My Family

My family is the most important thing for me, more than anything, although for some people it is difficult to understand it because we are a big family.

My parents divorced when I was two years old, so I’ve always had two pair of parents, my mom with her couple, and my father with his couple.  I have a big brother, a twin and a little sister, with whom I have shared my whole life, especially with my twin with which we were even born together, I can’t imagine my life without her by my side.

also I have two step sisters who are daughters of the couple of my dad, but I love them as if they were my blood sisters.  They have always been there for me, and I for them, we have shared a thousand of good and bad moments.

Also I have three step sisters who are daughters of the couple of my mom, but I’m not very close to them because they are much older than me, it doesn’t mean that I don’t love them, but they are more like a maternal image for me, the important thing is that I know that I can go to them for whatever I need.

I am so thankful for the family I have, they had been the ones who support me in every step of my life.

My future job

When I am already qualified I will be able to start my career as an architect, maybe at the beginning I will have to work in an architecture office to gain experience, but as I really want to work in the future it is independently.

If I work in an office I would probably have to produce material for another person's project, but if I am independent I would receive charges to make  my own projects, and in that way I would have the possibility to design and make decisions according to my convictions and my tastes.

 Also I will have the possibility to be me who set my schedules, so I can decide when to work and when to have time for me and my family.  So I will be free to manage my time, and I think I will prefer to take less charges, and have less money but more time, because the time for me is more important than money for have a better quality of life, and even though I see myself in love with my career and my projects, I do not want to be a slave to my work, because I also think that if someone is overloaded with charges is not able to give the best.

Urbanism: Peter Calthrope

Peter Calthrope share tu us in the video seven universal principles to solve sprawl problems and build planned and sustainable cities focused on human interaction.

He propose start planning cities and start thinking how people needs to live.  Pointing to cities made for peolple to walk, instead of cities made for cars, giving priority to people´s health and the enviroment, so he talk about the proportion of street and sidewalk, clear example of how cars have taken over the cities, so we have to start recovering our place and demand our right to have a space to interact to each other, the space that the cars have taken for us.

Another problem that derives from the sprawl is the segregation of people in economic enclaves, which also hinders social interaction.

I, as an architecture student, am completely agree with Peter Calthrope, I think we should start to proyect compact and heterogeneous cities, ending the segregation and integrating the public and private space, taking advantage of the space we have to generate places that allow us to relate between us, and inhabit it integrally.  Also I think that we can not turn a blind eye to the environmental problems that are growing every day, so we should start to take charge.

My best holiday

My best holiday was two years ago when I visit Playa del Carmen in Mexico with all my family for two weeks.  Everything was perfect, the hotel was excellent,
we were in the middle of an ecological reserve, so we were among many types of plants and animals.  It also had many type of food, a very good service, it had a pool bar, everything included. The beach was beautiful, and we also went to other beautiful places. We visit Tulum and Chichenitza, where the Mayan buildings are. We also visit two Cenotes, both wonderful. Then we went to swam with turtles, they were enormous, and I also saw a stingray, which was swimming right below me.  Finally we visit xcaret, a water park where we swam in an underground river and did many activities, and at the end we saw a spectacular Mexican show.  I saw many beautiful things on this trip, but the best of all, was that I did all of that with my family.