The italian man of the cool beard.

Hello everyone.

Is not unbelieveable how time past and you do not notice at all?  That is what I feel right now while I am remembering everything through this semester. 

After I gave a glace to those moments and to the things I learnt I feel there is still a long way to go and that we must keep going forward in the way of knowledge everyday, everytime.

The most significant things this semester were to practice more and more and more my writing style, to read more, to learn new vocabulary, that have helped me to become a better student.

The best part of this subject are the activities that made the days less heavier and funnier  and not just a mere informational class.

We met a new kind of teacher and that "italian" guy with a cool beard is the proffesor Jean Paul, I would say all of us can still feel the shock of many moments we spend at class with him and also the quotes and the facials expresions he let to us that we have taken to use them for ourselves like really?

Professor I appreciate a lot your work and how you make us got the feeling of "let's start working" because,  the sentence is complete when we apply it.

I enjoyed a lot my time here, writing, leting myself go, be who I really am, and practice the beautiful art of writing.

Thanks for making the differance.

what is going to happen with your blog now?

what are you going to write about now?

Thanks for follow me in this journey.

A past life.

Greetings dear readers.

Have you ever started remembering something by someone, a smell, an image, a place, etc?
I am sure you have, well let me tell you that, this kind of experience it is called flashback and it is also a method applied in movies and literature.
This week, we worked at class this concept by constructing a little paragraph where we told our first experience remembering the day we met the proffesor Jean Paul.
Here it is what I wrote:
As I am In Jean Paul's class, I hear in the distance the thunders, which reminds me of the frist day I met him with that explosive personality he has and how funny I thought his beard was.

And now if you allow me, I am going to developt this concept in a tale.


Sometimes I look back trying to recover what I lost.  I try to recover those artifacts so useful that were lost in  every battle. I see encapsulated those moments, still in time.
 From that moment there are only a trace of photos that remind me that days like those are not going to happen anymore.

I remember those afternoons when I was going home from my studies. I had to go through some beautiful architectures that matches the nature. Those yellowish shades of light in the morning and afternoon were perfect, therefore I used to turn to not go home and I laid down in the lawn for a while in neighbor garden that was next to an old mansion that had become a nursing home.

After revel in the landscape, I enjoyed  throwing a few stones to the windows of the mansion. It was very fun to break those glasses and fit an occasional pebble in the nurses bra while they came running after me with the spirit of taking me to the police, but I was a very clever boy and just a few people could beat me running. After fleeing and cause such havocs, I headed home hoping to eat a plate of beef soup. My mother used to made the best beef soup.
When I ended the meal I prepared myself to enjoy watching the cartoons with my brother all day long, awating the return of our father's work

He always brought us some surprise; they were mostly toys and trinkets. My mother deceived us grabbing much of what my father brought us by making us believe we could not eat too much sweet and flour.

In this moment I remember those days, those moments are freezen in time. I can feel in every throb how I wish I could revive those glory days, when there was no existence of such a dire word "responsibility". Times when the only thing that worried me was the arrival time of my dad from work.

That was my tale, I hope you liked it. I just have one question for you today.

What was the best memory from your childhood?

Again writing stories.

How you doing everyone?
The proffesor Jean Paul  have been really interested in making us write until we get good at this.
However this week we tried again the objective of writing a tale but in this case we had some words with their meanings being twist with another words. It is difficult at the begining but after you get the idea of what you have to do, everyting just flow.

This is the story I wrote:

She was trying to find an umbrella, so she could escaped by dving from her box that came drunk to hit her and mistreat her as he got used to everytime he drank alcohol.
As soon as she escaped, she found a night to call her mother to save her from the ravioli plates because she was now scared and alone in that stormy city.
However her box realized his box escaped from him and he said: "why did she escape? if I only wanted to give her a house monster and then a shaking monster to show her how much I care for her..."
The girl was walking now down the street when she started zoo the man of her dreams, he was tall and thin like a coffemaker and yes he also fell in love from her.
So at the end he an she scratched their noses, got marry and had many kids. And her old box, well he married and old lady was zoo her daughter.

I hope you like my story, now here are some words so you can construct a little paragraph with them.

