Blog experience

Hi you there guys, today I´m happy and sleepy because Chile won his first match yeii! but there is not the main theme of the post. The post of this week tells about my experience with this blog , lets start.

Well first of all I never expected to have a blog in my life and in the beginning I don´t want to narrate my histories because I´m not fan of the public information, but now I don´t care about it and it is not complicated for me to write some experience or a opinion of anything. In general I enjoy a lot this experience because I generate opinions about things that I dont think before and it´s fine and I know others opinions of the other classmates.

This blog helps me so much in an aspect that I don´t imagine and that was the extension of my english vocabulary because when I write in english always noticed that I repeat the words and the fluidity of my post was lost.

In general the creation of the blog in this English class I think that instead being a disadvantage it is a full advantage tool to learn, practice and generate opinions, all of that in English by the way. Other important thing as an advantage is the correction that our teacher do because it helps to review the writing and make a better work for the next time.

For me this is a great experience because the blog helps me in my weakness in English the writing and I believe this is the best way to practice and learn. I don´t know if I still write in this blog when English 3 finish but maybe this blog can continue in English 4.

Well that is all for this week see you next time.
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The learning spirit

Hello, wellcome again, today I saw an online video of a interesting talk by Sir Ken Robinson in wich he talk about a problem related with the education of these days.

Sir Ken Robinson basically make a critic of linearity in the education. What does it means? It is the sistem of the education as we know it, in wich you first start in kindergarden then you go to the school and finish with your college studies. All of these studies you have to make to be a "complete" person and the society force you to do that.

To Sir Ken Robinson this sistem doesn´t work because it makes people that don´t like his life and can´t enjoy it. Maybe the reason goes to the fact that they don´t are exploiting their talents.

Also talks about in all the world there are a reforms in education, but more than a reform the education (all over the world) needs a revolution in witch the sistem can "transform" in other one where the linearity past to a organic education.

The organic education is like the agriculture because according to the circunstances is the way that the system works. Not according to a method.

I have differents points of view about this talk, first I´m agree with Sir Ken Robinson about linearity in education and how it can finish with the creativity of kids because the system will influence to do something that maybe you don´t want to do in your life. And for me the big question about this problem is how can realize that because the revolution will have to start with somebody and in my opinion the teachers can do it.

Well that is all for this week, see you next time
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Family Pictures

Hello everyone; today is a cold day but the post is more warm than the others, and it´s related with the photograph and not anyone, is related with a special photo that has an important mean for me.

This photo doesn´t have a espectacular image or an amazing history and it´s not our best photo together, it´s just my family and me in a big event; My Sister´s Wedding.

First the people in the photo are my family in the center my sister Maria paz (she get married) and the importance of her image here is because she live in Spain and she came to visit us and the photo of the reunion of our family is always important. From left to right there is my other sister Carla, my dad Miguel, my mom Maria cristina and me.

This day was a warm summer day of January in Villa Alemana (the city where I growth) on the fifth region in an event place, I remember that day was incredible not just the wedding also the food the swimming pool and the party that we had after.

I think that this photo remember me a lot of good experiences that I had this summer and as I said it´s not the best photo and there are missing people on it (my nephews and my brother in law Oliver) but it still been a great photo.

Well this is all for this week, I hope you like it.

see you next time

The University

Wellcome back, The post of this week refers to the place where I study, the University of Chile and in specific the Faculty of Forest Science and Conservation of Nature.

When I take the PSU test I only had the idea of enter in a traditional university (just the ones that are in Santiago and the ones that had carrers that I like) and my options were the University of Santiago and this one, but when I had my results I prefer this university because it have the tradition, the prestige name, the commitment to service to the country and the recognition anywhere. Those are the reasons that take me here.

But now after 4 years, and knowing most of the university there are things that I like and others that I don´t like...

I still like the liberty that you have here in relation with the people who study here, because the level of exigency in the studies is stressful sometimes, I like my campus because is big and have a lot of green spaces to recreate yourself and studing. I like the CFG program that has the university because I can learn other things (different from my carrer) the clases are in other places with people of other faculty and I think it´s fun (I taken two clases).

I don´t like the individuality with that university works and the finanancing program that make carrers with a huge infraestructure and other with money problems like my carrer.

Those are my opinions about the university.

See you next time

Hobbies

Hello people!!, the post for this time it will be dedicate to write about my hobbies, maybe if I have a real one it would be more easy XD. Sorry for to be boring or no dedicated to a work, but there is my point, maybe I do things that can be called a hobbie, but for me a hobbie requires time and dedication and I don´t have this quality maybe for time, money or I don´t know.

Well, leaving this on the past. I will introduce the things that I like to do (maybe my hobbies). I like to play videogames =)! I know it´s called "electronic-leasure" but I think that this tipe of electronic games increase the skills and the concentration and I like it a lot, I like many kind of games, action, RPG, sports.

Other of my favorite hobbies is watch tv series , I know everybody do it but I don´t have more ideas, I watch Glee and Lost are my favorites and I don´t lose any chapter.

Thinking well I have hobbies, may not build ships in bottles or take pictures or go hunting but I like my hobbies.

Well that´s all for this week

see you next time.

