place we are staying at live a Shih Tzu and yesterday the brother went to visit him. They were playing right next to me and Gian took this beautiful photo <3

Also went to a supermarket, and read this where they put the meat, this Spanish is funny and horrible at the same time.

The family that lives where we are staying held a BBQ party, it was so nice to meet people from all over the world, the food was incredible and sitting by the fire is always the best thing.

See ya :)

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4 things I'll miss and won't miss about my hometown {4 days}

4 more days to go! and i've been SUPER busy, you have no idea. I even missed yesterday's post. 

I had this post in mind for a while and I think it's the right time to post it. I hope I keep on posting before we leave, wish me luck!

• The local food: If you know about Maracaibo you know everything here tastes delicious, even though Vancouver is the foodie town, local food from this city is incredible, mostly because everything is fattening. I'll specially miss the hallacas in late November, December and January and arepas too, hopefully I'll find Harina PAN
• My friends and family: I probably won't cry when I say my goodbyes but I'll definitely will when I hear Gaita in Christmas.
• Being spoiled: leaving my home means my mom won't cook for me, no one is going to clean up after me, even less do the laundry. Leaving home means responsibilities but don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to it.
• The weather: Yes i know, this country could be a literal hell but when rainy days and cold kicks in I'll miss my sun but maybe just for a day.

It's impossible to not feel nostalgic about the place you grew up, that made you who you are, but then again there are some things that I definitely won't miss:

• The weather: Maracaibo isn't called hornocity for nothing (horno stands for oven) and even though Raincouver's weather isn't the best I'll still won't miss the standard 48°C with 90% of humidity and NO wind.
• The lifestyle: Vancouver is "streets ahead" when we talk about nightlife and culture. There are a billion things to do rather than go to a mall/movies and eat.
• The sightseeing: let's face it, Maracaibo is NOT pretty, it's just humid and dirty and who's going to miss that? not me.
• Crime: I believe this is the most important point of all, I really don't want to get something stolen or get murdered for an iPhone, I really don't. So yeah, walking without worrying that someone is going to kill you just for stealing from you is something I dearly want to experience.

So tell me, what is the one thing that you will miss about the place you live if you leave?

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