TOEFEL Practice 1

Ok. Hello there, mute readers of this silent girl. So this days I have been studying for my TOEFL exam. One of the tasks (one of the difficult ones) is to write. So this week I will simply write (of course, in english). I will practice my writing by telling you some lies... or not. The thing is that I have to practice, not just grammar, but to write without giving my opinion. Perhaps that’s the hardest part. To write about something without having an opinion. I was train to have an opinion on everything. May be this is the first time that I have to train in not having an opinion.

Yes, you cannot have an opinion in everything. You may not have opinions on scientific subjects (not because I don’t understand or care, but because they are facts... or at least they look like that).

Ok. As this is the first post and the first practice exercise of the day the lie will be about yesterday (and it will have an opinion, fake or real, doesn’t matter, an opinion will be).

I went to Chicago to see Ani DiFranco singing in “The Vic” theater. We, friends and I, arrived just in time to get good sits. Once there, we decided to have a coffee. Of course they do not sell coffee in a bar! who wants coffee in a bar? Lola and her friends. So then we try to go out and for our surprise they didn’t allow us, they simply will not allow us to go out and in again. Perhaps this is normal to people who goes to this kind of events, but for us was totally insane. How come we were not allow to go and drink a cup of coffee and come back in? what if we wanted to smoke? (which we didn’t because we don’t smoke) I thought may be they have that policy to prevent people to resale or reuse the tickets. Which is also crazy because they have pretty good control of the bar codes and, actually, half of the people has the ticket in their phone... and also, this kind of things happen south of the border, in this country you can even pay yourself out of any grocery store without cashiers or someone looking that you didn’t steal something.

Well, we didn’t got coffee. But the concert was great! Ani is one of the most amazing women in the world. She is simple and powerful. The band that came before was also good. I didn’t recall the name (I will google it later). They were a trio from Brooklyn, quite crazy and original, hope I could understand the lyrics.

Enjoy the video this song is amazing live! If you are subscribe to get the updates of my blog to your email (which I doubt) sorry if you get tree emails a day, but I really need to practice for my test and this is the best way.

Peace!


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