So Proud =)

yeaaa Beach !! jujuju

A quick post.... !!! i just want you to know is that today the first triathlon of the year, it means that 2011 season has started =] .... a Sprint Distance (750 swim-20km bike- 5km run) It was full of good sensations for TEAM IRON CHILDREN!! My brother, Gustavo won the race ,1:40 minutes ahead the 2nd and 3rd place, he kicked some ass today!!!! Impressed!!!! He swam at the top of everyone 6 sec ahead the 2nd guy... from that moment i knew he was going to win the whole race. A "solo breakaway" on the bike was enough !!! OMG he looked like Alberto Contador when biking jajajjajaja , the 1st pack was behind ( which included my younger brother, Raul )working together as well but still not enough. In the final stage, Tavo just held a moderate pace without so much pressure crossing the finish line without anybody near him =)!!! What really upsets all of us is that there is still Corruption  when posting the official time since my brother was suppossed to be more than 1:30 minutes ahead, but instead, they placed the 2nd and 3rd guy way nearer.!! it means that according to the real time, there is more than only a 40-minute gap... Sooooooooooooo Unfear =(... but still,  nobody  can deny that Tavo`s performance was just perfect today !! whether those people want to accept it or no !!!!!

As for the girls, Nataly did a great lesson of courage to everyone!!! After leading the swim, she crashed on the bike, it wasn`t that serious,though, only a few bruises!! Despite her fall, she got up and caught the other girl in the chase pack...She hang up in her wheel until the last lap that tiredness made her lose her rival.
She managed to recover and ran very well :) she ended 2nd which was a great performance as well. My little sister was stunning too!!! she ended up 3rd despite she was sick, consequently, out of shape for a week!!! My other teammates did an excelent race as well !! Jony, Miguel and Raul worked very hard in the bike....
Now we are back to Santa Ana but i think it was a good day for Team Iron Children.

ReMemBeRinG!!! =)

Whatch this video about USAT Camp, 2008.....

It was full of learning experiences, new kind people,  workouts,  tests, a different enviroment = FUN :)

The funniest thing was that i lost my shoe in T2 jajajajajaja
Hilarious !!!!



Good stuff =D

Sonita ... just Hang on !!!!

A week later and here i am again posting the most relevant events that are happening in my life =)...Firstly, i have to say that i never had the chance to thank all the ones that give themselves time to read my blog, seriously, i really  appreciate it!!

Well, this week has been full of ups and downs, but the most important thing is to get the best out of them.  Definetely, a plus has been that it seems that my arm is healing!!! it feels quite better but i cannot assure it is successfully healed. Let`s see what happens when i head up to my first swimming session tomorrow. Ahh yeaaaa, finally!!! I really miss my hard workouts in the pool and track and i just can´t wait to get back there and just do what i love the most "triatlon". But what  surely is  above my priorities is my Education, therefore, i have to put more effort to it than anything else. This is my final year, it means that i am in the final stage of my 5-year journey, it seems easy but it is not. I am not saying that the tasks are impossible to accomplish nor too difficult, but they take a lot of time and stress from you. But the good news are that i am getting more used to this hectic "Senior student" life and it just will take less than 6 months!!!. 

As i said in my last post, one of the new things that i am facing is my teaching practicum, and it is taking me a lot of time!! My first time was not  a disaster i guess, but it wasnt perfect either, but as soon as i heard my feedback last Tuesday, i just felt kind of hurt, more insecure than before, dissapointed and very stressed. I just told to myself "how can they ask for perfection to somebody like me?" "I´m not a pro nor an expert at this?", i just felt out of the track, i was so sad and  i found myself in a blind alley =( I just thought "OMG how am i going to do  next time?". But i know that everything has a solution, and that i was not going to relsolve anything with those negative feelings, that´s why i  just thought that it was actually possible to do a better performance. So i just prepared everything for Wednesday´s task and began to do my duty.

I managed to avoid the mistakes i had done last time, i liked the fact that i was going to deal with grammar structures which is something that i enjoy instead of doing games, activities and stuff like those.

I tried to do the best activity by giving clear directions, i was totally sure the directions were  clear enough  for me, but sadly they were not for the guys :(, i explained many times and they still didn`t get my idea =( .... i felt so desperated and  i almost freaked out, and adding the fact that i was being observed i just wanted everything to be perfect,but obviously it wasn´t. Luckily, my tutor helped me out and the students finally got the idea.  I appreciated it from the teacher =). When doing the next activity, i noticed one boy did not have a book, he seemed shy and kind of cold towards me. I had a copy of the lesson and gave it to him kindly, he smiled and seemed very  grateful to me, i felt rewarded (good sensations =]) :)!!!...Then i pasted my grammar charts and started my explanations. I think it well went, it wasn´t that bad since everybody got my ideas, i just thought "good for you Sonia". I realised the time isn´t felt whilst being busy and i think this time i did a  better job,  not greater, though.

