Hace exáctamente un año, el 28 de agosto de 2011, escribía el primer post (Hello) y en él ya advertía que yo no era bilingüe y que intentaría contar como pretendía serlo, simplemente aprendiendo a un ritmo similar al de my babies. No hace falta que confiese que sigo sin ser bilingüe, ni que sigo aprendiendo a ritmo de bebé.
Tambien advertía por aquel entonces que no sabía si podría escribir mucho más, y echando la vista atrás, creo que algo si que he escrito. No mucho, ni muy bueno, pero haciéndolo me he divertido y he aprendido.
Algunas de las cosas que he aprendido son tan simples como éstas, y más que de un “supuesto blog de inglés”, parecen sacadas de uno de esos de motivación:
- Always sing during the bath time.Sing whatever you want to, but sing aloud. Mainly if you’re notalone.
- Avoid prejudices. If not all, at least the absurd ones, about Race, Sex, Religion, Classical Music… Thanks to Mozart we can sing “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”, “Baa-baa Black Sheep” and “The Alphabet Song”.
- Homework is boring, my job is boring… Change your mindset. When you’re in dire straits you’ll stop cooking up excuses.
- If there’s a hole in your bucket, fix it.If you don’t want to, don’t do it. But please, stop complaining all the time about the same things or you’ll end up creating your owninfinite-loop song.
- Don’t you ever say that you’ve lost your life since you have children of your own. To have children is no excuse for stupidity. Have you tried to involve them in your hobbies?
- As phrasal verbs, many things in life do not make sense. It’s useless to deny this. You’ll be much happier after you accept it.
- You can tell everyone that you are being treated by a clinical psychologist, even though it’s not true. Just to see their faces. After that, tell them that you were kidding. They won’t be able to stop thinking that you really need to be treated.
- Dora the Explorer is not a case of split personality. She just speaks two languages and it happens the same thing to many people. They wanted to do it, and they did it. Another example is the other Dora, the one you shouldn’t know (Dora la Exploradora).
- Read. No
matter what language you choose, but read. And tell stories to the children as if these were real. Hopefully
you’ll end up believing again. - Pixies, Fairies and Brownies mean more than you could ever imagine.
- If your three year old daughter wants to be The Queen of England, you’re nobody crush her dream. If you didn’t follow your dreams and now you regret, don’t take it out on her.
- One day you’ll realize you have a lot in common with your mom. In the meantime, don’t pick your nose in public and always wear clean underwear in case you get in an accident.
- Think twice before you do all the things that you can do. You can wear the same pair of pants for 4 days. Day1 on the correct way, day2 back to front, day3 inside out and day4 inside out & back
to front. I said you can, but there’s no need to do it. - It is very important to know your body. Do it. Enjoy it. And if you’re ticklish, even more.
- Show yourself just the way you are and you’ll be understood by someone. Sometimes is not easy but find the way. You may write it on a t-shirt for example. What about something like this
work for a BANK in Spain.
Please, don’t RUN away. - If there are about 500.000 words in English, Why is it so difficult to say sorry?
- Talk about your feelings as much as possible. If you cannot, use your imagination. Try making a list. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
- Where is this point on your priority list? Be happy & Make people happy.
- You are the luckiest person in the world if you have someone to tell him or her this: “You eat it, and it will feed me”.
- If your child tells you A, E, I, O, U, meaning “I love you”, you’ll understand it, just BECAUSE, Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants.
- Teaching your children how to ride a bike, is more that just teaching and cycling. How many things can you teach then that will last forever?
- Your kids will look up to you and will copy your behaviour. If you don’t refrain from swearing, soon you’ll see that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away, so if you don’t have kids, please don’t swear either. You might have them some day or, mine could hear you.
- The fact that you’ve been doing something, a priori simple, for a long time, doesn’t mean that you’ve been doing it right. For instance, do you know how to set the table properly? Be sincere. Where does the knife go?
- Be patient with your mistakes. Slowly but surely.
- You have to be curious and you must satisfy your curiosity. Twitter may help because, fortunately, there are people for everything.
- You can live without knowing what or who false friends are, but be careful, appearances
are deceptive, and sooner or later, you’ll bump into some of them. - Family First.
- Picasso said “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary”. Maybe he said so in Spanish and maybe, I should have eliminated some
of these sentences. - Lennon said “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” and maybe he didn’t say so in Spanish.
- If you see no escape, maybe you’re looking in the wrong direction, or maybe, you’re not using a keyboard.
- Game Over is not game over.
- Play, play, play. Here, there’s nothing more to say. Just PLAY.
- If you feel low and blue, try one of these: hand clapping games, play hide&seek, go on a bear hunt, play with homophones words, lay on the grass that’s growing all around, tell someone the joke about “why is 6 afraid of 7?”, or keep on reading…
- Paradise can be near or far, or simply where you are.
- Have you stopped to think that, in spite of everything, this could be the best period of your life?.
Suerte!!!
Happy birthday-blogger to you!! 😉
Thanks Sol! I know that yours will be soon too….
Take care!