DO YOU WANT TO BECOME A US CITIZEN?

HAVE YOU BEEN A LEGAL RESIDENT FOR 5 YEARS OR MORE? THEN THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!

The New American Campaign will provide assistance to complete the citizenship application to anyone eligible.

A coalition of legal service providers and volunteers have come together to encourage and assist eligible legal permanent residents (LPRs) become U.S. citizens by completing naturalization applications during this full-day event.

This service is completely free, except for the $680 USCIS fee. However, if you receive food stamps, Medicaid or SSI, and qualify for the fee waiver, we will process you application at no cost. For this you must have the letter of benefits in English from DCF and/or the Social Security Office.

REGISTRATION:    www.citizenshipflorida.org, go to the link “Are you an Applicant” and follow the instructions

DATE:     Saturday, June 22, 2013 starting 10:00 AM and ending 4:00 PM

LOCATION: Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Building 3 NE 4^th Street, between 2^nd Ave and Biscayne Blvd.

FREE PARKING: Building 7 Parking Garage Entrance: NE 5^th Stret, between NE 1^st Ave and NE 2^nd Ave

INFORMATION:     rhernandez@cclsmiami.org
acarrasco@cclsmiami.org:             Sammy@cclsmiami.org

We strongly encourage you to register and make an appointment.

Don’t wait any longer. Become an American!

Volunteer: go to the same link www.citizenshipflorida.org

Nadia. Do you read?

Ivan. Yes. Is that surprising?

Nadia. Perhaps

Ivan. And you write?

Nadia. How do you know?

Ivan. I read.

Dialog from Collapsible Model drama in one act by Georgeta Drogoiu. Playscripts Inc.

The purpose of this blog is not to discuss the play that presents a good analysis of a young woman finding her place in life in a difficult moment in a difficult place.

The reason I took this dialog out of context is to explain the point of this blog. We read during our lifetime a lot, and most is forgotten but sediment of concepts and ideas stay with us. That is the personal culture. Phase form this speech, a phrase from this book a memory of a person or situation. I like to write because I think that my ideas and feeling are not only my but most be shared. And I also believe that a writer should worry about to be honest and express himself and not write to please some potential reader.

Many times in life we hear a stranger say something, for a total unrelated reason, and that idea may be the answer to something that is in our mind for a long time. The writer always does benefit the reader. Always. If the reader agrees he/she feel good. If the reader disagree fell good because he/she reaffirm their position. If the reader laughs about what you write well he/she had a light moment. The writer must respect other opinions and of course be ready to a dialog.

So if you have something to say, said it and someone will benefit.

In today fast communication, instant information, cryptic text messages, thousands of FB friends. I get a sense, maybe because I’m old, that everybody that has something to say, but do not have someone to listen.

I write in first person and from my personal experience, since my only expertise is just been old. But I find that is hard to find anyone that has time just to chat. I am personally lucky that I have good communication with my wife and children. With my wife sometimes is difficult because we know too much of the other and try to guess what the other is going to say. With my children, they are busy persons with children to rise and careers to pursue, when we get together, more often with the two in the area that with the other two out of state, there are so many things going on that it is impossible to chat. With my friends, the ones that are alive and able to communicate, we do not socialize that much. So now we are connecting to each other by Facebook and finding out about our grandchildren, and exchange memories.

Writing this blog on how different communication is today I remembered when I was in Detention Ministry, that we organize a Pen Pal Ministry; groups of people to write to the inmates. Warning, this is a special ministry that require special well trained individuals, if anyone is interested contact me .I will refer to the proper place.

The inmate live surrounded by people, like him/her, that don’t care about the other, who will try to get out something from the others and nobody can’t be trust.

A Pen Pal is someone far away that offer security, because of the distance, and allow some level of intimacy.

In the modern world any one in Facebook is a friend, most of the time we have seen each other for a long time and in many cases we never meet each other. There are so many people so lonely that have an impulse to accumulate friends, and I wonder if they have a shoulder to cry. The openness of Facebook does not permit to have any level of intimacy.

Intimacy has nothing to do with sex; in the modern world many people have sexual partners with no intimacy at all. That is for another blog.

How many people just post in Facebook knowing that many people will read it and don’t care? How many beautiful phrases about love and trust, sacrifice, mothers, children, etc. and I wonder if it post because is nice or really means it?

When I see press like if you love Jesus I feel like posting back “I you like Jesus don’t say it, do it. Loving is not talking the talk love is waking the walk.

Yes I feel alone in the crowd so I try to reach to someone that is also alone and offer my ear to listen so he/she doesn’t feel alone. And helping the other I help myself

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DO YOU WANT TO BECOME A US CITIZEN?

 

HAVE YOU BEEN A LEGAL RESIDENT FOR 5 YEARS OR MORE?

 

THEN THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!

 

On Saturday, June 22, 2013, the New American Campaign will provide assistance to complete the citizenship application to anyone eligible.

 

A coalition of legal service providers and volunteers have come together to encourage and assist eligible legal permanent residents (LPRs) become U.S. citizens by completing naturalization applications during this full-day event.

 

This service is completely free, except for the $680 USCIS fee. However, if you receive food stamps, Medicaid or SSI, and qualify for the fee waiver, we will process you application at no cost. For this you must have the DCF letter of benefits in English.

 

REGISTRATION:    www.citizenshipflorida.org, go to the link “Are you an Applicant” and follow the instructions

 

DATE:         Saturday, June 22, 2013 starting 10:00 AM and ending 4:00 PM

 

LOCATION:        Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Building 3

            NE 4^th Street, between 2^nd Ave and Biscayne Blvd.

 

FREE PARKING:    Building 7 Parking Garage

            Entrance: NE 5^th Stret, between NE 1^st Ave and NE 2^nd Ave

 

INFORMATION:    Call 786-414-2770 and leave a message with your name and telephone number. We will call you back. Or, send an email to: acarrasco@cclsmiami.org

rhernandez@cclsmiami.org

                             Sammy@cclsmiami.org

We strongly encourage you to register and make an appointment.

 

Don’t wait any longer. Become an American!