Thursday, February 10, 2011

Venezuelan music

The music in Venezuela has a very huge variety, it has a lot of African, Spanish and Caribbean influence because of the mixture that existed during the age of slavery. From Africa we got the percussion and that style of dancing we have. From Spain we got strings such as el Cuatro, the Harp and the Mandolin; these instruments are very important in our music named Joropo. From the Caribbean we got our own style of Salsa and Merengue in a Venezuelan style. All these rhythms are mixed in a wonderful cocktail which is our Venezuelan Music

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Good luck guys!

A very common scam in my country is a game called "encuentra la bola" or find the ball in English. the rules are simple there are three kind of black glasses with a small ball, a guy put the ball inside off one of the glasses and shuffle them.Then you have to follow the movement and guess which glass has the ball inside if you think that you know where exactly the ball is you can bet and win some money. The deception in this game is the guy who shuffle the glasses has some peers, these guys bet a big mount of money and win everything. Then when you are confident and bet money they push you and make you lose concentration and pick the wrong glasses and lose your money. Those kind of scam are always in big celebrations with a lot of people to make harder to the police to catch them. This is also very dangerous because can start a fight and get involved firearms.