"Adjectives, verbs, adverbs, verbs, adjectives and more adjectives...." We were without phone and internet service at home for almost 2 days. It was the opportunity to get back to the paper books. I have an unread new book waiting for me on my shelf "The One and Only by Emily Giffin". I've forgotten why I stopped reading this book and put down again in the shelf. In the morning, I started to read it. What a surprise! I can hardly read the first chapter, I have to say this book is for native speakers, it's not for English students, I mean doesn't have indications for readers (for example elementary, basic, intermediate, etc). Before I started reading I took a red colour to underline new vocabulary. I found a tons of words like: upendend, flawed, engrossed, binge reading, slippery slopes, biting, surefire, rip-roaring, deftly depicts, subtlyclashed, open-casket, dwell, muster up, fittingly, thrillingly peppered, riffaraff, an so on... the list never end. Immediately I remembered why I had stopped reading this book. Thank God! internet service came back, so I can retake my English lessons and practice again!

¿What kind of podcasts do you like to listen to in a regular morning? Everybody has a routine. My weekday morning routine is noisy. Everyday I choose different podcasts to listen to while I'm doing my breakfast, feeding the dog, water my plants, many little chores before I go to work. I find interesting topics like Language, personal progress, audiobooks, etc. Last week I came across an audiobook by Geneen Roth, the author is a NY best seller books. She shares her knowledge and personal experiences about getting and losing weigth long of her life. What made me show interested in this audiobook was the way she explained our relationship with food and how she details her struggles with weight since she was 11 years old. That was the first time she was on diet. Well, I've listened to just a short part. I'd like to buy one of her books "Women, Food and God" to learn about this topic for health and also learn new English vocabulary". So ¿Which one is your favorite You Tube channel or topics to listen to in short time during the morning?

Talking myself in English Lately, I found myself talking in English, having toughts in English, trying to make sentences while I'm walking, cooking or on my way to work. It feels like I'd like to practice English anytime. Although I stopped stuying English two years ago, I remember how much I love this language. I haven't practiced it for a long time. English comes and goes in my life from time to time. This month I bumped up with a English mini course on you tube and I retake some lessons not to forget at all. I really enjoy listening to some podcasts again and writing this entry on my notebook. I'd like to move to the next level so I'll be around doing what I have to do to make it!

Talking about cellphones Two weeks ago I took a lesson. I wanted to know common phrases and verbs to talk about cellphone service. Now I'm able to express everyday things when I'm using my cellphone. Phrases like: "Sorry, my cellphone was turned off" or "it has lost the charge".. or "I'm recharging my cellphone, I'll call you later", another one "Hold on a second, I have another phone call", all of them very useful. I know these are easy phrases but I don't learn these kind of things in detail at school, but now I can talk about if I'm paying a monthly plan or If I should add some credit because of my data is running out. What big difference is to be able and confident to explain to my long distance friends what's going on with my cellphone.. and not to go blank when we have small talks. Do you know another common and useful phrases to talk about cellphones? Please, feel free to make corrections, adding linking words and native phrases to help my paragraph to make sense. Thanks for your help. Have a good day!

Coconut water Here in Mexico is easy to get fresh coconuts, we have a few producer states like: Quintana Roo, Guadalajara, Guerrero and Tabasco, where coconut is abundant, especially in coastal areas. I've read about how to detoxify our body drinking fresh and natural coconut water during 7 (seven) days in fasting. In order to refresh kidneys, to kill some bacterias and intestinal worms in a natural way. Drinking coconut water in the mornings is not a disgusting thing to do, in fact, it's the opposite. Coconut water is delicious!. These days I drink coconut water at 8am (more less), then I have breakfast around 9-10 am. Which one consist in 1 (one) carrot in wide, thin strips with 2 (two) tablespoon of mother of vinegar, fresh coconut meat cut in juliennes, plus I add some Himalaya salt (just a little). Optional: extra virgen coconut oil (cold compressed), and that's all!. This salad tastes incredible also. Do you know other natural uses for coconuts? Please, feel free to make corrections, adding linking and native phrases to help my paragraph to make sense. Thank you so much for your help.

