This was our last week of classes :(

This week we only had one class. During this session we presented the web page that contain our final project to the rest of the class. I liked this class; nevertheless, I think that we were nervous because of this project's importance.

A brief message for a great teacher:

Now, the semester is over and I want to thank our teacher for being more than a teacher, a friend. Thanks for helping us whenever you could for spreading your possitive attitude to your students. I am sure that we all are going to miss you and your classes next semester. I hope that you also enjoyed this time that we have shared together and I wish you the best teacher :) 

Week 15

This week we only had two sessions because we did not come on Monday. 

As homework for our second session of this week, we had to read the story A Cristmas Carol and then we had to choose between 4 options: 

- How did Dickens invent Christmas as we know it?

- Describe the past, present and future life of Mr. Scrooge.

- Create and act out a scene of two of Scrooge's contemporaries talking about him. For example, the men asking him for money ("They were portly gentlemen, pleasant to behold, and now stood, with their hats off, in Scrooge’s office. They had books and papers in their hands, and bowed to him. ")

- Find images of some of the characters of the story and describe them. Dickens is very well known for the peculiar characters in his stories.

We decided to find images of the characters of the story and describe them because we thought that it would be more interesting than the other options. Once we had decided, we started making a powerpoint presntation that we presented to the class during the second session of the week. I really liked this homework because I think that we are all excited about christmas. 

During the third session we worked in our final project. I did not like very much this class because I was not founding enough information about the subject that we had chosen. We talked with the teacher to see if we could chance of subject and he told that it was possible to do so. Finally we decided to continue with our original subject because we had already advanced a lot in it.

Week 14

This week's first session, we saw the film Boy. It was about a group of siblings that don't have a mother and only have a nanny to be with them. After some time, their father goes to their house because he needed money but they thought that they wanted to be with them. We did not finished the movie because it was very long but we are going to continue watching it the next class.

During the second session, we saw the second part of the movie. At the end, Boy tells his father to go because he is bringing them a lot of troubles and the nanny comes back. I have encountered feelings for this moovie because I think that it was interesting; nevertheless, I could barely undertand what the actors were saying because of their accent.

During the third session, we were working in our final project. I had a lot of fun working with my team but I think that we are not being effective. Today we have talked about how we are going to gather and process the information for this essay but I feel that we have to write a lot of words. 

Week 13

The first sessison of this week, we had a quizz about the pressentations we saw the last two clases. I think that it was difficult because I didn’t came the last session and also because I had forgotten a lot of details. This was one of the most difficult quizzes that we have had in this class but I think it was because I did not study as much as I could have.

 During the second session, we had an activity related to the day of the dead. This task consisted on matching some sayings related to death with their actual meaning. After doing this activity, we had to write a short story using some of the new sayings that we had learned. I found this task very funny because I had the chance to work in team and I thing that this made the experience more funny.

On the third session, we made an activity in teams of 3. For this task, we could work wherever we wanted and we had to analyze a poem so then we could answer several questions. I worked with Martha Pacheco and Miranda Guillen. The poem we analyzed was about human beings and the relationship they share. I found very interesting this activity because it made me realize that we are all part of a whole and that we should care more about about others. I could see a clear relation between the poem and the lives of people today.

Week 12

During the first session of this week, we continued working on the presentation about Philippines. I had a lot of fun today because I had a great time with my team. I really like them because they are always positive and participative. I think that we have found a lot of surprising things about this country. It sounds like a joke, but after finishing the power point presentationnow about this country, I really want to visit it. One of the most random fact I found is that Philippinos have a fest called Lovapalooza where they celebrate love in Saint Valentine's day; they don't even have classes this day!

 Lovapalooza Fest

On Wednesday, we finally presented our work to the class. I think that they liked it as much as we did. We made a creative design and we tried to use an appropiate voice level so we could catch our classmates' attention. At the beginning I was nervous but when we were in fron of the class I was not afraid of failing anymore. I really enjoyed this task since the beginning and I learned a lot of things.

Today I could not make it to the class because I was participating at the Forum of Social Enterpreneurship. I regret not going to class because I really wanted to see my classmates' presentations. 

Week 11

For Monday’s session, we had to read the short story Homage Session. When we arrived to the class, we sat dawn by pairs and we strated answering some questions about the text. I liked this story because it was short and interesting. It was about a man that suddenly started working with corrupt men. Something I found interesting of this story we read was that the protagonist did not had neither Identity nor voice.

During the second session, we looked for countries whose official language is English. My team and I chose to look for information about Philippines. Then, we started gathering information to make a presentation in powerpoint that we are going to present later. While we were making the research, we discovered that Philipinos are very similar to us. In Philippines they celebrate a lot of things and they are very friendly people, just like us. The following is a video that we found which cointains interesting information about the Philippines:

The last session of the week, we gatheres with our video teams and we started talking about the final project. After considering different topics for our essay, we decided to make it about a brief history of the English Language. Then, we started filling a document by answering different questions about our Project and the objectives we wanted to reach as a team.

Week 10

This Monday, the teacher made teams of two and we had to complete a task about Shakespeare. This activity consisted of several questions about his life and some of the words and phrases we owe him. I liked a lot this activity because I discovered a lot of things that I did not new before. Another thing that I enjoyed, was working with a different classmate because before I used to work always with the same group of persons.

On the second session, we had the Mega Quiz. While studying for it, I felt frustrated because it was a lot of content; nevertheless, the information was quite interesting. When we were already in the classroom, we sat down in quiz position and we started answering the test. We did not had class during the third session because the teacher went to Puebla L. I hope he’s having fun there.