Places I Visited

I usually go on vacation to the north of Chile. That is because my mom's family lives there. When I was younger all my cousins lived in Iquique and I loved going there, I spent two months every summer living with them. I went with my family (parents, brother and sister), but they spent less time because they had to go back because of work, my sister was too young to stay alone and my brother didn't like my cousins very much.
I don't remember dates, but we visited many places near the city, for example "Pica"(hot baths) or the "Salitreras". This was because on year my family decided that we had to know these places because of all the history they had. So we went by car with my 4 cousins, the trip itself wasn't very comfortable but as we were young and excited because of the new places we were going to visit we didn't claim.
I really didn't find these places so beautiful, as the "Salitreras" were not longer in use, the place was desolated and the constructions were very poor. I know that this should be what makes it cooler from other places but I didn't find it so nice. Even so, I had a great time during the trip, laughing and playing with my cousins.

Now a days they moved to Antofagasta so this summer I went there, but we really didn't went on a trip, was only sharing time in the city as being in Santiago, but with seashore.

favourite website

I really don't have a favourite website related to my carrer, in fact I really don't know many pages of my carrer. I know this sound as if a didn't pay much attention to a topic it's suppose I like the most, but the true is that I don't search the web so often about architecture. But obviously I know some pages related to my carrer, although I don't visit them so often.

The first page that come to my mind when I read the topic for today was www.plataformaarquitectura.cl, this is very far of being "my favourite", but when I have to look for a project as an assignment for a specific class I visit this page.
The page is divide in different sections "front page" "materials" "universities" "publications" between others. This is a characteristic I just notice, because when I usually use it I just put the "key word" on the searcher to look for a project or information about a specific topic. I really don't know if it is a "really good page" but it gives a summary of what the projects are about, some important details and in some cases you can download the plans of the project, that are very useful if you want to start working with it.
Another page that came to my mind is www.estudiantesdearquitectura.cl, that was created by my boyfriend with some friends. (He is really going to hate me if he read I'm writing about his page, but as I only knew few pages I had to). I really don't know what the page is about, but I do know that some people of the Fau, not the ones that created the page, write about anything that come up to their minds (I think related to the carrer), and they upload it. Now it has published some articles for example 2 about the recent earthquake in different locations (Iloca and Constitución), one of modular education, other about a "sant" here at the university (of which I'm not very devoted I may add), between others. Now that I'm cheking the website I can say is like a mixture between spreading common issues about the carrer and what happens here in the FAU.

bbc learning english

The page for learning english is very good, not only because it has a los of activities to practice english with, but also because on each section it gives the oportunity to listen the pronunciation and I think that helps a lot if someone is not familiar with the language or if there is a word that is difficult or sound weird.
One of the sections I liked was the flatmates. I think the apearance of the characters is very funny! An aspect that helps a lot, in my opinion, is that they represent dailylife scenes so the expressions they used are very common, so it's very useful to listen and read how people speak in their common life.
Other section that I liked was, I don't remember the exact name and I dind't find it when I look back to read the name, but it was a quiz. But the good thing it has was that as you were answering they not only tell the correct answer also add an explanation telling why that was the correct answer and what does it mean. I think this is reaaly great! Because if very common that you make a quiz and you know wich answer is correct r wrong, but you never really know WHY that is the correct answer and not the one you chose. I think is a good way to learn not only from mistakes, but also to learn something more of what we already knew.

my favourite movie

I really don't have a favorite movie, I haven't watch a movie in the cinema in years, but if I have to chose one, I think I would chose "Gladiator". Yes I know, is a very old movie and everyone have watched it more than once, but still, I like it.
I don't remember the first time I watched it, but now I have seen it like 10 times. I don't know exactly what is about this movie that I like it so much, but I enjoy every time I watched it. From all the scenes there is one that I like the most, the one when he took off his mask and showed who he really was to the emperor.
I think the setting they managed is amazing, the atmosphere they achieved is very real and together with the customes they created a scenary that comlpements the plot at all time.
Other Aspect of the movie that I really like is the music. I don't remember the name of the song, but the one of the last scene, where they moved the body from the coliseo and he "went" with his family, is very powerful and makes the scene very strong.
The movie was directed by Ridley Scott, part of the cast were: Russell Croew, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, as I don't know many famouse actor/actress, these names mean nothing to me, but I think some of you could recognize some of them from other movies.

The best commercial spot

I don't know if it is the best commercial spot but it was the first one that came to my mind when I read of what we have to write today, but I think that it's funny. The post I'm talking about is the one of Heineken, I think a lot of you must have seen it on tv, is the one where a woman was showing her new apartment / house to her girlfriends. The commercial started when the women were getting to the best part of the new place for them, the walking closet, in wich there was a lot of space for shoes, clothes, accesories etc, they get excited because of the greatness of the place for them, so they started shouting. Mean while her boyfriend was doing the same thing with his friends, so the screaming of the women mixed with the other one and suddenly they realized the one of the boys was stronger so they went to see what had happened. When the camera change of place, it showed the boys shouting was because there was an especial room only for beers, heineken.

I thin it's very funny and shows a caricature of the differences between the two genders. I don't know if after watching the commercial you are going to buy the beer, I really don't think so, but when you do, you laugh and then remember the mark. I can bet that more than one group of friends had talk about the spot in parties or when they are together, and now I'm writing about it in my english class.

February 27th

I wasn't in santiago that night, in fact I wasn't anywere near the V-VIII region. I had just arrived from Perú and was still travelling in the north of Chile. However, all my family was here so when I found out about the earthquake I called everyone to see how they were. I was sleeping as usuall, but an unusuall call at 6 o'clock in the morning woke me up. It was my cousin, thinking I was at home, was trying to reach me since the earthquake took place. She asked me how I was and if all my family was fine, I told her very confuse I was sleeping and that I think they're ok, then she told me about the earthquake as she realised I didn't have any idea of the recent events.
Then, obviously, I tried to reach my family to know how they were, fortunately, I could reached them almost inmediatelly, they were all together in my grandmother's house.

I didn't realized the devastation until the next day, the cable went wrong all morning so it was after lunch when I saw the first images of all the affected places. It was horrible, all the people crying and looking for their families that were on vacation on those places. I felt very lucky to know that all my family was fine.

Days past, although I wanted to continue on vacations I had to come back, but Lan wasn't changing all airplane tickets so quickly (I was supposed to arrived to Santiago that same day), but I was very lucky and when I went to see when I could travell they told me they had one ticket for that same day. I was very happy:D.

A question to my partner

I have a really good and important question since the year started. Why crovari? why? Now I know you are regret but it's too late, I'm alone with a strange group.

I really don't know what else to write, I'm in fourth year of Arquitecture and I don't have english since school, so I have forgotten a lot of words and ways to say things, so I took this class to learn more and remember what I have lost.

I never had a blog because I don't fell comfortable writting thoughts, feelings or comments in the internet so It's going to be very hard to start doing that.