Saturday, April 28, 2012

Going Global

Hey! So this week we had a Skype sesion with a Texas school. This teacher's students wanted to practice their spanish with us, they wanted to have an experience in which they would actually be talking with native spanish speaking teenage students (wow, that's long, sounded shorter in my head). Anyhow, they started talking to us and we did not feel offended, but it was a bit awkward.
We were excited about the sesion, but once they started asking, everything turned out to be dissaponting. One of the questions asked, was "do you guys use celphones?" And the other one was, "how does your house looks like?". It felt like if our balloon was just pinched.
   One of the things I learned was never to feel above others, or  beneath others. We should think twice before we speak, we should consider whom are we talking to or talking with. There are many countries, not just the one we live on. This means that when we are talking with someone we must at least try to use a glogal vocabulary. Not our daily words, but words that are understandable to others that do not live in the same country as we do. For instance, "I live in Lima". From this ´hrase one can understand that I live in Lima, Peru, and this is not the case. Specify from were are we natives from. "I was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras".
   I just wanted to share this because wether we are aware of or not, we are all going global somehow. The world is advancing, technology is getting even better. There is a word we Hondurans say when someone is uncivilized "montunos". So, as my teacher once said, we must take off that "montunation" we have. Start getting global, speak the gobal language, and get it started!

4 comments:

  1. I think that another important thing to learn is to be aware of the fact that not everyone is connected and be sensitive to that as well.

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  2. Hi. I think it is important that we share our experiences of "going global", and learn from our encounters.

    Connecting globally has many challenges, not least is that first encounters can be quite confronting and awkward - for all involved.

    May I have your permission to share this post on http://theglobalclassroomproject.wordpress.com?

    I can be contacted on Twitter as @gcporganisers. Thanks!

    Michael

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  3. Yes, I agree with you. Sure, you may share this post....feel free! Blessings

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