My blogging experience

In this time I will write about my blogging experience. May be sounds weird write about blogging in my own blog, but is the topic for today and I think it could be useful for evaluate the opinion of the students about the way we are learning English.

Well, since the beginning I liked the idea of use one part of the class in write posts in English (maybe I have been prefer use the second part of the class doing it, because it’s a work more funny). Just yesterday I was thinking that I don’t even notice that each class I was writing more words in the posts, I think that it’s very good.

About my experience writing in the blog, in general it was ok. I enjoy it. I think that help me to think more in English and to express myself in this idiom. The topics we had to write about was good delimited and clear, but too sufficiently wide for tackle it from different ways. I think that one of the advantages is that the great majority of the topics were interesting and it was necessary in many occasions take a position about it and develop and argue for do it. Others topics were more descriptive and you just had to relate a situation in particular or talk about important people in your own opinion. Anyway, in all the posts (even in this) I could extend my vocabulary trying to say what I really wanted to express.
Finally was good for me read posts of others classmates, because I learned too doing this: I practice my reading, and I could see other ways to write in English and express topics.

Well, this is my last post in this class
So goodbye everyone!

Human capacities

Today I will talk about some topics that Ken Robinson touches in his monologue. I think that he is talking about things more serious that we could believe. One of the topics who make me senses was the idea that we are making people who live out-of-bodies experiences. Like we were” no-bodies-persons”, I think that it’s very true. Robison starts steadying who there is an extraordinary evidence of human creativity, this extraordinary capacity it’s truncated in the meantime we’re growing up. The society accepts the idea that we born, we grow up, we have a job useful and productive, we have children, we work all the life for having more and more things that we don’t even need, and then we die and we have to pay for do it. That’s life is it, this idea have become common sense. It’s very difficult for a person take the options that nobody is offering…“don’t be musicians, don’t’ do art”…. Just like Robinson says, in the school nobody teach you to dance like they teach you math... It’s the idea of be a useful person for the society, but who decides what is useful or useless? There are not more purposes, no dreams, and no questions. And if you decided to be happy, do what you really want to do generally you have to pay an important social punish. Well, about this my opinion is that we need be complete persons, and not just choose one of other activity, develop all us areas, learn all the topics: the human capacities are infinite. We could do and learn anything.

Au Square du Vert-Galant

Robert doisneau is a French photographer. He lived in the Paris of the decade of the 40'; jazz, bohemian, big writers ... but too in the period of war. He knew to Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. His work it’s famous for having portrayed the life of the city of Paris and of his inhabitants throughout many decades. The most famous picture of Doisneau is “The Kiss”, I am sure you have seen it some time.

The composition of his images is fantastic, he can construct scenes full of life and magic, many of them are spontaneous and others are interpreted by young actors. Doisneau is a street photographer, many of his photographs are about young or old woman alone in an urban place, others are about kids or about pairs kissing each other in the streets of his country.

This picture is named “Au Square du Vert-Galant” and it’s one of my favorites, It was taken in a French place named Square du Vert-Galant, it’s a botanic park. I think it’s amazing, at the first view it seems to be a simple image of people near to the river, but then ... there are two young people kissing each other, and they are immediately the center of the photography! It’s really nice.

Well, I hope you like this picture, and I really recommended find pictures of this photographer, and other photographers of his time like Cartier Bresson.

Bye!

Lalo and Nestor: My bests friends

Today i will talk about my two bestfriend: Lalo and Nestor. They are fantastic! I know them in the 2008, in a party... but it was in the 2009 when know more each other. Today they have become great friends, the best friends in my life... with me and Pablo my boyfriend, we are a team! We like very much be together, our friendship is simple and transparent . Lalo study literature and Nestor philosophy... whe have a lots of things in commun for example the music; Lalo play the guitar and Nestor likes to sing and dance... we like dance tango, salsa, cumbia... We like to talk too... long nights talking about everithing! We are like a happy family hahaha

The picture was taken for Pablo in Isla de Maipo, when we were in the house of other frend, Nacho. Lalo is standing up and smoking and Nestor is the person who is seated. They were singing a tango! haha... Well, i think that the thing who makes them differents to all the people is that they are confiable persons. Lalo is a noble and a sweet person, and have a big sense of humor. Nestor is perspicacious and have the heart of a child. They are very sensible and inteligent people too, i learn a lot of them, and i admire them too. They have been a big support in my life until today, i loved them very much.

