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Today I did not attend the class.... In the school where I do my teaching practice, I was asked to help on a Catholic Religion Class...

I prepared some prayers for the first grade (elementary).

It was a very nice experience, there were 13 kids... all very interested on praying in english. We sang, painted and had a wonderful time together.......

I hope I could do it again!

...pUbLiC sChOoL`s In eNgLaNd

Today we had a very interesting debate in our class.

The debate was about public schools in England.... it was a very interesting topic because what we understand for "public school" is totally different from what english people understand for it.

In England a public school is a very expensive school, with more than 300 years of tradition. Kids go to these schools from the age of ten. Normally they are boarding schools, which means that students must live in the same school.

The debate was well done. We discussed a lot about the importance of family support when you are a teenager.

I can not imagine a ten years old boy being by himself in a huge , traditional and strict school. Educating is also a family role...so I think that it is cruel to leave a child at that age by himself in such scenery.

During puberty it is necesary to count on your family......

I do not like boarding schools........ and of course ... education should be equal for everybody

..... MaRiA mUsIcA aNd OtHeRs....

These week in Mr.L`s class we talked about Maria Musica Sepulveda.... the teenager that pour a pitcher of water to the Minister of Education. We realized that a lot of factors are involved, such as media, values, parental responsibility, among others.

In my opinion I`d say that Musica could have done things in a better way. She could have apologized in a media conference and she would have had a better image and people would have thought that even she acted unpolitely she had the courage to apologized infront of the country.

After talking about Musica, we disscused about learning to learn.

We went to the computer lab and surfed in the web for information. I found that there is a project in England which tries to change the way people think about education and learning.... this page explained how important is to make learning motivating for kids and adults, otherwise people reject learning........

I think this week we will talk about the teacher from antofagasta who treated his student awfully infront of the class......

May 13 ....Presentation

... Today a group of classmates did their presentation.... about troubled teenagers...

It was a good presentation even they could not present the video they had prepared..... Sometimes aids don´t work and you have to continue .... you must keep going... otherwise your presentation seems to be based only in the audiovisual material you had......

... Then we went to the computer lab to visit http://www.educarchile.cl/, the idea was to see the english version.... but I think that the page was not very helpful for students or teachers that are interested in visiting some more links.... I think the english version is very poor, and it should be as the spanish one, so people from all over the world can visit it........

...Schools and Videocameras....

I forgot exacticly when was this... I now it was in may.... but we went down to the computer lab and we surfed on http://www.latercera.cl/. The idea was to read an article about video cameras in school to let parents know what their kids do while they are studying....

I think this is too much....... I mean ... as parents we want to prevent bad experiences , bad things , fights, among other things , but we are not letting our children to live life.......

We can ask them if they have a problem at school or if they didn´t , but they also need privacy.... They need to face things by themselves...... It is not normal being controlled the during the whole day..... children need experiences to ripe.... if they do not live life how are they going to learn about life............

I think we are becoming more and more fearful.... we want to have our belove ones inside a bubble.... and that doesn´t help them to face reality.......

....LiFe.....

Well in may 12th we watched a video called Life..... In this video you could see God creating the world..... but then you can see how men, and of course women, did not appreciate what we have recieved from our God.......
You can see God troubled... it is hard for him to understand how these beautiful creatures he gave life to suddenly became selfish and ungrateful...... God saw how the world has become surrounded by pain.... hopeless.... selfish and hate......
I really enjoyed this video.... because it made me think on what have we become in the last years.......

.... Missed the Class!!!!!!!!!!

I did not come to class this day.... but my classmates told me that they went to the computer lab to look for a poll about LGE...... they had to translate the poll and then mister L. asked them to tranlate some parts into english..... some of the students felt embarassed because they are afraid of making a mistake........