Homework

Hello:

I'm Tania Georgina

*I’m going to take these tips*

Ø I’m going to go to Internet sites to practice listening, like youtube.com for watch soap –operas and TV’s programs.

Ø I’m going to listen to the radio through the internet.

Ø I’m going to look for people out of the central library for to speak with.

REPORT

a) Which park are you visiting?
Glacier National Park located in the northwest corner of Montana.

b) When can you visit it?
Every day of the year.

c) How much does it cost to visit it?
Free entry, but if you want you can give an economical support.

d) Why did you choose to visit this park?
Because at first when I saw the map, the first state that I pointed was Montana so I decided to visit a park of that state because I couldn’t fight with the curiosity. Then I saw the announcement of the Glacier National Park and there was a photo of an adorable animal in that, so I decided to enter to that park.

e) What can you do there while you are visiting?
I can camp, I can walk through the forests and up mountains, I can take a backpacking for to see the wild side of the park, I can take a boat cruise for learn about geology and the history of the park, I can ride a horse and explore historic and contemporary routes. I can fish, I can skiing, I can bicycle, I can go boating through the lakes. Also I can learn stories of Native Americans. I can take a tour the Going-to-the-Sun Road in a Red Bus or learn all about the Blackfeet Indian culture in motor coaches. I can see high temperatures with sunny skies but later I can see snow showers and falling temperatures in the same day.

For those who don't like homework ;)))

It is a funny video I found and I want to share it with you.

Polina

Project 10 to the 100th

Hello everybody, well, this is an introduction to the activity of Module 3 in the wiki. To tell the truth the activity is very easy because you only have to write a few things, but the purpouse and creativity it demands are very important. Are you curious? Well, then watch this video:

Hi teacher

Hello:

I`m Tania, tomorrow I can`t come to class, because academical commitments (I have a project) , I`ll tell you on monday why, because I have to tell you some things about that :) , thank you, take care of yourself. See you later.


Tania

Our Wiki is Alive!

Hello everybody. I hope you had a nice weekend. I'm just writing to let you know that our wiki is alive! I hadn't had (past of the past) a chance to design the activity for Module 2, but this weekend I've been good and I've done my homework. The topic of this Module's activity is "Loving Nature" and it's focused on the listening skill. If you want to do this activity the deadline is next Sunday (Sep. 29) so go on and check it out!

Image from NPS a site we will use in our wiki.

The accidental tourist by Victor Gochi

“THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST”

“The accident tourist” is a novel written by Anne Tyler. She was born in Minneapolis in 1941. She has written nearly twenty novels.
The accidental tourist was published in 1985 and it won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Also this novel was filmed. For this reason, I can say this novel is well-known.

The novel takes place in Baltimore, It’s set in a urban country nearly the 1980’s.
The main character is Macon Leary, a kind man; he’s tall, and a gray-eye man, with a short fair hair and the kind of skin that easily burns. He tries to have a life without complications. He tries to have everything in order. He has a good organization. Another character is Sara, she is Macon’s wife, she’s a thin person, and she has a short hair. Her skin is pale. She has some troubles in her life because of her son’s death, Ethan Leary dead before the story began but he’s an important character in the story.
Edward is a dog, but he’s a central point of the story. He is small with short legs. He barks and jumps a lot. He’s an anxious dog.
Also appear in the story Rose Leary, Macon’s younger sister, and Charles and Porter, Macon’s older brothers. Julian Edge is the Macon’s boss. He is a young and a cheerful man. Muriel Pritchett is a god trainer, she has a long and black hair, her eyes era small, and her face is sharp and colorless. Her legs are like sticks. He is divorced and has a kid. His name is Alexander, hi has health problems. He is nine years old. He is small, white with a short thin hair and blue eyes. He wears glasses.
The novel tells the story about Macon who writes guidebooks for people who have to travel on business but don’t want to feel outside home.
He writes the accidental tourist and he shows in this book what kind of places to visit like restaurants, hotels, and what to wear in order to make them feel in home.
After Ethan died, Macon and his wife Sarah start to have problems and she wants to get a divorce. Macon stars his “single life”. One day he see Edward has behaviour problems. He has to travel and he can’t go with his dog. He take him to an animal hospital where meet Muriel. She starts to train Edward and start a relation with Macon too. A lot of things happen about his family like problems, a wedding between Rose and Julian.
Macon moves Muriel’s home and he begins a good relation with Alexander. He travels because his job. Muriel get jealous about Sarah and Macon is desperate for that reason. He travels to another country, Sarah’s starts to call him up. Macon miss her and when hi returns, he don’t go to Muriel’s house. He backed home with Sarah. Then, he has to travel to Paris. In the airplane, he discovers Muriel is there.
They go out together but he tells her, he wants stay with Sarah. He starts to feel bad, so Sarah arrived to Paris. Muriel saw her and she seemed very surprised.
In the end Sarah takes care of Macon, but he noticed he didn’t do anything by himself. He woke up on the bed. Sarah was surprised because Macon will return to Muriel. He realizes he must be with her and Alexander.

