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Kung Fú Hello! Today I'm going to talk to you about my favourite sport: Kung Fú. I've been practicing it since I was 13, and every day I go trainning I like it more! I like Kung Fú because  it is a martial art that is about self-disiplin, respect, constancy, companionship, and patience. When we train, we have to be really focus on our muscles and our breathing to get to make the forms correctly, not being thinking on anything else. That makes us get used to putting our full potential in each goal that we set ourselves, in an organized way and with personal commitment. I also like Kung Fu because it is about the inmense strenght of animals. For example, when we train we imitate the Grulla's balance standing on one leg, the strength of a tiger's claws, the snake's speed, and some others animals' qualities that make us realize about the superiority of natural world.  Kung Fú has two different trainways, on the one hand we ha

A ticher that inspired me

When I think about a teacher, I get two different and opposed ideas to my mind. In one hand I think about de common university teacher, like a "computer-teacher" who does not listen to students, their feelings or opinions, and who does not think that students are persons just like him, ignoring them, demanding them so much knoledge that makes them feel like robots sometimes. On the other hand I have the "person-teachers", who not only teach about the knoledges they want students to learn, but also about the feelings of students, the vocation, the health. In this point I want to talk abor the only "person-teacher" I've ever met. His name was Julio Ruiz Alarcón, he was an old man who teaches biology science in the Liceo Nº 1 de Niñas Javiera Carrera. When I got into the liceo, I was so lonely, I got new friends and in a few months I lost them and it repeated always. I had no happy moments, only the biology classes. Julio, the teacher, talk to as ab