The last post!

Hello dear classmates and teacher!

Hoy es mi ultimo post, y es sobre este curso!

Today is my last post and it’s about this class!

About this class I can say that it´s always been a complicated subject for me. Since elementary school I’ve never had a good education in English. This is why it’s always been so hard for me to learn. In high school had a good teacher, but it was still very hard, and in the end I learned very little.

When I started college I was in English 2, and I’ve been having to pass every English class, this is the last one!

Particularly, in this class I liked it more than the other ones, because the classes were more dynamic, we sang and interacted, and we even watched movies!

The things that I liked the most was the blog, I always liked it. It was entertaining to write some things about what I like or something that happened to me. It helped me to learn new words and to improve my writing.

For me it is very clear that I have a lot of English to learn yet, specially speaking nd listening. When I listen I get distracted and its hard to understand the words, and when I speak I get nervous and I go blank. But all is practice. I attempt to take and English course when I finish college, to dedicate more time and focus on only this.

In general, I don’t use English much outside the class, sometimes with my friends we practice, to learn more, but it’s not often. I don’t use English that much, the music I listen is all in Spanish, and I don’t watch many movies.

Well, that’s all!

I would like to thank the teacher and my classmates for what I learned. This class was very fun and very pleasant! Thank a lot for this experience!

I hope that you do well at this end of this semester! Good luck for this!

Good bye!

My future job!

Hello dear classmates and teacher!

Today I' going to tell you about my future job!!!

This topic is really complicated, because I'm in my fourth year of sociology, and in the next year I will be graduate...So I need to think about this! because there is very little time and there is much to do...

I would like to work researching about the social problems! Specifically, about education, history, memory and city planing! In this term I take different s courses such as education sociology, or urban sociology, and for this I could learn more about this topics, and I really like this research areas.

So, I would like work researching about the education and society, the city planing and problems like social segregate, exclusion and marginal urban. 

I know that it's really hard to find a job, but when I choosing my job I'm going to consider the kind of work (researching, surveys, interview), the main aim of the work, and the duration.

And about my strengths I can say tat I'm a person really responsible, hard-working, committed and I can work under pressure...And about my weaknesses I can say that I have a very strong character, and I'm very critical with my work...

Finally, I can say that I pretend can work like sociology, but I would like work in other things too. For example, when I live the university I want to study History in Argentina. Also I would like have an presses! I think that this work is really fun. I would like have a culture centre too!!... When I talk with my friends about the future, we plan have different s activities such as a printing house, pub, library, and coffee house! and all in the same street for work together, and with this we can do some more from the typical!

And! This is all for today! See You!

Paulo Freire

Hello dear classmates and teacher!!

Today I'm going to talk about Paulo Freire, a Brazilian teacher.

He was born on september 19th, 1921, in Recife, Brazil.

When He was a child he suffer from poverty due to the great depression of 1929. This experience made him interest in the poor, and it also helped him to build his education proposal. He study philosophy and psychology in the Faculty of law of the University of Recife. But he never practice his profession. Instead he chose to teach  Portuguese in a Highschool of Brazil.  In one of his books, Paulo Freire tells how he decided to drop out of law and become a teacher. He talks about a meeting he had once with a client, and he tells him he is going to be seize by debts, and he was so sad that asked him for help. To hear this and figure out that there was way to help him out, he decided to quit, because this will gave him another week to find another lawyer. This was an excuse, it was a way of helping, but it was also a time to make a decision. Freire felt like the only way to help out was teaching.

In 1944, he married Elza Maia Costa de Oliveira, an a elementary school teacher. 

He worked with poor children who didn't know how to read or write. He created a different method to learn how to read and write.  In 1964 was State's coup in Brazil and for this Paulo Freire was imprison for 70 days. He was exile to Bolivia, and then to Chile.

Finally, he died on may 2th, in 1997, in Brazil.

He publish his first book in 1967 called "The education as practice of freedom". The most famous book that he wrote was "Pedagogy of the oppressed"

I like Paulo Freire because is an example of compromise, passion, and dedication.

And to reflect, I leave a sentence by Paulo Freire about education:

"To teach to read and write, is not learn how to repeat words, but rather is to learn how to say your own word"