My Blogging Experience =)

Okay, I think my blogging experience has been a great experience without doubts, because it has helped me to improve my writing skills, doing the different tasks every week. I believe writing and redacting texts in a short period of time really help us to learn more about vocabulary and grammar, because we have near the teacher to ask her if we have any questions, and also we have the chance with internet to search by ourselves words and meanings in different english dictionaries on-line.

On the other hand, also we have to read our classmates blogs and post after read, so that we are practissing two different skills with only one task. This is an advantage about blogging exerience. Another one is for example you can do it here at the lab or in your house, and while you are blogging you can be listening to music, such I'm doing now (music in english of course he,he).

Also you can try out your vocabulary with different topics, for example I remember when we had to write about our favorite photo, our career, education system etc.

Another advantage with this experience is you can have fun and you can interact with your classmates writing comments in their blogs, so that the class is more interactive and more pleasant, because there is a funny and interesting relationship.

Thinking about disadventages, I'm trying to find someone...mh...I can't find even one! It could be because the activity I like more in the class is this one, because I think is the only one I could do in a good way, I say it because I think I'm bad with listening to and with speaking, I put myself really nervous, and those skills don't work out well.

Like I said before, my favorite skills are reading and writing, so I can say that I have enjoyed the blogging experience through all the semester, although those skills are not excellent, but I really try to do it as better as possible. And finally I think this experience really has helped me to get a better level of my english.

Rate IT !

Okay, today we have to rate one of our partner's blog. I choose one wich is called "Play me Hard", and it is property of Angélica Tapia. She is sitting beside me and she is going to be my partner for the final test of the course, so I must to get closer to her english hehe :D She has a very high level, comparared with me.

She has nine posts, wich are about the topics teacher gave us during the Lab classes. Most of them has funny images, for example one in particular wich is in the first post, there appears a kind of female android, who is seeing forward something beside her, it reminds me the pieces of art nouveau, for the flowery ornaments. It is a beautiful picture, I suppose it was made in one of the 3D programs wich exists now.

I like the blog, I think she has a great level and a good skill to write, because her posts are very long, and they are full of sense. She writes very clear (though, there are words I do not understand, so I search them in the dictionary, but it is a good way to learn).

I feel good, reading her posts (like say the lyric of the James Brown's song hehe :D). Another Thing I like, is that she puts into her posts some drawings she made, for example one of them about her favourite technological object (she is walking and she carries her mp4) and another one where she is with her band playind the drum (I suppose the name of Angélica's blog is related to music and the instrument she plays and the energy she needs to do that activity). Those drawings are very nice...She has a particular sense of humor, she makes me laugh with some of her quotes :D

I have to say the blog's color represents her completly, because she wears with them all the time I see her, it is part of her style hehe :D

My favousite post is the one wich is related to the topic "my favourite photo or place" I do not remember...but that's the idea. She uploaded a Quintay's photo, where she is possing with two friends seeing towards the sea. It was taken during her "study tour" in 4th grade almost 3 years, ago. The picture is really beautiful, I liked it a lot.

There is a screen shot, where you can see the picture...

What makes us chileans?

Well, there are a lot of things that make us Chileans. First of all, an ownership and a special connection with land. I did not born here in Chile, but my parents came to live in this country when I was 6 years old. I remember a few things about my life out of Chile, all the memories I have are from this country. And also, I feel Chilean... I celebrate all the September 18ths and I eat "chilean empanadas" like all people here. And I also know how to do them, last year I cooked some empanadas to my friends, They loved them =) This year, with a friend who is vegetarian, we are thinking to do empanadas with soja meat. I think it will work good, they will be delicious!

(I did not watch the game Chile-Honduras, because I was asleep)...I was not very patriot, but I was so tired and I had to study for a horrible Marketing test. Though, tomorrow I hope to redeem myself. We are going to win!! Reading this, football is a thing that make us chileans, it is very exciting to see people feeling happy when the are encouraging the chilean team :D

Food is another thing that make us chileans. We can find empanadas, pastel de Choclo, humitas, sopaipillas and cazuela...I'm hungry now...Chilean food is delicious, and people really love it, but generally they eat it not much, for example, in September people is more chilean than the rest of the year and they eat a lot of chilean food, because is the patriotic month.

Beeing on our land is another thing that make us chilean, for example, enjoy landscapes and all our territory (sometimes, tourists seems to enjoy them more than chileans, but however). The diversity make us chileans too, since landscapes in the north towards the south, the people is different too, they are nicer than Santiago's population.

My favorite Photo!

Well, is hard for me to chose only one picture to put it here, because I have a lot of favorite ones.
I took this one two sundays ago, on May 30th. That day was the Cultural Patrimony Day and with my mom and my brother we woke up early in the morning, with the intention to go and know the Alhambra Palace, wich is an historical building placed in the centre of Santiago.

