English thoughts

Today I want to write about a topic that we talked a bit, last weekend.  This semester I've been a lot in Vasconcelos library, at least twice a week. Before July, I had never been there, despite that, it's now one of my favorite places, for several reasons. But that is not the point now.  The point is that during these last months I've realized that there are some people that I've seen several times there. They are homeless people, and what is curious is that they are commonly in the same places of the library. There's is this one I told you about last weekend, for example; you can find him at the 7th floor, his hair is grey, he has a beard and he is tall. I think he is very interesting because once I walked behind him I could realize that he was writing in a notebook, he did it very fast and it looked like he was writing something important, because his notebook was full of blue words. I wonder what he was writing. There's also another guy that...

Yesterday (11/02) I watched a movie called "through a glass Darkly", it is movie made by the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (one of my favorites). This movie is part of "trilogy" of movies that he filmed. The trilogy is made up of this movie (1961), Winter light (1963) and The silence (1963). They all have common aspects, and they talk about similar ideas, they are mostly related to the existence of a God and  "the silence of God". Religion, anxiety, doubt, ill, meaning of life, existence, these are essential points in these movies. These are movies which are slow for some, but that is because the point of his movies is not necessarily to entertain but to help to face the big problematics of men, those questions we all face once in our lives. "Is there a god?" "What is point of living?" and so on. That's why some people call Ingar Bergman "the last existentialist". In this particular movie, the plot goes aro...

Have you ever been on your bed trying to sleep but not being able to, because you can't stop thinking about your future? Sometimes people spend much time thinking about success. But what is it exactly? I mean, what success is for me, is not necessarily the same for you. Is it? So, In order to answer this question, it's necessary to first clear that success is relative to every person.  For some, being successful means to be married, for other it means to have a safe job or maybe to travel around the world. At any rate, no matter what success is for you, to get what you want in life, you need to do some things... First of all, I think that, in order to succeed, you need to do something you like. Yes! there must be something you like to do, something you could do every single day. This is important because otherwise, you'll find it hard to do something you hate. Second thing is to keep your goals in mind, don't lose them, have them present everyda...

Today was a productive day , during the morning I taught my students. We did not see new topics, we just reviewed some topics because tomorrow they are going to have the A2 global exam, so they have to be ready for it. But the title is not related to that. After the class, I met with a friend, his name is Alan, we went to Cuautepec, because we had to see a customer, a photographer who wants us to develop a software. So, we took a bus and got there in 1 hour and a half (or so). We entered to his house and we walked up the stairs. While we were walking up, we met his wife and his brother. Oh and his children, he had three children. Once we were on the rooftop, he got his computer out and showed us what he needed, he has a photography business, he goes to events with his brother and takes pictures, but he uses a system to do the sells. He wants us to modify his system. So we were seeing his system and his camera. While all this happened, his oldest child (like ...

Today I was at Vasconcelos library, and I bumped into several interesting books, I found that there is a section with books in English, which will be helpful for us, and there are some grammar books too.    I spent more time than I would've liked to, reading some poems, but I realized that it would be great if we read some poems to practice our pronunciation and to learn some vocabulary. There was a book with English poems and their translations to spanish. Here are some poems I liked: WOMAN TO LOVER I am fire Stilled to water A wave Lifting from the abyss In my veins The moon-drawn tide rises Into a tree of flowers Scattered in sea-foam I am air Caught in a net The prophetic bird That sings in a reflected sky I am a dream before nothingness I am a crown of stars I am the way to die. Kathleen Raine .   This is the translation Two invocations of death I Death, I repent Of these hands and fe...

Yesterday was October 2nd, I wasn't able to write because I was a little busy. Today I have to finish a practice, and deadline is today (oct 3rd). Its for the subject network services administration, I have to config several routers and do a script to prevent fails.  About yesterday, well, since 50 years have happened since Tlatelolco massacre, I didn't have to go to school, but I did have other things to do. I had an interview with Microsoft at Santa Fe, it's a really big place, all buildings around are huge! The interview lasted around 1 hour, its divided into 3 stages, a technical one where I was told to solve a problem and do some coding, a stage to talk about my resume and some projects and finally a stage to do questions to my interviewer. In the first part, I was given a simply linked list, in which I only knew the head pointer, and I was also given an integer n, which was the nth element of the list counting from the last element to first. (e.g. i...

Today is october the first, 2018. This day was a regular day. Neither good nor bad, just normal. I'm writing this to help my students. I want them to practice their writing skills, that's why a blog is important. Here I'll be able to see what mistakes they make. And not only that, I also think that a blog could help them in the future, it's always good to go back and see how we were before, what we thought, and what our concerns were Tomorrow will be an important day, tomorrow is October the 2nd, it's a day we don't forget in Mexico, because 50 years ago, students were killed by the government. A terrible story, maybe for another post.