Unit 7 - What's this is for?

The iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone created by Apple that allows you to make a call by simply pointing your finger at a name or number in your address book. It is at the same time a phone and an Ipod of 8 GB, where we can store all our favorite songs and albums. The Iphone design is really slim and amazing.

The Iphone include a 2-megapixel camera and an advanced photo management application. This amazing new phone also give you the chance to easily surf the net and download your email. In Venezuela right now you can find this incredible phone but is very expensive.

Like an iPod, the iPhone charges using the USB 2.0 cable connected to a computer or to the USB Power Adapter. And is really easy to use.

For more information about the Iphone you can visit: http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Unit 5 - Going Places

Hey everybody! I love this unit because we talked about our dream vacations.

One of my dream vacations is to go to California in the United States. I really hope to have the chance to travel there next year. I would like to visit the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento. Probably I will make this trip by airplane, because is the most confortable way to travel to the United States.

There are a lot of places I want to visit, like Disneyland and Hollywood in Los Angeles, The Golden Gate in San Francisco and some old town in Sacramento. I’m planning to visit all the celebrities' homes in Hollywood. I think that I need a lot of money to make this trip like five or six millions of Bolivares (Bs), because some cities in California are a little bit expensive.

I'm going to stay at my best friend Vicky's home. She live in Woodland, Sacramento. For this trip I really need something very important my passport and an American visa too.

Schehere and Sele in Maracaibo

My best friends Scheherazade and Selene visited Maracaibo for the first time, last october.

They were part of the cast from the venezuelan amazing version of Jesus Christ SuperStar, the incredible musical of broadway of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

We visited many places of the city! And all the shows were amazing!

This is a picture with all the cast from the musical with the incredible singer KARINA!

Unit 4 - I've never heard of that

In this unit we talked a little bit about our favorite snack and how to cook it. My favorite snacks are pancakes. My sister make always delicious pancakes.

Ingredients: Flour, 2 eggs, 1 cup of milk and butter

First take three cups of flour and put it in the bowl, then put the milk in the bowl too. Next break the 2 eggs into the bowl and mix it with a spoon.

After that put the mix in a hot pan, then let the pancake mix cook about 5 minutes and finally flip pancake over when the top is brown. And now your pancake should be ready to eat.

Unit 3 - Time for a change!

Ten year ago, I used to live in a big house in Ojeda City but since I moved to Maracaibo I'm living in an small apartment that have three bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room and two bathrooms. At the first years I used to think that the apartement was too small but now I feel very comfortable on it. The positive things are that the apartment isn't it too dark, is quiet and is in a safe neighborhood. However I would like to change some things at my bedroom and the living room. I wish my bedroom could be more spacious and the kitchen more bigger.

The house of my dreams is a big apartment in New York, I love that city and I think that could be some much exciting living there. If the apartment have a nice view to times square could be awesome.

Unit 2 - Caught in the rush

Maracaibo, octubre 2007

Governor of Zulia State Mr. Manuel Rosales

Dear Manuel Rosales. I'm writting you this few lines to talk to you about some serious problems that needs to be improved in our city. Our streets are more dangerous everyday, the crime and violence is everywhere in Maracaibo. We need more protection and security from our regional police. Also we need a better public transportation system, more modern and comfortable buses for the people and students in the city. The traffic jams are a really huge problem in Maracaibo everyday at almost every hour of the day, not only at the rush hour. However, I have to say that is really good to see how our city is grow up more everyday and how you are working and fighting for our right and freedom in this dark times that our country is living.

Thank you for your time!

Transformers

Since a I was a kid I love Transformers!

Everyday I saw the TV serie in Venevisión and I had a lot of toys and things about them. I used to play a lot with my Autobots. My favorite Transformer is Optimus Prime and I remember that I won a contest making some drawings of him.

I saw the new movie about Transformers and I thing is awesome, all the special effects and the story. I can't wait for the next movie... and see what Starcreen going to do to asume the leadership of the decepticons.

This is one of my AUTOBOTS!

Unit 1 - Childhood Memories

In the last weeks I was talking with my grandmother and she told me some things about her childhood. She was born in Tia Juana in 1940 and she grew up in Lagunillas.

She used to play with dolls like all the girls and she loves to have fun with other kids from her neighborhood. She was always playing a lot of different typical venezuelan games with her friends.

At the age of 13 she visited for the first time the city of maracaibo. She always remember that trip because the Maracaibo brige didn't exist.

I'm back!

Hi everybody! I'm back!

After a few weeks of vacactions I'm back to shcool. Now I'm in English level 5 with my teacher Doris and I'm ready to learn a lot of new things. This time I have a in the class a lot of my friends.

