I have no interest in going somewhere like clubs.
I have no regrets about spending too much money on my last holiday
I have no memory of bad moments of my childhood
I would have no hesitation in booking a trip
I have no alternative but study hard this year rather than play video games
I have no intention of ever coming back in time
I have no time to waste
I GOT LIFE !!
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Retaking habits
Our daily life routine is sometimes plenty of surprises. The only thing we have to do to be aware of those signals is to actually open our senses and being in touch with the little light we have inside.
This afternoon when I picked up my children from their flamenco class we decided to pay a visit to my parents and buy a couple of things in the bookshop. Well, in the end, they were not just two but three things:
- Tipp-Ex for Daniela
- a small blue notebook (I decided to buy in the last moment)
- one of the Futbolísimos books for Darío (who became touched when he saw the books on one of the shelves at a really affordable price)
The thing is that when we finally arrived home I sat down on the sofa in the living room with the bare intention of watching the short-films my 2nd CSE have recorded this week. However, I suddenly opened the New Amazon Try Prime webpage, which offers multiple choices of films, books and TV series.
The Bucket List
It has been my first film here. Some time ago a friend of mine recommended it to me but never had the time to watch it. Today with the presentation of the movie I decided to enjoy it.
What can I say? Just GREAT!!
My new blue notebook is now the one for taking notes of vocabulary and details of the films and TV series I'm bound for watching in order to practice and improve my English.
At one point, Carter (Morgan Freeman) decides to go home with his family and tries Edward to get back to his daughter. Obviously, I do not want to be a spoiler and ruin the end - even so, I believe it is worth to mention one of the most beautiful questions (apart from the one it is above in the photo) I've heard in it:
This afternoon when I picked up my children from their flamenco class we decided to pay a visit to my parents and buy a couple of things in the bookshop. Well, in the end, they were not just two but three things:
- Tipp-Ex for Daniela
- a small blue notebook (I decided to buy in the last moment)
- one of the Futbolísimos books for Darío (who became touched when he saw the books on one of the shelves at a really affordable price)
The thing is that when we finally arrived home I sat down on the sofa in the living room with the bare intention of watching the short-films my 2nd CSE have recorded this week. However, I suddenly opened the New Amazon Try Prime webpage, which offers multiple choices of films, books and TV series.
It has been my first film here. Some time ago a friend of mine recommended it to me but never had the time to watch it. Today with the presentation of the movie I decided to enjoy it.
What can I say? Just GREAT!!
My new blue notebook is now the one for taking notes of vocabulary and details of the films and TV series I'm bound for watching in order to practice and improve my English.
In this charming comedy, two Hollywood stalwarts share a hospital room - one is a billionaire, the other a blue collar worker. They reveal to each other they have a long list of goals they want to accomplish before they 'kick the bucket'. But the only way to do it is to make a break for it!The literal meaning of "the bucket list" is the things we wish to do before dying. Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson are the main protagonists of this movie. Both of them suffer from cancer and the chemo. After becoming friends they decide to travel around the world to try to make their wishes come true. It is risky given that they practice skydiving, travel almost every day by plane, drink and eat whatever they feel like, ....
At one point, Carter (Morgan Freeman) decides to go home with his family and tries Edward to get back to his daughter. Obviously, I do not want to be a spoiler and ruin the end - even so, I believe it is worth to mention one of the most beautiful questions (apart from the one it is above in the photo) I've heard in it:
"Have you found joy in your life?"
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Keep on learning new things
Once upon a time there was....
Yes! This is the typical way of starting a story, one of those fairy tales we are told when we are children and naive. Most of them are great and we do believe they are true. However, when we grow up we discover these fantastic stories do not happen as often as we'd like to.
Ten years ago something really shocking happened to me... I was just 28 and at that time I was flooded by the idea of becoming a mother. A MOTHER!! A real one!! What the hell was going on? I did not mean to be a mother so soon... but a test told me I was going to be a mother in about 10 months.
