Last Post!!

I think that the Blogging experience has been very fruitful. It helped us to have a less traumatic instance of class and an easier mode to learn than, for example, Chile’s Political and Administrative Institutions History. Actually I have never worked in a Blogspot page. I have other one but I don’t use it frequently. Honestly I enjoyed it because I learnt more than the few things I knew about English like sentences structures, infinitives, gerunds or grammar.

Also I think that it helped me to improve my English skills, especially reading and writing. If I had to give an opinion about this experience, it would be that it is a great mode of knowing our classmates, what they think, why they think of anyway and who they are. Another advantage was that we had the chance of correcting our mistakes and learning a little more. Otherwise, if I had to make a critic about, I would say that computers were not good at all and sometimes I used to lose my whole works. What I didn’t like it was the signs that the teacher used to make us realize of mistakes like WW, WS, etc. I often didn’t understand them.

Also, as I don’t have Internet at home, many times I had to stay at University checking and ending the posts, but that isn’t the problem, the problem was that sometimes we had to take quizzes or listening activities and the time left wasn’t long enough to make a good work. The blogging idea has been good; it helped us as classmates to make a better union as a new generation. But the outcome is great and rewarding: as a result I learned to use Blogger. Anyway I keep preferring Facebook: more functions in only one page I mean: pictures, writing, chatting, videos, music, posting, tests and games.

My ideal job

My ideal job would be near my home and family. In my case, I have parents at many places in Chile, so my ideal job would be one which has me traveling across the country but with an unique place where I have to stay a longer time. I would like to supervise how the job is improving in the different cities where my company works. I don’t know which institution I would join, but that is the direction I would like to take. The skills and qualities I need are mostly of direction and reporting because if there are branches offices, they can’t forget or lose which is the north of the Institution that we are representing eventually. I think I would be good at this job because sometimes I have taken works where I direct and the outcome has been successful; and because I like advising people about what it would be better at the best choice. Also I like traveling and knowing new places. Actually I think that it is not difficult to find jobs of that nature, when we have a new law for instance, we need to implement and train workers for they can make their job governed by this new eventual law. It would be easier in Santiago because here it is the center of political decisions, but from where I come, the task turns a little bit harder.

Hombre con Guitarra (Violeta Parra)

The artist who made this piece of art is Violeta Parra, a Chilean singer born in San Fabián de Alinco in 1917 who died in 1967. Besides singing, she painted in oils, wrote poems and made wove tapestry. I saw for the first time this piece of art called Hombre con Guitarra when I accompanied my parents to visit Centro Cultural La Moneda here in Santiago. Since then I liked it. And I like it because on this piece of art I saw reflected all the humility that art requires. What else does art require? Express our feelings. Following this line, if we listen to some songs of her like Una Copla me ha cantado, Maldigo del Alto Cielo, ¿Por qué los pobres no tienen?, Run run se fue pa’l norte, etc., easily we will find that the green and violet birds that are hanging on the guitar represent the sadness and bitterness a human being could have because of loving or social injustice. And exactly, when she killed herself with a gun to her head, her brother Nicanor said “She let the blue birds that were flying inside her head, fly away”. If you would like to know more about Violeta visit www.violetaparra.cl

Ken Robinson

The main idea of the Robinson talk was that schools should let all the abilities develop as much as possible. In this way, students would be much more prepared to make a better choice in the future. He says that we can´t let arts go away , drama or music, just because we think that the most important subjects are Math or Literature. He also talks about new ways to teach and make of class a funnier instance to learn. In my opinion, Education is a very important element to be happy. I think that its importance goes beyond what we teach inside a classroom, or which is better: that students learn. Education must be made at home as at school. Government must provide all the tools possible for making our country, a good citizen place. A place where we cannot notice difference due to a lack of a good education, which must be one and the same for everyone with no distinctions.