Personal Statement

In my view, improving my abilities and enriching my knowledge is a gradual process since I entered the university. When I was a freshman, I joined in our university flag guard, and it was a good opportunity to improve my abilities. The training, especially the high-intensity summer training, which is repetitive and boring, tests both my physical and spiritual endurance so that I improves my own endurance and self-regulation. When I was a sophomore, I became a trainer in the flag guard and gradually began to prepare for scientific research, which is a cumulative process for me. During this time, I served as Minister of Discipline Inspection and Minister of Training, which cultivated my leadership and the ability to control of the whole team.

Excellent! Great language skills. Flag guard, the truth is that I don't know what that is... Please send me a message if you have any questions or comments. Take care!

noun+preposition

1. What was the cause of the explosion?

2. We're trying to find a solution to the problem.

3. Sue has a good relationship with her brother.

4. There has been a big increase in the cost of living.

5. I can't think of any answer to your question.

6. I dont think there is any need for the new road.

7. I think that there are many advantages to working at home.

8. Last month, there was a drop in people without jobs.

9.There is no demand for buying those shoes.

10. What's the difference between your job and mine?

Great job! Apart from a few prepositions, everything is perfect!

for/ during/ while

1. It rained for three days without stopping.

2. I fell asleep during the movie. 

3. I went to the theater last night. I met Sue during the intermission.

4. Mat hasn't lived in Unitied States all his life. He lived in Brazil for 4 years.

5. Production at the factory was seriously affected during the strike. 

6. Sarah was very angry with me. She didn't speak to me for a week. 

7. We usually go out on weekends, but we don't often go out during the week.

8. I need a change. I think I will go away for a few days.

9. We were hungry when we arrived. We hadn't had anything to eat during the trip.

10. The president gave a long speech. She spoke for 4 hours.

11. We met a lot of people while we were on vacation.

12.We met a lot of interesting people during our vacation.

13. The phone rang three times while we were having dinner.

14. There were many interruptions during the president's speech.

15. While I was on vacation, I didn't read any newspapers or watch tv.

16. I had been away for many years. During that time, many things had changed.

Great job! The only mistake was the passive voice which is quite difficult. Take care!

Are You a Fear-Based Person?

“All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
When you put these two quotes together it is transformative. I do not know if there is heaven or hell when we die. I will leave that to the spiritual experts. I am not one of them, but I will tell you, and I am sure you can agree: there is heaven and hell on Earth. Heaven, what is it? It is when the chains of habit reinforce what we really want to do, what our true destiny is. Hell is when our habits oppose what we know we should be doing. This is hell on Earth, to live at half capacity? What else could be hell? Injury? You can recover from an injury. Loss of Money? Bankruptcy? They might hit you. The average millionaire has been bankrupt twice, but you know what, they recover. But hell on earth is the time that you have lost because all the money in the world and all the wishing in the world will never get you back that time. All the heavens and all the hells are inside of you. They are there because when we grew up, society imposed its will on us, they call that social controls. Maybe your parents did not do the job they could have done because they did not know any better. The traumas of life. The new you, what is the new you? The new you strangely is probably the old you before society drop odds on your brain, before the education system imposed its will and kicked all the curiosity out of you and then society started telling you to shut up, before life kicked in and mother nature imposed fear. The habits of the mind begin to form. Fear becomes the dominant force in your life. The next thing you do you procrastinate, maybe the habit of the brain says what if people laugh at you ? Social control, or it says maybe what happens if you go broke? Economic pressure. Maybe it is overanalyzing, so you become paralyzed, because you've got too many options, paradox of choice. By the time you realize, you are a fear-based person, by the time you realize you procrastinate a lot; you are beginning to create hell on Earth. However, you can fix it if you understand the transformational power of the mind, you can change your destiny. All changes happen instantly even though it takes a while to show up, if you master the habits of the mind then the chains will fall off, and once the chains falls off, suddenly the things that you have been dreaming of you begin to do that is heaven on Earth.

