My blogging experience

Hello classmate!

Today I will write about my experience blogging. In general, I didn’t write in English regularly, only for a test or something like this, but this experience has been very significant. My English didn’t have well and I want to be improving it, write regularly has been useful for my proximity with language. I enjoy some post where we can write our favorites themes (like a favorite artist, favorite place of Chile or our favorite photograph); I could know the preferences of the classmate about the different topic. The templates, colors and organization of different blog talk us about the personality of my partners. Could to discuss the post of classmate was funny and read the post about my entries was funny too. I think that always is productive any activity, also read and write in another language, because finally this will be beneficial for us, especially in our career, when we should read and write in different languages too, because the books something has been written in other languages, and maybe English is a first step for other languages as French, German or Italian. Many times I’m going to library and I found an interesting book, but it was in English, now I can read (with help of a dictionary) some book in English. I think that written in English help us in our orthography, writing and coherence of our essay and for know about other perspectives and not only stayed with the Spanish information.

I value well my experience blogging, in my case I can read more in this language that before and I have been adding new words and expressions on my vocabulary. The advantages of write in English are better relation with the language, thus we can use our new knowledge and extrapolate this to other areas of our career or life in general. I don’t found any disadvantages for blogging, because finally the English is a tool and we should take it.

Classmate evaluation

Jacques-Louis David
The Oath of the Horatii, 1784.

Hello!

Today I’m going to write about a blog of other classmate. I chose Diego Parra’s blog, because I considerer this blog tidy and attractive. In general about his texts, I think he writes fine in English about the themes and is coherent in his entries, his pictures are interesting too. Diego put in order his posts and label every post. The design of his website is a bit dark and maybe he should use a template more colorful. I believe that Diego is some academic and rigorous is his post. I surprise me, because he always writes more words in his posts, when in general I write precisely words. I think that he knows about the language and he can write easily in this language.

He was nine posts and in particular I like the post about Pichilemu because I know this place, I was traveled since my childhood and today until I love to travel there. This post is very descriptive about the Pichilemu, he talks concerning the food and the places of there. He writes about the beach of Pichilemu, it’s very cold actually and swimming there is all a challenge. In the beach was many surfer and he was attractive and sporting. The picture that Diego put on the blog is nice and shows an alone Pichilemu’s beach in perspective.

In general, I think Diego’s blog is ok, his posts are very coherent. He writes well and his posts are interesting. About the English, he knows the language and he didn’t makes error or orthographic mistakes. And finally, the picture that sums up how I feel when I visit and write this website is The Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David, because I think in the neoclassic painting with Diego’s blog.

(The last picture on his blog is very funny with the Marx faces)

Diego’s blog: http://diegoparrad.blogspot.com/

Chileans

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The classification of Chile on The World Cup in South Africa has been the most positive and important event in many years for our country, also the earthquake has been important but very painful. All the people are feeling excited and expectative about “la rojita” but, what makes Chileans…Chileans? I think about that many times, because in this career, in some courses about the Chilean art, we talking concerning our nationality. I’m very confused about that, I think the Chileans are mixtures of various influence, since the conquest until today, we are under the influence of the big countries or international movements. Maybe we have any characteristics: sometimes Chilean people are shy and quiet when we are alone, but in group are different. The people of South of Chile are loving and considerate. But in Santiago the people is different, to get angry for any situation and we are irritable. I can’t think about a particular characteristic of the Chileans. When we have in problems, all the people help us, but every day the same people fight and discuss. I don’t know what is the most significant special feature of chileans. Maybe the solidarity or our human warmth.

I think that the most important things about our country have been forgotten: The native cultures. We always have copy other cultures and places but didn’t thought about our roots. In Chile, our country can be found beautiful traditions. The Chileans don’t are patriotic or nationalistic, only occasionally. The nationalistic should be present every day and not only in The World Cup or something like that.

We should rescue the originals traditions, our roots and nationality must has been more strong and original and not a copy for other places.

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My favorite photograph

Hello everyone!