In my opinion I didn’t like me the final of the story because what I don’t learn until the end is why Macon decided to return to Muriel. I don’t understand that part and I was very confused.
What I liked best was the story in general because I think it has an uncommon story, it means I didn’t hear a story like that before. The context it was really nice and I enjoy reading it. The chapters have a god structure.
I would recommend this book to people in love because is a story about love. But I would recommend it to people who have problems with their couple in order to them notice what they have.
I discovered with this noel that it’s important to decide about your life but take care that anybody feels harm. I don’t like the Macon’s attitude because he made feel bad to Muriel and Sarah. The story has a good message: decide by yourself and make the things as you think they’re correct.


Victor Gochi

Hi: This is my homework

Hello:

My name is Tania Georgina V. G. and I`m reading "Celtic Fairy Tales" collected by Joseph Jacobs. So the fairy tale that I`m going to talk about is "Connla and the Fairy Maiden".

Connla of the Fiery Hair was son of Conn of the Hundred Fights. One day Connla was with his father and he saw a maiden with strange clothes, he asked "Where are you from", so she responded that she came from a land without conflicts, where there is not death, there isn`t offenses to god, and the land is always in holidays, where the people doesn`t grows old; they live round green hills, so people call them the "Hill Folk" . But Conn couldn`t see her, but he could hear her voice, he was so terrified because the maiden said to him that she loved Connla and she wanted to take Connla away from him, and because she offered to Connla the crown of her land.

As a consecuence Connla`s father called to his druid Coran. Conn told him the facts, so, Coran chanted his spells towards the voice, then she disappeared (and the voice too) in front of Connla`s eyes, but she had already thrown an apple to Connla.

They didn`t see her in a whole month. He was so sad, he couldn`t eat or drink anything except the apple, but when he had already eaten the apple had grown again. He had a longing, he wanted to see her again.

The last day of the month, Connla was with his father when the maiden appeared again and she began to speak to Connla. When the king heard that voice he called again to Coran. But the maiden said that Law would come so the Druid`s Magic Spells would do away.

Without remedy, Connla`s father realized that Connla since the first day when the maiden appeared, Connla didn`t speak with anybody else, it doesn`t matter if people had spoken to him. So, the king asked to him if he loved her and if he wanted to go with her and he responded yes.

So, Connla rushed away from them and jumped into the curragh, the gleaming, straight-gliding crystal canoe. Then, the king and the court, saw it glide away over the sea towards the sun, and they never saw them again and they never had news from them again.

End

Thank you for reading, good bye and see you later.

Research project

Hi, everybody!
For those who will help me with my project, here you can find the first step. When I get your result, I'll write back telling you in more detail some other little insignificant things I need help with :p
What is important is that people willing to do those insignificant things also try the tests (so I can have somethng like a correlation between the results and the rest of the info I need).

THANKS!

-Javier

Who was Eddie Mabo?

Hi everyone! Viva México!!

I wanted to write about a man who made a big difference in Australia a few years ago. Eddie Mabo was born in 1936, on a small island in Torres Strait, in the very north-east of Australia. In that time these islands were strictly controlled by the government, and as a teenager Eddie was forced to leave the island for doing something silly. He worked in many places, including as a gardener in a university, where he also read a lot of books and listened to people lecturing. Here he had a conversation with some university professors, where he talked about his island and his people. The professors realized that Eddie thought the land belonged to him. Gently they told him that no, the land was Australia's, because nobody owned that land.

This is to say that the Aboriginal people, who had lived in Australia (and on the Torres Strait Islands) for thousands of years, were considered to be "nobody" and had no right to own any of the land they had lived on. It was known as "terra nullius".

Well, Eddie Mabo was completely shocked by this, and decided to take it to the High Court to challenge this law and win back the land for his people. It took over ten years of legal discussions, and in fact Eddie Mabo died (aged 55) before the High Court finally announced the verdict in 1992: that the Aboriginal people did have "native title" (ownership) and had the right to claim their land. 

This legal decision became known simply as "Mabo" and was a historic decision that has opened up new laws which make it possible for Aboriginal people to claim native title in Australia.

Although I never knew him, I admire Eddie Mabo greatly and I think he is worth remembering.

You can find out more about him at these sites:

http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Mabo_Eddie.html

http://www.adcq.qld.gov.au/newsletter/no21(May05)/Mabo.htm

Bye for now ... enjoy your break!

