Winter Vs Summer

Hi everyone! Do you like this weather? I love it! Never sweat! I think is the best part of the year because I have more energy than a normally sunny day. Although for my father´s job this weather is not good I really like these months. The clothes style change.
Mérida is hottest than Progreso. I prefer Progreso because I like cold weather, I love to wear sweaters and scarf though I think is just a justification because here is not necessary to wear scarf, but is nice only for fashion.
Smell good, and every people say Christmas is close. This time, is time for the family and eat a lot of food. Shopping time is close too. My family and I, go together at the mall for buying the presents.
Next week, start our popular party: Ixmatkuil. This kind of party is a tradition and almost all the people of the region and the states near hear come to the “Feria Itmatkuil”. I hope can go this year with my friends and other day with my family.
Maybe my cousins will come for holidays. I think I need worry first for ending my semester and then think in my holidays.

About my daughter

I have one daughter, she is 2 years old. Her name is Sama.
For almost 3 years ago a mother´s friend gave me a little dog. I accept the idea of take care a black cooker. Never I though in the responsibility that is a baby. She slept a few months in my room but Sama always bitted my bed and destroyed my shoes. That was a expensive problem.
One day she woke me up at 2 in the morning, I didn´t sleep again so I decided play with her; was a huge mistake forgot turn on the light because when I jumped to my bed my leg crashed and for two months my ankle was black with purple.
But is more the happiness that I forgot the bad things that she does every time. Sometimes I go with her to the beach for take the sun and look other gays same like Sama. When she met a handsome dog and went to his house for two days I really miss her. Maybe I will be grandma soon.
The last week a friend gave me a new dog…but he is other story.

Pro Advice

Description
This activity is based in pictures who someone describes with details about the persons. The speakers describe six professionals who give advice and I should choose one picture that the speaker is. The page has a lot of listening games but I try to choose the best ones for me and practice a good level and vocabulary. In the first picture talk about a police man giving instructions to another person, in other description is a waitress talking with two people who tell them one of the chef suggestion. And more about professional people like a coach, a teacher, etc.

Reflection
In this activity was easier recognizing what is the correct picture, because one word helps me to know what I should choose but I think I need to know all the words use in the description. I did more games activities for practice and be better in listening.

Source
http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G043-Advice.html

A man, A woman, A horse

Description
This listening give you a few second to heard the description and choose the correct picture. You can make a mistake a try again. Talk about descriptions of images with a woman, a man and a horse. The speaker say the position of the persons and the horse, say who are in the picture and say if the man or the woman are looking to the camera too. I really like this kind of activity because I have problems when someone ask me describe a thing, a person or wherever you want. I never have the right words and this exercise use words that are specific.
Reflection
This activity helps me to train my ear, to practice the words that you use in a description of a picture or a photo. The daily vocabulary that I need heard to use more frequently. I only had one mistake.
Source
http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G044-Hotel.html

About a friend:

I have a good friend, he is a boy, looks like a boy but he don´t think like a boy. He is smart and good looking.
He is two years older than me. Now he is studying in the same school that me but I see only a few minutes or just one or two days per week. Only by messenger talk a lot of time.
I really enjoy talk with him, always we are laughing because he like jokes.
He tells me your adventures and your life experiences and I suggest him what he should do.
He helps me to discover which person lays me. He thinks everybody lie me. I don’t think the same but what I can do I think I never will know.
He don´t has girlfriend because the last one that he had was a crazy women, and then he decided give himself a chance. I´m in the same situation maybe for this the reason we are very good friends.
Sometimes I want to kill him but I think the important in a friendship is to be honest and both trust in the other part.

Preparing for your future

Résumé and cover letters

First paragraph: (State why you are writing, what position you are applying for, where you heard about the position, and why you would like to work for this company)
Second paragraph: (Discuss the relevance of your education, related activities, and projects to the job in question)
Third paragraph: (Discuss the relevance of your work experience)
Fourth paragraph: (Indicate your desire for a personal interview and your flexibility as to the time and place)

I’m interesting about the job. I heard about the position by the radio. And I would work for your company because I think I can give you an opportunity of development and both can win with this opportunity.

First, I introduce myself: I studied marketing with a post grade in administration. My related activities are: administrate my own
Emphasize my production, marketing and sales experience and give any details that do not show up on his resume.

I think I'm qualifying to the position. I could mention my activities in my last job: I was the responsible for the secretary and her activities and for the job of the production persons. I worked three years in the same company.

I realize that a resume cannot completely convey my background and qualifications. I would therefore welcome the opportunity to meet you in a person to present my self in more detail. I hope to hear from you soon and to be considered for the position of marketing administration.


Rodgers Drew, Norwegian School of Management (1998)
Business Communications: International Case Studies in English
Cambridge, United Kingdom; Cambridge University Press
Inc pages 8-9.

