the trip to bilingual

> How did you like this subject at university? What about the use of blogs?
 I need to be sincere, I don't like this subject for a lot of reasons. First, and the most important, is the time of the subject. I hate to come to university at this time, I prefer to do other things at this time, because my classes end at 2 pm, or 4 pm, so is so uncomflortable come. If English were in the morning maybe my perception would be diferent. I don't like very much english in general, is not my passion lean it, so I'm always bored. Obviously there's somethings that I like, like my classmates and my teacher, and the relationship with theme.




> What aspects of your English need to be improved and how do you plan to do this?
 I think I need to lean about grammar and pronunciation. The only possible way that I see to improve is watching more movies in english and talking more with my friends in english. Also I need to improve the embarrasment that english cause me. I have to get over the fear of failing with words in front of people.

  > Outside the English class, how much are you using English these days? What for?
I practicly don't talk in english never. Sometimes in partys, and with some drinks inside, I start to talk in english with a friend.   I think that I don't talk more in english because in my life doesn't exist that kind of situations, I don't need it at my work and I don't know too many people that talk it. I use english sometimes to read some webpages in internet, and to understand the songs of english speaking bands.

the trip to the work life

I never had take a major, and the specialization start next year. I don't have decide yet what major take. In journalism you can take one of two options: Organizational journalism (to work in institutions, or companys) or management of mass media. I don't like so much any of them, but I think that organizational is most boring.

I would like to have a job in a town or in another country, I dont want to live in Santiago!. I would like to work on my own, in my own magazine or in my business. ( a restorant or a bar is the best option to me). If I don't get my own job, I would like to work in a good company, a company that makes good things to the world, I wish to earn a lot of money for a very few hours of work. I hope to work in a beautiful place, with calm and good partners.

When I will choose my job I will consider a lot aspects, like I mention before, first I have to be very comfortable with the activity in general.

Well, my strengths are the sense of responsability, my capacity with words and texts, my capacity to analyze and think, also I'm very creative. My weakness are that I'm a little emotional, and somedays I don't want to do anything, also I have serious problems with the authority.

In general I think that I can be a very good worker provided that I'm happy in that place. But I'll never think that the work is my life, never is gonna be the most important thing, I think that the labour situation is just a dimension of the life, and a very dangerous part, because it can makes you get sick or fall sleep.

the trip to the worst new year's party ever

This is a boring theme because I don't like very much the new year. I don't like it because we are like obliged  to get drunk, and have the best time of our lives, and I don't agree with that. Anyway, that makes me feel pressure and nervious.

Whatever, every year I have a plan for the 31 nigth. For the new year of 2011 I was in my father's house. Almost every thing went bad there, my uncle was late, my grandmother was very anrgy, and the food was cold. Anyway, I was planning the night, that of course would start at 2 am.

Me and my friends agreed to meet at 1.30 in a known street. But I was the onlyone that arrived in that time. After one hour they come to appear. Suppsedly we were invited to a party in La Reina, but when we got there, the party was full, and they don't allow us to come in.

It was like that in another 4 partys more... at 4 am I was so tired of walk arroud the town. I wasn't drunk, but I was very high. Finnaly, at 6 am, we decided to continue the night in a park.

The next 3 hours of the first day of the 2011 I was lying down in the grass tottaly drug .
I don't know if describe that new year of the worst or the best, but it was strange. This year I will buy a big party tiket.

This is a photo of that night.

trip to the questions

I think that the enviroment is a vey important issue. Most importat than almost anything, because is about our lives and the life of the total humanity. Taking care of our planet is maybe the biggest problem of the politician and economics decisions.  

- Where do people learn about enviromentally friendly practices?
I don't know all the people, but I can say that first you learn that in your house when you are a child, then maybe at the school.

- Have you incorported recycling into your habits? Describe
I haven't incorported recycling in my life as I would like to do. I recycle the paper, the glass bottles sometimes, and other things once in a while. I also buy a lot of clothes in the 'american clothes' or 'second hans', I think that is a type of recycling.

- Do you use a bike or your legs instead of a car?
Yes!!! every day!!! I hate cars, bus, and all that things, I always prefer to walk or go in my bike.

- Have you joined or supported any eco-organisations? Why/Why not?
No, never. I don't know why, maybe I didn't know it, maybe I'm concentrate in my problems, my academic and romantic life. I don't know, perhaps because I don't trust in ongs or any institution.

- What else have you done /would you like to do?
I'll like to do something to look after the water.

