Atonement Questions2

1. The book probably would have ended from a start, girls gossip, boys keep secrets, and yes, I'm looking to make controversy, or in the case that he were able to see what happened, a boy would tell the truth and don't get obsessed with the idea of a sex maniac.
2. It is in some extent. It shows how cruel can the war be, in relation with the separation between lovers, and later on with the injuries of battle, deaths on the battlefield, the constant suffering, etc.
3. There are parts that are macabre, especially the ending, after distracting us with a happy ending where Cecilia and Robbie end up together in London, the truth comes like a stone to the head, as we are revealed that Cecilia and Robbie were actually dead all the time, and destroys the affection we felt for the couple.
4. If Cecilia were to tell the story she would turned the story as a drama of her impossible love and he wouldn't have tell us what happened with Briony with her because she died. Robbie would have tell us the reality of war, like many other writers who were there and we couldn't know what happened with Briony as well, because you know, he died. Briony would have tell us all things with the naiveness that she had throughout the novel, making things look a little more light hearted. And if Lola told it, it would be a little bit more like a romantic novel, were she tells us how she felt in love with Paul Marshall and how she managed to have sex, of course.

Atonement guide

2. The scene between Robbie and Cecilia at the fountain is important in the story because it's the starting point of how Briony sees Robbie and how it makes him been guilty of a crime he didn't commit, although it wasn't the most important it helped Briony making her conclusion of who raped Lola. 

Lola also helped the decision of Briony because she didn't say the truth when she had to and told Briony that it was Robbie, the sex maniac.

8. Yes, the end did surprise me, I didn't expect the death of two of the main characters, Robbie and Cecilia, after all the effort the made to make their relationship work. Is also dissapointing that Briony never really told anyone of her family that Robbie was innocent after all. The other thing that surprised me was the marriage of Lola with Paul Marshal, she married a man who has raped her before, that's wrong in so many levels.

Assessment task partner

Rationale 2/2 

It's very clear the process behind the task and gives us a spotlight of what's going on.

Task and content 6/8

The writer doesn't give a sufficient explanation to the examples given and doesn't go further in the tries of explanations.

Organization 3/5

The text is disorganized, there is no conjunction between ideas, it goes from ideas to a pseud conclusion and then back to some other ideas.

Language and style 4/5

There are minor orthographic errors, but this doesn't change the sense of the text.

The text globally shows that the student knows the topic and he has certain knowledge of it. It tries to show his ideas and explain then and fails in some extent. He proves his points but gives unnecessary turns and doesn't hit the point.

Commentary Atonement

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Save The World

                                             Save The World - Minimarket

Standing again there like every day, thinking why the hell he picked that job, perhaps the money was enough to make him be there. She entered again, every single day passing by glancing at him and giving him a smile making him give her the best offers in the hole town. Hello. It's 5,99. Bye. That was their conversation, every single time he couldn't say another word, but why was the question.

  His daydreaming was stopped by the sudden destruction of the tips jar, two man with their face covered entered the little shop and were with a bat, that for his horror it was covered in dried blood. Who was the victim? He was next? Without knowing what to do he kept just staring the thieves like they were to say "A burger please""You'd like some fries with that". Suddenly the biggest one of them pushed him and he felt on his back against the wall, he put his headphones on :"Save the World" the only song that could make him be calm at that point.

  And that's how I will lose my job he kept saying to himself but out of nowhere two dog appeared form the backdoor one of them, a corgi with black and brown stains on his body kept on bitting the jeans of the one thief trying to open the cashier, then the other one, a french bulldog jumped, reached the hoodie and made him give a strike with his head to the table, knocking him down. After this, the other guy ran away, while been followed by both dogs.

  He never liked dogs but now he had two sleeping in his bed and who would thought that they were the ones who saved the world that night.

Ignacio Ruiz

Tomás B. Santelices

The Gods Must be Crazy Narrative Techniques

The narrator in "The Gods Must Be Crazy" by Jamie Uye uses a third person point of view to tell us about The Kalahari, the desert that looks like it's paradise but it's nothing like it and that no one lives there, except for the Bushmen, a tribe that doesn't know the civilized man, and have no problems at all although the little possibilities to live in a place like The Kalahari are, and also they have solutions for everything, education, eating, drinking, in-between others. The narration is a direct narration because the narrator talks directly to us and makes us feel we are the main audience of the text, using the word use is the best clue we have to know this. The speech is reported speech because the narrator is telling us a story, in this case a documentary of a group of people who live in The Kalahari, one of the places where I wouldn't like to go for my vacation, where people only go to die, except for the Bushmen. The tense is present, this is visible through out the whole text, all the words are used in present tense, this is because the text tries to be a documentary.

