About the blog experience

In my opinion the blog experience was very useful to improve my English. As I went to English school I didn’t had to start “learning” but I had to admit that I had forgotten a lot in this years. I think that is very important to practice the second language frequently, because if not you start losing it. I had to admit that I only enjoyed some of the topics, for example the one of the football match was very difficult because I didn’t knew a lot about the topic so I had to start looking for information. Posting on other classmates blog’s I think that it was very good, because you had to read what other people wrote and give your opinion. I think that this task helped in the sense of understanding someone else idea and give an opinion on your own about it.

The advantages I think that were the ones I put in the first paragraph, to write once a week about a topic helps a lot to get fluency at writing. Another advantage could be that you are forced to try to write well so you start looking how do I said this, or how do I continue with my idea, I think that this point helps a lot because you learned some words or phrases you didn’t knew.

On the other side I think that there’re not any disadvantages, to write every week and couldn’t miss any post, could be a little bit annoying in the sense of the grade and that sometimes you had other things to do, but that doesn’t against the idea of improving your English. To be honest I think that if it was given the possibility for example to miss two, all of us would use it. So even do sometimes I hated the blogging experience in that sense, I had to admit that it helps to create the idea of “once a week” I had to think and write in English about something.

My classmate blog

Jorge’s Blog

www.youputthewords.blogspot.com is the link to enter to the blog I choose to talk about, it’s from my Classmate and friend Jorge, that is sitting right beside me.

It was very hard to find a photo that describes how I feel about my partner’s blog. After some time looking I think that this is the one. It is not only because he has a background with drops but for the entire blog, the colors, his photo etc. But I’m not saying that is a bad thing, for example my blog is more simply doesn’t have like any design at all so in that sense my partner’s blog has an identity.

He shows that he takes care of how it looks the blog besides just writing in it. About his posts, he always includes a picture that helps to understand better the text or just making the post more fun and no so monotonous.

I had to admit that I not always read all the text, but I always pass by checking if he had finished to post on his blog. A special post that I like it very much was the one about “The favorite place in Chile”. I found very funny the photo he uploads with his friend Carolina. Also the photo about the giant doll here in Santiago was very good and invites you to read what he wrote about it.

As a summery I invite you to visit and read his blog every Wednesday, well until this because is our last class, (I don’t think he would post again), but to can catch up reading old post that you missed.

chile v/s honduras

First of all I must say, I’m not that involved in soccer… or any sport at all, even I admit… I was very bad at sports in school. So with that fact we can assume that the FIFA World Cup is not so cool for me, but there is something I can’t deny, today the whole country was watching the soccer match at 7:30am.

I will choose to write about option 1, because even do I’m not so familiar with soccer I worked today with the TV on, so now I know all about it.

First, the schedule of the match was awful, so I didn’t watch the match, but all my family did. So I knew the results right away only listening to what was happened in my house.

Making a summary of what I had listened today I can say Chile played good, even one international journalist said they played the second better match of the entire world cup, just below Germany. This was the first match Chile had won in many years I don’t remember exactly the amount but is around more than 20 years. A funny fact is that occurred the same date years before. They played a fast, offensive game, while their greater weakness was to be effective and MAKE the goals. Also, the news said the most important players of the match were Sanchez (nominated player of the match by the Fifa), Fernandez and Beausejour, who scored the only goal. Although this made a lot of people happy I also heard that Spain lost and that complicates Chile to pass to another round.

My three favorite pictures

I'm not sure I can choose only one favorite picture, so I decided to upload three photos of different things. I'm not so familiar with photos, I don't have artistic ones, so I will upload photos that I like.

The first one (in chronological order) is froma trip I did two years ago. We went with two friends to deterrents beaches near Santiago. In the photo we were at “Neruda’s house” but I’m only with one of them because the other one pay for the tour and was visiting the house from inside. Meanwhile we took photos and visit the place from outside. By the way it was very stupid to pay because you could see almost the same without paying.

