Once in a Lifetime

This has been a really interesting year. Also a really weird year. I have done so much new things this year than any other semester. Including creating a blog. Doing a blog is something that I would have though I will never do. But then again I did one for my literature class where we actually used it to post reflections about things the professor told us to watch or read. I have never seen how a blog is done or what you would write about them. Actually I may still need help on what a blog should look like because right now my blog doesn’t say much it’s too simple and I need it to say something. Something about me or what I like. I will probably get help with that. But basically I will probably won’t use this blog again.

I won’t use it mostly because I don’t like to write and have it put on a post or to publish it. Every time I write something is for a class so I don’t write for fun even though some writing exercises I enjoy them but still. This writing exercise about making the blog it wasn’t that I liked it but I didn’t hate it either, it was more on a middle. I like them because they were short and also it made you think about those things we wrote about and how we felt about those things. The thing I didn’t like much is that we started doing it with a lot of things that it may have been the same. But either way it was an experience that I would remember because it was something that I did, something I did that I will think of never doing it. To sum it up it was a once in a lifetime thing.

A Fun Experience

This year, this semester was actually really interesting for all of its new experiences for me. Having a variety of new classes has been challenging because they have been classes that I haven’t taken them. Also by the different activities. Actually in one class we were assigned to be in a group during the whole semester and work together with the same people for the semester. This experience was really different because I have never been in an exercise like this that consisted of working together with the same people. It also was fun for the fact that we like connected quickly and we worked together really nice and we really laugh a lot in some times. Some days you could see everyone concentrated quiet doing their job or what they supposed to do and then you could see us, our group Six degrees of separation, like doing what we supposed to do but at the same time laughing making jokes. Having a great time while we were working. That was really essential for me because it made everything easier to pass.

We worked really well together and we even made a group on the app “What’s app” so we could communicate better and also to organize better our work distribution. It may have also help for reminders. We did some assignments but the one I liked most of all them was the first assignment we did as a group. I liked it most because it was the easiest one as being the first one but at the same time I liked it because we connected as a group and worked rather well. That assignment was actually to find comments of tourists or comments about Puerto Rico and if people said bad things.

Tourist for a Night

In class we were assigned to be a tourist for only a day. We have to go to a place and act as if we were tourists. We had to talk in English and actually look like it. It was a great, weird, hard and funny experience that I will remember for a lot of things that I had to do and that happen during. It was a little hard for me because I don’t usually talk in English out of the classroom and that I had to speak it to people it was hard, it was challenging. I also had to dress up more like a tourist but in that case it was more fun because I actually dressed up as a wealthy young man. A little weird for the fact that I had to pretend for a while someone that I was making up. Even though it was also funny for all the things that I actually made up also if they had buy it, all of it of course.

            Now, I couldn’t go that far because I had to work in a promotion for Volvo. I went to a hotel in Dorado Beach, a really expensive hotel. That’s one of the reasons that I dressed up really nice. I actually was in a complete suit with a gold watch from my father and glasses in a Volvo so I looked like I had money. That’s actually helped me with the made up personality. I arrived at the hotel and went to the lobby and ask if they could give me a tour of the hotel because I was looking a place to stay for the fact that I had just arrive from New York. And they gave me the tour in a golf cart, finally I gave a twenty dollar tip and went to work.

Twists of Life

Hard-drinking journalist Paul Kemp takes a job at a besieged newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His volatile editor, Lotterman, assigns him to tourist pieces and horoscopes, but promises more. Paul rooms with Sala, an aging and equally alcoholic reporter, in a rundown flat. Sanderson, a wealthy entrepreneur, hires Paul to flack for a group of investors who plan to buy an island near the capital and build a resort. Sanderson's girl-friend, the beguiling Chenault, bats her eyes at Paul. His loyalties face challenges when he and Sala get in trouble with locals, when a Carnival dance enrages Sanderson, and when the paper hits the skids. The next day, Chenault is gone, and Sanderson tells Kemp that he blew it. Kemp works on a newspaper story. Lotterman returns, but won't publish Kemp's story. . Chenault shows up at Kemp's place, and Sanderson disowns her. Sanderson withdraws his bail, and Kemp and Sala are wanted. Moberg also tells them that Lotterman has closed the paper. Kemp decides to print a last issue, telling the truth about Lotterman and Sanderson, as well as the stories Lotterman declined. To gain money to print the last edition, Kemp, Sala, and Moberg place a big cockfighting bet. Kemp continues his quest, stealing Sanderson's boat. Kemp made it back to New York, married Chenault, and became a successful journalist.

