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Midterm assignment:

A lucky girl. She was born in a private hospital, with all the atention that somebody would wish… But she had some problems as everybody have it. She had dislexia, her sister was very jealous at her and her brother left the house too many years ago. However, she had a lucky parents, her mother was business manager and her father a teacher. One day she decided to travel abroad Chile and live alone in Europe, earning her own money and meeting new people. Years later she decided and wanted to study English language but not for be a teacher forever…

Assignment 1: Writers on writing.

4. What are some of the fears these highly successful writers have about writing? - M. Atwood says that the most difficult issue is beginning to write and convincing herself it is going forward. -J. Grisham thinks that the most difficult part of writing is laying out the whole book and when he has to face the final dateline. - I. McEwan says that for him is to catch the reader´s interest otherwise his writing would be a failure. - P.Auster fears life itself saying that life is unexpected. - S.Rushdie says that the hardest part is having complete control on a given situation, he needs to keep calm to create a new book otherwise he can´t do what he is suppossed to be doing. 5. What are some of the difficulties they have when they are writing? Some say to be calm in order to write in the right way, others to work against a final dateline, others facing boredom when writing a novel. 6. What are some of the positive aspects to writing? Some of them are that it helps you to overcome your own

Autobiography: This is me!! well, almost..

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When I was child I had the prettiest doll in my life..Her name was Catalina and she was dressed my clothes and my panties all day long. It was weird, because she didn't have neither my height no my weigh of course. Well when I was alone in my house I played all day with her and I tought that she talked to me like an imaginary friend !! That's a crazy thing, don't you think??. That was when I was round 5 years old, then it didn't happen anymore, because my mom gave me a plush bear, it's name is North Pole, I still keep it, and I sleep with him everynight jaja... But nowadays not only I sleep with my bear everynight, I think it's very boring, but also I do others interesting things as ...teaching english in a school, as learning to drive a car, as going to the church, to the university and meeting a lot of people there, etc, etc. Well, you know, I'm an interesting and busy woman now than before, when I used to play with bears and dolls because NOW I don't