Further the horizon, words mean different.

I was asked to write a story with re-meaned words, and here I present you it, a little piece of digital paper. The words I'll use are:  take the Metro = diving; a kiss = monster; telephone = night; smiling = house; looking = zoo (Words taken from the blog of  my classmate Julian because  I really  liked them.)

There was I trying to save myself from the looking filled  with fears and darkness. I knew I was not going to survive, as I did not know how swim and I had to take the metro to escape. Things were getting stronger and harder in my head, I was hearing lots of voices confusing myself about what to do, and me, standing there watching  life losing the battle second by second, losing time while the fears were at smiling waiting for me to fall again. All of those kisses wanted to approach on me and attack until there remained nothing, but the ashes of a coward man, that lost because didn't fight. I was being consumed by the pass of telephone, and it ringed as strong as never. My destiny was to know my horrible end, and as I couldn't decide what to do, I risked everything, I lost everything, just to stand there, watching how I wasn't even able to take the metro. Kisses of my deep, now you can forbid me in this world that only accept the risky, and dismiss the afraid.

This was kind of a little paragraph, but I'd like you to write a short one with this words I'm going to invent:

Fish=Girlfriend

Sword=Dreams

Eat= kill

Robot= love

Water= journey

Thank you!

Colombia very well, very fast.

I assume most of the readers know what I'm about to speak, and it is indeed, the new program of english the goverment proposed for the spread of it. I say this as I want to focus on the reflexive aspect from the point of view of a teacher on  formation, and even most important being formed in the area of languages, exactly english. I think is nice to start being aware both teacher and goverment of the fast grow of societies nowadays and how they expand, making possible the concept of globalization, and for this languages are a key. English since the launch of american economy in the past century, has been becoming a strong language that is being adopted by many continents as the global language, opting to start including it as a second language program, and in Colombia's case we're about to start developing it until 2025, which is for me a really short term, but workable as it is becoming mandatory for teachers to do a hard work, to reach to the levels they have proposed. I think that is responsibility of everyone, goverment, teachers and students, of the success of this program. They must apply a collaboration and start accepting a work together making of it related in any aspect, so everything daily will improve, creating a consciousness of easy access from the economical to the individual aspect. English is going to be better, as the people is able even more each day to meet the world by internet, or accesing to travelling, which also is getting easier. Colombia very well from the positive eye I watch it, may be the start, not the mere success, but the doors of a even better politic on language education and the creation of a generation of people who trust languages as a proved way of being even more free, and as a way of developing many other skills. Maybe 10 years are not enough, yet they can be really useful for our future work, on what for me will be the matter, and its facing the real need of not only english but many other languages.

My readers, I'd like you to answer also this questions:

1. What could you improve from Colombia Very Well ?

2. Why you trust or not the program?

3.From your point of view of teacher in formation, Do you feel like facing this program and doing everything to accomplish it? Why?

Thank you!

The writers.

There is a lot to expect when it comes to writing, as you can find there a lot of yourself, and maybe a little bit of the others too. Writing is further putting words on a paper or a screen, as it is for me, the process that takes you to the deep of yourself, and start making it tangible while it catches sight.Words also, can always change our way of being, thinking or acting, as they're suposed to have the power of ten gods, because what is said, cannot be changed. Books are a great example, as if you find the correct one, it might make of your life totally different and thanks to the tangible expression of anything trought words. All of this in orden to explain kind of the importance, not only as something that can transform, but as the set of many qualities that make of it, the immortality of language. Just a few days ago, I found myself writing, not only one story but many at the same time,It sounds kind of impressive, and maybe people would believe I'm exagerated but it really happened as I point. The master that leads the class, gave us one simple thing to do, mention a noun and an adjective, after this we had to pick two of each category and try to build a question that answers this other: Where are you going later? Maybe it sounded too simple, but what came after this, was just the amazing representation of each different imagination present in the classroom, all conveyd in many different papers. All of us where continuing those endless answers, that developed every kind of unimagined stories, because they were really unimagined as they were the complex ensemble that promoted us to work together, without taking in account the possible strange plots of each, it had us there as a lovely remind of us enjoying the great thing we have been given, writing. I think that we actually didn't mind about the order of ideas, promoting the free sharing of our ways to be, not being ashamed nor scary about it. I really loved the exercise, as it got me closer to my classmates trought writing, which is something I really like feeding, because it makes me feel certainly released from quotidian things, and also makes of quotidian life more enjoyable helping you to get new points of view. I must say my peers have a great imagination and they can manage to fix it with fun and get out of yourself a laugh while reading the text. After we all read and fixed mistakes, we picked two of them on different groups and posted it at classroom, so people could read them and either feel amazed or confused, because for understanding those lines, I believe you must be able to go further than normal. This kind of exercise encourage people if they feel identified, to keep on writing, to develop this lovely skill and to use it to conquer the world, that inner world we all have, and would like to discover. I may say I would repeat, to have a laugh or to work with my mates without wondering about what to write, but to let it flow being coherent of course yet letting imagination, go as far as it wants. There's a word on spanish for what we did: "Cadaver exquisito" and we all are now an important part of all of those corpses, that now rest in the paper that makes of them, immortal.

When small details are the most important.

