The last one in this journey..

Hello, it's been so long since my first entry. I want to say that even though this exercise hasn't been so useful for me, I learned to be at least a little more organized with my time and with the other assignments that I have to hand in. It's a good exercise because you can go over to your notes and refresh your knowledge and all the things you saw in class with the teacher. One of my favorite parts is that I had to imagine the situations and the people in order to complete the entry and I have never done something like that before that's why I'm proud for tge results. I'm happy for what I have learned through this journey and this blog. And I'm anxious what it's coming next. Thanks for reading this.
 -Pilar B.

The Search Warrant.. D:

It was a normal day before the knocked at the door. I did not want the cops to notice the pile of fake dollars I printed on the web for my next trip to United States. The lights turned off while I was watching TV. Even though I paid my taxes, all my neighborhood didn’t have electricity. The door knocked and the police started asking me questions with a flashlight in their hands since there was no light, about whether my last name was Scott something, I said yes, but I do not understand why you are here, in my house, have I done something wrong? I remember I thought something like:

If I had known, I would not have opened the door. That's my name, officers, but I haven’t broken the law. I even drive my car very carefully. They brought a search warrant and I wasn’t understanding anything. While I was talking to the officers and fearing that they would check the house, I prayed so hard, so they wouldn’t find the fake dollars that I was trying to enter the system, they did. They entered and began to check everything. If the house would have been a chaos, I don’t know what I would have done. I like the neat houses. By the way, because I asked for the search restriction, they didn’t take me with them.The police were inspecting my house, looking for a woman but they had made a mistake at home. It was my neighbor who had a lot of children, and she had not paid the pension. The police surrounded my house, and almost almost was about to enter where I had my (merchandise, all my dollars. I have a lot of plants, whereas they don’t. (whereas) I fixed the problem with them and, almost immediately, the electricity returned to our home like for an act of magic and everything went back to the way it was before. :)

-Pilar B.

A politician situation..

All I wanted was to win the best possible candidate for my country. Has it happened to you that have you ever wanted to do a good action and explain something to whoever (noun clause -ever words)  made a mistake, but that person is hermetic? She/he only cares for herself/himself, no one else matters. And according to that, this is my story. Approximately 8 or 9 months ago, the presidential elections in my country were approaching, and because of the responsibility to be informed and be a responsible and make an intelligent vote. The candidate that I chose, which for me represents everything I would like in a president or in a government, with values, wanting to take the country forward, but unfortunately, for many people, was somewhat controversial, since he is of evangelical religion and established from the beginning its principles, how he wanted to work and with whom. Here in Costa Rica, the voting was a chaos, a total bad faith, false respect, ethics, values ​​among many others. If only I had known that they were going to be that way, I wouldn’t have voted. But I did, as a good costarican. I followed everything what he said. (noun clause what) Everything! Social networks, newspapers, television, radio, etc. I cannot believe that people express so badly (adjective clause pronoun as the object of the verb) about others. I am hundred percent that the journalist that wrote the news was very happy. (adjective clause pronoun used as the subject) I really thought he was going to be our next president. As I was saying before, many people did not like him, and 99% of the cases were because of his religion and/or the way he thinks. He started to saying the truth. People like to believe and to follow just what they consider necessary, that’s why they did not like Fabricio. One day, the day before of the elections, I don’t remember exactly the day, I had to attend classes in the morning and I was really late. Our teacher in that moment asked to the people who came late, what was our opinion about elections? Lucky me! My candidate was in second place (a shame!) and in the third place was the stupid person ever. In the place number one was the abstention of the people, people who didn’t go to vote. It was really shocking, because that was the first time something like that happen in my country. My teacher wanted to know our opinions. In that moment, I wondered whether he was mocking us or not. (noun clause whether/if) How come! What he thought really surprised me. (noun clause question word) A true to be told, I did not want to say anything related with politics. It is known that religion and politics cannot be together. This is controversial for many people; someone may get offended if you don’t express yourself well. I remember that in that specific moment, I thought something like: I don’t know what to do. (noun clause followed by infinitive) I don’t know what to say. At the end I said: Teacher, is it this really necessary? I consider that people may not share the same opinion as me. (noun clauses that) So, he asked me again, what is your opinion? What was your candidate? I said: I voted for Fabricio and I will do it again. I gave the first vote of my life to him and I feel very proud of what he has got. He has worked really hard and he is the person who represents me at all. (adjective clause pronoun used as the object of preposition.) most of my partners were surprised, because almost all of them didn’t like Fabricio. One of them, a girl told me: why did you do that? What were you thinking about? He doesn’t know anything about politics and laws, you made a terrible mistake, you should have voted for Carlos, he is so intelligent, speaks English, has a major, blablabla. I did not want to be rude with her but the teacher was the person who asked! I felt the worst person ever, even though I explained to her my motives, my conclusions, my thoughts and opinions, she just closed herself to whatever opinion. She was so rude with me. Despite of, I decided to apologize to the girl and the rest of them whose treat was bad. (Adjective clause whose case) Since that day, I decided not to say my opinion about politicians to someone else.