Today I’m going to write about my favorite photograph. It’s very nice! I took this picture two or three years ago on my courtyard. I like the photography and my mom give me a camera for Christmas. Few days ago of Christmas, my cousin Gonzalo (he was two years in that moment) stayed in my house, because his mother going to doctor. I, my grandmother and Gonzalo stayed in the terrace and he coming to play with the plants and flowers of my grandmother and he gives me a snail after that other and other… in conclusion, he to bring a lot of snails and I went for my new camera and I took many pictures of the snails. I chose this picture in particular, because I took it in black and white and I like took photograph of this way. I consider that places and scenes had a magic atmosphere taken a black and white technique. The picture shows three snails, one of them it’s on the big snails and I think the snails were to run away from Gonzalo, but he took the snails again and to put it on the floor. The poor snails stayed for all the afertnoon in my courtyard.

I like this image because I remember to Gonzalo and that afternoon, also I like it for the composition it’s a close up of three snails and in the back we can see the street, my neighbor’s house and a van to park. But the most amazing is the little world of the snails that we can see in a simple picture.

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Education

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The TED website and is a new website for me; I watch the video Sir Ken Robinson's talk "Do Schools Kill Creativity” and this topic is transcendental for the future of the children and the world in general. We can’t think the intelligence of a one kind. Years ago people talk about the multiples intelligences and I think that education should to reform the system of the classes and the canonic status of the mathematics, language, humanities and finally arts, and to stimulate the different intelligences, because, when Sir Robinson said, we lost the possibility of to manage in our intelligences and capacities.

The education in our country is a great theme in the last years, the people in charge of this didn’t consider the multiples capacities of the different children. The creativity doesn’t have been taken of positive kind and we know this sensation, because we like the art and knowledge the difficult of to practice this career. All the people should to appreciate the art in general, music, dance, plastic arts, etc. Also we should to open more possibilities for this, the art in fundamental in the human life too, like other kind of disciplines, the art nurture the spirit I think.

I don’t imagine the world without art, is fundamental that education chance its methods, and like Picasso’s said: Every child born artist, but is in our hands don’t kill this artist.

Technology

Technology isn’t my favorite theme. I prefer the old school, but I surprise me with the technological advances. Sometimes I saw on the TV the News about the congress or demonstration of ultimate pieces of technology, new phones, computers or cameras and they show us an amazing object, television and cameras with an incredible definition, where you can see everything with an excellent image.

I think about my favorite piece of technology and I like my mininote. I bought it the last year, because it was necessary for the University, I needed a portable computer but a notebook I considered very big and heavy, thus I bought a HP netbook. I like my mininote because is very small, comfortable and useful. I can put it in my bag or in my wallet and its imperceptible. I use it in public places (museum, library, shopping) and I connect it with the wi-fi signal, searching different things on internet.

I don’t use very much my mininote actually, only when I have some work for the University or something like that. But my little sister is happier with my netbook, she uses it all the time, especially for the messenger and facebook. I don’t have facebook, only messenger but I didn’t connect it. She have a Pc, but she prefer my computer because is more comfortable, she said.

The best of my computer is that, I put to my bed and I can see some films tuck up.

Liquiñe

Hello classmate!

Today I will talk you about my favorite place in Chile. I like to travel around my country, but actually I don’t have done it. In January of 2008 I do an amazing travel with my uncles for the south of Chile. They invited to my youngest uncle and me for this travel. It was very nice and comfortable, we traveling on the car of my uncle and we stopped in any places that like us. We travel for more of 2 weeks and I knew amazing and beautiful places. We visited Llanquihue, Puerto Varas, Frutillar, Puerto Montt, Villarrica, but my favorite place was Liquiñe. Liquiñe is a hide town in a range de los Andes, in the X region of Chile. In this town we find a thermal baths.

My uncles rent a cabin and we stayed here for 4 days. This was my first time in a thermal baths and it was very relaxing. With my aunt stayed all the day swimming in the temper water, we only stopped for breakfast or dinner. We woke up early in the morning and we went to the swimming pool of thermal baths. A day it’s coming to rain in Liquiñe, It was an exceptional experience, I felt the cold rain in my face whereas I swimming in the thermal waters...

