Blog 4, Themed post (21-10) My Favourite Movie/Series

Dear All:

For today, as a class, we have decided to write about our Favourite Movie(s)/Series.

Consider the following:

        •What movie/series it is,

•What it is about

•Why you like it

•Anything else important

- Comments: Leave a comment on the Teacher's post + 3 on your classmates' posts
- Word Count: 140 words
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Black Mirror: San Junipero Love Story.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/208471851 


I don't usually have much time for watching movies, however, recently I had lots of pressure from friends and finally I decided to get Netflix and OH My God, I started wasting time but enjoying myself.

I love movies, I am a real fan but to decide on my favourite of all times its rather complicated because there are so many  I love but to be honest, my favourite plot it is not a movie, it is a series of which I'll talk about.

Many people had talked to me about the good series on the Online TV Platform mentioned aboive; and many had mentioned series about many issues but one in particular caught my attention, because, as I was told, it dealt with issues of current life including in its plot situations either provoked or as a consequence of the extreme inclusion of technology in the contemporary world.

Once I got Netflix, I searched for the series and found out it was not a real series but several science fiction episodes which talked about the unseen effects of new technologies and from a satirical stand point, reflected upon the construction of new societies which might seem a bit decadent.

I watched several episodes but I came accross with the chapter named "San Junipero" which I just loved. The episode was about a strange story of two girls who fell in love and used to live in different times and ages. Later it was revealed that San Junipero was a simulated reality for people who were about to die and in this simulated reality they could live in their younger body, and eventually, after dying they could remain in the virtually constructed world.

The love story is about two girls and using a very frantic narrative, it keeps you all the while wondering about what is going in on. Finally, and as opposed to other chapters of the series, the ending is seemingly happy.

Black Mirror, I think, is one of the best series that I have seen on Netflix so far, not only because of the quality of the plots and production, but furthermore, because it is the first time I have seen a TV series stimulating reflection on society upon the future consequences that technology may have in human life if we do not foresee it.

Post 3 (14-10) Favourite piece of technology.

LEVEL 3 >> POST 3 (week 5) > MY FAVOURITE PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY

Write about your favourite piece of technology

Say:

What it is.
When you got it.
How you use it.
How often you use it.
Why you like it.
What life would be like without it.




- 130 words minimum.
- Include a picture. 
- Comment on your teacher's post and 3 of your classmates’ blogs.

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The Apple Without The Worm

For some time I had been quite disconnected from all society, I had already spent 6 months without a mobile. Back then I had started working for a telecommunications company and I had to be on the phone mostly all day long, and that's why I decided, in the end, to get rid of the "cell-phone".

Time went by and some day I had an urgency, I had to hand in a very, very importan document, but with the rush, I left it over my desk at home, and the only way to get it was to call my friend and ask him to drop by and bring it along.

Having thought so, I rushed out the underground to get a pay-phone but guess what, ALL of them were not working, and after several tries, and a big anguish, I managed to contact my friend and get my papers...but it was already a bit late, and the only way I could get in touch was by borrowing a co-worker's mobile!

After that I got a mobile phone, in the 2011, after nearly a year without it. After a while I learnt there were new models, and new apps and the inclusion of 3G, I finally changed to iphone!!!... I use it for everything: to make a call, a free-call, to use wasap, teaching apps, grading apps, ppt creation and many more tools that I have come accross with.

I love my new mobile because of its functionality and the freedom it gives me, because I do not longer need to be behind the desk to do all of the tasks my profession requires. I also love it because it helps me being updated on everything I need updating on, and furthermore, because I might have lots to do, and even though I am very forgetful, with my iphone, I can always be aware of it all!.

Without it, life would be rather the same, perhaps, with the difference that I would be forced to spend less time behind the mobile, but at the same time, forced to spend longer hours behind the desk. If I did not have it, I would be even busier, not being able to work on the run. That's why I now love and use my mobile.

Post 2 (07-10) Why did you choose this career/study programme?

Level 3 - Post 2 (week 4) Why did you choose this career/study programme?

Write about:

- your dream jobs when you were a child

- other career options that you had at the moment of applying to university

- what made you decide in the end

- your experience at university until now

- the kind of job you would like to have

 > word count: 120 words

 > don't forget to leave comments on 3 of your classmates posts and on your teacher's post as well.

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Example: 

LOL

I studied English Linguistics, and I always thought "what would my future job be?". And here I am!!

I always wanted to have a fun, light, easy going and not too hard to do job, but always wanted to be with people.

From all the many areas I could work in, I always wanted something neither too-much outdoors nor indoors. Furthermore I wanted something that would produce some kind of social change, a good, important and deep change.

Moreover, I wanted to travel, to see the world, to meet strange people, well... strange meaning, different from me, and my friends, and family. While teaching languages, I have been able to do all the former, which leads me to think it was the right choice.

I tried working in an office once. It was a job not as stressful as a teacher's job, but after a year, and after missing the classrooms a lot, I decided to go back to stressful, challenging but rewarding teaching.

Nowadays, I am thinking on taking up on PHD studies in the field of Applied Linguistics, I would like to do it either in the Netherlands, Switzerland and/or England. 

I would like to do it in those countries, in the two first ones, actually. This is because both have a long history of successful multilingualism and also they are definitely good at languages. England, on the other hand, would be my last choice. This is because of a fact that gave birth to a joke, that is, - and please, no offense-, the joke goes: "how do you call a person who speaks only one language? […] you call them British"...LOL