Well, i know we will be friends for many, many years!

Two types of technology

Today I’ll talk about two technologies, one is the internet (and the computer of course). This a technology that I use frequently. The other, is a technology who, in my opinion, is very interesting, simple, useful and not expensive (almost free): the solar collectors.

I believe that Internet it is one of the most important technologies for some people in this time. Today it is very easy to access to it, at least in Chile, from libraries, universities, stations of meter, etc. The million of information that circulate in this virtual space have had a great impact in the societies. Well, you can use the internet not only to open your e-mail or to look for books; you can also use it too for see movies, or download a lot of music. It’s amazing that by means of the internet you can find people, play games or see movies. In internet, you can save many, hundred of files, documents, music, photos and they not use physic space, they are just in a virtual space intangible, but you can use them when you want.

I am going to talk about a type of technology that seems to me to be very interesting: the solar collectors. It serves to take the energy of the solar radiation, and transforming it into heat energy of temperature for domestic or commercial uses. It’s very economic and it can replace a calefont, considering that in our country around the 50% of the houses doesn’t have calefont. Well, this is free and clean energy! Can use it any person (there are no companies that have the rights of the sun). Another advantage is that is very easy have this technology. Only you have to learn to construct and to support it. In these days some students of geology of the University of Chile are teaching this.

Backpacking travel: Chiloé and his islands

The summer of 2009 I went in a backpacking travel with 5 friends: Natalia, Pedro, “el Negro”, Gael and Daniela. We wanted travel around Chiloé and know his little islands. I worked all Jaunary to save money, and we started at the beginnings of February. The first place we went was Cucao, we stayed on a camping called “El camping de la abuela”, in this place was staying too the person who now is m boyfriend: Pablo. He went to Chiloé with his friend Nestor. It was camp too many interesting and funny people from different places of Chile. By the nights we make a bonfire and sing, and in the morning we swam in the lake. Well, we stayed like 5 or 6 days in this place. Late, we went to other islands like Lemuy Chonchi, or Achao, we ate “curantos”, we have many adventures, we invented songs, oh yeas we meet Francisco Reyes and shared a glass of wine in a bonfire, etc.

With Pablo, we got to see each other and share in different places of Chiloé. He was traveling with his friend, and I was with my friends, but we reunited in many times and share a lot. He proposed me travel together, but I was not sure if do it or not. When I thought that my travel was finishing (we arrived to Valdivia), I called Pablo and accepted to go with him. I think it was a good decision. Finally we went to Liquñe (5 km. to Argentina) and stayed in a camping for one week or something like that. We got on well with each other. We went to fishing, we did rafting on the trancura’s river, we played guitar. It was really funny.

I think I’ll never forget this vacations!

Philosophia.cl

This website it’s related with my career, but it’s not exactly about sociology. It’s about philosophy. It’s named “philosophia.cl” and is part of the philosophy school of University ARCIS.
I think this site is great. It has almost all the free electronic literature available in Spanish on the web, but it has too many books and articles in Aleman, English or French. Bring together many links that contains hundreds of books, since Tomas de Aquino to Nietzche and Deleuze. It has journals, translations of books, cultural topics, etc. You can read, have and print electronic books of many topics and authors. Let’s see some of this links:

For psychologists it has many interesting pages, one of them is Psikebia: it’s a journal of psychoanalysis and cultural studies, for sociologists it has Acilbuper web, an Argentinean’s web who has compiles of many good journals, monographs, summaries or presentations of congress of sociology (for example ALAS) , it has too the website of POLIS, the journal of the University Bolivariana. I really recomend it.



Well, but not all in this site it’s hundred percent serious, it has too a section of “spare time and varieties”. This section it’s amazing: it have a compilation of anecdotes and mathematics curiosities, and a web link of the University of Oxford: Annals of the improbable investigation, with serious investigations about balls of fluff stuck in your bellybutton or the tendency of the shower curtain to latch on people, first you will laugh but late it makes you think. This last web it’s in English (you can practice).

Well, I hope you take a look of this site! It’s really good.
http://www.philosophia.cl/enlaces.htm

Education in Chile: the reproduction of socials inequalities.

