Week 2 January

This week was the shortest of all, we had three classes and the three of them were dismissed earlier than they suppose to. I loved that. I had one homework due on Monday: read  the two prefaces of the Language and Culture ebook. Its been a while since the last time I read a novel type book and I was somehow surprised of the fast that I can read know after two college years compared to my reading skills on high school, and all of this because of the practice and the time I have dedicated on this skill. Like any other skill, practice is the secret for mastery. I finished reading about ten minutes after I started and the best of this is that I got 100 on my quiz which I really thought had turned out to be different because of the small amount of time I invested on studying. I like when we are able to get out of class early and not because I hate the class or want to have leisure time, but because I usually get to use every left time I have on homework from other subjects. For that Wednesday I had to handle in a 500 word essay on Doping Affairs In Sports, it was quite a piece of cake and I was able to finish it on time, I got 96 because I haven´t master the English grammar and spelling. For this same day we were asked to prepare a 4 min speech on the same subject we researched, I was really nervous because I´m not used to speaking English in public since a long time ago so I was wondering how awful my accent was going to be. Fortunately everything turned to be all right, the teacher and a classmate told me I did a good job and that made me recover some of my confidence on my pronunciation. On this task I got also about 97 which was much more than I expected. On Wednesday I only invest about 10 minutes before the class to the speech because the professor said it was just a light speech, 15 minutes before class everything seemed horrible when I saw a pair of classmates reviewing out loud what they were going to say reading from about one page of written speech. Fortunately I am on the second half of the list and I was able to evade this speech and prepared a bit more for next day. On Thursday I was much more confident and I asked to pass next. That class was also dismissed after about 30 minutes and it felt great after I got over it, those are one of the best sensations of life: getting done with stuff. We had no homework due on Monday and that made my day.