Requires a salary raise.

Dear Alan,

It has been a pleasure working for this company for the last five years. I have always labelled myself as a professional, and I am always working to stay on top of my tasks. Recently, I have developed a lot of skills that I don’t didn't  have five years ago.

Having said that, I really feel underutilized in my current post position. After the my latest achievements, I have more energy and motivation to achieve much more than what I am doing now. To be frankly, I am looking for a higher salary higher than what I am getting now. If this requires more responsibility you can be sure that I am ready to affront it. (I don't know how I feel about the word affront it. Maybe you mean take it on?)

So, I would like an appointment to talk face to face with you about a salary review.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Lucas ... ...
22/04/16

Im a native English speaker that would love to help with your group! I could give advice or just help with funny idiomatic expressions.

Me encantaría ser parte del grupo cuando se forme. 

The book seller that inherited 300 books of Gabriel García Márquez

Amid a warm afternoon, regular in the Colombian Caribbean, a movil mobile book shop of Martin Murillo was searching without success (is this book seller on a cart?). A friend of Mercedes Barcha, the widow of Gabriel García Márquez, was looking him to give him a message, but Murillo was in a trip in Bolívar. "La Gaba", on the other hand, was housed in Cartagena de Indias. Had passed a year after the Nobel prize death.

"This These things happen when you clean up your library", said Murillo. But the truth is that this present, that was delivered by Barcha without any protocol, is a little huge heritage of García Márquez to Murillo: 316 books that the Colombian writer had in Colombia and any coleccionist would love. This mulatto who was born 47 years ago in the Pacific Ocean and lives lived since 10 in the Caribbean knows that he is a privileged. He wasn't, as we could think, a friend of García Márquez, but met him. The reasons of the donation are more close to the character of this man, maybe departed of Macondo, to himself.

At least that was what the Nobel said to him on in 2010 in behind (you could probably switch it for a diffrent preposition) the doors of the office of Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Latinoamericano, he asked for the Literary Cart, a tiny library, nomad and priceless that Murillo imgined on the 2007. Since then, this man that only studied until elementary school, at his as a  teenage only read about baseball and basketball, who sold bags of water, coffee and arepas at on the street became to a reading promoter with a strategy that had charmed to much many people. Murillo pushes his cart in the streets of Cartagena and other near towns. He provides the books, reads to the children and never charges.

-Yes, "Gabo" said me that my work is "macondiano".

My Summer in Italy. Waiting for London, again.

The summer is ending, and I am a bit sad about that. There are many reasons. The first is that the feeling of freedom and happiness everyone has during this season is going to vanish. That's because of the temperature, the sunlight, the perfumes of sun protection creams (i sould just use sunscreen, but i don't know if other countries refer to it as that)- ice creams - plants, the sounds of the young boys scooters running on the streets, people laughing, the crickets. It's a shame that I won't smell and hear those typical and amazing stuff anymore.
The second reason is that in October I have to come back to London to work there again. I have been living in the City for 9 months and I came back in to Italy just for the summer. I love London, I think it's an amazing and stimulating city more than everyone anything else. It's full of input for creative people like me, multicultural, coloured, somewhere elegant and posh, it's very quick, future oriented and attractive at (I like above more than at) all. I love my job there too, but when you live for a while at your own home, then it's really hard to leave everything for the second time and fly.
What do you think of your country? Do you love it?

My Summer in Italy. Waiting for London, again.

The summer is ending, and I am a bit sad about that. There are many reasons. The first is that the feeling of freedom and happiness everyone has during this season is going to vanish. That's because of the temperature, the sunlight, the perfumes of sun protection creams (you would use sunscreen - ice creams - plants, the sounds of the young boys scooters running on the streets, people laughing, the crickets. It's a shame that I won't smell and ear those typical and amazing stuff anymore.
The second reason is that in October I have to come back to London to work there again. I have been living in the City for 9 months and I came back in Italy just for the summer. I love London, I think it's an amazing and stimulating city more than everyone else. It's full of input for creative people like me, multicultural, coloured, somewhere elegant and posh, it's very quick, future oriented and attractive at all. I love my job there too, but when you live for a while at your own home, then it's really hard to leave everything for the second time and fly.
What do you think of your country? Do you love it?

My brain is Scattered

I'm on Italki because I want to improve my English skill. My friend ever even told me that I have to think in English, not in my native language. At that time, I don't understand how to think in English because I have no words. Even if I know some English words and know the grammar though, I have to use those words contextually. It's hard for me, because people around me is are (people is a plural noun)not speaking English. The only best way for me is watching the English movies or listening to the songs (since you're not being spefic you wouldn't need to use the article "the"). It might be not worked not work too if I got the wrong movie, I meant many movies or songs in English are using use the slang or their grammar is wrong.
I'm still trying to think in English daily in my daily days. But it's hard for my to concentrate because I'm confused which words I have to use. English is unlike 'bahasa', because English has lots of similar words. It's not rare I got my for my brain to be scattered when I was panic because I couldn't speak it out what I wanted to say and I don't want to make my partner waiting for me too long to finish my speaking (or you could say "for me too long to finish my thought").

I want to know from you those who have an advance English skill, is are my thoughts about learning-from-movie isue false? Thank you.