Ximena’s blog 💕

  Monday, March 23rd, 2026 Today we continued working on the topic of stressful situations, reviewing the present perfect and doing activities in the book. I have also been doing paperwork and sending emails because I still haven’t received my criminal record certificate, and I really need it to finish my camp process.

  Friday, March 20th, 2026 Today I spent time with other girls who are slowly becoming my friends. My best friends from university had their admission exam because they are thinking about changing their major to study medicine ☺️. Also, in Meta we did activities with Naomi in the book and had a kind of conversation about things that stress us.

  Thursday, March 19th, 2026 Today was a very tiring day because after leaving university, I went to finish my passport process. It is one of the requirements to complete my registration and start my visa process to go to Summer Camp.

  Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 Today we had another exam, this time for Language Acquisition. It was a bit strange because after about 15 minutes, the teacher said we could use artificial intelligence to answer it, and most students finished very quickly.

  Tuesday, March 17th, 2026 Today we had a French exam, which was easy, but a bit difficult for me because we could only listen to the audios twice, and I ran out of time, so I made some mistakes. However, I still got a good score.

  Thursday, March 12th, 2026 Today was the last day of the week, since we are going on a long weekend break and will return on Tuesday. I also took advantage of the time after school because we left about an hour earlier than usual. I went to the bank to pick up my debit card and paid the form to get my criminal record certificate released.

  Wednesday, March 11th, 2026 Today, my friend Liliana and I stayed for a course at the faculty about a typical Brazilian drink, since there was an event related to Brazilian culture. The course was simple, but we had a really good time. Also, today I realized that a guy was being unfaithful to me, but I didn’t give it much importance because I have too many things to focus on to feel bad for someone.

Today we started learning about countable and uncountable nouns. We saw examples with words such as work, job, food, and meals. Some of these words can have similar translations in Spanish, but they are not always used in the same situations because some are countable and others are uncountable. That is why it is important to learn the correct context in which each word should be used.

  Today we continued working on the topic that Naomi taught us on Friday about possessive pronouns. Now the topic is a little clearer for me, and I understand better when to use each one. I can also identify more easily when something is a possessive adjective or a possessive pronoun.

Today we had class with Naomi, and we started studying the topic of possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns. At first it was not very clear to me, but now I have a general idea of what the topic is about. Our teacher gave us a simple key to help us understand it better: Pronouns: replace the subject → I, you, he, she… Possessive adjectives: show possession and are followed by a noun → my book Possessive pronouns: show possession without a noun → The book is mine.

Today was one of the most important days for me because I had my interview for a summer camp. It went very well, and I was accepted into a camp in Tennessee. I will leave on May 22nd and return on July 5th. This experience will be very different and probably one of the most unique experiences in my life. I am very excited about everything I will learn and experience during this time.

Today we took the second midterm exam and, without a doubt, it went really well. It felt more manageable, and the topics were things I had already seen in my “META” classes. At the end, I forgot a little how to write the email, but besides that, everything went well.

Today we took the first midterm exam. Honestly, I felt it was very difficult and long. I didn’t get a good grade because I got very nervous and couldn’t concentrate. I also ran out of time, which affected my results.

Today we worked with Gerardo and reviewed the topics that might be on the exam. We did an activity where we had to identify the grammatical tense of each paragraph.