What was the house where you spent your childhood? Can you describe both the house and the surroundings so that I can get an idea?
I grew up in a small town in the southern United States in a one-story red brick house with a brown tile roof. In the front garden there were saplings and a palm tree, on the back a gigantic nut and a toolbox. We also had a small vegetable garden and a white wooden garage.
Tell me a particularly embarrassing moment for you, a friend or a relative.
When I arrived at the airport parking lot when I left the car, I did not find the keys. I looked for them both in my purse and in my suitcase, and then I took a taxi and got myself opened by the porter - who got annoyed, so I had to make up a plausible excuse right now.
In the house I tried, unsuccessfully, a bunch of spare keys and only when I had finished emptying the bag did I notice an inside pocket zippered, which I had completely forgotten. Obviously the keys were there. Embarrassed, I asked a friend to take me to the airport to get my car back, but it was too busy and so I had to get another taxi.
What is the most significant aspect of your job in your opinion? Because? Have you changed your mind over the years?
I am a language teacher and I am very gratified to be involved in training, especially because I believe in the effectiveness of personal interactions in promoting growth and development. As a young man I liked science, but during a study program abroad I started to get interested in foreign languages and their learning. It was the opening of a world that had always seemed far away from me, I felt like an astronaut exploring the populations living on the other side of the universe! At the beginning I thought language teaching was simply a way to facilitate understanding and communication among individuals, now I fully understand its importance in conveying cultures and the crucial role in the creation of that global society that we all know is coming . Machines can help us to translate isolated vacancies or simple sentences, and I am sure that they will become more and more precise in carrying out this function, but I believe that only human beings will continue to give semantic depth to our ideas, contextualizing them and putting them in dialogue with the others. cultural productions.