Even poutry have intuition Yesterday I spent a lovely afternoon talking with a farmer about life conditions in isolated places. He told me that in his village there were no electricity nor roads when he was a child. Furthermore, the closest road was at a 12 hour travel by horse. While we talked he made many interruptions to went in and out of his house. During that time all the birds walked around searching for insects and green grass. Suddenly the man said to me - I think they're hungry - and went inside the house once again. But this time everything was different because all the birds, specially the hens, get closer to the door and start behaving in a strange way, like they were nervous. I shocked because I realized that they probably were capable to detect some signs in the movements of their owner which mean to them: It's lunch time! As a city guy I was awe, but the farmer didn't show any surprise, he just said: they know. Back in the city I could't stop thinking about that experience: if birds don't understand human language what kind of phenomena explain what I saw. For me, the most reasonable explanation is a form of animal intuition. If poultry have intuition, hence humans must to have too right?

It is possible to use "dream of" to talk about actual dreams? I've found this sentence in a book about dream interpretation written by an American psychologist ("Inner Work" by Robert Johnson): "The woman who dreams of this archetype (archetype of love) is not made up only of the urge to love. She also has the capacity for hatred or spite, as we all do, hidden away somewhere within her total personality" I am confused because I learned that "dream about"is the correct form to talk about actual dreams, and when refering to aspirations and goals you must use "dream of". Is that sentence an exception to the rule? I'm also confused about the meaning of the phrase"made up only of the urge to love". Isn't "made up" an expression to describe something false or asembled? What's the meaning of the phrase?

A nice day Today, me and my daughters made a short trekking whith my friends and their children into the fields next to their children's school. The children ran, laughed and played each other while we (the adults) had an interesting talk about different topics. We found a small native forest wich almost nobody visit. Inside it were plenty of a bush called Quila (a type of bamboo) and many lianas. There were also some old trees which were very impressives and awe-inspirings. We found a honeycomb inside a tree, altough it wasn't easy to discover because the entrance was in a small knot of the trunk. Were it not for the constant flow of bees in and out of the knot we wouldn't notice it at all. At the end of the day all toghether shared a delicious meal in the house of one of my friends, the kids ate first and then played again while we took advantage of that and ate in a relative peace. I really enjoy these simple moments because they make me feel as I were part of a big family or a tribe.

First attempt Hi everybody! This is my first entry on italki. For the first time in my life, during the last couple of months, I've been studying seriously a language. I'll assist to an international medical course which will be imparted in english in may. Therefore my goal is to reach a level good enough to be able to understand and discuss complex academic topics. My weaker point definitely is my written english because I don't have a solid grammar base (honestly I hate studying grammar), and that's why I decided to give this a try. Looking forward to receiving comments and corrections. Thanks!