Written Analysis

"Lilian" is a poem written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, british writer who was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during Queen Victoria's reign and is well known for his use of sounds in his poems.
Lilian in English is a name used representing the Lilium, that is a flower known for it's pureness and it's beauty, and that's why this title suits with the description that is given of the Fairy Lilian.

 It starts calling the fairy, asking her if she loves the him (the lyric speaker), but gets no answer from part of Lilian, who juste stares and laughs. In the second stanza, the  lyric speaker tells us about the beauty and perfection of this fairy, telling us a physical and physiological description and gets rejected again. In the next stanza he keeps telling us the good things about this fairy but not as long as the second stanza, because he starts to realize that she is not meant to be with him, this is proven in the last stanza when gets angry and gives the possibility of killing her is she doesn't talk.
 The poem starts with the lyric speaker tells us  the swiftness of the fairy, but this has a second meaning, that she moves so fast that he will never be able to catch her, this is proven in the next 4 verses, when he says that when he asks for an answer she laughs at him because Lilian thinks it's a joke but that's not what happens, we know that the lyric speaker it's dying inside because he says that she is just being cruel.
 In the second stanza we found out that the lyric speaker has fell deeply in love and can't forget her but Lilian is just looking through him, we can infer that the fairy is just a little girl who is not searching for love, that's why she finds funny everything that has to do with love and can't understand what he is feeling. We can see evidence about this in various parts of the poem, like in the verses 13 and 14 when he says 2 qualities of a little girl, being innocent and simple and the use of a wimple, what gives us the idea that she is virgin, or holy. more evidence can be found in the next two verses when the lyric speaker tells us about the dimples that form in her face and the redness of her cheeks, classic image of a little girl smiling.
 In the next stanza we found more signs of beauty of the little Lilian, she is shown as a cheerful person that can't be other way, this shown when the lyric speaker tells us that she is gaiety without eclipse, this is in relation with children, because it is normal for kids to have no worries because worries are things that accumulate as people grow up. We can also get more description of her physical attributes and we finally get to know that that silver treble laughter, that harmonic laugh of the fairy is making the lyric speaker weep because of this impossible love.
 In the last stanza we see that the lyrics speaker has nothing else to do but pray because this love will never happen and to a point that is he hears her laughter once again he will have to kill her.

Within the poem we can identify two shifts, the first one goes form the start to verse 25, that talks about how she is so perfect and how she just rejects him. The second one goes from verse 26 to 30 and talks about how this constant rejection makes him go completely insane and just wants to crush poor Lilian who only laughed at him.
 The title Lilian fits perfectly with the character that appears in the poem, a white colored skin, beautiful and pure girl who is followed by a guy who can't have her because she is not meant to be with someone at her "age". The main theme is the unrequited love and how this makes a man go insane.

Tennyson uses varies of devices, for example, using metaphors through the whole poem, using crimson threaded lips, meaning of the redness of her lips, silver-treble laughter also, meaning that she has an harmonic laugh, black-beaded eyes meaning that she has a black eye color, and uses baby-roses also, meaning that she has pink cheeks as a kid would normally have and uses gaiety without eclipse telling about her attitude about everything, just smiling and laughing. He also uses the simile like a rose-leaf I will crush thee, because she is as delicate as a rose leaf and could be killed with the use of only 2 fingers.

In conclusion, Tennyson uses Lilian as the classic unrequited love, that one girl that you always want but you never have, the now called "friendzone" in some extent. He makes a great use of  rhetorical devices to give you that feeling of falling love again, and to make you feel those things that make love an special moment in anyone's love, seeing that smile and thinking is perfection itself, hearing that laugh that makes you grin and just wanting to hear it more often, but everything has got an end, and that's when the lyric speaker just wants her to shut up, he doesn't want to hear her more because he knows that that perfection is not for him and it's reserved for someone better. 

