My name is Edit, and I am Peruvian-American. I was born in Peru and grew up in Lima, the capital of Peru. I moved to San Francisco, California in 2004. Two months ago, I comeback to Peru for a short time, and I am living here. I have spent a fair amount of time visiting Machu Pichu, my favorite place in the world.

 I am doing some coursework in Spanish and Latin- American Studies.  My aspiration is to have a fulfilling life where, when I get 70 years old and I look back I can feel happy with my choices I did in life. This is one of the reasons why I am planning to concentrate in Cognitive Psychology, I love to learn about how people think, perceive and learn.  

I have to say that since I was a child, I have been interested in becoming an artist. In the past, I did many plays in my school and community. I really had good time doing those public performing and also I wrote my own songs. However, due to all sorts of family issues, I changed my mind and decided to pursue a career in the psychology field.

I do not have much Internet surfing experience, but I hope to learn a lot from this course and to get the necessary skills to start a personal project next semester. One of my goals for this semester is to further my knowledge of Internet.

 I enjoy writing short novels and essays, although I am not good at it. Also, I like many different types of music, Rock, Pop, Classical and especially Latin music like salsa and  Merengue. My passions include reading, dancing, sleeping and playing volleyball, but I would say that the most significant thing about me is my desire to spend my life working hard to make a tiny difference in the life of people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Currently, I am working in a Peruvian Nonprofit that supports older people affected by HIV and AIDS and improves older people's access to health services.

 Free writing about the decoration of my room

If I imagine now my room, I will change everything starting from the decoration to the furniture. First, I will use a better and high speed computer like a Mac. Then, I will create a different atmosphere by buying some candles and oil essences to give a sensual and peaceful mood around my bedroom. I will buy a bigger bed and place it close to my wall because I share it with my husband now. My album of photos that I love, I will keep it on my nightstand close to me because there are all my souvenirs and pictures from my trips. I will buy another big and modern desk with many windows, and I will place under it the whole collection of Psychology books I have now. I will still paint it same color as it used to be because one of my favorite colors is pink, but I do not know what my husband would say about that. He has to agree on that. Probably, I will put away much stuff like all my old books, CDs and college notes that are there. I will buy a nice and flat TV and I will place it in front of my window and a book shelter will be just beside it my desk.

My  adolescense's room

I remember my adolescence house that was in the downtown of Lima near to the Capital of Peru. My bedroom was on the 2st floor of that house. It was a small bedroom with white walls and cute decoration, and at the same time, it had a sunny balcony. I used to spend most of my childhood’s nights there with my girlfriends from my neighborhood and school’s mates. We liked to feel the dark and cold beautiful nights and look at the big and bright starts. We talked about many topics for long time. On the right was my desk where I also spent long time studying and listening romantic music. There were two big windows on the left where I used to escape to the neighbor parties and do exercise on the parks with my girlfriends at very early times when I was fourteen. On the center there was my shelf with a lot of books, video games, dramatic films and many fashioned clothes. My small computer was next to my bed, and it was one of my best friends when I was teenager. In my small and complete computer, I used to watch movies, do my homework and play games. Honestly, I did not use the TV that my sister bought to me because I did have everything included in my computer.
 My bed was very comfortable with many white and soft pillows and they used to smell to lavender. It was a wooden bed queen size bed. It also had two nightstands around the bed, and one dresser with many drawers where I used to put my dolls and toys. My blanket was very useful for the cold winter’s nights. I loved that blanket because the smell of that blanket was sweet and especial to me. It used to make me think in the chocolates my sister used to give on my birthdays and other special occasions. When I was in my room, I used to read magazines, books, tales and hanging out with my girlfriends while reading them. We really had fun together. One of them was very shy and we used to scare her all the time just for fun. I have always enjoyed my room because it has always been my favorite room of my house because it described so many aspects of my personality and childhood’s life. 

