Coupling UK - Youtube

I choose a video from YouTube because is one of my favorite series. This is the third chapter, which I think is the best chapter of the first season, of Coupling UK.
The chapter starts with Jeff being nervous about an interview, and starts talking with Steve about all the wrongs things he could do in it, like panic or saying accidental words that he can’t stop thinking about. Then Jeff explains to Patrick and Jeff, what the giggle loop is. In other scene Jane tells Steve about the decease of her beloved aunt. At the end of the episode when everyone is gathering at the funeral, the priest asks for a minute of silence. The three friends almost laugh out loud, but is Jane the one who ends up hysterically laughing. 
In my opinion i believe it's a hilarious video because the situation that the chapter describes about laugh inappropriately really happened to me once I was in a baptism and a funeral.

It's something that comes from your inside and grows so easily, that is important to concentrate not do it. The real problem is when you concentrate even more; the situation became funnier and funnier, to that point when you can control the laugh.

English learning

Well, in my opinion studying English at the university is very useful, because it’s a very good way to remember things I learned before in school and add a lot of vocabulary related to my career.

 I would like to improve my way to express myself in English.
 For me it’s difficult to put a right order on my thoughts while I’m talking to someone else, also I forgot easily how to structure my sentences, so I would like to learn more about this.

In the university I felt that education was inclusive with every student, but maybe it was because we were just a few of us. LOL

I truly appreciate the possibility to study this language, because it will be very useful in my career.

Viking Women

Women were really important to establish a permanent population when Vikings had to immigrate to other lands. Usually the colonist Vikings live like farmers and traders, but when a husband wasn’t at home or they were dead, women has to take their places as traders.

In daily life women had to dress according to the class they belong. The slave class had to use “old-fashioned clothes”. Yeoman class dressed with more elaborate clothes like a blouse and cap. But only aristocratic women used linen in their wardrobe, showing like that linen was too expensive for others.

This was so important that when women died, they were buried with their best outfits and as a symbolism of their responsibilities for control over the food and clothing; they were also buried with keys. 

A remarkable Viking women was Aud the “deep-minded” because when her husband and son died she took charge of the family fortunes to organize a ship to travel along with their granddaughters to Orkney and Iceland; then she settled down in the last one and divided the land to her followers, and like that became one of the four most important settlers.

I like this information because I truly find Viking history fascinating. These people had a great organization to settle in places.

I think the Viking women history is highly recommended to anyone who wants to know more about this culture and the role of women in it because is really amazing what you can find in old civilizations.

Changing paradigms

Ken Robinson starts talking about the reform of the education on the planet and the reasons why this happens. First there’s an economic reason and second a cultural one where the kids must live with the globalization.

The kids can’t see the point of studying; because they don’t believe anymore that a degree can get you a job.

Our education was made for another age, the industrial revolution. In that time some people thought that poor children didn’t have the required capacity for academic, separating them between smart and non smart people.

This cause that some children started to be medicate for ADHD. But the result is kids getting distracted in class, shutting their senses off instead of waking them up.

Education doesn’t care about the variety of personalities from the students. The divergent thinking is the ability to see different answers to questions, and we must integrate it into our education.

My opinion

I agree with ken R. about change the education paradigms because everyone is different from other. Our ways to think, understand and express things are so varied that we can be in the same “box”. Education only teaches for people with a structured and abstract understanding of things.