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/


Jocelyn Pineda a01360039

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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