My mother is going to visit me soon!!!!! Yehaaaa! And in her honor I am going to write this message in English so she can practice hehe! I am excited about her coming. I feel nervous and happy to be able to share with her what Diego and I are building here...I just feel raw happiness!!!!
Also I want to let people now that I am not forgetting them…as always I do not respond emails (I am sorry Cristina!!! But I will do it this week!), I skip to greet b-days (felicitats Oscar!!!!) and so on…but I DO NOT FORGET ANY OF YOU!!!! In fact I am missing you badly…but I feel I just have to get over it until I can come by to BCN and hug you all! I really have to keep these feelings under control or, otherwise, I will be overwhelmed by them…
Just a short catching up: classes have ended. This second year has been a total and absolute different experience from the previous one. When I changed from the MA to the PhD, with the consequent prolongation of our stay here, my participation in University social and academic life increased steadily. I am now part of a research group with whom I have been designing a project to work with Latino families with children that have some kind of cognitive disability (yeah! That was exactly my plan when I came here two years ago! I did it! ). Also I have analyzed some of my data from Spain (remember me going to collect data with deaf children at their families homes?) and I have presented some of these results on two conferences …which has been a total accomplishment: I have talked in public about my data!!! Amazing!!!! :P Now that is Summer time here at Berkeley, I have an even longer list of things to do: by the end of next academic year I have my Qualifying Exams…which is like: you become an expert scholar in 3 areas of your choice and then you take three professors in your three areas and they evaluate you (they grill you with questions) for 3-4 hours….nice, uh? A part from that I am fine, thank you.
Since I do not have had real vacations yet, Diego and I are trying to do some hiking around. California is such an amazing land! I think one of the aspects that most impresses me is how big the horizons are. You go to Big Sur or to Mount Tamalpais (really a short distance from the city) and you are in the middle of nowhere, lost in the woods, with huge forests and mountains close to the ocean. Hiking here is really common. Diego and I were flipping the other day when in our way through the Mount Tamalpais –walking- we were passed by an impressive amount of people, many of them much older than us, jogging or by bike as if the exercise was just a little stretching out for them….what do they eat for breakfast? Uh? Did they have fallen on the Obelix cauldron??? Uh? Anyways, here I am including one of the photos of this hiking, for you to enjoy! Hugs everybody!
Also I want to let people now that I am not forgetting them…as always I do not respond emails (I am sorry Cristina!!! But I will do it this week!), I skip to greet b-days (felicitats Oscar!!!!) and so on…but I DO NOT FORGET ANY OF YOU!!!! In fact I am missing you badly…but I feel I just have to get over it until I can come by to BCN and hug you all! I really have to keep these feelings under control or, otherwise, I will be overwhelmed by them…
Just a short catching up: classes have ended. This second year has been a total and absolute different experience from the previous one. When I changed from the MA to the PhD, with the consequent prolongation of our stay here, my participation in University social and academic life increased steadily. I am now part of a research group with whom I have been designing a project to work with Latino families with children that have some kind of cognitive disability (yeah! That was exactly my plan when I came here two years ago! I did it! ). Also I have analyzed some of my data from Spain (remember me going to collect data with deaf children at their families homes?) and I have presented some of these results on two conferences …which has been a total accomplishment: I have talked in public about my data!!! Amazing!!!! :P Now that is Summer time here at Berkeley, I have an even longer list of things to do: by the end of next academic year I have my Qualifying Exams…which is like: you become an expert scholar in 3 areas of your choice and then you take three professors in your three areas and they evaluate you (they grill you with questions) for 3-4 hours….nice, uh? A part from that I am fine, thank you.
Since I do not have had real vacations yet, Diego and I are trying to do some hiking around. California is such an amazing land! I think one of the aspects that most impresses me is how big the horizons are. You go to Big Sur or to Mount Tamalpais (really a short distance from the city) and you are in the middle of nowhere, lost in the woods, with huge forests and mountains close to the ocean. Hiking here is really common. Diego and I were flipping the other day when in our way through the Mount Tamalpais –walking- we were passed by an impressive amount of people, many of them much older than us, jogging or by bike as if the exercise was just a little stretching out for them….what do they eat for breakfast? Uh? Did they have fallen on the Obelix cauldron??? Uh? Anyways, here I am including one of the photos of this hiking, for you to enjoy! Hugs everybody!
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