My blogging experience

Well hello everybody, today I'm going to talk about my blogging experience. This is the first time I ever write a blog and I can say that it was really fun! So I enjoyed it a lot, basically because I wrote about things I like: favorite book, favorite band, favorite movie, favorite TV series, etc.

I really think that blogging in English really help to improve my English, because I haven't been in an English class since high school, so for about three years my only English experience was watching TV series without the subtitles. I really realize that I can easily write in English and I had no idea I could do it.

The only disadvantage of blogging in the English class is that because of the class I get home really late on Tuesdays. I don’t really like that because is Winter and it’s really cold. Well, of course one of the advantages is that I can practice my English, but I think that the greatest advantage of all is that I don’t bring work home and I love that!

So in conclusion, I thank the opportunity to write on a blog during the English class, because despite the fact that I get home really late, I’m not wasting my time because I learned a lot.

Winter's vacations are here!

I'm really excited for this winter's vacations, I want to sleep all the hours I couldn't sleep this term. It was a very exhausting term and the next is going to be worse, so I have to take a break and enjoy the free time.

My favorite thing to do on the vacations is read and watch a lot of series and movies on my computer. This are things I can do on my own. So the first thing I have to do is find a really good book. (I accept suggestions). With my friends I love to go shopping, go to parties, go to the cinema or just get out of town for a few days. I love the beach, it's my favorite place to go on vacation.

Because is winter there is another place where I'm wishing to go... ¡the mountains! It's a really expensive

place but I'm planning to go with some friends from another university, 'cause they have discounts. So if all goes to the plan I'm going to have a great time in Farellones.

 

Finally, my another favorite thing to do on vacations is eat! And because my mother is a teacher, so she also have winter's vacations, I'm really hopping to eat whatever my mom cook for me.

A Website

Well, I guess that Twitter is a career related website, isn't it? I study journalism so I think it is and I'm going to tell you why.

Twitter is an online social networking and “micro blogging” service that enables its users to send and read text post of up to 140 characters, knows as “tweets”. Users can tweet via the Twitter website, by SMS or by smart phones. You can “follow” the others accounts and the can “follow” you back. You can also send “Direct Messages” to your friends if you are both following each others.

I visited Twitter every day, like literally every day. It’s the first website I open when I connect to the internet and while I’m in my computer I never close the site.

Anyone can have a twitter account so there are many Medias that have an account and that is exactly the point what I’m talking about when I said that is a “career related website”.

I’m a very organized person so I always list everything (books, clothes, pencils, papers, etc.) and in my twitter account I do exactly the same so I have this “list” call “Información Nacional” (National News) that has more than seventy twitter accounts just related to journalism: Newspapers websites, radio websites, politicians, TV websites, museums websites, online newspapers, etc. So I can always check the news of the day. It’s really, really helpful especially because the twitter accounts are updating information all the time.

I just love that Twitter is so actualized, is very useful for the journalism and as a journalism student I have to be aware of all the things that happens in the world. 

You can also have a twitter account! Just visit: www.twitter.com  

 

My favourite book

My favorite book ever is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I love Jane Austen! She is absolutely my favorite writer. I really like this book because I love period novels and this story follows the life of a young woman, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with the issues of manners, morality, education and marriage in the early 19th century. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. 

The story narrative opens with Mr. Bingley's (an aristocratic, charming and social young bachelor) arrival to Netherfield house in the neighborhood of Bennet family with his good friend the “proud and condescending” (but also handsome) Mr. Darcy.

Mr. Bingley easily falls in love with Elizabeth elder sister the beautiful Jane. But, by contrast, Mr. Darcy despises Elizabeth, who overhears a joke and about it and she immediately starts to hate him.   

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine” Says Elizabeth. 

But what Elizabeth doesn't know yet is that she has completely enchanted Mr. Darcy and he loves her “most hardly”. 

Here is a reviw of the book in Amazon.

A Masterpiece of Wit and Style, A Timeless Work for the Ages,

June 11, 2002

By 

Gary F. Taylor "GFT"

Jane Austen is one of the great masters of the English language, and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is her great masterpiece, a sharp and witty comedy of manners played out in early 19th Century English society, a world in which men held virtually all the power and women were required to negotiate mine-fields of social status, respectability, wealth, love, and sex in order to marry both to their own liking and to the advantage of their family. And such is particularly the case of the Bennetts, a family of daughters whose father's estate is entailed to a distant relative, for upon Mr. Bennett's death they will lose home, land, income, everything. But are the Bennett daughters up to playing a winning hand in this high-stakes matrimonial game without forfeiting their own personal integrity?

This battle of the sexes is largely seen through the eyes of second daughter Elizabeth, who possesses a razor-sharp wit and rich sense of humor--and who finds herself hindered by her own addlepated mother, her sister Jane's hopeless love for the wealthy Mr. Bingley, and her sister Lydia's penchant for scandal... not to mention the high-born, formidable, and outrageously proud Mr. Darcy, who seems determined to trump her every card. But the game of love proves more surprising than either Elizabeth or Mr. Darcy can imagine, and sometimes a seemingly weak hand proves a winning one when all cards are on the table.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is simply one of the funniest novels ever written, peopled with memorable characters brought vividly to life as they both succeed and fail at the game of life according to the manners of their era. It is a novel to which I return again and again, enjoying Austen's brillant talent. I have little respect for people who describe it as dull, slow, out of date, for as long as men and women live and fall in love it will never be out of style, always be meaningful, and always be funny. A masterpiece of wit and style; a timeless novel for the ages.

 What can I say? I completely agree with this review. Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's masterpiece (and I can say this because I read other books like Emma). It's funny, timeless and I can read it over and over again and never get bored.