Larissa Calderon:  

CLASS OF 1992
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Music Larissa likes includes Michael Jackson. One of Larissa's favorite quotes is:"Si la vida te da la espalda, comele el culo!!!!! Don't ask me to think i was hired for my looks. Las carteras y los zapatos son mejores que los hombres: son mas bonitos y no te molestan bajo ninguna circumstancia Why Puerto Ricans are so cool... We are not only bilingual but we can speak "Spanglish" Our women are the most beautiful in the world, (5 Miss Universe) We are LATIN, and yet AMERICANS Mofongo (that's all I have to say) In PR, any road will take you to a beach..... We are the only "territory" of another country with our own Olympic teams. We do everything under the sun... because we CAN! Because even though we are a territory we are still a whole NATION. We don't need to take vacations to be in a tropical paradise. In PR everything is really close. I can call you sir ("USTED"), and insu lt you in the same sentence. Our Spanish is completely different than any other Spanish speaking country. We have the best athletes in the world. We make some of the best coffee of the world. WE CAN DANCE!!!!!!!!! They come from around the world to hire our engineers and scientists. We are the country with the most roads by square mile (and there isstill traffic). We have the longest swimming pool in the world (Cerromar) La "Calle del Cristo" (San Juan P.R.) was the first road of "The New World to be paved. 86% of the ...Expand for more
rum drunk in the U.S. is from Puerto Rico. We have more female engineers than any other country. (and you still call us machistas?) We know how to party, without absurd curfew laws. We are the major RUM manufacturer of the world. The bats for the Movie Batman Forever were filmed in Las Cuevas de Camuy, P.R. We invented the MayoKetchup! We kicked the DREAM TEAM's ass !!!! Puerto Rico has one of the world's highest productivity ratios. Salsa music was the fastest growing genre in the last 20 years. Four Puerto Ricans received the Congress Medal of Honor Eurípides Rubio, Carlos Lozada, Héctor Santiago y Fernando Luis Ledesma García. (BRAVO!) Only 4 baseball players have 2 Home Runs in the same Inning; 3 of them are Puerto Ricans (Roberto Clemente, Roberto Alomar and Carlos Baerga) Tito Trinidad never went to the Olympics but defeated 4 gold medal champions. A Puerto Rican, Nellie Toledo, designed the 1984 Camaro Berlinetta. We were the 5th countr y in THE WORLD to have a radio station. Junior Cordero (Puerto Rican) won the Kentucky Derby 3 times. There is only 7 fluorescent lagoons in the world; we have 4 of them. Giovanni is considered the best percussionist in THE WORLD. Jose Feliciano is in the top 3 guitar players in THE WORLD (don't forget he is blind). The Discovery 500; Solar car designed by the Mayaguez College won 41 awards in Sunray Ace Iowa in 1993. NOT BAD FOR A 100 X 35 MILES ISLAND...".
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