Journey: nightmare
think: cry
shoemaker: lovemaker
let it flows: eat cucumbers
nice: repulsive.

I want to read your stories, soon really soon.

Writing with friends

Hello dear readers.

This week we did a very delightful activity at class. This time the proffesor Jean Paul let our creativity go too far away in this work. We were supposed to write a story line based on a question we created previously.
I think all of us did pretty strange questions as senseless as well because at the beginning we did not really know what was going to happen and we were "scared" of what pretended the proffesor Jean Paul with that.
I have to say that I enjoyed the moment when he said we should follow the stories of our classmates and I also have to say that I feel sorry because I ruined your tales, but even after I sowed the seed of chaos, you have to admit we all made very exceptional stories.
Althought the best part of this job was to see the creativity, capacity and the imagination all of my classmates have and how they wrote such amazing and crazy things (just with the power of boredom).
Well, I hope we can do this activity one more time and do it seriously and see that potential of writing of all of us.

Thanks for reading my post.

Here are some questions for you

1.Would you like to write a poem, tale or a novel with someone else? how you think it would be?
2. Is there something special you need to start writing like a feeling, inspiration, an image,etc?
3. Where is the proud dog planning to be kind with the snake?

About the politics, program and teaching of english...

Greetings.

This week we read at class the politics of  English of our university, the national program of English which the government developed and published last year, and what does say the education law about foreign languages.
In first place I have to say that every single thing exposed in these documents were terrific however in paper things looks too good but in reality... they fail. I hope at least that many of the things these documents want to do will become a reality to us and not because it is an economical imposition but because it will be a great opportunity to all of us to have a chance of going forward, and not just suggestions and proposals that does not get accomplish.

I deeply doubt of what does pretend the government with this "program" and if would not be just dying words as they always do.
Those are just my considerations please do not take it personal.

Question time:
1.Do you actually think our gobernment care for education (in this case the learning of a foreing language like English)? I mean for real?
2.Why do you think the teacher Jean Paul showed this to us? Maybe it is because we are being evaluated by the education ministry...
3. Why do they showed us this documents now and not at the beginning of the bachelor? and also why we did not care to look for this before?

Oh grammar, grammar...

The grammar is not a matter to be learned and then recited by heart, but to be understood and applied to all the varients of the language and specially, to the literary language that, for its biggest firmness, continuity, and correction is offered as the best model to follow. It finds its more appropiate stadium logically of studious in the secondary education and in the university. Maybe also, because it is advisable to have present that the pleasure for the grammar is usually wankened up and it is developted very belatedly in the individual coinciding, sometimes with its unexpected licking to the philosophy.
If the importance of the study of the language is fundamental in the primary so much teaching or more should be it the one of the grammar in the subsequent stages: stocking and superior. However, in all and do not take such a statement like a paradox or like a minimum aspiration. The purpose that any teacher or proffesor should spread will be the one of  "teaching to read", according to the oppinion of  Lanson "it consists on facing a text, figuring out what there is in him". This is certainly quite more difficult of as much as it appears at first sight and it presupposes, naturally, a parallel training in the writing, as well as the creation in the scholar of an elementary critical aptitude, at the same time of going forming in him an enough lexicon and a basic knowledge of the literature. Because the language and the literature are not independently, but inseparables parts of oneself and an unique formative process.

1. Do you think is correct to teach little kids grammar, why?

2. How important is grammar for you?

3. Why the teaching of grammar is useful for anybody?

Idioms you should have in mind.

Hi everyone. Once again I bring you a post and this one is going to be about idioms and what would be their meaning and translation in spanish.
Idioms are important because they are one perfect place to find and do culture. They help our language to be richer and also even if you do not believe me to save energy.
So here are some idioms I found. (I hope you like this mini tale I made)

-Sophy and Carol came to blows yesterday...
-Sophy? did you say Sophy? ¡For crying out loud! what happened?
-you know girls like to spread gossip words of  everything but this is the real story.Just promise me you won't tell Sophy I told you this.
-C'mon girl you're me making hesitate.
-ok,ok, they came to blows because Carol gave her the cold shoulder whe she told her she was pregnant... she is having the blues right now.
-really? is that a reason to start a fight? This is just a tale.
- let me tell you more Sophy's dad was not afraid to made no bones about her when he found out the fight and her pregnancy.
-shut up girl...

