PROFILE

My name is Claudia Escobar, I’m 22 years old and I studied Pedagogy at UNAM. Now I’m working on my thesis, as soon as I finish it I’ll start working. Being a Pedagogue is not easy, at least not for me, there are no specific rules to follow like in other disciplines and it is always hard to work with humans, it’s a big challenge, but I really like it. I’ve had the opportunity to work in several institutions before; I worked in an orphanage and in an Ecological park, and both of them were hard experiences, but I learned a lot about them.

Another aspect of my profesional life is that I’m studying English and Portuguese. I like studying languages because learning about other ways to speak and think is very interesting for me. Being able to speak with people from different countries is something that motivates me, as well.

Now, I’d like to talk about my personal life. I live with my parents and three brothers, I’m the eldest. I love my family. Besides the house, we share experiences, our problems, our achievements, and we try to help each other. This doesn’t mean that we are like a perfect family, of course, there are conflicts and misunderstandings sometimes, but we try to deal with them.
Apart from my family, I have other important people for me, my friends and my boyfriend. I love hanging out with them, going to the movies and museums, traveling with them. I also enjoy playing videogames, watching TV, I like cartoons, I think most of them are very funny. I love Reading, I especially like novels and books related with Pedagogy.

There are other aspects about me, of course, but I think I’ve written the most important.

MY EXPECTATIONS

I expect to learn and practice my English skills in this course, that’s obvious, but I felt I needed to start with my general objective of studying at CELE.

Now, the expectations I have about this course in particular are several. I want to be able to communicate my ideas in a written way, and to practice my spelling. I want to learn about punctuation rules in English. This course will help me to develop my creativity, which is very important for me.

I also have some expectations in a personal way: I expect I’ll be very interested in this course and in my learning, and I’ll do my best to achieve my goal. I would like to express my ideas and I know there’s only one way to do it: practicing and taking this course very seriously.

LETTER TO A CANADIAN

Dear Canadian friend,

I hope you are enjoying your visit to Mexico. The main objective of this letter is to help you and give you some advice about the places that you should visit here at Mexico City.
First of all, if you are interested in our culture, history and traditions, you should visit the downtown, we call it Centro Histórico, and there you’ll find El Zócalo, La Catedral, Palacio Nacional, El Templo Mayor, these places are very important if you want to understand a bit more of our prehispanic origins and our colonial past, and also about our present. I recommend you to see the buildings, pay attention to the people, the streets, I think you would enjoy it.

On the other hand, if you are looking forward to having fun and know about our night life, there are many places where you can go. You should go to Insurgentes, in this huge avenue you’ll be able to find restaurants, bars, discos, theatres.

As other cities in the world, we have some problems, you have to be very careful, avoid dangerous places, try to be with your group all the time when you are outside and remember don’t speak with strangers.

I will be very happy to help you with anything I can.
Take care,
Claudia