Literacy

At the beginig of this year, we where informed that we had to do Literacy. It consisted on teaching persons that didn´t finish the school or even didnt know how to write. I started doing it on my own, I couldn´t do it with my classmates for obvious reasons , so I started to do literacy with Campaña´s help. I found out that in Quito there are lot of illitirates, that need help. The program consists on four modules, each one are for the level of knowledge that the person has. The illitirates that don´t know how to write and how to read go to the module one, and the persons that have more knowledge go to the module number two etc. When it was my first class on module one as a teacher, I was a little bit nervous, I didnt know how it would be. I didn´t have the skills to teach persons at the first time that I gave a class, after having giving class for two weeks, I think I got the ability to teach better. You need lots of factors to be a good teacher or you will fail on your mission to teach. First you need to be very patient, because if one person doesn´t get you what you want to say, you have to give him the subject again, without being forious and being patient. Other things that are important for being a good teacher are to be constant with the persons you are teching, if you want them to learn, you have to be constant and if they dont learn you have to teach them until they can get you and understand your subject. In my opinion I think the module one is the hardest, you have to teach them how to read, and how to write and sometimes it is stressing.
Another module that I enjoyed a lot was the number four. There, the persons were funny and you could teach them without any pression. Also the students were not hostiles and they always were collaborators, they wanted to suceed, and they made it. You can see how important is the education in our lifes. Sometimes we don´t care about that, we don´t give it importance, because sometime it can be tedious but it´s the only way for us to be somoene important in this life. Literacy should be an obligatory task that students from high school have to do. It would help people and would help our country.

Stardust. , my opinion

Stardust is a fiction and fantasy story. I really liked reading this book,because it has a very good story that contains love,drama and action. In the novel "Stardust",the author Neil Gaiman, shows us that the protagonist(Tristan) doesn´t give up, he was completely decided to find the "fallen star", he had a lot of adventures, and problems that were very difficult to solve, but in the end he found what he was looking for, with courage and bravery, he achieved what he wanted. In my opinion, I think that this message shows us that we have to gain what we want, without being mediocre or conformist, only this way we will get what we want in our lifes.
I stared reading this type of books when I was 12 years old, with a book named Lord Of The Rings. I was so excited with that book that I got interested in investigating more about fiction novels. I have read many books, but I think stardust is one of the best. When I went to buy Stardust in the library, the seller told me that he had Stardust, but not in spanish, he had it in english. I was a little bit disappointed, but I really wanted to read that book, so I bought it and read it.
If anyone tells me which novel or book I have read and I liked the most, I would say that it is Stardust, not only because of the detailed story it has, but also because it has a very good message, and what is more important, you will never get bored reading this book.

Stardust!

Neil Gaiman:

He was born on November 10, 1960.

He is an english author of science fiction and fantasy. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Nobela which is one of his most important and popular recognitions. He started writing and revieding extencively for the Bristish Fantasy Society. After that, he started to write his first professional short story named "Featherquest", a fantasy story which was publicated in Imagine Magazine in may 1984, when he was 23 years old. Two years after he decided to write his first book, a biography of the band Duran Duran. Also, he wrote interviews and articles about many British magazines. Because he was writing for different magazines at the same time, he sometimes had to use a diversity of pseudonyms.

He had a very good friend that was a comic book writer, his name was Alan Moore. Geiman was so interested about the comics that he started to write them . He had a contract with DC comics, and wrote the limited series Black Orchid, but he didn´t forget how to write novels. There are lots of books, including novels and comics, that he has written such as "Anasi Boys" and "The graveyard Book". One of his best sellers is the "Stardust" book. Some writers, like Stephen King, have recognized him thanks to that book, which has received numerous good critics.

Right now, he is working on a new novel named The Dream Catchers; this time, however, this will be a non- fiction book.

Stardust

It all started with one man called Tristan Thorn, he lived in a small English village of "Wall". Tristan was 18 years old, he had a normal a life but he was totally enamored of the prettiest girl in the village, called Victoria. Unfortunately he had a rival in the town called Humphrey, he was always better than Tristan in any aspect even in love, why? because Humbhrey was Victoria´s boyfriend. Tristan was so in love with her that he didn´t care about Humbhrey.One night Tristan convinced Victoria to come out to a night time picnic to look at the stars. There she said to Tristan that he will marry with the one which find the "fallen star". He was decided to go and bring it to her. After that Trsitan used some magic and was teleported where the fallen star was. When he looked at it he was completely surprised. The fallen star was actually a beauriful, inmortal young woman named Yvaine. Tristan really wanted to win Victoria´s heart, and he used another magic to link Yvaine to himself but before that he also promised Yvaine he will use his magic to teleport her back to the sky after bringing her to Victoria. He was not the only one that was looking for that star, there was a very malicious witch called Lamia, she wanted the star to restore her own youth. Also the sons of the king of Stromhold where "Wall" village is wanted the stone that Yvaine had like a necklace, they needed it for being the next king. So there was lot of people that wanted Yvaine for some reason. Tristan didn´t know that, so one of those days when he was returning the witch apear and they had a beattle, the witch used and spell and turned tristan into a mouse, they were captured. As soon as the battle was over the sons of the king arrived, there the witch and the persons who wanted the stone of Yvaine for being the King had an enourmus battle. Tristan and Yvaine advantage that and scaped. The spell of Trstian was over and he was again human. They spent a lot of time together, and tristan didn´t want Victoria anymore, He wanted Yvaines true love. They arrived to the kingdom and because Tristan had the stone that Yvanine had it he became the king of all then kindom called Stromhold and Yvaine was her queen. Yvaine gave her heart to Tristan when she felt in love with him, so when the years passed they became twin stars, and the two will live together forever, and still live happily even after in the sky.

