In the begining...

Current Mood: lively, content, calm.

Currently listening to: Todo es vino, by Robi Draco Rosa
Album: Draco y El Teatro Del Absurdo.

Location: My apartment in Paterson NJ

Favorite quote at moment: "Risk Everything Regret Nothing".....


Dear friends, family, Colleagues,


I start of this blog on March 10th 2008. An online journal of my thoughts ideas, and wanders. Join me in my preparations, joys, hardships and adventures of my Peace Corps Adventures or just everyday life. AND please don't be shy to drop me a message.

Ideas and views expressed in this Journal are solely of the writer and in no way shape or form are they associated with anyone else.

He walks aimlessly through life some how knowing the name of the paths he takes. Each step taking him into a more horizon broadening path. The sun shines bright over his brow as he scoures the darkest depths of the earth trying to find a place in this unforgiving world.
Time is nothing but a dimension that puts us into a state of Consciousness , depleting our existence like a ticking bomb. Knowledge is infinite, ignorance is swift, we must stay ahead of the race or succumb to the ordinary and mundane.


I love u all.

F. Giraldo

I start off by introducing my self. My name is Ferney Giraldo, I am 27 years old and I currently reside in Paterson NJ. I am originally from Medellin Colombia. I was born in Colombia and lived there untill I turned 7 years old when my parents decided on bringing me and my sister Maribel to the United States. We lived in Queens New York until I turned 13 when we moved to Paterson NJ.

I attended Don Bosco Technical High School in Paterson and I eventually graduated from William Paterson University with a Bachelors degree in Sociology and a minor I African America Cari bean Studies. After College I worked for two years at the Division of Youth and Family Service. After that I worked for a family counseling agency by the name of Family Intervention services.

At this point I am preparing myself for which will be one of the hardest but most rewarding things I have ever done in my life. I Will be living abroad volunteering for the U.S Peace Corps. in Guatemala.


Here is a brief autobiography i wrote in 2006.

Born November 27th, 1980 in Medellin Colombia. The child, full of life and inspirations, was raised in the beautiful romantic, middle class town of Envigado. At age four the child's mother left his presence to join her husband who was living in the United States.

Surrounded and raised by female family members in Envigado, the child was nurtured and was taught the importance and the beauty of women. The child did not have his father around unfortunately because the brave and hard working man decided to cross the border to the land of opportunity. Always thinking about his family, Ferneys father returned to the land of Colombia where Ferney lived with his sister and the rest of his family. It was at age seven when the child was taken to the unknown land of Los Estados Unidos. A land many spoke about but not many had the chance to reach.


When Ferney arrived to the unknown land he was in shock of what he was seeing. A small boy, still learning about the trials and tribulations of life was relocated to a strange and hostile land called Queens, where people identified themselves with different backgrounds, ethnicities and the majority of the people spoke unheard languages. It was here where this seven year old middle class child was forced into living in a lower class environment. The child humble at heart did not understand the social classes at the time, but this did not matter to him because he assimilated and learned the customs and language of the new land quick. Easily approachable, this child made many friends and became wiser. Now reunited with his nuclear family the child was the happiest he had ever been.

F. Giraldo

I will leave you with some of my favorite quotes.

Enjoy...


Manhood

"A mans usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals unsofar as he can.

It is hard to fail but it is worse to have never to have tried and succeeded.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer nobler type of manhood.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die, and none are fit to die who have have shrunk from the joy of life and duty of life".
-Theodore Roosevelt

"There is no security on this earth, only opportunity".
-Douglas McArthur

"The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

He many avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn , feel, change, grow and live".
-Anonymous

"He who risks and fails can be forgiven, He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being".
-Anonymous