Hey!

My name is Lucas Araya. I am 32 years old and I am an English instructor.

I studied Linguistics and Literature at the Universidad de Chile and now I am currently working at the university and other institutions.

After I finished highschool in 1999, I lived Australia for a while. I didn't know how to speak English, so I had to learn by practicing everyday, using real language. My model was television shows. I used to watch cartoons and sitcoms. That is how I learned English. Very basic but it worked. I worked as a cleaner in a second-hand-objects shop. They let me take one record/vinyl every week. That's how I started my record collection .

I came back to Chile and started to study in the Linguistics and Literature programme. In 2005, I returned to Australia. This time I was part of an exchange students program. I had a really nice time there. I met people and saw many different things such as museums, concerts and natural landscapes.

Once I was back in Santiago, in 2006, I started working as an English instructor. I have been doing this for seven years, and every year I have the chance of meeting new and interesting people.

I love music. I really enjoy listening to music, playing music, speaking about music and dreaming about music.

I also love cooking, trying new kinds of food, traveling, riding my bike, reading and movies.

I really love fallafel. It is a chickpea dip. It's very common in the arabic cuisine. I ate falafel for the first time in 2011 and since then, I started a ritual: I have a falafel sándwich everyweek. I am a vegetarian so falafel is Paradise to me.


I think that people can be forever young if they do the things they really love.

I hope we can have a good time in class.

Cheers!

Lucas