Good for the business

Hope

OK, I admit it...the picture is far from good. However, I will share it because I loved the message on it:

¨Hi, I´m Mili I love dogs¨
¨Don´t abandon them¨ 

My heart melted when I saw it.

PAWTERNITY

Hi readers!!

Today I have to do the most difficult thing ever: post a free entry.

It is easier of course when we are given the parameters and someone tells us exactly what to do. Well, this is not the case.

I spent the whole day trying to think about what to share with you and I remembered when I entered the teacher training college (long long ago). In my first year writings, I couldn't write about anything but missing dogs/cats finding a new home (poor Miss G how much have I tortured her...). However, along second year that bad habit disappeared. Of course, it wouldn't last...when we were asked to write a short story in third, I returned to my "comfort zone" (hopefully enough my teacher loved the story - the fact that I made fewer mistakes had nothing to do (? -)

So... as bad habits are difficult to overcome today's post is about pets!! What a surprise, right?

I came across an incredibly interesting article about PAWTERNITY. I can't understand how this concept wasn't coined before. 

In the article, it is said that adopting a dog or cat is very similar to having a new baby and I totally agree. Our lives change forever the moment we decide to enlarge the family (no matter if the new member has its body covered with fur or not) We have to adapt our house (put wires out of reach for example), rearrange our timetable, understand that our needs aren't important anymore (if the puppy wants to play no matter what the time is or how tired you are, you have to play), etc

As I have said, this article is about Pawternity. An amazing detail about this is that some companies (at least 3) give their workers 2 weeks off when they adopt a pet 

(let's start asking our legislative power to sanction a law about this!) I don't want to spoil the article so I leave you the link below. 

Ps: If you don't have one, make yourself a favour and adopt a pet or two. 

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Http://uk.businessinsider.com/companies-give-employees-pawternity-leave-2017-3/#mars-petcare-1

The heaviest baggage

Hi everyone!

Today I want to share with you a video related to the role that our first language plays on the acquisition of a second language. Eventhough this video is about transfer, it is interesting to see how it affects both our pronunciation and also our use of the language. I know that publishing a more than 3 minutes video is not the style of these days  (as none  of us have such an amount of time available for such an activity) it was very easy to follow. Hope you like it!

Btw, if you happen to have the time, enter the page "The Ling Space"; there are lot of videos related to L1, L2, acquisition, fossilazation, etc. 

PS: I share the link because I couldn't upload the video (I need my computer 😭 the phone is not the same😒)...although I AM a millenial, sometimes technology is a struggle for me.
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https://youtu.be/UB18y2ZYBiY

Power

     Today I want to share with you something related to teaching and the power that teachers and schools have in their hands. Sometimes we cannot realize that power and we make use of it without even noticing. I´m reading a book by Chomsky called ¨MisEducation¨. The first part was extremely interesting but then it turned a bit boring, so I didn´t finish it yet. I will share a piece from the introduction written by Donaldo Macedo, who has published extensively in the areas of linguistics, critical literacy, and bilingual and multicultural education (Wikipedia Dixit, hahaha!) 

     There is a song that portrays how students in the U.S were made to believe some ¨lies¨, as Macedo says, about their country and the role that they had to play. 

What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine?

What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine?

I learned that Washington never told a lie,

I learned that soldiers seldom die,

I learned that everybody´s free,

And that´s what the teacher said to me

That´s what I learned in school today,

That´s what I learned in school.

I learned that policemen are my friends,

I learned that justice never ends,

I learned that murderers die for their crimes

Even if we make a mistake sometimes.

I learned our government must be strong,

It´s always right and never wrong 

Our leaders are the finest men

And we elect them again and again.

I learned that war is not so bad.

I learned about the great ones we have had.

We´ve fought in Germany and in France,

And someday I might get my chance.

That´s what I learned in school today

That´s what I learned in school.

Tom Paxton

   

 Honestly, the first time that I read this, it gave me a chill; poor children! Of course, that the brainwashing wasn´t that noticeable, was it? However, nowadays I think that some teachers still use the power that we have in order to convince their students mainly about things like politics stuff. 

