Scary Experience

Scary Experience

Maybe it was last year, or the year before. I don't remember. The thing was that I was lying on top of my bed, getting ready to sleep. Just me, closing my eyes, relaxing my body to enter the peaceful realm of dreaming. But at some point in that process, something went wrong. 

While I was there with my eyes closed, I remember I was conscious at the moment that I entered the state of sleeping. But I wasn't really sleeping. My body was asleep, but my brain wasn't. At least not all of it. I was in an intermediate stage of sleeping and consciousness. The scary thing is, that when I entered this state of "sleep paralysis" (cause that is the scientific term of this phenomenon) my mind started to play tricks on me. I started to see things, shadows all over my room. I heard people talking to me. Telling me to do things, things that didn't make sense. Like "that I belonged to the circle of creatures, but I was already dead" things like that. It was all really confusing and unsettling. I was getting scared, because all I could do was mumble giberish and I couldn't move.

After some time my body suddenly woke up and I came back to reality. It was really confusing, because I couldn't determine wether it was real or a dream. So I went to wake up my mom and told her what had just happened and what the voices were telling me. I was really dizzy and I don't remember everything clearly. My mom thought I was sleep-talking while I was sleep-walking.

One conclusion that I have come to is that maybe the food that I ate that night had something to do with what happened. I ate a lot of nuegados. Nuegados are fried balls of dough and maybe it was just to much for my stomach to bear, so it kinda gave me nightmares. I know that this is the reason for what happened, because it happened one day when I ate nuegados again.

So, no nuegados at night. 

Here is an article about sleep paralysis and how to overcome it: http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/sleep-paralysis

My Wonderful Experience

My Wonderful Experience

Last month, I was absent from school for about 10 days because I went to the United States, to a very particular one: Florida. I was craving to go to Disney since I was very little, but I stopped caring about that a while ago. And that desire to meet Mickey Mouse were replaced by wishes to visit a more "grown-up-ey" city, like New York City or Chicago or San Francisco. Anyway, we decided to go to Florida because it was cheaper and it was my sister's fifteen birthday present, and she wanted to go to Disneyworld, and so we went.

It was an extraordinary experience. Getting aboard a plane for the first time, watching El Salvador at night from the skies, reaching Miami City from the coast and seeing millions of tiny yellow streetlights kilometers below me, watching those ant-sized tiny cars cruising the streets, the skyscrapers getting bigger and bigger as we got closer and closer to the ground. It was like magic, and it was only the first day!

Miami is a big city with a diversified population, mostly latin-americans. You don't really need to know how to speak English if you go to Miami, because everybody speaks Spanish. 

After Miami, we went north, to Orlando, where Disneyworld's at. We went from park to park, every day for 5 days. We had tons of fun. We met Shrek, Scooby Doo, Mike and Sully, Phineas and Ferb, even Dora the Explorer. 

I think this trip was something I would like to experience over and over again, because it was exceptional and opened my eyes to a lot of things. I would like to see that kind of cultural and economic development in my country, guess it would be hard to achieve, but not impossible. And that, was my wonderful experience.

Here is an aerial view of Miami.

The castle at Magic Kingdom.

Bases de Datos en Access

"Bases de Datos"

1. ¿Cuál  es la utilización de las bases de datos
R: El punto al usar una base de datos es recuperar la información en forma oportuna y apropiada. La información es de poco valor si no podemos acceder a ella. Los programas de bases de datos ofrecen una variedad de órdenes y capacidades que facilitan la obtención de la información necesaria.

2. ¿Qué tipos de bases de datos existen?
R: Modelo tradicional, modelo jerarquico, modelo de red.

3. ¿Qué tipos de relaciones son mas utilizadas en bases de datos?
R: Relación Uno a uno: Cuando un registro de una tabla solo puede estar relacionado con un único registro de la otra tabla y viceversa. Relación uno a varios: Cuando un registro de una tabla solo puede estar relacionado al de una tabla principal y puede tener otro relacionado. Relación Varios a varios: Cuando puede estar relacionado a más de un registro y viceversa. 

4. ¿Que tipo de software se recomienda utilizar para crear bases de datos potentes?

R: MySQL ya que te permite alta compatibilidad entre diferentes plataforma y ademas es software libre. También Oracle, DBase y FileMaker Pro.

Bibliografía y referencias:

 http://www.lcc.uma.es/~galvez/ftp/bdst/Tema2.pdf

http://www.slideshare.net/may2160/tipos-de-relaciones-que-se-utilizan-en-access

http://maicolquevedo.blogcindario.com/2011/03/00001-los-5-mejores-gestores-de-bases-de-datos.html