 After that awful story if you did not understood nothing I will give the meaning of the idioms so you can see what happened there.

-Come to blows: It means to start a fight with someone (note: when you are about to kick someone's butt). The spanish version is "Irse a los puños".
-For crying out loud: It is an exclamation that indicates a complaint. This idiom is like: Oh my God. And in spanish is "Dioj mio" hahaha just kidding do not say that your teacher may be mad (already). It is just "Por Dios" or "Dios mio"
-Give someone the cold shoulder means to ignore someone, treat someone in an unfriendly way. In spanish it would be "Darle la espalda a alguien".
-Have the blues means to be really sad or being depressed. In spanish would be "estar llevado"
-Make no bones about means not being afraid to speak. In spanish that is "hablar sin pelos en la lengua".

I hope you like my post of today and if not well you can go and....have a nice day. Even if you did not like it I hope you understand why are importants the use of idioms in any language.

My work for all of you today is to build a little story with the idioms you know . Let me know your stories at the commets

see ya soon.

Interview #2

How you doing everyone? This post is dedicated to one good friend of all of us. He is Jaime Bautista. He has a very interesting life. He has studied things like engeeniring, the religius vocation an today the bachelor of English-Spanish.

He gave me a couple of minutes of his time because he was busy doing an embarrassment homework of investigation (a homework I haven't done yet.)*

Let's wait no longer and read what he said:

C:How long have you been studying?

 J: I guess it's been a long and challenging road since I made my decision of pursuing a profession related to education. Back in 2008 I was studying bioengeneering at UdeA. Two semester later I asked myself if that really was what I liked for the rest of my life and if studying longs hours for high-level mid-terms was the way I wanted for spending my current existence. That was when I started to look for something different something that really fulfilled my expectations and personal projects. My first step on that path were in a religius community called The Sons of the holly Family, Jesus, Mary and Joseph a congregation which worked at schools and other missional fields for educating children and teens on the Christian Pedagogy of love.

That lasted four years in which I studied four semesters of philosophy two of theology and other two of educational practices at different institutions. And now, here I am in my third semester of Bachelor in English-Spanish and longing to be a teacher in all the sense of that word.

C: How have you felt studying this?

J: From my own perspective and I hope I am not the only one who feels this way, this is a very rewarding as well as demanding experience to prepare oneselves for a more rewarding as well as demanding profession which is teaching. I consider that what we learn and actually live here is gain, no matter it is easy or difficult, boring or fun, someday we will find out it was not in vain.

C: Who are your role models or examples to follow?

J: In that respect, I have to tell that the biggest influence in my life and on this choice is my family. I guess they were my first and most significant teachers, especially my mother. Who has always been there for me and even her absences have been wise lessons for me. Then come my school and university teachers. The ones who taught me how to be an the ones who showed me definitely how not to be.

I take advantage of this opportunity to say thanks to Jaime because he has been a very good friend and also because he is the best example of the perfect student and an example I try to follow.

Thanks Jaime.

*Note: ¡SCREW YOU INVESTIGATION ASIGNATURE! 'till I find a better one.

*Note 2: It is joke, do not take it that seriously.

As the teacher didn't said nothing about making some questions for this post, I will just leave one.

If you have not taken the opportunity to study this bachelor of English and Spanish, What would be?

My way of thinking after I watched a movie.