English Exam: Bias and Society

Candidate: Ignacio Ruiz

Rationale

The past three weeks we have been reviewing what media is and how bias is constantly being used by them. We were told to make a blog entrance, speech or an opinion column about bias and its effects. I chose the blog entrance because you can use informal language and it is easier to address an audience as big as the Internet becaus you can use any topic you want and someone out there will get it (U.S.A. and Syria). Being able to write about whatever we like gives us (the students) the freedom to write and give our opinion about what we like or we would like to give our opinion.Not having an specific audience helps at the moment of choosing words and of choosing ideas. I have been reading news about the conflicts between United States and ISIS and I thought it was a good idea to give my opinion about those conflicts. Also how the Muslim community has been defamed by media and also by people all around the world.

In one sentence my text is about how bias is destroying the image of things and how it is important to be aware of what is going on in the world and to not trust any media, because it makes people think like the media when you're supposed to have your own opinion, not making you have own.

Written Task

Bias and Society

Hey guys, it's me again, Ignacio, and I'm ready to tell you the truth about some things that happen in our society. Bias is hiding, distorting information from our eyes. This can be through many resources that the media can use at any moment, and three of them are strictly related to language, but why? Well, that's because that's the easiest way to make us believe things and keep us away from the truth and those type of bias are the ones that I will try to explain in this blog.

First of all, the news tries to make us take a side on any problem and be against the other position that is shown. An example of this is how the U.S. marines are portrayed in ads, movies, video games, etc. They show us these badass soldiers, eliminating enemies of the country, fighting against the evil forces of ISIS and saving the people in Syria, but obviously the truth is, things are not like this. News reports don’t show the other side of the story, the suffering of people in Syria and people in their own army and how the advances they do in those wars make the country enter slowly into a crisis. This technique used is called framing, the media just doesn’t show the other aspects of the theme that is being touched, and stays strictly in one position to it. In the case of U.S.A. and Syria, although the States are trying to save the country form literally disappearing, there is no mention whatsoever of the ambition the country has for the oil that lies within the barren lands of Syria.

People will leave comments down below telling me how stupid I am and probably worse things, but I don’t really care at all, because in your insides you feel it, you know that something is wrong, and yes. That’s right. Something is not right. You’ve been brainwashed. You really think that the U.S.A is the actual hero of the story? You think that Muslims are all terrorists? And this question leads to the second form of bias: limiting debate. It is known that the classic white Anglo-Saxon average man of the country believes that all people who were a white robe, have a grown beard and speaks in a foreign language are terrorists, and we all know that this is not true, why do you think Trump has so much support in the elections? He is racist and laughs at everyone, and that’s enough to make people go wild. He actually said that they should make illegal all Muslims and it made him have more voters, but why? This is because the media shows us that all the terrorist attacks in every country are being made by ISIS or Muslim extremists, making the audience think that every one of them is a bad guy. If you see a Muslim, what is the first that comes to mind? Allahu Akbar or Terrorist. It is a shame to see that people are like this, it is awful. 

Another form of bias is omission, this happens when media doesn't show us a part of relevant information that could make the opinion of anyone change. For instance, if we have a man, let's call him  Dave, that is diagnosed with a terminal cancer and asks his friend Jack to kill him, the media could omit the part that Dave had the cancer and that Jack just helped a friend as last resource, leaving Jack as a murderer and not like a good person. Using America as example (again) last year the country bombed an ISIS base in Syria, and the news seconds later posted an article that went like this: "Heroes destroy ISIS base in Syria" claiming that the general who took the decision should be recognized as a national hero. U.S.A. nationalist speeches "forgot" to say that in that same bombing the explosions caused several infrastructural damages of civilian houses and also that the bomb killed more than 20 Syrians.

The last form of bias that we can detect is the word choice, that is using certain words to approach the reader to make a message more powerful. Believe it or not, this works a lot and is used more often than you think. For example, is different to say "you should buy this product" than "buy now", obviously the second one is way more effective because it gives the buyer a sense of confidence with the product that they're selling. In politics, saying "Frank won against Dan" is less effective that saying "Frank destroyed Dan" or "Dan lost by 1 vote" the message doesn't change but the impact does. We can't move on without using an example from U.S.A. The best example I could found it was the poster from WWII "I want you" starring Uncle Sam. This is obviously more convincing that a blank paper saying "Join the army" , because it gives you the choice and tell you that the one who needs you is the whole country and that it only needs you.

