Blogpost 1

Hi, my name is Eric Hamilton. I was born on February 8, 1966 in Los Angeles, California. I lived there for a short time, and eventually moved to San Diego, California--a city on the Mexican border. Growing up in the late 60s and early 70s, I can remember the landing on the moon, lots of hippies, and bell bottom pants...However, I was too young to participate.
As a child and teen, I went to school, rode a skateboard, played the cello for two years, learned to type, ran track and field, and did some other stuff--
I graduated from high school from a school called Holy Angels...with that name you can probably imagine the type of school it was. There were old nuns wandering around in the halls.
My mom was from Germany, so I spent a lot of time with my grandparents there, who partly raised me. As a consequence, I spoke better German than English until I was about 6 years old. Kids used to say I had an accent when I spoke English. Don't worry, now my accent sounds very American, I think.
Eventually, I went to university and got a degree in International Relations with a focus on Central European Area Studies: a sort of combination of Economics, Political Science, History, Geography, and Language. I speak Polish fluently besides German and English (and Spanish), and have a working knowledge of Russian and Italian. With such a language focus, it was logical for me to get a master's degree in Linguistics, which I did in 1992. Since then, I've been an ESL teacher, and am very happy with my career choice! Somehow, at some point in time, I woke up in Santiago, Chile...

INSTRUCTIONS:
Birth info
- Studies info (elementary/high school/ univ)
- Family Info
- Hobbies
- Others... (pics for example)


> Number of words: 120 (minimum)
> Make comments on three of your classmates posts + a comment on your teacher post as well.

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  1. Belen Andrade10 de abril de 2019 a las 14:28

    It´s a interesting post because we can know it much more!

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  2. Mauricio Salinas10 de abril de 2019 a las 15:12

    wow sr you know a lot of idioms, what is your technique

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  3. Tomás Hernández17 de abril de 2019 a las 14:53

    Wow! you know a lot of idioms!

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  4. Feña Troncozo18 de abril de 2019 a las 14:25

    Oh! You know many languages. I wish someday I could know a language.

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  5. Naya!18 de abril de 2019 a las 14:27

    It´s great! that you speak a lot of idioms!

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  6. Gon zalo18 de abril de 2019 a las 20:59

    wow the story o your childhood is very interesting, but I would have liked to see a picture of you wearing bell bottoms pants, it's a shame :(

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  7. Rafaelaberinto19 de abril de 2019 a las 5:57

    I'm glad you're happy with your career choice, you're a good teacher (:

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  8. Anónimo2 de mayo de 2019 a las 11:01

    wow! you are amazing you know many languages

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  9. mari30 de abril de 2020 a las 17:19

    I am very surprised, teacher, your childhood is interesting.
    It is amazing that you know many languages, I would like to learn a lot of languajes too.
    It is great that you like your job, I am happy for you.

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  10. fgmns1 de mayo de 2020 a las 12:39

    What an interesting story, you know many languages!

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  11. Francisca Morales1 de mayo de 2020 a las 17:26


    wow very interesting! it's great to know so many languages

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  12. Francisca Quintanilla1 de mayo de 2020 a las 18:20

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  13. Francisca Quintanilla1 de mayo de 2020 a las 18:24

    Wow! Amazing story and you speak a lot of languages

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  14. Krishna Millar2 de mayo de 2020 a las 13:16

    Wow! you're amazing

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