Help me make my dream come true!

Hello to all my readers!

I've started this school year with the highest aspirations for success! Working hard academically has left me almost no time for writing, but reading keeps me entertained and always close to literature.

I have news: Next summer I want to go to the Junior State Summer Program in Georgetown University, which is a three week summer school for young students who want to become politicians and succeed in college.

My current dream is to attend this highly selective program, but I need your help. The tuiton per person is set at  5000 US $, and my family cannot afford to pay for its entirity.

Please donate whatever you can to this cause, and I'll be forever grateful to you! Visit this page to know more about the program and donate:

http://www.stayclassy.org/helpmegotojsasummer

Thank you for your time and contribution!

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Hola a todos mis lectores!

He empezado este año escolar con las más altas aspiraciones de tener éxito! Trabajar duro académicamente me ha dejado poco tiempo para escribir, pero leer me mantiene entretenida y siempre cerca de la literatura.

Tengo novedades: El próximo verano quiero ser parte del Junior State Summer Program en la Universidad de Georgetown, el cual es un campamente de verano para jóvenes estudiantes que quieren convertirse en políticos y lograr grandes cosas en la universidad.

Mi actual sueño es asistir a tan selectivo programa, pero necesito tu ayuda. El monto a pagar por persona es de 5000 dólares, y mi familia no puede pagarlo en su totalidad.

Porfavor dona lo que puedas a esta causa, y te estaré agradecida por siempre! Visita la siguiente página para conocer más sobre el programa y donar:

http://www.stayclassy.org/helpmegotojsasummer

Gracias por tu tiempo y contribución!

How to plan for a successful school year

Summer is over you guys! And the prospect of a new school year with all its added stress and duties is already at our doorstep. With that, comes an unrelenting desire to best ourselves and overcome our past academic difficulties. We want to overpass expectations, secure a good college acceptance and/or scholarship, yet, that also leaves us to wonder how we’ll do it; and what’s to change in this period, since we’re always aiming for different, maybe even consistent results, is up to us in its entirety.

If you are completely and utterly unsatisfied with your past academic performance, then you know that your studying habits ought to change in order for grades to rise. What you need is determination, because if you have in mind solid evaluation results, what first has to appear in your persona is a willingness to make sacrifices. What you need are PRIORITIES.

If you want to improve what you have done in the past, yet you aren’t radically discontent with it, small changes in your habits may do the trick. Doing things halfway through may not be enough for you anymore, so finishing whatever you have in your plate and adding to it some extra work is exactly what you have to consider for changes (even subtle ones) in your spreadsheet to start appearing. The key to your success is RISK-TAKING.

If you are content with your past academic performance, life has treated you well! You are just where you want to be, and no changes are necessary in your student lifestyle. Remember though, when you are high up in the peak of a mountain, you are the one with the longest fall, and with the most to lose. Disregarding your studying by thinking that further effort is unsolicited will be the definite way of going backwards; your success was achieved and maintained with effort, and a shortage on you part of that ingredient will most likely trigger the decline of the excellence which has characterized your performance. You’d do well in never forgetting that more than GRIT has gotten you here.

My goals for this year

Already a day into the new school year has made me anxious from all that is to come. I plan so many things I wish to pursue, achieve, try, and learn. I want to enroll in the chess team of my school and win the medal for most outstanding athlete in that category; I want to become the president of my class and the environmental club; I want to attend the Harvard Model United Nations 2016; I’ve got a lot of ideas to develop for the literary contests in my school, and I want to attend a very selective academic summer program in the U.S. On top of that, I want to excel in both my general grades and my IB ones. Also, SAT and TOEFL tests are in my near future, and it is my goal to score more than average grades.

Of course, I also intend to keep writing on this blog, because I now know that a part of being a balanced human being is diversifying your activities. I have decided to add an academic twist into the mix of Escribiendo el Libro de la Vida. Cheers!

-AMMG

TV shows August - September Premiere Calendar

Hello readers!

The new school year is almost starting and all of us are begging for distractions and things to keep our minds away from the tragedy. Thankfully, this time of the year also belongs to the season premieres of all our favorite TV shows. Here is a calendar for the most awaited end-of-summer premieres of the year!

August 2015
Sun		Mon		Tue		Wed		Thu		Fri		Sat
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2		3		4		5		6		7		8
9		10		11		12		13		14		15
16		17		18		19		20		21		22
23 Fear the Walking Dead		24		25		26		27		28		29  The X Factor UK
30		31

August is the month almost all of us say farewell to summer and free time, yet, it’s also when the new show Fear the Walking Dead (AMC) premieres, and when the fan favorite The X Factor UK (ITV) welcomes its 12^th season with new and not-so-new judges Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole, Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw.

September 2015
Sun		Mon		Tue		Wed		Thu		Fri			Sat
				1		2		3			4		5
6		7		8		9		10			11		12
13		14 Dancing with the Stars		15 The Bastard Executioner		16		17			18		19 Doctor Who
20		21 The Voice Castle		22		23 Empire Law & Order: SVU Modern Family		24 Grey’s Anatomy Scandal HTGAWM			25		26
27 Once Upon a Time		28		29		30		31

September is the month of premieres on which, among others, we’ll finally have the opportunity to continue watching Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, because Shondaland Thursdays return the 24^th (ABC). Other ABC Long running shows like Dancing with the Stars and Once Upon a Time will have a premiere date, respectively, the 14^th and 27^th, and the British blockbuster Doctor Who returns for a 9^th season this Sept. 19. The Voice (NBC) shares the evening with Castle (ABC), while two days later we’ll have a busy night as award winning shows like Empire (FOX), Law & Order: SVU (NBC), and Modern Family (ABC) all premiere new and expected seasons. Also, FOX welcomes a new show with the Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter; The Bastard Executioner premieres its first season on Sept. 15^th.

-AMMG