In conclusion, be careful, the media master (the one who provides the media) could be brainwashing you slowly and trying to make you say that all the things that I said are lies, but don't believe it, I'm the truth in all this topic, be critical and rational people, think about it, I would not waste my time writing this if I didn't knew about the topic, stay with me, be media smart, delete the bias and come live a clean and wonderful life like mine. Comment any doubts, I will try to answer them as quickly as possible, and hopefully I will be able to help you. Without anything more to say I'm out, PEACE.

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Letter to

Burbank 77 Warner Bros. Headquarters                                                                        Labarca 179
California                                                                                                                       Concon
United States                                                                                                                  Chile

Dear Kevin Tsujihara,

 Hello, I hope your doing fine, but enough salutation, let’s get down to business  I’m writing this letter to tell you that the way you displayed the stereotypes of women are very clever, showing the two sides of the coin, the rich pretty but stupid women and the shy nerdy smart women, makes me feel a kind of equilibrium between wether to complain or to praise the show, that's why I will tell you both things.

First the bad things, don't you think that using the stupid pretty girl is a bit overused? Like really, almost in every show that you see you will find this stereotypes, and where's the strong and independent women who can make decisions by her self? Now a days is an important thing to show, feminists are slowly growing as a group and soon those kind of stereotypes will not appear more in the media, you'll have to change that if you want to make business in this years or if you don't want to be killed by the feminists around the world. Maybe you should try to change your producers or the creative stuff or tell them to go out of their cave and see what’s going on.

Another thing that I noticed is the way you portrayed women with the colours of their clothes, the purple dress the rich and glamorous Daphne and orange to Velma, this colour is strictly related to the ability of being empathic, of having a special connection with people. This is a colour that almost every time is worn (in movies, shows, and others) by people who are very timid or shocked by something, bullying most of the time, for example in “Ed, Edd and Eddy” the one who always wears this colour is the one who is known for being the geeky of the group, the one who was always bullied, Edd. Chromatic references can also be applied to the character of Shaggy, he always uses green, this colour is worn by people who are relaxed, or dumb, maybe both. In “Ed, Edd and Eddy” this colour is used by Ed who is the idiot of the group, the one who doesn’t worry about anything, and has also an special ability to get lost in his own world, defying the laws of this world where he lives in.

 Apart from that I really liked the show and enjoyed it, and I think that I got the message that you were trying to give, this message really touched me, because it’s so real and applicable in the world which we live in. Monsters don’t exist, because the only monster that you’ll find is the human being. Other positive aspect that I found is that the secondary characters seem to fit well in the story, and women are very neutral and general characters, they never seem to change and have a profile that isn’t affected with the stereotypes of the women.

 If you want my total approval and the general approval of the audience you’ll need to make an strong independent girl, and trying to change the profiles of the characters, making Daphne not so glamorous and make Velma less of a nerd could make it, trying to make them a little bit more neutral about things.

Class Discussion

1 found two women in the show that presented stereotypes, Velma and Daphne, who played the role of the smart nerdy girl and the not that smart but pretty girl.
The dispelled the woman in a relationship, of how Velma was shy and couldn't get a boy to like her and how it was way easier for Daphne to do the same thing.
There were a combination, because isn't true some things that were shown.
I was not surprised, stereotypes are shown in many shows around the world.
Media tries to show the women from different points of view, making them to be stereotyped almost in every case.
Most women are used to those stereotypes and many try to not be like it is shown, and there's another group that goes completely against this, the feminists who are searching for a so called equality but can't do much about the stereotypes because the media is way more powerful than them.
I think that producers can make women defy stereotypes by making more stereotypes, although it sound stupid, it's something that can be done, making that the image shown is an strong and independent woman who can make things by herself.
Yes. The portrayal of women who can solve mysteries is an additional.
I learned that media has a great list of stereotypes that they use on every character that it creates, from a nerdy geeky girl, to a sexy strong and independent woman.
Going outside, seeing how girls are really are, talk with them and prove that the stereotypes that are used are real, or not. Get informed about what is going on with women now a days, how they're are now leaders of the world and how they have grown in society.

Lyric analysis

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married a long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?