- What have you done to reduce your carbon footprint?
Really... nothing, i dont have so much conscience about this matter. Maybe my footprint is low, but is not a preconceived act.
- What's missing in our society/Santiago regarding this issue?
 Is missing all!!! the industria is damage oue enviroment. In all this country they are plundered

the trip to the murder.

Hello everyone! Today I'll talk you about a videogame. The problem is that I really don't like videogames, or anything with keys and computers or joystick. But, i have to do this, sooooo....
I remember that when I was young, jajaja, 14 years old, I used to play a game call The Sims.


That videogame is about creating some persons and make them live in a neighborhood, inside a house, that you also create. Then, you have to make them eat, go to the bathroom, tell them when to sleep, and even when to have sex.

I always made a couple (with my name and the name of the boy that I liked in that moment) , locked up then in a house with all the necessary, and maked them have a lot of children. The funny part is that I locked up the children too, in another house. At the end, after weeks of game, I used to get bord, and then I kill them all with a arson attack.

Is a little scary my story, but don't be affraid, it was just a game.

the trip to the chilean food

Hello, 
this is the link of the article that i choose. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2000/oct/28/weekend.jonathanfranklin?INTCMP=SRCH . it was an article write in october 18, 2000. by a guy call Jonathan Franklin. maybe, he is a journalist, but i don't know. 

In simple words it's about the chilean street food. First he start describeing the tipical food of many people: the 'completo'. And there he makes a funny analogy about the english 'tea time' and our 'once'. For the way en q se expresa, I under stand that he don't like the completo, even he said: 'is extremely bland: salt, vinegar, mayonnaise and more salt are the four basic condiments'.

I don't know why he said that in the past two years Chile was shacked by economic crisis. Here in Chile, the politics in the TV every time say that our economics numbers are great, and that we are in an economic increase progress. But, according the text, the crisis of the past two years is so strong that the street food is more popular now, because is cheap.

the trip to India

The world is so big, and there's so many countrys. I think that every different reality is interesting in some aspect. Based on that, I will like to go to anywhere, I'm not jokeing, any trip is a gift for me.

If you force me to choose one country, in this moment I will say India. India is in Asia, is a place densely populated and very poor in economic terms. But is very rich in others dimensions relatives to their culture. For me the most interesting aspects are the religion, the food and the people in general.

The religions in India are four, the two dominat are Budismo and Hinduismo. In budismo they believe in a guy that 'wake up' to a supreme conscience through a live away from earthly pleasures, they try to copy that live to get to 'nirvana', the state of the first Buda. In Hinduismo they believe in a lot of deitys that represent different aspects of life. This two religions have in common the vegetarianism, the reincarnation and the 'karma'.

I want to go now!!! to eat the food and meet the people!

the trip to the first semester

WOw, it's august and that make me realize that we are in second semester. Maybe it's time to do a revision or a check of the last semester. 

Academically the last semester was the best, I had a lot subject that I like, was easy and entertaining. The most important thing was that I learned a lot of things and read a lot of text. 

About the sports, I can say that was a very good semester too, because I started to practice flamenco dance, and that is an excellent exercise and relaxing time. Now I'm still doing flamenco every week, but it's not so funny compare with the first semester of 2012. I'm thinking about doing another type of corporal activity, like yoga, running, bicycle or arabe dance. I learn from last semester that I need to practice some sport, it's so good for the body and the mind. 

 The instruction ask me about 'problems'... so, I had it... like everyone. I expect that the next semester will be awesome and full of happiness.

that's the end :)

the trip to the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeenglish

- Did you enjoy it? Why? Why not?



Sometimes I enjoyed it , but not always. Because somedays I want to write, I'm in that mood and I really enjoy it. The others days I'm very tired and I just want to go home, specially on Tuesday, beacuse the class is so late!
 
- Did it help you improve your English?
Maybe, I have really practice my english, in writeing specially, but I don't feel like I have learned new things. But of course that I have to come every afernoon, because English is a essential requirement for be a journalist at this university, I don't like that much this language, I don't like what represent the idea of have to learn other language, that really remenber me the colonial time.

- Give your opinion of the advantages and disadvantages of blogging in the English class.
the adventages are the fact that everyday you can do it faster, and thats a very good point, because you really increase your vocabulary, particularly if you want to doit in the right way. But the problem is that is monotonous and tedious. I think that is a good exercise, but it has to be mixed with another kind of work. 



