The End

Firstly I have to say sorry for the delay but I forgot completely do the blog on  monday and Tuesday.

Oooook. it`s the last post of the course and I’m happy, this is the end. Nothing personal with the teacher but in generally I don’t like english classes. Fortunately this year the English class was not like the other English class offered in the faculty. This is my second time doing English III, during three years I refused take the course because of from the school I had not learned anything, and all the years, teachers teach the same things in the same manners, it was tortuous. When I entered in the university I thought, maybe I can learn English here, but not. Certainly the problem is the program and not teachers, but they can do something to make more pleasant the English class, more dynamic and less forced. It was a surprise this year have a much better English course, where at least I can say that I learned. The blogs were very useful, the teacher could explain my errors right there and usually the subjects were interesting. I think that since my first blog I progressed enough, I hope that next semester my level is better. 

This stranger is not a stranger, is my grandfather, the picture was taken by his daughter, my uncle in 1973. All the family, my grandfather, grandmother and their sons had been for the summer vacations to the city of the music located in the third planet. After six days of travel they arrived to the city, but in the place there was no one. They walk by all the city, come in houses, buildings, shops but any person was there. They were surprised, were was all the people? ¿Singers, bands, roadies? why any person tell them that in this date the music planet would not be operating? My grandfather was furious, after six days of travel and holidays had been lost. When they was about to leave the place they enter to an old theater that was full of abandoned things, in the stage parts of a drum and an old poster of an old band. My grandfather to not forget this moment and their frustrated holidays, took the stage and posed for a photo, under his arm he has his travel bag that never reached to disarm.

La meglio gioventu

One of my favourite films, not the only because i love a lot a film, is an Italian movie directed by Marco Tulio Giordano called “The Best Youth”. The film was created in a first moment for being showed in the television like a series that will be show in four parts but before the premier the director decided to transform it in a film with 2 parts or chapters of  two hours of duration. The best youth is a film that tell the recently story of Italy trough the story of a family and in special is focused in the live of two brothers. The story begins in the 60’s, years of student’s revolutions, when Nicola and Mateo Caratti are young and full of dreams and plans. But one day they meet a girl of the psychiatric hospital who receives electric shocks. This event will change their lives forever; will divide the live of brothers that until then were every time together and had the same dreams. The movie win a lot of awards in Italy the David Donatello awards, in Cannes and also the cesar awards, it’s a really interesting, beautiful, moving and simple film, totally recommended.  

CEPAL Library

http://www.eclac.org/analisis/default.asp?idioma=ES&unbisCategory=14&unbisNumber=14.05.03

This web page offer documents of analysis and investigations generated by the CEPAL. Although there are not all documents, only papers that were digitalized is a great and varied data base. The documents were put in order by range of knowledge according to the concept and criterion of the library of the “United Nations”. The page have a large list of text, about all different topics like politics questions, economic development, environment, agriculture, education, international relations, transport and communication, social questions and job between others. The social science area is not divided by careers is divided by specifics topics like poverty, social class, minorities, domestic violence, family, etc and into these topics we can found documents created by specific  scientist, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, historians or documents wrote by interdisciplinary groups. I this moment, when a lot of internet pages was closed there is each time more difficult found and download academic texts so the virtual library of the CEPAL is really useful, now I don’t visit it so often because I’m not doing any work but for learning about any topic is good in any moment.

the silence after the chaos

This picture was taken days after the earthquake of 2010. Probably the picture is not very clear and not many will recognize it, this is the old bridge that crosses the Bio Bio River in Concepcion. Sady Mora is the photographer, she belongs to the collective "Concepcion photographer" This group created a photo exhibition called de-hechos to reflect the changes of the following earthquake day in the city. I like this photo because of the shades used, the sky is so gray that seems to be confused with the sea, the color reflects the darkness in which the city stays after the disaster, in the background we can see with difficulty the hills. If you look carefully the bridge, which was for years opened only for pedestrians, you can see that is partially destroyed and their bases seem domino's pieces falling one after another.

 I like this picture firstly because during my childhood i crossed that bridge daily, is an important symbol of concepcion, and secondly because  is a graphic testimony of the movement that shook the entire region and destroyed an important part of buildings and landscape. the third reason for choosing this photo is that is one of the last visual records of the bridge who was demolished months after the earthquake , it’s an historical testimony.

Mapocho

This week i’m going to write about Santiago. For me the most important characteristic of the city is the Mapocho River, who born in the andes mountain range and descend accrossing a lot of municipalities, Lo Barnechea, Las Condes, Providencia, Santiago, Independencia, Recoleta, Renca and others. In the origin the river is not contaminate, and people can use the water for irrigate their crops and for drink and cook. Although you believe it or not in the mountain mapocho river water is clean, clear and pure, the problem is when the river falls and it approach the city, because humans interfere the watercourse and change his configuration affecting all the species who lives around this ecosystem. The river absorb the water of the San Carlos Canal, extremely polluted by sweep waste organic and inorganic produced by the human. It's appear that the Mapocho is the exit of many problems who affects the Santiago’s society and the persons who didn’t wants to continue with their lives, throws himself into the river, which doesn’t have a place or a house to life, lives in the brook and it's one of favourite places of thieves, in the bridges that across every day are a lot of attacks. But the fault is not of the river, it was here before us, gives us the life and we give him the death, we cram it and interrupt it development.  


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEdF2rzfcG8

NOKIA 1200

My favorite piece of technology is my cell phone; i have it since two months ago when i meet a friend that has these cell and gave me in exange for the cell that i had in these moment. Before that i had the same phone for more than two years, and regrettably i lost it in the summer. I bought it in the bio-bio persa, because I had lost my old phone, which was exactly the same piece that all my last phones. I like my cell phone because is really easy for using, and it have the perfect size to take in any pocket, but what I love most is his little torchlight. Another think that i love is that it uses few batteries to run and i need charge it only one time every 5 days, also i like its games, particulary the snake. If i didn’t have it i will stay very sad, and if i couldn’t get again, never in my life i would use another cell.