Hola, Mi llamo Rafael, yo tengo 16 años, Im from the United states
or at least I was Born there, I spent 6 years in my home town in Virginia
before I travelled overseas to England where my Father served in The Air Force.
After living In England For 4 years I moved back to the USA where I attended a
Christian Co-ed school, which was awful and it eventually got pretty bad so I
switch schools. The Second school I attended ways a private all boys school and
because the majority of people came from the 1% of America racism was very
common and not many actions were taken to prevent or teach people about
Co-existence. This Affected me in a peculiar way do to the fact I was
partially Mexican so I was poked fun at for that which upset me a lot the first
year however I eventually just didn’t care and got used to somewhat racist
tendencies (mostly based around jokes and comedy). After three years in that
school I moved to Abu Dhabi, a huge change from the cold northern states I was
used to living in. The first two weeks of me being in Abu Dhabi thankfully
didn’t set the scene for the rest of my stay, because I went from having a
sinus infection and choking down huge Anti-biotic pills to vomiting a my guts
out after getting food poisoning. Around that time I think I really developed a
great animosity for Abu Dhabi based upon my short but grueling time there.
However all that changed when I finally started going to school, The wonderful
‘simple’ IB system in which you are graded from 0-7 in which a 5 is almost
equal to getting an 85% in the American system. I still dislike the grading
system however I do have to admit I don’t make it any easier for myself by
being extremely lazy and procrastinating on everything. I am Currently working
on that so fingers crossed I will finally kick this lazy Gene. In my more
current years I have pondered more things and a Major topic is why things are
the way they are and what caused them to be that specific way and how languages
like English could be widely different if one event doesn’t occur.
Like how would English change if Rome never fell and stayed in the
UK. At first thought one would say that English might not even exist or if it
did it wouldn’t be primarily based on a Franco-German Pedigree, And if that was
the case would English be the Cancerous Language that it is. Many of you might
be perplexed or even dumbfounded by why I could compare a language to
cancerous, So allow me explain, If you Imagine all the languages as body party
or organs then you will began to understand how English one spreads far beyond
it organs and rapidly in comparison to the growth of other languages. It two
consumes and adapts to other areas constantly editing itself to grow more and
more like cancer. Lastly Three English comes from a hole bunch of stuff that gets
mixed up and mutated to become itself and then goes of changing more and more
of the environment around it to be like or similar to itself. Hopefully I
explained it well enough to get my point across of how English is like a
tumorous growth but shouldn’t have all the negative connotations of cancer
brought with it.
I also
Like Making everything into bullet points because it makes everything easier
for my brain to comprehend.
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My Interests
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Exercise
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Meditation
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Video Games
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Things I
care about
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My Cats
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Animals in
general
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Exercise
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Plans for this year
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Beat the S*** out of my Laziness
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Do work Early
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Communicate more
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Reach 180lbs (getting really toned)
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Future Plans
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Make Plans For the Future
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The Dude mentality
This was well explained. i have had similar experiences having grown up in the caribbean where my sister and I were the only white children in the entire school. this caused a lot of racism and after the first year i learnt the same way as you to just ignore them.
ReplyDeleteThe Blog was very personal which is good as it allows the reader to build a bond with the author, The layout is easy to follow and you make your goals clear for the readers to see.
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ReplyDeleteThis was a very engaging introductory post. I'm glad that you've ended up at Raha where you can learn in a more inclusive and caring community.
ReplyDeleteI also like the extended metaphor of how language can be cancerous. This demonstrated a unique perspective of language. Moving forward, it is important that you focus on expressing yourself using polished language. Although your diction does not need to be entirely formal, treat these blogs as an opportunity to practice accurate grammar and punctuation. It will be to your benefit when writing exams under timed conditions. Glad to have you back in my class Rafael!