:) 

the great trip to the vegetables

SO our theme is FOOD, and that's a theme that really facinates me. I'm vegetarian since around 5 months ago, but not completly, because is really hard for me leave the seafood, but i'm trying everyday. So, you can imagine that my favorite food are all that meals that contains vegetables, milk, cheese, legume, etc.
Today I will talk you about a plate that I lern to cook three weeks ago, is call 'falafels'. The falafels are a tipical Arabic food, consist in a dough of raw legume, especificly chickpea (garbanzos), that you have to mix with others vegetables like onions, coriander, and of course salt and peper. Then you suppose to fry, but I dont like so much that option, so I make it in my oven.
This arab food tipically goes accompanied this salads of tomatoes, lettuce and cucumber, over that goes a acid cream salse, and finally all that goes inside a kind of bread very thin. I will leave you a photo of that delicious meal. 

I forget that I had to put others points, so here they go: 
- my favorite restaurant is call 'Calipso', and is located in Cajon del Maipo, they make the best italian food ever, also vegetarian meals, and the best thing about that place, and that's why it is my favorite, is that has a huge coutyard and it is a beautiful place.
- I want to try with vegan and thai food.


see you, hugs for all. :)

the trip of the article

Andrea was sitting be my side and I will invent everything in this article because I'm so bored about this job. I dont want to write anything, but Andrea, my partner in this article, is looking at me and that remind me that this a serious seccion , and I have to do my homework, if I don´t do that Henry will ask me in public... So here we go!!!

((((PD: maybe i'll invent some information, but stay relaxed because most of the dates will be true. )))

So Andrea was a marcian girl, and she has blue hair and green skin. I meet her at the university, and from the first time that I saw her I thougth that she was a good girl and a nice person. She told me that she had a mom and a dad, and also a sister, that was very different to her because she like math.
So the most fun part about her story, was the part when she entry in University of Chile, to study 'Cine y Tv', but before that she didn´t knew what to do in her life, and she lived the desicion of the carrer at random. For a chance of the life the entry to 'shine' and now she founds the way of her life. The path open over her and now she has a horizon in her life.

applause!!!!!!!!! !  !     Ü   :D    =)

GOMEZMILLAAAANO, triping to laugh

Hello!, well I'll talk about one of my favorites webpages, I don´t know if it is so related with my career (journalism), but in some way it is, beacuse is about people that publish comments, in total freedom, about the reality in our campus: Juan Gomez Millas, I refer to gomezmillano.tumblr.com/
I visit this page almost every day, is so fun and ironic, they publish really intresting information, or some photos or sentences that really make me think. 
They always put "MEMES" that are absurd photos with a text in front that say something comic or sound . Also they laugh about everything.
So, this is a 'meme' that they put today in the webpage, as you can see, is a comic and ridiculous text, but as a matter of facts, they say something that is so true, the 'rio mapocho' is nasty, ugly, and all that things, so they make a really good critic in a intelligent way.  

the trip to Wonderland

This is a book that I read when i was 16 years old, at that age I already thaught about the life and the mysterious of the paths that it take. Thats why i fell in love with this old story. 

Alice in Wonderland - in spanish is 'Las aventuras de Alicia en el Pais de las Maravillas'- was writen in 1865 by a british man: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, know as Lewis Carroll.

The story is about a small child, that falls in a hole and in the bottom she finds a magic world where the animals talk and the time is  broken down.

This book in known generally as a children's book, but is so much more than that. The story is created in small pieces of storys that take place in Wonderland,  those scenes shows an ironic sense of humor, or a social critic, and the most important is that he play with the logic, in the language and in the order of the facts.

Wile the story goes on, the reader meets different characters, every character has a particular personality, or has something interesting to tell.

This is one of my favorite book because when i read it I laugh a lot and algo think a lot. Well, I leave you a critic from Amazon.com .

 Hugs (: !!!

 

 

Amazon Review

Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense. For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter
 

Sergio Larraín pictures, the trip to the magic

I'll write about one of my favorite photos, that was taken in some year that I dont know, but I'm sure that was in the 50' decade. The photo was made for the most important photograhper of our country: the talent and mysterious Sergio Larraín. Sergio was born in Santiago in 1931, and took his first photos in 1949, at the early age of 18 years. In that moment he worked with the children that lived under the bridge of Mapocho river. 

After some years of traveling, Larraín went to Europe and entry to work in the famous Magnum Agency. There he show a photography work that he made in Valparaíso. With that photos he gained all the respect of the critics and others europian artist.