Furthermore, my classmates have told me that they did better too which is something that im happy for:). Everybody is so close that i just don´t feel the time whilst being in a class. Everyone has a different outstanding quality that i admire.I have to thank them as they´ve been so supportive with me as well.I just have to hang on and give my best in every task,no matter whether i like it or not and it also won´t be forever which is nice ;).Now it seems hard, stressing and it feels that my time is being stolen since i can´t do activities i´m used to do daily but at the same time I know that time goes very fast and out of a sudden i hopefully  will be finishing this semester with a huge smile in my face. 

cheers ;)

Facing my fears !!!

It´s February already and i can`t believe how fast time flies by and the more time is running,the more demanding University homeworks and stuff are getting, im not saying that they are reachless nor impossible to accomplish but for me there are some kinds of activities that i enjoy more than others. Wednesday  was a very interesting day for me since i had to face one of the tasks im the most afraid of (TEACHING).
Last year, i knew that 2011 was going to be very rough for me since i had to face the subject of Teaching Practicum but i was not worried since i had plenty time to relax and not to pay attention to it (it wasnt  time yet). But NOW it is the time for me to get over all my fears and prove myself that i can do whatever task that is set for me. So our teacher set us a level to be in. He raffled the levels/teachers, i had my level and my tutor teacher (the tutor was going to grade me so i depend of him which is very scaring). Afterwards i got acquainted to my tutor and thankfully he seemed nice and he gave me a lot of possitive vibes but i was still super frightened and restless about it. Thursday evening i prepared almost everything for Wednesday´s class because even though my hands were shaking because of next day´s duty, i was telling to myself not to be suffering and that if some of my classmates had done it already, why not me? and i thought about all  the possible details i had to be careful on ( not to have grammar mistakes in my charts nor in my copies, etc). Wednesday i got up at 4:00am and went for an easy run in the track with my team and my sister. At 6:30 i was back home and i took a 30 minute nap, then i got ready and i was off to the University at 8:00am.

I sat in front of the classroom and just waited. Suddenly my tutor teacher showed up and i knew it was time to do it. I felt incredibly nervous that i think everybody in the classroom noticed it ( i felt very ashamed!). Then the teacher kindly introduced me to his students and i began to teach. There were a few restless boys as well as some lovely and respectful guys (boys and girls), that´s normal in a class, though.
Seeing this (identyfing the student´s impressions) helped me so much since i wasn`t the funny target for the students. I felt so good when everybody understood my directions and my activities since they did everything the way i wanted. I felt so relieved and happy since it shows me that they are very quick learners. I wasn´t that nervous anymore  but i still don`t know what the teacher thinks about my performance. I`m looking forward to knowing what my mistakes were and where my weak points showed up the most. Furthermore,  i`m willing to hear any suggestion and correction that my tutor might give me so that we are here to learn. I liked and cannot forget what my tutor teacher told me the last time we spoke "JUST RELAX. We are not perfect but we still need to learn from eachother`s mistakes, i can learn from you as well as you can learn from me ", im so grateful to him for such words because at that point my lack of confidence faded away a bit. I still don´t know what this week´s score will be but i think that i will improve my performance week by week.

In the afternoon`s class (it felt so nice to be a student again!!) i learnt how to create videos i didn`t finish it, the time flew by too fast . When i got home, i was very exhausted both fisically and mentally but in the long run those sacrifices pay off.


The video i intended to make, it is about one of my favorite topiks jaja, a lot of details are missing though.

cheers!!!

SONIS =)

2010 recap

holaaa..!! i know it has been a while since i last posted .. the first thing i can say is happy new year!! FELIZ AÑO NUEVO PARA TODOS LOS Q LEAN ESTE BLOG, ENSERIO LES DESEO LO MEJOR ,, BENDICIONES !!!!.. So bring on 2011!!!

Though 2010 was a kind of frustrating year for me :S (talking about my sporting life), it was full of rewadness talking about my academic year!!!! So many ups and downs... and full of learning too. As for triatlon, i was struggling with my shoulder injury and i have been unable to get a racing bike which has been very dissapointing :(. but the love for TRI makes you keep training despite the conditions and thats the important thing.
 So a breaf resume of my year so far
I started off last year with a fantastic BOOM, i raced my first 2 elite panamerican cups ever which was the best thing that could have happened at my age.
Then, we stopped training for a while and after arguments amongst sport authorities discussing about whether  or not to compete at Centroamerican games,  2 weeks before the race we were notified El Salvador will participate, Result: Bronze medal!!  =) (was not expected though)...
 Then it was time for a big change in our lives as athletes, after a lot of bad  and humiliating experiences given by people from the FEDERATION  and one of  our old coaches, we deceided to switch coaches which was the best thing that could have happened. How a different amd better enviroment we were in !!!

