
This is my place in the tent. The Lantern. A lantern lights a room up. I guess i can give my light to all of you. I was born on a tuesday afternoon, october 14th 1980 in Maracaibo, Venezuela, a terribly hot city, with aprox. 2 million people living in it and with an important reputation of one of the greatest oil-producer region. My parents named me Gabriela Sofia Romero Montiel. I grew up in a big house, I had seventeen cats in a lapse of two or three years. I was a very good student. I learned how to walk when I was nine months old. I played a lot with my sisters and cousins. My neighbors were also ver funny. I had a chicken pet called Jon Bon Jovi, and I created a town with fisher-price-like toys. I studied for six years in a catholic school for girls only and i loved it. I made great friends there and I defined my personality during high school. I've got three major passions: music, books and football. I'm obssessed with Europe and medieval times. I half-heartedly believe in reencarnation, and that's why I think I was a duchess or a princess before. Countess probably. Concerning music, I like almost everything that comes out of Britain. I also like a few latin bands like Soda Stereo and Los Amigos Invisibles. I listened to bands like Pink Floyd, The Doors, Genesis, Yes, among others, since I was 12 til I was 16. That was when i first heard of Oasis, and somehow my life changed. My musical horizons got wider. I discovered Blur and then Kula Shaker. I kept liking the other bands, but these became my major influence. I sure needed 'fresh blood'. My favourite writer is Gabriel Garcia Marquez, colombian, author of 'One hundred years of Solitude', Nobel Prize in 1982. My favourite football teams are Manchester united and Ajax. Once I said that I would be ready to die when I see Oasis and Ajax live. I already saw Oasis live... I have never fallen in love with anyone. I'm probably too afraid of being hurt. I believe in destiny and that's maybe another reason why, because 'the one' hasn't arrived yet. I believe i'll live somewhere in Europe for a long time. I believe i'll be a very successful woman. I have to graduate first, I have to finish my career, Industrial Engineering. I'm studying for free, I pay a penny for lunch. This is part of the fucked up system we've been living with in my country. Politics made me crazy, i hate my current president by the way. And why am i here? Creating a page for 'The Tent'? How did i become part of this? Well, i once went into a page, Bonehead's Bank Holiday, and for the first time i decided to read the guestbook. I found a very clever group of persons that brighten my day and life, they made feel three years younger! they made me remember the happiest days of my life. I had finally found 'friends' i could really indentify with, i had a weird sensation of belonging, no, not belonging, just... identification. Since then the GBers have become a very important part of my life. I really hope we can meet someday, in Soho. I will have to learn how to play the drums and get a little more practice in the drinking habits. :) If you feel like commeting on something i wrote, you can email me at the adress down there. I'll try to put more interesting stuff here some other day. Or maybe when i think of something 'mindblowing' i should write it down, so it can remain written, said, stated. Lots of love.