My posts in other Blogs

I visited the Prof. Nelba's blog. She is from Argentina and she have an interesting post about Science Fiction movies and I made a post about one of my favorite Sci-fi movies TRON form Walt Disney Pictures.

http://englishvirtualcommunity.blogspot.com/

Unit 16: A change for the better

My life have changed a lot in the last years since graduation. I started my own web design company and my music web site: http://www.backstageonline.net/

In 2006, I started again in the university to study mass comunication and this definitely was a big change. Right now I have a lot of new friends and I'm learing amazing things.

In the next years I'd love to move to New York and I hope to find there a job in MTV!

I love this video THS FR TH MMRS!

This is one of my favorite songs right now: "THKS FR TH MMRS" from Fall Out Boy. The video for this song is really funny with a bunch of chimpances directing the new video of this band.


For more información about Fall Out Boy visit: www.falloutboyrock.com

They were in México City this week. They made a huge concert at the Sports Palace in Mexico City!

Unit 13: May I Take your order, please - Unit 15: I'm going to see a Musical

For these two units I made a dialog with my friends Daniela and Johan, to practice more about ordering a meal and invitations.

Part I

Daniela: Good Afternoon, Contreras Advertising
Juan: Hello, May I speak to Mr. Contreras, please?
Daniela: I’m sorry. He is not in. Can I take a message?
Juan: Yes, please. This is Mr. Ulloa
Daniela: Is that U-L-L-O-A
Juan: Yes, all right.
Juan: Please tell him that I called. Ask him to call me as soon as he can. My number is 6233345.
Daniela: 6233345. Yes Mr. Ulloa. I’ll give Mr. Contreras the message.
Juan: Thanks you. Good Bye
Daniela: Good Bye.

Part II

Johan: Hi Juan
Juan: Hi Johan
Johan: What are you doing tonight? Would you like to go to a soccer game
Juan: Oh. Sorry, I can’t. I’m going to the cinema with my girlfriend.
Johan: Well, how about Saturday night? Are you doing anything then?
Juan: No I’m not. What are you planning to do?
Johan: I’m going to have a dinner with a friend at Davinci. Would you like to come?
Juan: Sure, I like it.
Johan: Well, I see you there at 9:00 pm
Juan: Ok, Sure!

Part III

Daniela: Good Evening. May I Take your order?
Juan: Yes, I’d like a chicken broth
Daniela: and would you like vegetable or rice?
Juan: I prefer vegetable please.
Daniela: And you what would you like to order?
Johan: I’ll have a pizza with Bacon
Daniela: Ok and what will you like to drink?
Juan: I’d like a large soda
Daniela: Anything else?
Juan: No, thanks that’s all.

Unit 12: It really works

For this unit we created a new antiacid called OUT ACID. And we made a very cool comercial

This is the comercial for OUT ACID the new antiacid with delicious flavor. I hope you like it!

Unit 10: Have you ever ridden a camel?

This is an interesting questions but I haven't been in egipt yet. I hope one day I have the chance to visit it.

I have traveled to the United States two times in my life. Those trips were awesome. I have been in three Backstreet Boys' Concerts, one in Orlando and the other two in Ft.Lauderdale. When I visited Orlando I didn't have the enough time to visit all the parks but I had a lot of fun.

I haven't been in Europe, but maybe I will visit some countries like Italy, Spain or France in the future.

Krystal Harris in Venezuela!

This is one picture with Krystal Harris in Caracas,
May 2001.

We took her to a typical Venezuelan food restaurant. And she loved the place and the food!

Unit 9: What does she look like?

Krystal Harris is a pop music singer. She is farly short and slim with a short black hair. She has a beautiful green eyes.

She is in her twenties and she has an amazing voice. She is wearing a red jacket and a pircing at her nose.

She visited the city of Maracaibo in May 2001, to opened the Black & Blue Tour for the Backstreet Boys.

If you wanna know more about her and her music just visit: http://www.superkrystal.cjb.net/

Welcome to my blog!

Hi, everyone!

My name's Juan Carlos Ulloa but you can call me JC, I'm from Ojeda, originally. I'm 29 years old and right now I'm studying mass comunication at URBE. I live in Maracaibo, in Tierra Negra.

I love music, computers, web design, movies, studying english, pizza, chocolate, BSB, Fall Out Boy and Linkin Park.

I hate smoking, getting up early on the weekend, violence, war and injustice.

My dream is to travel to some of the biggest and popular cities from the United States like New York, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco and many others. I would like to see Linkin Park and Fall Out Boy in concert some day. They are ones of my favorite Rock bands.

About English, I love to learn new languages. I think English is very very important. I Listen to music and watch TV in English everyday. It's a good exercise. I also chat on internet and have friends in Canada and USA. I can write well and I have to practice more my speak.