      I would like to know what do you think about this song and if you've ever learnt about a teacher doing some hidden brainwashing (names are not required, hahaha)

CU soon.

Not

Remember this 👇

Have you ever...?

Have you ever noticed the moment when a leaf is falling to the ground? I'm not talking about when it is still hunging on the tree neither when it is already on the ground. I'm talking about the exact moment when it flies for the first time, when it is set free from that tree that has given to it life and health and to which the leaf won't can never return again. Now its destiny is to continue flying if the wind happens to appear, but if the wind does not appear, the leaf's last destiny is to become food for the living creatures that have the ground as their home. Maybe even the tree that has given it life could benefit from the death of the leaf.

Talking about leaves...

Have you ever (as an adult) jumped on a pile of dry leaves? That noise is priceless because it has the ability to transport us to our childhood. Those precious times when problems did not exist yet, when we did not need an amount of things to be happy. Happiness was as simple as being able to complete "The Lion King's" album; that event could provide us with happiness for a couple of months (I got stuck 1 picture far from that goal). Happiness was being the winner at our favourite board game by beating our siblings. Happiness was going to visit our grandparents and return home being unable to breath because our full stomaches didn't allow us to do it (Italian family).

Talking about food...

Have you ever noticed the love in that special meal that someone has prepared for you? We know that cooking a different meal every day could be exhausting for our minds. However, each time that a dish is cooked with love, it has an extra magical element. We can differentiate a meal which was made with love from another that lacks that don't-know-what ingredient that changes its taste, aspect and even its smell. When we enter a home in the moment that someone is cooking, we can tell if the lunch/dinner is been made with or without "the special ingredient" by how it smells. 

Talking about smells...

Have you ever recognized a smell? It can occur that someone we cross on the street wears the same perfume as our grandma, parents or ex used to wear and instantaneously we remember that person (who maybe was forgotten in the last corner of our minds) and all of a sudden a smile or a tear happen to appear. If it is the second case, we try to take a tissue as fast as our hands allow us and when we touch that soft piece of paper we feel that we are safe and sound again only because we are touching that comforting tissue. 

Talking about touching...

Have you ever pet a dirty, unhealthy, hungry dog on the street? It is the most incredible sensation ever! Of course you need to do it carefully because some people approach dogs only to shout at them or even kick them. So the dog does not know your intentions. Nevertheless, we all know how intelligent are they. If you use the correct tone of voice and correct physical language, you will be able to get closer enough to pet him/her (sorry, I can't talk about animals as "it"). When you finally touch the dog an instantly connection takes place, they need our love and kindness. I strongly think that they (dogs and cats) are our responsability - humans' responsability- because our species has domesticated them in order to use them as protectors and helpers during huntings. It is our fault that now they depend on us to survive. Therefore, every time I come across one of them I pet them no matter how dirty or unhealthy they look like. Touching their fur and looking at those eyes is priceless.

Aren't our 5 senses amazing?

I will talk about the 6th one in another opportunity. It deserves a whole post.

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Origami Wolf

First attempt

Second attempt

Instructions:
https://mybeautylife2015.blogspot.com.ar/2018/04/origami-wolf.html?m=1
Thanks for sharing Vero 😄

Ps: Yes, I was taught to upload gifs. So from now on, you can expect many of them in my post hahaha!
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Make your choice

Hi, there!

In this opportunity, I will turn to the professional aspect of my life and share with you some videos related to 4 language teaching styles. 

They will be in alphabetical order, of course.

 Community Language Learning 

Silent Way

Suggestopedia 

Total Physical Response

Which one do you like the most?

Enter at your own risk

Hi everyone!! 

I want to ⚠ you from the very beginning of the post: this one got longer than I had expected, so if you are short of ⏰... go ...do your duties... and come back later. 

Having that said...

This post should have been the 🥇 but... It is never too late, right? 

I will introduce myself today. My name is Paula Lanzarotti (yes, only 1 name - my 👨👩 were short of creativity when I was born - ) 

I´m ₃₂ years old and I live in a 🏢 in Escobar (Buenos Aires - Argentina) since 2010 with my 👨Pablo, he is 40 years old. We are not ´legally´💍 but marriage it´s much more than a📜, isn´t it?