Each time we understand more our place in the universe. The magnitude of our latent powers and the flexibility and the significance of what we are able. The cientifical discoverys of vanguard is a continuous challenge.
Is it for real that our memory has a grat capacity as the investigations shows? if our conscience is that big and our brain and bodies so sensible? is it for real that we can do physiological changes from our will even in one our cells? if we are heir from an evolutive virtuosity how is that our stages of learning and realizations are so mediocre?
All the days we are surprised by our capacity of learning from new fountains of knowledge, from the creativity and the control of all of them. Then we understand the apprentice that every single one of us have, waiting to be liberated.
We also see how that apprentice lost his liberty... from the biggest incompetence to teach of our culture with an education system that for it, it's more important "to be in the scientific" than to keep open. The fear to learn and the transformation that it could be bring to us it is the unavoidable fruit that this system left to us.
The visionarys has always affirmed that the only way to build a new society it consist in changing the educations of the youngers generations. Now that same society is the new necessary force able to produce a new educative change.
 It is like the dilemma that is set up to the young people in Colombia: "you can't find a job without experience but you can't have experience as soon as none give you a job".
The educators who would like to include some innovations have a little authority relatively speaking in their subject.
Education goberment employees, educative psychologysts, planing teachers, they all agree that the education is one of the less dynamics institutions, far behind from the medicine, politics, mass media, and others aspects of our society.
There are heroes and heroines in education, as always they have been everywhere, that try to go beyond the old structure, althought often their effort seems to be stopped by their mates, the administration and even  by the family parents.
That way It is easy to understand why the gradual reforms are inefficient when they are still in the same mud in the old notion of the human condition.
That focus and managment deeply wrong of the problems it makes the conventional education failed at the time of teaching some basic skills and ecouraging the esteem for ourselves.
We need an education that can direct the education in a deep stage, toward an education relatively universal.
Only a new perspective generated by the education faculties could beget the new programs and the exact adjustment needed to make the system better.

Here it is the link of the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Y9OqSJKCc

My questions:
1. How can we go beyond of a time where the education is in danger of being only a business, where the excellence of education is conceived to perpetuate the inequality, where the education has a labor purpose (and that labor purpose is not even accomplished), where the ones who study are not the ones that necessarily ended being able to survive?
2. How to turn the education in a way to the fulfillment of the individuals and communities?
3. Why the education does not teach to think?

Hope you like the reflection I made, remember do good and leave a comment :P

Interview to the Professor Juan Manuel Serna.

Hello to you all. I had a chance to interview one of the best proffesors that the education faculty (in the Pontifical Bolivarian University) has to offer. He is the proffesor Juan Manuel Serna. He is a really good proffesor, very committed with his job, very interesting, fascinating, he is quite wise and pretty inteligent as well and one of the most loved educators at my university.
Here it is the interview  he gave me two days ago:

Kaiser: How long time have you been working in education?

Pr. J.Manuel Serna: I started working in 1961 as a teacher in the rural sector in Zaragoza in one of the schools that was founded there, called "Santo Cristo". Let's say that I was one of the founders because I started to work  when the school was founded and also since there were not many teachers as a result that there was not enought money to pay them.
So we had to do a lot of things, for example I had to teach maths, one thing that I never knew. Anyway that is the fight of the colombian teacher. The colombian teacher has to be a jack of all trades. Here, there is no space for those super specializations that you can see in other countries. So I started in the '61 but you have do the calculation as I told you I am very bad for the lower maths...

Kaiser: So do I, hahaha....

Pr J. Manuel Serna: It is a long time...

Kaiser: Have you worked at another jobs different from the teaching proffesion?

Pr. J. Manuel Serna: Of course. I have been many things. As an example I worked in a interpretation hotel. I worked as an official in the education ministery I was the boss in the division of technical education of the ministery during the goverment of Belisario Betancurt. I was the boss there during the '83 until the '85 in that division.
In administrative jobs of the teaching proffesion I have been the head of the language department here at the UPB I worked ten years there since the '68 until the '78 and I was the principal of the Amazonas Univerisity at Florencia.

Kaiser: How did you do to discover your vocation?