This is not another text about why people wonder small details are the most important, and they just can't find out what other people mean by that, but in our context small details live and hide everywhere among the letters, those letters togheter are words, and words make a language. All of this is structured and managed by a very important social convention on languages that is Grammar. Something we can not pass by when about learning and making propper a language, from school to home, this must be evangelized like if it was a religion, and this kind of exageration is maybe the accurate aim for expressing the importance of such a thing. Grammar from my point of view, make us focus into the importance of the small details, in this case of languages. Because by making us stare at things as such the importance of a noun or and adjective, grammar goes further even wanting to express the manage of rhythm by  simple signs as comas (,) or even points (.) things as simple as those have a lot of meaning when we consider the grammar, and that must be consider a social rule, and also the non-use must be fight with education. People who usually don't care that would say that even what I write is not important, but as a language teacher student, I'm making on my mind a really active user of grammar just by checking it, learning from it, and always going further by understanding it, which take us to be almost experts when talking about speech structure, and that also would be really worth for us as person, as individuals because the correct use of the language may bring eloquence, synthesis capacity, better than average skill writting, of course an amount of things that might be supported by surveys. This all is gotten by practice, and practice take us just to understand a little bit of our cotidian life, as grammar is present everywhere; In the supermarket list, the agenda, the newspaper, the announcements, the tv, and even in the morning conversation with our parents or friends. Grammar has a lot of meaning and we should encourage ourselves to understand that and share it, because we are owners of it.

1. From your point of view, why you care about grammar?
2. How you think grammar influences  learning different languages?
3. Do you think you apply correctly grammar? How you develop those skills?

I must thank my readers, leave also your opinions or comments.

Idioms: expressing culture

Idioms on languages are important because they’re also a way to speak and communicate with people. The social context set a kind of expressions that serve in the cotidian life, expressing many things saving words, and even thought at first sight many aren’t easy to unveil, it helps us to start a reflexion on  language, because makes us think, wonder and explore the language, not as a bunch of rules but as a community adapting to it by the pass of time, while words adquire strange connotations. That’s for me a great exercise for any person who’s trying further to learn the language, and start to feed curiosity of understanding what they learn, contextualizing knowlegde in language on the culture that language belongs to, also exploring manners from language, and why not meeting people. I think there are many tools for us as learners to get even more involved into a language, and one of them are Idioms, as they deepen us into a context by their usage and when we learn them and use them, we are also appropiating the language culture.

Here I will put some examples of idioms on english and their equivalent on spanish, my beloved native language.

Actions speak louder than words = Un hecho vale más que mil palabras

People's intentions can be judged better by what they do than what they say.

People use this idiom when they are tired of listening the people saying things they don’t re-afirm by acting.

Cry over spilt milk = No llore sobre la leche derramada

When you complain about a loss from the past.

People say this when someone is retracting something that is already donde, even i fis just a loss from the past or a mistake they comitted.

Your guess is as good as mine = Me corchaste

To have no idea, do not know the answer to a question

When someone is really confused as the explanation says, to have not a single idea.

Costs an arm and a leg = Cuesta un ojo de la cara

This idiom is used when something is very expensive.

Caught between two stools = Entre la espada y la pared

When someone finds it difficult to choose between two alternatives.

My readers, do you know any different idiom? Have you tried to look for Idioms on a language different of english and spanish? I did and went like: Tomber dans des pommes (pass away)
thank you readers

When the waves take you apart.

"Die Welle", or just as simply as "The wave" it's a german movie, that got me into a deep state of thinking. I should not talk about the movie but the effect of it in myself, but that's exactly the problem, how it did not affected me because everything inside the movie I believe is though to get straigh in to your mind and then change many things around. Even the movie is no that though in the beginning it gets stronger meanwhile the ideal inside the movie develops, and is the way an ideal conveys people and people's skills to reach everything, and reafirms for myself that things like nazism, socialism, communism and any of their relatives are just encaged waiting  for the people strong enough to give the first path for their release. Even in our times, when technology seems to reach even higher tops putting everything to stake, and always taking our societies to evolve really fast, the fastest known in our history. Ideal keep controlling us and our way to behave, we may make prejudices about different ideals, yet they're really quotidian but most of people usually don't notice bacause they're so custom to those ideals, they just never think about it, and like in the movie, when things get automatic, also can get out of control. Reflexion is a necessary part of our daily life from my point of view, we don't need to doubt everything but at least try to understand it.

Here I leave you the link to watch it:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2acb6f_the-wave-2008-die-welle-original-title-original-full-movie-hd-quality_shortfilms

1.How can ideals as nazism can rise in our epoch?
2.What is your conclusion about the movie? (If you  have watched it)
3.Which ideal do you think you follow?
Thanks.

One of a thousand.

Before I start writing about the real activity, I'd like to explain in few lines what do I mean with my title. I say "one of a thousand". Every teacher without taking in account if he's a bad or good teacher is one of a thousand as not everyone has got the courage to envelop the responsibility of forming people and having good results, or at least having many lives changed into every possible and positive way.
After having an interview with an English teacher from the language center of the PBU (Pontificia Bolivariana University)  who is also teacher in the Facultry of Education,He is called Juan Franciso Vasquez, I was wondering how would I answer my own questions in a few years, when I become so.
The Interview was followed by these:
1. Q:How many time has passed since you learnt your first language?
    A: 20 years

2. Q:Do you feel passion for languages?
    A: A lot, since I discovered languages set no boundaries for your world.

3. Q:You think from the role of language teacher you can generate educational changes?
    A: Of course, but It's not just about the teachers, because this envolves also the system we run here          in Colombia, so I think a stronger relation theory-practice would help to generate changes from          the practice not as language teacher, but as Teacher.

4 .Q: What is your favorite language?
    A: English

5  Q:What was the key factor for becoming a teacher?
    A: The taste on languages and teaching

6  Q:How do you describe yourself as a teacher?
    A: As another one, who read lots and built a lot of knowledge and share it with people

7 Q:Are you proud of your career?
   A: A lot, it have made feel like all my dreams can come true, and I really believe so, this is  a really    good profession, that if you do it with love it will pay you back with happiness.

Now I'd like my readers to answer another question: From the point of view of your career, are you able to change the world?
Thank you for reading.