JOURNAL # 1

GOALS
WHAT I WANT FOR THIS YEAR

That questions always sounds like the easiest one but sometimes can be the difficult
one. Well I want to begin with myself, I want to be a better person, I want to see all the
special stuff that people does for me and I can’t see, I want to be really humble with any
situation and always do the best, thinking positive and always peaceful.

About school I hope to do good in all the classes, DO NOT SKIP CLASSES, to show
myself that even if the classes are in other language I can do it and I don’t have to be
afraid of the language.

I would like to save money and stop to buy online, I spent a lot of money in food that I
can cook but im just lazy to cook so I go outside and buy the same food three time
higher than the one I can cook. The other thing is I buy a lot of stuff that I don’t need
online I want to stop this horrible habit.

I want to be more present in your daily life, but the thought of nixing social media
altogether doesn't seem realistic, here's a very easy solution: Delete your most
distracting apps off your phone. (I have been try but is a little hard).
JOURNAL # 2
“WRITE A LETTER TO SOMEONE IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU HAVE A
COMUNICATION BARRIER WITH”

There is someone always who you really love but the communication is not easy, in this
case to me is one of my cousin that every time I try to talk to him it ends in an argument.
I was in Colombia 2 weeks ago visiting my family that I didn’t see in long time (around 1
year and half) so I was there and I thogh maybe because of the time and the distance
we were going to act and talk like normal but I didn’t happened. I was really sad
because he is more and a cousin, he is like a brother, we grew up together living in the
same house and going to the same school and that was until I turned 14 years after that
we just fight and argument. I really wish I can do something for as but I don’t even know
what to do. One time I thought to go to see a sicologa but he said I was crazy and I was
doing just a really big drama for nothing but I know he feels the same way to me.

JOURNAL # 3

-WRITE ABOUT A POSITIVE COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCE-OR ABOUT

SOMEONE COMMUNICATE EASILY WITH.
-WHAT MAKE THIS EXPERIENCE OR PERSON EASY TO TALK TO? (DESCRIBE
THE ENVIRONMENT AND MOOD)

Well im going to talk about my friend Jessica, I met her here in US when I just came
here, she was studding in the same school with me. With her I think I have the best
communication because we’ve been into a lot together a lot! So we created a really
good friendship, with talk like we have nothing to hide. I guess something that help as is
that we have the same age and we like almost the same things so that’s a big _______
she is not front Colombia but we are Latinas so even the old old music we used to hear
the same and is just we are really good friends.
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“POLITICS/GOVERNMENT”

JOURNAL # 5
“WHAT DO YOU WANT?”
What I want is pretty much what all of as want, to get a good job and support my family
to have a good and healthy family. But right now I just want to improve my English and
finish this school to come back to my country and begin my life there.

JOURNAL # 6
“WHAT I AM PROUD OF”
I am so proud of myself because I thothg I could not to be here by myself for this long
time, I am an only child and in the begging was really hard to be lonely also I could not
speak any English so I was my first time doing all those things that I never imagined in
my life. And now I am not just study English I am doing this that is so much bigger that
just study English and I know when I will come back to Colombia I will be life more
proud of me knowing that I made it of course my mon and my dad are always
supporting me, telling me do not give up, that’s gonna be just for a short time, and they
tell me these thing by phone but I know many friends that they don’t talk with their family
or if they do is every week or every month so all I have been doing is just for the big
support I get that’s my motivation.

JOURNAL # 7
“EMOTIONS”
EASY OR DIFFICULT TO TALK ABOUT YOUR EMOTIONS”
“FULL MOON INFLUENCES IN YOUR EMOTIONS”
For me is really really difficult I am not a open person when it comes about emotions, im
always trying to hide them I mean no hide them because I am just like that they are
hiding by themselves and most of the people I know tell me that like you look like you
don’t feel or you are always super strong but the reality is I am so sensitive but I don’t
know or I get a hard time trying to show people how I am. Just I few people knows how I
am. I don think so that the moon influences on me I have not stopped and see if in
those days I am different but I don’t think and I don’t believe in that i mean I believe in
the signs but I don’t know. But about emotions I know I am the worst and sometimes is
difficult to me too I mean when I need to accept feelings I can not.

JOURNAL #8

HOE DOES SOCIAL MEDIA (INTERNET) IMPACT YOUR LIFE?

DOES IT HINDER OR ENHANCE YOUR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS?

Well respect to social media it was amazing for my always positive, when I was beging
high school I remember that was the bom at that moment and I am not sure but I guess
my first social media was myspace and the second was talk with my friends after
classes by mail and then one like really big was HI5 I used to spend hours in my
computer (the big one that was in the living room) talking with my classmates and
designing my perfil, changing color, pictures, type of font etc… then I got a blackberry I
used to spend all-day planning with my friend what we will do during the weekend.
I think it does not hide my interactions but something it helps me when I don’t want to
face something so I just send a text and that’s really helpful.