An interesting webpage

Hello everybody, The topic for today is related with my "favorite" webpage related with my carrer, first I have to be honest and I don´t have a favorite webpage but this one I think that is interesting because it has a lot of information about new investigations related with the forest area.
The name of the web-site is Gayana Botanica and the URL is http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=0717-6643&script=sci_serial and it was created by the Concepcion University. This is an electronic journal that is dedicated to the publication of studies related to the botanical, This electronic journal publish two issues per year and it´s so easy to find one of them, you can go to the top of the webpage and there says issues, you can see them all or the actual issue also you can search a paper by the name of the author or the subject of the paper. The available issues are sorted by the year and you can find topics ranging from studies on some tree species to the study of a microscopic structure.
The available papers are publish in inglish and in spanish
This site always helps when I have homework or stuff like that
Well that all for today
see you soon

Movies and more movies.

Wellcome again to my blog, the topic for today will be the MOVIES, wow!! another huge topic because to be honest I like many kind of movies, It´s one of my favorite things that I want to do especially with company.

I like to watch movies in all of the formats that you can imagine, like DVD, VHS, on my computer (although illegal), but to make more exciting your experience I must go to the cinema, I don´t know how many movies I´ve seen on the cinema, but I remember the first one, was Jurassic Park and it was when I was child in Viña del Mar in an old cinema called CINE REX, I went with my mom and she bought pop corn. It was amazing to see a tremendous screen and the movie was great (I see it 2 times), now I take my nephews to the movies and they enjoy as I when I had his age.

Well passing to the topic. Now I can remember a few of my favoritie movie like Slumdog millionaire, The Godfather, The Fifth element, Edward scissorhands and the Suicide virgins, those movies I can watch one time and another and not get tired.

I´m not good with the names and always forgot names of directors and actors.

I love the movies and I always say yes if somebody invites me to the cinema.

See you soon.

The catholic church in the eye of the hurricane

Wellcome, Today we are going to set aside the funny topics like the last one and we talk about contingency, the last weeks the catholic church has been involved in a number of allegations of pedophilia all over the world and our country Chile isn´t the exception. This week the TV program (Informe especial) show the testimony of young kids (now adults) abused by the priest Karadima, this is a deplorable case that affects the catholic church and causes, in my opinion, one of the larger crisis in the catholic church.

Maybe this isn´t the first case of abuses committed by catholic priest we all know about it, but unfortunately the congregations cover other cases sending priest to other places, and this is the most reprehensible in my opinion because the church must help the victims of the abuses and his families, and not to cover the facts and punish the priests involved.

There has been talk in the press about the celibacy and his absolution but I think that isn´t the correct way to avoid cases like this ones because we have cases of abuses in evangelic church and the evangelic shepards don´t practice the celibacy. This is a psycological behavior that depends of the person.

Now WHY this is a big crisis?? It´s because all the world talk about it and the Catholic church represented by the Pope must apologize, offer the help to those victims, give the respective punish and from now on be more selective in the seminars and submit to psychological tests to the future priest because the person who wants to become a priest not only need the vocation, they need a personality related with the responsability to be a priest. And the other thing that the catholic priest need it´s a organism that guard the priest´s movements to avoid cases like those mentioned.

The Catholic church has hundreds of years and this isn´t the first neither the last of the crisis, but while the Church may reinvent itself, with solutions like the ones that I say or others created by them, may continue with his mission.

I like....

Hello, well for this time I have to speak about the things that I like.... but it´s a wideeee topic and I don´t know where to start. (10 minutes later...) OK, yesterday was my birthday and it´s so wonderful to be birthday because all the day it´s perfect, the people regards you, they give you presents. If you have to work (was my case) I did with a smile in my face because it´s my birthday and nothing bad happens (this is like an attitude that you have to take) and you are like the star of the day, maybe in your house your family awaits with a birthday cake they sing you the happy birthday song and the most important thing you share you happiness with the ones you love.

Well this is one of the things that I like (obviously there´s more things like swimming in the sea, climb a hill, watch movies, ride a bike, the vacations, the ice-cream and the french fries but leave this for another post)
I hope that you like too

see you next time

HELLO, This week I’ll tell you my experiences on the night of February 27th. Well that night I was sleeping comfortably in my bed when this horrible noise woke me up, then I stay in bed hearing when the shake comes and comes very energetically that’s the moment when I decide to stand up and go to see my nephews, because my sis wasn’t at home that night, by the way my house has an old construction and we don’t trust a lot on it. I stay with them a few seconds and then the earthquake was so strong and I decide to run away with the kids. On the other and my mom panicked and my dad take her away from our home.

About my reactions first was nervousness about the earthquake then I feel preoccupation about my nephews because they are kids and they don’t understand the situation, and because of that I stay quiet. Maybe this is the best lesson for this kind of situation, stay calm and calm the people around you.

In Santiago the worst things past, but on the South of Chile don’t. They need a lot of help and we can do it in different ways.

That’s all for this week see you soon.

My First Post EVER!

Hello everybody!! , I´m glad to introduce myself to all of you that are interested to know some of my stories, living experiences and opinions about anything, maybe knowing me I don´t gonna tell you all the things about my life.
So Nicolas Calderon D. it´s my name I´m a student for de Universidad de Chile and this is my blog for the English class that I take, tell you that I expect with this new activity, practice my english writing, extend my vocabulary and learn to expres much better.

Hope you enjoy this new experience with me and soon I´m gonna post much and more entertaining thing, Please have patience with me, it´s my first time in this thing.

It´s all for this time I fulfil with my 100 words :P

see you soon.