We arrived to the place by subway (minutes before we went to Quinta Normal Station, where was an exposition about ancient Egipt called "Panubis", name related to one of the mummys that were there). The Alhambra Palace is placed near to Santa Ana Station, but when we arrived, we realized the building was closed, because it suffered some damages by cause of the earthquacke of last february 27th.

Then, we started to walk trough different streets until we arrived to the Forestal Park and we decided to visit the Bellas Artes Museum. We came into the museum (also it had some damages by the earthquake) and we saw two different expositions. The first one was about old chilean paintings about natural landscapes; and the second one was about the chilean history told to visitors using photos that were taken at specific moments of our story as a country. Into the main hall of the museum, was a band playing music and a bald man who was singing romantic songs to the people that were there.

After that, we walked to the Santa Lucía Hill, my mom did not want to climb it, because she was afraid of the place, but it was the Cultural Patrimony Day and we would be safe, because there were a lot of people and we would not be alone if something happened. So, we climb the hill and we enjoyed it a lot, it is a beautiful place, and I recommend it to you. It is a nice walk.

When we were leaving the place I took the picture, there is the main fountain of Neptuno, wich is placed near to Alameda Street.

Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Well, the topic is very interesting and a little complicated too.
First of all, I have to say the person who was speaking about the topic is the creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson, he looked really funny and he made people laugh all time...It was great.
On the other hand, I know wich is main at the listening activity is just to listen, but it is too hard for me, I think I do not have a developed capacity for hear people speaking english. It is necessary to practice, I think...
Getting back to the main topic, Mr. Robinson talks about nowadays societies must to create new education systems wich are more linked to treasure creativity, because actually they undermine it, he said.
Also Mr. Robinson said actually the educational system arround the world does not acknowledge the multiple types of creativity. I think it is true, because when you are child sometimes people (may be somebody of your family, or teachers, or friends, etc) can suppress you. If you are at school in a boring class of maths and you like drawing and you take a pencil and then you do a big shape on your classroom wall, you are in danger. So, you have two things: the first the bigger scold of your life gave by your teacher, then by the principal and then by your mother or your father (It is only an example, I know I am exaggerating a lot, but you can follow the main idea) and the second one, the situation generates on you a felling of apprehension to drawing. Similar to a traumatic experience. They do not see, you can be a painter or a muralist. They suppress your creativity, they do not enhance your capacities. It is linked to a thing Mr. Robinson said: children are born artists! And I think it has sence...societies must to rethink their educational systems, make them more friendly and closer to children.

My favorite piece of technology :D

Well my favorite piece of technology is my Notebook!! I adore it! Really it is one of the most important things I have! I bought it two months ago at PC Factory Store. I remember I would want a notebook since I was at school, but they were too expensive and I did not have the money to buy someone. Also I did not understand so much respect to those machines. I only know basic things about their "performance" or "operation".

The opportunity I had, was the only one, because I had been looking for one of them a long time, then I found this one and first I quoted it by internet, and I realized there were only two pieces at the store. I had to buy it, otherwise I did not find another one by that price ($600,000 pesos).

When I bought it, happiness came to me, I was really happy...All I would want was get it off the box and start to use it. Since that moment I have been using it every day for work at university tasks and for leisure.

I like a lot the fact you can take it from one place to another one when you want. It is very practical and easy.

There I can save a lot of things and organize them. It has Webcam, a very important thing, when you want to do a video call with people who are far away. Also it has a lot of RAM memory (4gb) wich is very good for the adobe master collection (the main computer programs for Graphic Design).

Another thing I would like to do, is to put a sticker on the back. A sticker done by myself, that contains a famous bassist I like a lot, from InterpoL.-

Well, when you are studying some career, you have to develop a lot of skills. You must have a way to work and it depends of every person.

At graphic design, the studying rythm is very hard! I have told you last class, students do not rest like the common of people, they do not sleep well, they do not have a good feeding (but this applies to all careers, I think), they do not have leisure time because they have a lot of work and study, sometimes you do not back home at evenings because you stay at university working. Everyone here can give credit to my words. Graphic designers (I mean students of Graphic Design) from the University of Chile say all time that they have no life.

Some skills you need, could be the ability to work hard (including full nights), finish the whole work for yesterday, drink lots of cofee and energetic drinks, develop skills with pc programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Flash among others. Being able to withstand a lot of tension and preassures. It really seems like is a horrible thing, I say yes it is, but it has its beautyful side, university is not all at this career.

This university does not give you a lot of things, on the contrary, the philosophy is to give you the least posible things. It is the reality...