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.