_Pilar B

Madder Libs

Madder libs:

My teacher this week wants that we write about a word that we usually use a lot. When I was thinking about what could me the word I use very often, my handsome boyfriend sent me a text. He is a very romantic boy, who considers me beautiful and clever. The first time he bought me some roses( N1 V N2 TO/FOR N3) I was speechless! So, today I would like to share about the word I say millions and millions of times every time I could. My boyfriend has a cute name for me, or maybe, because I’m so fall in love of him. Alfredo, or Alfre like he prefers that I call him. He makes me happy.(N1 V N2 ADJ) I like to call him like that because it’s like the way I show my love. He is very humble, kind, smart, full of beans, with a great sense of humor, hard-working and a coffee lover like me. I don’t know why, he prefers his coffee black (N1 V N2 ADJ) and sugarless, on the other hand, I prefer my coffee with a teaspoon of sugar and a little of milk. He made me a better person (N1 V N2x N3x) since I met him. I still remember when he came to me and ask me for dance, he seemed charming (N LV ADJ)  with his leather boats and his gorgeous eyes. He was there with a lot of friends and now most of them became my friends! (Nx LV Nx) I like the way he says my name. and when I say Alfre, I now he does it too. I say it when I’m happy, when I sad and just with his smile he warms my soul. When I get angry at him and when I am loving him. He’s a wonderful person and I am so blessed to have him in my life. Because of his character, he is a talkative person, sometimes we talk about the places we definitely would like to visit. One of them is Monteverde. I have family in there. He hasn’t been there before, which is a shame for me! He really wants to visit it and to practice canopy. As you can see, looks can be deceiving! because he hates the feeling in his stomach when he practices it! I'ts a totally shame! :/

-Pilar B.

My awry situation..

This is my awry situation, or something like that. My parents have a dairy farm since my siblings and I were children. I remember that there was something that prevented the milk truck from reaching the milk tank and it was an old road that went to the dairy. Besides that, when it 
rained, that old road started to fill with mud and it was completely difficult to go through it. The car my parents used to have was a Toyota Land Cruiser 1979, in my personal opinion, a real car, I really loved it. We had to cross this road in order to arrive to the dairy. Nobody told us that was going to be a tricky road. Once, I remember we had to transport the milk to where we had the milk tank. I was like 11 or 12 years because I don’t remember very well. We were my dad, my older brother and someone that I couldn’t remember in this moment. My dad told us: chiquillos watch out! We have to go through the road, because if not, there is no way to get to where the milk tank is. My brother and I were not so sure about it, nor did we know what to do. Anyways, we got into the car but a little unsure of how we were going to get there, there was too much mud, besides it was raining dogs and cats. When the worst part of the road we were coming, we had to accelerate the car. In fact, we did it, we let the car take force. When we were close to cross, the car turned a little and we literally fell into a drain. I got the shock of my life! the jars of milk half overturned around us, my brother and I half beaten, wet with milk and then wet with rain when we finally got out of the car. My dad made us leave the car automatically. When we finally calmed down and managed to see where we were, we had to go and look for our neighbor from the other farm, completely long of us to give us a hand. Everything was going bad! Fortunately, Luisillo was in home with some friends of him, and they were really kind with us. Actually, he gave us dry clothes and delicious food. When they started to help us, the mud spilled everywhere Finally, the car managed to get out of the mud! It was an odyssey! When we finally arrive home very late in the night, my mother helped me to carry my muddy clothes out of the car and also gave me hot chocolate! One of the worst days of my life!
-Pilar B.

