A homework for literature class

I have no words to express how glad and pleased I am feeling and this feeling of enormous pleasure and delight may go away in some time, although it has left a deep imprint in me and on my mind.

I have to mention that I did not arrived as early as I could have wanted to get there because I had to go first to my English class at 11 am and I even get a little late there and even because of that, my teacher made a joke on it.

After the class finished, I went as fast as I can to the USBI, the main library of my university, where don Carlos Fuentes, or as I refer to him "El señor Fuentes", was attending a conference and giving a speech.

When I got there, the conference still had not finished, so I felt so happy and full of delight because I have very much wanted a lot to meet one of Mexico's most important writers and this was an opportunity of a lifetime.

I did not manage to listen to señor Fuentes' speech, yet I listened to an amazing, deep and outstanding speech about Puerto Rico's culture and history, given by another, possibly a writer, who had a yellowish suit with a yellow tie, and I found a few different similarities with Mexico's history, such as slavery, madness from leaders, horrible treachery and terrible dealing with the American natives.

I felt so shocked with the mention of how they threated the black slaves when they arrived.

He said that the first ones to arrive were branded on their bare skin with a metal which was really red hot and the first black slave who was marked with this metal, shouted a horrible creepy scream of pain that could sure be heard throughout the whole new country-world.

Another thing that attracted my attention a lot (no comma) was a comment about North American culture and its influence on the Puerto Rican culture and how it has resulted in an increase of obesity given an increasing on the fatness and there more cases of fat Puerto Rican people, mainly because of the influence of the North American way of life.

When I listened to that comment I thought inmediately that was to be expected, coming from North America, whose life styles has its amazing advantages and terrible disadvantages.

I remembered that Northamerica has a really big and huge rate of fat people, mainly because North American people are very used to eating meat.

On one hand, of three thousand million people, just a few millions eat constantly vegetables and a varied diet, along with an active healthy lifestyle.

On the other hand, the other many millions have sedentary lifestyles and they eat gladly eat meat, beef and pork and they get fatter more every day.

"There are two Great Powers? in the world: one is the United States and the other is you"

Then I will not try to eat no meat in any form and I will still keep my ovolactovegetarian* eating habits and my semi active life style with long walkings.______________________*You've got me there. Is there sheep and milk involved?

When the speech finished there was a crazy clapping and even I whistled a lot in order to express how pleased and excited I was, because I do love reading and literature and it was reflected on the gratfeul sincere greeting I gave Mister Fuentes and I told him with a lot of pleasure that he would be my influence in the next story I am about to write and he looked a little bit surprised.

There was a grand opening of a new reading section which was called, not surprisingly, "Carlos Fuentes".

It was a little bit dissappointing that I could not pass through to the room when it was open up, yet I was able to speak with him again and it was completely pleasing and terrific.

I asked him to sign my newspaper but he said he does not sign newspapers.

I was about to insist but I respected his views.

I asked him if he would come back soon and he said he would do it many several times.

I think he found kind of funny my last question kind of funny:

"How do you think your life in eternity will be like, when you die?"

He then understood my question because I was refering to his inmortal fame and he stood thinking about it.

This was more than just attending an event that had something to do with culture and literature, where I had to go in order to have a base for writing a report about an event, this is actually an event I did enjoy a lot and I will never forget because I love literature and reading, so this will be in my mind, my heart and thoughts.

A homework exercise for my literature class

Then I will not try to eat no meat in any form and I will still keep my ovo-lacto vegetarian eating habits and my semi active life style with long walkings.