For me, this is the most special photo of that brilliant work:

 

 I dont know if this photo has a name, but i know that was take in the Valparaiso beach. I think that is a magic picture, because it demonstrate a active perception that the photographer need to use to capture that instant. The magic moment when the girls are smiling on the air is something beautiful. 

Well, i leave you a photo of Larraín too (:

Tips for the trip at the JGM campus

The Palmeras entry, you have to be more careful in this entry with your drinks.

I.- Dont make Olga angry: Olga is the secretary of the ICEI, if yoy have a problem with some class and you must to resolve it quickly go to her office and be nice, because sometimes she is so mean but if you're nice she will help you and she will resolve all.

II.- Hide the alcohol: In the campus JGM you can have a party with your friends and take some shots. But, if you want to bring a bottle you have to hide it in you backbag, because at the entry is the security and they can take it away from you.

III. Dress how you want: At the JGM campus it doesn't matter how you dress, just be yourself and use confortable clothes.

skins, my favorite trip.

WOW, what a topic we have to do now... so... movies and series... there's so many of those that I like, but there is one serie that is so special for me, the serie is call SKINS, was made in England, specifically in Bristol city. The serie has 5 seasons, ok i have seen all of them and more than once or twice. The first and second seasons are about 9 young friends that have very particular personalities. Every episode is concentrate in one of these guys.

these is a picture of the season 1 and 2. the taller boy is Tony Stonem, my favorite caracter of that  season. And the last and blod girl is Cassie, i loveeee she!

 In the third and fourth season the character change, and in about another 9 guys, a boy from africa, two twins, one lesbian, and my favorite character ever: Effy Stonem, the most beautiful, intelligent, existencialist, insane female. Effy is the little sister of Tony Stonem, the guy in the two past seasons.

Effy Stonem. (L)

The 5 and 6 seasons are not my favorites, are really bored, they try to do something similiar but it dont result. So I will not talk about it. 

my mp4, my personal trip to the music

I'm not a fan of technology, but if you steal my mp4 philips GoGear ViBE, i could cry for three nights. I use it every day, and in a lot of different moments. The music make any moment special, even the two hours that i use in travel in a normal day.

My mom gave to me in christmas two years ago. It has 8 GB of space, and today that space its almost full of my favorite music, actually i have 952 songs. I really like it, because is small, simple, and strong!!!, i let it fall so many times !! and is still alive, just has a little scratched.

In this mp4 you can listed radio, record a voice, put some videos and watch it, but i just use it for listen my music and let my mind fly. I think that the music can determine your mood, that's why i usually i listen Charly García, Camila Moreno, Los Jaivas and Bersuit, that music make me happy almost always. 

the trip to The Wall

 

Roger Waters The Wall, is n espectacular concert that came to Chile the 2nd and 3rd of march 2012. I went the first night with my brother. 

"The wall" was a disc from the english band Pink Floyd, and Roger Waters was part of it. In 1979 the disc was published, geting a big notoriety. Then they made a film about the history of the disc, with the help of the filmmaker Alan Parker. In 1990 Roger Waters, now without the band, made an concert in Berlin, in that show he presented a real wall in front of the public. 

This year, and with a global tour, he take the same idea, but with the actual technology he create a unexpected show,  with a high cuality in audio, and a amazing wall-screen.

I really like this concert, because Pink Floid is one of my favorites bands ever, and Roger Waters is my favorite member of the band. Also, i'm very lucky and i was siting very close to the stage, and it was a such a good show, with all the songs, and a great showmanship.

i'll let you here the video of the begining of the show, the song  In the Flesh.

the first trip, my life

i arrived in this world a friday 13 in the afternoon. my mom was in a party when i decided to begin in 1991. Six years later of that epic episode i entered in a school near to my hause, and i been there for another 12 years. The school of my life call Colegio Liahona, and is in the area La Florida. Then, i start to study journalism, and i dont know why i decided to do that.
In this days, my trips have been very intresting. My family is divided in two beautiful parts. In one, is my mom, that is a very intelligent and pretty woman, and my little brother, what is no so little anymore, he is actually very tall. He is one of my best friends, we hear almost the same music and share a lot of hobbies, like ride bicicle, whatch movies and talk about the society and our existencialism lives. We can stay doing that every night.
the other part of my family is integrated by my dad, his wife and his baby. My little little little brother is called Santiago and he is 7 months old. He make me trip like no other person, his eyes shine in a way that make me tremble.