Expect miracles.
By: Gabriela Yareliz
I have finished my second outline! YES! I have an exam tomorrow. So exciting.
I am pretty sure my loss of feeling in my lower body is from sitting all day doing these outlines.
I have a feeling, though, that this week is going to be an Ah-mA-zING week.
The blessings just keep coming.
And I am excited!
Compiled by: Gabriela Yareliz
When you read as much as a law student does, you just want pictures that make you smile. No words. Here we go.
1] Love–
2] Dancing gives stress release from finals!
3] Bunnies
4] Kareena Kapoor kajal (eyeliner)
5] This movie always makes me smile; White Chicks
6] Love this cover: Saifu and Bebo
7] Always
8] For certain propositions…
9]
Koffee with Karan is back
YES!
10] Boy Meets World
Life and God have a sense of humor. 🙂
11] And back to studying… which feels more like:
“I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.” Sonia Sotomayor
Nelson Mandela has passed away.
There are no words; except that he was a man of God, and he had true character. Very few writings and lives have moved me the way his have.
“There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.”
― Nelson Mandela, Conversations With Myself
He was one of those people.
His life taught that forgiveness is the most powerful weapon that disarms others, and it liberates the soul. He taught equality and dignity. He taught reconciliation. He taught perseverance.
And even from his prison cell, he lived free.
“YO SOY LIBRE, COMO MANDELA.”-Rene, Calle 13, La Perla
“For me, education is never a waste of anyone’s time, and it is something I am proud to of accomplish in my life. How hot is it to be not only one of the most fashionable people in the room, but also the most educated. It’s powerful.” Lilly Ghalichi, Attorney at Law
Dear friends,
I am officially taking my first break from outlining all day. I am supposed to be getting ready to go brave the cold and fight with the clinic printer in efforts to print my evidence packet for my clinic deal. There is an “evidence packet assembly party” somewhere in the building. If the printer decides to die, I will march over to Staples and simply pay for the blasted copies. Dear school, please update your ghetto technology so our already difficult jobs will be made normal instead of increasingly difficult.
Anyway, this post is all about the wonderful week I had back home. I brought the NYC chill down to Florida. It was cold. People thought I looked like a “pale bunny.” Yes. They said bunny. It’s official, I am forever Snow White now. I am heavily considering a bronzing lotion for the winter; recall last winter’s nasty paleness (I also watched Shahs of Sunset on the plane which made me miss my tan more).
I loved being with my brothers and mom. They cooked the most amazing food; and we relaxed a lot, which was perfection. It was a good recharge for the hell we law students will be living in the next three weeks.
It’s focus time. Just school. People save your personal drama and randomness for post-exam time please. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Speaking of drama: There was a woman whose kids were fighting all the way from Orlando to JFK. They literally got on the luggage conveyer belt and kicked and punched each other. This was after one of them disappeared, and the mother having a nervous breakdown screamed the child’s name all through baggage claim. I was the one who found the kid actually, because I saw her and knew he was her little creature. After I reunited frantic mother with boxer child, I figured out a way to get home. It was at baggage claim that I woke up from my weird airplane slumber. I have no idea what I looked like on that plane. I probably looked drugged. I slept on my tray table, and then I watched some weird show on Bravo, The Shahs of Sunset (or something like that). I literally watched it because I didn’t have a headset (I guess I was sleeping when they came around).
Lucky for me, they speak/fight in Persian half the time, and there are subtitles. What I gleaned was there was an unfortunate situation and no one was talking to the feisty GG. Half the plane ride, I was wondering why no one was talking to GG. I don’t even know who GG is. I do know that she has a great tan though. Winter look perhaps?
Anyway–I am so grateful for all of the blessings this year. I have learned a lot, and I hope to continue to learn and grow into a better person who reflects God’s love. God has been so good through the paleness and crazy semester.
I am so blessed to have my awesome family and my beyond-words God. As we study certain cases for exams, we are often asked to find what the case turned on in the reasoning. My life turns on the fact that I have an Almighty God orchestrating my life and an incredible family. See the amazing blessings in your life, and continue to be grateful each day for the gifts of life, love and hope.
Xoxo,
Gabriela Yareliz
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Apple Inc.
– Elie Wiesel, Dawn
GABRIELA YARELIZ 