Tuesday, 30 November 2010

My blogging experience

In first place I like to tell us that some time ago, I had a blog where I used to write our my thoughts, or some songs lyrics, vídeos, information that I considered important or just few words wich could be usefull to anyone that read it. Besides, through my blog I made important friends, whom have helped me in many situations, specially when I came to Santiago from Talca and I don't know this big city.
On the other hand the experiencie of to write in english is totally new for me, excepting these words in english that always write between words in spanish when I'm chatting. Honestly this work have been a bit hard to me, but to translate that I have in my mind to english is not a easy task, and I think not always I can express exactly all my thougths by this medium, but this problem I have whith my own lenguaje too.
Want it or not, learning English is very important today in a lot of aspects of the life, for example in the academic field, because you need it to learn about what other people is researching, being communicate with other professionals, etc.
About the course, in the beginning to integrate to the class was very difficult to me, because I study in a place so different, whit very different people too, and almost all of my classmates they knowing each other, after because the majority of them study in the Architecture Faculty and thy have the similar classes and interest.
As a conclusion, I think English in university, or, at least at mine, because is the one I care about, should be re-think with the objective of being more motivating, so students put more motivation on the study of the topic, and finally… we can all really learn the language, considering its important to our professional and maybe even daily future.

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Holydays!!



Well, well To begin this note I want to say that is very difficult to me to choose a only place to go in holydays or to know in my free time, because to travel is the funniest things in tjhe life, in fact I would traveling every time, knowing new people and places, other cultures and all of those things that the people think the anthropologist like.



I would like to be a travel writter or something like that and some company wolud have to pay me for to travel and then write my adventures in new places.



However, I rather the natural places, like mountains, lakes, national parks or whatever related to hiking and going to treking, I really love that places because when I was younger allways went with the socut to visit it, and ther I knwe de beautiful of lakes, rivers, mountains, de starry sky in the night. If I could to choose a place to go every year, I would choose the Conguillíos National Park in the South of Chile, because is a Huge natural reserve whit a Big lake and full of Araucarias and birds. Is the most beautiful landscape that I've seen in my life, and I have to say that in our country there are many places like that.


Wednesday, 3 November 2010

The Stereotypes

In the Social Sciences Faculty, there are some people that use the same clothes or they look and think very similar way. This stereoytipes are in everywhere, but in my faculty the most importants types are the Hippies, or generally called "lana" people, they wear sweaters of many colours, and the girls use skirts, necklaces, and bracelets. This people like to be in the grass of the campus drinking beer and smoking with other people, actually everybody likes to be in grass drinking and having a good time in the recess or lunch.
In the other hand, we have the dark-type people, they always wear the black clothes, and they like gotic things, scary movies and things like this. Ussualy this people not assist to the parties of capus and sometimes they are very shy persons.

I really don't like the stereotypes, I think is too bad to categorize people for them clothes , we all are people with different lives and I think that to discriminate against some people for them own likes is a bad way to live the life.

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

My favorite piece of Technology


I like many technological things like computers, internet, and others things, but my favorite piece of technology is my MP3 player. This is a little square when I can put my music, and I can go everywhere listening whatever I want, but music is not the only thing I can put in my mp3, I can to keep many kinds of documents, presentations for the university, pappers, books in PDF format, pictures, videos etcetera. My MP3 player is the most usefull thechnological article because I love music, and I would listening all day, besides it makes me more fun my trips from my apartment to my faculty. I used to use this usefull and little machine every day, but sometimes I forgot to charge them batterty, and other times I forgot to change the music stored inside it and finally get bored of that music. Unfortunately last september in a party in my campus, somebody stole my bag with my mp3 player and my headphones inside. I've got bad luck, but this not too bad because all my friends told me that someday I'll killed my self if I continued listen to music when I ride my bike.

Friday, 22 October 2010

My Favourite Movie


My Favourite movie is The Cience of Sleep(La Science des rêves in French, and La Ciencia del sueño en español). The principal characters Stéphane and Stéphanie, Stéphane is a really shy boy with amazing creative abilities, who has a job that doesn’t allow him to develop them, so with his great imagination and creativity he creates a world in the middle of dreams and reality. Here he will start creating a relationship with his neighbour Stéphanie, who will be part of this dream/reality mix. The story happens in France, when Stéphane come back to his mother’s house from Mexico, where he was living. My favrite part of the movie is when Stéphane start dreaming, because the places and situations he creates are incredibly nice, and also when he starts dreaming in the reality because it’s eccentric and bizarre. Sometimes for example he changes the reality, the people appearances and put them giant hands or strange clothes or things like that. The principal reason of why I like it’s because of how it shows the importance of imagination, and the possibility of creating new things from it. I also loved that it create so many amazing things with the mind and simple things that we always have, because it made me remember how much I liked creating things and expressing myself through the art.

Friday, 15 October 2010

My most importan trip


I did my favorite trip last december. I went to Torres del Paine, a national park on the chilean Patagonia, like 2 or 3 hours far from Puerto Natales. I went with my best friend, we went on airplane to Punta Arenas, and then in bus to Puerto Natales, and finally another bus to Torres del Paine. It was really special for many reasons. In first place I think I had never seen such beautiful places, It's definetly the most.We stayed in Patagonia for a week, we arrived at night to Punta Arenas, we slept there, and the next day we walk arround, knowing a little the city, and in the afternoon we took the bus to Puerto Natales, we slept there and early in the morning we took the bus that would take us to Torres del Paine. We stayed there for 4 days, and then we went back to Punta Arenas, and finally to Santiago. In the park the mostly walk... like 78 km in total, doing the "W" circuit. It isn't the biggest circuit, but considering the time we had it was imposible to do the "O" circuit. I knew really beautiful places like Grey glacier or French valley.

Friday, 8 October 2010

About the earthquake

That night I was at a party, the earthquake shocked many of my friends, but my reaction was plenty of calm. Because I was in Talca, the comunications, water and electricity came back few days after. These days were very complicated, but with my neighbors we could organize for the situation would be less complicated.
I thought that the earthquake had been very weaker than it was, but when I watched TV I realized about the catastrofic consecuences.
When the things went back to normal, with my scout group we organized help for the most affected zones of my region. We went to places like Curepto, San Clemente, Colín etc. giving to the people some first necessity products.
The most important lesson in those days was: Our country wasn't prepared for a seismic movement, there isn't the technological support and our autorities and institutions weren't capable to face up these kind of tragedies, however the people organization and solidarity were means of support for the more afected people.

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Antonio Gramsci


Antonio Gramsci was an italian politician, philosopher, theorist and writer and he is considered one of most important ideologists of marxism of the 20th century.

He was born in the southern zone of Italy in a poor family of farmers. He studied Linguistics in the University of Turin, but his economic condition didn't let him continue his career. Then, he joined to the Italian Socialist Party (ISP) where he began his political carreer, with important publications in the newspaper "Il Grido di Popolo" ( The People Scream). In this period Gramsci's reputiation was growing quickly, however he started to follow the ideas from the USSR and the Second International Comunist.

With the rise of the fascist regime, under the leading of Mussolini, Gramsci was sentenced to imprisoment because his ideas and political relevance.
In jail, he wrote many notebooks and produced one of most important theories in the left wing: The Hegemony Theory which is still current at present.
Antonio Gramsci was an example of courage and perseverance, because although he was in jail, and his health was in a very critical state, he never stopped thinking and writting his books.