            Paul Kemp obviously had some kind of perspective of Puerto Rico which it had to change thanks to his experiences since he got to the island and when he left. It’s like almost everyone who goes to a new place where they have their own perspective but then it changes as they get to know this new place as tourists. It is something that happens a lot I even had this problem.

On John Cooper

The first chapter is called “Teaching”, were the author tells his experience in the university teaching English. He like tells himself about the teaching in Puerto Rico. Where he could tell that students have serious problems with English at the University. John Cooper decides to go straight to the problem. The university is the first center of education for any student. He understands that here begins the problem, and decides to give a solution to the problem. So he begun to propose a new class schedule where students could learn the language. The second chapter is called, “Helping”. Jim Cooper narrates that he saw a wrong behavior in the students. The students copied and when the professor claimed to them they answered, “But I’m just trying to help him, he is my friend", even if it was a test they “helped” so their partner would take good grade. But the problem begins when the student is in school. Where the professor tell to the students that if they have any questions, they can look at the test of the other.

            All he is saying is that we are not giving a good enough importance to the education of the English language. Also that problem has come since way back on the schools, were the schools are not enforcing the language. They are not putting that much importance to it. Then there are the privates’ schools were they put more importance to the English language but the problem is that they are too much expensive and a big majorities stay without that base of knowledge. Those years in school are most important because of that, it helps people to understand more and to be more intellectual for their well-being. Also for their whole life in their professional careers in the future.

First Thing in the Afternoom

In this semester I have written a lot of journals. With different circumstances but not as this past one. Writing a journal right after waking up isn’t easy, well for me. It was difficult just for being awake really early morning. Actually not so morning because I woke up at two of the afternoon. So I was a little disoriented because of sleeping too much. But still I started to write about a dream I had. At first it was difficult just because I wasn’t that awake.

            At first the dream seemed really weird even for me. But then as I continued writing it make more sense every time. It was like scenes come to my mind the more I write. I started to remember parts of the dream that I though they weren’t connected but then I realize that they were part of it. Everything I remember were one way or another connected to the main point. The process of writing everything now that I think about it was funny. It was funny because I remember myself like falling asleep while I was writing. Actually at the very beginning I fell asleep on top of the notebook in the bed. That’s another thing I wrote it on my bedroom in my bed. So it was something that it was going to happen at some point. But beside that nothing else happen. I have never done something like this before and it was fun because not always we remember our dreams or that we even dream about something. So this writing exercise is good to remember things that you want to and also to help someone to start making a dream journal or even a dream diary to take record of every dream that they have now or even old

Journal Experience

          This journal was like a diary, well that’s what a journal is. A journal that helps to store our ideas and stories. To store our memories that we want to write. Also it helps to control our ideas and organize them while writing. Not only that it helped us, well to me, to have something to tell everything. To have like someone that could hear everything I said. To have someone to talk, even the things that I usually don’t talk about with my best friends. On other things it have help me on one of the most important for me it’s on my one development to write faster. Write faster on essays and also to write clearer and with more ideas. It have been a great exercise for it have helped me to also see writing exercises easier.

            My experience on the journal exercise, well it have been amazing. I actually got to be more like addictive to it. For almost half of September I started to write for every day and I don’t know why. It’s that I wanted to write for every day. I had something to write for anything that I experience through the day. I kept on doing it until I was doing so for every day. Sometimes I had a lot to say for one day and sometimes I had less. That way I could even categorize my days. I started to see what days were better than others. I started to enjoy more and more the writing in my journal. It have been a great experience were it helped me a lot in a lot of ways like I have already said. For its better improvements on my writing and organization of ideas I am going to take in mind to continue to write. Maybe not every day but I will try to continue. It will all depend on my free time. To start making it on a habit and not lose the customs of writing what happen on the day.