MY FAVOURITE PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY

LEVEL 3 >> POST 3 (week 5) > MY FAVOURITE PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY

*Write about your favourite piece of technology

Say:

What it is.
When you got it.
How you use it.
How often you use it.
Why you like it.
What life would be like without it.




- 130 words minimum.
- Include a picture. 
- don't forget to leave comments on 3 of your classmates posts and on your teacher's post as well.

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The Apple Without The Worm (130 words min)

 

For some time I had been quite disconnected from all society, I had already spent 6 months without a mobile.
Back then I had started working for a telecommunications company and I had to be on the phone mostly all day long, and that's why I decided, in the end, to get rid of the #cell-phone".

Time went by and some day I had an urgency, I had to hand in a very, very importan document, but with the rush, I left it over my desk at home, and the only way to get it was to call my friend and ask him to drop by and bring it along.
Having thought so, I rushed out the underground to get a pay-phone but guess what, ALL of them were not working, and after several tries, and a big anguish, I managed to contact my friend and get my papers...but it was already a bit late, and the only way I could get in touch was by borrowing a co-worker's mobile!

After that I got a mobile phone, in the 2011, after nearly a year without it. After a while I learnt there were new models, and new apps and the inclusion of 3G, I finally changed to iphone!!!... I use it for everything: to make a call, a free-call, to use wasap, teaching apps, grading apps, ppt creation and many more tools that I have come accross with.

I love my new mobile because of its functionality and the freedom it gives me, because I do not longer need to be behind the desk to do all of the tasks my profession requires. I also love it because it helps me being updated on everything I need updating on, and furthermore, because I might have lots to do, and even though I am very forgetful, with my iphone, I can always be aware of it all!.

Without it, life would be rather the same, perhaps, with the difference that I would be forced to spend less time behind the mobile, but at the same time, forced to spend longer hours behind the desk. If I did not have it, I would be even busier, not being able to work on the run. That's why I now love and use my mobile.

2- Why did you choose this career/study programme?

Level 3 - Post 2 (week 4) Why did you choose this career/study programme?

Write about:

- your dream jobs when you were a child

- other career options that you had at the moment of applying to university

- what made you decide in the end

- your experience at university until now

- the kind of job you would like to have

 > word count: 120 words

 > don't forget to leave comments on 3 of your classmates posts and on your teacher's post as well.

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Teacher's Example:

The road to what I do now was not straightforward, in my childhood I had many ideas and wanted to be many things. As a child I used to dream of being a great Lawyer, I felt particularly attracted to defending people in need, later, I decided that the world needed more psychologists, and even, being 17 years old, I decided that the road of Arts was going to be the path I would follow.

So, after taking the PAA I applied to the Arts School. I had struggled a lot with my Dad due to such decision, but finally I was ready to go. After the application, the results did not go the best way, in fact, I couldn't enter! I was number five in the waiting list, and guess what!.... in the Arts Programme the lists don't "run".

I felt really demotivated, so I decided to do whatever possible and I started to study Construction Engineering, but I couldn't cope with it, I didn't like it and after a year I was already sure I had always wanted to study languages and after that summer I told my parents I was leaving the engineering programm and that I would take up on language studies.

I had a great time learning English, French, etc. I enjoyed it so very much that the years went by too fast and after some years, I became a Linguist and here I am, already having changed my mind again, I decided to leave Linguistics a little bit behind and concentrate on what I have always liked the most, which is Teaching. 

1ST ENTRY

2nd Term 2016 /

LEVEL 3 >> Blog Session 1 (Week 3) >> My Auto Biography

In week N° 3, and as the first post of this semester,  the students have to write their auto biographies.
They have to include:

- Birth info
- Studies info (elementary/high school/ univ)
- Family Info
- Hobbies
- Others... (pics for example)

> Number of words: 100 (minimum)
> Make comments on three of your classmates posts + a comment on your teacher post as well.

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MY EXAMPLE:

SAMPLE:

I was born far south, well, not so far, just 510 km south from the capital.

My home city used to be Concepción, where in 1985 I was born; but when I was 5 years old my Father got a job in another city so we had to move to Los Angeles.

Los Ángeles is a small city, at about 180 km from Concepción, it's a service and pulp-industry town, and it is also the capital city of the Bio-Bio Province.

The city is sourrounded by very green landscapes and because of the pulp industry, the surroundings nowadays, is nearly covered with pine trees and eucalyptus, which are used for the production of the raw material used to make paper.

My father, who is an engineer, and my mother, who is a housewife, took us all with them and I ended up being raised in this new town. I also went to school there. I spent all my life, from 1st primary to 4th high school in catholic institutions.

My hobbies were not many, I used to play volleyball, I took guitar lessons, but finally, I think the most enjoyable hobby was to learn new languages, and because there were not many options, I studied English.

After graduation I went college and finally I got to Santiago where I have been living for the past 5 years.

 I hope my future helps me keep my southern roots and perhaps, I will come back to the south....one day.

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