Opinion About the Blogs

Write the blogs was very fun for me, because I learn too much thinking and discussing with my classmates the different topics of the blogs, I think the blog is a very good stage to communicate my opinion about many different topics, with this tool I can say what I think.

The only problem was the time, this course was too short and I would have liked have more classes, another one bad point was the difficulty to managing my time, many times I felt stressed and my performance in the subject was not the better for it, I fell a little bad about it.

Returning to the theme the blog was a very good tool for learn English because I think writing the blogs I improve my English, besides I think the blog is a good an fun way for improve the English because is too interactive and puts us in contact with the technology of the internet,

My favorite topic of the blogs was when we write about a song, because I felt very nearness whit my teacher and with my classmates, I remember a very nice conversation with Mario and Miguel about this topic, and the different song with special meaning for each of them.

My favorite classmate blog was the blog of Miguel because he has decorated very well his blog has too stile, it is cool.

That was my experience with the blog in English class, I thinking about not close my blog and occupy it like a platform to publish what I think and feel and of course some interesting research or information.

In conclusion the blog was a excellent tool for me to learn English, the only bad thing was the time, and I apologize for that, thank for this subject, I think I like english after this subject J

Las Meninas By Diego Velasquez

My favorite piece of art is “Las Meninas” is a 1656 painting by Diego Velazquez, is a beautiful piece of art because represent a complex an enigmatic mean, actually different artist around the world give different meanings to the painting.

In the painting appear a large room in the castle of king Felipe IV of Spain, and in to this room appear many women, this women are doing different activities and positions and the painting shows a interaction between these women, they are looking at different things however each objet or person in the room is related to each other, if you look the gaze of each you will notice that they look at certain things in specific for that this painting iv very enigmatic, because each person look different things of him.

This painting has a great meaning for the qualitative science because represent the subjective gaze of this science, for example the sociology, anthropology or human geography because in this science the qualitative gaze is the most important paradigm.

I saw this painting for first time on my school, for one work of history, and I was much struck its meaning, because first I don’t understand the real meaning of the painting but when my teacher explain me the meaning was very awesome.

I like this painting also because the lyric of a song is about the meaning of this painting but applied to love, the name of the song is “Las Meninas” by Mecanica Popular.

Santiago.

Santiago is a big city, it is a metropolis and one of most important capitals of the world, Santiago have around of seven millions of habitants, and concentrate the different government powers except the congress, Santiago is one of the most contaminated cities of the world, im not from Santiago, im from Buin and I don’t like Santiago in many topics, for example the pollution, the stress of people, the acoustic contamination, the concentration of people, the environment is a lot of contaminated for me, come to Santiago is a crazy.

I like the tranquility of Buin, the clean air and one environment free of pollution,  although some things of Santiago not dislike me for example my university, in my university I can learn who to be a great professional on the future, other thing is the commercial area of Santiago, for example “Meiggs” in this street you can buy many thing in just one place, other important point for me of Santiago is the historic meaning, in Santiago we find many historic places for example the palace of “La Moneda”, the parade ground, the Santa Lucia and the San Cristobal.

If I can changes something of Santiago, one of them could be the pollution of the city, pollution affect many people whit some pulmonary disease and children, for that and if I can I will reduce the industrial emissions.

If I can change other thing of Santiago, this thing could be the regulator plan of the city because Santiago grow up all day and the planification is very important for the people and his life quality. The geography is a weapon to combat this problem.

If I can tell to tourist what point of Santiago visit, could be the historic places, of Santiago, an the externals communes like Buin or Paine.

Chínese horóscopo

   

I’m a metal goat; the metal goats are very sensitive personalities who hold an “I am unbreakable” exterior. I think that it’s true because I a sensitive person, I like make feel my love to my family, friends an girlfriend, I’m very creative, and I think I’m a intelligent.

Metal goat are well liked people who have lots of friend, they are very successful in the arts and entertainment profession, I think that is true because I’m a very sociable gay and I love arts and geographer job, in the future I could be a grate geographer.

I’m not a lover of horoscope or paranormality, I don’t believe in this thinks but I accept the many characteristics of the metal goat are like me.

Close friends and family of the Metal Sheep understand this is simply a front for those sensitive emotions tucked inside.

