Back to reality, 3rd and final stage kicks off !

Hello!!yeeeaaa i´m still alive jeje, and back from my well-deserved holidays. I had soo much fun last week that you can´t imagine!!!!i am going to post a Semana Santa post later i promise :).
Well, my headline says: "3rd period is finally here" which means 5 weeks left and the semester is over!!!! unbelievable :S, but now i am going to write a breaf and concise post.
I am back on bussiness again, i had even forgotten that i had a duty to complete (4 more weeks doing the teaching stuff). Yepp, a new group, new teacher, new expectation, new faces,etc. and as the previous time i had issues =(. First, after contacting my tutor, he made me a petition: "to teach on Tuesday", i agreed of course without knowing that the lesson was not going to be sent to me :(. I panicked as normal, i felt very concerned and left lots of messages on his fb but my tutor never replied until i sent a message saying that i was going to teach on Wednesday since i had no lesson plan!! How was i going to deliver my class without having no clue about the topic?? i was not going to invent and be the clown of the day in front of the new students!
Thankfully, the good news was that a classmate kindly sent me the lesson plan to me :), i felt sooo relieved!!
I must point out that the LP was never sent to me by the tutor :(. Leaving that behind, the class started at 11 am, i was at the Uni 20 min before and the students started to arrive.
 This group is quite different, lots of boys and just few girls whilst there should be the opposite, shouldn´t there? jeje. Furthermore, there are a couple of restless boys  that make the class funny sometimes,but not always, i had to raise my voice to them few times. There are some shy guys too. A bit of everything. There was a momment where i messed  up with an activity explanation, i dont know what happened there, i was explaining a drawing i had done in the board for them to understand the topic there is / there are; but somehow i couldn´t give my direcions clearly and i got sooo nervious that i said in spanish : "aay perdon ya me trabe toda ". i felt sooo embarrased but then i said: "it´s alright, Sonita just relax and don´t feel intimidated"
The good thing was that i could redeem myself and explain everything clearly and without rushing, they did well in the activity.
At this point i cannot judge their personalities nor behavior since it was the first class but overall, i think i did a good job. I made my mistakes but the class didn´t suck either. I hope this period´s grades are fair unlike the last one, otherwise, i am going to keep calling to myself "miss misfortune".

cheers

Technology of the future... Fiction becomes a Reality?????

As part of our world , technology is something we can´t overlook. Every year, something new appears but apart from all the benefits it can bring a question comes to my mind..."Are we going to become too dependent?", "are we going to use it to walk over others and gain our own benefits only?", "Is it going to be used wisely?"

There´s a video above about the future technology which offers a different perspective of what the future will be like whitin some years ahead...

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The end of a tough week!!

Hello!!! it´s Monday already!!! i have an exam today :S and big apologies for the lack of posting!! This past week has been seriously one of the most stressful ones of this year!.........And here there is a bit of LAST week´s stuff:  A presentation that was worth the half of my global grade of this second period!! Luckily, i think i could manage to give a good presentation, besides, the topic i was given made me think a lot and i love that!, it was related to the research methods in scienticif, social, educational fields (Correlational Research to be more specific). At the beginning, i found this topic quite confusing and vague but through reading different documents, i realized it was actually a very interesting type of investigation to carry out. Needless to say, the presentation went quite well though i dont know my grade :S...On Wednesday i was suppossed to have an exam too, it was to create a video in movie maker, unfortunately, the videos i had in my memory stick didn´t match the bloody  university computers format!!! OMG it meant i was unable to watch my videos to create my movie maker final video, therefore, i was unable to do anything :(.. My teacher told me to make the video at home and send it.. Phewwwwwwww!!! i was relieved but that feeling was not gonna last that long.
As soon as i finished my video i tried to save it and convert it in AVI or  WMV, format until finally it was going to be uploaded in youtube, but the problem was that this laptop couldnt save my video.
I was in trouble for sure, i tried to convert it with Format Factory but still didnt work, then i looked for a converter online but nothing worked....i was in my breaking point until i phoned my friend Raul and he suggested i should save a zip file where i had to insert my video and everything that i used to make it!! So i did it but when i tried to upload it in hotmail, it said the file was too heavy!!!
I didnt know whether i should cry or laugh of my bad luck... But then Raul told me that i should save the zip file in a website, and then copy the link in my email and send it to the receiver..aaaaaaand thanks God my teacher could see it :)
I had a hard time dealing with technology, i still have a lot to learn.
In another news, i am sooo happy since we celebrated Rocky´s  15th birthday. He has always been my loyal partner and hopefully there are still more years to come for him. God Bless him!!
Yesterday´s swimming session was unbelievable!! i can´t believe i finished it jajajaja i am so happy even though i still feel pain in my arms and legs. I felt sooooo smashed that today i ended up to get up at 10:50 jajajaja i know!! me LAZY BONES  and maybe that´s why i am writting a lot today jejejeje

After this week´s gap we welcome our famous Semana Santa and what does it mean? Beach, holidays, talziguinez, religious celebrations, partying, drinking, etc jejeejeje should be fun!!!

see you

btw I leave you this song!!! i love it and i sing it to myself !! i recommend all my readers to do the same :)


cheers

Newspaper Report =)

