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Post 10 (12-12): English Language Challenges

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English and life: I really liked learning more about English of what I had learned in high school, maybe I could have put more effort in the classes but I also think that I did my best so I will not overkill myself about it, at the start I didn’t liked the use of blogs because it was something that took me out of my comfort zone but as we were writing them I realized that it was a useful way to start writing more freely and catching up with native American writers, so in conclusion I thought that the blog method was useless but in the end I came to enjoy writing them. I admit that I can improve my fluency, so I will be listening more English songs and doing karaoke with my friends. I mostly use English when my family from EEUU comes to visit us in Chile, I have a cousin that only speaks English which is mostly my uncle fault because he being Chilean hasn’t been teaching her Spanish so we can only communicate with her using English. In the future I would like to travel ar...

Post 9 (05-12) Changing the Study Programme

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Improvement and academic burden: Well , I will start talking about something that happened to me when I started studying Journalism, I suffered a panic attack due to the pression from the courses I was taking, I started with five subjects and in one of them I had to read like six books for a test and after three months of struggling I took the decision to freeze one of the semesters of college, I think that maybe the university needs to ease the academical burden that they give to students, also I think that there are too many few green areas in our campus and that contributes to the mood of the students affecting their development. When I talk about the curriculum of our career I somehow believe that they are a little bit too vague, I think this is because there are some classes which I am not convinced we will use in the future like Functionalism or interpersonal communication, even though we have the objective to become communicators sometimes I am not sure if this subjects ar...

Post 8 (04-12) An Artist You Love.

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Eoin Colfer Colfer at  Great St Mary's, Cambridge  in 2008 Born 14 May 1965  (age 53) Wexford , Ireland Occupation Writer Nationality Irish Period 1998–present Genre Children's   fantasy ,  science fiction  and  adventure novels Notable works Artemis Fowl  series Signature Website www .eoincolfer .com An amazing writer My favorite artist is Eoin Colfer, he wrote the saga of Artemis Fowl,the novels are about a young boy who is a criminal mind at the short age of 15 years old, the character kidnaps a goblin to claim the money from the rescue. I got to know the artist when I was twelve years old, my godfather gave me the first novel of the saga and I read it in like two days, at that moment I was a big bookworm, the book was amazing, and it left a huge impression in me so I ended up buying the three books of the saga that were available at that moment.  I Like the work of Colfer because he knows how to take you t...