English Teacher - FACSO

  Good afternoon, dear students. Hoping you are enjoying this weekend, in today’s blog I will talk about one meaningful picture for me. I consider myself a very sentimental person, and photographs are short extracts of significant instances of our lives, whether these can be representations of relevant periods of our lives or simply instants of our daily lives. These are forever printed memories. In this picture, though, I will describe a part of my heart that is faraway gone. Her name was Cucky, although in my mind was always Cucky Ramos Valencia. She was a mixed breed and part of my life for 17 years. Besides my human family, she was the only living being that watched me grow since childhood until adulthood. My companion, my pet, my Cucky <3.    This last picture is the relevant one, because the previous one was only the formal presentation to you all hehe. In this picture, we can see a very old and grumpy Cucky, who is taking her last bath in her life....

  Hello, dear students. Last semester I wrote about the books I had read so far, so in today’s blog, I will tell you about the books that I have read so far in this second semester. In the book Honjok, The Art of Living Alone , the lifestyles of several South Koreans are depicted here, giving a “fresher” perspective of how to handle living in a society where everything must be done in pairs and how businesses are shifting towards this new type of customer, the “individual customer”. Honestly, I was biased due to the cover of this book and, unfortunately for me, many of the ideas about flying solo were things that I have already read before, so I was truly disappointed about this purchase.      If you are interested in learning how people from other countries live a long, satisfied life (and I mean, living up to 100 years), Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life is a very friendly and trustworthy approach to these lifestyles, where the writers exp...