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20120301

Training with Michael Krauss: Using Blogs to Develop Listening Skills

20120212

Writing Projects January 2012

Dear all,

This is an essay writing collection that students of the writing course at ICPNA RC published before graduating in January 2012. Just click on the link below to read their essays. Please write your comments here.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BwaHa32OSXjpZDU2MzZmOTItYjg4Ni00Y2UwLTlkODYtYjU1NmViZWM2OGRk

Best,
the author.

20120125

My dream became my goal

My name is Lorena Patricia, I am seventeen years old. I was studying at "Andino" school, and I finished to study there last year. Now, I have to start a new stage in my life. I will study at the University this year to follow my professional dreams that are about what I am going to talk now. During my life I have had a lot of goals that I wanted to achieve, and I will do everything that I can to achieve what I set.
When I was young I wanted to become a singer or a famous actress, but whereas I was growing up I was realizing that we have to follow our objectives. Even though the majority of the persons think that the most important objective in life is to get money, I think that we have to do what we like to do, no matter how much money we gain. I know that money is important; otherwise, we could not survive. Nonetheless, we should not do whatever to gain money; we have to do what we like. I mean that in my opinion, working should not be a sacrifice, but rather it should be funny, we should enjoy working.
During the passage of the years, I was experimenting different activities, and one of my favorite ones was drawing. I decided that whatever is the carrier I choose in the future, I should draw. I enjoyed a lot drawing and painting different things, but principally clothes. In that moment I wanted to become a fashion designer. Consequently I was looking for different places to study that, there was when I saw another carrier that I liked a lot. It was Interior design. Since that moment I was dreaming of becoming a famous Interior designer.
I was investigating and I concluded that interior designers can develop their work in three main areas. The first is in shopping malls because there are shopping windows that are constantly redecorated. According to a U.S popular magazine that redecoration happens sixteen times in a year. Not only there are shopping windows but there are also stores and fast food restaurants that have to be well decorated to have more clients. Houses are another important area for interior design application because a rich person can pay millions of dollars to have nice designs in their homes. Furthermore, to make a good television show or a good movie, directors always need a interior designer to work on stage; for example, the movie “2012” invested more than a million of dollars just in scenography. If you do not want to go so far, the series “Al fondo hay sitio” in Lima or “Magaly Tv” show invest thousands of soles just to decorate their stage.(1)
As I said, for me is important to have fan working, so I will study Interior design because now, more than a dream it is a goal that I traced and I want to achieve. I think that a dream became a goal when action is taken toward to achieve it. Many told me that I have to get my economic independence; thus, with this carrier I will be happy not only because I will enjoy drawing and creating but also because I will obtain the money that I need to live.

1.Information that I obtained because I talked with the interior designer of Magaly Tv show, Advice, 2010

third essay Andrea Calderon A09

MY LIFE

       I
t could be really diffcult about oneself because it is easier to talk about topics like global warming, corruption, etc. However, it is important to take a short moment to express our feelings. I hardly ever talk about myself because people tend to judge and evaluate others with greater certainty when they communicate something very peculiar about themselves. Although I would like to share some situations of my life .

       I born on july 15 of 1994 in the house of my grandparents.
My parents are Sara and Jorge, and I am the younger sister of my two sister, Claudia and Norka, and my two brothers, Marcel and Verzier- he is de. At the age of 3, I suffered a car accident with my parents and my older brother Verzier and my sister Claudia because the car the car collided with another car. I broke my legs. My mother broke several of her ribs. My father broke his head and had other injuries. My sister hit her face against the seat and ended with a broken jaw, but my brother went through the worst part because he dead. His body ended burned because the car was on fire after my parents, my sister and I were taken off the car .Althought the firemen tried to rescue him, they could not because his body was stuck with the irons.Well, it is sad to remember those kind of things.

       I was in therapy over one year because I could not walk
. Years later of this tradegy, I had problems with motor coordination in the kindergarten because I could not recognize and follow directions; for example, when someone told me to walk on the right, I went on the left. That is why a teacher recommended my parents to take ballet classes to improve my motor coordination. Having taken these classes, my motor coordination improved and a goal was born. My goal was being a good dancer. I tried to be the best even my problems made it difficult.

