this english year

This is the last post that I have to write, and this is about my experience learning english this year. So first I have to say that this is my second course this year because I had to do the level tree first. Well i must say that when I did the test for see in which level I would stay I thought that maybe y will be in the last level or even I wouldn’t have to take the english course. But no I had to take to levels.

Well I decided to make the English level immediately and after all at school I was a good student and I like learning English because I think that it is a very good tool for the present and the future.

But when I took the level tree I try to quit the entire semester y try to get an interview whit Simon, to get reed of that because it was so boring to me and we finished the classes at seven thirty in the afternoon, and some times I feel that I was loosing my time because the most (or maybe all) of the subjects were basic to me and I had seen it at school a long time ago. So the first semester my relationship whit English was a little bit complicated, it was a love and hate relation.

But the second semester it was different maybe because it was spring and everything is better in spring or maybe because when the class finishes it wasn’t dark outside or maybe because of the people who was taken the course whit me where more interested in learning more, or maybe because I decided to be more relax and enjoy more this classes.

So I have to say that I’m not regret about taking this course because instead of all I think that during the year I learnt more English and it works to me to practice and realize that I haven’t forget what I learnt at school and also because I met wonderful people during both courses. The only thing that I have to say is that maybe the test that you took for see in which level you stay is not the best way of doing this, because I met a lot of people that are in a very similar situation than me.

At the end it was a good experience and thanks teacher because of the enthusiasm in the classes.

mapuches

I think that the first problema that we have is to call this situation the mapuche conflict, like they were in conflict between them but they are not, they have a situation whit us and whit the Chilean state, even this is more interesting because they are not angry this the spainsh who supposedly came to this lands and take away the freedom of the people who lives here. No that’s no the reality because those people who most damage committed against the mapuches were the Chilean government during the “ pacificacion de la araucania” and there you will find the real problem.
Those lands had been in to their position for centuries before anyone else came to this part of the world and they have a relation whit that they are the people from the earth and some extrangers take away from them so I think that is fear the battle that they are fighting and I hope that some they it could be return to them.
Another part of the problem that is related whit that is that they are not Chilean people and that is difficult because is supposed that there can’t be more than one nation in a state and I think that here in Chile we have more than one nation and in the legal and constitutional point of view that attempts against the integrity of the country.
And finally is the treat that is gave to mapuches for example the case of matias catrileo who was murder from behind and his killer just received 15 years in jail instead some of them that haven’t kill or hurt anybody are risking more years in jail, I’m not justifying violence but I think that there is something unfair in this.
So I think that we should listen of what do they have to say because that is something that Chileans are not very used to do and try to understand why are they fighting and what do they want.

Music

This post is about music, so first of all I think life without music will be incredible boring because music is like have a permanent company (to me) you can walk listening music and you will enjoy the trip more, or for example when you have to do domestic issues like sweeping or cooking music makes you company and what I like the most is that whit music you can dance and by the other hand whit music you can relax. An other think that why I love music is because it is a way in which humans can communicated their feelings and give messages, I think that music is more than sounds that sound good, music must have a message to transmit isn’t an interaction between humans is a way to be connected each other.
I listen to every kind of music since juan luis Guerra to victor jara going to shakira and calle trece, but my favorite band as long as I could remember are Los Jaivas, may be because I can find every characteristic that I mention before into their music, I remember that when I was six or five years old I used to listen a cassette from los jaivas every day once and again. I have to say that I listen a lot o Chilean and Latin-American music and maybe it’s because I feel that represents me and the way in which I see our reality society because that’s about the most of that music they are constantly making a portrait of us. So definitely my favorite band in earth is los jaivas but I also listen other kind of music like I said, one of my favorites singer is Joaquin Sabina that is an influence from my father and I also likes bands like The Coors or The cranberries and obviously the amazing and unique The Beatles and I also have a guilty pleasure that is Miguel Bose

