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A new hope

Hello everyone, my name is Ana Paula, but as I like to use pseydonims in my blogs, here I am Mersault.

I like programming classes, but I tend to have issues in those due to the fact that I have anxiety and I do like the things to work perfectly. Also this is because I tend to compare myself to everyone else. Anyway, nowadays I know what I am capable of and that I have friends that support me and that asking the teacher for extra help is not bad. However,what I expect of this class is to learn the way a functional language works and the way I can use it in comparison to other , more commercial, programming languages.

What I like is music, reading and dancing. You can  see me everyday with a book in my hands and my headphones in the other. My favourite book is "the stranger" by Albert Camus because I have always thought that I do not belong to. My favourite band is thirty seconds to Mars, and many Mexican rock bands. I also play the guitar and people would think that I like to play those kind of songs. Nevertheless, I do like to play but old Mexican music such as boleros. Anyway you can see me at many concerts just enjoying the way music flows. 

Beside that cultural side that I have, I tend to watch movies and TV series with my mom, specially cooking ones and mistery. The last ones we watched were "the final table", "Sherlock" and "the bodyguard". She hates some series that I choose because they include history or literature, so you need to know about it to understand somethings.

I hope that people would enjoy reading this blog and I hope they understand some of the references that I will use.

XOXO

Mersault.

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