First Few Hours in Salt Lake City

My first day in the United States is something I will never forget. Looking back at it, it feels like something that happened a lifetime ago. What I remember the most was the contrast between my old home and my new one; mind you the first city I visited in the States was Salt Lake City and the very first thing I noticed was the disappearance of people…

I was born and raised in Caracas Venezuela I was used to the sun, the beaches and just a busy a metropolitan type of life, in short I was used to seeing a big city life, after all Caracas has over 6 million people living and the contrast between the 2 million that are in the Salt Lake City Wasatch Front and Caracas was day and night.

On my first hours in the States my sister who lived in Utah for almost ten years prior to my coming wanted me to try some Mexican food (something I never had tried in my life, at least not cooked by real Mexicans) and while driving to the “La Puente” restaurant the very first thing I noticed was how empty the sidewalks were.

It was the middle of the summer, the sun was up and it was just nice outside I had to ask “were did all the people go?” my sister just smiled because she knew what I meant… Big sidewalks but not one person on them, everyone was driving!

Once in the restaurant I had my first jalapeño and decided that Mexican food was spicy and just not for me, I still liked the food and I would still eat it but it was just not for me (then.) I liked what I saw of the city I can sincerely say that I started to feel in love with the City of Salt Lake.

Although I could go on and on about the differences, and even though I miss a great deal of things about my homeland I feel well in here and I just love the look of the city and mountains in winter time.

Marcus Sarzalejo.

First Blog Ever

Blogs are personal Journals available to everyone in the web. The great thing about them is that many people can see and comment on them, you can do blogs about your hobbies, personal lives really about anything you can imagine the sky is the limit. This is why I feel people should be wise choosing what to talk/write about in the web; after all you don’t want to look like an idiot 100 years from now do you?

Now I really don’t have as much experience with blogs as most people now days. It just has not very interesting to me until one friend of mine started his. His name is Harry Candelario and he is a Mac expert and knows a great deal about programming and comic books. He used to work for Marvel Comics and inked one of my favorite books of all time (X-Men 2099) Anyway he started a his own blog not long ago and I started to see why people were expending so much time on these things.

I find it fascinating how we are becoming so close to information just with a click of a button we can almost anything online case in point, the ever popular youtube keeps on getting bigger and bigger and more people are using it and being familiar with it.

Because I like technology and art and technology I want to study all of these fields. I know it is not as specific as someone may want but I have different business plans for the future that I feel will be successful if I learn more about these fields hence why I am in the University of Utah.

Marcus Sarzalejo