Chorus x3

He came to town like a midwinter storm
He rode through the fields, so handsome and strong
His eyes was his tools and his smile was his gun
But all he had come for was having some fun

Chorus x2

He brought disaster wherever he went
The hearts of the girls was to Hell, broken, sent
They all ran away so nobody would know
And left only men 'cause of Cotton-Eye Joe

Chorus x5

The song "Cotton Eyed Joe"  is a song that shows us the stereotype as the woman like a man seeking machine, and always trying to have the better man, the most handsome and strong and of the heartbreaker who leaves all woman in love but he doesn't fall in love with no one, a narcissist. The Chorus tells us that the man referred as Cotton-Eye Joe had been taking all the opportunities of the speaker to marry a woman and he doesn't know from where he came from or where he is in the moment.

 The first verse tells us about the arrival of the heartbreaker to town and how fast he passed and how he made girls fall in love with him only with his looks, his eyes and his smile, but the only thing that he wanted was to have fun. In the next verse the speaker says that Cotton-Eye Joe had went to many other places and wherever he went he just destroyed relationships and got all the woman and how he didn't care about leaving them alone and broken-hearted. And because of this event all the girls escaped town and left all woman alone.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VcDy8HEg1QY 

Writing Task

"Being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest danger you can take".

Elijah Wood

 Clifford pressed enter, his blog was finally online, he stood up and admired his job, a long blog about the existence of the Illuminati, a controversial topic to talk about, the amount of feedback he got was astonishing, mostly was negative, most people replied that it was impossible that they were actually there, walking around the world like a normal person, others replied that the Illuminati were obviously aliens explaining why they were not visible at all.

 After hours of reading the comments he got tired and fell asleep, when he woke up it was dark, he looked at the clock, 11:59PM, then at the computer screen and saw a big triangle in the middle of it with a caption beneath it, it said: "Sometimes knowing too much is not an advantage". He wasn't scared, he knew that almost everything that was in the Internet was fake, but that minimum probability of veracity flowed through his body in the shape of shivers that ran down his spine. Clifford felt nauseous suddenly, maybe it was the Illuminati using their gamma rays, or it could also be the roasted beans that he ate earlier, but either way, it was a bad thing, he ran into the bathroom and threw up his lunch and his breakfast, it was a thick and red liquid, his first thought was that it was blood, but it could also be the great amount of ketchup that he had put in his beans.

 The phone rang, Clifford took a deep breath, stood up with the forces that he still had and answer it.

-Hello?- asked Clifford.

-I've been watching you son, I know what you have been doing and you better...

 He threw the phone away and ran to his bedroom hearing the voice saying: "I'll be there soon". Clifford was now terrified, he sat down and grabbed his knees, not knowing what to do. Nausea. He ran as fast as he could and let it all out again.

-Could this be worse!?- he shouted to the roof.

Oh he forgot that those words always make things go worse. Diarrhea, that was what he got for saying those words, the Illuminati were using there beta rays now, or the beans were really expired, he ran to the toilet, he sat on the throne of the release and felt how a lava volcano went down from his stomach to his anus and when he thought it was all over. Vomit. He was trying so hard to find a place where to vomit but he surrendered, it was all over now, they got him, they were victorious, he started crying, desperation overwhelmed Clifford, how could he be so weak. Not that day. He stood up feeling renovated, cleaned his clothes and got ready to go and find his aggressors, he was reaching the doorknob, he felt the cold steel of it, but the phone rang again, it was that voice again.

-I'm getting there soon.

The boy was terrified, he didn't knew what else he could try to get rid of the Illuminati, they were close he already knew it, he gave up, Clifford released the doorknob as he sat against the door, it was the end, the voice would be there soon and will probably torture him or maybe even kill him. Maybe it was the better way to solve all that problem, giving up, believing that all what he had researched was fake and that the Illuminati were nothing more than a simple urban legend. That was it. All the problems he had were only for his beliefs, the media made him that way, had given him shape, his brain was put into a virtual machine which replaced his thoughts for the ones that the media wanted to give him, every news that he had read, every comment he emited were part of the big plan of the society itself, but how is the leader of the society? Not the president of any country, not the heads of any religion, it was them, the Illuminati. That was the answer to everything, the Illuminati wanted to make people believe they weren't real. Every word used, every image, everything was biased, only to hide their existence, it was intelligent but not enough for him.

 Clifford got up and went to his computer and started to write a short critique about media, about how everything was trying to make him believe things, but he knew that he was right, the Illuminati were real, he said that no trolls were accepted in the truth, nor noobs or even Russian CS:GO players. He replied every comment that he could, so many comments to reply. Knock knock. He was there, the mysterious man was already there. Th boy knew that he had to open the door, he went slowly, sweating, nervous and scared, he opened the door as fast as possible ready to punch the man, but he was surprised when at the door his dad was waiting.