      At the age of 9, my ballet teacher commented to my parents how good I was at dancing, and she suggested them that I should go to Lima to iprove my skills and be trained at the Municipal Ballet of Lima. However, my father had to get me out of ballet classes because he could not pay for them. Although I stopped my classes, I trained hard by myself watching videos, but a problem made me stop dancing. I was training, and suddendly I decided to atand up over my toes without warming them up, so I broke three toes of the right foot, and it was so painful that i could not walk well. After years of therapy, I liked to train again but I could not because my legs lost energy and force after many times of therapy, so I when I trained, I really get tired. Doctor adviced me to stop training, but I did not want it.

       One day, I was going around the culture house, but sudendly I have seen a group of people who performed stunts, well-known as B-boys; they practiced break dance, so I always went there to see them.Then I met them, and they suggested me to practice break dance to
strengthen my body, I did it and now I'm part of that group. The last year I applied to D1 contest to find new talents, and I won an scholarship; then I joined to the university, and now I am going to finish ICPNA courses.

       To sum up, I think that God put many obstacles to prove how strehgth I am. Things happen because of something. Although I suffered many dramatic situations, I consider myself a lucky person because I have a good family and good friends who always were with me when I had problems. I am really thankful with God to permit me to still alive and enjoy my life.



MY THIRD WRITING

  MY FAMILY
The family is the most important thing that one can have, they always are going to be with you when you need them, and they aren’t going to disappointed you. I am very grateful with God, because he gave the best family. He gave me a father who always strives to be the best, a mother that always understand me and sometimes make me realize about the mistakes that I had, and finally, God also gave me a wonderful brother who always knows how to make me smile. So, is for this reasons that in this final essay I want to share with you a little more about my family.

Well, I am going star to writing about my father. His name is José Luis, he is 46 years old and he is economist. And do you know something? I want to be as my father is, because he is a fantastic person, he is the best father. Although he didn’t have much time for us, he always cares for us, for his family. Moreover, he taught me to always strive to achieve my dreams and do not let anyone or anything stops us from achieving them.

Everybody thinks that her mother is the best one around the world, and I agree with them, because my mother is the best thing that I can have, besides to be my mother, she is my best friend, she knows everything about me. Her name is Alicia and she is 43 years old. She is the one that make me realize about my mistakes. She is the one that always give me a hug when I need it and told me “Stay calm, everything would be ok, I am here with you and I will never leave your side”. Do you see? How I couldn’t say that SHE IS THE BEST MOTHER? Well, for this and more reasons I love her a lot.

Leonardo is my brother, he is 13 years old, he is very smart, and he loves to play videogames. According to the dictionary brother means “A male having the same parents as another or one parent in common with another”¹. However, my brother and I not only have the parents in common we have many common things. So, it makes that we can understand mutually, and of this way we avoid the discussions. Furthermore, he always knows how to make me a smile when I need to do it, he always find the perfect way to make me laugh, thanks to him I a have had a lot of fantastic moments.

To sum up, my family is the most important thing that God could gave to me, they are my best gift. I know that I can count on each one of their members. They are everything to me.


THIRD WRITING


The emblematic dance from our country is “Marinera”. It is elegant, stylized and romantic and represents a couple on a courtship; therefore, my mom took me to an academy to practice this dance.

I started to dance since I was 4 years old, at the beginning it was so hard to practice because the women have to dance barefoot and in very hot pavement or rough surfaces, we have to do all of that smiling to our couple. Another thing you should be careful is with the handkerchief, this should never stop moving or fall to the floor, and it’s only accepted if part of the choreography. On this dance you should always be upright but not stiff, in my case the teacher made me to use a cane in his arms to acquire the correct posture.

After 3 years, I told my mom that I didn't want to dance anymore, so she decided to take me to the national contest in Trujillo; this made me think about leave it or not, finally I decided to continue dancing. That year I performed in a regional competition, I had been preparing my choreography by 3 months; however, I got the second place.

My dream was to participate on the national contest and if you really want to win you have to practice at least for 3 months, November and December traveling all the weekends to Lima and January to practice all the month on Trujillo, it's so expensive and requires complete dedication, so I decided to leave it and only dance for fun.

In short, practice this dance helped me to value my culture, also to recognize ​​the sacrifice and dedication that persons must have to achieve a goal. The presentation can last 5 minutes, but the practice is really hard and consists of at least 1 year, it doesn't matter if you win or not the only think that counts are all the experiences that you had and you learned in all the road.

