Thursday, October 21, 2010

ENGLISH PERMIT TO LIVE TOGETHER



IN MY EXPERIENCE, immigrants live together and help each other.The most important thing happened to me when I studied in college. In my classes of ESL there are people from different countries. We all go through the same problems, the biggest one is language. It is delicate to learn English because almost all our life we speak and write our native language. Now, we live in the USA, we have a challenge: leave an old life for a new one.



Pronunciation it is big problem for everyone. We were not born in this country,and ESL class is hard because we must change our way of speaking. Anybody must learn how to move the tongue and the lips. Every language has different sounds. Sometimes the sounds are similar like in my  language Spanish, but, if not is problem?

Grammar is another problem that immigrants have. " English is crazy”,  said my ESL teacher and I agree with her. There a lot rules, but because of exceptions foreigners -like me- grammar is a headache. In English words I  have written one way and I pronounce in other way.

                                                                
-What are we hearing? - All of us practice  English. There are different places, for example: in the supermarket, in the bank, in the mall, etc, but we don't understand everything. – Not 100%- it is so hard and embarrassing when we are wrong. In case  immigrants need to help each other.  If we find people that speak our language, we have to help them. 
                                                        
In situations where English is problem, we help each other like a brother. We speak different languages, but now we live in the same country; we are a big family because  we share the challenge of English .

Monday, October 11, 2010

One of my favorite movies.

Corpse Bride

Distributed Warner Bros and directed by Tim Burton and Mick Johnson, it is Musical animated Film. Its import to say this is stop-motion film like The Nightmare Before Christmas.--Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. (.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_motion)--.
The plot unfolds through of the interaction between light and darkness, and two worlds.
The story is about a nervous young man by the name of Victor Van Dort, son of rich fishmongers, to be married to Victoria Everglot.  She is daughter of Lady Maudeline and Lord Finis. This family is only interested in restoring the family fortunes. Victor is not agreeing with the idea of an arranged marriage, but, when he saw to Victoria face-to-face, he falls in love. After that he needs to learn his wedding vows.
When he is trying to practice his vows , he uses a tree root that resembles a human hand - he put his bride's wedding ring on it- but really is a human hand of the Corpse Bride. She revived and she declares Victor her husband.

I love it this movie because show us that the death or gloom can be good .

Monday, September 27, 2010

I'M A MORNING PERSON

I think that I'm a morning person. The mornings are special to me because  I have the opportunity to attend college and I can to learn something different every day. I also like me the exercise. When the morning is sunny , I love to go some park or beautiful place with a lot trees for to walk. Sometimes I practice the Hiking ; a good place for this The Poo Poo Point in Tiger Mountain .But  if  it's rainy morning, then I'll go to my Yoga class.



This  map for Poo Poo Point Trail, it's good choice for nature lovers. 





Every Morning , I get up early , I never eat breakfast but I need to drink a cup of coffee . I take the bus for to go to college, almost all day I'm  out of my house, I back around 4 p.m. depend of traffic. I spend the time with family  when I return to my home.

Friday, September 24, 2010

English Class

I'm from El salvador, I'm 25 years old, my favorite color is blue, I love the animals.