The first month was a kind of nightmare given that I gave up smoking, coffee, beers and ham. At the same time my body started changing (boobs like excruciating balloons, dramatic changes of humour and a terrible feeling of guilt because I hadn't realized before about my pregnancy)
Anyway... When that first month came to an end it was the time to start looking for information about being good parents. Imagine! books, magazines, articles, interviews to parents and (what's even worse) GRANDPARENTS... Everything should be perfect for the great moment of bringing a child into the world. And not 'a child' ... our FIRST child!
On 11th October Darío landed smoothly after almost 18 hours of piercing pain and horror in a narrow hospital room. My very first baby looked at me in that hospital and from that moment I actually fell in love!!
Nowadays I am a mother of two children: Darío and Daniela (she landed just twenty months later in another blue and bigger room of the same hospital but in a completely different and better way - fortunately-). I'm still married 😊 and we live in the same house and have two dogs (Estrella and Balto). I am a teacher and in general I learn more things than I usually teach, at least this is what I try to do day in day out.
When you are a parent you always want to do the right things at the right time but it is not always like this. Sometimes the answers you look for are not in any book or article and nobody tells you the solutions you want to listen to.Every day is a challenge for you as a parent and your children are the best creatures in the world to demonstrate you that you are not doing the things you meant to do when you listened to those fucking fairy tales as a child. Even when you are having a really great time with them, reality is much more INTENSE.
This evening Daniela and I attended a kind of cinema talk. My bare intention there was to have a good time and show her other type of reality - to widen her mind. She is just 8 and while driving home I asked her about her opinion....
- Dani, did you like the film? Did you understand? Have you got any doubt or question?
- Yes, mum. I liked the film.
- So...
- So? Do you have any question, mum?
- mmmmm... yes! Can you explain?
- (looking at me). These kids that appear in the film were born with a wrong body. But I do not understand why people talk about it.
- Darling, it is important for them. They want to be accepted and...
- Of course, mum! But that's the problem. Why the hell people don't respect that? They are PEOPLE, HUMAN BEINGS... This is the most important thing here! Who cares about penis or vagina?
- They CARE given that they were born with a wrong body, Dani.
(silence)
- Daniela: Fortunately, most of them have cool parents who respect them. That's really important.
Yes... children are naive but incredibly GREAT!!! Even when we want to teach them things... they keep on being such magnificent teachers!!
Here it is the moral of the day:
Yes! This is the typical way of starting a story, one of those fairy tales we are told when we are children and naive. Most of them are great and we do believe they are true. However, when we grow up we discover these fantastic stories do not happen as often as we'd like to.
Ten years ago something really shocking happened to me... I was just 28 and at that time I was flooded by the idea of becoming a mother. A MOTHER!! A real one!! What the hell was going on? I did not mean to be a mother so soon... but a test told me I was going to be a mother in about 10 months.
The first month was a kind of nightmare given that I gave up smoking, coffee, beers and ham. At the same time my body started changing (boobs like excruciating balloons, dramatic changes of humour and a terrible feeling of guilt because I hadn't realized before about my pregnancy)
Anyway... When that first month came to an end it was the time to start looking for information about being good parents. Imagine! books, magazines, articles, interviews to parents and (what's even worse) GRANDPARENTS... Everything should be perfect for the great moment of bringing a child into the world. And not 'a child' ... our FIRST child!
On 11th October Darío landed smoothly after almost 18 hours of piercing pain and horror in a narrow hospital room. My very first baby looked at me in that hospital and from that moment I actually fell in love!!
Nowadays I am a mother of two children: Darío and Daniela (she landed just twenty months later in another blue and bigger room of the same hospital but in a completely different and better way - fortunately-). I'm still married 😊 and we live in the same house and have two dogs (Estrella and Balto). I am a teacher and in general I learn more things than I usually teach, at least this is what I try to do day in day out.
When you are a parent you always want to do the right things at the right time but it is not always like this. Sometimes the answers you look for are not in any book or article and nobody tells you the solutions you want to listen to.Every day is a challenge for you as a parent and your children are the best creatures in the world to demonstrate you that you are not doing the things you meant to do when you listened to those fucking fairy tales as a child. Even when you are having a really great time with them, reality is much more INTENSE.
This evening Daniela and I attended a kind of cinema talk. My bare intention there was to have a good time and show her other type of reality - to widen her mind. She is just 8 and while driving home I asked her about her opinion....