THIRD WRITING



MY PERSONALITY: MY FATHER AND I
I don´t like to talk so much about me because many people think that I´m a good person; however, there are people who think that I´m kind of bad person, but I consider myself as a interesting person as my father is. Many people said that we are so similar that when people see me walking on the street with my father they say that we look like so similar. So I´m going to mention many things of me in order to describe myself and to make people know why people think that my father and I are so similar; of course, there are some differences between my father and me.
One similarity between my father and I is that we both like to do sports. For example, when I was a kid (some people say that I ´m still a kid and I don’t know why) my father took me away from home to do sport such as basketball, soccer and handball which is why when I was at the school I was a good player. Now we still doing many exercise but not too much because both my father and I, don´t have enough time to do things that we would like to do as we did in the past. However, when there is time we go to the park with his and my friend to practice sport.
Another similarity between my father and me is that we like to help people who are in trouble or have problems; many people say that we have the same feelings, which is why my family is proud of me. I always say that helping people is a way to get a space in people´s heart and last of all people will recognize you as a good person who shares what you have without thinking in the consequences.
In spite of these two similarities with my father, we both have our differences that I would like to explain.
I´m the kind of person who likes to procrastinate things until the last minute. However, my father is the kind of person who likes to have everything in order to have enough time to relax and spend time with my family and also to spend time with his family. Instead of doing my homework or many other things I like to do many things such as surfing the internet, watching movies, going out with my friends, etc. while my father likes to have everything done before doing other things.
 Another difference between my father and me is that he is more responsible than me. For example, when we both go out, what I always do is to sleep all the day, but my father does the opposite; he always gets up earlier even if he went out. He always says that we are here to do thing in order to achieve our goals not to sleep and do nothing.
To sum up, my father and I could have our similarities and our differences. However, we have too much time to improve many things, as many people say “we are not perfect but we are here to correct our defects and to achieve our goals”.




WALTER ASSINA FLORES
A09

20120124

Writing 3

Something about myself
     
     This is one of the last essays I write in the Advance course. It has to be about me, and to be  honest, I found it really hard. It is easy to talk about other topics: advantages, disadvantages, differences, controversies, etc.; but it is not so easy to talk about myself. Well, my name is Adriana, I am 16 years old and I decided to tell you about how my life has been developing until now: my childhood, puberty and adolescence.
     
     I am the third child, after Sandra, my sister; and Ricardo, my brother. I was born on August 15, exactly at 11:30 a.m. I use to cry a lot because I was hungry all time! As is common, at the age of one or two, I learned to walk and talk. In 2000, I went to Andino School, in which I still studying until now. At the same year, I got “meningoencephalitis”, a sickness which I remember very well because I almost die as a consequence of it. Then, my childhood was really beautiful; the only things I did were just playing, eating and sleeping.
   
    Psychologist Asusena Básquez says, “As children are growing, they want to have all kind of experiences; no matter if they are dangerous, they just want to have them”. When the puberty started, I also started to experience new activities. I wanted to do everything! The theater group, the volleyball team, the Leaders group, the swimming group, etc.; I joined to all of them. In this stage, what I really care were sports, theater, pool, studies and fiends.
    
     While years were passing, I started to change a lot not only physically, but also mentally. That was when I noticed that I became an adolescent. “Compared to children, adolescents are more likely to question others’ assertions, and less likely to accept facts as absolute truths. Through experience outside the family circle, they learn that rules they were taught as absolute are in fact relativistic” (Vine R.).  As a matter of fact, I have experienced what is mentioned before many times; actually, I still doing that until know. At this stage, I continue doing the activities I did; also I enrolled into new ones, as ICPNA, which i am going to finish this month. However, now I have other interests: friends, maybe boys, social meetings, and especially, university. As soon as I realized I am in 5th grade, I started to feel a little sad and excited. I do not know what I am going to study and how the university is going to be. I admit that the idea scares me, but I hope I will surpass it. Ultimately, I have understood that my family was really important and how much I love them. Although I have some troubles, I am really enjoying this stage because I think it is the best.
     
     Well, the only thing I can say is that I am very thankful with God, my family and my friends because they made my life better. In all my life, I have learned many things, I experienced happiness, hope, disappointment, pain, anger, etc. Now I know that everything has a reason. I just hope to continue living putting in practice all what I have learned and beling the person I am: a happy, honest and persistent girl.