My movie! Douglas Doesn´t Want to Wake Up

My Movie
Douglas Doesn´t Want to Wake Up!

Douglas lay in his bed. The wind blows in through his open window but has nowhere else to go. Outside insects like crickets make music and whispering leaves add their harmony, and still he feels no peace. He closes his eyes, dreaming of sleep.
He jumps out of his window from the second floor and land on the wet grass. The air even feels humid and cold. He pulls air into his lungs and start running. Douglas races under the border of trees that block his house from the wild. There, the wind blows as it wishes, through the wheat field. Douglas gain speed as he climb the hill and rush past the junkyard. A bird flies, a rabbit runs and the wheat brushes against his legs. He thinks they´re racing but he knows he´ll win. No one is as fast as I am on this night! He makes it to the edge of the woods, not slowing as he run into the darkness. The pince straw is greasy buy he has no fear of the risk of falling. With dirty legs and wet hands, he stands up to his full height in the night, breathing in the cold. How can anyone sleep on a night this? He´s alive in the world that gives his life! His legs starts to feel frozen and he slips a little, scraping his right arm and hand.
He climbs all the way to the top of a tree, feeling as light as the wind. This is the tallest tree, the strongest one in the forest. From the peak, he can see his house, his empty bed. Beside it Douglas can see the wheat field. The wind doesn´t push it around as strongly now. He hugs the tree, feeling bonded to it by pressing his against the bay.
The dried sheets are around his legs. It´s almost dawn; the starts are gone and the moon is barely there. A bird has woken him up, singing insistently! The cool climate sharps into his nose. He turns his head to look at his clock, instead seeing his wheelchair!!! Doctors say that his legs might work one day. He exhales noisly, feeling incompletely unhappy.
There is dirt on his feet. He is confused and reaches out his hand to feel his legs. He notices a cut on his palm that runs down his arm. He raises his hand to brush face, and feel brushwood in his hair. Somewhere, the bird still sings, softer now, but strongly.

My favorite Place! yeah!

My favorite place

Every part of the world has their own magic; but some are prettiest than others. When I was a little kid I used to go to my grandparents house for a long time, in Baños. In that age I did not realize how amazing and incredible village was it. Now that I am sixteen, I can say that´s my favorite place. There you can do lots adventures and activities that the city offers you. You can go for a walk on the big mountains that surrond Baños or you can go for an exciting travel in boat. When I am in that cities I always eat delicious food because there are meny restaurants of all kind of flavors but I like specially one called ¨The Hood¨, the owner of that restaurant is American, he is a good person and he is accustomed to give me discount in the bill, it is because my grandparents have a good friendship with him. Also, there´s another restaurant that I like but not so much, It´s called ¨El Diablo¨the atmosphere is cozy and the specialty of this restaurant is the authenticate Argentinean barbecues, ho! that food is very delicious but the reason why I don´t like so much this restaurant is because you have to reserve and that´s kind of annoying.

The HooD!

Baños is a multicultural city, there you can find people from Asia, USA and Europe.
It´s a city where you can meet new people and make new friends. When I go there I never get bored, sometimes I have no time to do all the things that I want. When I walk in the mountains that sorround the city, it feeels like a dream, like those landscapes that are described in poems or in J.R.R. Tolkien novels. After having sweated and walked it´s great to have a shower in those thermal pools. Those pools are very calmed and very clean of course. The night life there in Baños is wonderful; there are many places where you can go like bars and restaurants with live music, in the nighty I like to ride one eccentric bus called ¨chiva¨That is very crazy! It´s a unique experience, there you can sing and do a lot of disturbance, no one prohibits you!. After have tripped all the city on the ¨Chiva¨ the owners of the bus invites you to a bonfire, and it is also an opportunity to meet new people and make new friends. I think I have told why Baños is my favorite place. That city has everything, from calming walking until wild parties.
Oh yeah Baños is the place where I would like to life.


But my favorite place in my house? Ho!. good question, I think it´s my room: there I can do what I want and there I have my most valuable thing, my playstation, it is the new one. I love videogames, specially those games where you have to think a lot and solve huge problems, Ho it´s really exciting.
I don´t now why some people don´t like it, they say that it rots your mind but actually it´s confirmed from Scientifics that videogames hepls you to reason and rice our IQ.
Also in my room I have my guitar, it is my other passion, and I always want to know how to play in the guitar a new song, but some of them are very difficult to play and there´s when I feel very disappointed. But when I like the most this room is when my friends come. They are rally crazy! and they are very good freinds. We usually do championships with some videogames specially with one called Guitar Hero, that´s a really interesting game, but it can creat conflict between friends because some don´t want to lose.
My room is a kind of temple for me, I am very careful and I try to keep it clean! I don´t like the rooms thar are disorderly. What´s more I think our room shows our personality, peolpla who have it without care their room is how they worry about themselfs! tha´s my opinion.
I really like my room, and I wouldn´t change it for nothing.
Well, those are many favorites places.