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.