I like speaking English, well actually I like talking. It doesn't really matter whether it is in Spanish, English or French. And I think that is exactly why learning English at the University was mainly an enjoyable experience. Because it is the one class in which I’m able to relax most of the time chatting and listening to my classmates' different points of view. I also loved the fact that we could lose the thread of conversation and it didn't matter as long as we were speaking English. In fact I think that the schedule should rather be based on conversations and learning how to verbalize rather than the listening and blogs that we had to do. Don't get me wrong, I liked those too. But I think they should be less important given that, at least for me, the moments in which I learned more were the actual classes. I believe that it turned over that way because it is precisely during those instances of conversation that all the doubts pop up. And it is easier to remember an expression that has always caused you trouble if you have a context to bound it up with. At least for me (again).
Now I'm realizing that everything is coming to an end and, despite the fact that I really learned here, one thing that scares me is that I don't feel really prepared to throw myself into the world speaking English. I guess that six months are not enough to make me feel ready, especially if I spent two years in which I left English aside. However, I appreciate this term that allowed me to enchant myself with the language again. I am certain that, in life, the more skills you have, the more job offers you get. And it is clear that being able to express oneself in English is one important key to success.
19/11/2010
17/11/2010
Get a life
"Let's talk about Facebook, the popular social network right now". That was the theme of our last scout meeting. We (my staff and I) asked the kids, whose ages go from 13 to 16 years old, what did they think about Facebook, and which aspects they thought were life-changing about the emergence of this kind of social network.
Truth is that these generations were practically born with Facebook acounts already created. It is funny thought, considering that at the beginning the goal of pages like this were totally different. Some people say that Facebook was created for men to find women in sexual terms, others believe that it is a platform ment to establish job connections. Anyhow, we all know that today it has turned upside down people relationships as we know them. Maybe this phrase sounds a bit rash, but it is more accurate than you might think.
10 years ago there were fewer ways to communicate, nevertheless we used to manage quite well, ain't that right? So where does this need of sharing personal stuff come from? I believe that before Facebook, Messenger, Twitter and many others, people used to talk much more. Meaning actually talking, using there mouths in order to do it, not their fingers.
One of the effects that I find really adverse about facebook is that, nowadays, people don't visit each other, they call each other significantly less, and why? Because in half the time you take to go visit one friend, you can write some nice words in the wall of all your friends, relatives, even people you don't really know! And what is going on with the birthdays?! This year I decided to close my wall for that day, because it felt really weird that lots of people shared their regards and feelings towards me there. First because half of them are not really that close, and second because everybody else was going to see it, that just didn't feel right.
Anyway, it is a fact that this kind of networks have lots of advantages in many many ways, but I believe that we have to be very careful with them. Not only because of what they always say, that some psyco might reach up to you and that kind of risk that this pages can bring on, but mainly because we are forgetting how to interact with real people. This is something that is actually happening, not just a potential risk, and it's consequences are global and permanent!
So let's go back to our roots, let's have more human relationships, rather than virtual ones. In fact I am leaving my computer right now in order to do so, maybe you should try it too.
Truth is that these generations were practically born with Facebook acounts already created. It is funny thought, considering that at the beginning the goal of pages like this were totally different. Some people say that Facebook was created for men to find women in sexual terms, others believe that it is a platform ment to establish job connections. Anyhow, we all know that today it has turned upside down people relationships as we know them. Maybe this phrase sounds a bit rash, but it is more accurate than you might think.
10 years ago there were fewer ways to communicate, nevertheless we used to manage quite well, ain't that right? So where does this need of sharing personal stuff come from? I believe that before Facebook, Messenger, Twitter and many others, people used to talk much more. Meaning actually talking, using there mouths in order to do it, not their fingers.
One of the effects that I find really adverse about facebook is that, nowadays, people don't visit each other, they call each other significantly less, and why? Because in half the time you take to go visit one friend, you can write some nice words in the wall of all your friends, relatives, even people you don't really know! And what is going on with the birthdays?! This year I decided to close my wall for that day, because it felt really weird that lots of people shared their regards and feelings towards me there. First because half of them are not really that close, and second because everybody else was going to see it, that just didn't feel right.
Anyway, it is a fact that this kind of networks have lots of advantages in many many ways, but I believe that we have to be very careful with them. Not only because of what they always say, that some psyco might reach up to you and that kind of risk that this pages can bring on, but mainly because we are forgetting how to interact with real people. This is something that is actually happening, not just a potential risk, and it's consequences are global and permanent!
So let's go back to our roots, let's have more human relationships, rather than virtual ones. In fact I am leaving my computer right now in order to do so, maybe you should try it too.
07/11/2010
Mr. X
This time I want to talk about people I admire in my life. There are several characters that I find inspiring because of the way they see life, and the way they embrace it.
But the one I want to honor with these lines has something special, something that I couldn't find in anyone that I have met in my life so far. I am only 21 years old, so you might figure that I haven't met a lot of people, and you are right, but this person is someone I am sure is unique in the world. Because of safety reasons I wont say his (or her) name, or how I am related to this guy because he (or she) wants to remain anonymous. So from now on, I will tell you some things about Mr. X.
So let's start with how we met, you will not believe this, but actually I do not remember how we stopped being total strangers to each other. It was a really long time ago, and all I know is that from one day to another we went from being nothing to being best friends. It was something beyond ordinary stuff, something that (as I said before) had never happened to me until then, and has never happened again. I don't know why I wasn't scared, can you imagine? Meeting someone one day and the next day feeling like you have known him forever? It was just so natural, you know? Like nobody had anything to do with this newborn bond, not even him or myself. And from that day on, we haven't stopped doing things together, sometimes great things like traveling and some other times just hanging out sharing our ordinary moments, the simplest things we have done together are the ones that I will always cherish, I am sure.
So I don't know if things like this happen to everybody, at least for me this person is one of those people that I want in my life until I am gone, and I know it will be that way no matter what. It is really something to be grateful I think, don't you?
AZ OPADA LISTI Z DUBU
or When the leaves drop from the Oak
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