The other photo is from six month later, at Jorge’s birthday. As you can see in the picture is was a costume birthday, but now body understood mine. It was at Nadia’s house as always. The party was very fun, although I think Jorge remembers only part of it. This year we also celebrate Jorge’s birthday at Nadia’s house but with common clothes.

The third photo I decided to upload is with my boyfriend, we took it this summer in Peru. To this trip we also went with my friend (the one that didn’t appear in the first picture) but this time she wasn´t on a tour, she was only walking ahead of us. This trip was very fun and we visited a lot of places in Peru and Bolivia. The worst part of it I think that was when we stayed in La Paz, the place was very awful so we stayed only one night.

Schools killing creativity

I think that the topic Mr. Ken Robinson was speaking about is very interesting. As I was listening to the conference he gave, I realized that I had never thought of school that way. I never doubt that math and literature were more important than dance for example, because that was how the school was programmed. I think if a school provides 10 lectures a week of dance or drama and 3 of math, no parents would like their children studying there. So being agree in the fact that the occidental way of thinking punish mistakes and that they are the worst you can make, I think that the problem isn’t in schools but in our way of thinking. For example is someone is good at piano, and she/he plays a very good song, we would say, oh! That’s beautiful, but only thinking like in a hobby or something to do in free time. I think that the idea of not accepting mistakes is from society and that is reflects in schools. For example is a mother ask her daughter “how was school today”, beside if she is ok and all that, she would be worry about math, literature and so on, never thinking in how the sport class was. There are some subjects that as society we “learned” that are more important and even do if schools try to change that it will have to go throw 2 or 3 generations to start thinking in maybe changing the way people think nowadays. So is like a cycle that never end because the society thinks in a way and that society was taught in a minute to think that way, so I think the step to break the cycle is very difficult.

Internet

To choose my favorite piece of technology is very easy, because is the only thing that I use every day and I get crazy if it go wrong for some reason. This will be the computer. I spend hours a day in front of it without notice how many time has pass. But I think that not the computer itself, but obviously connected with internet. I really think that a computer without it is very useless and in my personal experience I use it without it only when it’s extremely necessary if not I get bored really easily.

The first time I used internet it was using the telephone wire. I can only be connected after 8:00pm, because it was very expensive. I remember that we didn’t had a connection upstairs so we had a wire trough out the stairs, so more than one trip over with the wire. Every time that happened we were disconnected (very often), so it was very annoying.

After some time, luckily my father decided to get an unwire connection, so now we can use internet every time we want.

I find amazing the amount of different things you can do connected to the web for example download music, series, movies, talk to your friends, work and find work too, buy different kinds of thing without even get out of the house. I’m not saying that internet could replace all kinds of interactions between people, but I think that we have to learn to combine both things. On one side we have to assume that internet makes our lives easily, but we can’t depend on it in every situation, because as we all have experience at least one, sometimes and for “no reason” it collapses and you have to adapt and continue living without, although it’s difficult sometimes.

About studying architecture

I’m Studying architecture and I think that one of the most important skills you need for this career is perseverance. It’s common for people to think that architects are creativity and that’s all, I think that this is not true; although it helps having original ideas quickly it takes more than that to finish the career, at least at this University.

We are commonly full of work, that means that not only you have to be working all the time, but also that you have less time to spend with your family, or friends. I think that this is something that not all the people is willing to do, so they just leave the career or have to start finding ways to combine both things.

I think that you born with creativity, but you can help yourself watching and searching for new things for example in magazines, internet, TV etc. So although if you didn’t born creative you have the chance of seeing so much that you don’t came up with something new, but you remember something you saw and from there you start designing putting thing from your own.

For perseverance I think that you just born with it, you can’t learn how to fell when you work all night and you get a bad grade, I think it depends of how you take your life and things that happened in your life, and there’s no lesson for that.

I believe the University gives as skills but depend on us to use it and to learn from them, I think that is possible (It happened to me also), that you pass a signature without really learning anything from it. So I think that the process is very personal and depends on each student to get all the abilities the University is willing to give.