Otra satisfaccion para el club IRON CHILDREN

Miss Misfortune

Thanks God i already finished the 2nd of three duties for this semester!! Sadly, this last time turned to be a misfortune for me :S... i don´t believe in bad luck but if you check out all my record in my practicum it is hard not to believe that there has been a bit of misfortune involved :(!!! Why do i say this?  I think it is not fair when i try to give my best effort and then i get a bitter result at the end. Yeaaa, that`s what happened today after teaching :[ . I feel soooo pissed off  and i still think it is not even fair that your tutor does not value your work, i know i am not perfect but sometimes you have a very possitive feeling when you know that things go exactly the way they should go, in the bottom of your heart there is something that tells you that you have done an excellent work. Furthermore, only ONE feedback was provided in the Second class of the period until NOW  that the rest of the feedbacks were given after i had finish my LAST class (thumbs down). How could i know my mistakes if my feedbacks were not even known ? The 3 classes of this period were done basically blindly!!!
Besides, i always arrived suuuper early whilst my tutor arrived just on time or few minutes LATE :( .
I am not justifying myself, though. I know that every class was a new chance to learn and share what i know with these guys that i learnt to appreciate.
Plus, i just don´t get why my tutor said that i  did not transmit enthusiasm to the students after having a class full of giggling, fun and lots of laughing among each other. I think that just because the students liked to participate does not mean that i am too passive. DUH!!! --->:S . Andddd Yeaaaaaa,agreeeeeee---> i share the opinion that teachers must be leaders but it doesn´t mean that i am going to raise my voice nor shrill out to the guys when they are  not paying  attention, there are other tactics that you can implement.

Overall, i think i had my faults as everybody did, but it doesn´t mean that you are going to be smashed so badly by your tutor even when they were also students in a determined time and they had to go through the same experience as me. There were some things that were just not necessary and adding that i had no previous feedback, i just performed the way i considered which i think was not perfect but at least it was very very veeeeeery acceptable since i noticed my students` reactions and the way they treated me.
At the end, i gave the last farewell to my students  who i consider unbelievable people that cooperated a lot, they never disrespected me and they were always kind and welcoming despite their short age. I wish i could work with them again. They told me that everything was perfect and also they thanked me for being their teacher for a while, therefore, that`s the final and most important reward that i can have in this 2nd mission even though i don´t accept my grades. But oh well, it was not up to me, sometimes you depend from others and i know that there are still a  millon of things to be learnt but  as i always say "just relax and get the best out of every single experience".

regards

Another plus!!!

Holaa!!!  there are lots of things i`m happy for =) ... Last Sunday´s race was just sizzling, i knewit !!!!!!!!!!!i saw this coming =]. Tavo  won again!!!!! it`s just crazy,,, 2 straight victories for him, yay!!!:] he seems unstoppable and hopefully he will keep up the same all over this year. It can tell that training has been paying off  for us, there are lots of things we must work on, though!!
For me this race was going to be a preview of how being involved in racing again feels like , i only swam 2km and ran  7km; i cannot say that i sucked at all, my arm barely hurt which is a bittersweet sign and i could manage to follow my sister`s feet when swimming, her pace was really fast in the 2nd lap that a gap of 15 seconds was gridged between us. When i got out of the water, i didnt seem smashed nor extramelly exhausted, so i can think that i am starting to get back to shape again. When you are injured, the best thing to be done is not to desperate and have the needed rest in order to follow a nice recovery, sometimes we want to rush and heal as fast as possible but when dealing with these kinds of injuries, patience is a key.
My sister also won the female division whilst my brother Raul was second due to cramps in the 1st lap of the run. My other teammates Jony, Miguel, Nataly and Castulo had a stunning performance as well. My coaches felt satisfied with our work, specially when seeing Tavo making  the classic breakaway on the bike and nobody could follow him :).
Needles to say, today´s  workout was just ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!! a super session in the pool  was waiting for us jejeje but i am happy that i could hang on and finish it without feeling the classic fatigue !!! i am not strong nor fast enough to keep up Tavo´s pace, though,, my lacking of strenght, endurance, and  training for almost 8 months still shows up..
Now, my arms still feel quite sore but that only means that training has kicked in..

crazy poses... joaquin and me

iron girls =)

bff

And there is one more left!!

Mission 3 has been completed last Wednesday and i am so surprised how fast this period has gone so far!! i always say "Time is your worst enemy", and out of a sudden, i find myself stuck in the middle of tons of work,presentations and endless homework to be delivered quite soon :S, it´s just crazy!! but somehow it´s good to be under a huge pression so that you can give your best shot and at the end, the final outcome seems gratifying for you =)...
Well, moving to my weekly duty, i think Wednesday class was primarly based on a reading, stuff related with PDP and some good chat with the students, nothing that relevant happened i guess... Criss´s lesson plan was launched for the 1st time and i had to start it....Regardless a reading activity seems to be boring and annoying, i tried to make it different. I know most of the people here ESA don´t like to read not even write, but i have learnt there are many alternatives in which you can cheer others to start like and enjoy  these wonderful 2 habits, therefore, i had the students  guess the main essence of the reading  just by skimming the title only. Since they are very smart, they figured the reading was related with what they had thought previously. =)After reading aloud  (boys and girls separated from one another), unknown words were found, a following exercise was correctly done and out of the blue my time had ended!!!
Furthermore, there is still something i would like to share , do not make fun of me, though!! When the class was over, i gave my weekly farewell to the guys jeje and as all the past weeks they have kindly said "bye teacher, thank you.........." but this time something curious happened; as soon as i approached the door i heard something such as : "bye bye teacher, we love you " and i was like -----> :O, i must point out that they were not rude nor disrespectful towards me, but oh well i took this in the good sense !! but i can`t help saying they made me blush  jijijiji....fortunately they did not see my face!!!!
Feedback has not been provided since the 1st time nor grades, consequently i feel blind regarding to my scores. =( I think i did a great job since nobody got bored despite the class was all about the reading (as  what i noticed!!) but nobody knows whether i am moving forward or backwards.

cheers