My bike was broke down, totally ruined it was time for a change too but unfortunately SELFISHNESS,SELF-BENEFIT and ENVY are the main qualities of two of the authorities of my federation which humiliate  their athletes instead of supporting them, therefore, i have no conditions to afford a new bike yet. A new race bike  will have to wait i think :(

 Then, the dissaster, after having such good training with my new bosses and my teammates, last years injury showed up again :( same arm, same thing, same everything, RESULT= cant swim, cant bike :( F"·%6/()( CRAP, "·$·%&// !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But surprisengly whilst my sporting life was going downhill, my academic life wasnt which was the only thing i was happy with :).

After a lot of exams, tests, interviews and paperwork (IN ENGLISH :S!!!) i was given a scholarship by the AMERICAN EMBASSY which means that i will be studying for 1 semester in the US, i still dont know where and when im going  but i couldnt even beleive that i DID qualify among 70 applicants from all over the country!! I am so grateful to God  for this opportunity, i never thought i would have this great chance. They say i will be notified until March 2011, so im still anxious  to know every single detail :)!!!...

Finally the last months i spent the time with my family and friends, trying to recover and heal and

  going to therapy . I have to thank all the ones who were giving me the thereapy in Santa Ana regional hospital ISSS.. Srita Ibarra, Señor Lico Bonilla, Sra de Martinez  Sra de Estrada, Dr Ramos and Dr Romero who were so nice with me.
I cant overlook the fact that i have a NEW PET !!! "Pricess" the new member of the Zavaleta family, shes the most lovely rabbit you could ever see jijijiji...and it was given to me by a special person :)

Finally i just had fun with my friends going to almost every party before NYE, we danced,drank,laughed,ate a lot etc  =)!! So now its 2011, i start uni next monday and the last thing that happened  this week was that i received and infiltration in my left pectoral, near shoulder since it was still very swollen and it may become a cronic injury =(... Now, im just killing the time, laid in my bed and just waiting this bloody injury to dissapear forever....

Some 2010 pics :)

cheers

party :) .. my lil cousins



mum and lovely sammy



post race

central american games !! good times

grandpa xx

friends !! relajooo jaja

family



panamerican cup 2010



super sprint tri .. good memories :)



triathlon lovely friends =)




kika




meme y princess



DeAr OcTuBrE!!

ay ay ay ooh Well, ooo well!!
a lot has happened since i last posted, unfortunately almost anything exciting has been part of it...
These past months have been insanely busy though
 Im going to quickly list what i have been up to

• Im going  ISSS to therapy 3 days weekly .
• I have been teaching to children in a public school for a month.
•  My arm is still in pain but hopefully recovery will come soon.
• Walking my parrots has become a rutine ;) ....really enjoy hanging out with them i love them!!
• Insted of swimming, i use my time either running or gym 
• Watching the boys hit the pool makes me envious of them :(
• Homework, presentations, homework, exams, homework,exams, class, examenes , tareas, clases uusssh drives me nuts
• Just in this last few moths i have read 4 books(Great Expectations, Sense and Sensibility, Macbeth and Frankeinstein) without counting the ones i read the rest of the year!! a new PB for me jaja.... i just figured out that reading has become a hobby now =) which im enjoying a lot.

As i say, it is unbelievable how times goes by. imagine, october is about to end and out of a sudden, 2010 will farewell us. Sometimes i feel desperated for my injure not healed and there are moments in which i get sad and depressed because of this fruitless 2010 sport season. Even though everything has been going downhill, i say to myself that i can get the possitive side out of this. If i cant swim nor bike (its been impossible for me  to get one still). Im able to run and improve my technique and strenght and  thats the best part of tri. If youre injured, there are 2 or 1 sport there for you, therefore, youre never inactive.

Yesterday, i made a presentation about SUPERVOLCANOS at Uni, and i was socked that a volcano in indonesia released its fury.After an earthquake and a tsunami , a volcano?? whats next???:S, i feel sad for this people, it shouldnt happen specially to vulnerable places . Today a Russian volacano woke up too. Nature is warning us and this may be the response more nature is giving. So i invite everybody to cheak our actions towards it. Later on, the consequences will hit us if we keep mistreating this wonderful world we call Earth; and maybe the wise words of  WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE make us think deeply ;)

"Life is tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"

Soni :)

Yo solo quiero la paz en EL SALVADOR!!!