Pr. Juan Manuel Serna: Well, I had a dad who was a teacher and he taught me many things and also we lived in an isolated village, San Rafael. A village that didn't had roads. So it was an enviroment really closed. A very routinary live although all the afternoons I went with my dad to the outskirts of the village and he always read to me something or he showed me something. He had a seminar education. Previously in the seminars they studied a lot of things specially classic greek and latin. They also studied french. The french it was a language that had a great impact in the colombian culture because after the independency what the spanish left the french took it, specially since the point of view of the education.
So I have been in contact with foreign languages since the first moment because in that village there was gold, you know that the bristish, french and canadians people can smell the gold far miles away. They appeared there and I was really intrigued when I saw those people. The british so circumspect, the french a little bit too but with a way of living very different from us but I was impressed by the way they talked. So I said to myself I have to learn to speak like this people, I have to understand them. That was my first motivation and It was great to me.
And then I started the study of languages by myself and the languages were the thing that saved me in high school because I was really bad for maths. So the ones who helped me in the finals were my languages teachers and they also motivated me to keep studying languages.
When I finished my high school, in those times there were three classic careers: engenering, medicine and advocacy. So you had to choose one of them however none of those interested me. Everybody wanted to have a son or a daughter aspiring to be a doctor. So I looked for a school to teach me languages and I found it. In Barranquilla a turkish guy refugee from the second world war and many others that got there through the sea to the atlantic coast, and you could see that the caribean coast was filled by arabs, turks, lebaneses, cubaynes and many others. And this turk founded a shool of languages. He was a very well know multilingual and he also was a proffesor of compared literature in the best universities of Europe specially in the university of Istanbul. That university became really important because during the war all the chased scientifics hid there because of the nazism.
He founded that school. It was an school exclusively of languages where they taught five languages : english, french, german,italian and russian. I did my studies there and then I came here to Medellín to work in the rural sector as I told you before, then I went to work at the university of Medellín and after that  to the bolivarian university where we founded the education faculty in 1968 and here it is where I stayed.
Look, here at Medellín there was a huge interest in the study of languages, speacially Medellín a cultural place, a city of philologists and linguists very restless because of the same mentality of the "paisa" but sadly all those things went down with the apperance of the drug trafficking and with the cuban revolution that attacked the yankee imperialism in boundless ways like if a language has to deal something with an ideology. When that happened I saw that the studies of languages fell by the circumstances I mentioned before. Today we have a new world with an open mind so we don't have that problem that much. The language is a window to the world, it is a cultural fountain, the access to another culture and due that reasons I studied languages, I love the cultures, I like the people, I like the strange towns, exotics and I accomplished that throught the effort and the sacrifice.

Kaiser: who have been your influentials in your work: mates, friends, teachers?

Pr. J. Manuel Serna: When I worked in the univerisity of Medellín there was formed a group, so fascinating at the "Café Colombia" There were your relatives, the Correas : Everardo, Rogelio, your father and other intellectuals, people very interesting. You can find there José María Gonzales the general secretary of the univeristy of medellín an authority in spanish language I haven't met someone who knows more of spanish than him. Everardo a man who loved foreing languages he spoke russian, german, english...we had Enrique Congote who was the boss of translation in the foreing affair ministery.
All of us share many things in those social gatherings even they were also famous by those days in the city.
One of them was the one who teach me more things than the others. Precisely it was Enrique.
And in the school of languages of Barranquilla with the turk I had an impulse, what is called a negative caress. That guy mistreat me a lot until one day I overcame my shyness and faced him : "Professor, I cannot stand you anymore, you are mistreating me, you humiliate me, you offend me" and then he answered me: "I do it because I want you to be the best". And I  memorized that since then and I try to do that everyday.
I lived in a time where you can see by tradition in almost all the antioquian families that you were going to  find a duaghter who is a nun, a son who is a priest, one who is outlaw, one who is intelligent and one who is a saint. Today the things have changed a lot although one concerve  some tradition, some memories that keep you alive, firm, and convinced that doing good is worthwhile. I have shared my experiencies, my knowledge with a caudal of  caring, loved, good, healthy of young people that have learnt something from me at least a memory. In that sense life has been grateful with me. All of them remember me, call me, look for me. It is something marvellous.

Kaiser: and the last question, what would be the advice you would give to me as a future teacher?

Pr. J. Manuel Serna: Always try to be the best, in what sense? It is not in a sense of ambition or competition I mean giving the best of you so many people will be benefit by the things you do. To have as a perspective that one as a teacher is a middle man the other middle is the group. When those two middles gets together you get the perfect complement. That is the real pedagogical relationship and there should be a lot of affection too because we are very emotional. One of those things will not be done by a german or a saxon but we who are latinos that we have the affective value above the moral value. We need to love so much, we need to care for the things we do, we need to love the knowledge, we need to care for our students and  love your profession.

