Blog experience

Hey!

So this is our last blog. Today we will write about our blog experience.

So in general please say:

 What you think about the experience in general
 How much you feel your writing skills have developed
 What you would like to include in the future
 What else you would like to write about
200 words

This is the fifth semester that I have to write a blog and to be honest I still do not get bored or tired about doing it. In my opinion we just study and work. We are toooo busy doing those things and when we have some free time, most of the time we sleep, watch tv, have quality time with our love ones and hardly ever take some time for us. For me writing a blog it is the time when I have time for mysleft, to think about a specific topic and write about it. Also read my students' blogs and get to know them better. It is really interesting! Also you get to know me better, you now know that teachers do more than just work. I do not know why but most students think that teachers just work, do not have fun! which is really funny. A friend who is also a teacher, he told me that once a student asked him if he goes to the supermarket or if he goes to pubs, my friend said yes, his student was impressed! 

About my writing skills, I have had the chance to practise a lot more and when you have questions it is really good since I feel happy every time I have the chance to help.
To be honest I don't want to include anything else in the future.


Well about something I would like to write about maybe how I see myself in 10 years and also how I used to see myself when I was a little girl.

It was really fun and nice to have you as my students! :)
I really enjoy reading your blogs!!
I had a really good time, you are really good people and students. Hope you have a great second semester and if you need any help please send me an email, I would be more than happy to help you! 

Big hug to each of you!! :)

Hobbies

Hobbies

Hey!!

Today we will write about hobbies.

What is it?

Where do you do it?

When do you do it?

Do you do it alone or with some people?

Why do you like it?

Remember to post on my blog and 3 classmates :)

190 words

When I was younger I used to play the piano. I took piano lessons for like 5 years! I started when I was around 7 years old. A really good friend of my father was my teacher, she was really good. I have really nice memories, but to be honest I did not see her for a long time. I regret that because then she got really sick and she died a couple of weeks ago. Well as I was saying I started when I was little, then I stopped for a couple of years, then again I had classes, then stopped and then classes again hahaha I just think that this happened because I was a child and then a teenager, so I preferred to do other things than playing the piano. I had classes with 4 different teachers! One of them used to come to my house, I used to go to 2 of my teacher's house and I had classes at Escuela Moderna de Música. Then when I was around 15 years old I started making jewelry, I really enjoyed that but I have not done it for a looong time.  It is sad now to think that I do not have a hobbie!! :(

I used to enjoy making jewelry but since I am so busy now I just stopped. Well if listening to music is consider a hobbie, then I would say that's it! I love to listen to music! When I study, work, take the bus, subway, walk and even when I take a shower. It is hard for me not to listen to music all the time. 

I think that now that I know that I do not have a real hobbie I will start thinking about one :)

A subject you enjoy studying this semester

A subject you enjoy studying this semester

Write about your favorite subject this term. Among others, include:

> Name
> Describe what you do in classes
> Mention the main contents you have seen
> Explain why you like the subject

> Word Count: 180
> Make comments on 3 of your patners' posts + a comment on the teacher's post

Hey!

Well since I am not studying now, I have decided to talk about one of the subjects that I had in 2016. I was studying a Master in Education and during the second semester I had one class that I really liked. That class was English grammar and phonetics versus Spanish grammar and phonetics.

While I was studying to become an English teacher I had 3 semesters of phonetics and also 3 semesters of grammar. I also had 3 semesters of academic writing. That happened about 10 years ago. So when I started with this class I thought lucky me! I have learnt a lot  about these topics so this class is going to be sooo easy!

I couldn’t be more wrong!

It was one of the most difficult subjects that I have ever had!!

All the contents related to English were fine; I mean I had to study most of them again. Because in this class we had to analyze each part of a sentence, describe it, change it and compare to Spanish sentence. That part was really hard. Spanish is much harder than English. Talking about grammar.

For example if we want to talk about habits and routines in English we would say:

I – You- We-They take the bus every morning

He – She takes the bus every morning.

Now Spanish:

Yo tomo la micro cada mañana

Tú tomas la micro cada mañana

El – Ella toma la micro cada mañana

Nosotros tomamos la micro cada mañana

Ellos - Ustedes toman la micro cada mañana

So as you can see in English there are only 2 options while in Spanish we have 5 options.

That is how the verb changes depending on the subject but I do remember that when we want to express ideas in the past in Spanish there were 10 options!

Even though it is my first language, believe me when I say that it was really hard. We had 3 tests and all the questions related to English grammar and phonetics I knew the answers. To be honest it was not that way when I had to work on the exercises that were about Spanish.

Most of the classes the teacher started explaining the contents and then individually we had to work on a handout. Then we compared our answers with a partner. Finally we shared our answers with the whole class. Sometimes all of us made mistakes! And that happened when the teacher asked us about Spanish grammar or phonetics.

Well I really liked this subject because it was a huge challenge, and also I learnt things that I did not know in Spanish!