English Language Challenges

Back in the school, I used to have a lot of hours dedicated to english class, more than a normal high school usually has, so I can say I used to have a good english level but  it got lost because of  lack of practice, even when I keep using it in activities like listening to music, on the internet, or playing videogames.

 Learning English on University is a very good way to keep improving my knowledge, at the begining I didn't know what to think about this class, I thought that it would be kind of boring like in school, but after all I realized that the best way to learn is the practice and that is the course about, if I think about every class the teacher find funny and didactical manners to make us to speak english, sometimes very hilarious, but that is pretty good because that makes you keep attending to class even when you have work to do for another "more important" subjects but you can't and then you feel bad for being absent. I was pretty impressed about the use of blogs, I was accustomed to the traditional way on an english class writing down as if there wasn't a tomorrow; I felt very confortable seeing that we can use technology to learn at the university.

Currently my pronunciation is not really good, and sometimes it's hard for me to speak english fluently, sometimes in Online videogames I have to chat with english speakers of other countries, so  I can keep practicing but in online chats you have time to think about what to write and check it but in real life is not the same and this doesn't make you improve in fluency and pronunciation, maybe in the future I will have to pay for an English class, but some people say that the best way to learn a language is travelling, instead of paying english classes I like more the idea of travelling and learning the language from native speakers.

Changes in my program

I love studying architecture, I love my facultee even with the bad things it has, I think that there are more good things than bad but today I will complain about everything I don't like about FAU. 

Currently in the architecture career, in general terms you have 2 or 3 theoric subjects and 1 or 2 practic subjects like Workshop, in this subject you are supposed to apply the contents you learned from the other class but this doesn't really happens, when you work on your project, there are things during the design that you have to solve for your own, sometimes even you will never apply things you learned, or yes but maybe in the future, something I would like to happen maybe for one semester its too teachers agree too work in only one project, so you can really feel how to work on the application of the knowledge acquired in the class room. Is kind of hard that things like that happened because of teachers schedules and some administration troubles, with these I'm not pretty sure if  workload will get soft or even harder, I hope everything gets easier.

At these days the infrastructure and facilitys in facultee are really poor, we need better workplaces, like special workshops to save materials or storages, even more important than that, places to take a nap, every place where you have to study or read or work, like college, university, etc. should have beds or something, if it doesnt has it, then is not an university.  Even all of this my facultee its still a beautiful place and I love it.

A person I admire

The title says "A person" but I will really talk about a band that I had a great impact in my life, this band is called Have Heart. Have Heart was an straight edge hardcore band formed in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 2002, straight edge is a subculture whose adherents refrains from using alcohol, drugs, or any other recreatiional drug in reactional of the excesses of punk culture.

 I love this band because of the topics of  their lyrics, when someone said the word "hardcore punk", you think in big guys with chains and mohawks drinking, destroying and fighting listening to noisy music, this band reject all of this, they sing about self-control, respect, pacifism, youth pressure, perseverance, self-destruction, friendship and family in very powerfull songs with some screamings and melodic riffs and of course some noisy melodies.These lyrical themes have allowed them to have a commanding force in at least the possitive hardcore scene, and even the scene as a whole.
Have heart's last show was played on National Edge Day in Rever, Massachusetts along with o

ther bands, it was a really short show with a very few people, beacuse they weren't o much popular and famouse. I don't share too much that straight edge ideology but anyways their lyrics really gets to me.  Maybe my favourite song is Watch Me Rise, it talks about self esteem and improvement, but my favourite album and I would recommend to everyone who is reading this its Songs to scream at the sun.