This is me, Mariona

Good morning girls!

Now that someone has broken the ice, as Andrea has said, it is time to write something.

My name is Mariona Carreras Buscató. Officially it is Maria because my identity card says that, but Maria and Mariona are the same name and since I was born everybody called me Mariona so Mariona is my name. I am 22 years old and I’m from Figueres, a small city with 45.262 habitants, well known for the Dalí’s Museum, a famous painter. This city is the capital of “la Comarca de l’Alt Empordà” and its main characteristic is “la tramuntana” that always blow regardless of the season. It is also well situated; it is close to the sea, close to the mountains and close to France. With only half an hour you are in another country.  

When I was born my parents were living in roses, a big, coastal and touristic village, but two and a half years later, when my brother was born, we moved to Figueres where I’ve been living all my life and where I studied until I started my degree in Girona.

I finished my degree in Primary Education last June and now I am doing this master on Learning and Teaching English in Infant and Primary education while I am working in Les Teresianes de Ganduxer School as a lunch time monitor.

Apart from that, I am a volunteer monitor in a Cau at weekends. I started going there when I was seven and when I was 18 I decided that I wanted to be a monitor and this is my fifth year. I also work with children during the summer in summer camps and now I am thinking of going to United States for one year to do an Oper after finishing the master. So as you can see I love children and my life turns around them.

To finish my presentation, I have to say that I love singing. I sang in three different choirs and I really wanted to sing in Blanquerna’s choir too but I can’t go because of the schedule. Music is the best and most beautiful thing of this world.

Regarding to ICT I have to admit that I don’t really like them. I always have had problems with computers. When I was younger, every time that I used a computer, it stopped working. My parents say that I have negative vibrations. Maybe for this reason I don’t like them and I avoid using ICT. For me it’s difficult and I get stress when I have to use new programs or tools so I don’t have much experience on this field. I just use the basic sites (google, youtube, facebook, gmail…). I only discover new things when I do a course or a subject like this one where the teacher asks us to create an account and start using a social bookmarking or whatever, for this reason I am doing this optative. I know that I have to change this situation and I am trying to do it because ICT are very important and useful and we have to work with them and teach children how to use them but, but it is not easy for me.

Finally, the only experience of using social bookmarking or social networks for professional use is Symbaloo. I have created and account and started using it two weeks ago and I have to admit that it is a really easy and useful tool. You can save the links of webpages or articles that you usually use or that you are interested on it in a very visual and organized way and you can also look for different Webmixs on topics you like. I recommend it. As Andrea, I use Pinterest too and I really love it, I recommend it too.

I hope to keep learning more things related to ICT specially tools for using or creating activities for children.

Well, so that’s all! See you in the next session!