My mother, who is from Ecuador, always spoke Spanish at home, and my grandparents never spoke anything else. Being the eldest and a second mother to her 8 brothers and sisters, my mom always put an emphasis on family, and we often went to Ecuador to spend time with those who didn’t come to Canada. Now I’m the only one of about 40 1st cousins (+ too many 2nds to count) on 2 continents who knows them all. Even though I live in Germany (where my dad’s from) with my German fiance. I have no doubt that it is Spanish I will speak to my children, because to me it is a big part of the bond with my family. And yes, my dad speaks Spanish too, and after meeting my family, my fiance decided he wanted to learn too :)
tatjana's Life List
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1. be consistently happy
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2. write in my blog regularly
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3. buy a corvette
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4. improve my German
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5. Learn to spin wool
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6. worry less
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7. make more art
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8. learn to bellydance
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9. exercise more
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10. build a house
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11. sew more
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12. learn basic car maintenance
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13. leave this town
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14. sell things on etsy
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15. build a sustainable house
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16. take more photographs
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17. dance like no one is watching
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18. surround myself with good people
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19. pay off my student loans
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20. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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21. climb a mountain
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22. learn to spin
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23. Improve my French
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24. forgive my parents
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25. be a teacher
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26. Learn to tango
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27. Learn to play the guitar
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28. Spread joy
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29. laugh more
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30. see the northern lights
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31. get married, stay married, and live happily ever after
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32. Beat my depression
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33. speak 5 languages
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34. Read one book a month
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Recent entries
to me Spanish means family
3 years ago
One day at a time
3 years ago
I was first diagnosed when I was about 4 or 5. I don’t remember this, but my parents had to take me to a shrink because I said I wanted to kill myself. I’ve just been doing my best ever since, sometimes with meds, sometimes without. Growing up my parents reacted very badly to my being sad, so I learned to hide it. Very few people know about my condition, or how bad it sometimes gets. Recently I’ve been learning to talk about it, and accept that it doesn’t make me weak or ungrateful to admit that I feel like shit sometimes. I think this will help.
not one, but two!!
3 years ago
Abby and Lily are a daily source of joy, and sometimes a bit of stress. if i could just get them to stop tearing up the wallpaper, we’d be the happiest thing going :)
