Did you say electronic literacy?

It was like a century ago when all of this started, well I was exaggerating just a little bit. In fact, my evolution in electronic literacy started in 2004 when I finally got access in my house to a dial-up Internet connection. The connection was the slowest connection ever, but in that time having access to Internet was the greatest thing you could ever imagine. My beginning in electronic literacy, the influence of L2, and my expectations in the future will be developed.

My beginning in electronic literacy started at the end of 2004. In that year I signed up in some forums related to technology and communications. I was a regular user, in fact I published a lot of interesting things and also I tried to help every user solving their doubts or questions. Some of these forum had also chat rooms, but I was not as active as I was in the forums. It was like a waste of time dealing with people who only entered looking for sex.

Electronic literacy and basically Internet have promoted a lot the influence of L2. Due to the high spread of the English language, a lot of social networks, chat rooms, discussion boards and video games have helped me with my English skills. Surfing the Internet you discover a lot of amazing things, but sometimes you do not understand all that information, however you use all of your resources to figure out that information.

The last aspect to talk about is my expectations in electronic literacy. Nowadays with the spread of information through the Internet, it is easier to find important websites related to literacy, education, courses, research, etc. With this, students, teachers and essentially every Internet user can find or get important information or content, and that is what I want. I want that every human being get access to Internet and as a consequence to that huge web of information.

As you can see, my beginning in electronic literacy, the influence obtained of L2, and my expectations are important aspects to me. Someone else might disagree with me, or at least he/she can agree in some perspectives, this is because we have not passed through the same thing and we can differ in our thoughts. But what about you, what can you tell me about your electronic literacy?

Little things make us distinct

Each human being is different from one to another, and that difference makes the humankind interesting. You can meet people with different likes, dislikes, interests, experiences and so on. As you can see every person is different, and so am I, there are some relevant facts about me that make me different. Aspects like videogames, sports, and music differs me from the rest of the people.

Videogames have been a huge influence for me since I was a child. Everything started with the Nintendo NES (Nintendo Entertainment System), with this and the subsequent videogames that I have owned, my interest for the English language has increased, in fact, it was a determining reason for entering to the major.

I have always loved some sports. There is not anything more fun than practicing a sport, in fact I have practiced a huge number of sports, such as: basketball, chess, dominoes, football, football tennis, footvolley, skating, soccer, swimming, and also I have done gymnastics and yoga. The majority of them make me feel happy, they release the stress and improve my health. For example I have been skating (inline skates) almost for a year, and I am entirely delighted.

Music makes the difference. I have not meet anyone who does not like to listen to music, music is something intangible but at the same time some kind of real thing that you can perceive not only with your ears, but with your body. I used to listen to just certain kind of music, actually I did not like to listen to Mexican music. Nowadays I have changed and I listen to almost every kind of music.

As you can see some important and particular situations, such as videogames, music, and sports have modified my character, interests and behavior. These things make me different. Now you know some lines of this book called Carlos, if you want to know more about me keep me on track with my further essays.