My name is Amanda Martins, I’m 15 years old, and I’m already trying to think in something to do in my future. I study in the Colégio Pentágono, in Brazil. There, we don’t have time to do nothing, only study. It’s too boring, but it’s necessary and I believe it will help me and others students in our futures, it will help us to get a job, to improve our knowledge and have good conditions to support our families in the future.

I’ve been doing an English course here in California ate the CSUF, and I think it’s helping me to improve my English. Not only the grammar part, but principally the pronunciation. Today, to get a good job, you have to speak at least two or three languages, and I already know Portuguese, Spanish and this summer camp is helping me to improve my English, that’s why I think it’s being so important to me and to my life.

As I already said, this course is helping me mainly in the part of pronunciation and listening. We’ve practiced many times our listening. The teacher put the song and we had to try to write the whole lyrics of the songs. This is only one example of exercises we’ve made.

Tomorrow we finish the course, and I think my English is better, and I’m not shy anymore, like I was before coming to California. And I have to thank all teachers and all my old and new friends that helped me during his travel!