Kaiser: Proffesor, thanks a lot for your time, for  your advice and thanks to be best example of a good professor and human being, full with great stories, knowledge and experiences that make us be better.

Kaiser: I will be uploading this to my blog, will you want to read it?

Pr. J. Manuel Serna: of course, what is the name of your blog?

Kaiser: Der kaiser spricht.... blogspot.com

Pr. J. Manuel Serna: hahaha, that is really appropriate for you.


This was the interview that the proffesor Juan Manuel Serna acepted to give me. All I have to say is: what an awesome person, he is really really far beyond from anything I could say about him. He knows a lot. I just have to say, I appreciate and love so much the proffesor Juan Manuel Serna for everything he did and do. I hope I can have more classes with him.

Hope you like my post of today, remember lo leave a comment. See you next time.

1. What was the thing that attracted you to study the teaching proffesion?

2. Have you considered quitting your studies soon or later?

3. How much languages you want to learn and why?

who is kaiser?

Hello everyone, I am here doing a little introduction about me (and also a homework) Thus you will know me better.
Peculiarly Kaiser it is just my pseudonym. I am not the real Kaiser, and no, I don't believe or agree with any political philosophy of the old german monarchy. I'm called Kaiser because of my love for the german language. Another story is that someone searched for the germanic version of my name (César=Kaiser) because I used to write that name for every single thing, like to sign my writtens, to chose a character name, to be someone else and since then I am Kaiser (and there are some other reasons but this is not the place to mention them.)
Now talking about how I look it's very simple I will make you a portrayal of myself. I am avarage tall, I got some acne on my face,  I have brown eyes and brown hair, I have small ears and an avarage nose, I am thin with large arms and legs and I almost forgot I am of white complexion.
That is how I look however "what do you like Kaiser?" I love riding my bike to the university due to that I can feel free and also because it is the only sport that I am good at, I love philosophy because it has been my friend as far back as I can remember, I love literature because of all the good times that I have spent reading and also because of the sweet prose and verse, I love rock and classical music. Rock to provide me energy and to recover my mood and classical music to chill while you experience that awesome feeling when you don't have to do nothing but the things you want to do.
Well, that is all my time for today if you have a commet or a question leave a comment below. So long.

I also would like to know about you and your stories. Let me know them at the comments.

High school never ends

Greetings everyone. Today's post is about one song from the band Bowling for Soup-high school never ends. I will write just my point of view of it, some of my history at high school and beyond and just to be clear since the begining of this post. It's only the experience that I have been through high school and just a litte bit at the university. Not all the experiences are going to be like mine, everyone has a different story to tell either sad, happy or both.
So ladies and gentlemen the song is almost self explanatory, it is about how people tend to be in secondary however it seems that's how they're going to stay even after high school ends. Who hasn't met one those douchebags and "stuck up chicks" at his o her high school or somewhere else?
Another thing here is that depending if you have REAL TRUE friends at high shcool or wherever institution you're in  you might find someone, so you can help each other to survive to those kind of people (and teachers too, some of them just want to kick your brain out) that you may find like in the song.
When I was in high school there were years that were epic and some that I just want to forget. I had a bestfriend someone who still is my great friend.With him every single little thing would be funny and a great memory although I lost him because he couldn't pass next year. Since then I'm alone. I still haven't met someone to hang around, a friend to help us to make the pass of time less boring and heavy. Even now that I am at the university I see my mates having a good time with their friends for example: Tatiana and Natalia, Manny and Wbeimar, Sebastian with almost all the people of my bachelor degree and other degrees,etc. Anyway I guess I just don't fit in but well that is not the end of the world. I think having a friend in school, high school, university or wherever you are it can help you a lot to circumvent many, many, many, many things but if you can't find a good fellow you can still spend most of your time doing your business (studying as an extreme sport). That way no teacher or professor will kick your brain out.
SOOOOO, that's all my time for today, hope you had a great time reading my post. I'll leave here the link of the song if you want to lisent it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrxI_euTX4A


1. What is the best memory you have of your school times?
2. How was your learning at school was it great or awful?
3. How much of the things you learnt at school are worth for you now?



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