My profile

My name is Monserrat, I´m 25 years old and I study Clinical Psychology at UNAM.

I have been living in Mexico City my whole life, but I hope not for long because I would like to travel a lot and maybe move to another place.

Besides that I´m in a writing class at CELE, because I like to learn how to write better, also it´s a good chance of meeting people.

In my free time I like to listen music (especially rock), buy records, read, go to museums and watch T.V.

Letter to a Canadian

Hello:

I hope you are having a good time, I´m fine, a little busy, you know what school is like, but I will survive.

Well, while we are waiting to meet each other, I can tell you some things about me: I´m a 25 year old Psychology student, big fan of music, especially rock, there are some Canadian bands I really like, such as Broken Social Scene and Stars.

I have allways wanted to go to Canada, because of its wonderful places like Toronto; James Gardens looks like a dream!.

When you come to Mexico City you will find we are really friendly people. I suggest you visit Coyoacan, and go to Frida Kahlo´s Museum “Casa Azul” (Blue House), because it´s a lovely house which was built in the early 20th century, the painter Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera used to live there and their objects remain as if they were still living in the house.

After that, you should take a walk and have an ice cream or a delicious hot chocolate.

The day you come to Universidad Naconal Autónoma de México (my University), you must take a look at the Biblioteca Central (Central Library) its images were made with natural stone mosaics between 1949 and 1951, by Juan O´Gorman, probably you won´t have enough time to look all of them, it´s amazing!

Those are just a few sugestions, because maybe you will run out of time really soon.

I can´t wait to meet you, hopefully we will have something in common, but if we don´t, who cares? diferences are great and add fun to life.

See you soon.


Love, Monserrat Valdés.

My expectations

I´m a Psychology student and this is my last semester at school, so I´m about to start my thesis, that´s the main reason why I chose this class.

As humans, we have many things on our minds, sometimes we are able to communicate them, but when we don´t have the chance to do that, we can write about them.

Another reason is that I really enjoy music, especially rock and I wish to say my opinion to other people about a single, an album or a video of a band and write a review about it.

Also I know sometimes my writing is not that good and I want to be better because even though I think I´m good at talking and reading I have a really bad time at writing and practice will be my only chance to do it right. The blog is a good way to practice because we also get the chance to have other people watch our work and in some way our ideas, I´m really excited about it.