- Yes, mum. I liked the film.
- So...
- So? Do you have any question, mum?
- mmmmm... yes! Can you explain?
- (looking at me). These kids that appear in the film were born with a wrong body. But I do not understand why people talk about it.
- Darling, it is important for them. They want to be accepted and...
- Of course, mum! But that's the problem. Why the hell people don't respect that? They are PEOPLE, HUMAN BEINGS... This is the most important thing here! Who cares about penis or vagina?
- They CARE given that they were born with a wrong body, Dani.
(silence)
- Daniela: Fortunately, most of them have cool parents who respect them. That's really important.
Yes... children are naive but incredibly GREAT!!! Even when we want to teach them things... they keep on being such magnificent teachers!!
Here it is the moral of the day:
" Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young" (Henry Ford)
Anyone who stops
learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning
stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
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Anyone who stops
learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning
stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
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Sunday, January 28, 2018
Pueblo Inglés 1278
19th - 26 th January 2018
With love,
Once upon a time
(Last week in fact)
There was a circle of strangers
Half of them spoke the same language
And the others had to lipread
(Americans, you're not included here)
The week was made EVENTFUL
By vomiting and diarrhea
(Kendrick-Kubrick YOU started this fucking shit!)
So Kowloons, singing
And possible romance
Were all put on hold.
Allan kept on shouting:
PUSH ON, PUSH ON, PUSH ON!
So Spanish people realized
what was going on
Morocco spoke to Egypt
The Canadian couldn't sing
The Welsh were full of bluster
And the Irish enjoyed her gin
The Aussie loved her ipad
The Russian was a spy
The English was a jolly man
And the Americans moved us to cry
The week flew by
The hours passed
Our English improved
It was all a BLAST!
And now we have to say FAREWELL
to all you you, guys :-)
We have made friends forever
And we're trying not to cry!
We have made friends forever
And we're trying not to cry!
By Leanda, Manuel and Encarni (+ Ammo's last verse)
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Ring the changes
Long time ago I decided to quit this blog because my students did not really follow it. At first it was a bit disappointing for me but then I got used to that.
Now it is different because my bare intention here is to write just for myself (though my son -Darío- , who is always looking at the things I do, is now behind me looking at the screen and willing to read and reply to each of my blog entries). 😍
Why have I changed my mind? Merely because studying is a must when we devote our lives to teach others. No matter the subject, the main goal is to improve in order to get better results in the things we love doing.
At this point it would be nice to say that I am 38 and these days things are slowly falling into place and I am sure that something really good is on the cards!
In my experience 'perfection' is a kind of utopia. That's why I consider myself a flawless person in my own flaw 🙈. Day in day out I am my worst (or sometimes my best) judge. Yes! Every thing I do is constantly observed and criticized by my 'other Encarni' who keeps on reminding me that I am not a perfect woman. It could be a question of kinship or education, who knows? But the fact is that there is 'the other me' who wilfully makes my life much harder than it should be.
Last year I took some important decisions about my working life. For some time my husband and I ran an academy in our town. It was a challenge at the beginning and, I must say, a great success too! We had a lot of students and most of them were really happy with us. However, job reached to the point that I ended up stressed-out and without any time to spend with my family nor even with myself. I was arguably going downhill... Nevertheless, last May Ramos -my husband- and I decided sensibly to give a grand finale to our project. Honestly to make the decision to close 'Babel' was very difficult for me, but at the same time, I felt a great relief doing so .
Since then our family life has totally changed. As a matter of fact, Ramos spends a lot of time at home caring for our children and home, and studying his degree; Darío and Daniela are happier and they pay their grandparents a visit when they actually want to -before they had to do it because we were working or doing some stuff related to our jobs- ; our dogs go for a walk every day and for a long time; and I just have one job as a freelance teacher. Doesn't everything sound absolutely great? Yes, it does!