Other characteristics of the goat are the next smart. Artistic, kind, happy, reserved, insecure, dependent.

I think I’m smart, I love arts, I’m a happy man, and I’m not a reserved, insecure and dependent.

I usually don’t read horoscope, because I don’t believe in that one horoscope can t determine my future, I determine my future.

My Christmas

In my last Christmas i was in the house of my sister with my family, for dinner i ate meat with rise, it was so delicious, followed, we talked about many topics for example the summer and other think, next we called by phone to my grandfather he lives in Iquique, all family talked with he.

When twelve come we prayer for all world people, for the family and for our deceased relatives, followed we spent our gift, I don’t give anything because I did not have money but y spent many kisses and love for my family and wrote one letter for my mom with a poem.

My sister gave a gift to my father, this gift was on small bag, my father opened the bag and inside was a little baby socks, and my father asked what is this?, and my sister answer, - dad, I pregnant!,- my sister have 30 years old and she not have any children, this baby is the first children of my sisters. That was a most beautiful surprise and gift of this Christmas, I was very happy, and now all my family is very happy with the new member of the family.

My favorite beach

My favorite beach is Cavancha, located on first region of Chile in the Iquique City, this beaches is one of the most important beaches of the north zone of the country, because, many foreign tourist visit the beach, this tourist are from of Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia, and the beach represent just one attractive of the beautiful Iquique city.

The “Zona Franca” or ZOFRI represent the most important atactive of the city, an the beaches represent one value-added to the tourism of the zone.

The waves on Cavancha beach are not so big, and the sands have a mixture of brown and white colors, besides the municipality invert much money in the image of the beach for example: just four years ago the mayor of Iquique city inaugurated a touristic road, this road have different attractions, one of this atractives are one little zoo around the beach, in this zoo live a family of crocodiles, many deferens spices of fish, and other animals like altiplanic yamas.  

outdoor activity

In my free time I like play football with my friends of Paine, I like to field to play soccer, my favorite position is forward, because i love to make goals.  I like skateboarding too, because, I can make many tricks on the table, some weekends I go to the skating rink in O´ Higgins Park, but I can’t go all weekends, because I live in Buin and O’Higgins park is very away from my house, for that, some time I can skate on the street or the park of my neighborhood with my friends and my cousin.

Some time I like go to camp just for walk, I go with my girlfriend, that is so romantic and relaxing because in the camp the wind is very clean and  do not have pollution, I like feel the sing of the birds, and smell the flowers, for my this represent a escape of the stress of Santiago, I love Buin for its tranquility, when I walk around the camp I close my eyes and just feel the wind over my hair, then I sit in the shade of a tree for rest.

These are my favorite’s outdoor activities.

Song from the past

I like many songs but just few songs make me fell something or make me remember anything special.

One very special song for me is “Navegante” of Eduardo Gatti, well this song make me remember many special moments with my uncle Julian, he dead in 2009 and it was very sad moment for me, the day of funeral my cousin Vicente play that song on the guitar and my sister sing with he, that was a beautiful and so special, because the lyric of the song talk about one travel, but this travel not have a back passage, is an endless travel, one destiny to all people, one day me too travel to that destiny.

When I lisent that song I remember that special moment.

Also  love “navegante” because I like so much Eduardo gatti’s songs, he is a grate artist, one of the best Chilean artist of all the time, and  he was a reference for my musical carrere, actually im a musican, I compose original songs and poems, the influence of Eduardo Gatti, Victor Jara, Manuel Garcia and Violeta parra are very importat for me.

For me one good song must be a complete song, it must have, a good lyric, good music composition and a messaje, the songs without messenger are empty for me

Tom Cruise one on one

My interviewee will be tom cruise because, he is my favorite actor of Hollywood, some movies of tom cruise are, impossible mission, war of the worlds etc…
If I could ask he something, I ask about his life, for example:
What did you do before acting? This question is interesting for me because, he is one example for me and a model to follow, I’m a normal guy, and tom was a normal guy too, why not? One day I could be discovered by a talent scout!!
How was your school life?, I think he was a popular guy, and a very extroverted, maybe he was a victim of bullying or a nerd, this is very interesting because a lot of victims of bullying become a great artist for example lady gaga, who suffers this for years.
Also I will ask he about his Career. which were the beginnings of tom cruise?, I will ask he, the following questions:
What was your first job?, I imagine that was in a little theater or in independent Films, maybe his job was a normal as delivery boy, salesman or any other.
What was your first film, and what represents for you actually? I guess that his first movie was not very popular, but it has a especial meaning for him.

