Last Week

It seems yesterday when I fist entered to the classroom and saw all my classmates but it is already the last week of the semester and I could say that this class helped me and taught me so much.

I never imagined lot of the things that we did in our class like reading about shakespeare and dickens. Also I learned about a lot from countries that have English as it official language. I liked this class because every week there were something different and you could not say for sure what were we going to do but that always kept the curiosity and the excitement.
I have been in English classes since preschool but never thought about English as a global language. This class taught me the importance of it and I am glad I know English, also I am glad I took this course because my cultural point of view has been extended.
There were so many time when we worked in teams or pairs for expositions, for presentations and that developed many skills like teamwork, patience, tolerance.

You never stop learning English and this class helped me with my speaking, reading, listening and mostly my writing. I have enjoyed the classes all through out the course and had a great new experience.

Yours sincerely,

Adriana Villarreal.

WEEK 15

CHRISTMAS CAROL

 Today in the second session of week 15 we did presentations about the book "A christmas carol" by Charles Dickens. I had heard about the movie before but I have never seen it but now I know about it.

Christmas is my favourite season and holiday of the year. I am christian and I like to celebrate the holiday when my Saviour Jesus Christ came to the world. While doing my research about how Christmas was slowly dying and how Dickens revive the christmas traditions made me sad but then happy. Sad because as you may know A Christmas Carol was published after the industrial revolution and at that time in England the social classes were very divided. So families started to loose hope and to forget about christmas because they thought it was only for rich people to celebrate. But after the publication of A Christmas Carol I am glad that the hope was revived and instead of being a holiday about the richness and lust it became again a humble holiday.

This topic made me feel very excited about Christmas and remind me that is not about the presents or the food, the tree or the lights but christmas is about Christ.

WEEK 15
AMERICAN SHORT STORIES

This week on Monday we had to do presentation about 3 American short stories, In my team we divide us the stories and I had to read the story called: "A Buddhist's Tale" by Thomas Demaria. The story takes place in a beautiful Island of Thailand.


This story was not very complicated to read but it was complicated to comprehend the plot and story. There were 3 main characters: Tommy, Chairat, and The Monk.

The part I liked the most was when Tommy was watching the waterfall and reflecting about how life is like a drop, and when we die we are all like the ocean. The character I relate the most was Tommy because when he meets the Monk he starts asking him questions that he needed to know and I think that would be me with an important person because I always want to figure my thoughts out and if I have doubts I don't like to keep it for myself.

WEEK 14

WEEK 14


This week we saw a movie called The Power of One. The movie is a South African movie with a lot of cultural messages.

When Mr. Wiersema told us that we were going to watch a South African movie I thought it was going to be very boring but it was very interesting and I really liked the movie. I could say that it is my favourite movie for the 2016.
The movie´s main character was P.K. a English boy that was raised by his English mom but also by his south african nanny. Her mom decides that he should go to school far away from them so that he could study. In the school he suffer from bulling. That part really moved my heart and I wanted to pop out in the movie and defend him and punch the bully in the face but you know, that is impossible.
As the movie goes on P.K.´s mom died, he had no love ones and start becoming very sad, depress and he said that the sad birds were always flying around him. That was till P.K. met Doc he took care of him and start to teach him all he knew and treated him like a son. Doc was German but despite the natzi movement he was against all of that and he promoted love, equality and freedom.

P.K. keeps growing and his duty as the Rain maker never dies, he becomes a boxer and uses that to help the African people. Also he starts teaching English to them and sacrifices OXFORD  and also his girlfiend for helping the African people to move on.
This movie taught me that in life we all must do sacrifices, it will hurt us or weaken us but as long as you are fighting for a right cause, it is 100% worth it.