Good memories

When I was a child with my grandmother we used to go every summer to the north side to Arica. This city is beautiful with beaches, full of palm trees on the streets, people from different parts mostly Bolivians and Peruvians. I have excellent memories from those summers. In this place I used to visit to my favourite aunt, the sister of my grandma. She was so nice and she was always happy to see us
. The last summer that I was there every thing was different. My grandmother was six so I went with a friend to visit my relatives but when I arrived to my aunt’s house she was different. She was old and sick and soon she died. Well I was there with my friend and we were teenagers so I had to recover and to enjoy this city. Arica was totally different when I was there for last time I met a lot of people, I had a lot of parties and every day was fun full of activities. In the mornings my friend and I used to go to the beach, and there we sold necklaces, bracelet, etc and all the hippies were around us became our friends. That summer was sad but at the same time it was really fun.

The commitments

Books are always better than movies in terms of details of the story. Sometimes movies just show the main ideas and are more concise.
Some books and movies are very similar and they do not contain many differences. However I think books are better than movies because books contribute to mental process in our brains and movies just stimulate our eyes without hving strong mental process. When we read we learn many things and at the same time we learn vocabulary, grammar, etc. The greatest thing about this process is that it is unconscious in our minds.
The book of the Commitments does not have strong differences in comparison with the movie. I must say that I really like the movie and it helped me to appreciate more the story of the book. When I continued reading my book after I watched the movie, I could identify the different personalities and their physical characteristics, producing the story more enjoyable than at the beginning of the book.
I think the story is told in a totally different way in relation with the book and the movie. For example in the movie the story is told by Jimmy but in the book the story is told by the narrator. (the narrator is not a character or someone else)
I believe that this kind of comparisons are very useful in our classes because it help us to develop many skills like reading, listening, speaking and writing. Speaking because we discussed about the story to do the written part.
Finally I must say that the story was fun, it was not deep and sometimes it is good to read and to watch fun stories.

High self esteem

Self esteem is very important in our lives. It is so crucial that have a big impact on our develop as a person. As future teachers must know how important is self esteem in learning process. If a student has a high self esteem his or her learning process will be faster than a person has a low self esteem because it is very important that a student believe in himself or herself, to believe in the power mind. This means that I must believe tha I am able to do anything that I want. As future teachers have to repeat this speech to our students. Teachers must do exercises to improve students' self esteem. A good exercises is to ask to your students to write down their virtues and how to improve them. Also art could be related with self esteem you can ask to your students to drawing or painting self-portrait. These pictures are going to show if students have a high or low self esteem. If some of them show low self esteem the tecaher must focus on improve it through another exercises. There are special exercises that you can practice by yourself. For example look at you in the mirrow and love every part of your body. This kind of exercises will be excellent for your soul!

This website is really interesting as a future teachers this page is very useful and as learners of foreign language too. I think this website is great because there are many sections and all of them are created in a fun way. For example if you want to learn useful sentences you can go to grammar and vocabulary section, there you will find different topics related with appropriate sentences and grammar too. Also there are quizzes and you can check your learning.
If you love watch fun videos this is your website too, because in all sections there are videos. So you can watch them and you will practice many things at the same time pronunciation, listening and grammar.
Finally the best thing is you can download many useful videos. So you can keep them in your device and practice any time that you want. Also English teacher will fall in love with this site because you will find different lessons with many interesting topics.
So I must say that I am very happy that Simon showed me this website because it will be very useful for my lessons, for my students and for me in all sense!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

video Sir Ken Robinson

The video is really interesting because it help us to realize about the importance of appreciated children's talent through the particularity.
I love be a teacher but I never thought about the order of the subjects. In any part of the world we find in the top math and in the botton humanistic subjects so, if you are bad at math, history or languages you are bad at school. Completely wrong! because maybe you are amazing in artistics things.
Teachers and parents do not recognize the ability in children who think in a different particular way. Instead of support this particular children parents or teachers send them to a doctor and the doctor gives medicine to calm down them so the imagination also is in calm down.
Finally from this moment I have my eyes more open than before.

THE SECRET

This site is my favorite web page because is deeply related with my new favorite topics, about law attraction, our energy and the power of the mind.
One week ago I watched a movie actually is a documentary about these important topics. When the movie finished I was shocking because all the things that appeared in the film were truth and now I strongly believe in the power of the mind, the energy and the attraction law. So at the end of the film appeared the website, I ran direct to my mother’s house to check this web site. I visit this web any time that I can.
I like this site for the reason that reminds me the movie, the important things that I have to do every day, to try to control my thoughts and every day to try to be a better human been.
I think the movie and the site is just the consequence of my researching about these amazing topics. The big impacts on me are the topics not the site but it is clear that the site is important.
Finally I must say that these ideas really change my life, it is a hard long process but I am working hard every day.
Mj2 J

If you want to have an amazing discover about yourself visit this site
http://www.thesecret.tv/

From Peaceful to extremely Violence:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/02/china.tibet

Do you know what is happening with the Tibet?
Tibet wants to be an independence country from China. Monks have to use the violence in many protests to resist the oppression from China.
China government accused the monks as terrorism and the Dalai Lama is accused as an evil with a human face. But everybody knows that Dalai Lama is a man of peace. If the China government would recognize the importance of the Tibet and the Dalai Lama as spiritual leader maybe things would be different. Chinese impositions are against to the monks and their special way of living.
It is sad to observe that monks have to use the violence because peaceful is useless in terms to ask solutions. For this reasons monks and Tibetans must be so extremely.

Mj.2 :(