Language

Hello, now I'm going to talk to you about the language.

I started speaking English at school when I was 12 because it is mandatory at school. It was very difficult for me to learn English, I think I read better than I speak. But I have tried to speak another language, Italian, but I can only say phrases from Italian movies, like “vendetta” or phrases that Marcello Mastroianni said in Fellini's 8 ½ like “Perché non sa voler bene.”

 Outside of class I practice watching movies in English and listening to music in English. Most of the movies I watch are in English and I watch them with subtitles; and on the radio they always play music in English.

In English class I enjoy the activities where I can talk to others, it seems like an easier way to learn English.

I think English is very useful for work, architectural modeling programs are always in English and structure books too.

I find English culture interesting, rock music and bands, because the best rock bands are English like The Rolling Stones, Queen and The Beatles. I'm also interested in Hollywood movies, both old and new.

A Job

Today I am going to talk to you about jobs. The only job I have in my life is as a secretary in my brother's office, the job was: sorting papers, books and answering phone calls, I didn't do it for a long time and it wasn't that bad.

But I have always wanted to be a truck driver, because truckers are free, They can listen to all the music they want at full volumen, and can see many places,  they drive on the road and go where they want and when they want, they don't need anyone. I also like trucks, they are like cars but bigger and can carry different loads.

To be a truck driver you need to: know how to drive trucks, have a license, be of legal age, patience to spend many hours in the truck and time to take very long trips.

Truck drivers are very important for the transportation of merchandise in a country as long as Chile where the train does not reach many parts.

I remember an episode of The Simpsons, when Homer and Bart replace a truck driver who died because of them, and they drive to deliver the load.

A book you can Recommend

 

Hello, Today I am going to recommend a book that I really liked, because it is real and not fiction. “Blue Nights”(2011) by Joan Didion, the book tells how Joan Didion lives after the death of her daughter Quintana, the book is the sequel to "The Year of Magical Thinking" (2005) where she tells the sudden death of her husband John Gregory Dunne and his daughter's illness. 

This was the first book I read by Joan Didion, I heard the book recommendation on the radio, but after I read many of her books, especially essays, like when Joan Didion met John Wayne or that Harrison Ford (before he was famous) fixed his kitchen, or when she went with the hippies, or when they didn't accept her at the University , or that she was born in Sacramento California. Joan Didion died in 2021, but their great stories will always remain with us.