Reflection Task 3

                          

                                REFLECTION TASK 3: J.R.R. TOLKIEN

    If I were a member of the committee choosing the person of the year, I would suggest  J.R.R. Tolkien. You know the died 40 years ago but his literary works still impress the world. For example in the last month, the cinema film “Hobbit” which is based on his literary work was released. Like “Lord of the Rings”,also his another literary work, Hobbit got rating and was liked so much. This is beacuse of the ability of him in writing unreal things as if they were real. This style lets people believe in the situations which are going on the story. I think that people who read the story of him or watch a film based on his works feel excitement. For instance, in the scene of Hobbit which the main character of the film, a hobbit, tries to find the precious stone while the dragon that loves gold so much is sleeping under the golds. After I had seen this scene, I said that  J.R.R. Tolkien was so creative and impressive. He is dead but we can understand from the proof that the impression of him in todays world shows us that he is alive. So I want him to be the person of 2013...

                                                                                            

                                 REFLECTION TASK 2   (Social Networking Sites)

    Do you believe real communication? And at the same time, do you use social networking sites? Sorry, but I don’t see any equal human relationship between these two situations. I could show you many several reasons for this. First of all, you talk with your friends without seeing each other’s faces. I cannot imagine how to be real connection between two people in this situation when there is no face to face communication. Beacuse there is no mimics, no voices and no other things that make you feel alive. Of course there are some tools such as camera, photos, voice recording system that make the conversation real. But still I don’t think that is actual touch. Secondly, in social networking sites, people share something that is important for them. For instance; in facebook, you can see a post like that “If you want to help African children, click the like button and this spread all around the world.” This is such a nonsense idea that is the most useless work in the world, for me. Since, you just post the idea with doing this. There is nothing about helping poor African boys or girls. Actually, in addition to its silliness, it must also embarrass you, as well.. There are more reasons for this “social networking sites” thing. But in general, these sites cause fake relationships between people, I think. Human should be in actual life with using living systems like seeing the person who is not in virtual environment but near to you...

reflection task 1

Hi everyone! I am Esther from Spain. I am 32 years old an live in Turkey. I graduated from Universidad de Granada as a English-German translator. After I graduated from university, I made my master degree in Turkey. I love children and help them in any situation.. For that reason, I attended the department which was the teacher of childen with mental disabilities. My working life was started in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. When I was working in pravite school, I did my best for my student for 5 years. I sang songs with them, took them to theater and movies, taught them how to paint, tried to gain them communication skills and something like these. While I was doing that teaching, I was the coach of the volleyball team. I had a chance to use my labour that I had worked hard for that sport branch when I was in college. From day to day my students were getting expert in volleyball and started to participate in matches. Finally, in 2005 they were the champion in the branch of Turkey’s children with mental disabilities. This was my best day of my life... After all these good, happy and hard-worked things, I had to leave from that school beacuse of an argument with the principle. I was sorry about this leaving. Since  I was going to miss my students... Now I am working in METU as a German teacher to Faculty of Language Education department. There is a friend of mine from a project named Comenius. She came to Spain and stayed with me with the project. She is an English teacher in the same department, as well. Life is really strange because sometimes anything could happen when you don’t expect... Finally, in this following summer I am going to marry to Adrian who was my highschool lover and I am planning to do in Ankara with all my students since my first working day, friends and family.

Thank you...