During my 👧hood, I lived with my 👪 in a 🏢 in 🐅 (my favourite place in the whole 🌎)

But the family was getting bigger...from 4 members (👨👩👧👧) and a male dog 🐕

it grew to 5 (+👧) and my mother was waiting for the 6th (👦) 

So, at the 🅴🅽🅳 of 1996, we moved to Garin to a 🏡with a huge green garden. The positive thing about living there was that I was allowed to have more pets 😍. 
Therefore, I had 2 more female 🐕🐕

and a female🐈 

(two of the dogs and the cat have passed away) 

However, last year I added a new member to the family.

A little note about the pets of my family: as you can see from the 📷 all of them were taken from the streets. I don't like buying pets, I think that they are not 'things' that we can buy at a shop like:

👩"Hi! Give me a little white 🐩 and two black 🐺🐺, please" 

👨"Sorry, we only have grey Huskies for now" 

👩"Well, it´s ok... I will take them anyway"

👨"Great, it is 💵"

😒😒😒😒

Going back to the present, I have a pet of course. He is３ years old and his name is Ichi, it means "one" in Japanese - because he is the first pet that we (my👨and I) own - Everyone who knows Ichi falls in💗with him, he is just adorable and so loving. Although I know that 🐭🐮🐯🐰 do not have a language like us, he understands so many words and phrases that is 😲. He can differentiate the words ⚽, toy, go, 👵👴, Garin, etc and he has different reactions for them.  

Here some 📷 of him. 

Yes, I love him!!!!! 

I was forgetting to tell you about my "professional" life. Well, I hope to finish the teacher training college this year. I´m 2 subjects and 3 final exams from that goal. 

Last year I started working as a teacher of English and by the end of the year, I had 7 groups. In the beginning, It was really terrifying but as the year went by I enjoyed it.  

Well, it is ⏳to finish my post, you have too much information about me already (please, do not sell it on the internet 😜)

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Ps1: Someone has recently described me as a ¨dog lover¨. As you can see, there is no evidence of that in this post, hahaha!

Ps2: This post was inspired by a book of my childhood similar to this... 

The Reason Why

Today I want to tell you the reason why I have chosen the name of my blog. As we know, inspiration could be really evasive sometimes... while I was looking for an amazing, outstanding, creative phrase for my blog I thought: There should be so many blogs in  English already 😕...mine is going to be the number...and suddenly the name came. It was not a matter of creativity. The number, as anyone can guess, is my date of birth (Yes! I´m that old 😳) However, there is a positive thing regarding the 26th Octubre 1985, does that day ring any bell? Well, I´m one of those in that select group of people who can say that their date of birth is included in a film and not any film...in a trilogy (nope...it is not The Lord of the Rings😒)
It´s Back to the Future (by the way, I LOVE the trilogy - such a modern word for an old film...¨trilogy¨) 

So, now you know what is behind the name of my blog. 

I wonder if you google your date of birth, what are the results...Had something interesting happened that day? (apart from your birth of course 😝)

This is for those of you who had not watched the most fantastic trilogy ever

Waiting in Vain (?

Hi, there! 

On this rainy day I am listening to´Waiting in Vain´ (Bob Marley´s song - shame on you if you don´t know that -) and suddenly I thought: Why do we always wait for things to come to us and knock at our door saying: "Here I am, finally I have arrived"! Well, as we are all grown-ups, we know that nothing in this world works in that way. 

Going back to the matter of ´waiting´, please do not misunderstand me, I know that sometimes we have to wait for certain things to happen but...Have you ever had that feeling of being waiting in vain for something? Do you think that waiting is useful? I think that we spend half of your lives waiting...waiting for the right moment, for a person to change, for our retirement to travel (and what if when we get retired our body is no longer able to carry us where we want to go, if our mind is no longer able to enjoy life, and what if there is not retirement, if the end hit us earlier than we expect it?)
Well, I get too pessimistic and that is not me. So, I will leave you with our friend Bob.  =) 
Ps: I´m eager to read your comments. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgI3FpJHVAg