-Hey- his dad said- the phone was broken, it distorted the voice of the people speaking, I really hope that you didn't confuse me for someone else, also, the fried beans that we ate were way to expired, like 2 years ago. There's a weird smell inside the house, don't you smell it?

 2 months without computer was his punishment for all the mess that he had done, his parents told him that he needed to stop believing in stupid things such as Illuminati, but he knew that they were real, every clue that they gave him, everything they tried to showed them, but he was tired and he didn't want any more problems, so Clifford jumped to his bed and felt quickly asleep as the sound of his father blaming the internet calmed him.



 Internet is always a way to communicate and people always tend to believe everything that the media tells us, this is the problem that I addressed through a short story, based on the idea of how posting something in the internet gives a hint of existence of a person, and how the media can make people think the way they want, I tried to use informal language in the conversations between characters, formal language in narration parts and special ideas, like the Illuminati, to address teenagers like me and people who just want to read a story and media. I also used a lot of humour, that was used during almost the whole story, making Clifford think that he was followed by the chiefs of the world, The Illuminati, so people can feel a little more comfortable with the text. I tried to make people aware of what bias is and what is going on in the world with the media, trying to make us think the way they want to and making people ignorant and how the media can also make people being paranoid. We have studied this problems of the media since the beginning of classes and we have being debating about this topic, we've been analysing news, searching for the bias.

Rewriting a letter

Dear Ms X,

Over the past six years, each morning, as soon as my students walk in the door… I am so happy to see them again and see my classroom take on life again; It feels so natural to me to be a primary school teacher. Yet for the past few months I am longing for and thinking about a new personal challenge in the field of primary education. As I am very much intrigued by different cultures and languages I have decided to start looking for a position at an international school.

Your school attracted my attention, as it is a relatively young international school and I would like to be member of a pioneering and ambitious team. I also like the fact it is a Dutch subsidised school with competitive fees, so it is open to a very broad variety of students. Last, I value the fact that the experience of living in Amsterdam and the Netherlands are being used and added to within the multicultural setting of your school, as I think this city and also the Dutch culture have much to offer.

Initially I am interested in positions in groups 3-8. To me, children of these ages are still very spontaneous and eager to learn and at the same time able to communicate and discuss well. But in view of my university education, teaching secondary school students might be a future job possibility to me.

I am an open minded person with excellent social skills. I tolerate pressure easily. Group management, organising and planning is natural to me. I graduated at an outstanding technical university and worked several years as an consulting engineer and groupleader in the field of logistics and general management. This way I developed my rational, analytical and coordinating skills. Then I decided to really follow my heart and passion and became a primary school teacher.

I believe value would be added to your organisation with my skills and enthusiasm and I would very much appreciate to be interviewed so that we could discuss more about the job description, my motivation and suitability.

Yours sincerely,

Candidate Y

Dear Ms X,

As soon as my students walk in the door each morning over the past six years, I am so happy to see them again and my classroom take on life again; being a primary school teacher feels so natural to me.  Yet for the past few months I've been longing and thinking about a new personal challenge in the field of primary education. I have decided to start looking for a position at an international school, because of my intrigue for different cultures and languages.

Your school is a relatively young international school, which attracted my attention and I would like to be member of a pioneering and ambitious team. I also like the fact it is a Dutch subsidized school with competitive fees, so it is open to a very broad variety of students. Last, I think that the Dutch culture have much to offer and I value the fact that the experience of living in Amsterdam and the Netherlands are being used and added to within the multicultural setting of your school.

Initially I am interested in positions in groups 3-8. To me, children of these ages are still very spontaneous, eager to learn and at the same time able to communicate and discuss well. Teaching secondary school students might be a future job possibly to me, in view of my university education.

I am an open minded person with social skills, I tolerate pressure easily, and group management, organizing and planing is natural to me. I graduated at an outstanding technical university and worked several years as a consulting engineer and group leader in the field of logistics and general management, where I developed my rational, analytical and coordinating skills. Then I decided to really follow my heart and passion, and became a primary school teacher.

I believe that with my skills and enthusiasm value would be added to your organization and I would very much appreciate to be interviewed so that we could discuss more about the job description, my motivation and suitability.

Yours sincerely,

Candidate Y