The lemon tree There was a big young lemon tree in front of my house, the owner planted this tree 8 (eight) years ago approximately (next to her garage). Every morning we used to listen to the birds' singing. Many breeding were received year after year for this beautiful young lemon tree. A variety types of birds like: little yellow breast birds, brown little pigeos, and smaller birds (different colors) used to lived in the lemon tree. By the evening we could see how they used to come back to their bird nest and sing for a while before to go to sleep. But today everything has changed for all this beautiful birds. The new occupant brought three men and between all of them cut down the tree, trunk and branches were chopped into small pieces. They just leave a stump. I'm sad just watching how birds flit around the stump and small bushes close to the stump. All of them flying again and again looking for their nests in the lemon tree and how their sing at the same time louder than usual like a non-intelligible language birds. We need to plant trees not to kill them. I'm sad. :( Please feel free to make corrections, adding linking and native phrases to help my paragraph to make sense. Thank you for your help one more time.

Life is constantly changing Life changes each minute, hour.. always in constantly changing. Yesterday I spent all day giving support one of my best friends. I woke up early morning with bad news, her beloved brother had pass away. These are hard days for her family members. Extremely painful to see grief and lost in our dearest close friends. I was struggling with my feelings, I didn't have enough words to say something that could help her to feel better. :( or to change the reality. I came back home by evening, tired and sad. Thinking about how short is life and how cruel seems to be some days, like a lottery game. That reminds me that I have to live my life with dignity, happiness, faith, more positive than worried for health, money, school, job and bunch of things that we are used to carry through our life. I want to spend the rest of my life making changes within me, to be a better person, and I have to say "I'm going to try to" because I know this is a trial and error process. If I fail today I'll try it tomorrow again. That not means that I'm not doing anything to be a better person everyday, no, I'm just saying that some days I forgot that and I don't wish to forget it. I think there is more joy in giving than in receiving. "I should be grateful for my life not only today but also everyday life." Please, feel free to make corrections, adding linking and native phrases to help my paragraph to make sense. Thank you in advance for your help one more time.

When do I speak fluently and sound like native speakers? ...LOL.. just in my dreams (until now), last night I dreamt that I was able to speak English fluently and in my dream I was in an interview with people from human resources. I seemed confident, answering questions, with a small smile on my face, relaxed and making appropriate pauses. The funny part was that I said to myself ¡oh! I can speak like people in "The good wife", with the whole piece of languages, idioms, slang, phrasal verbs, native phrases, etc. because in this series characters use a lot of legal idioms, because the atmosphere is legal world. Everything is about lawsuits, crimes, assassinations, etc. each new episode is about new cases of sort of claim. I've heard some legal idioms or phrases like: "You can not play with the same card", "to break the law", or "the grand jury has voted in favor of.." or this one weird word because I'm an ignorant of laws "quid pro quo", now I know what does mean. Wow! this series is something else, fantastic! I'm a big fan of The good wife because everybody wears fancy suits, fashionable glasses, they spend all day (in the series) in beautiful and luxury offices, and finally both (clients and lawyers) look like real lawyers, executive and business people. Please, feel free to make corrections, adding linking and native phrases to help my paragraph to make sense. Thank you in advance for your help.

How to use the verb "transform" and "revolutionaze"... Today I've been practicing my listening with a podcast about "changes". I heard this teaching material several times. I've found it interesting this new vocabulary for usage with everyday life. But I have some doubts. Here are some new phrases about changes. If I talk about small changes, then I can say... I'm making adjustments or modifications, also more informally I can say.. I made a few tweaks... But if I want to talk about "big changes" then I should use the verb "transform" and "revolutionize". What I don't know is.. How to use these verbs in a sentence to talk about big changes in life? It would be correct to say.. I'm transforming my life ???. Please, Could you give me some examples with these verbs? Please, feel free to make corrections, adding linking and native phrases to help my paragraph to make sense. Thank you in advance for your help.