English 2015

 

I didn’t like too much the use of blogs. First, I'm not very skilled with technology, so it was not a pleasant activity for me, I don't like to spend much time in front of the computer, I prefer talking face to face with other people. I avoid doing it if is not strictly necessary to. Secondly, I think that the time that we spent in the computer room and working on computers could be more entertaining and interesting to have more classes on the classroom, I think it is more helpful when the professor teaches lessons. On the other hand, I had the opportunity to freely use my mind and create texts in the way that I wanted. I think it is very interesting to develop activities that are not so structured, sometimes, it is good to allow the student to orient their work according to their tastes and interests.

However, I liked the English experience. The layout of the teacher and the students made a funny class. Being honest I do not practice English outside the classroom, but when I have more free time I will try to do it.

diagnosis 2015

For me, this year has been very fast, however, it has been a year of great learning. I arrived at the big city of Santiago without knowing much and without too many expectations,  that was a huge challenge that involved working with a bunch of strangers, the location of new streets for me, and adapt to a style of life which I was not used to. I have met great classmates, now I live with my grandparents whom I've known better, and Santiago provides opportunities that other cities in the country are not. I have taken courses on music with wise teachers, I have learned a little of Portuguese and improved my performance in English, and I have attended large concerts and cultural events.

On the other hand, my health has did not go so well this year, I've fallen sick and cold  more often than I am accustomed (about seven times so far of the year!!). Once I was two weeks in bed without much physical energy to do my activities, that was terrible for me.

I am usually be very active and there are always things that have not done yet or I still have to do. For example, I would have loved to enroll in a football team, or I would have loved to learn some musical instruments, have more time to play it, but I know that calmly, I can do it in the future.

Finally, I would like to highlight all the knowledge I have obtained in the career and the good people I've ever met in Santiago.

How green I am??

Nowadays, more and more people get interested about environmentally friendly practices because we are changing our mentality, we are opening our eyes that we live together, on the same planet and we have to take care about it.

We do not recycle much truth, there are still many difficulties for to do it,  for example, there are no large public policies that finance recucling industries or campaigns that inform and enable the participation of citizenship. I also believe that in the country we live in, in which inequality is so great, the concern of recycling is irrelevant, I mean, one of their latest concerns.

I use the bike a lot, I think to use it bring many benefits, they are incredible: you save the passage of locomotion, you exercise your body, you avoid the stress and congestion of the morning, you arrive with energy and enthusiasm, as well you reduce your carbon footprint, and I could continue this long list…

I have supported eco-organisations as Patagonia Sin Represas or No al Punilla, I consider it is very important to preserve our water wealth, the “future oil”. Also I have stayed in public demonstrations against the privatization of the seed “NO a Monsanto”. I think on Santiago is missing to improve public transport to decongest and reduce the excessive number of cars in the city, it is essential to be able to talk to the other to change our consciousness.

free post

This photograph has a great story that I want to relate you. It was taken on 2012, probably on the month of November. I was 16. We were the better team I have ever played, playing the championship final of the Chillán amateur Soccer Association. I remember I was not in my best conditions because it hurt me a foot, the right food (I’m right), but a nice friend gave me a lotion that allowed me to play. We went to the field under a sun that burned us. It was a “locked” match, and an unfortunate move cost us dear. We began losing until we could finally have control of the ball, we started to touch it with confidence and we got turn the dial, finally, the score was 2-1. Anyway, this photograph represents for me the joy of soccer, the joy of a group that working together achieved the cup. Is not the cup the important thing, do not misunderstand me, this picture reminds me the efforts, the jokes and all the happiness expressed in the square, with a big smile at us faces. Now I am far from Chillán, but I will never forget them, what a good players and people