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Quiero irme.

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Llegué a China en 2019. Eran alrededor de las 4:00 p. m. de un 16 de noviembre. Lo que más recuerdo es el juego de mi mente durante las últimas horas de mi vuelo. Mis manos jugaban con los botones de la pantalla frente a mi asiento; A veces, este monitor solo me muestra nubes blancas o grises, pero de vez en cuando me sorprenden los campos marrones y verdes. Mi jefe me recogió en el aeropuerto y recuerdo que me sentí tan seguro una vez que escuché que alguien me llamaba por mi nombre. Sin embargo, me sentí más seguro al conocer a un amigo que podía hablar mi propio idioma. La abracé y gracias a Dios pude escuchar a alguien hablando español después de quizás 2 días de escuchar a todos hablar en inglés o chino. Ya casi dos años. Lo curioso es que me encanta la forma en que vivo en China, pero tengo ganas de empacar ahora, aunque todavía debo esperar 4 meses. Tengo muchas ganas de irme ahora. Logré y marqué todas mis tareas pendientes de 2020. ¿Qué gané? He aprendido a vivir solo y disfru
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Uncertainty. Part 1

Went down the store to buy some ice cream. Came back to my apartment with some vainilla already melting on my right hand and sweeping sweat from my forehead with my left. Opened my door. Eyes fixed on the mess on my right hand. I listened two voices which I decided to ignore. Pass by the hall and got to the kitchen's door. Voices got louder. What's this? I opened the door and I see there are two old men talking. Their faces show we share a common question: Who are you?. We stare at each other for a while. They see I have an ice cream on my hand which, to them, means I'm not harmful... They're waiting for my answer; I'm waiting for theirs. 30 seconds went by easily. What's going on? Who are you and why are you in my kitchen? Did something break while I was out? The two guys kept looking at me. One turned his head to my ice cream and then to the window. It was snowing.  A brain malfunction caused by a poisoned or expired vainilla ice cream was my most certain gues
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Chang'an Tower

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Built to resemble the architecture style of the Sui and Tang dynasties (618-907 AD). 99 meters high. 8 months of constructions. Near B ahe River in Xi’an.  This is the CHANG'AN TOWER  長安塔 ( Cháng'ān tǎ).
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I'm feeling like leaving.

 I arrived to China in 2019. It was around 4:00 pm of a November 16th. What I remember the most was the playfulness of my mind during the last hours of my flight. My hands played with the buttons of the screen in front of my seat; sometimes this monitor will only show me white or gray clouds but from time to time I would be amazed by brown and green fields.  My boss picked me up at the airport and I just remember to feel so safe once I heard someone calling my name. However, I felt the safest when meeting a friend who could speak my own language. I hugged her and thank God I could listen someone speaking Spanish after maybe 2 days of listening everyone speaking either in English or Chinese.  Almost two years now. Funny thing, I love the way I live in China but I feel like packing now even though I must still wait 4 months now. I really feel like leaving now. I succeeded. I ticked all my to-do's from 2020.  What did I gain? I have learnt to live alone and enjoy myself. I have learnt
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Location: Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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According to Paul Seligson.

I love reading and I am fond of articles dealing with language education and even more when those articles entirely report on my ways of teaching and beliefs about how students should be taught. Here's a little resume on what Paul Seligson answered during an interview to El País. Link is provided at the end of the post. Paul Seligson goes with this basic lines. We need to focus less on grammar and more on listening to become better speakers.  Nothing new yet. However, I must recognize he is implying many teachers are obsessed with grammar rather than English as a communicative asset. Rajoy, president of Spain, wants every college student to hold, by the end of their careers, a B2 proficiency level. deadline: ten years. I'm leaning towards thinking he'll not make it. Colombia has already prorogued their goals. "Think in English" is a misleading dogma. Students should be able to use Spanish to find meaning in English since they're linked by Latin as
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Location: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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Let's talk about Drug abuse

Drugs certainly are part of a high-quality illegal business which reports thousands of millions of dollars to the drug cartels. Drug abusers spend (I don't want to say waste since some may be offended) their money in a moment of freedom which couldn't be reachable, according to them, by doing other activities. I'm sorry if you are a pro-drugs teacher and you may feel I'm talking your substances down but I can't hide my anger against a thing that brings nothing but sadness. Claimed my position, I would love to discuss with you some key factors and behaviors that define drug abuse, and to find which organ contains the explanations for the former. Any repetitive action that causes harm to a person is called either abuse or addiction. Eating for example, is a repetitive action that without causing harm cannot be labeled as an addiction since it gainfully adds to one's life span. Conceive a person who is undergoing gambling addiction; this person, by all means, w
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Physical Education: Required or optional?

Prolog This texts answers to a prompt within Barron's Essential word for the IELTS Student's book, which I'm carefully learning from. I invite you to share comments. Physical Education: Required or optional? Physical Education is a subject that has been overlooked as it has happened with other school programs such as music and arts. Having sports or gymnastics at school will gainfully add to students' psychosomatic health and social skills; making it a mandatory field of learning. It is well known that those students who practice a sport are more willing to eagerly learn  other subjects. Pupils who don't work out, tend to get deeper into a sedentary life which would possibly result in chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, nervous breakdowns, and so on. Mental health is another factor to look at. Playing a sport enriches students' goals and life style; challenges them to improve on their skills and to look after being the best; and teaches the
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Location: Medellín, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia
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