My fevorite toy

When I was 8, I had a doll named “Give me a kiss”. It was my favorite toy because I could carry her everywhere in my backpack. While I was in elementary school, I liked to play with her and my girlfriends. It was special to me because it was a gift from my brother. I used to go camping in my school, and I often took her with me on my camping trips because with her I did not feel lonely. She was a beautiful doll with a sweet face, big black eyes and real eyelashes. Give me a kiss had her hair black azabache color as well. When someone did not want to receive her kiss, she used to cry with real tears and wet the cheeks of everyone who was able to receive her kisses. She was a slender and small cute doll that stole my heart when I was a child. She was about 3 inches and had many nice clothes that I made to her with my own hands. She used batteries to kiss and do pee and I put water into her to cry. I seem to remember that she could cry as well, and it had a series of electronic devices that made her a really complete doll. She used to keep me busy frequently because I did not want to leave her never in my home or school. I wanted to be with my doll everyday and at any moment during the day. I really liked very much my doll.

While listening the song “Listen to your heart” performing by Roxette, I remembered some events from my honey moon in New York. It was an amazing experience that I will never forget. I have many pictures about it with my husband. We had a great time eating, dancing and visiting very interesting and amazing places. Since that day I loved the United States, and I told my husband that I would love to live there, but at that time, we did not know that we will move one day to North America. I think it was a kind of future augur that we were not aware of. On that trip, something unusual happened, the day we have to visit the Statue of Liberty from a hotel in Manhattan, I woke up late and we lost the boat cruise and the tickets. My husband could not believe that I missed that exciting quick trip. Anyway we spent a lot of good time in the Time Square which is extremely stunning at night. We also had fun in the mystical and unforgettable Chinatown. We took many pictures in the city of New York enjoyed and walked around the skyscrapers.

The most incredible and unforgettable experience was in a disco from Miami, Florida where at first we could not get in because the safeguards thought that I was under the age of 21. We laughed in that moment because I was twenty four at that time. They did not let me in until I showed to them my passport. It was a very funny experience really.

The memories of an old woman who have lost her husband


Her hopes and expectations of growing as a woman have come back to her life today, but everyone around this old woman with a rough appearance that shows her lack of interest for life are given her compassion. They are trying to help and support her in her grief, but Rosaline is not sad anymore. Instead, the frustration and anger she feels now is product of those tortuous years of marriage, and of course, they are reflected in her very blue and vague crystal eyes and no enthusiastic face. Her memories of the most beautiful years of her life that are gone and will never come back to her join in her fragile heart today. After everyone from her house is gone, this is a perfect moment to feel depressing and lonely in her small wood house that is placed in an isolated place far away from the suburbs, Rosaline says to herself. For a while, she instead sees all the colorful and satisfying days of her life before getting married, after that the only lights she can remember were the moon’s lights during the very dark and cold nights and violent daymares that used to woke up her during the days and years her marriage lasted. For the first time, today, after several years of mistreatment, the night that was dark one day is becoming white and brilliant to her. She can inhale the smell of freedom and her eyes blue and crystal are shinning for first time. All her frustrations and sufferings seem to be reaching to its ending today. The feelings and senses of life which gives pleasure, give happiness are still unknown experiences to her because she feels like a baby exploring a new world and meeting intense emotions. The happiness and peace have decided to visit Rosaline today, and they are advising her to put out all kinds of tensions and stress of marriage away from her mind and body. They seem to be saying “Let yourself be my dear Rosaline”. At the moment, she heard it from her friends, the happiness and peace, there was an explosion in her own inner self and a powerful illumination in her mind and heart. Now, her vision of the world is clearer, and a natural and wonderful landscape is approaching to Rosaline’s imagination. Her life has changed and she sees the present time most opportune for a realization in her nature as a woman and to achieve her life's most important matters like truly love and sex which will not only help her to have a happy life but also allow her to live a peaceful and satisfied life. This new beginning has replenished her empty old spirit, and she sees her new start as a heaven where she can live for herself only. In this heaven or landscape, there is not more personal and social obligation like used to be in that hell, but there is a commitment with “Mr. Freedom” to both live her own life and remain single for the rest of her time in the earth if she wants. Rosaline’s vision today is of two clouds but one is resting along the swan mountain and the other cloud is ready to enjoy the goods of life. She says to herself, this is the moment I had been waiting for, ever since I got married, forty years ago, and the fresh and dry air of the mountains is steaming around me and I can feel the breeze of the rivers across my fatigued body and foot fingers and cheeks. Everything around her was new and perfect over the night. She also sees a purpose and mission in this new paradise where the leaves of the trees of sorrow do not exist anymore but trees of life with abundant health and cero violence are everywhere. In this heaven, the water is pure and crystal and the river that look like tears are of life instead, and they flow reaching the eternal happiness in her weak heart, and Rosaline finally tries to keep her spirit alive to enjoy it. Suddenly, she see herself recovering the years lost and takes this opportunity to bring to the surface her true self. 