Excellent! Apart from a few periods here and there I feel that everything is perfect. Great language skills! I would recommend dividing your text in two or three paragraphs as it will be easier to read that way. I don't know, stress, anxiety, depression, hopelessness can all be very painful states of mind. I do believe that emotional pain is much more severe than physical pain. Frustration can also be quite painful as well, which I think is what you're getting at. Although I do believe in hell after death, a place much more horrible than anything a human being can experience in this world. I think that defeatism is the most painful thing a human being can experience in this world, to lose all hope and to despair. Nothing worse than that.

An English Teacher

Today we invited a foreign English teacher for our students.
They talked a lot, but I found there is a lot of faults which they didn't realize (In American English it's "realize", in British English it's "realise", I think) in their sentences.
I know they can write correctly, but they can't speak very well. Even if they know the words they want to use, they don't know how to use them.
That's so bad.

Good job! I think that speaking in another language is very difficult because it's such a spontaneous process which can only be corrected with practice. And if you don't have very many opportunities to practice, you won't have very many opportunities to improve yourself either. Very few people choose to speak a foreign language when they can speak their native language, especially among peers. I think that as long as one can communicate one's thoughts, even if they're riddled with mistakes, that's what's most important, along with having the confidence to speak out in the first place.

feel free

I'm thinking of getting a motorbike.
When I came to the United States, I had disliked a motorbikes.
I thought they were dangerous and boring.
But my friends reassured me. The first time, I just sat on the motorbike, the second time I drove it.
Now I want to buy a motorbike for me. It's like a drug but so fun.
You feel free when you drive a motorbike.
Thank you for reading!

Good job! I don't even know how to drive a car, much less a motorbike. However, If I'm in a small town or in the country, where there's very little traffic and the motorbike is automatic, I feel more comfortable riding one. But I would never do so in the city, I get too nervous.

Does travelling alone gets people addicted?

After my last solo trip, which was to Foz de Iguaçu, Brazil, a lot of people came and asked me: ''Why didn't you invite me? I would have loved to go there with you!''. As a matter of fact, I didn't even think about inviting someone. I actually like travelling alone and I think I got so used to it, to the point that I don't think of travelling with someone else anymore.
It is strange to think about it because I always say I didn't start travelling alone by choice, but by lack of choice. At the time, I found myself eager for travelling, but nobody was willing to do it with me for lack of time, money or other reasons. Then, I started travelling alone, which was one of the best decisions of my life. After a while, my friends have changed, their finantial status improved (or "changed for the better") and it seems more of my friends are willing to travel, but I still doing it solo pretty much because I got used to that.
Have I become individualist? I have thought a lot about it and maybe I can go with someone else in my next trip. After all, travelling is about having experiences, and I think it is time to have experiences that are not so individualist anymore.

Great language skills! I usually travel with my wife -- sometimes she gets a bit grumpy on the road but I enjoy travelling with her anyway. A bad travelling partner can be a disaster as well, some people change completely when they travel and their dark side comes out, so you really get to know another side of the person when you're travelling. But yes, it's true, sharing those experiences are usually a joy. If you have a language question or comment please send me a message, take care,

Por qué quiero ser bibliotecaria

Mucha gente creen que las bibliotecas no son útiles debido al incremento en el uso de las computadoras para leer libros y investigar. Sin embargo, yo creo que no es así. Las bibliotecas proveen los servicios muy importantes para la communidad. Por ejemplo, la biblioteca es un sitio para los niños. Muchas bibliotecas tienen las horas de cuentos, artes y oficios y otros programas de educación. Para la gente con discapacidades visuales, las bibliotecas tienen libros en braille. Para la gente que no habla la lengua (la lengua local, o el idioma local), muchas bibliotecas tienen bibliotecarios que pueden traducir documentos importantes. Las bibliotecas restauran libros raros, pinturas y otras esculturas para conservar la historia para las generaciónes futuras. Cuando era niña me encantaba la biblioteca. No tenía muchos amigos pero la biblioteca era un lugar donde me sentía segura con mis cientos de amigos en el estante.

¡Excelente! Felicitaciones por un buen manejo del idioma. Yo diría una cosa más: las bibliotecas promueven una cultura del estudio. Cuando vas a una biblioteca y ves a decenas de personas leyendo o estudiando, te motivas a estudiar más. También hay textos que simplemente no se consiguen por internet. Si tienes alguna duda o pregunta, siéntate en plena libertad de enviarme un mensaje : )