Shen Yun Performing Arts

          The Shen Yun 2012 is a clasical chinese song and dance that it catch on in various cities worldwide, this spectacle will be celebrated in April 8-9 at the Jubilee Auditorium. You will enjoy reviving 5000 years of civilization because they will show all-new with live orchestra. Any information please contact SYPA , Shen Yun Performing Arts, it is a Chinese Society responsible for this event in Calgary.

COLOMBIAN COFFEE " JUAN VALDEZ"

Juan Valdez is not just our famous Colombian coffee brand. It is a culture around what means this crop in Colombia. I used to live in an small town and close there my family have a coffee farm. I spent there my elementary school break time. I remember taking care of the coffee crops despite I didn't know and understand very well about them.  The soil, coffee beans, fertilizers were rigorously prepared before they had been planted.  All of the growers receive support by NCCA, National Colombian Coffee Asociation , they are charge to look into the best growing conditions.   After  when the coffee harvest has come these  beans are carefully selected and exported.  So colombian coffee catched on  its soft and unique flavor. Most buyers pick it out every morning in their breakfast. 

The coffee crop means a culture with deep values around it, their economy as a business home and a heritage from generation after generation.  People who grows coffee up in Colombia are strong  workers.  They are an autentic face into colombian society.  Even here in Canada  you can buy it at SuperStore ( I've bought it there).  It is Yummy !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cysIKz8H3Rg

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Ziplining at PANACHI PARK!!!

Have you ever felt died of fright?

That was exactly I felt while I was doing ziplining at that park.

Let me tell you where and what is " PANACHI " so you will understand better my story.

In a easy way PANACHI is a place where you can't get enough of it. But it's not much information so would be better to write that Chicamocha National Park also know as PANACHI is a Colombian Natural park along the Chicamocha Canyon (Cañón del Chicamocha) located 50 km from the city of Bucaramanga ( Santander). The site is a tourist attraction due to is spectacular landscape and the variety of outdoor activities that it offers such as paragliding, spelunking, bushwalking, camping, fishing, kayaking, rafting, mountain climbing, etc. The park is served by a 6.3 km length cable car system. It is one of the longest systems of its type in the world.  Officially opened in January 2009 it quickly became popular for all its attracions.

It's a good moment to tell you about my home city that it es located in Santander department ( or State ) and its capital Bucaramanga. It has one of the most mountainous territories of the country, as the Eastern Andes Range crosses the northern part of the department. By 2007 , they had opened the park and the " cable vuelo" was the best attraction in that moment. I was looking forward  to trying it even Whether I felt nervous about. Common sense and curiosity were my accomplices , at the end you always say " why not??? ." Then after I bought the entry pass I was ready to jump down. I went down while I was dying slowly ! Why dying? I'd never imagined how fast could be it...I felt too much afraid when I went  down through  " cable vuelo" and I almost could not walk by myself. My accomplices ( common sense and curiosity ) had disappeared and I finally got " real friends" were making fun of me ! On that link you can get an approach ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjCsznOZSq8&feature=related

Anyways it was such a great experience and I really recommend you should do it !

Bucaramanga City ......a beatiful place in Colombia!!!

"Too Good to Be True"

         My mom always told me: " Be careful with things too good because you don't receive too much for nothing". Most people are fascinated with easy ways about making money. Therefore, You can imagine .....if you deposit money in your saving account and you will receive 400% by interest rate. Well, that's exactly was happening in New York while unwary dreamers were trusting Bernie Madoff. However, a journalist became suspicious and started to question his investment practices. The story of the Madoff scandal will be remembered like the biggest fraud in this century. It started when this popular business man impressed his first customers. He knew bank's interest rates were low and convinced them about a deceptive deal. His clients gave to him an amount money and he would give back " higher interest rates". Nobody wavered his honesty because of he worked in Wall Street for many years and owned his financial firm. Achieving his promise to his former clients with money from the newest in his game. It seemed under control when his fraudulent trick was discovered. He couldn't keep the fraud and the judge sent straight to  the jail not before illegally capture more than 50 billion dollars of their depositors. Too good to be true!