IDENTITY

First of all, everything I carry in my wallet shows my identity as a foreign student because I have my Colombian ID and Colombian driver license. Also, I can identify myself as a religious person because of the image of Jesus Christ and Blessing virgin Mary. I prefer to handle credit card rather than cash. Finally, I can say that I am just interest in important things like health (ensure card), study (library card), and driving.

People can say that I am from Hispanic culture, I often use my credit card rather than cash, I am a religious person or at least I am catholic. Also, people could say that I like to study in the library, and I have a strong connection with my country because of my Colombian identifications.

People will not be able to find familiar backgrounds like pictures about my parents and siblings. Neither things that show my passion for the music or my favorites stuffs like soccer, dance, sing, etc.

scavenger hunt

Hello everybody
Scavenger hunt was a wonderful and fun experience for beginning this new semester at Nazareth. I had the opportunity to work with Khalid and Hassam and that was great because we took pictures, picked up different things, and had good conversations with different kind of people around the campus. The most interesting conversation was with The Dean because he was so kindly and funny. A very good man. This activity is very important because it helped us to be in relationship with friends and it allowed us to discover new spaces in the campus and talk with different people.


Thank you

GOALS

Hello everybody
This semester is over and I want to talk about my achievements during this period. first of all, I improved my English skills in terms of academic writing and speaking, even though I recognize that English is a lenguage which is learned everyday and all the time there are several new things for learning. Also, I built on good relationships with the classmates with who I spent a lot of time and learned differents things about each one. Finally, it was a challenge to attend academic classes like these because it was my first time in a classroom listening everything in English and testing the four English skill; listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
I have many goals for my future, but in specific terms I want to improve my English in the academic and social field, I want to become a professional in the United States in the philosophy field and maybe to be a teacher.
 Thank you everyone

THANKSGIVING

1. In the first story ( ESL Thanksgiving Traditions)  we can read  an information much more detailed in which there are many important historical aspects about the pilgrims and the relationship with the tradition of thanksgiving. The second story, called Squanto Helped the Pilgrims, poses a reduced information about a specific figure ( Squanto) and his role in the history of thanksgiving.
The first one talks about Samoset who was an Abnaki Indian, and after it refers to Squanto. in the second story everything is about Squanto and his work with the pilgrims.
According to the second lecture, Squanto had learned English in Europe, but the first one specifies better that he learned it in England.

2. I think they are not different but one is more detailed than another. I mean, for example, the first one ( ESL) has more information about the historical event and the second ( Squanto) takes just one part of the event because it wants to focus just in the Squanto's role in relationship with the pilgrims.

3. Yes, we have several stories that we read, but really they are not true or more of their details never happened in the history. For example, we have the story about LA BATALLA DE BOYACA ( the Boyaca's battle) in Colombia. when you read it you can imagine a big and cruel battle, but according to historical events it wasn't too astonishing.

POLYCRONIC AND MONOCHRONIC

I consider myself as a polychron person for several reasons. First of all, because of the Latin culture in which I was born. Time is not the most important factor in terms of relationships, interaction with society, or development of activities. Second one, I like to do several things at the same time in order to advance much faster with my intellectual, social, and personal growing.

Also, punctuality is not relevant in my life, I prefer to attend the content of a meeting or class without take care the time.

As a polychron person, I have many distractions at the moment in which I am doing something, distractions like music, internet, social events, etc.

Finally, I would like to say that priority of things is very important to me, I mean, when I have a plan (in terms of having fun or relationships) but suddenly appear something much more important or relevant in my job or study, I change the plans and I focus in the priority.

I could say that sometimes I am monochron, like many people would say the same thing, but in the mostly part of my life the time does not enough relevance.

NEW YORK CITY

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