Shelley

Crossword puzzle

Hi everybody!
If you like to solve crossword puzzles I've got one for you. It is related to the vocabulary we saw when we talked about the problems in Mexico city and you put on trail some famous characters.
Unfortunately I couldn't insert it here in this blog, but you can enjoy it on my blog:

http://wwwpolinka.blogspot.com/

It is at the very bottom of the page ))))))
Any critical comments are welcome!
Polina

House of Fools

Hello everybody. I'm sorry I'm taking so long to post a new activity in the wiki, I hope to be able to post there tomorrow. Today, just after class, I had the chance to watch a film I had watched long ago and that made a huge impression on me. It's not in English, I think it's in Czech and Russian, but you can always watch it with subtitles in English. It's a hard movie, for it tells the story of a nuthouse in the middle of the war and what happens when the soldiers of one and other side arrive there. It's, at the same time, a sad and happy story: it shows us what's best and worst in our humanity. It's a story of hope. In one of the scenes Janna, the principal character, pleads: "Ahmed, I love you, don't kill me" then she turns around and sees the fire "Fire, I love you, don't kill me", and then she sees one of her friends lying on the mud "Mud, I love you, don't kill me" and she stands up and helps his friend. I believe it's both this madness and inocence of love towards the simple things what makes this life worth living. I hope you have the chance of watching this movie sometime, if you do, let me know your opinion. Helen.
P.D. The name of the movie in Spanish is "La casa de los Engaños"
P.D. II Hmmm.... don't watch it if you're sad, in that case I recommend "Stranger than fiction" (we might watch this one later in the lab)

What the hell is a googolplex??

In mathematics, a googolplex is a number starting with 1 and followed by a googol zeroes. Does that definition help? At least it narrows it down to "a number". Now the question is "what the hell is a googol?"
A googol is a number starting with 1 and followed by 100 zeroes. People like me would simply call it "a zillion" or "a gazillion" :p But the question would be from what number I call something a gazillion. Anyways, googolplex and googol are real words.

And by now, maybe you are wondering if a googol and the famous search engine Google are related. Actually, the name Google is a misspelling of the word googol. But now, the verb "to google" has even been included in the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and in the Oxford English Dictionary:

to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web

Today, Google is 10 years old.

-Javier

Gerooooooooooooonimooooo

I guess most of you have heard somebody shouting "Gerooooonimooooooo" when doing somehting brave or crazy (and maybe it generates a mental image of somebody jumping from a high place).
Do you know why people use that name?
His real name was Goyaalé (which in Chiricahua, an Athabaskan language spoken in what today is Oklahoma and New Mexico, means "one who yawns") and was an Apache leader who founght the U. S. government for more than 25 years. The name Gerónimo was actually given by the Mexican army. Wikipedia says:

This appellation stemmed from a battle in which he repeatedly attacked Mexican soldiers with a knife, ignoring a deadly hail of bullets, in reference to the Mexicans' plea to Saint Jerome. The name stuck.

But what does all this have to do with the initial thing? Well, there is a 1939 film which title is Geronimo, in which the actor playing Geronimo yells his name as he leaps from a high cliff into a river, depicting a real-life escape Geronimo successfully attempted in which with his Cadillac horse, he jumped off Medicine Bluff at Fort Sill, Oklahoma into the Medicine Creek. One man from the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, named Aubrey Eberhardt, said he was going to shout that name when his moment for jumping came just to show he was not afraid.
Since then, the motto for that regiment is "Geronimo".

Exactly 122 years ago, on September 4th, 1886, the Apache chief Geronimo surrendered to the U. S. troops.

You can read more about his life and watch a video here.

-Javier

My Biography (Victor Gochi)

My name is Victor Manuel Gochi Ramos; I was born in Mexico City in 1989. Obviously I am 19 years old. My parents called me Victor because my grandfather and my father have the same name so I can say that I’m Victor III. I have two sisters: Patsy and Jazmin. The first one is 18 years old and the second is only 9 years old.

I started to study when I was 3 years in the kinder garden. First I studied in a school near Azcapotzalco but my parents decided to move to Coyoacan and for that reason I went to a school near my new house.

Then I passed to the elementary school, there I made a lot of friends. Really I have been an excellent student, I had excellent grades because I like so much to study. In that school I was 6 years and then I went to the secondary School, where I made more friends. I have seen some of them in this time.

I made an exam when I finished studying the secondary and I pass to the high school. I stayed in “Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades” that has a link to UNAM. I was there during 3 years. I decided to study Sciences of the Communication and I am in “Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales”.

I’m so happy in that place. Really I loved my career. I have some friends that seem my brothers and sisters. I really love them. Their names are Cesar, Ameyalli and Luz and we spent our free time doing a lot of things.

I like to go to the movies (I like the scary movies); also I enjoy swimming, to act, to sing. I love the music. I always say that I can’t leave without my “Ipod”. I’m taking. Theater classes and I love them because there I do the things that I like to do it: act and sing.
I like blue color, to read novels. I like so much “Harry Potter”, but Of course I enjoy reading other kind of books.

Physically I’m tall, my hair is black, I have brown eyes, and I’m thin. I’m so honestly, I hate the lies. I’m so romantic. I like to be in love because I feel so well. ”I feel butterflies in my stomach.” I feel sometimes sad because I have had some bad experiences about the loved but then I feel strong because I learn of the bad things.

I’m a “bipolar” person because sometimes I feel so happy and I arrive to the school with a big happiness but other times I feel sad or angry and I don’t want to talk with my friends. Even thought I love them I and don’t like to see them crying or something like that. I have a huge heart.

Victor Gochi