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.