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My friends surprised me yesterday
I am happy to say that I have many friends from different ambits. So I'm going to talk about one of those groups.
A long time ago, when I was in the middle of the highschool. I met some interesting people. I was introduced in that group by my best friend for life.They were funny people who share with me a lot of hobbies considered "geek". We were, and still being, a weird crew. We are from several ages and our beliefs so our lifestyles are completely different.
Except my best friend. I would not dare to say that we are the closer friends. We do not share with each other our intimate secrets or our deeper worries, We just have fun together.
But it doesn't really matter if we have not that level of confidence for some stuff. We meet every saturday and sometimes, i am eager to that day comes. In these meetings, we chat about our common interests, we watch movies and play some games. They are garantee of laugh.
Once known the crew, I have to talk you about our most sacred tradition: The double birthday gift. When someone has a birthday, we give away two presents. The first one is lovely mean (I know they are opposite words) and the second one is the real gift. To get the real gift you have to "suffer" the first one. Sounds crazy but it is funny, even if you are the birthday guy.
The point is that my birthday was on december 7th. But I recieved my present yesterday. Well, I'm going to keep for myself what the first gift was, But I can show you the second one. They know that I am a huge fan of videogame'The Legend of Zelda'. That's why they give away to me a backpack with form of the shield carried by the main character. I love them!
December 21, 2014
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I had my first language exchange on this site.
Well, i'm pretty new on this. I've registered a week ago or so, and i am still trying to figure out how this site works.The free account limitation is a pain in the ass by the way. Whatever, i'm beating around the bush. The point is i had my first language exchange yesterday and i'm so glad about it.
It's a great experience. I met a nice guy from United States, who's learning spanish and we decided to practice our speaking and comprehension skills by skype call for around an hour.
Then i realise a few things about my english. The first of them was that my comprehension is ok, it seems like all these years watching movies in original version, has been useful after all. I understand him all the time, except when the conection get broken for a couple seconds. However, i know he speaks to me in an understanding easy way, which i appreciate a lot, but i'm not sure if i'm doing the same thing for him (i guess i'll solve this doubt when he reads this lol).
In second place, my speaking skills are milles away to be ok. It's kinda frustrating actually. My pronunciaton is a mess and i lose all my vocabulary when i try to say anything. I feel like a dumb sometimes, because i make basic mistakes that i wouldn't do in black and white. My mouth speaks faster than my brain thinks and i can't find the words to express myself as i wish. It's a little weird also, when i get stuck to say a, not simple but hard neither, word. Damn it! i wasn't able to say "european" properly. What a shame...
To conclude, i also realise that my speaking is better when i'm practicing all by myself in front of the mirror. Maybe because when i'm talking with someone, i'm afraid to not be understood, especially if that one is a native english speaker. I have to fight that handicap to get better.
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I just wacthed The Newsroom final episode (No spoilers).
I'm excited, a few hours ago i watched the final series episode from The Newsroom, a HBO's TV show about journalists with Jeff Daniels (sadly A.K.A. as "the guy who's not Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber") as Will McAvoy playing the main rol and Aaron Sorkin as writter, who was awarded several times for his work with "The West Wing" and "The Social Network".
What can i say. I really love this show. It's probably one of the most amazing shows i ever wacth in the last years. However, we are living a new golden age of television where it's pretty hard to get success just like other HBO's Shows like Game of Thrones do.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if The Newsroom haven't the huge amount of fans that other shows have. If you watch the first ten minutes of the pilot you will have a lot of chances to fall in love with it. I say a lot of chances because i'm not entirely sure about it due to Sorkin style has both lovers and haters. He use to overcharge the viewer with a bunch of proper names, tecnicisms and until four topics running at once in the same conversation with private jokes between the characters included.
I personally love that but i understand people who not, nevertheless, i have to admit that is not easy to follow the plot fluently, even less if you are not english speaker and you are watching it in original version with subtittles. Even so i beg to anyone who's reading this right now to watch this incredible show.
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Any correction will be welcome. If you find another way to say the same thing i write easier or a more appropriate form, please let me know. I'm trying to get more vocabulary to build sentences with more sense closer to the native speakers way.
December 16, 2014
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First world problems: The irony of to write about video games and haven't time to play with
Yeah, i'm one of that plague who has a website to write about video games, films, TV shows and other kind of topics, so please, don't hate me. I know that we are everywhere and we can be annoying spawing a new random blog everysecond in the network,but some of us don't write following a trend and then leave when we get tired.
I love to write and l really love to play video games, so why don“t mix it together? That's why a couple friends of mine who had my same tastes and i, decided to found the website where we post new stuff everyday.
It's pretty satisfactory to combine two of your hobbies at once, and it's really cool to share that passion with your friends or even meet new interesting people thanks to it. But i can't avoid to notice that since i write that often, i hardly have time to play video games in the same way i used to.
Sometimes i can get early access to some games, i can play some games for free and i know the most news from the original source. Cool isn't it? Sure, it's cool but i miss so badly to play any game without the thought of "i have to review this on monday" annoying around my mind. As more spare time i spend writing less time i have for enjoy the games so deeply as i used to do.
I don't really know why i've decided to write about this stupid tiny problem. It's just a thought which turn up out of the blue in my head when i wanted to post my first entry on italki. I'll write something more interesting the next time.
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