English Teacher - FCQF

  Hello, dear students. Last semester I wrote about the books I had read so far, so in today’s blog, I will tell you about the books that I have read so far in this second semester. In the book Honjok, The Art of Living Alone , the lifestyles of several South Koreans are depicted here, giving a “fresher” perspective of how to handle living in a society where everything must be done in pairs and how businesses are shifting towards this new type of customer, the “individual customer”. Honestly, I was biased due to the cover of this book and, unfortunately for me, many of the ideas about flying solo were things that I have already read before, so I was truly disappointed about this purchase.      If you are interested in learning how people from other countries live a long, satisfied life (and I mean, living up to 100 years), Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life is a very friendly and trustworthy approach to these lifestyles, where the writers expla...

  Good afternoon, dear students. In today’s possible the most boring blog of my teaching history, I will teleport to several moments in the past since these periods could possibly answer many of my questions regarding how certain things were created. Babylon (4000 BC) I have been always curious about the thinking process of building bridges. It’s such a mind-blowing thing, if you ask me, to connect one point to another by means of sturdy, heavy materials such as rocks, metal beans, clay, etc. and to not die in the process. If you ask me, it would have never occurred to me that through blending, cutting, adapting certain materials by following mathematical calculations would lead me to resolve this problem. As a matter of fact, the first attempts of creating these paths were done in the Babylon civilization.    Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Age) In one of my favorite podcasts, one of the podcasters mentioned that “depending on the dose, everything can be poisonous”. I...