JOB SEARCH Preparing for your future

Standard Questions Asked during Interviews

These questions can be used during the trial interview, along with questions specific to the job and individual candidate based on that person’s résumé. That’s the reasons that I decided to practice answering these questions like a personal interview in an office with person of the human resources department. You can try too for your future work life.
1. Tell me about yourself
2. How would you describe yourself (your personality)?
3. What would you consider your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
4. What two or three accomplishments have given you greatest satisfaction?
5. How did you choose the career you have chosen, and what have you done to prepare for it?
6. What qualifications do you have to help you succeed in this career?
7. Why did you apply for a job with our company?
8. What do you think it takes to be successful in our company?
9. Where do you see yourself in five years?
10. Why should I hire you?
11. How do you work under pressure? Give me some examples.
12. Are you willing to relocate?
13. What are the three most important things to you in a job?

To my future boss:
Good Morning. My name is Sara and I live in this city since I born.
I am in the perfect age to work in your company. I'm a single woman and have no children. I studied Marketing and International Business in UADY. Then I took a post grade in economy and finances. I speak Spanish, English and Chinese and now I'm learning French. I have facilities for change my residence if the work required, I don’t have problem for doing a business trip.
About my personality I am an original person and creative, I'm responsible, honest and professional. I like to travel around the world and read too.
I consider one of my greatest strengths is my professional history and one of my weaknesses is the failure.
In five years, maybe I will work in this company doing a very good deal with an international airline.
You should hire me because I'm a different person and I want work with you to do something different, I want that this company will be the best and I know I can do that.
You will never be regret.
The three most important things to me in a job are:
- My personal success
- I fell happy with the things that I do, with my partners and the work space.
- Have time to myself.


Rodgers Drew, Norwegian School of Management (1998)
Business Communications: International Case Studies in English
Cambridge, United Kingdom; Cambridge University Press
Inc pages 4-8.

About Antropology

I read “Symbolic Systems and Meanings”, this lecture talk about the types of symbols and theirs meanings. The main idea, I think is the differences of the traditions in each culture and how the people can take one thing for represent the power, authority or social status.
In India, for example, the family groups believe in totems; these are a kind of animal or bird for special adoration. The people who live in India can´t eat that animal. Is like veneration.
Also, the order of the rooms in the house represents who is the father, who has authority and more. We have a special place to have the meals, a special place to wash the clothes and other room only for the parents. In other cultures everybody sleep in the same bed and eat, take a rest and do your homework also in the same room together. Some cultures believe if you have long hair you are people with honor. In other countries, the most people has short hair and the people who has long hair looks dirty for them or maybe just disagree with the fashion.
I conclusion: I think each country has their social symbols and the rest of the word should respect their selves believes because we are different and free. These symbols maybe represent social status, authority or age; but all together are the identity of the region, culture, or age range.

Vocabulary Check

Based on “Symbolic Systems and Meanings” I looked back at the reading to find words and phrases that match these definitions.
1. A type of symbol.....................
2. A king or queen.....................
3. A type of kin (family) group.....................
4. An animal that people believe their clan is descended from.....................
5. A system of ranked groups, especially in India.....................
6. A cooking place.....................
7. Establish hierarchy.....................
8. Changing the color of something.....................
9. Connected with; associated with.....................


· Metaphor and metonym are two types of symbol
· The monarch are the king
· Members of a clan
· Animal or bird that is their totemic ancestor
· The caste system of India consists of ranked groups, each with different economic specialization.
· In a house, each location had its own place. Could be the kitchen in our houses.
· Short or long hair becomes a symbol to determined hierarchy
· Change the color of the hair: fuchsia, blue, or orange is.
· People´s identity as members of a group is powerfully bound up which such symbols. The hair establish authority.



Source: Hartmann, Pamela; Blass, Laurie (2007) Quest 3, Reading and Writing
Second Edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Inc pages 12-17

About my weekend

Hi ! Today I´m going to tell you what I did last weekend.I was part of the staff of SITI. It was a new experience and a very good one but I considered I don´t want repeat it. Because the symposium was too tired and you know that I had to miss classes.The duration of the symposium was three days: Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I did assistance and presentations, I delivered awards. I met a lot of people.I think the best experience in the SITI was learning how I can do a project, how can I do when meet a professional person and the most important was: Everybody should follow your personal believes and do your selves responsibilities.Friday was my hard day because I should to be since 7 in the morning until the night just stand up like a model. And I didn´t take a good meals.The last day, was the white party in a restaurant in Progreso beach. My friends and I went to the beach on the Saturday night then it was the conclusion of this program. Everything was beautiful, every people were wearing white clothes and in the midnight we saw ten fire flyers on the sky. Just one detail: close to two a.m. began to rain, but before the raining the weather was perfect.
On Sunday, my parents and I went to a restaurant to have the lunch, near to Chelem on the seashore. I recommend you the restaurant. I ate shrimp and bready fish, very good food. The people who administrated this restaurant are from Canada and USA.

what i expected and what i need

What I expect for this blog is having a better English comprehension and improves on my writing skills and work harder every single week because I think that working every week is going to be easiest and will help me to learn English faster.
I personally believe that I need to work on my listening activities and this kind of homework is going to help me a lot.