Travel to Iquique

In 2009 summer, I traveled to Iquique, this travel was very important an beautiful for me, because I traveled whit my girlfriend and my family, when arrived to Arturo Merino Benitez airport, my grandfather was waiting for us, and his cars battery ran out, that was funny, one guy charged the battery whit a "bridge".
In that summer we travel from Iquique to many places, for example, we visited Santa Laura’s office, this is an old miner office, located in “Pampa del Tamarugal” 23 kilometers to the east of Iquique city, is was amazing, that night we slept in my grandfather’s house in La Tirana, La Tirana is a little village, on the desert of the first region, but this village have the most important church of the north zone of Chile, on July 16^th , a thousand of people assist to the “day of the Tamarugal virgin”, this is a very important day to the catholic church.
The next morning we wake up early and we traveled to the Pica oasis, this is an osasis located in the desert! Two hours from Iquique by car, we swam on font of hot water, this water sprout from some volcanic sub-terrain caves.
Finally we traveled to Santiago by airplane and arrived two hours later, when I arrived to my house, I felt tired and slept all the day.

down gender differences!!

Are the difference between men an women the result of socialization? if we are enterely socialized different then women can learn how to be like men and compete whith them, a different strategy need to be used to succeed in a male dominated culture.

Women have as many capacity as men, has found that her performance is much better than men, because they are much more methodical and organized than their male peers, our society is not sexist as it was 40 or 20 years ago, At present women perform very well in areas that were previously only reserved for men, for example: navy, army, mining industry, construction industry, important political positions, etc.

50 years ago it was madness to think of a woman president, But is much work remains to be done on gender equality, the salaries and working hours can still be improved.

Personally I do not like sexism, because it only generates differences and confflicts, my girlfriend is studying a career was dominated by men, but now the percentage of women engineers in mining has increased significantly and I agree with her, because these women are pioneers, break prejudices and succeed in our society.

We are all equal, we all have the same rights in any area.

Important holidays in Chile.

in Chile held various important dates, some of holidays are endemyc and some are international, for example may 21th we celebrate the commemoration of the naval battle of Iquique, this date that represents an important passage in the history of chile, another important date in Chile is september 18th because we celebrate the commemoration of the first national governing board, though we Chileans celebrate our independencies on that date, that day does not really correspond to our independence, that is a very peculiar data.

 on September 20th of the last year the navy of Chile held an event of great distinction, similar to the Sept. 18th  parade or " Parada Militar" but with warships, frigates, aircraft and helicopters. This event did not occur grab more than 50 years ago.

September 18th is a very important date because for a  one week we celebrated our "chilenidad", in this week are organized celebrations and parties called "ramadas o fondas in which drinking chicha, dancing cueca, eat barbecue and empanadas. also welcome the "roto chileno" and the "huaso" which are chilean figures.

the other holidays are more standardized because in many other parts of the world are held in the same way however, there are unique events that originate in Chile for example the fireworks of Viña del Mar      spectacle that is seen nearly a million people from around the country and people from abroad.

th las importan holiday in chile ir the Christmas which over the years has lost its true meaning, at this time the people just think to buy and give gifts, for me the real meaning of chirstmas is the family, the love and and the birth of Jesus.

the holidays in chile are varied and differents, for me the real mening of the holidays is healthy fun and and have a nice family time.

Earthquake February 27, 2010

surely one of the most important and disastrous events in the history of chile
I was sleeping, I had gone to bed late after watching the Festival of Viña del Mar, was in the house of my girlfriend, I felt the dogs barking and woke up a couple of minutes before the event, the air felt strange it felt heavy, when I put my head on the pillow starts shaking, worried me out of bed and  take the whole family of my girlfriend at the doorway, try to remain calm and reassure the brother of my girlfriend who is only 9 years

plus she lives without a father, I felt a great responsibility to care for them. was a terrifying experience.