1)           1)Viner R., Christie. “Adolescent development”. February 2005.

THIRD WRITING ( MY EXPERIENCE IN TWO JOBS)

MY EXPERIENCE IN TWO JOBS


The first time I decided to work as a waitress I felt really nervous; I didn’t know if it was going to be an easy or a difficult experience. Although I had many doubts about working for another person, I decided to take the risk. The first day of working was very difficult because I didn’t know many things; however, day by day my boss and my coworkers helped me a lot and at the end of the year I was qualified as the best employee. It was a good experience that I always remember. On the contrary, the second time I got a job as a cashier it was a bad experience, but it taught many things that is important to consider. Although these two apparently opposite jobs had some differences, they also shared one similarity that I would like to share.


One difference was the benefits. Working as waitress allowed me to work only five hours, so I had time to study in the afternoons. Moreover, I had vacation of one month each year, and I had the opportunity to choose which month of the year I wanted to take this free time. On the other hand, working as a cashier did not gave me the same benefits. First of all, I had to work ten hours, so at the end of the day I felt very exhausted. Besides, I had to spend all the day working that’s why it was impossible to me taking a course to study.


The other difference was the workplace atmosphere. In my first job I could feel a friendly and supportive atmosphere that helped me to feel comfortable there. I made good friends in that job not only with my coworkers but also with my boss who was a supportive person that cheered me up when I had to face difficult situations. On the other hand, in my second job the workplace environment was totally different because everything was based on competition between workers, so it was really difficult to make friends there. Besides, my boss was a person who always used to scream and yell uncontrollably. He always was very angry at everything, and no matter how well I was doing my work I never was appreciated or rewarded for it.


In spite of these differences, these two jobs shared one similarity that I would like to mention.


The main similarity that these two jobs shared was the distance location of the workplace. Both workplaces were near to my house, so it was easy to me arriving on time without problems; it took me only ten minutes to get my job. Moreover, I could save money since I did not have to spend money in travelling to my job, so I could spend this extra money in other things.


In summary, I would say that both jobs taught me many things that made me a good person and no matter how different or how similar they were I learn a lot from them. However, there are some factors such as the workplace environment or the commuting distance that I am going to consider the next time that I have to choose a job.

THIRD WRITING- MARTA MELGAR BALDEON


         
MY MOTHER AND I :SEEMS A LITTLE DIFERENT
        Many people think that in all the families are two or more parents similar and obviously some similarities are between daughter or son with their relatives. For example the majority of my family say that I look like my mother, but my father says that when I walked with my mother in the street, we don`t seem like mother and daughter, we look so different. Although, my father thinks that, in my opinion we have some similarities in some aspects, but we have more differences between us.
         One similarity between my mother and me is that we are so funny. For example in my case, my friends say that I am so funny and sometimes crazy because I did some things in the street that were embarrassing, but they were so funny. In the dinner of the weekends is when my family is all together because during the weekend they are working. My mother and my uncle, José, start to tell us what happened during their workdays, but they do this in a very funny way like: acting, imitating someone, etc. Although their weekend was bad, they always take the advantages and do not worry by the less details that make them be sad. During the dinner all of us start to tell what happened to us in a funny way using music or funny expressions, but we try to give some suggestions if something is bad in one member. 
       Another similarity is that we have a big heart. My family is characterized by our desire to help, and by our junction. When my grandmother bought her house, she used to plant trees in her garden. She told me my mother had friends that were like them, poor, and they realized that my grandmother had a apple tree .So they ask my mom to give then an apple because they have been delicious, and my mother gave them without think on what my grandmother could do. I n my case , I always give charity to poor people despite I don`t have enough money I could give all my money , but  spreading it to who really need. For example , in Christmas my mother gave me one hundred soles as a gift , but while I was looking for my jacket, my uncle told me if I have found his money because it was for my cousin’s gift. I decided to help him giving my money as it were his, because I do not like see my family sad.

