Personal profile

My name is Alejandro Aguilar Pelcastre. I am nineteen years old and I am Mexican. I am studying Chemical Engineering at Chemistry faculty in UNAM and this activity consume most of my time. School is my priority by now.

In my free time I meet my friends and we go for a walk, talking about something new or we just lay on the grass, resting and looking the sky. Sometimes, on Fridays, we go and play a basketball game. On my weekends I do as much of homework as possible, I sleep a lot and help with the housework. I like playing chess or others table games.

I am a quiet person and I am not advocated to many activities, but when I do something that I like I work hard to succeed and I reach my goals. I am confident about my capacity and I am conscious about my limitations. I am a responsible man and have a very strong sense of compromise. Even when I know that something is difficult for me I do my best and most of the time I go over the obstacles and find the way to solve problems.

Letter to a Canadian friend

Hello. I don´t know you but now you are going to visit Mexico, so I will tell you some things about my country.

There is a huge quantity of activities that you can do in my country. We have diverse weather, so you can visit forests, deserts, jungle, etc. In the north of Mexico you will find deserts and a dry weather. In the south you can see the Lacandona jungle, which is the largest of the whole country. You will also find a warm and humid weather in the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Quitana Roo. There are several archeological centers in those states that you should visit, such as Tajin, Palenque, Monte Alban, Chichen Itza, etc. Mexico is not as big as Canada, but you will find that we have a great cultural variety.

I think that you will find the way to visit and explore the whole country, if not now, perhaps someday, but I have been told that you are going to arrive Mexico City. Here, we don´t have a lot of nature but we have some historical places that may interest you. For example, the Chapultepec castle is a building on the top of a hill, surrounded by the Chapultepec forest. This is a very beautiful place and you will enjoy the history of our nation because the castle served as a fortress in the nineteenth century.

Whatever you do in Mexico I hope that you will speak Spanish all the time, so you will be an expert in the use of our language. Good luck.

My expectations for the english course

I have been learning and practicing English at cele for the last two semesters and this is my first time in an advanced level. I want to develop new skills and I decided to start with writing because I think that putting your ideas into words is an excellent way to practice a language.

With this new course I expect to understand how to produce an acceptable piece of writing, so I can let others know about my ideas. I want to be more expressive and acquire enough skills to produce new texts in English. I would like to write as much as I can in English so I start to think in this language, not as a foreign one, I want to make it mine.

During the last years at university, I have been reading some material in English for different academic purposes and I think that I can understand an acceptable quantity of information in this language. I know that I don´t have a very extensive vocabulary but I also know that if I want to produce a text where others can read my ideas, I will be forced to learn new words, synonims, new ways to talk about the same thing and that is why I think that this class will help me so much to practice and improve my English.

I know that I am not very skilled but I want to work hard and make an effort to succeed. I will find the time to practice and coordinate this course with my other activities. I will keep trying.