The first problem that comes to my mind when I think in this topic is inequality. I think in this country that is the principal problem we have to resolve. The neoliberal system, implemented in Chile thirty years ago, impacted all the spheres of our society, and primarily the education. Actually in Chile it’s by means of the education that can be perpetuated the socials inequalities. (We have to remember that Chile it’s one of the countries with distributions more inequalities on the world. Considering the IPC, inequality between rich people and poor people it’s of 53 times. Our country it’s placed next to Zambia, Nigeria and Ethiopia in inequalities statistical. ) It’s incredible how knowing the social origin or “crib” you can know how many possibilities could have that person to ascend in his life. In Chile the social ascension it’s almost inexistent: rich people assure the life of his childrens since they are kids. They pay privates a school who offers a better education than public schools, so when they are young they have more tools for ingress to the university than people of down stratums. Well, if they didn’t learn in the school they could ingress to a private university where only you need pay it. The system for ingress to the university doesn’t’ measure flairs or abilities, it’s a filter of social class.

That it’s the reason why I think inequality it’s the principal topic that we have to resolve today if we want that education be a liberation tool who help to avoid the inequality, and not a inequalities reproduction’s machine.

Leon, The Profesional. A master Piece!!

There are so many good movies! I think I can’t say what movie it’s my favorite. But I will speak about a movie that I sow reciently and I really love it. It’s named Léon, The Profesional . It’s a french movie directed by Luc Bresson. The principal actors are Jean Reno and Natalie Portman (Natalie Portman looks very young in this film).
The plot It’s really simple, talk about a men who is a great hitman or cleaner. Hhe lives his own life alone in an apartment , do his work, spend his free time nourishing his plant (he describe it as his best friend) and watching old musicals in the cinema . Some day Mathilda, a twelve years old girl, arrive to his life… I will not tell you what happens later, that is not the important.

Really, is not a popular movie but I think it’s a master piece! The characters are so good done; the details of the movie are fantastics and touching . The wonderful of the movie is how it’s made, how the things happens, the rhytm of the movie is perfect and without realize it you are completely involved in the movie.

I recommend it!

This is the link where you can see it online!!!!

http://the-professional-film.blogspot.com/

BBC Learning English...

Visit this website it’s a very interesting and enjoyable way to learn English. I’m really glad to know it. You can practice grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation by different ways.

Personally, today I played in a pronunciation quiz; it has questions about sounds, symbols, similar sound, spelling, pronunciations and listened. I played in the easy level. Finally, the program told me in who items I was failing. After that I visited more quizzes and played crosswords about “flowers and plants”. I thought it could be more easy, but it was really difficult completed the squares. I must admit I gave up and look for others activities in the website. I played “beat the keeper” really I didn’t like so much that quiz, but I laugh very much. Finally, I discovered a category named “community” where you can read English blogs from students who are learning English from around the world. It’s a great way to practice writing informally!

Well, BBC Learning English it's a funny way to practice English. I like the website very much.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/

27/2/ 2010

The night when it happened i was in my home sleeping. I was alone with my parthner in our department in Quinta Normal. We live in 5th floor. That night we went to bed early because Saturday’s evening my sister-in-law was going to get married. When it started to shake, i wake up and say to Pablo –It’s trembling .He said –We have to wait to know if it is a earthquake severe. Just in that moment the movement get more strong, we get out of the bed, and stay together in the door frame. The movement was shocking…Across the window, we can see the sky full of lights like explosions. People out of my department was screaming. It looked like apocalypsis. I thinked the buildind was going to breake down. When the movement stopped, we saw all the things around us was broken or was on the floor: the fridge was in the livingroom,my cloakroom was on the livyng, the corridor was full of rubbles... It was all out of order! Finally we went to see the books-bedroom, finally when we see that all the books was on the floor we we burst out laughing and go to find a cigarrete.

First Post

Hi class! My Name is Francisca. I am in 4th year of sociology in this university, I live in Quinta Normal with my boyfrend. About my family, i have two sisters: Antonia and Rocío. Antonia has seven years and is in second grade, and Rocío has eighteen, she study psichology. This is his first year in this faculty (also she is in this clase) . I am learning to play piano, i like play guitar and see movies.
That’s all… bye everybody