The dreaded Swine Flu

Last weekend i was feeling kind of weird, and then sick, it all seemed like a pre-winter
cold so i went to my local clinic ( the university one) and got diagnosised with H1N1 influenza
or "swine flu", and so i was put in isolation last monday.

Since that two days have passed, and i have been thinking on a lot of different issues in
my own life, different possibilities and choices, things that i failed to do or that i shouldn't have done...., it's interesting that is in times like these that i can reflect on these matters, and i think that it is maybe a situation like mine (an illness) that we stop worrying about our daily concerns and start looking at the big picture.

Podcasts!

Lately in one of my WMU online courses i have been using all kinds of internet based technology and resources, as you have been seeing, pic sites, videos, wikis, even maps!. Anyway, this week is no different and what im bringing to the table are podcasts links!, i found some interesting ones and, im sharing these ones with you!

Take a look:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/coffeebreakspanish

this one is for a spanish learning broadcast, like a radio show with chapters and all
that.

http://www.japanesepod101.com/feed.xml

this one is similiar to the first one, but for japanise.

and finnaly:
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/iruk

this one is a british indie radio station

Hope you like it.

Dominican Republic

OK this is a map of the Dominican Republic, my home country, it's an island located in the caribeean sea, near Central America, our closests neighbours are Haiti, Puerto Rico and Cuba.

Take a look, my city is Santo Domingo, see if you can find it:


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Summer Parade!

This is a Live Version of a song that i love from a japanise duo,
of guitar players, hope u like it.

Weather Changes

I woke up this morning, and realized that we had light snow, and 30 something F, outside, so just to remember the good times (and non depresing weather) im putting this picture, so if any of you look outside your window and only see gray sky and freezing people, then this will just work for ya.

New Pic Site!

OK, so the photo service i used earlier (Picnik) was very good, but not for sharing so, i switched to gud ol' picasa for that, and the link is this one:

http://picasaweb.google.com/david.lazala/NewPics#

a will keep checking if gives any problems.

Photo Sharing Link

Last week i started to use an internet picture sharing site, it's called picnik, i still haven't uploaded many photos, but there are some good ones there.

anyway, here's the link:



http://www.picnik.com/app#/in/history

Cometario a las Lecturas de este viernes 09 de Octubre

Este es un comentario que me llego por correo de las lecturas de este viernes, me parecio muy interesante asi que lo comparto con ustedes:

Una de las mayores dificultades que afrontó Jesús en su ministerio fue el descrédito de sus obras. Sus adversarios no perdían oportunidad para calumniarlo o atribuir lo que él hacía a alguna intriga del Maligno. Tras esta actitud se ocultaba un gran pecado: no reconocer la acción de Dios. El afán de tener prestigio y ser reconocidos los hacía olvidar que la finalidad última de cualquier discurso religioso es reconocer a Dios allí donde él se quiere manifestar, y no, como hacían los fariseos, publicitar al propio partido o movimiento. La frase con la que concluye el primer episodio (v.20) nos ayuda a comprender la dinámica del bien, la bondad y el amor. Las obras buenas, la misericordia, la caridad eficaz se deben reconocer más allá de cualquier frontera. Nuestro deber como cristianos es colocarnos de parte de las personas que transforman positivamente este mundo de miseria y de dolor, aunque ellas no compartan nuestras convicciones religiosas.