English in my life

Hello class!! This week I will discuss how my process has been at learning English. I think my experience in English at the university has been a loving - hating relationship because English has always been for me as a cruel ghost. Nevertheless, I’m in love with this course because I have met many people from other parts of the world, and share with several teachers. The reason of it is that I started from the first and most basic English course (English One).

Being more specific, there has been a relationship of hatred because the English course is very difficult for me. I cannot understand the instructions and I have very little vocabulary which gives me a very hard time when I work in the blog, but I try, and as the title of my blog I think we can do it! About the things I need to improve, let’s be honest: there are a lots of them. Now that I go to the university, I find it difficult to improve because I need more time, but wishing for the best I hope to devote more time to study and achieve someday a good understanding and speaking of this global language.

This semester I spent many time watching short documentaries in English to train myself for the listening exam. I also used my knowledge of the language to read a few articles for my thesis, and it was really useful.

Well, I think this being my last blog I want to spend my last words (hahaha joke) to thank my classmates who were very patient with me, and especially my teacher Belen Farias who accompanied me on 3 of the 4 levels of English, I wish you the greatest happiness in this new period of your life.

A big hug!

2014: Good and bad points

This year has been very interesting because I had to make my first professional practice, I' m finishing my last classes in anthropology, and I'v begun my thesis. In this point it has been a year of many challenges.

 I think that in the professional practice there are a lot of good points and bad points. Nevertheless I think it was a good instance for learning.

I think one of the achievements that I value this year, is just finishing my subjects, my efforts of 5 years! About my thesis, It has been a very difficult and exhausting process, but in this research project I have had the opportunity to meet many interesting people.

My others projects in this year were teaching university workers in “Nivelación de Estudios Juan Gómez Millas” and endow the "anthropology Gender Line". Both cases has been very successful, I will consider a very good achievement, because in the case of  “Nivelación de Estudios“ the workers  have learned throughout the year in different areas, and we have been able to share this knowledge. On the other hand, in the case of the gender line, the situation is quite similar, I could share during the year with new people, knowledge and life experiences.

About things that are still outstanding, I am finishing English! hahaha this course is very difficult for me, and I think it is a challenge to achieve my degree in anthropology having as final fire test, the duty to speak English. But I'm in this fight, and I want to win!

Finally, I believe that despite all my stock of the year is positive, I hope yours too. Good luck!

El arte de amar

Well, today we should write about a free topic. Today I’m going to teach about “El arte de amar” by Erich Fromm, in my class with the workers of the university. I shall take this opportunity to review the lesson.

In his famous work “El arte de Amar” Fromm presents love as a skill that can be taught and developed. He rejects the idea of loving as something magical and mysterious that cannot be analyzed and explained, and is therefore skeptical about popular ideas such as "falling in love" or being helpless in the face of love. Because modern humans are alienated from each other and from nature, we seek refuge from our aloneness in romantic love and marriage. However, Fromm observes that real love "is not a sentiment which can be easily indulged in by anyone." In this argument the author sentence that the human’s not understand the love as an activity, or the power of the soul. On the contrary, the people think that of more important is to find a proper object.

In the next class, we’re going to review the third chapter of the book, the different ways of loving: a) brotherly love, b) Maternal love, c) Erotic love, d) self-love, e) Loving God. I hope that this class allows us to reflect on this paradox and initiate a productive dialogue about our way of relating. Well, and obviously I also hope that this content permits them to respond well their philosophy test.