Fiestas Patrias

For Fiestas Patrias I usually go to Fondas with my family, or I spend time with my cousins and my sister and sometimes we go to Melipilla to a cabin of a friend of my mom. There we use to play typical Chileans games, it could be named like an Olympics Chilean games because we play a lot of those games: sack race, three-foot race, jump the rope, pull the rope, fly kites, etc. Well, the past 18 I did all of that things, on Monday I went to Parque Padre Hurtado in Las Condes to the Fonda, on Monday we went to Melipilla and on Thursday we spend the afternoon with my cousins. I get tired with that itinerary so I rest on Wednesday and on Thursday I played basketball with my friends in the morning and then we played videogames in the afternoon so I get tired again. The rest of the week was for study ,so I think the next holyday I will keep in my bed and rest all the day because this last week didn’t represent a rest at all.  

I think this past holiday was memorable, although I always will remember another 18 I enjoyed a lot. It’s not only a memorable 18, in fact it was the first (and the only one) time that I traveled outside of Chile. That time I went to Mendoza to celebrate Chile’s Independence, maybe that sounds weird but it was really funny: In 18^th we went to a plaza named Chile and in there was a Fonda like in Chile, it makes me realize that so many Chileans celebrate 18 on other countries. I hope that all of that people enjoy remembering his original country.

A friend of mine

Hello everyone, I'm going to talk about a friend of mine. He it’s not my best friend but I can tell some interesting things about him. We are ex classmates now, I met Lucas in the school in…I think 6^th grade, but I’m not too sure; the point is that he was a year with us and then he went to Israel, so when he came back he told us his experiences out of Chile and becomes a really interesting person. I remember that he had rol’s dices, those with twenty faces and with those we played something like dungeons and dragons, and also he drew all the characters in the game, that’s something important about him: he is an excellent artist, I mean, he is not an artist, but he is good at drawing, he is planning to do a comic right now and he ask his friends for help but I think I left the matter a little.

We have a lot of things in common: we play basket, both of us like the anime, video games and all those things, we both play guitar as well and I’m planning to draw a comic too…even I’m not as good at drawing like he.

Recently we don’t see each other too much, because of the university responsibilities, he is studying informatics engineer so we see us a few times to play basket, play wii, or also in the ex class meetings.

My 2012 untill now

I think my first term was a hard one because it was the first term of my first time in a University. It was so hard that I remember it like an entire year even it was like only six months. In fact, I think I learned so many things like in a year; finally I understood what means right and left in politics, it’s funny but in the subjects that I thought there was no relation with the career, was where I learned the most, like in Philosophy and Social History of Chile.

In the last  semester I didn’t did much sports, I only played basket with my friends but not so many time because, like me, they entered to the University and they don’t have so much time. Even last semester I was in lack of time, I think it was a good for leisure: I went to the cine with my college mates a pair of times, I downloaded a lot of music, I watched a lot of anime and read a lot of manga and I learned a pair of songs on the guitar.

In the last semester I had to get used to travel an hour every day to the University from my house and also get used to that the grades I got in the University were lower than in the school. I made new friends and learned a lot so it was a very good year…no, sorry, semester!     

      

About Santiago

Hello! Today I have to talk about Santiago, and that’s a bit problematic for me because even I had lived all my life in this city, I don’t know it too much. But there are things I like about this city. For example I like that there are places in Santiago for each person. There are a lot of restaurants of different kinds, different ways of entertainment and a lot of different shops to buy what you want. You only have to search for the place you like to go. And there it’s a “but”. There are things you only can do outside of Santiago, like going to beach of course. Now there are things I dislike of Santiago too, I hate how the subway and the public transport Transantiago get full of people at the peak hour;  maybe it’s normal to big cities like Santiago and maybe it’s worst in other cities in Japan for example, but I think it’s a think nobody likes. I don’t think Santiago it’s a bad place, but it would be a better place if the people in Santiago were nicer with the other people, any place would be a good place if the people in there is nice, well maybe that’s my naive idea. To finish I would say only one tip to the visitors of Santiago: have fun! …and take care of the thieves! That’s all ,see you.   

About Assange's case

 I think this case it’ very interesting because for me it’s like a fight between an ant and a giant. Evidently, here the ant is Julian Assange and his friends and the giant is the United States and his friends. This tiny ant is accused of revealing confidential information and also he is accused of sexual abuse in Sweden, we all know that the first part is true…because of that he made famous, but like a psychologist would say, it depends…it depends in what we mean by crime, for me what Julian Assange did with the information it`s not a crime. Sexual abuse it’s a crime but I’m not so sure about his culpability. It seems to be a political persecution, so in this case I think the Ecuatorians were right to offer him political assignments. I don’t think there will be a winner in this fight, although all indicates that the US has more influences to fulfill their purposes.

Here Is The Last One~

This last post is about another of those talks with interesting topics; this time it´s name is The Divided Brain by McGilchrist.

Talk about the brain isn´t a simple thing because the brain isn’t a puzzle with different parts and every part it´s a function of the brain. The brain it´s a complex system made of connections. But whit this talk we can say that the brain has two hemispheres with some differences between them. These hemispheres were forming along the evolutionary chain until now where we have a right hemisphere and a left hemisphere well differenced and connected by the corpus callosum.

Even the hemispheres have some differences McGilchrist breaks the myth of the reason, emotion, language and vision being in only one hemisphere; those things are all connected with the two hemispheres, the same goes with the imagination.

The principal difference between the two hemispheres is the perspective or the level of generalization of things.  Meanwhile you use the right hemisphere for things more sustained, broad, open, and vigilant, the left hemisphere is narrower, sharply and focused.

Those two sides are always trying to inhibit each other. But it´s not like one side is better than the other; we need to use both sides in order to equilibrate the two points of view… “Too close you can’t see anything; too far you can read it”

Well, that everything folks, maybe I will keep writing here, maybe not, who knows.

Now I´m going to study for the last tests, see you~.

About English Classes

Hello everyone, this post is about my experience of studying English at the university. Yeah, I’m studying English at this precise moment doing this blog.

When I was in the school, I had English classes too; but they weren’t like talking in English with the teachers or my classmates, we have to work in computers sometimes but it wasn´t too funny. Now, studying English at the university has been much funnier than at school; I think it have been useful because I have had a lot of practice at speaking about a lot of topics and writing this long in English.

There are two things about this course that could improve: first there was two “webquest” that asked us to search thing on the web and then send them…it was so boring and I think it was no so useful, but in other hand those works give us easy grades so it´s not so bad after all. The other thing that could be improved is adding more interesting topics to talk in classes like we did a pair of times, like asking the students what they want to talk next class so they can think what to say before the class begins.

I have to write another post and study so here ends this post. Bye~