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My English knowlegde

I wasn't good in English during elementary school, I remember having problems memorizing words, and every year was like that. Just memorizing things without really understanding them and by the end of sixth grade I can say, I just manage the most basics themes, words -objects- related to the kitchen, the bathroom, the bedroom, my classroom, etc., etc. The classes were more on exercising and answering things in a book, with little or none feedback from teachers, so by the end of the class, most of my classmates -including me- were laughing, playing or doing anything else, except focus on English. The most important changes came in my new school back then, in 2010. English's classes were in different dynamic, it demanded more participation from students and so my English improved a bit. Then, we had to read short stories -famous stories like the Secret Garden - summarized in twenty to thirty pages all in English. I liked these books a lot. They were a different way of under

Changes in University

The University just give us the basic, and sometimes it may be not enough. There a good number of people who study here and the dependence seems to handle all of us good for now, but just in my career (Anthropology), every year the enrollment increase ans thus the amount of students in the whole faculty. I don´t know if this happens in others careers but surely is the same.  And then there is always, and when I say "always" I mean the time from my first year until today, some place under remodeling or in construction. That is good, nice and, of course, welcomed because top management  seems to care enough about this campus, the problem is the noisy during classes, the constant dust and the lesser and lesser green areas. Yeah, everything here seems to be made of cement and the fresh places where you would be more comfortable, specially with summer being so near, are few. Not all the classrooms of the older building have air conditioning so have a lecture there with forty or f