My favorite athlete 😊

Hello fellows, I hope you’re doing well! As I said in the previous post, I will be posting about my journey in my grammar course, (prepositional phrase) so, today, I would like to share and to talk about one athlete I admire so much and sports that we have here in Costa Rica. To start (infinitive phrase) the story, it’s important to know that the official sport (noun phrase) in my country it has been (verb phrase) the soccer since the last century, and our soccer it’s known worldwide, even though we have excellent runners, baseball players, basketball players among others.. Fortunately, Costa Rica has very talented athletes not only in soccer, but also in swimming like Claudia Poll. Swimming is not a popular sport in Costa Rica, which is a shame, because it’s really beneficial for your health. Anyways, she was the most successful swimmer in the nineties and also she was a blond girl with short hair (adverbial phrase) I said this because of the stereotypes people have about blond girls. I have read about her before on internet, magazines and newspapers, and what a surprise was for me, to realize what a discipline girl she was in that time. When having  successful was specific for men and not for women, because of the chauvinism society we used to have. She worked in a very hard way, (Adverb phrase) striving and training very early in the morning every single day through years in order to have more strength in her arms, legs, lungs and body in general. I consider that she had to sacrifice many things, and maybe she argued whether to keep on working or to give up, because the training of a swimmer it’s really tired. On my personal opinion, I am 100% sure that the more you sacrifice the more you win. She cherishes (because I read it on an article some years ago) that both sacrificing and working really hard it’s the key for success, like this idiom: no pain, no gain. I really admire her and her career during all of these years, and not only for that but also because she put the name of Costa Rica very high. Having always a good mood in the life (gerund phrase), it's the best way to put your country really higher as she did.

The beginning..

Hello to everyone behind their cellphones or computers. I hope you're fine and not bored when you start to read this blog. My name is Pilar Barrientos, I'm a normal and dedicated girl in a normal city called Ciudad Quesada. My beautiful country full of nature and kind people is Costa Rica, located in Central America. I'm not accustomed to share my daily life with the people, what I like to do and what I don't, I don't even have twitter! and I don't even share pics of my food on Instagram or Snapchat! I am the worst millennial ever!! D: Now, think about to share my knowledge! (It sounds very weird) now my studies! (This is totally horrible!) I'm an English student. Three years ago, I decided to take a course of English at INA (National Learning Institute, here in Costa Rica) When I was on school and high school, I always loved the subject of English and I wasn’t very bad interpreting and translating everything on my mind, I’m just understood what the teacher was saying. In other words, I always was the tough cookie in my English class. Like I was saying before I was taking an English course and the teacher was really clever in what he was saying. He knew a lot of information about everything you wanted to ask him. He made me love English even more that I loved. And that’s why I decided to choose my major at college 2 years ago, so, if you do the math, 1 year at INA and 2 at college you’re going to have three years full of learning. Three beautiful, complicate and challenges years of my life. My major is called English as a Foreigner Language and it is taught in U.T.N. (Universidad Tecnica Nacional) in Ciudad Quesada. As I was telling you before, I'm not accustomed to say anything about my major but I'm the kind of person who thinks that every single person in this world has something to say or to share with the people, even though if that means to share grammar stuff; but anyway, my inspiring and incredible and super genius professor from college, let’s called him Tato, had the wonderful idea to share our journey in his course, with the rest of the world, that's called Grammar VI YAYY! (of course I wasn't being polite but what can I do?!) so, that's why this blog was born! It has been almost five weeks since we started grammar with him. I have to say that it’s really interesting his classes but at the same time it’s really challenging for me and the rest of my classmates. You should really focus and pay careful attention to him when he starts to explain. Do you know something related with morphology? Syntax? If not, don’t get panic because almost 5 weeks ago I didn’t know it too. Morphology is the 

Part of the linguistics that studies the rules that govern the bending, composition and derivation of words! And what about parallelism? Conjunctions, the famous FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) Yeah, I have heard it and studied before but let’s say that in a different and simple way, but in this course it’s a little harder, tricky in so many ways. And my professor it’s really picky! The main reason of this blog is to share my experience with the last level of English in my major and if I’m going to survive in this journey! Join me and let’s start another level of Grammar!
-Pilar B.