Tuesday 16 November 2010

My English travel.

In the year 2009 I went to the Faculty of Social Science for the obligatory English test. I didn`t know what to do when I came to the classroom and the people of the computing classroom makes me sit in front of a screen and start to answered the English test of the University of Chile. I was very quiet and relax because I knew some things about English language but suddenly the listening test was wrong: I couldn’t listen anything!!! , the headphones were bad or maybe my computer was crazy or just was a thing of destiny. This fact was the reason that made me take the English subject at the University. When this terrible situation happened the assistant of the computing classroom said to me: “doesn`t matter that you begins the English class at level one or two, always you can learn more and this situation can be useful for you, you can practice English again” but I didn`t believe in his words and later I realized that my travel began here.
Some weeks later I get the new: I was in level 2. That means that I have to take the English subject at least 3 semesters of the academic years. I was very frustrated because I had the feeling that I was losing my time, because I knew some things about the language and I could start the subject in level 3 or 4. However when I started to going the first classes I realized that I didn`t remember important things about the language, so the words of the computing assistant came to my head. The English language only can be learning if you practice a lot. Despite of the time that I wasted going to classes or the tire that I felt the most of the days I learned more things that I couldn’t imagine. We know about our language because we speak every day in the same code but anyone of the people in the world born with a switch or with a translator inside his bodies. So the language isn’t a natural thing it’s a cultural thing. We use a language in our simple life to communicate with others and when we are little babies we started to know the world using a few words. After all learning a language it is a process that never star to happen. When I understand this idea my experience about English class at the university became better, my ears, my eyes were more available than ever.

Above all, this travel was a interesting experience , doesn`t means that I have no faith in my skills but sometimes we believe that we know many things and life mistake can demonstrated that learning it is a process that never stop, especially when we talk about English. In Chile we practice and learn every day Spanish so we never forget the entire language, also we always learn new words. But we can practice English only in our schools or universities and its logical that we forget verbs or adjectives. Finally I understand that my travel by English language has no ending. However I still remember when it began, when the nice assistant computing said to me that English practice it is a experience that during the whole life.

Tuesday 19 October 2010

In school, people learn many things but also learn how to be careful with the enviroment. We start in pre-kinder to take our trash and put in a dumping place. Maybe this is the first environmentally friendly practice. So in the school and college we learn about our environment and the word "Recycling" its well-known in the classroom. However in our homes it's completely different we forget about spending energy. And we use the light and water and forget about the environment. Many people never turn the Tv off , and others never turn off completely the tap of the dishwasher. In my case I forget about these things also, but I try to remember about the World and try to keep the level contamination low. I use biodegradable products. And in my home we have a very important rcycling habit: we keep the tetrapack box, like the milk and juice box, and put in a special conteiner in the supermarket.

Other focus of contamination its the pollution caused by cars and buses. This is a very corcern problem. When I went to a body exposicition they show me a lung contaminaited with smoke cigarrete and other lung of person who lived near to the parking mall. AND both lung were very black and dirty,the lungs were equal. So I Start to use my bike, but in bad day a thief stoled my bike. Despite of that I try to use my legs and I don't know how to drive a car. Sometimes I walk about 40 minutes, I walk since avenida la florida until jardin alto .

I never have suportted an orgnization, because I am a lazy person. And because I suppose that I disappointed of any organizations. However a thign that I would like to do it's sort out or put in order the garbage and help to the process of recycling.
About my carbon footprint I must to say that sometimes I forget about the environment. And I don't have excuse. :( But I try to thing in cars pollution and factories so I try to walk or take the public transport.

I thing that Chile is not a cleaning country. We are a weird society with bad habits, We only start to feel corncen when something big happens. I thing that We need now a better education!
Only this can help us to improve our habits in any issues. Also I think that CHile is a unequal country, if you go to la Dehesa the places are clear but if you go to the periphery of the city you see the pile garbage.

Tuesday 12 October 2010

high school education

My high school education was very normal and regular. I cannot say that my school is very good and I learned many things, but it wasn´t so bad. Especially because I had a really good philosophy teacher also I had sicology with the same teacher. In other subjects like math and language: the school only taught me about the PSU. And that fact was a very important concern for me. Because in the first year of university I had redaction problem and reading comprehension. However I learned fast and My homeworks and essays became better every day.

