Entry nº 15: Reflection nº 2 on free-writing

I saw a film this afternoon and then I changed my mind about the importante of the creative language work, I mean not totally because I still am against the blog and Internet use because of the wasted of time and money that it involveses. But I changed my ming about the productivity of such work. I think that by doing a journal writing work can give every student an oportunity to make up their minds and find out what they think about certain topics. And more importantly, to know how complete is their vocabulary, what words to they need to check and what words do they have to look for in order to avoid repetition and to add new vocabulary that up to this moment is unknown. Because although we are 4 year students it is no a guarantee of acquiring the repertoir of words that can have a native speaker. But that is not so likely to happen in all the students in the same class.
Coming back to what I was talking about at the beginning, the movie I mentioned was about a 18 years old homeless girl who got a scholarship to study in a university in Boston. It was a real case, the girl had grown up with a father that was alcoholic and was infected with HIV, and a mother who was addict to drugs, alcohol, she was eschizophrenic and had got blind. This girl had a sister who had been grown up by their grandparents and had inherited the same visual problem that her mother had and was getting blind. Bud the main character called Liz had been rejected by her grandfather so when her mother died, then she was 5 years old, she started to live in a homeless refugee she finished high school in 2 years because she had many problems to go to school. And at the age of 18 she was working in the school and as she had got the highest marks in the school she was guided by a doctor teacher who encourage her to aplay for a scholarship to go to university.
In all the appliances she was required to write an essay in multiple issues and with a determined amount of words. So that I realized the importance of developing our vocabulary and our ideas about differet issues.
She won the scholarship, went to Harvard, rented an apartment that paid by her own and out of hard work. Now she has a better life, a life that couln’t have had if she couldn’t finished high school and tried as hard as she could to change her sad possible destiny living in the streets, poor and maybe finishing as her mother did.