Career related website/ An expert on your field

Career related website/ An expert on your field

Dear students,

So today you have to choose between these 2 options:

Option 1: Write about a career-related website 

- provide the link

- describe the website (sections, features,etc)
- say how often you visit the site
- explain why you like the site.

OR

Option 2: Who is a person/expert on your field 

Say:

-Who she/he is. (short biography)
-What she/he has done. (examples of their work)
-Why you like her/him.
-Include his/her image

Add comments to 3 of your classmates’ blogs + a comment on your teacher's post

Word Count: 170

Well to be honest it was not easy for me to start writing this blog. I was not sure about which topic I should choose.

At the end I have decided to talk about an expert on my field.

Well to be honest it was not easy for me to start writing this blog.

I was not sure about which topic I should choose.

At the end I have decided to write about an expert on my field. I remember that when I started studying I did not know what subjects I would have. One of them caught my attention immediately. That subject was phonetics and phonology. I had 3 semester of this subject and it was not easy but on my first year the teacher asked us to work with this really nice book, its name is phonetics and phonology, it was written by Peter Roach.

Peter Roach is a British phonetician, he was born in 30 June 1943. He is a graduate of Psychology and Philosophy, after that he studied at Manchester University where he studied teaching English overseas. Then he decided to start his postgraduate studies, the course he took was Phonetics. He also completed a PhD.He retired in 2004.

I really like his book because it helped me a lot when I was a student. I still use it sometimes. When I was a student it was hard to understand the different chapters but now that I read it well it isn’t easy but it isn’t as hard as it used to be.

This is Peter Roach

This is the book that I use, but now there is a fourth edition.

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 :)

160 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 :)

My favorite picture

My favorite picture

Dear students!

Please try to answer to the following questions in your blog.

Who took it?
What it shows?
Where and when was it taken?
Why do you like it?


Important! Remember that you have to post your entry but also comment on at least 3 of your classmates's blogs and your teacher.
min. 150 words

Cheers!
                                                            



                                                              My favorite picture

Well this picture was taken in 2009. At that time I was working at Starbucks. 

I was part of the company for a little bit more than a year. Well this picture I know it is not like a “real one” since it is a cartoon, but if you pay a closer look you will find my name on it.

Yes, I am the one who has a broom. All the people that work at Starbucks are called Baristas and between us we call partner. Since I used to be really worried about cleaning and organizing the store all the time. So that is why my friends got me a nickname, Maca aseo y hornato.

This picture in a way represents the way each of us used to be in the store. I really like it because I have so many nice memories about that time of my life. I met amazing people and the customers were so good with us. When I was working there, I used to party a lot with the baristas, every weekend. And sometimes even during the week. It is a bit sad that I only got them on facebook now, I have not seen them since 2011. Now we are all working in other places so we just keep in touch once in a while. I guess that happens all the time. For example when you are at school, you have really good friends. Then you start studying at university and you do not see those friends that much as you used to. When you finish university, it is the same. The friends that you had, when you start working you just talk to them sometimes. It is kind of sad, but it is the way things go. Hope this does not happen to you!