Moving

So, I’m leaving Blogger behind. To see why, go to my old blog which is where I’m going to, at http://iamashadow.wordpress.com/

Middle of Nowhere

I'm in the middle of nowhere and therefore I won't be able to post. I can only come online every Saturday from now on, I'll be back to more general posting sometime on July. Until then, I'm internetless.

Gone

Well, not exactly. I leave tomorrow morning. I'm putting my laptop away, packing it. Soon, I'll be on the road on a 8-9 hour trip. Traffic will be horrible, but oh well. Also, old movie franchises should die now while they have dignity. I think everyone here knows about the movie I'm talking about...if not, watch TV.

Appalling Silence

This is something I preached before, I'm sure. If not on this blog, in my old probably. Silence. The philosophy of waiting. People like me have no time on their hand. If you have an inkling of being pro-immigrant, do something. If you are an immigrant, stop being lazy (yes, I am to some extent, I have been in the last couple of days, I'm trying to rectify that now) and do something, you owe to yourself and your own future.
As for those who knows us and stand by and see us suffer, see us as we struggle and do nothing, you should be ashamed. Yes, I realize that people have lives but stand up for someone who can't do so for himself. It is not the words of FAIR and the anti-immigrants that hurt us the most, but your silence as you see us struggle, getting deported and you do nothing.
Martin Luther King Jr. said it best,
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."

As for those immigrants (you know who you are) who don't do anything and stand by waiting for a miracle, take a look at this quote.
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
Wake up.

The reason I use Martin Luther King Jr. quotes so much is because I think he was one of the greatest speakers of our times for the oppressed. Also, I got my internet back very late at night so this is the result of it. No more videos because I won't have time to shoot on privatively. I'll shoot a bunch when I'm at my mom's place and will post them when I come back. There is more from me coming, in the written word.

Who We Are

This is who we are, all of us pro-immigrant people. Martin Luther King Jr. describes us and the movement, what we stand for, with this quote. We are all dedicated individuals striving for something greater than ourselves. For those who are not immigrant themselves, who fight for us for the hell of it, I thank you. We must continue forward, continue despite anything and everything that is thrown at us. Si se puede.

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."

Internetless

I lost my internet access so I don't know when I'll be able to do a real update. Maybe when I move with my mom, I hope. That is happening on Sunday so I hope to be back then. I'll be writing things but it won't be online until then when I get access to email. I apologize.
This post is being done from a friend's computer.

President Quote

Don't forget, everyone in this country is connected to immigration. Some people have just forgotten and treat current immigrants like crap, but here are the words of a president to help them remember.

"Remember, remember always that all of us and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists." Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Still Alive...just lazy, sorry...

So…blogging, yea. 5 months now. I haven’t done it much lately because I’ve been on break. I’ve been playing Wii for the most part, Guitar Hero III, I’ve beaten Metroid Prime 3 and will now move on to Okami. I tried playing Silent Hill II but unfortunately I’m too afraid.

So, moving away from video games, what’s going with immigration. I’ve been looking at the NC situation, now trying to ban us. It is not going well, but then again, when was the last time something good happened to us.

Another bad thing that happened, Ted Kennedy has a tumor. To him I say, I hope you fight this and win, my thoughts are with you.

Anyways, I’ll try to have something from now, everyday, like in the old days. I haven’t had the will to write anything before but someone talked to me and reminded me that I do blog. I will also try to do another video of myself.

Home

Well, I'm home. I reorganized everything today and started playing video games again. Well, seriously playing them. I'm playing Resident Evil, the remake for the Gamecube. I don't know if I wrote this in the past but some time ago, my Gamecube memory card we corrupted and I lost all of my data. That was about 30 video games worth of stuff so I have to play through all of those games once again. It should be fun.
As for blogging, well, I should be able to blog a lot more now that I have no school. I'll be looking at news and seeing what comments I can write about them. I'll also have to be write for Dream Deferred some time soon but it is harder to write for them because I like to write really good stuff for that site but I come up empty. I have no creative juices left. I guess I must have been burned out by school. Grades are going well actually and my GPA is rising to a more respectable level.
Freshman year was horrible, truly horrible. I didn't expect to go to the university that I go to in the first place and it was a hard thing to adapt. Harder than I expected. You can't just jump into university where 3 or 4 students are undocumented out of almost 17,000 and not feel lonely. My old high school also had a lot of undocumented so it was different, very different. But it took a lot of time and sanity for me to arrive to this point, I almost didn't make it but here I am, to annoy everyone.
So, what are my plans for the summer. Video gaming, lots and lots of video gaming. Reading. I'm now reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods. Will follow that up with Blindness by Jose Saramago. Does anyone out there have a good book that you think would be a good summer read? If so, please let me know. My plan is to read 3 books a week starting next week. Why next week? Because I'll be busy with things on Thursday, Friday and Saturday so I won't have access to books or laptop. In fact, my next post will probably be on Saturday. Anyways, I still have high speed internet, until next later when I'll move once again.

