From the first day I've been in Australia, I've been impressed on this country. Everything works perfectly, everything is organized, clean, sercure. The people is respectful and reliable.
One thing that really surprised me, was the public transport. It's amazing how you can organize your trip, without spending more time than necessary. When I arrived to my homestay and I was told how to get to college and the first thing I thought was ''I must leave home very early, because if I don't I will be late'' (probably it would have happen in Chile, my country). But I was completely wrong. The buses and the trains have a timetable, and always they arrive at the time that's on the schedule. I don't know how the Transport Minister could organize a big city as Sydney.
Another thing that caught my attention, is the people, and their culture. You can walk down the streets with valuable things, and be sure that nobody will steal it and run away. If you forget something in a restaurant, it is obvious that it will be in the same place you left it, and nobody would have taken it.
This are some things that make the diference between a developed country and one that is underway to develop. I'm sure that Chile is going that way, and we are closer than far from achieving.
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Macarena Ruiz Wood
Sunday, January 23, 2011
A Fridge for Dinner?
This is my friend's story:
I live in a homestay, we are two girls there, our host is an amazing man that always is worried about our dinner. Even I am very picky with food, my room mate is worse. She love eating chicken, beef, fish, and she does not like to repeat, I mean two days eating the same meat it is not accepatable for her.
She talk English very well, but she has four words confused. She say kitchen instead of chicken, and angry instead of hungry. Sometimes when our host ask to us what kind of food we want for dinner, she answers: I want kitchen we have many days without eat it. Our host making fun of this asks her: What part of the kitchen do you prefer? top or bottom? sink or cook top?, it is always funny, she tries to be concentrated but always she does the same mistake.
Another word for her is angry, now she learnt, and she says to our host: I am angry because I am hungry!!!!!!!!
But I need to confess that I have some words in English confused in pronuntiation: beach and bitch, have and half, sheet and shit.
To learn other languages could be fun, just enjoy it!!!!!!!!
I live in a homestay, we are two girls there, our host is an amazing man that always is worried about our dinner. Even I am very picky with food, my room mate is worse. She love eating chicken, beef, fish, and she does not like to repeat, I mean two days eating the same meat it is not accepatable for her.
She talk English very well, but she has four words confused. She say kitchen instead of chicken, and angry instead of hungry. Sometimes when our host ask to us what kind of food we want for dinner, she answers: I want kitchen we have many days without eat it. Our host making fun of this asks her: What part of the kitchen do you prefer? top or bottom? sink or cook top?, it is always funny, she tries to be concentrated but always she does the same mistake.
Another word for her is angry, now she learnt, and she says to our host: I am angry because I am hungry!!!!!!!!
But I need to confess that I have some words in English confused in pronuntiation: beach and bitch, have and half, sheet and shit.
To learn other languages could be fun, just enjoy it!!!!!!!!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Tom Waits
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Tom Waits
This is an awesome song and a really good version of it. Listen.
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