      In spite of these two similarities, my mother and I have two differences that make us sometimes do not agree in some aspects of our lifes or maybe on one problem.
    One obvious difference is that my mother likes read books about laws that is why she is a lawyer, but In my case I prefer surf in the internet ,see TV or listen music. In my mother`s office there ir a little library about laws, civil code, etc, she likes read this to make her documents better.I could read but I hate books about laws or books with political topics, I prefer read books about funny stories or books which give us teaching to be better. For example, I love read “Èl entre nosotras” because it is a love story , and I love that kind of books.
    Another difference is that my mother do her things very quickly , but I like to do my things very carefully, and it takes my time.My mother is angry when something takes me a long period of time .My mother always tells me that the time is gold , but to my the most important thing is that we should do all that we do perfectly despite it takes too much time at the end it will has better results.
     To sum up, I think that my mother and i have differences , but we have very marked similarities that my family realized of them. In spite that our differences make us to disagree , we never shut up what we think.Once i told my mother that i love her with her strengths and weaknesses, and nothing will make us fight seriously.The most important aspects in a life to me and my mom are the values , and we are so similar in that.


THIRD WRITING: BENEFITS OF INTERNET


___The computer has been one of the most important inventions of the last decades. It was made to make our life easier; however, the real reason of why the computer became so popular and so attractive to people was the Internet. Internet opened the door to a new world. The way how internet has changed our life is amazing; moreover, we can’t imagine a world without it. Internet has a lot of benefits, and we should know at less some of them.


___First of all, have you heard the expression “time is money”? Well, this expression applies perfectly to Internet. Imagine that tomorrow is your anniversary, and you want to buy a beautiful wallet to your girlfriend; however, you don’t know where you could find this especial wallet that you want to buy. You don’t have to spend an entire day walking around the city; you have another option, buying online. Buying online is the best way to buy thing quickly, safety, and without leaving your home.


___Another benefit of the internet is the method of communication. I was born in the Internet age, but my parents didn’t. How many times have I listened to my father saying that he wanted to mail his brother that lived in New York, but it was too difficult to him, or my mother saying that he wanted to call my uncle, but she didn’t remember his phone number? They have been thousands of times, and I am sure that it sounds familiar to you. Nowadays with the e-mail you don’t have these kinds of problems. E-mail is an indirect method of communication that most people prefer. However, if you want something faster, you can use instant messaging that led you communicate with someone that will answer you instantly.


___How many times have you spend hours and hours in a library reading a book? And still you didn’t find what you were looking for. Searching on the internet has become the best option for a person that needs a lot of information and wants to reduce the time of looking for it. For me, searching on the internet is the best benefit that Internet has. You can search whatever you want, and you will find a lot of answers with specific key words. However, you have to remember to use reliable sources, and you don’t have to copy the information because it is plagiarism.


___In conclusion, the benefits that Internet has are many, and if they were mentioned, we could spend a lot of time reading it. However, I just want you to realize that Internet is a great tool, but you have to use it carefully.

THIRD WRITING

THIRD WRITING: MARITE MARIN LINDO-A09
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MY SISTER AND ME
            Most of the time I have some problems with my sister because I have different point of view or prefer to do other activities that she doesn’t like it. While she prefers to solve her problems very fast, I complicate my problems because I am very formal in the things that I do. Moreover, the difference of ages does not help us because she is 12 years old and I am 26 years old.  However my mother said that these differences help us to share and learn more about the other. Also it is not a big problem that we are different because we can try to understand. There are three important differences between my sister and me.
One difference is the personality. My sister is a person who is more extrovert and friendly. She spends the majority of her time with her friends, and she participates in all the activities in her school; on the contrary, I am a little introverted because I prefer to spend my time with my family and like to listen to music ,and I don’t have much friends. Also my sister is smug and capricious because is the last daughter; consequently, she think that all the things are for her. In contrast, I am responsible and respectful person because I have to be a model for her.
            Another difference is the appearance. My sister likes to wear with fashionable clothes like skirt, short, t -shirt that are in fashion and these clothes must be similar of some actress  or artists; however, I wear clothes that I like but not necessary if are fashion or not because if I feel comfortable, it is not a problem for me . In addition, my sister has long hair because she likes to do hairstyles, but in my case I prefer have short hair because is my personality.
             Activities are another difference between my sister and me. While my sister likes to play skate, climb the trees, I like play sports that are less risk like volleyball or swim. Furthermore, she likes to eat fatty meal if not she does not eat nothing. In contrast I like to eat healthy food because I have gastritis and I need to take care of my health.
            Both my sister and I have the same formation of values and norms that my mothers give us. The most important thing for us is the respect spite of the difference of ages that we have. Also we share to expend the time to see movies on Saturdays together.
            My sister and I are different in some ways like thins to do, the form of think and personalities. Also despite have differences we can learn more about the other in order to improve the things that are bad. I t will be interesting to see the changes in some years
MARITE MARIN LINDO
            A09

