Friday, October 26, 2007

Good day Prof.D.Lauro
Finally I have adjusted to the schedule and to the learning material.My fear still stay with me but now I can fight with it. My day time classes require more time for preparing to the next class and that made me to cut off my work time. Before this semester I had evening classes.Another different from previous class is that the students in this class are native speakers and they fluently understand English and they use computers much faster than I do. I slowly but surely follow them.Most of them wrote essay just in lab time class but for me took a long day to create essay in 700 words.Maybe with the lateness but I will answer all questions that teacher stayed in front of us.I think that my expectations are satisfied. I feel more confident in reading and writing. Thanks.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Good day Prof. D. Lauro
I'm late with my answer to the fifth assignment. But better late than never. When I was a girl at the age of 10 I can't understood this quote.One day my mom had a visitor .He was her former student. In the end of conversation he said :''Sorry I'm late with my thanks."She replayed :"Better late than never.'' They both were smiling and I understood what this mean ; we can be late but better be late than never tell people thanks.This is most of my favour quotes. Here one more "If you are going through hell, keep going" I know we have to do so many tings that we don't like it but we have to do what we have to do and sooner I finish unpleasant tings the faster I be freedom from it.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Conversation

Hi Professor D.Lauro
Subjects of my conversations defends on whom I'm talking with. With friends from OOC usually discussions are about our success or failure in school or in the end of semester we consider about new taking classes.With my mom and daughter we can talk almost about everything, but our favors conversations are about TV show, books, articles about actors. With countrymen we discuss the news that occur since last conversation. I think even meaningless conversations make our lives more colorful because we spend the time with our favor people.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Yellowstone issue

Dear Professor D. Lauro
Here my thoughts about Yellowstone issue. People have and always will reside to live in beautiful places like Yellowstone National Park. The beauty of nature attract and seduce humanity.People lose their sense of fear and reality of danger.Probably many of us realize the danger of living near water; but how many of us still live along rivers or near ocean?People who lived in Louisiana they knew that they live below the ocean level.Despite of repeat dangerous appearances people reconstruct their dwellings.All kind of media were spread around the word the Katrina hurricane prediction; but how many people even so suffered from Katrina hurricane?I think humanity is a part of nature and ineluctable disaster we have expected anyway.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Thoughts about languages

Good morning Professor D. Lauro.
English is my second language .I will tell what process go on in my head.Yes I still think in my native language.The sentancis structure is different. The direct translation of words doesn't bear the same meanings of thoughts this convey to the misunderstanding.I know over time if I constantlly will read, write, speak,and practice I will think in English. I hardly wait this moment.And this process already starts.Sometimes when I look for a word in a dictionary and the dictionar gives me the traslation of the word, I know the meaning is not right. I don't translat phrases wich I use evry day .They stay in my head in English.The langauges are change over time but I thought the basic will remain unchangeable.
Natalia Gaiser