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Answering to Beth Spicer
Beth Spicer ¿How are you? ¿Are you a indian of North American?. I'm Gustavo Díaz, from Uruguay, in South America, and I'm very interesting in study from indian's cultures of all America. I'm study basic english in the Uruguay-U.S.A. Aliance. I'm 26 years old, I'm engineer agronomique and the english is very important for my studies.
I'm a regular member. Answer my message por este tablero. I'm interesting to practice my english, to learn sobre indian's culture and do friends of others cultures.
See you.
Gustavo Díaz.
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Gustavo D.
September 8, 2005
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Richard L.
September 3, 2005
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I want to make friends all over the world
Hello! My name is Ana and I'm a 24 year old Brazilian.
I'd like to find new friends that speak English, to talk about national cultures.
My objective is improving my language.
I can help with Portuguese, too.
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Language pair: Portuguese; English
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Ana F.
August 24, 2005
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Latest: June 17, 2006
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Re:Serbian Weddings
Hi Jessica, this is a big theme. If I answer to you it will take more than one page.
I am from Serbia and I know a lot about customs. If you are interested you can contact me, and I'll gladly explain to you Serbian wedding customs. I can also teach you some simple serbian.
Sorry for bad English.
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Prokopije
July 25, 2005
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improve our language
I am Chinese and have got good education in university, I can speak
and write Chinese well, and I want to improve my oral English. If you are a native English and want to learn Chinese, we can improve
ourselves together. I am an ordinary member , so I can't cantact with you. If you you can cantact with me, please.
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Language pair: Chinese, Mandarin; English
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wander m.
July 23, 2005
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Latest: September 24, 2005
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Hi Beth!!!
Hi Beth
Sorry, It's very late I read your message.
But I would be very interested to correspond with you!
Could you tell me more about girl scout and Daughters of the 4 Winds?
Maybe website tipps...
Are you a Gold Member?
I'm not, and I can't contact you directly over this site.
But maybe I find an other way.
lot of greetings,
Madleina
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Language pair: German; English
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Regen b.
July 5, 2005
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Latest: July 5, 2005
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Re:Re:rainbow
Hi Beth
Sorry, It's very late I read your message.
But I would be very interested to correspond with you!
Could you tell me more about girl scout and Daughters of the 4 Winds?
Maybe website tipps...
Are you a Gold Member?
I'm not, and I can't contact you directly over this site.
But maybe I find an other way.
lot of greetings,
Madleina
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Language pair: English; English
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Regen b.
July 4, 2005
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Latest: July 5, 2005
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Career history
Hello, Mark! Thank you for your acoount.
It was interesting to read, and surely
encouraging to many people trying to find
their way in their life.
> So what kinds of career dreams to you
> have?
I graduated from a university of
technology, worked 6 years in a company
producing dental X-ray scanners, and
finally moved to a research institute
to do research in audiovisual technologies.
I have some negative experiences of
private enterprises and companies during
my phase of temporary jobs, and therefore
I am attracted to national or municipal
institutes with minimal interest in
conquering the market. I also believe
that nobody would pay me salary for doing
the things I like best, so I do my job
as a necessary requisite for the "real"
thing: to support my family and to
finance my leisure time projects, mainly
music research, science fiction writing,
and foreign languages and cultures.
(That does not mean I wouldn't enjoy
my job. I like working with computers
and my research job can be quite fun
and exciting at times.)
This could quite well be my final job.
I avoid promotions, as I doubt my
suitability for management jobs, and
like the basic research job best.
I seldom use the word "career" for my
professional development, but if I did,
I would like to define its meaning more
by my leisure time activities than my
salary job. I aim at producing something
useful and enjoyable (whether software,
compositions, or research results) that
can be easily distributed to all of the
people who may like it.
Puti
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Juha-Petri T.
May 31, 2005
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Latest: May 31, 2005
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Career history, part 2 of 3
Part 2 of 3
Texas, was a tremendous culture-shock to a kid who grew up in liberal-middle-class southern California. It was really bizarre to be surrounded buy people who proudly called themselves red-necks. In the community I grew up in, "red-necks," so-called for long hours of hard work in the sun (hence sunburn and the red neck) were generally considered to be ignorant, bigoted, rude, alcoholic, noisy, and violent." All of which, frankly, is true, pretty much/in general. In Texas, red-necks are considered wild, fun-loving, individualistic, hard-working party animals" That, too, I would tend to agree with, although I would moderate that part about individualistic. When I think of individualistic, I think of a person who thinks independently and develops her own sense of right and wrong. That's the last thing I'd ever say about the red-necks I knew in Texas. They were a pretty homogenous group. The didn't have a whole lot of respect for values I had which differed from theirs. For them, individualism was more about red-necks as a group dinstinguishing themsellves from aspects of American culture that they didn't agree with. So they valued independence from mainstream society, but not from the values of their own subculture.
The economy in Houston wasn't terribly strong the year I was there, and of the ten months I was registered with the glazer's union, I worked about four. After which time, I decided perhaps I'd join the Air Force, and get I job I couldn't lose.
With my aptitudes in math and science, I had no trouble getting into a good career in maintenance of satellite communications systems. The first four years went well enough, at the end of which I found myself married and happy with the job security. So I reenlisted for another four. At the end of the second stint, I was divorcerd and fresh out of a very ugly misunderstanding with the Air Force that cost me my job, a lot of expense, nuisance, and heartache, and left a really bad taste in my mouth (that is, left me with very bad feelings) about t he Air Force. Also, I had decided that I wanted to work in the home computer industry, doing technical support, and the Air Force had been consistently unable to move me to that field. So I got out of the service and moved to Silicon Valley, California, where I got a job managing a technical support staff for a manufacturer of computer peripherals. I did that for about eight years as well, and saw two companies go bankrupt. By the end of all of that, I was feeling that the computer industry was pretty soulless for me, and that what I really wanted to do was to teach.
See part 3 of 3
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Mark S.
May 30, 2005
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Career history, part 3 of 3
Part 3 of 3
My grandmother had passed away by that time, and I found myself sitting on some money—any number of times which quantitly I'd have gladly given to have my grandmother back, I don't mind saying. But I finally decided that the best way I could use that money was to get myself a college education and find a career that I could feel good about. So I dropped out of the business world and went back to college. I got an associate's degree in liberal arts, and then a bachelor's degree in English literature. over the last six years now, I have been tutoring, teaching, instructing, presenting workshops, grading papers, proctoring tests, basically looking for every possible way to get good at being a teacher. I'm hoping to teach literature and composition in community college. I'm getting pretty close now. I'll have my master's degree, if all goes as planned, by summer of 2006.
So that's my career history. A day late, a dollar short, but roughly as promised. I hope you enjoyed it.
So what kinds of career dreams to you have?
Talk to you soon,
Mark
Sacramento
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Mark S.
May 30, 2005
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Latest: May 31, 2005
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