Blogging Experience

Hello teacher and classmates, I am going to tell you about my experience using this blog.

The experience of write in english was new for me, because I don't use this language so much, and I never wrote a blog before. It was difficult for me because I am not good with english, but it was difficult. I felt very strange telling you about personal things, but it was funny to read about your blogs and comments.

 I think that my writing skills have been improved  a bit, in comparison with my firsts posts, I am thinking that it's because I don't write and speak in english constantly, apart from my english classes.
However I believe that I am starting to be careful with some details, and I improved my vocabulary and capacity of understand texts.

I  like this blog modality, but I would like to include in the future an instance where I can receive opinion or recommendations from my classmates.

Finally, I'm grateful for the corrections of the teacher, who perhaps laughed a lot with my basic mistakes. Also I want to render thanks to my classmates for read my blog and make comments.


I see you in the next english course. Bye :)

Holidays

Hello teacher and classmates, today I am tell you about my holidays plans

 In first place, I going to sleep too much. I will arrange my room, make my bed well, visit some friends and family. I going to resume my exercises at least 2 times at week.  Also, I want study some things about electricity and computation  I have postponed.
I wish travel far away but I have not money and I doubt that works soon. I going to travel surely to snowy mountains near Santiago between two or four days. I would like travel to that place because I practice mountaineering and I could not get out of Santiago, I was too busy by univesity, and I miss rest and distract me with landscapes and nature.

I would like travel with my friend, we are organizing our times to select a day.

The perfect holidays for me are relaxed and it include know  new places, but the most important for me is at end of holidays  I will not have many things to do, otherwise I will be stressed and and I can not enjoy my this one.

Brazil and the World Cup

Hi, I going to tell you about Brazil and the World Cup

Brazil is a very big country in South Americ, it have around 8.500.000 Km2 and more than 200.000.000 peoples.Its government takes the form of a federal republic led by a president, at present her is Dilma Rousseff. 

Currently, Brazil is an economic power in Latin America, but have some social problems, for example; the poverty, which is around 30% of the population, partly caused by the unequal distribution of wealth. Or crime, it makes some sectors called Favelas very dangerous, controlled by drug traffickers. Favelas are  precarious house built illegally with few basic services, exemplifying the segregation of the country.

I hate football because it is occupied as a means of social control by political "bread and circuses for the people". Also, it sport don´t like me because is controlled by a mafia organization, the FIFA, and finally because is given too much importance to it sport on mass media, overshadowing other facts and doing stupid people. 

Consequently, the World Cup for me is one of the worst things in the life and though I can recognize that it is good for people to be united and be cheerful, I think it should be for other reasons and that the World Cup is harmful for everyone. For example, the  last year the government of Brazil wanted to close a school to make the parking lot of a stadium. The people do not have food or safety, but the government spends more than US$15.000.000.000-

I have no idea of who will win (I hope that Chile will lose out soon), but I think it will be a combination of training, luck and intelligence.

 

Lev Vygotski

     Hello classmates and teacher.

     Today I am going to tell you about one important person in psychology, Lev Vygotski. He was born in 1896, in Sovietic Republic. He studied medicine and law in Statal University of Moscow and returned  to his native village to teach psychology and literature. He was an active intellectual in his área  on the context of Russian Revolution and he participated in many teaching centers and community initiatives.

     In 1919 he got sick of tuberculosis and he suffered many relapses in the rest of his life.

He married in 1924 and had two children. Finally in 1939 he died after finish the ultimate chapter of his book “thought and speech”.

     Lev Vygotski worked in some topics. The center of his work is the human development. He did  research with childrens and he discovered that the main is cooperation and it needs to of development function well. A child can learns a lot more and improve his skill if is helped by an adult or other children.

     He also studied psychology of art, the importance of children`s game, etc.

     

     I like him because he studied very interesting topics for psychology and pedagogy and he made his work  from a new perspective influenced by marxism and psychoanalysis giving an important role to social interaction.

My favourite movie

   

    My favourite movie is Donnie Darko. Was filmed on 2001 and the director is Richard Kelly. 

    Its plot is about that one night, a young guy, Donnie, wake up and talk with a human size  and demonic appearance rabbit that predict the end of the Word. Donnie wake up the next day in a far away golf camp, he go to his house and his bedroom was completely destroyed by the turbine of a not-finded airplane. A tangential  universe was created and this and the primary  going to be destroyed  if Donnie don`t can save them. The story continue with time travel stories, the scholar adventures of Donnie, his schizophrenia and how Donnie save the universe.

     It movie like to me because its plot is very complex,  the movie topics are interesting for me (time travels, multi universe theories, etc) and have very much details without a simple explanation doing the plot more difficult to understand.

     I don`t remebeber exactly the first time that watched it movie, but it was around six years ago, and I watch it again  more than six times.

The power of one!

     In this picture called Tank Man appear a unknow guy who stood in front of a long column of tanks trying to stop them. He faced the tank, climbed over it and confront to the soldiers achieving interrupt their progress for a few time.

     This picture was taken by the photographer Jeff Widener, from the Beijing hotel, on june 5, 1989, in the context of Tiananmen Square protests and the harsh government repression.

     This picture like to me because show exemplarily the determination that a person can have and as a single man can confront that powerful army. I think that many people, with bravery and conviction, can do amazing things.

     Also, the picture show how a government won´t spare military resources when have to defend their power even at the cost of human lives. The previous day the army killed in this square around 2500 people and left more than 10000 injured.

     It is one of the most iconic photographs of the XX century and was censored for a long time in China.

                

Torres del Paine

I wish to visit Torres del Paine National Park, because it is a very beautiful place. It has one of the top ten most wonderful landscapes in all the world. I have had the luck to  see many pictures, videos and read some tales about this place, talking about its vegetation, animals, climbing routes, interminable rain, enormous forest. Etc. And this evidence  seem confirms to me its beauty.

I also want to go because it may be a very good place for camping, and take many photographs.

I like travel with some friends, but I didn`t talk about it with them. I need find the indicated peoples.

The most recomendable season to realize the travel is in summer, because the rest of year is very rainy and cold. I like visit Torres del Paine the next year.

In first place, I need work to save the money for the bus ticket  and, depending on circumstances, I could to do a part of the travel backpacking. The  option to traverse the park is walking, around 95 Km by one week. I need to improve my physical condition, knowledge and skills for this adventure.