The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

This year is almost finished, I have two weeks left in class and then I’ll be free!

My closest plan for vacation is to go watch The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. I bought tickets for the premiere that will be on December 10^th this 2014. It is the third movie based on J.R.R Tolkien’s novel: The Hobbit.

Book cover

Movie Poster

At first I didn’t understand why Peter Jackson (the director) made three films instead of one, he added more characters and stories that were not in the original one, but I kind of thank him now. 

When I saw the first one An Unexpected Journey I was like “What?” when I saw things that weren’t even mentioned in the book, but then I spoke to some other people about it and they told me that Jackson was working with Tolkien’s son, so everything he added was either based on another short story about Middle Earth or just an arraignment between the director and Tolkien’s son. So I accepted these little changes. The second one The Desolation of Smaug, was even more astonishing, but also had more stuff included: a love story that doesn’t exist in the original story and characters that were just named in the book had a lot to do in this film… it was weird too. And now, I don’t know what I’m going to find. I just hope it works and that it doesn’t ruin the original idea.

Jackson has done a great job actually, first with The Lord of the Rings, and now with The Hobbit, that I’ve been feeling really sad now that this trilogy is ending.  It hasn’t been so long since I first saw the trailer, and I felt so bad because the music made me feel like it’s the end… and I’m a fan, so you cannot tell the fans their favorite thing in life is ending :( 

Here's the movie trailer, if you're interested in it: 

Anyway, I'm sure it's gonna be an awesome movie <3

And I'm also sure I'm going to cry a lot! But it doesn't matter because I love it :)

"Last blog"

This English course has been my first here at the university and it has been very fun, I’ve met new people and I’ve also learned more English, of course. 
The blog idea is excellent. I find it very helpful and comfortable because many people  get nervous when they speak, so, with the blogs they can put what they know in their writings and practice spelling and grammar too. 

I’ve noticed that I have some problems with the words “in”, “on” and “at”. I mean, I usually get confused when I have to use them and maybe that’s when I make more mistakes. Also, when I speak I get so nervous that I don’t think clearly and I start making stupid mistakes like last class when I said “And that’s where he met her best friend”… I should probably practice more. But the biggest difficulty is that no one else speaks English in Chile! It isn’t normal, it isn’t common to find someone to share or to practice your English… I should get a foreign friend, maybe a gringo :P But it’s not that easy :(

The most English I use out of class is when I sing. I love singing and I only do that in English, which helps me a lot to work on my pronunciation and grammar. I select a song on youtube and then I search for the lyrics. Some of the videos already have the lyrics attached, but some other only have the audio. Then I sing along, first with the singer and then, when I’ve memorized it, I start doing karaoke! It’s weird because my favorite bands are all foreign and they all sing in English or in their own language. I can’t recall any Spanish or Chilean band that I like right now. 

Another thing I do is to watch movies in English with their English subtitles or without any. I first started watching my favorites ones so I could know what they were talking about and now I can watch almost any movie in English and I can understand most of the ideas :)

That would be it! <3 Kiitos