THIRD WRITING

                                                 MY MOTHER AND I

              Many people around the world say that their children have the same characteristics of their parents. Both parents and children have the same physical and emotional characteristics; it means that children will have the same eyes color, hair color, height, etc, and the same feelings, character, the way how they are going to express their emotions etc. A good example of this is my mother and I, we both have very similar physical characteristics, everybody tells me, when my mother was young, she looked a lot like me. We have the same physical characteristics, but different in likes.

 

              The most obvious differences between my mother and I is our likes . My mother is a liberal person, she has a lot of friends, so she likes parties, family reunions, etc; however, I consider myself a very shy person , I have friends, but not like my mother  has, and when she told me to go out with her, I said not  because I do not like to so much the noise of parties instead of that, I prefer to stay home seeing a movie or reading a book. My mother's passion is to cook because my grandmother taught her to do it, so my mother always tried to teach me how to cook well, but I have never learned it because I do not like to cook.

 

              Another difference is that my mother has her own character. She gets angry easily when she saw a children crying, but I think this is because of the age, for she has 47 years old, but I really like how she faces problems, she is a very stronger woman, so she is my mother; nevertheless, I am not like that because I love children when they started to cry, I find the way to calm the children, and when I have a problem, I prefer to tell my mother to give me suggestions, maybe in the future I will change this.

 

              In spite of these differences that my mother and I have. There is a similarity between us that is  physical appearance.

 

              My mother and I have the same color of skin and our eyes are identically the same. All people that are my friends told me that in twenty years, I will be the same like my mother, that is why I love my mother a lot because now she looks nice, and in the future I want to be like her.

In conclusion, parents and children can have the same character, eyes color, etc, or they can be very different, the only thing that can manner to us is that thanks to our parents we are living in this world, so parents must be the most important in the live of each person.

 

KARINA CALDERON MENDOZA

Mi childhood

Childhood  for most people  probably can be the best and unforgettable  in their life. For me to be a child was the best time of my  life and  was  more easy that to be a young people that`s why I always remember my childhood with love. For that my most outstanding memories are when I  was  four years and seven years old.


First of all, I was a troublemaker child, so conceited, so  demanding due to I was the only daughter. In my four years old I used to spend my time in my cousin`s house because I didn`t like to be alone while my mother had to work. As soon as, my mother  have left me  with my cousin I  felt  complete  I felt very happy because I could do anything that I wanted. Well, the most important thing  but unusual that I remember in this house  is  that we were playing , jumping with the dog throwing the ball, When  suddenly the dog fell down. We didn`t know what happened  with the dog, he didn´t react. The problems was that my cousin  had threw the ball so hard. Later, we Knew that  our dog had fainted . Since that day never again we have played with  the dog  because we were afraid that our dog  could die.


Later, when I was seven years old I was  more conscious about the thing that I could do, but   this not mean that I didn´t like to play with my cousin. So, one day in my cousin`s house when  all my family had gone to work, we decided to play, but my family had looked the door. My cousin and I wanted to go out and play with our friends, but we couldn`t. I were trying to open the door for half an hour, but It was waste of time. Meanwhile,  my  cousin had  climbed to the roof due to he wanted to  down to  the street using the bush that were there, for me was a new and funny experience  I said " Let`s do it". As soon as,  I accepted my cousin jumped on the branch on the plant, then he started to  down. It was my turn, so I didn`t hesitate.  After we  were outside of  my cousin`s house ,we played with our friends at least three hours. So after the fun we had to  come back  at home and obviously we had to climb the bush until the roof. I remember that my cousin while hi was  climbing he hurt his leg, but It was not serious. That day was one of  my best  day of my life because I felt  so excited that I can feel until now.


In the next thirteen years, I have passed many   good or  bad things, but   is not the same  when  I was a child because I was innocent and I can do many things without worry.


Finally, Today I remember all the things that I did in my childhood, these things cold be good or bad, but  this part of my life and I will never sorry about that.



