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A little bit over a year has passed since I came home from my backpacking journey. Features in Google Photos or Facebook remind of you the pictures you took/uploaded a year (or longer), so I’m always reminded of the crazy things I did a year ago. Now I sit in an office and explain idiotic people how the internet works. Is it worth it? About a week or two ago, I was talking to one of my coworkers about backpacking. We both would like to go to South East Asia. I’m still keen to go to Japan. It’s something completely different and I really want to have that “culture shock” moment. I did not really have that in South America. For my birthday last year my brother got me this scratch map which I think was the best gift I got that year (also because I wanted to buy it myself and this way I saved some money). After scratching off all the places I’ve been to I realized: There’s still a lot of blank space on the map. And I’ve been backpacking for over a year. At this point I have to say t

Still going happily forward in my new (hopefully) future profession I did the 3rd part of the pre course and only now I found out that this is the end of module one, out of four … ugh. Just take a deep breath and keep on going. Anyhow, this one is something I have pretty much no experience at all. I do am excited about this and judging my level of English I will have to focus more on this point during the course. As every time experience makes you better or as we say “no master has fallen from the sky”. As before they asked you to watch a video about a teacher who talked about a successful English lesson she held. Afterwards they asked you to answer these questions: 1) Why did the learners enjoy the listening? 2) What was useful and engaging about the questions Amy had designed for the interview? 3) What was she doing while they did the interview activity? What do you think she was listening for? Actually, the answers to those questions are quite simple. She enjoyed because

The second part of my journey of pursuing a long-held dream of mine was to reminisce how it is to learn a language. The idea/goal of this is to think back when you learned English (or a foreign language in general) and about the difficulties you had. Which tricks you pulled out of your sleeve to help you with it. Which ideas/techniques were best and which completely bad so that you can use said techniques to teach and help others to learn. The section is divided into three simple questions: 1. Where did you learn? 2. What helped you learn? 3. Were there any negative aspects that made it more difficult to learn or less enjoyable? In the end they put a video of a Ted talk about learning languages with 5 great techniques to learn a language, which turned out I’ve been doing all 5 of them when I learned Spanish. I was really surprised and I can confirm that it works as you can see from my español muy bueno. Anyhow, I thought I’d share the five techniques with yo