My facorite Tv show

The big band theory

It is such hilarious show that I have seen almost all the episodes and if there is a rerun of this show I always watch it again. This sitcom has gotten so many nominations to different awards and categories that have won even in categories so important such as best actor and series in the Emmys and Golden Globes.

The story is about four geek friends that meet their new neighbor, who is a beautiful girl that had moved from a rural area to the city in order to become a famous actress but meanwhile she works like a waitress.

Those geeks are so much intelligent that always are talking about mats, physics or science and that is the main reason why they have so few friends and for the little friends that they have is so hard to understand them.

Essay about the course

This English class was one of my favorite that I have taken in my life, especially by the dynamic it has been. In this course you never know the next activities and you always should pay attention because in any moment the teacher can ask you something.

I feel progress in my English speaking due to the activities that we have done during the class. The only time I can speak English is during the class so I have to take advantage of that moment for practicing English speaking. In class sometimes I had problems with speaking activities because some words combined with others are tongue twisters or sometimes I did not know how to express the idea or the word that I thought. In those cases I really appreciated the understanding of my partners but especially by the teacher who made the corrections in a polite way.

I think it is very important the approach that this course has had because other courses focus in grammar rules or vocabulary, for example when I was in high school the teacher just talked and wrote in the blackboard and in the classroom there were about forty people so it was impossible that the teacher could talk with everyone and try to develop the speaking or listening skills.

The activities that we had were very dynamic and I never felt bored and the topics were always different, interesting or funny. That it is very important because if the topics are boring it is difficult to get interested in or if they are hard to understand I would not learned nothing or very little.

Something that I liked in this course was that I didn´t feel pressure about the grades and homework and I studied or did the homework in order to learn or understand. Finally the strong of these classes were the emphasis in the speaking and listening skills, and the time spend in those activities.  Some recommendations could be to make a review of the self study part of the book during the class and besides to include in the online component grammatical exercises.

Article from New York Times

Medical Marijuana Raises Tough Questions for Nursing Homes

When some states in the US legalized medical marijuana few people anticipated that patients using it would need to live in nursing homes. Now the problem is nursing homes´ administrators and regulators have a lot of questions about how to manage this situation.

Besides there is a contradiction because a patient using medical marijuana breaks federal law and the federal government do not consider a medicinal value in marijuana. Despite this, in 14 states is allowed and 8 states are considered in this moment.

Some experts say is increasing the number of patients that use marijuana to ease their pain but, the care facilities in which they reside, or will reside receive federal funding. So the facility administrators wonder how to comply with federal law and to allow the use of medicinal marijuana.

Other questions appear in case of the use of medical marijuana in nursing home would be allowed. These are related with the dosages, the inventories, the origin and the administration of the medicine and nobody has clear the answers or there is not an agreement nowadays.

Quotations

Hi, these are some quotations that I liked and my comments:


“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new”  Albert Einstein

The main idea is that we have to try new things without fear to make mistakes.

People who discovered new things made mistakes, rather they led them to find new solutions.

Is important do not give up in spite of  the problems or deceptions that we can find in the way.

   

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability”  Henry Ford

This quotation is very wise because some people think money can give them independence but they do not realize that it can become them in its slaves.

Besides you can get wealth once and later it could be all spent, so it is not secure, but if you have knowledge, experience and ability you can get wealth many times.

The personal skills and specially knowledge give us confidence and independency instead of the material goods

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” Vincent Van Gohg

Everything is formed by a sum of small things and every part is necessary and important in order to obtain a great result.

Other idea is step by step is possible to achieve great things because everything should be made piece by piece in a correct order, so a strategy to resolve a problem is dividing it in little ones and reaching small goals so far to achieve the final goal.

Besides we must appreciate the small things and recognize their value

The Alchemist by Paulo Cohelo

A novel that I read a long time ago and still remember was “The Alchemist” by Paulo Cohelo.

The story is about a young shepherd from Andalucia Spain named Santiago who had a dream that revealed the location of a treasure buried at the egyptian pyramids.

He decided to sell all his sheeps and to travel to Africa, but there he was robbed and lost all his gold. Then he thought  that he was a foolish to believe in his dreams and got a job with a crystal merchant in order to save money to go back home.

When he got enough money to come back to his home he decided to continue his original plan and joined to a caravan to cross the desert. In the caravan met an Englishman who was alchemist and taught very import lessons.

The most important lesson occurred when they were inspected by a couple of soldiers that found a bottle with a yellow liquid and a crystal yellow egg, when the soldiers asked about those things the alchemist said the liquid is an elixir that cures all diseases and the crystal become metals to gold but the soldiers didn´t believe and laughed a lot. So Santiago realized that the men don´t recognize a treasure even it is in front of their eyes.

When the caravan stopped in an oasis he met a girl and fell in love of her, but continued his way to the pyramids without her.

Finally he got to the pyramids and started to dig in a spot that he thought was the treasure, but a group of thieves get there. They forced him to dig in order to steal the treasure but when they realized that there is not a treasure started to beat him and one of them said that once he dreamed about a treasure in a ruined temple in Spain where sheperds slept and dig deep at the roots of a big sycamore tree to find a treasure but he was not so stupid to cross the desert for a dream.

So he came back home with his girl and then found the treasure that once the thief dreamed.

The messages that I liked is that a man have to follow his dreams and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.