Soundtrack of my Life

Maria Antonia Trujillo

10B

8/31/2014

SOML

August 27, 2014

Dear listener,

My name is Maria Antonia Trujillo Alarcon. I was born on November 1 of 1998 and right now I am 15 years old. I love my family and friends and spent lots of time playing volleyball and hanging out with mostly my family. I am from Manizales, Caldas. A little city in the center of a beautiful country called Colombia (no, not Columbia, C-O-L-O-M-B-I-A) in South America and is near to be called paradise.I still live in Manizales and in the same house since I ever born (though is bigger now). I am in ACG since grade K3 and right now I am in my sophomore year. I am Senior 2017 (I know it sounds like forever) and here we go.

As everyone I have some major events that have marked me as a person and in this opportunity I will mix them with music, is basically my life major events into a movie way. We will always have this song that will remind us of something or someone, sharing it is a great thing, and finding the different points of view people have about it is pretty joyful. For you, a song can mean sadness or melancholic memories, for your best friend it could remember her of her firs trip on airplane,etc... In this essay I will convert three important parts of my life into letter and music, expressed into a different and more elated way. In the next paragraphs I will try to be conscious of the song and its rhythm to concord with the event or have some type of connection.

For sure you have lost someone truly special and who you wouldn't doubt to give your life for, the only thing, is that you didn't know it until they left and forever. My grandpa died two years ago and the song that most relates for me with it, is When I Was Your Man by Bruno Mars. It talks about love, but the melody and the feeling of loneliness and missing things is the same one I felt 730 days ago. The song talks about how this man did not approach a woman and now she has a new love, but the old one is wishing things he didn't do to her when he was her man. I connect it to my grandpa because theres so many things I missed to do with him and now I can't, however, I wish that wherever he is, someone or something does it for him. This song reveals many things about me but most of all my love and engage to my family and friends.

Have you ever heard The Final Countdown by Europe? Well, I hope you have, because this song is one of the most significants for me. Hearing this song makes me remember my first High School Binational Games in Cartagena. I was in freshmen year and I was very proud of how much I had worked for it, though our team wasn't that much of a true and compact team, however we only took conscience of that when we loose the final. I had a mix of feelings, for one part it was my effort and my process in slow motion falling apart in just an hour an a half. For other part it was the sensation of having my coach who is also my dad, not proud of me... Finally leading to an ultimate conclusion, it was all my fault (though it wasn't) and to a sea of tears. I choose this song for two reasons, one, it is an inspiring song, I guaranty that if you hear it before a game you will gain confidence as fast a Bolt and get truly engaged. Two, because its name is basically having my key word in it, final. Here am I, 9 months later and still training, working hard and awaiting to go back and this time bring the championship tittle. This event was truly important because it showed me how fragile I could be and make me wanna work more and harder in order to gain much more confidence and matureness when competing.

Baaaaaabyyy, I want you to know, Your gone but I can’t let, can’t let you go, Baaaaby, I still love you so, But I’m on this island alooone... Island, Don Omar ft Akon. Probably you've had the gift of riding one of Orlando's roller coasters, well, for my 15th birthday my gift was a trip to Orlando for a month. A week before I went, I heard this song and love it more than nutella. Coincidentally, the trip to my first park was opened with this song, and let me tell you a roller coaster experience with this song is just... Wordless. It gives you the sensation of happiness and adrenaline as enjoyable as an ive cream. Orlando was a key event because I could learn to appreciate more things from home, it give me the love and passion I was loosing of getting home.

I will like to tell you, my life has not been pink at all, but at least not near to black. I've learned many things but I will never forget my three words: care, work and enjoy. I believe this three words in a connection with other two are a base for our daily life. However, we are all different (thanks god) and for you it might be ten words, for me this three. If you don't believe, life talks to us, and for some of us music is its voice. Thank you for reading

Sincerely yours,

Maria Antonia Trujillo A.