You should to visit this town, a nice hideaway for the noise city.

Ciudad de la Pintura

Hello everybody.

I enjoy visiting a website called Ciudad de la pintura, once or twice times for week, because this website is very useful for my career. I can search the different painters and painting. Ciudad de la pintura is really completely, It has various sections: you can find for different thematic, for example, you can look for about the authors, museums, chronology or styles of art. Thus, the search is more easily and quickly. Ciudad de la pintura had a browser and you can put the name of pictures or authors and the website to show your search and each picture had your respective name, author, year of production, technique and in the museum of it stay or other localization. Also, the website has different information about expositions and has a commercial gallery for the people that like buy pictures. You can see the pictures that have on exhibition right now! This is amazing because we can know about an important exhibition as Van Gogh.

The design of this website is very comfortable, you can search easily all the pictures. I use this website because the resolution of the pictures it’s fine and this help me in my classes and in my works. I like this website, because I can find the old art like prehistoric and the contemporary art.

Well, I invited you to visit this page if you like the visual art.

http://pintura.aut.org/

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Favourite

It’s difficult for me choice one artist, because I love the art in general from the prehistory until the postmodern art. But one of my favorite artists is Joel-Peter Witkin. He is a particular postmodern artist. Joel Peter-Witkin has worked with corpse, hermaphrodite, person or things that not want to see in the society, reject people. This is his characteristic of Witkin. His fascination for things like this is because when he was a child; he saw an accident and this marked his life. I knew this artist in a course of Esthetic, in my first year in the career. I searched on internet about he and I surprised me, I considered his work fascinated, really.

His work can be considerate awful or shocked, it depends of the person in particular. For me, is a great artist, he used the corpse for artistic form, he used the canonic pictures (like Las meninas of Velázquez, The birth of Venus of Botticelli or Ingres) as inspiration from his works and he reproduce this pictures, using the body of different people, who has been reject in the society, as hermaphrodite, midget or deformed. Witkin had taken to this people and he has showed to this people of different form in the art’s world. In the art, where I think all is possible.

Learning English

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I like this website, I saw it before once or twice time actually and it’s really useful. The design is very comfortable and activities are amusing. I like in particular the news on the website, I read and listen completely the news about death of Malcolm McLaren, who launched of Sex Pistols in the musical scene and he was considerer of godfather of the British Punk music. I’m interesting in this news because I like the punk music, and I listening of Sex Pistols music years ago. And also I listen the news about the new discoveries from the rainforests of Borneo, in this place there many amazing flora and faune and some animals isn’t discovers even. In the website there games very funny and has Quiz for exercise my English. The section of download is useful, we can download mp3 and text and thus, we can listen later. The activities for teachers is relevant, because is amusing material for class. And finally, this website is important for practice our English.



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About me...

Hello everybody! My name is Catalina Martínez and this is my last year in the University and I feel very excited actually… Well, about me, I like the horror movies specially the Giallo Italiano and Dario Argento is my favorite director, I like the horror literature too and I love Edgar Allan Poe, he was an excellent writer.

For this semester I wait to finish my courses and I pretend begin and finish my thesis. About English course, I want learn more, because the language is important for my career and a first step for another languages.

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Force of nature

Well, we know about Chile is a country of constant tremor, but nothing was waiting for this terrible earthquakes. I think so much about this event, in particular about my family and people that who suffering for this earthquake. In general I don't feel afraid when the earth it's coming to move, I only coming to walk on a save place and wait for the tremor stopped. But this earthquake was different. I was in another place with my friends, away from my home when the earthquake was coming. I don't felt fear or nervous, I felt worried for my family and not only for my parents and sister, I was very frightened for my grandparents, his house wasn't steady and I thought that his house can to fall,, fortunately, this don't happen. But I think about this people who lost everything, not only the material things, the most terrible they lost his sons, mothers, fathers, sisters. The material things weren’t anything compared with the human damage and injured. I consider me fortunate; my family is fine and me too. But, before of this event, we can forget the force of nature and the vulnerability of humanity.

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