My school was very little, we had a small field to play futball or anything. There was only one grade for year. So we didn´t have many technology or infrastructure. We had a place called " sala multiuso" In that place we had meetings about anything. This room has TV, Dvd, Powerpoint, anything. Like an improvaised auditorium.

The level of my high school education affect in my university life. However when I was in third grade high school I realized and started a preuniversity education in the Feuc ( the student center of Universidad Catolica) and get us to diversity , different kind of people, and a world or enviroment more open and very different from high school. So I can say that the high school eduction level or the enviroment inside this little school didn´t affect me so much, like others classmate for example. But I would like that teachers and the principal have done better the redaction areas or reading comprehesion we need to generate deep thinking. NOT everything is PSU.
If We wants to improve the educational system We need to make estructural changes. A better educational system not only means better distribution of money also means that Chilean state has to make responsable about his citizens. And, for example, Municipal Schools has to be state school.

In general We are responsable for our education and our goals. But when you have very few alternatives to be educated despite of your effort its to much difficult to be "someone" in this society eduction is like miracle: society makes goals for people but no for all people.

Wednesday 6 October 2010

Nobel prize : medicine


Physical Anthropology is unknown for many people, rather Anthropology is unknown in general. We don know the implications about biological social and cultural terms in opur society. One of the most problems or items studied in Anthropology is the conception of life and reproduction. Because is a basic feauture in all humans.

So the
vitro fertilisation, its a really big medicall advance with Anthropological consequences not only for physical Anthropology also for social . Since Louise Brown created the first test tube baby. Robert Edwards also develop the IVf technique received the 10m Swedish-kronor prize in an announcement today by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

Edwards was born in 1925 in Manchester and,studied biology at the University of Wales in Bangor and at Edinburgh University. He studied the development of emrbryeos in mice in 1955 and He was a profesor on Cambridege

The main consequence of IVF is the posibility for many couples have children and it tooks two decades of basuc scientific study of the life cycle of human eggs before Edwards were able to successfully fertilise them outside the human body in 1969

As Edward says "The most important thing in life is having a child," the antrhopologist impact is very clear if we think about life conception as a esencial human characteristic..

Lesley and John Brown ( the couple of the first paragraph) had come to Edwards and Steptoe at Bourn Hall Clinic in the late 1970s, after nine years of failed attempts to have a child. Edwards and Steptoe carried out the IVF technique on one of Mrs Brown's eggs and then re-implanted it after it had become an embryo consisting of eight cells. Louise was born by caesarean section after a full-term pregnancy.

This monumental advance has advanced for three decades for example: a single sperm can now be injected directly into an egg and the extraction of eggs from ovaries has been improved so that it causes less trauma. And in these days we give the nobel prize to the man that made it possible

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/04/ivf-pioneer-robert-edwards-nobel-prize-medicine



Tuesday 28 September 2010

Garden State.


My favourite movie is Garden state. THis movie is written and directed by Zach Braff also He is the leading actor. I didn´t know him before this movie but I really liked his performance in this movie I believe in every words and every expression that he says in the movie. He is also the leading actor in another series called "Scrubs". The character in Garden State is called Andrew Largeman. He is a waiter in a Chenesse restorant and his life its very monotonous and boring. He can not feel any feeling or emocion because He has been taking litio about 20 years. The other leading actor, Natalie Portman, play the role of a town girl called Sam. The movie is about the trip that has to make Andrew becuase the death of his mother. He has to return to your childhood city and unexpected things start to happen, remember: Andrew has no feelings because of 20 years of litio. This interesting story takes place in a tipycal small town in New Jersey a completely different place from a big city. Adrew goes to the funeral of his mother so He stay in his old home with his father. In general the movie show us different places from this small city.


