Music and films in English

Last summer, in England, I shopped for music and DVD films. I found interesting and cheap things.

In the Bell School Library there are a lot of DVDs to be borrowed and I used it.

Currently, at home, I try to listen to some song or to watch some film in English every day. Although a good communication (Fluency) is a priority, I would like arrive to have a good English accent too. Phonetics is very important to me.

A marvelous gift

Day by day, I understand better and I enjoy comics more. It's an interesting and deep expression of Literature, not only for children but for adults too.
Since I was a teenager, one of my favorite designers was Max*, National Price of Cómic* in 2007. He's a mate of other great cartoonist, my friend Juan Álvarez*, who offered me a trip to Mallorca in my birthday... With a visit to Max's studio included? I'm not sure, but the card sent to me express something like that: between the tower of the Murcia's Cathedral and Bardín at the foot of the lighthouse, the happiest woman in the world is flying. With a pilot and my friend, I hope!

*in Spanish

Today is my birthday

Am I going to talk about my feelings? Yes, but I'll be brief: I'm not 50. I'm 20 with 30 years experience.

Myself in Flickr, a cathartic exercise against fear of aging.

Problems

After all these posts and comments about recent things in my life, I would like get back about my experience of English learning in Cambridge.
At the end of my first week in Bell School, I had a crisis. I was sure that my real level was lower than Upper-intermediate (the level assigned to me in the first test) and I needed talk about it with my main teacher, John Page.
I thought the possibility of making a change because I needed much more time than my classmates to read the exercises, my Vocabulary was quite short and my Grammar in oral expression was full of mistakes. I couldn't process the enormous quantity of information that I received each day.
But my teacher advised me to remain with the same group and to be stimulated with the difficulties. Besides, he told me, my classmates had differents problems than me, with Phonetics, for example. In his opinion, the situation was balanced.
I agreed and I didn't change. With the help of some books and more hours of study I could improve my English and be more confident and happy.
I think now that there, in Cambridge, I was building a new status for me, I could make "muscles" for the future (in words by my teacher in Spain, Stephen Hasler).