cold belly

Sorry for being such a bad student... but the last weeks were tough at work... some servers were offline and our expertise was put in to test.

Now I come back again and I'm glad to see the italki website running faster than the last months. I hope italki's programmers have been rewarded or congratulated for this. 

It's midnight Saturday so I will keep this entry short by sharing a picture from my 3 years old daughter hanging a frog.  she said (or "told us") "the frog has a cold belly!"  At the same time my wife was screaming "WTF! why is she hanging a frog!?"

I think we was were educated in some like a crystal box, and that was not right. I'm a 32 years old male that have has a fear about of spiders. that is not good. I have concerns about safety but I think we can educate our sons (I believe you meant "children" and not just sons?) in a better way, not by fearing the things that can hurt them and still having a secure environment to grow.

I need to say "don't touch an animal that you don't know about it."  This is true and because of this phrase, is that we need to learn and educate others. By doing this we can stop fearing to the 99% of the planet, this can be applied to know learning about other cultures too.

- Haha, an entertaining notebook entry.  Great job!

My New colleague

Today is sunday. I am doing everthing for my favrious all of my favorite things. my section chief told me last week that next week we will welcome a new colleague.  he has just graduated from school. my boss told us to help he on him at work.

Mi life ♥ My country COLOMBIA IS PASSION AND LOYALTY ♥ by aleh

Hi I am alejandra
I am 20 Years Old
I am from Bogota colombia
I am a student of journalism
and I Like to dance
I Like to travel around the world
I Like to sing hahaha
I Like to talk with all people and I Love to play videogames and I go to parties
:D
I Love my country.  It is very beutiful and fantastic. The people are very nice, funny and sociable .
I'm a person funny , spoiled , intelligent and sociable with my family, my boyfriend and my friends. I Like to eat of everything hahahaha but not in excess .
I am have been studying english for 3 months ago (or you can say I started studying English 3 months ago) in an institute in colombia with a american teacher .
she is from EE.UU, lives in bogota colombia, and is a very good teacher and very famous in colombia.  Her name is ximena garcia hehehe . also I Have another teacher whose name is angie.  She is 26 years old, is very agreeable, and is friends with me and all of my classmatees hehe .
I am studying journalism because it is very interesting and I Know Many countries and cultures and much news that occurs around the world.
I have many friends but I Have 2 best friends whose names are : laura cortes and emanuel rodriguez .
Ok thanks for reading my note ♥

by: alejandra

* Nice job, having studied English for only 3 months!  I want to visit Colombia - especially Bogota and Medellin!  Saludos.

About my job(please correct me )

Hello everyone.  I am living and working in Shanghai ,China.  To make it easy for all of you to know me, I 'll introduce myself and my job to you.  I am in marketing of class electronic information which is called "物联网" in Chinese.  It means we can connect everything in a system by some carriers such as RFID(radio frequency identification devices ) tags.  I am very fond and proud of my job, though it is hard and always make me tired.  I think this job will make me successful and I'll have a bright future ,I believe . So I'll try my best to be a professional man in the business and if you are interested in RFID and 物联网（things of internet ）,we can discuss it.

Today,the hard work of a ship set sail

Today,when I entered the website, I found that it I had not entered it in a long time. Oh my god! if I continue like this, I may fall behind others, and my oral english will become bad. I hate this feeling.  I should insist on taking two hours (a day/a week?) to learn english.  Can you believe in me? Can you give me strength?

- -/////

There is only about half a day left for me to cram for the TEM-8 (Test for English Majors,Grade 8). I'm kind of desperate right now in that i have flunked almost all the sample tests i've taken before. Many of my classmates are focusing on memorizing the literature, linguistics and general knowledge of several important western countries, which i think is really arduous. I mean how on the earth can i recognize all the writers (and their works and who was awarded nobel prize) in America and Britian while i may not be able to remember those in my own country. (hahaha)  = =. I remember a friend once gave a ERROR CORRECTION (one type of question that we should do during the exam. i'm not sure whether is should be called a QUESTION or...?) (I believe it can be called a 'problem') to a foreign friend and asked him to do it. He spent like more than half an hour to finish it while we are supposed to finish within 15mins. Four in ten were wrong. And it was written in English. Then i started thinking no wonder i always get one or two points on that question.
And now, after complaining, i better keep working on the exercises or i'll really have a tough time tomorrow morning.

* Good luck!  PS - educational systems around the world reward memorization instead of true understanding.  You're not alone, lol.

talk about bias

Human beings always have bias toward somebody or something. Sometimes people don’t want to hear other people’s views. They just choose what they want to trust instead of the right thing ("the truth" sounds better, but "the right thing" is ok).

Some men don’t respect women.  Some people may look down on homosexuals. People are afraid of accepting those who look different than themselves.  Even in the same country, people will hate each other. A lot of tragedies are caused by people with narrow minds.

* Nice, and I agree.  Learning other languages is a great way to enable yourself to see the world from other people's perspectives.

on my own

Recently I watched the movie Les Misérables again and I was deeply touched by the dialogue and music. The most touching for me was the scene of Eponine singing the song "On my own" in the rain.  She likes Marius very much, yet was willing to ask about Cosette.  But she feels heartache when seeing them fall in love with each other deeply.  In the lyrics, she imagines walking with Marius although she clearly knows that he likes Cosette only.  I can deeply feel her love、her helplessness、her sadness and her pain.  She gives her life to protect Marius.  I understand her feelings very much because I have been in love with a person once.  It's really hurtful and unforgettable and unknown (I'm not sure what you mean by unknown).

* That is a great review.  I have read the book and love it, but have not seen the movie yet.  I imagine the story is much more developed in the book.  I hope to find a Chinese author that tells a great story like Victor Hugo does.  Any recommendations?