live the earth

Hello teacher and classmates, today is the green post so here I go.
First of all I’m scout so I’m always worry about the nature and how can I help to improve the environmental situation, for example when we are camping whit the girls we always separated the garbage in which is biodegrable or not, we never make de washing up in the river we take the water far from there and we had made a system in which first we dig a little howl in which we put some stones that filter the water so when this make contact whit the ground don’t be so contaminated, and of course we never cut down trees.
in my house we try to recycling the biggest amount of things that we can, for example the plastic bottles we put all this together and then my mom takes to her job and give to a school in which they have a program to recycling this. Another example is that every kind of papers and cardboard we collected ad we gave to a cardboard man. Other practise that we have in my house is not put into the garbage liquid thinks (for example the tea we strain before change and put into the garbage) because this helps to produce more “percolated liquid”.
Since today I have started to came over to the university by bike ( I hope I can continue) and I think that many people are starting to use the bike more often instead of their cars, that helps to generate less pollution and also to have a better fitness.
So finally I think that environmental pollution is something that concerns to all of us, because earth gives life to us and we are destroying it like no other been in the earth, the modern human had made incredible changes in the earth and the time to stop this is now.

This post is about the thirty tree miners trapped in the mine.

So first I think that this is a very tragic event but that reflects a reality n our country which is that there is no regard for this kinds of workers in Chile, because they know that their job was dangerous and they also that if they didn’t go to the mine every day they would not be able to sustain their families. So this tragic event is like a slap to every body who over look this situation that happens all around this country and I think that this could be a chance to make a change in the work condition of the people.

Another point that is relevant of this situation is how this is had been handling by the press and the government, this has became in to a reality show in which every body wonted to get a benefit, every day in the news there is some minutes dedicated to this and the recue will be transmitted for more than thirty signals, today in the morning in a show they were showing to the people how the reporters life was and they had invade the privacy of the families and the miners exposing they so much in my point of view and by the other hand I think that the government had use this event to turn off the view of the people and create a situation making the people believe that there were nothing more important in Chile apart of this thirty tree miners life .

tourist in santiago

So everything depends of what do you wont to do because Santiago is full of extractives and activities. If you want to know the city you have to go to the historical center and have a walk knowing places like la moneda, plaza de armas, the national history museum, santa lucia hill and it´s market, the mapocho station and of course the Mercado central when you could eat a lot of traditional dishes like sea food or empanadas. Others neighborhoods that you should go are the brasil and providencia because both of them are very representative of some aspects in the daily life in Santiago and you could buy hand made products typically of Chile. You don’t have to forget the San Cristobal hill and have a mote con huesillos. If you take a bus and travel less than an hour you can get to el cajon del maipo that is a place located in the middle of the cordillera de los Andes and cross by a river and it has a wonderful landscape and also you can go to skis centers like colorado or portillo.
So my top five for you are, go to the Mercado and eat a mariscal it’s a meal that you would never forget, get to the top of the san Cristobal hill by foot and then have a mote con huesillos, go to barrio yungai and learn to dance cueca that is our national dance if you have the chance of going to a concert of Chilean music don’t lose it, and finally try to visit the cajon del maipo is a magic place surrender by nature.

Today I have to write about a country that I would like to visit, so the country that I would like to travel is Greece. First I think that the Greek landscape is very attractive the beaches (I think that I have a fascination whit the sea) and the mixing of country side and beach and the mountains I think that it’s one of the best views in the world. I also like Greece because its history it´s like the place in our civilization started all the classic philosophers and the origins of the democracy everything started there, I imagine to myself in the same place than all that stuffs took place, well I also like to know the huge monuments of the Greek architecture like the Apolo´s temple and the partenon and I try to imagine how was common life in there, or meeting Olympia and the olimpo´s mountain. Another reason because I would like to travel to Greece it’s because it’s a contrast country in a lot of senses there are a lot of poverty but it’s a very glamorous country and also to think what was Greece in a time and what is this now. I of course all the traditions that are in Greece like when they crush the dishes in to the ground or when every men dace together in a circle. That why I would like to travel to Greece.