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Friday, 13 October 2023
YUCELY NARVAEZ, LEVEL 9 ENGLISH COURSE
PERSONAL PROFILE
Thursday, 12 October 2023
MY FIRST CALAVERITA
CALAVERITA 💀
The Death comes to Cephcis School
with a beautiful dark dress and
a bouquet of cempazuchitl, that
it'd want to exchange for someone
who'd like to dance with her
and after traveling to the beyond,
but quickly Teachers ejected her and
her bouquet they kept.
By Adri Ramos C 🎃
English level 7
Cephcis
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
My Personality in 100 words
By Alejandra Bisogno Sauri
I’m an introvert and solitary person. Actually, I’m extra circumspect when making friends. Nevertheless, as a human being, I’m still gregarious. So I’m always looking to surround myself with open-minded and easygoing people. Most of my friends are the considerate and perceptive type, who will listen to you and make you feel seen. I don’t get along with apathetic or neurotic people. They’re a pain in the neck. As a fact, I’d say I’m prone to avoiding chatterboxes, busybodies or wet blankets. Individuals like that will just rob your energy. I have an inclination for conscientious, inspirational and unprejudiced people.
Personal Profile Essay
My name is María Alejandra Bisogno Sauri, but I like to be called Ale. I‘m from Mérida, Yucatán and so are all my family members. I studied Modern Language and Literature at Universidad Modelo. I have worked in a school’s library since September, 2022. Currently, I’m taking an online publishing and editing course given by Abismos casa editorial. In the future, I‘d like to study a master’s degree in Literary Translation. My dream is to become a translator and a professional photographer.
I‘m an introvert with an artistic personality. I usually spend my leisure time taking and editing photographs, reading, drawing, writing, or watching films. Last year, I took a couple of photography courses.
I also have a passion for languages. I studied French for almost five years (2018-2022). Recently, I‘ve been interested in Korean. Someday, I would like to learn other languages such as Japanese, Mayan and Swedish.
I consider myself someone curious, creative, organized and flexible. These traits have helped me to achieve my goals in my different pastimes. If I had to describe myself in one sentence, I would say that I’m a passionate learner.
Alejandra Bisogno Sauri
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Marcela Esquivel, level 9
Calaverita
By Marcela Esquivel
I´m afraid of this level nine
But I know it is going to be fine
I just want to catch
all the listening have
Because if I could not
this skull is going off
If only I could think
in all the grammar things!
But I don´t want to regret
because I have to accept
everything I´ve learnt.
Personal profile draft:
My name is Marcela Esquivel. I´m from Costa Rica but I have been living in México for five years. I have two sisters and one brother, all of them are living in Costa Rica with my parents.
I like sports, that is why I studied Physical Education at university.
When I finished my degree, I went to Germany to study volleyball and also I visited several countries in Europe.
Travel is one of my favorite things to do, so when I started working I used to save money to go and visit other countries.
About my skills at work, I am a very responsible and hardworking person, those characteristics have helped me to get good job positions. Also, I have a master degree and now I am studying English, which makes my professional profile more complete.
Every day I try to balance my professional and personal life to feel happy and satisfied, most of the day I achieve it.
My personality
When
I was young, I didn't have the elements to express my feelings assertively. I used to be obstinate. That's why I tended to
be a black sheep. I had a tendency to focus on the things I wanted, so I kept
getting annoyed.
Nowadays
I'm more conscientious about other people's needs. I´m always looking to
understand the situations and adapt myself to things I can´t change.
I´m
not the life and the soul of the party, but I have an inclination to enjoy
meeting people.
I
know I will continue learning how to relate effectively with others.
Saturday, 7 October 2023
*Calaverita* by Silvia corzo
Thursday, 16 June 2022
Aged people, do they really become useless?
By Carmen Calderon
As years go by we become more aware of the deterioration of our bodies and "minds". It should be considered that ageing (could be) is “normal” (without chronic diseases or pathological mental states)
Among the causes we can mention is the increasing mental inertia of routinary lives, without stopping and asking ourselves “Is there anything else I would like to achieve?”, which triggers the little or no contribution to society by our generations and the resulting feeling of despair in a stage in which learning to be "with oneself" becomes vital.
Research carried out on the social image of the elderly has concluded that the social perception of older people is basically negative.
Therefore, in this sense we have the responsibility to inform ourselves in order to treat older adults in a dignified, comprehensive, and non-discriminatory manner, considering them to be the socially active subjects they really should be.
Furthermore, speaking integrally, we quote Peck (1959, 1968)1, who establishes four stages:2
- Appreciation of wisdom versus physical strength.
- Socialisation versus sexualization in human relation.
- Emotional flexibility versus emotional impoverishment.
- Flexibility versus mental rigidity.
Science is currently demonstrating through its research how a good quality of life in the Third Age is a necessary and achievable aspect by making use of the resources and potentialities inherent to the Human Being, and which far from being limitations at this stage of life, are capacities that keep on developing.
One possible solution is the creation of spaces where the elderly can socialise and use their talents, in the activity they enjoy the most. It would be a place for entertainment, a place of respectful coexistence between people of similar ages and/or interests. The activities to be developed there could be a reading club, dancing lessons, or putting into practice talents to express themselves in a creative way, such as painting, singing, public speaking, and many others.
To conclude, older people would take advantage of their experience and talents to learn how life can be enjoyable regardless of how old they are. Being aware of this, we can enjoy life much more than our predecessors did as we age and the incidence of mental and emotional disorders could be reduced to its minimum level ever!
1 https://www.gob.mx/inapam/articulos/envejecimiento-y-vejez?idiom=es
2 https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/3498/349832315005.pdf