During this semester I learned to work and know different types of people, this will help me not only in other classes and more importantly in my future work.
My part of the finale project is done, but I still need to supervise the work of the others and upload it to the blog, I hope everyone is making their best effort in their works. Thelma and me are going to present it tomorrow and I am so nervous, I hope everything turns out to be fine.
Tomorrow starts the last official week of the semester, but it's not over.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Week 15 summary
This week can be divided into two parts, the final project and american stories.
I worked very hard to finish my part of the work, which are 1000 words describing the future of the English in the world, I asked the teacher if he could check it out and give me some input, I was happy that to know the grammatical errors I make so I could correct them with time.
For the task of the american stories, like I mentioned in the presentation we made, I'm very stressed because I have more final projects to make and the time is running out. I find time to enjoy two of the three stories, I specially enjoyed the third one because l identified with the main character, he is full of frustration (like a student during finals).
In the end he cared for the others, it's important to note that this is how life is, we can't ignore the problems of the others and if we can't help them it's our duty to do so, even if it's a small effort.
I worked very hard to finish my part of the work, which are 1000 words describing the future of the English in the world, I asked the teacher if he could check it out and give me some input, I was happy that to know the grammatical errors I make so I could correct them with time.
For the task of the american stories, like I mentioned in the presentation we made, I'm very stressed because I have more final projects to make and the time is running out. I find time to enjoy two of the three stories, I specially enjoyed the third one because l identified with the main character, he is full of frustration (like a student during finals).
In the end he cared for the others, it's important to note that this is how life is, we can't ignore the problems of the others and if we can't help them it's our duty to do so, even if it's a small effort.
Week 14 summary
This week was solely dedicated to the movie "The power of one". I consider it had a good plot, but it is not the kind of movie I would go to a cinema and pay to watch it.
It's a movie that make us realize about the racist past South Africa was going through, it's good to know that the country has changed and is working to grow.
For Thursday's class we worked on a paper about the movie including examples of it, I talked about the unity of a country, the aspirations of the principal character.
It's a movie that make us realize about the racist past South Africa was going through, it's good to know that the country has changed and is working to grow.
For Thursday's class we worked on a paper about the movie including examples of it, I talked about the unity of a country, the aspirations of the principal character.
Week 13 summary
This week was very short to me:
The quiz was very tricky, but I think I'm gonna get a got grade because I studied a lot for it. On Wednesday we need to make a post on the forum with the subject of plagiarism, it makes sense doing this because it's something we have to avoid for the final project.
The next class we answered questions of the short stories we had to read for the class. (Unto dust, Love love love alone and The Silence). I worked again with Tiffah, we did a good work although it was incredibly difficult for me to write the number of words we needed to put in each answer, didn't feel like myself that day. I also managed to know the sarcastic side of Tiffah, she was stressed because of other classes so that's understandable.
We were both making funny comments about the stories we read, I think this was the best class of the semester.
The quiz was very tricky, but I think I'm gonna get a got grade because I studied a lot for it. On Wednesday we need to make a post on the forum with the subject of plagiarism, it makes sense doing this because it's something we have to avoid for the final project.
The next class we answered questions of the short stories we had to read for the class. (Unto dust, Love love love alone and The Silence). I worked again with Tiffah, we did a good work although it was incredibly difficult for me to write the number of words we needed to put in each answer, didn't feel like myself that day. I also managed to know the sarcastic side of Tiffah, she was stressed because of other classes so that's understandable.
We were both making funny comments about the stories we read, I think this was the best class of the semester.
Week 12 summary
This week was completely dedicated to the country presentations, I think my team did a very good job. Trinidad and Tobago as I said in my previous post is a country full of beaches, cultural festivals languages and of course their take on English language.
I also need to put attention to other team presentations because we are going to have a quiz about these presentations.
Week 11 summary
John Donne and his painting:
For this class I worked with Tiffah Arcadia, this was the first time I actually talked to her in the semester; I'm a pretty quite person, so that's the reason why. We really make a good team, she really was really helpful, giving me many ideas that I could work with. Also we had to work in other place because my computer has been broke since week 9 and she didn't her Mac's charger.
On Wednesday, we started working in our presentation of Trinidad and Tobago, I'm mostly focusing in how they English is very different when compared with other countries.
Our proposal for the final project is very simple, we are going to talk about the beginnings of English and it's expansion through time, its usage in popular culture and the future of the language. We still need to go deep in every point of the research.
For this class I worked with Tiffah Arcadia, this was the first time I actually talked to her in the semester; I'm a pretty quite person, so that's the reason why. We really make a good team, she really was really helpful, giving me many ideas that I could work with. Also we had to work in other place because my computer has been broke since week 9 and she didn't her Mac's charger.
On Wednesday, we started working in our presentation of Trinidad and Tobago, I'm mostly focusing in how they English is very different when compared with other countries.
Our proposal for the final project is very simple, we are going to talk about the beginnings of English and it's expansion through time, its usage in popular culture and the future of the language. We still need to go deep in every point of the research.
Week 10 summary
We didn't have class, I used that time to go to the gym; nowadays it seems impossible for me to go more than one hour a week, still it's considered healthy to go that amount of time.
On Wednesday we finally present the Mega quiz of the book, it wasn't as difficult as I was imagining, but there were also a couple of tricky questions I think I'm going to get wrong.
For the next class we had to read a short story of Nadime Gordimer called Homage, I like that story. Because it makes us look deep inside the mind of a person that is desperate to survive in a world that doesn't cares about him.
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