Over?

Well, tonight is my last night at my dorm. I'm a bit sad, I've always loved school. This is why I'm here. But now it is May and soon, I'll know my future on regards on whether I'll be able to be a Junior in the fall. I hope so, I want to have something to look forward to.
There is the possibility of me not being able to come back if things change. That begs the question on what the hell am I going to do. Mom is telling me something along the lines of going back to my home country. That is something I won't do, at least not in the immediate future after I get kicked out. There are things I'm going to have to take care of at the end of July and early August. As for what I will do here, in the States, without school. I don't know. The charade will end, the charade that keeps getting harder and harder to pull off.
Anyways, those are my thoughts for tonight. I'm also playing lots of Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword so I don't have that many thoughts in the first place. Next time I write, it will be from home. Hopefully I'll have another video up very soon too.
And grades went well I think.

The End?

Well, the end of my finals anyways. I finished them this morning but won't be leaving school until next week. I have to make fun of the poor suckers who still have other finals and don't have the awesome planning skills I do. Or it could have been pure luck. No matter, school is done for me.
I still won't be able to do as much blogging as I want to, not in the coming days. I will be saying my last good byes to some people. Hopefully I'll be back next fall, I doubt that the legislature will pass the law of banning us from school. Worse things have happened, like in Arizona so being extremely hopeful here. But if we don't have hope, what do you we have...

First Video

The title speaks for itself.

Sleeping

You know what is one of the worse things about being undocumented? Not only is it just the insufferable solitude that one can feel, no, its the nightmares too. Not only are they bad but knowing that they can come true is the worse feeling one can ever know, with the exception of the solitude that if you let it overwhelm you, you fall to despair. As I have, did, a year ago. You can't possibly imagine, and if you can, I feel sorry for you, it is not something that I would recommend feeling.

On Home

My dad came to pick up some of my stuff today. He took away my entire Gamecube and movie libraries, along with 2/3 of my PS2 library. It was a lot to say the least. Haha. But the realization that I'm going home is here. Well, not that it wasn't here before but it a lot clearer now.
Home. Where is home for me? Do I get homesick? No, I don't. I never had anything with home. I've been raised to be independent in that regard, I don't miss it. During my life with divorced parents, I've never was able to reach a stable home. My dad moved far too many times during the last 8 years. As for my mom, well, that's a whole another issue.
I would consider my university to be my home but unfortunately I'll be leaving it next week. I might not even get to come back at all if the legislature has its way. But that's the way life rolls. I get jealous of those who do have a place to go, all the time I seem to only have a placeholder or something to put my crap in. That crap being all the video games, movies and books I own. I haven't been particularly good with work today, I blame my procrastination and all. I did get my modem installed yesterday which means that I'll be connected when I move to another state for two months. You guys will be the first to know whether I've been kicked out of school. Hopefully not. May 1st is approaching, is anyone out there going to a protest?

From CNN and me

Well, only from me because I'm posting it, copied and pasted. I feel burned out by the reading I'm doing and today I decided to take a free day. My first final is on Thursday and it shouldn't be too hard. Who knows.
Anyways, on regards to this post. It's from CNN, by Ruben Navarrette Jr. and the 10 ugly things about immigration. The original post is here and I would suggest to read it since I'm only posting the things. Enjoy, they are so true.

• The hypocrisy. We have two signs on the U.S.-Mexican border: "Keep Out" and "Help Wanted."

• The racism. With lightning speed, the debate went from anti-illegal immigrant to anti-immigrant to anti-Mexican.

• The opportunism. Too many politicians are trying too hard to portray themselves as tough on illegal immigration.

• The simple solutions. "Build A Wall." "Deport All Illegals." A quick rule of thumb: If it fits on a bumper sticker, it's not a workable policy.

• The naiveté. People ask why Mexico won't help stop illegal immigration. Hint: Last year, Mexicans in the United States sent home $25 billion.

• The profiling. Dark skin and Spanish surnames shouldn't be proxies for undocumented status. Been to Arizona lately?

• The meanness. Nazi-produced Internet video games let players shoot illegal immigrants crossing the border. Fun stuff.

• The amnesia. Americans think grandpa was welcomed with open arms and that he plunged into the melting pot. Whatever.

• The buck-passing. Americans love to blame Mexico for their choices, yelling across the border: "Stop us before we hire again."

• The double standard. The same folks who have zero tolerance for illegal immigrants easily tolerate those who hire them.