I really love this movie: the main reason is that shows what I really believe about the meanings of live and ways to spend our time in life. Its not only whath we think about us also its what we do. And how we fell our actions. So there is a particular escene in this movie, when Andrew goes to a party in his firend´s house and take drugs people start to play arround him but Andrew still quite and the camera show him all the time: He is very high but He can not move. I like this part because of the soundtrack, the song called "waiting line" also its my fouvorite song.


Its my fovourite movie for many reasons, for the soundtrack, the actors and the argument. I think its perfect I didn´t change anything. I hope that you see it.

Wednesday 22 September 2010

Visiting SANTIAGO


If you come to Santiago you should visit diferents places of the city. There is no only the mains streest like "Alameda" There ir also streets and neighborhood around. Because Santiago city its very different depending of the place: there is many economic diferents that you can pay atention if not only goes to the main neighborhood like Santiago centro. You can visit places like "santa lucia" hill or " san cristobal" how has a virgin., also you can visit historical places like "Barrriob Yungay"or "La moneda" . If you come to santiago you can konw about the Latin american people, you should go to the parties in Bellavista neighborhood, you can know about history if you come to the museums. But, also, you shoud visit the subway, one of the world's cleanest subways!!!!!

Ill give you five places that you never forget:
-Parties Neighborhood: Neighborhood Lastearras or Bellavista: located in Santiago Centro near to he station subway called Bellas artes, its a really quite neigborhood despite of the places and all the bars that you can have a really good time. if you ask me I choose this neihgborhoods because there are not expensive and the landscape its beatiful, there´s many old houses and its a really cool enviroment. I suggest you that visit the bar with blue beer!
- Mercado central: located in Estación central, the Mercado its a Historical place. You can eat a fried fish with salads is exquisite!!!! The mercado Central and the streets around can give you and Idea of the culture and the people of Santiago. I recomend to you this place because it show the esencial personality of Santiago
-"Santa Lucia" hill: as introduction here Santiago was founded by Pedro de Valdivia. Located in the station subway with the same name. IT is a beautiful place with a lot of wonderful gardens and every day at the 12 o´clock there is a gunshot. I chose this place because the history surrounding it and beacues the beatiful gardens.
-The subway: Like I said before the sabway of Santiago is one of the world's cleanest subways, but also you can know the differents neighborhoods and the diversity of its people. In santiago there is an impressive diversity that you can Know if you take a travel in the subway that its the reason because I recommend this place.
-La moneda: Government House a really Historical place, but before that was a Government house was the factory of coins. Located in the satation subway with the same name. I recommend this place because the history that surrounding it, La moneda has the joys and sorrows of Chile.

Tuesday 7 September 2010

Fakes Hero of the earthquake


The intendent of Concepción gave herself an honor prize because in Concepción there was a ceremony. Where the minister of work gave to the public workers condecorations because of the earthquake a seaquake work and the public workers who recived the tribute were Van Rysselberghe ( the intendent) and the mayor of Hualpén. How ever this mayor was the person that made the ceremony. But it isn´t the most shoking at all ! : "the Van Rysselberghe " says to the audience in the cermony that the erthquake an the seaquake was a " blessing of god a godsend "because the people that lives in Concepción was in decadence about 40 years ago. And the region needs to be more stronger and what happened in the begginig of the year gave to the people the strain to keep the city alive. It seems that the erathquake and seaquak was a "godsend" only for Concepción and Van Rysselberghe doesn´t think in the other cities or towns that maeby doesn´t need and earthquake even the City of Concepción because who can think that an earthquake that includes a seaquake can be a "blessing of god" ? despite of that Van Rysselberghe and the mayor of Hualpén seems doesn´t matters all the people that even can´t sleep or they get up around 3 am.


I think that if ours leaders or peoples leaders says thant kind of things we are really lost!

First: because the Church and the State separated to many years ago. Second: We all know the reasons about the problems in regions.Third: in anywere a tragic moment can be a "blessing of god" and you know any part of the speach of the intendent is coherent . But, what can we wait from a person that give an honor prize, a hero condecoration, to himself?


I would like to see news that talking about this things . Not abou thief and safety and economics news that says that the country is "well" . And also the media has to learn about " to get wet his ass" and take th responsability that inform is also give a publc opinion.