BLAIRS LIBRARY

It is said that the best way to learn something new and  to learn vocabulary in a second language  is reading, so it is very important that we develop this skill in our students. Unfortunately we have to face different problems in our country because most of our students are not used to read very often, they seem to be interested in so many things but not reading but that is our opportunity to help them to develop this skill.

It can be difficult but no impossible and if we are sure that we can get it,  we will do it. We need to think that we can do it step by step , improving little by little, going from one level to another one,  we can not skip a level because they will get lost .

So it is important that we help our students but there are also some resources that can help us as a teacher to support our students and to get our objective, that is the case of the public libraries where people go to look for some information but I thinks it is also a place to share experiences and to meet people with similar interests as ours.

I am really impressed about the way libraries work here because they are completely different than in Mexico, the one that we visited today is modern and unique , the people who works in it are doing an excellent job so It made me think about the lack of places like these in my country where a library seems to be a quiet and boring place to go but at the same time it helped me to think about different things that can be done in our libraries to improve their service and  to catch people attention.

I realized about the people who work as a volunteer here and I was wondering why it can not be the same in Mexico and I think that it is due to a lack of opportunities to get a job, in my country people work almost all day  to get money to feed their family so they don´t have free time at all and the time they  got , they use it to share with their family. So instead of doing activities as volunteers they like to rest or look for another job to improve their income.

On the other hand there are people who don´t need to work a lot and who don´t do anything during the day so we can start inviting these people to develop programs like the ones that the library runs in our cities, we just need to be creative and eager to change it.