A story of an old woman whose violent husband has just died.




Her hopes and expectations of growing as a woman have come back to her life today, but everyone around this old woman with a rough appearance that shows her lack of interest for life are given her compassion. They are trying to help and support her in her grief, but Rosaline is not sad anymore. Instead, the frustration and anger she feels now is product of those tortuous years of marriage, and of course, they are reflected in her very blue and vague crystal eyes and no enthusiastic face. Her memories of the most beautiful years of her life that are gone and will never come back to her join in her fragile heart today. After everyone from her house is gone, this is a perfect moment to feel depressing and lonely in her small wood house that is placed in an isolated place far away from the suburbs, Rosaline says to herself. For a while, she instead sees all the colorful and satisfying days of her life before getting married, after that the only lights she can remember were the moon’s lights during the very dark and cold nights and violent daymares that used to woke up her during the days and years her marriage lasted. For the first time, today, after several years of mistreatment, the night that was dark one day is becoming white and brilliant to her. She can inhale the smell of freedom and her eyes blue and crystal are shinning for first time. All her frustrations and sufferings seem to be reaching to its ending today. The feelings and senses of life which gives pleasure, give happiness are still unknown experiences to her because she feels like a baby exploring a new world and meeting intense emotions. The happiness and peace have decided to visit Rosaline today, and they are advising her to put out all kinds of tensions and stress of marriage away from her mind and body. They seem to be saying “Let yourself be my dear Rosaline”. At the moment, she heard it from her friends, the happiness and peace, there was an explosion in her own inner self and a powerful illumination in her mind and heart. Now, her vision of the world is clearer, and a natural and wonderful landscape is approaching to Rosaline’s imagination. Her life has changed and she sees the present time most opportune for a realization in her nature as a woman and to achieve her life's most important matters like truly love and sex which will not only help her to have a happy life but also allow her to live a peaceful and satisfied life. This new beginning has replenished her empty old spirit, and she sees her new start as a heaven where she can live for herself only. In this heaven or landscape, there is not more personal and social obligation like used to be in that hell, but there is a commitment with “Mr. Freedom” to both live her own life and remain single for the rest of her time in the earth if she wants. Rosaline’s vision today is of two clouds but one is resting along the swan mountain and the other cloud is ready to enjoy the goods of life. She says to herself, this is the moment I had been waiting for, ever since I got married, forty years ago, and the fresh and dry air of the mountains is steaming around me and I can feel the breeze of the rivers across my fatigued body and foot fingers and cheeks. Everything around her was new and perfect over the night. She also sees a purpose and mission in this new paradise where the leaves of the trees of sorrow do not exist anymore but trees of life with abundant health and cero violence are everywhere. In this heaven, the water is pure and crystal and the river that look like tears are of life instead, and they flow reaching the eternal happiness in her weak heart, and Rosaline finally tries to keep her spirit alive to enjoy it. Suddenly, she see herself recovering the years lost and takes this opportunity to bring to the surface her true self.