Working for the Man

When I was 16 or something, all I wanted to do in life was to go to Britain and live there and speak English and work doing dishes. Seriously! I had no other ambition or plan. In fact, with my best friend from school (who's teaching this course also) we had this plan where we would go to the USA and do the cleaning there, save money and then go to Britain and meet our favourite artists and marry them all and have their thousand babies. Sometimes I think I would like to have a job like that, you know, and I don't mean having babies, I mean cleaning or doing dishes, without having to worry about studying, marking tests, preparing lessons or writing blogs for the argumentative writing course xD I would spend my weekends relaxing and having fun to start a week of cleaning on Mondays. I'd like that, maybe one day I will do it... or maybe not :S

What about you? Do you have an ideal/dream job you would like to have? For example, as a game tester? Or a wine taster? or an American sitcoms watcher? Maybe you dream of not having a job, like I also do, but we don't really care about those boring not-doing-anything dream jobs, we want to know what you would do if you could do anything you wanted in terms of working somewhere and earning money. 

In your entry you can mention:

- What your position would be

- What your job would consist of

- Where in the world it would be

- Who you would work with

- How many hours a week/day you would work

- Anything else you can think of related to the topic

Write at least 180 words

Post comments on 2 of your classmates' entries

Include a photo or video related to the topic

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

For me, the best TV show of all time has to be Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This TV show tells the story of a girl who suddenly becomes the slayer, a girl in charge of protecting the world from all the demons and vampires on it.

Buffy’s story is very sad, as she had to struggle with a responsibility she never wanted in the first place, having to do things she doesn’t really want to do and being considered as a trouble maker even by her mother, who doesn’t know the truth about Buffy’s behaviour, that is, the huge responsibility she has on her shoulders.

However, that’s not all there is about Buffy! The plot thickens when she falls in love with a vampire, the only vampire who has a soul (hence, he doesn’t kill people). His name is Angel (or Angelus when he becomes an evil vampire). Angel is one of the oldest vampires in the world, who was known for being really evil until he made the mistake of killing a gipsy princess. When that happened, the gipsies put a spell on him giving him his soul back, which made him feel really bad for all the evil things he had done in his past. Because of this, Angel spends his never-ending life looking for the slayers and helping them fight the evil in the world. That’s how he meets Buffy, and eventually falls in love with her. Now this bit is really terrible, as they love each other but there’s nothing they can do about their love, first, because she’s supposed to kill him, secondly because he’ll never die and Buffy will, and third because even when they love each other they cannot ‘consummate their love’ as that is the only thing that can take Angelus soul away, which would make him extremely evil again.

I really liked Buffy! Lots of things happened on this TV show, things that could make you think about life, what’s real, responsibilities, and other things. When I was in my teens, my sisters used to watch this TV show and I would laugh about them because I thought it was terrible, but when I started watching it that completely changed. I became addicted to it. For me, Buffy was a real inspiration, especially when I witnessed unfair things happening around me. For example, one day these people were making fun of a Japanese boy on the bus and I defended him feeling all Buffy. Another day this guy started telling me really gross sexual things on the street and I kicked his ass and hit him real hard feeling all Buffy. Buffy rocks! She was a girl and she fought against evil monsters, she killed vampires, demons and trolls. I really wanted to be like her (even if instead of trolls I had to fight horny men on the street, or racist people on the bus). Buffy is the best and I cried my eyes out when she died (SPOILER). I didn’t even want to eat my hamburger that night and I never lose appetite (especially when there are hamburgers for supper). In the end I ate it anyway (but I didn’t enjoy it, OK? Because I was really sad).

Is there a TV Show you really like? I really hope there is one because today you have to write about it. In your entry, you could include the following things:

- What’s the TV show about

- Why you like it

- How it is different from other TV shows you’ve watched

- How it made you feel

- What the characters were like

- Etc.

• Write at least 200 words
• Please, leave comments on 2 of your classmates' posts.
• Include a photo/video/something visual on your entry.

TV Movie

There are many films that I like, so I really couldn't choose one. I could mention the first movie I saw that made me feel something different from what I had ever experienced watching films, though.

It is probably kind of cliché, but I was about 10 or 11 years old which means I was allowed to feel things with cliché stuff. My 'first' film (which is not really the first movie I saw, but it is the first one I loved) is called Cinema Paradiso (1988), by Giuseppe Tornatore, with Philippe Noiret (heart). I remember I watched it one night on channel 13, when the rest of my sisters where at my parents' bedroom watching something else with them. I remember they used to show that film on TV every year and I had never felt the need to watch it before, but that year it was different.

When I was watching that film I realised movies could make me feel really strong feelings, things I had never experienced before. I loved the story, even when it's a very common concept to explore and it's been done many times in film history up to these days.

This is the typical story about an adult and a child and how this adult influences and changes this kid's life. I remember I cried my eyes out! I loved it so much. I loved what this cinema meant to the people who lived in this village, how they showed it as a place with a history, where different events that where part of the history of the village took place. I still love that story, to be honest. It makes me feel something deep inside my stomach which always ends up making me cry. But it's a different kind of crying; it's a mix of happiness, and melancholy for something I have never experienced. Probably that's the reason why I like this movie so much, because it made me realise movies were more than a story on a screen, as they can also be something you cannot even name, deep inside your stomach that gives you the goosebumps.

Well, this week you'll have to write about YOUR favourite movie or movies in general.

Whatever movie/film/genre it is, you have to:

- Leave a comment on 2 of your classmates posts

- Write about: 150 - 180 words

- Include a photo/video, you know, something we can look at.

The Clash

But not any clash, a culture clash.

Do you know what that is?

Don't worry, because today you'll have to search the web for information on what culture clash is and provide an example of a culture clash that called your attention, that is, the one that you found more interesting/weird/shocking of all the ones you read about on the web.

It's really important that you:

- Explain what a culture clash is

- Provide an example of one

- Say why you chose that example

- Mention if you have experienced a culture clash yourself (and narrate that experience, as well)

• Word count: 200-280 
• Leave comments on 2 of your classmates' entries
• Include a photo or video or anything catchy related to the topic.