For all my Puerto Rican students and friends

A friend of mine sent this to me, I thought I should share it with you. I hope you have a good "first day of class"

Why Puerto Ricans are so cool...


- We are a mix of the best of every race.

- Our legal drinking age is 18.

- We can't care less what other people think of us.

- 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

(Cool !!!)

- Mofongo (that's all I have to say)... MO-FON-GO
(Yum!)

- In PR, any road will take you to a beach..... or a pub.

- We are the only "territory" of another country
with our own Olympic teams; How crazy is that?

- 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.

- Our Spanish is completely different than any
other Spanish speaking country.

- We all have cool nicknames.

- We make some of the best coffee of the World.

- WE CAN DANCE!!!!!!!!! and we can make anyone dance!!! (with and without music).

- 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 is still 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 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!

- 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: Euripides

Rubio, Carlos Lozada, Hector Santiago y Fernando Luis Ledesma Garcia.

- 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 country in THE WORLD to have a radio station.

(before Washington D.C. )

- Junior Cordero (Puerto Rican) won the Kentucky Derby 3 times.

- There are only 7 fluorescent lagoons in the
world; we have 4 of them.

- Giovanni Hidalgo 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 Colegio de Mayaguez, won 41
awards in Sunrayace, Iowa back in 1993.

- We established the first lottery system in the New World.

NOT BAD FOR A 100 X 35 MILES ISLAND...

I'm proud to be Puerto Rican!!!
and if you are Boricua...
Grita Weeeeeepppaaaa!!!