Thank you for..

Teacher Nico, thank you for be an excellent teacher for us, I can say that I admire you because one day I want to talk as nice as you talk. Also thank you for be patient with us because some of us didn't have the experience of talk in public, some fail but you were so good with us that we learn a lot of you.
When I decide to take this curse I heard a lot of good comments about you and now I can say that all of them are true.

I hope you have an amazing holidays and don't forget that this is my first semester so I will see you again in the next 8 semesters:).

Pd: I hope you like the apples.

Happy christmas and New year and thank you again for everything you teach me.

Atte: Jocelyn Pineda 

Impromptu speech:

Giving an impromptu speech was one of the most difficult and stressful moments of my life.During the semester we develop some abilities that are relate with the idea of talking in front of people that you didn't know at all.I think this was something that help us to have courage and talk in front of the people. 
At this time all of our classmates already know each other, and I think this is something that helps to have more confidence and be more relax about the idea of giving and speech.

For this activity we had to choose a topic and we didn't know what would happen, that's why everyone was so nervous. I think that I get into shock because I got the topic of manners and I'm good with that, but at that moment everything was passing around my head, then I took the courage and I began to talk.
I can say that I did it well or I think that I did it, but the it's the thought that counts.
We finished our course with a funny activity because we saw the suffering of the others.

Halloween :

The activity of the week when it was Halloween, we did an activity of idioms; this activity was fun because you know new forms of use or say things.The one I like more was "To have a skeleton in the closet" i like it because it can be use for a lot of situations and you can be cool if you use it because no one will understand or they will find interesting.

Halloween it's the time when a lot of people show their dark side, it's a way to feel free to dress like whatever you want and do the things maybe you won't do in the daily life, that's why I think many people like it.Also the most wonderful and funny thing it's that the people give free candies to the kids in order to have a funny and yummy halloween 

The power of one

Weeks ago we saw a movie named the Power of one, in my opinion this movie was so inspirational, because nowadays people had forgot the idea of being nice and do things for other people something that I think it's very important in order to be a better person. 

This movie showed us how a little boy who suffered a lot in his childhood was the clear example of kind and joy. 

I really like this type of classes where the Teacher put us movies because with this we practice our english hearing and not reading subtitles, something that I think will help us a lot in the future when we have to hear conversations for our jobs.

A quote that I love from the movie was:

“First with the head, then with the heart.” ― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

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Giving a persuasive speech:


This week, we had to give a persuasive speech about the topic we want to, I decided to chose social media because sometimes we think that social media can't an effect in our life, that's why I decided to talked about how social media have an effect in the life of teenagers.

The class of monday we began the research of information about our topic, the teacher post on blackboard who was going to pass the next class and on friday because he wanted to have a control of the time in order to get all the students to present their speech.
My turn was assigned for Wednesday, I was a little nervous about that because on wednesday I had a little difficult  exam so I hadn't time to prepare myself for the speech; I was the last one of that they, so in my mind I was hopping that the time get over so I didn't have to pass, unfortunately I had to, I can say that the only thoughts in my head were: Your gonna forget about what you're saying, you will laugh or you will cry,

However I think I did it well because the teacher congrats to me , he say that despite my lack of preparation I did it well, first I though: Oh yes you did it well but no too well, but when the teacher post the grades a smile come up to my face. I will remember that day like a memorable :)


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Week 7

The class of monday was a free session, this consist in a class where we do not have to go to the classroom and we can do our assignments wherever we want. For week 7 we had to study the passive voice which is:the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb.It was a really interesting assignment because I have to say that in all my years of learning english I forgot about this topic, not at all I mean sometimes I don't know if the sentence is in passive or active voice because I don't remember the definition .

The teacher give us the homework of watch some videos to learn more about this topic, then we we alredy see this videos we had to do some exercises converting from active to passive voice, this assignment has to be in teams but I didn't find anybody who had no partner, that's why I decided to do it by myself. It was a good way to learn more about the topic, the videos where good because they give you sentences that you can use like practice and then you can know if you are learning something.

I think this type of free sessions are good because, this help us to be more independent, so in that way we can have the initiative of learn by ourselves.

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“If you can't get a miracle, become one.”

Imagine being born without arms. No arms to wrap around a friend; no hands to hold the ones you love; no fingers to experience touch; no way to lift or carry things. How much more difficult would life be if you were living without arms and hands? Or what about legs? Imagine if instead of no arms, you had no legs. No ability to dance, walk, run, or even stand. Now put both of those scenarios together… no arms and no legs. What would you do? How would that affect your everyday life?
This research has been really interesting because we have to think about someone who has done things for help people, and in some way I think that is a good practice for us to know how to help in the future. 
To do this we have to choose someone, and when the teacher said someone important who has done good I instantly think about Nick Vujicic because he is so motivational for me and for some people too, so it was a good desicion. 

Then I start to search about what he has done, I know that he does conferences, he recently came to Mty, to help and motivate people, but I didn't know that he has a organization called " Life Without Limbs" where he helps people giving them hope to keep on. A lot of pages help me to know more about what he's doing like the official page of his organization where we can find a lot of information, videos, radio potcast etc.This research helps me to appreciate better my life in all the ways, because sometimes we not know what we have until we lose it, that's why know about others who have come forward it's good
 

Some links: Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc4HGQHgeFE
 Official page of Life Without Limits: http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/about-life-without-limbs/


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My first month on college

                               First month of university

My first month on college has been really amazing and a little hard, because it has been a little difficult to get used to all the new things and responsabilities.When I was on high school my classes were from 7:30 to 2:30 everyday with free hours to eat something or to joke with my friends and now they are from 9:30a.m to 7:30p.m 2 days and others  from 7:30 a.m to 9:00 a.m, so it's a little tired to be all day in school  and sometimes do not have time to eat like I used to.

With the issue of the partial exams , some have been very difficult and the others not so much .When I finished high school my sister who is older than me, used to said me: "You will be so busy,that you will want more time to do all you have to do" and she was so right because when I have to study after school, I don't have the time to cover all, like I want ,so now I know that in second partial I will have to improve my study skills to have better grades.

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My reflection

New experiences are the hardest, sometimes we don’t want to take them but it’s amazing how they can change our lives.

It was a little tedious when I had to choose my schedule because of the fact that there was only 3 curses of English and none of them convincing me. So I decided to get the chance of overcome my fears of the public speaking, because my career will demand the idea of sell something and convince someone with other languages, that’s why I have to learn how to control my nerves when I speak in a different language.

The first day of class was a little weird because I didn’t know what to do or say, I was so scare because I imaged that the teacher would said: Please came to the front and give me a speech of whatever you want, but when he only explained the politics of the course and other things all the nerves immediately disappeared.

 The next days were really good, it’s easy to say that at this point I have learnead good things about how to speak in front of a lot of people that you don’t know and some tips about how to write and identify very common mistakes.

Then the last weeks were full of great experiences, I did my first speech for the class of public speaking, wrote my first application letter, learn how to use some important words and this things will be very useful in my future, in conclusion I had no regrets of the decision that I made when I choosed this class.

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Hi my name is Jocelyn and this is my daily blog where I will post my activities of my class of Public Speaking,the purpose of this blog is to have a place where we can post our feelings and comments about how we feel with the class and the activities we do.

My first speech in the english class was such a good and a little nervous experience.At the beggining I was so nervous because of the fact that I not good enough for talking in public, but maybe in the future this experience will help me to improve my skills.

This class will help me to improve my abilities of public speaking in my university and in my future.

My first essay  for the class of  Public speaking.