Leonella Terrel

My Thrid Writing - Comparison Contrast - Milagros Bravo - A09

MY FATHER AND I: DIFFERENT BUT ALIKE

          Many times I have heard my grandparents, aunts and uncles say that I look like my father a lot, but I get the conclusion that all my relatives refer to my appearance. Therefore, most of the time when my mom and I talk about my father, she tells me that my eyes and moles, which I have on my face, are similar to my father's ones had. However, I think that in personality and preferences, my father and I were totally different.

 

        One obvious difference is the passion for reading which my father had. I remember that it did not matter how late at night it was, he loved and enjoyed reading his favorite books, even if he was sleepy. Besides, in his free time he spent long hours in the small library which was in my house and it is still there. In that place, there a lot of books about his career, encyclopedias, literary books, dictionaries and others that he really appreciated. Nevertheless, I do not like read so much, I prefer spend my leisure time listening to my favorite kind of music. Even I can say that without music my life would be so boring, so I do everything with music. For example, I do my laundry, clean up my bedroom and do my homework listening to music. 

 

        My father and I were also dissimilar to the manner of reacting when one of us was dealing with a problem. He did not feel down or discouraged if facing with difficulties. It means that he was a very optimistic person since he tried to look for a solution instead of seeing or focusing on the trouble. On the contrary, I consider myself as a little bit pessimistic because the first thing that comes to my mind when I have problems is that I will not be able to overcome it. For that, every time I faced a problem and felt like giving up; my father was always trying to cheer me up and make me laugh.

 

        In spite of these two differences, my father and I, who seem to be apparently opposite, share one important similarity.

 

        I consider that the most essential similarity that both my father and had was the huge and mutual love we demonstrated each other. This special feeling made us forget our differences and forgive our faults. It was incredible for me how a sincere, honest and true feeling between a father and a daughter made us feel so happy and spent memorable experiences.

 

        It is evident that my father and I were different from each other in our personal tastes, ways of thinking and others. On the other hand, love was the biggest and most important similarity that both had for one another.

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SECOND EXTENSIVE  READING  FORM-A09
·         Student’s name and course:INES REMIGIO –A09
·         Teacher’s  name :ANTONIO  RIOS …..DATE .23/01/12
·         1. Express opinions, doubts, confusions, and convictions that come to your mind as you think about what you have read. Watch and write about how these things change over time. Include title of book, article, magazine, etc. that you are reading.
BEST MOTIVATIONAL  SPEAKER

I’d like to apply the message from this article in my life  because through his disabilities he motivates people .He also uses his disabilities  to teach  other  people about  life how a person with  limitations or disabilities is able to be a normal person , that can cope  with whatever  challenge they have in their  life and let god turns it into a blessing.To en courage and  inspire others to live  to  their fullest potential and  not  let  anything gets in the way of accomplishing their hopes and dreams.
2.Pick out 5 lexical items (verbs,phrasal  verbs, expressions,fillers,etc) and write down examples of at least 2 differe meaning of the lexical item.
STAGGER /  /v.To walk or move in an unsteady way almost falling  over :I got out of bed and staggered to the window.
STAGGERING/   /adj: very surprising shocking  and hard to believe :A staggering  $  3 million was spent  in building  the  U.S nuclear  arsenal.

.GET/     /verb.to obtain,receive,o r be given something :Did you get tickets for the game?
            Phrasal verb:get around to sth.to do something after  you have intended to do it for             some time :I meant to call you ,but somehow I never got around to it.
                Phrasal verb:get away  with sth. To manage  to do something bad without being      
                Punished or criticized for it: how can he get  away with speaking  to her like that?
               .TURN/     /verb. To change  the position of your body or your head so that         
               You’re facing in a differend direction :she turned and stared at me.
               Phrasal verb:turn back .to  return the same way that you came instead  of continuing    
                on your journey :bad weather  forred them to turn back.
                Phrasal verb: turn  sth down . to refuse  to accept an offer or  reguest :
               How could you turn down such as fantastic job?
              . HOLD/    / v. to carry someone or something using your hands or arms:   
              Can  you hold my bag for a moment
               Phrasal verb: hold sb/sth up : to cause  a delay , or to make someone late : sorry  I’m     
               late ,  but  my train was held up
               .INVOLVE /     / v.to encourage or allow someone to take part in  something :  the
                 goal Is to  involve workers  in the  decision – making  process.
                INVOLVED/   /adj.affected  by or included in a activity , even , or situation: they
became involved in a lengthy dispute : we were involved  in the  talks until today .