Currently I am on holiday till February so I have plenty of time! What is the outcome of such free time? Well, when I usually enjoy holidays for more than one week I tend to look for different things to do. In this case it was quite easy to make my choice because in June there are the well-known Spanish State exams for secondary education teachers.... I have been a temporary teacher for about ten years 😆 and according to a friend's wise foresee, this is the year in which I will be able to get a vacancy... so there I go!!
Getting ready for this kind of exam is not just a question of studying hard contents such as history of the Anglo-saxon countries, their literature, or culture. It is also a matter of being a proficient English speaker and a really lucky person. To a certain extent fortune usually accompanies me and I have always been quite good at languages. However, 'my other Encarni' is not so confident about the English language I know and keeps on asking me to be better. So this request brings about more practicing, studying and looking for opportunities to be in touch with the language itself. Fortunately, the same 'witch-friend' who predicted that I will get a vacancy this year, told me about 'El Pueblo Inglés' and I jumped at the chance of spending eight days there in just a couple of weeks!
It is a great investment in my near future which will likely be worth it.
Regarding the idea of writing in this blog, it turned up this evening meanwhile I was revising vocabulary from the book we used in the Proficiency course last year. Shall I write about my experiences in this 2018 using this English blog?
Aye! Let's try (at least)! 😅
Now it is different because my bare intention here is to write just for myself (though my son -Darío- , who is always looking at the things I do, is now behind me looking at the screen and willing to read and reply to each of my blog entries). 😍
Why have I changed my mind? Merely because studying is a must when we devote our lives to teach others. No matter the subject, the main goal is to improve in order to get better results in the things we love doing.
At this point it would be nice to say that I am 38 and these days things are slowly falling into place and I am sure that something really good is on the cards! In my experience 'perfection' is a kind of utopia. That's why I consider myself a flawless person in my own flaw 🙈. Day in day out I am my worst (or sometimes my best) judge. Yes! Every thing I do is constantly observed and criticized by my 'other Encarni' who keeps on reminding me that I am not a perfect woman. It could be a question of kinship or education, who knows? But the fact is that there is 'the other me' who wilfully makes my life much harder than it should be.
Last year I took some important decisions about my working life. For some time my husband and I ran an academy in our town. It was a challenge at the beginning and, I must say, a great success too! We had a lot of students and most of them were really happy with us. However, job reached to the point that I ended up stressed-out and without any time to spend with my family nor even with myself. I was arguably going downhill... Nevertheless, last May Ramos -my husband- and I decided sensibly to give a grand finale to our project. Honestly to make the decision to close 'Babel' was very difficult for me, but at the same time, I felt a great relief doing so .
Since then our family life has totally changed. As a matter of fact, Ramos spends a lot of time at home caring for our children and home, and studying his degree; Darío and Daniela are happier and they pay their grandparents a visit when they actually want to -before they had to do it because we were working or doing some stuff related to our jobs- ; our dogs go for a walk every day and for a long time; and I just have one job as a freelance teacher. Doesn't everything sound absolutely great? Yes, it does!
Currently I am on holiday till February so I have plenty of time! What is the outcome of such free time? Well, when I usually enjoy holidays for more than one week I tend to look for different things to do. In this case it was quite easy to make my choice because in June there are the well-known Spanish State exams for secondary education teachers.... I have been a temporary teacher for about ten years 😆 and according to a friend's wise foresee, this is the year in which I will be able to get a vacancy... so there I go!!
Getting ready for this kind of exam is not just a question of studying hard contents such as history of the Anglo-saxon countries, their literature, or culture. It is also a matter of being a proficient English speaker and a really lucky person. To a certain extent fortune usually accompanies me and I have always been quite good at languages. However, 'my other Encarni' is not so confident about the English language I know and keeps on asking me to be better. So this request brings about more practicing, studying and looking for opportunities to be in touch with the language itself. Fortunately, the same 'witch-friend' who predicted that I will get a vacancy this year, told me about 'El Pueblo Inglés' and I jumped at the chance of spending eight days there in just a couple of weeks!
It is a great investment in my near future which will likely be worth it.
Regarding the idea of writing in this blog, it turned up this evening meanwhile I was revising vocabulary from the book we used in the Proficiency course last year. Shall I write about my experiences in this 2018 using this English blog?
Aye! Let's try (at least)! 😅
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