Blog 1: My autobiography

 Hi everyone!


Welcome to your first English blog! For the first post, the subject is autobiography.

Here is my autobiography as an example:

I was born in Santiago, Chile. My mother is from New York and my father is from Chile (I only met him once when I was a baby). I did a DNA test to see my ancestry and on my mother's side I am of Lithuanian and Polish Jewish descent and on my father's side I am of Spanish, Mapuche, German, and Arab decent. My mom, brother, and I moved to New York when I was 2 years old and lived there for a year. We then moved to Boston, where I lived for many years. I studied in two primary schools, Williams Elementary School and Brown Middle School. I studied in Newton South High School for secondary education.

I studied Latin American Literature for 3 years at Eckerd College in Florida and 1 year in the School of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Chile. After that, I studied at the British-Chilean Institute of Culture to become an English teacher.

I did my internship at the Colegio Latinoamericano de Integración and worked 3 years in the School of Economics and Business at the University Diego Portales. 

I started working at the University of Chile in 2016 and currently I love it!

I live with my friend Romina, who is like my sister and teenage daughter and my baby cat, Idania.

I love to read, listen to music, watch Netflix/Disney+, and hang out with friends. I speak Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, and currently I'm studying French :D













Now it's your turn!

For today, and as the first post of this semester, you have to write your auto biographies.
Include:

- Birth info
- Studies info (elementary/high school/ univ)
- Family Info
- Hobbies
- Others...

Post a picture!

> Number of words: 120 (minimum)
> Make comments on three of your classmates posts and also leave a comment on the teacher's post.

Comentarios

  1. Luciana Aguirre Camps15 de abril de 2021 a las 15:13

    very interesting! how is Boston?

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  2. Valeria Araya15 de abril de 2021 a las 15:21

    Hi teacher! I think it's great to know how to speak so many languages :O
    P.S: Idania is so cute!

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  3. Javiera Carvajal15 de abril de 2021 a las 15:24

    Once I tried to learn French. I would like to resume it! I think it's a very melodic language.

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  4. Omar15 de abril de 2021 a las 17:32

    Idania is very beautiful <3

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  5. Noemí Zapata15 de abril de 2021 a las 17:51

    It's amazing that your ancestry comes from so many places!

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  6. Rocío Hernández15 de abril de 2021 a las 18:13

    Wow, you know many lenguages, it's so cool!! I want to improve my influency in english.

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  7. Yasna Canales15 de abril de 2021 a las 18:19

    I love that face of idiana uwu

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  8. Javiera Sánchez Faúndez15 de abril de 2021 a las 21:22

    you and idania look good in the photo🐱

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  9. Polett Rocuant15 de abril de 2021 a las 21:24

    Idiana is sooo pretty ❤️

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  10. Gabriel López Garrido15 de abril de 2021 a las 23:33

    French is a very complicated language?

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  11. jorge16 de abril de 2021 a las 6:02

    i always wanted to learn speak french :)

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  12. Valentina Cofré16 de abril de 2021 a las 6:56

    wow! you know a lot of languages

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  13. Paula Copelli16 de abril de 2021 a las 7:13

    Hi! is very impresive how many lenguages you speak and the places that you've lived in

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  14. Nicolás Andaur16 de abril de 2021 a las 7:13

    I would love to live in New York :)

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  15. Cristina Patroni L.16 de abril de 2021 a las 16:04

    I think that it's very interesting you decided to live and tech in Chile:0

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  16. Paulina Bayona17 de abril de 2021 a las 10:29

    :o you can speak so many lenguages, did you learn it when you were a child or in yours studies at university?

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  17. Javi_J.S21 de abril de 2021 a las 11:19

    ooo that beautiful, I've always believed that Italian is one of the languages that sound cutest <3

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