A SET OF GUIDELINES I'll give you some hypothetic set of guidelines for neightbors: 1. Don't listen musid too loud in the night. Usually we want to sleep, but if you want to give a party, you can rent a different place. Walls are skinny! 2. Can everybodies please take out the dog poop of gardens? It's very disgusting saw that every day and the smells are terrible. 3. Would you mind parking in the correct place? In some days I need to find another parking space because someone is parking in mine.

Travel suggestions- Bogotá I was born in Ubate (a town near to Bogotá) and later I moved to Bogota when I started my University, it was 7 years ago. I'll give you some suggestion for knowing this city if you want. First, you need to know if you need a VISA for visiting my country, nevertheless, the passport is mandatory. When you're going to buy the tickets, the better option is to buy only airport without reservation in hotels, usually, the tourist pack are expensive. This city has a lot of type of hotels, but if you want reserve a 5 stars hotel you can! I ought to search your reservation in booking which is a good website. When you arrive you should take a taxi or transmilenio (public transportation). Be careful with uber because in this country this type of transportation doesn't have a well regulation and you can be object for penalty. You'd better have some cash with you because some little business doesn't have electronic cash terminal. However, the big restaurants and hotels accept this means of payment. Try to be careful in public transportation, it is a big city and thieves are ready. You must have a interpreter if you don't know anything about spanish because the majority of population aren't familiar with english and much less with other languages. You should visit the downtown, Monserrate (a mountain that has a temple catholic with a veiwpoint of city), the 93 park, botanical garden and the simon bolivar's parks. By the way the majority of musseums and historical places are situated in the downtown. Another good option is to know the villages in the sabana's train (the tourist packets are offered on Internet) Finally, the food is very delicious, you ought to eat tamal and pandebono, also you ought to drink chocolate, aguapanela, masato and other tipycal recipies. I don't think that chicha is a good option because it might produce a stomach pain but if you want you can drink it. I hope that you can visit this place when pandemic finishes.

Rice with chicken Ingredients: 1 Chicken fillet, Salt, Onion, 1 cup of Rice, 200 grams of Beans, 200 grams of Peas, Garlic, oil, 6 sausages Steps: First, cut the chicken in litle slices, also mash the garlic and onion. After that, put the slices of chicken with salt, garlic, onion and oil in the pot until is cooked. Then, take 2 cup of water and put into the pot. When the water start to boil, add the rice. Next, put into the pot peas and start to chop beans and sausages. Finally, when the rice is dry, add the other ingredients, stir constantly for 5 minutes and enjoy.

A DESCRIPTIVE EMAIL Three months ago, I moved to my parents house. It's very different than my old apartment, but also have similar things, for example this house has just as many rooms and bathrooms as my apartment, also has just as much bright as my old apartment. Otherwise this house isn't enough private, but it's convinient at this moment. Futher, in this house I can live with my family. Living room and kitchen in my old apartment aren't as big as my parents house, and we have a good times. Anyway, my life is different and at this blockdown I can't pay a single apartment, also I like to have someone by my side.

About myself When I was a child my life was very different, I used to live in a little town who calls "Ubaté". I used to play with my neightbors all the fridays, my school friends used to play in my house sometimes in the month. My sisters have been in other generation, when I was a child they were teens, for this reason I didn't used to play a lot with they. My parents used to visit his brothers and sisters in another towns, for example, my grandmother used to live in "Capellania", but later she moved to "Bogotá" (this is the capital city in my country). I used to love our travels to Bogotá because I used to think that this city was the bigest in the world. Later I grew up and this thinking have changed also my habits have changed.

How to use "be familiar with" and "to know" I can´t understand when I should say "I am familiar with ..." and "I know..." Please give me some examples about this, thank you

1984- George Orwell- Book review Three weeks ago I finished "1984", it was an incredible book. The story begin with Winston, the principal caracter and the writer talk about the world into the history. We start to be familiar with another caracter: O'Brien, Julia, the party, the neightbors of winston and many other. In that universe "the party" have all the power who we can imagine: he can to change the history, the news and the knowledge in the books. The population have been division in three parts: the intern party, the external party, and the prole. Our Winston is part of the external party, it is like the midle class. The governement has four ministery: Ministries of Truth, Peace, Plenty and Love. The Ministry of Truth controls the media; the Ministry of Peace oversees war; the Ministry of Plenty suppresses the distribution of resources; and the Ministry of Love tortures political dissidents. Our protagonist work in the Ministry of Truth. I like how the writter play with the words because when you read the book is clear that the Ministry of Thuth changes the history by the better option for the party. At the begining, we know the thinking of Winston: there is familiar with the party and he know the dangerous for have bad thinkings about the party, he should love the big brother, if he doesn't love to big brother he can die. Slowly we know to Julia, there is the romantic interest of Winston and they start a little revolution when they permit fall in love one by the other. At the end the party arrest them and we can see how is the function of the Ministry of love, I felt very bad about Winston and Julia because they are torture. This book is far away to be a simple book about an distopic future, there is a book about totalitarian goverment, freedom, love, hope and dreams. In adition, I could reflect about the language importance, and how this permeats our freedom. I recomended this book and I'm going to read others books written by this author.

Quarentine time In Colombia the coronavirus pandemic was start in march 2020, there was a bad new. People who know my country know that the majority of population doesn't have a formal job. The economy has a hard hit with the mandatory confinement, a lot of sector has been affected by the epidemic, like the tourism sector, the commercial sector, cultural sector and too many others. In my case I have a hard hit in the midle of quarentine because I lost my job, fortunately I have support for my parents and too much positve atittude about this time. I know that other people don't have the same luck than me because they don't have any person that could be give some of help. Another worrying situation is the time has coming because the rule for start to work has't been accomplish by all the population, for example at Bogota last week the major have to close some enterprises because they don't follow the biosecurity protocol. I hope that everything finish fine, but I know many problems in this society like lack of discipline or corruption in the public authorities. However I have hope and I think that the good persons are more.

I'm learning english Hi! My name is Gretta. I'm from Colombia. 2 years ago I was learning this language but I don't remember very well that. I'm very excited for came back to practice and learn this. I listen music in english. I love the series of science fiction like Lost and fringe.