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Weekly "Dicho con Café"
"No dejes camino por vereda."
The author's translation is that "Don't leave a road for a path."
What this means is to not take shortcuts that can prove disastrous in accomplishing things in your life. Too often by straying from true and proven methods of achieving things, temptation sets in and decisions are made that later prove wrong and a person has to retrace or redo what they originally were supposed to do. For example, why spend a whole day to cram for an examination, when you can learn the same information over a longer period by spending a little bit of time each day to study? This will make your test results better instead of failing or doing poorly, which will affect your final grade. By doing it right the first time, you'll save a lot of time and headaches in achieving your goals. How many of you have taken a shortcut when driving somewhere and it turned out that you spent more time driving to reach your destination due to bad roads, detours, getting lost, et cetera, while if you had just stayed on the main road you would have arrived in less time with less of a headache! |
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More About John A. Flores
One of the interesting cities visited by the Floreses was Saint Petersburg, Russia. With 4.6 million residents, it is Russia's second largest city and was the capital of Russia until 1918. It's name was changed to Petrograd in 1914 and then to Leningrad in 1924, before finally reverting back to Saint Petersburg in 1991. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703. The city is filled with museums, theaters and many other sites including the Hermitage Museum, which is a very large building. They were fortunate to visit the Marinsky Theater where they saw a performance of Russian dancers that jumped in the air, kicked their legs out while sitting on their haunches, which Russians do very well, and overall gave a very good performance. They were able to visit the Summer Palace which is a beautiful garden and home with many, many fountains, all spouting water through the use of gravity and large pipes which narrow as they reach the foundations, thus generating greater pressure and causing the water to spout out. It was a very impressive work of engineering and the visit was a very enjoyable one. The City of Saint Petersburg has the River Neva flowing through it and has the docked the original ship that was used in the Russian Revolution and was to have fired the first shot. They were able to take a tour of the ship. One thing of interest was the underground subway system and the escalators used to reach it. The escalators were so long that you could not see either the top from the bottom or the bottom from the top , as it was so long in length. It was quite an experience with hundreds of people riding an escalator that must have been several hundred feet long and deep under the city. They were also able to visit a place called the "Mafia Market" where they were able to purchase gifts of Russian dolls at a much cheaper rate than in the stores. In all, the Floreses were there for three days, and it was full of activities with so much to see.
When he's not writing books, Mr. Flores makes presentations to local, regional and national groups, using dichos to motivate his audiences. You can contact him for speaking engagements at (559) 456-0128 or at his personal email at jaflores1246@comcast.net
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