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What was your experience visiting Mexico?
As a ESL student I have met some people who has visited Mexico, unfortunately not always have had a good experience(makes me feel embarrased). But I always find in youtube videos of foreigners who are IN LOVE with the country.
Have you ever visited Mexico? what was your experience? Where did you go?
(Please try to use as many adjectives as posible, you are going to help me a lot)
All comments in a respectful way are welcome.
Looking forward to read your answers! :)
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Best uses of "reckon"
I have looked up for this word meaning but always is confussing for me. I have found it has lots of meanings.
Can anyone can help me to find the most popular or the best uses of it?
Thanks!
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How I keep fresh my memories.
I really enjoy to travel. But something I also enjoy is to have a memory about that trip. That's why I try to film every time I am knowing a new city, a new country, etc. My memory isn't reliable, so this way, I can remember every detail it was memorable for me.
I like to film my self , my husband , our reaction trying a new food, knowing a new place, an outstanding building, fauna, the sky, etc.
After a few months I am back at home I like to see it again and start to edit it with a cool song and put some effects that flows with the rithm of the music.
Finding a right song is never easy, it also depends on your mood or your inspiration in that moment, but, once you have it whuuu!!! the fun part has arrived!. Cut, trim, move clips, effect here, transition there, adjust colors , you name it!
Every video edition is different, sometimes I have more clips from one place than other, some of them are more dinamic , some others more nostalgic, more fun, more more quiet, so that's why you have to choose your song wisely.
In some edits I can spend two weeks, sometimes just one but what I know is once I'm sitted editing I could spend hours witout noticing it, which find out is very relaxing for me.
I just do this for fun, I am a novice as well, but I've been learning a lot, I went from zero knowlodge to create cool and fun videos of our trips.
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Quarentine side effects
Lately we have heard a lot this word: Quarentine.
Is pretty much everything people talk about , my social media is filled of this word as well. I find all kind of people on my social media. Some people is complaining about how bored they are for staying home 24/7. Some others are expressing gratitude for being alive and healthy. And I think I can be both without a problem.
Everything depends on the glass you decide to see.
Now that I am more time at home I am cooking more often and I could be able to prepare dishes that I wasn't brave enough before to do it my self. I feel happy about it and I am being eating de-li-cious, my husband can't complain either. I am healthy, he is as well, my family too and thankfully we still having a job and we have money to buy food, so our families .
Of course there's no need to dig to deep to find something to complain about, but let's try to be positive, in many cases situations can be worse.
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Issues trying to keep motivation.
As you see I am studying English since a few years now, I try to speak as much as I can, I got a partner on Italki to practice with, I also watch series, movies and sometimes I hear the radio on this language, I watch youtube videos and I was reading a book ,but, lately I feel I am struggling to find motivation to keep reading my book. I am reading it on a kindle . And I always have liked to read with a physical book, I enjoy having it on my hands, feel it, change pages, even smelling(it might sound weird but yeah), so, reading on a kindle is not the same experience for me.
I need to read, I can notice dramatically the improvements on my fluency and my pronunciation while I am reading, and just doesn't makes sense to buy a physical book when I have hundreds on my husband's kindle.
Does anyone of you guys who are going to correct my writing can relate?
Thank you for your corrections and overall I'd love to read some suggestions to get used to read on a kindle. .
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coming out of the cocoon.
I didn't realize how much I like to travel until I married my husband.
Before That, I used to travel often, with my immediate family(parents and siblings).
My parents gave me opportunities as going to Disney, traveling across California, , Baja California and Sonora in Mexico, they couldn't gave an student exchange in the other side of the world, or any travel beyond that but they gave me as much as they could and I am very grateful for that.
But well, getting back to the first point when I started traveling with my husband I discovered a new way to travel, going to a further places and trying new and unknown food is a must!
Knowing another cultures , and understand why people behave certain way is now important to me.
Now I have realized I want to know many other countries, try other flavors, see how people live .
Before marrying my husband I'd never imagined to travel to Japan, Singapore or Thailand, but now
I am not afraid anymore to be in a place where I don't get a word ,now I feel curious.
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Issues in Mexico.
I am from Baja California , which is a Semi-Desertic area of Mexico and as you might guess, we do not have plenty of water, the whole state depends on the Colorado River.
Durying about 4 years residents of the state have express their uncomformity of allowing Constellations Brands Brewery to settle down their city because that means a gigantic brewery such as this will use the Colorado River water to produce its product.
Baja California , specifically the region of Mexicali is an agricultural municipality. Cotton, wheat, corn, asparagus, lettuce, celery, baby leaf, radish, grapes are examples of what is produced there. Many of this products are used to supply the state and also exported to the U.S.
Farmers need water to work their lands and produce. But they'll lost the access of water if this brewery settles down.
Colorado River's Water is also needed for domestic use.
Maybe if you hear the problem like this, you could think it is very easy to solve it, but the issue is getting stronger when Money-Corruption-And Personal interests are on this game.
Today Saturday 03/21st and tomorrow 03/22nd are supposed to be elections to decide if this company will operate or not, even if they are 70% advanced on construction.
Well, elections were not cancelled despite the corona virus thing.
I'm not there but that doesn't stop me to investigate what is happening, and troughout live streamings on facebook of people fighting for the cause I have watched how this Brewery have brought poor people to vote for them.
They previously have arranged to pay-receive money .
Long lines never seen before, not even durying last presidential elections. And oh! not least important to mention that they even bring that sold-people on busses to vote.
This was supposed to be a democracy, but we are in Mexico, and as Mexican idiom says: "Con Dinero baila el perro"' which means that with money you can do whatever you want.
I feel annoyed, sad and worried about the future of my origin place.
People was out there risking their lives going out to vote for nothing?
22 maart 2020
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Discovering Italki
I am amazed about Italki community. I got registred imaybe a year ago, but din't take the time to explore it like now.
so, I am not sure if this is a highly active community or if we all are here more active because of covid-19 and quarantine restrictions. But, Anyway, is amazing, I spend many hours here, chatting with people, around the world , helping people who want to learn spanish ,so, it's great! I feel I am learning, practicing and giving something back!
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Boringness durying corona virus quarentine.
I am a very active person,I always have liked to exercise, to bike, to hike, to run , etcetera.
So, during this crisis days of corona virus, trying to stay at home 24/7 is very difficult for me to stay active.
Mostly, I am being a couch potatoe watching youtube videos; and I am seriously thinking the kind repercutions this behavior will bring to the shape of my body and to my physical condition. I am also trying not to eat too much but then the anxiety pops up.
Oh well! Thanks for reading me and thanks for your corrections!
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