Hello!!!

Hi everyone,

My name is Rodrigo. I was born and raised in Mexico, but I have been living in the United States for the past 13 years. This puts me in no-man's land. I am a child of two countries, or neither. I am not considered Mexican because I have been living in the US for so long. But I am not American because I was born in Mexico. It sucks.

I started as a Biology major, but eventually ended with a double major in Spanish with a concentration in Hispanic Linguistics and English with a concentration in creative writing, and a Biology minor. But now I am going to graduate school for Hispanic Linguistics.

Since June of last year until the Sunday before school started, I was out of the country. I studied abroad in Costa Rica, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Granada, Spain. I also spent some time in Mexico with my dad. Needless to say, it sucked being back. I went from wearing shorts during December in Mexico, to wearing a sweater, a hat, a jacket, a scarf, and gloves. I hate the cold. It was hard coming back to the real world after a seven month vacation. I love travelling. Experiencing other cultures and their food (I love to eat!) was awesome.

One thing that might be surprising about me is that I play the violin and the guitar. I bought a very pretty, though expensive, guitar in Spain. Now, I say I play them, whether I do it well, well, that's another question.

I love reading. I do believe that Amazon has not gone bankrupt thanks to me and the massive amounts of money I have spent on books. I don't like to lend my books, because, as it always happens, I never get them back. I am not a big fan of e-readers. There is nothing more satisfying then flipping the pages of a book until you reach the very last one, and then looking back and saying "Holy crap, I read all this?"My favorite book, I would have to say, is "One Hundred Years of Solitude", if only because it opened up the floodgates, and started my obsession with Latin American writers.