Letters On...

The last Monday, a mysterious girl walked into the classroom meanwhile I was reading some notes, she said something that, to be honest at the beginning, I didn't understand. The only thing I could say was: English?  I know, such a looser; but I guess I was really focus on what I was doing at the moment that my brain didn't react how is supposed to.The point here, is that even she never told me, or neither to some classmates that were on the classroom, I knew she was like Nathan. She is british, from a town in Manchester called Lake district or something like that, she showed us some really sunny and beautiful pictures of her home town. It's funny because, London is famous for not being sunny or having a good weather (to be honest I prefer their weather than ours, It's really hot here) but yeah... She was on the classroom to talk to us about the urban art that we can find in the UK, she talked about an specific artist known as Banksy whom is an anonymous graffiti art...

Where we want to work and some other good dreams... At this class, we had to talk with our classmates about what it would be the job of our dreams, and I think any of us were kidding and just imagining. We were really serious about it and I think is good because it shows that we are not conformist or something like that; It's true, if we want that we will have to work really hard on our studies for the moment so, when the opportunity arrives we will be prepared for everything.  Keep your feet on the ground When your head's in the clouds                         - Brick my Boring Brick / Paramore We talked about the requirements that official advertisements from some of the dream work places  that some members of the class mentioned. Here are some personal examples: Rolling Stone Magazine  VOGUE Magazine - J  

Film Genres At the beginning of the class, we played as a five year old (what it was great, because sometimes we need to get out of the routine) to see in what team we should be. All was on the line, any of us could be in any team, it depends of the films we like, hate or simply love. The genres were Fiction, Comedy, Romantic and some others that are hard to remember right now. The point here, is that my team was with America and Brenda what it was great, because we have a lot in common, especially if we talk about the Adam Sandler work. In fact, we discussed some of our favourite parts of the 50 First Dates movie, some are really cute and some others are so damn funny. Like this two, I'm posting here... -J

1) His wife, who is a lawyer, is filing for divorce.   His wife who is a lawyer is filing for divorce. 2) The students, who passed the exam, had a party.   The students who passed the exam had a party. When I first saw the sentences, I was like: Man there's no difference, between this or that. I was just saying to myself, that the examples with the comas on it were conditioning the other part of the sentence, and in fact they are, but obviously not in the way I thought they were doing it. The first sentences from both examples are not defining the rest of the sentence, and in the second sentences they are defining the rest of the sentence.  I think this topic is really important because when you are trying to explain something by a text, the comas make the difference on it. 3) The doctor said, meanwhile he was covering the body with a blanket, the truth about all the terrific      experience.     The doctor said meanwhil...

Mexican & German people... On this post, I will be talking about the principal differences that I have found between Mexican and German people, especially on food habits.  To start I must say, that I can talk about German habits because my brother and his German girlfriend lived with my parents and me, for some months. So said that, I noticed that they, or at least my brother's girlfriend, like to drink strong coffee on the mornings meanwhile they are on their computers. But let's be honest, we all want (and need) some caffeine at the morning. The point here is that, like some people here in Mexico, she doesn't add anything else than a lot of coffee spoons on her cup. The other habit that I've noticed is that they really (really) enjoy hard bread with dried fruits on it. If she didn't buy a German box bread, she was baking one. One day, she was making a birthday cake for me; at the beginning it looks really good, but when she finished the whole thing was ...

All this weeks that I've been on CELE I have learned somethings that I was forgetting, honestly I'm still not sure that I know them well but I guess I have to practice and practice 'till I finally know how to use them properly. The bad point here is that I don't have enough time to do my readings and practice how I'm supposed to.  When I was in high school I got used to go to this media centre on my school where the students could go and practice their language  skills, meanwhile they play a group game or something like that, watching a movie or even just talk to the receptionist of the place. Like I was saying at the beginning of this post, I'm pretty sure that the knowledge is inside but I just have to do the time for practice what we have been looking on the classes.

Two weeks ago I went to the CCE (Centro Cultural España)  in the city's centre, at 5 o'clock pm to  know how is to make your own album without any help from producers and people like that, just you , a laptop and some piece of papers to write about whatever it comes to your mind. This interview was going to  be between the (unknown for me at the moment) singer Lonely Rodriguez aka Empress of: and the host Luli Serrano. On the interview, topics like immigration, the new ways to get and making music in our times, the difference between singing in Spanish than in English, and something that I was really interested on; how she gets inspired to write her music, were treated on the whole event. She said that on a men's world the girls has to make their voices louder so they can be notice and not only for showing more skin like actually, where a girl is famous more for been sexy than for the lyrics of the song she's singing. At the same time, she talked about how to go ...

The last week, we had a guest in the class, he was a guy from Washington D.C that has lived here in México for 4 months. He talked to us about his university/college experience, and how his life changed when he travel to other places than his country, he told us a story 'bout the time he went to Costa Rica and how to be a guest on a house can be difficult especially when you don't talk the native language.  Sometimes the life gives you ''signs'' that makes you understand that you have to go on and fight each day to get what you are looking for, in my case the Nathan's visit makes me recover the inspiration I was losing at that time, looking at him talking on his native language to students that wants to travel and meet other cultures as him, makes me want to be that person, the one who is traveling and meeting people around the world.

On this week we discuss about the importance to know a person before acepting 'em to live on the same apartment, I've never need to search a roomate, but I have some experiences with living with someone that is not from my family. I have lived with russian, germany and colombian girls, I know it's a weird mix but thanks to that now I know how is to live with other people than my parents. Along the friday's class we tried to find between our classmates a good option for a roomie, we asked some questions about our favourite genre of music, films and books. We agree that things like thar are important to know, 'cause you have the chance to know how your next roomate is, you have the opportunity to know if that person is like you or not. Honestly, I don't care if my roomate likes other genre of music different of mine meanwhile he or she, respects me. I mean, if that person wants to hear their music really loud, that would be an unrespectful action from him/her....

The First Exam... Today I decided was the day to do an exercise that I almost forgot our english teacher leave us a week ago. I have to say that I haven't done this because I have lots and lots of homework, a lot of readings to be exactly , but yeah... the point here is that on this entry I'll be showing the making process of my mock exam, so let's start... The last thing I have to say is that I agree with the girl when she says that we all have an inner child, even some people says the otherwise. - Jj