Last assignment!...

Advantages and disadvantages of using a blog on classroom.

After doing blog’s work for about a year, I think that it’s important to think carefully about it. First of all I think that I’ve got the enough experience to talk about this topic, not only for my experience, but from what I’ve seen in my companions. I believe that it has been a very good experience in many ways, but in other ways it’s more complicated.

I’ll begin with the good things that I find in this experience. First of all, I’d never had a blog on my life before, so it was very good for me as experience this work, besides I think that you can share a lot of things in a blog, and maybe you can reflect more than in other instances, as a fotolog for example, because in there it doesn’t matter very much what you write because almost nobody reads it. For other side I believe that sharing experiences and “tastes” with other companions has been very good to know each other a little more, and when you don’t understand very much what you had to do in an assignment you could read someone else work, an use it as a guide. Besides it’s very good for us to train our writing in English and I think that this is a very good way to do that, because you can correct your text in a program or in word, and that may help to write even better. Other important think it’s that we could finish them in our houses.

One of the bad things that I can find in this way of working, it’s many times I’ve working for many time in the lab and our time finished, so my work remained in the middle and I couldn’t finish it in my house, because sometimes I didn’t have time to send it to me, or internet didn’t worked (this happened sometimes in the first term of the year), and the times that I could send it to me I wasn’t able to finish it in my house because I didn’t remember in what was I thinking in the time that I wrote it, so I had to do it all over again, and sometimes it was frustrating.

But finally I think that it has many more positive things than negatives, so I believe it to be a very good experience, and I hope that it’ll be repeated for the next generation.

I’m sad this is the last assignment, thanks for all, Take care a lot! bye

6th assignment, movie review

I chose a movie that I saw recently, and has already become one of my favorites ever, it’s a spanish movie, and it’s called “Mar Adentro”. It’s starring by Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda and Lola Dueñas, and it’s directed by Alejandro Amenábar. The movie it’s about a true history, it’s the history of Ramon Sampedro, a sailor that suffered an accident in his youth and became quadriplegic, for that he had to stay in bed for almost thirty years and he wanted to die for this. Many situations happens to him in his last year alive, involving specially two women, but most important than that it’s the main objective of the movie, that’s to talk about the euthanasia. I liked so much the movie that I don’t find any “bad things” in it, and I like it specially for the “euthanasia item”, because I think that it’s a very important topic to discuss and in some countries it’s accepted. Besides they try to show the church view of this topic and the “normal” people view, but I think that being against euthanasia and not going to die soon, or suffering for a disease that doesn’t have a cure it’s like talking about something that doesn’t concern you, so I strongly believe that people must have the right to suicide themselves if they’re suffering for this kind of disease, but just in this situations, obviously many people that commits suicide doesn’t do it because of this, but in case of euthanasia I think that people should have the right to do it. Besides I think that church shouldn’t be trying to control people thoughts and decisions, because the life of the people doesn’t belong to them. Well that was, I think that the film it’s a must see… Bye

5th assignment, Cristian's blog

I’m going to talk about my friend’s blog, Cristian’s blog (powellmakross.blogspot.com). First of all I’ve got to say that I like his blog, I’ve almost read all his post, and one of the things that I most like it’s the design, the color of the back, the black looks great, and the combination with the color of the words it’s quite good too. Besides the blog has a lot of links in the assingments, and I think that we have the same “taste” for many things, another thing that I like a lot, it’s that in the down side of the page you can find videos from different songs, and I like many of the songs that he putted there. I also like the Picture that he putted in the “Art assignment”, I’ve seen it befote and I like it too, but I didn’t remember it when I did the assingment, I also like the song that he putted in for an assingment last term. I think that there ins’t anything that I dislike, the blog it’s very good from my point of view. Bye

4th assingment, Fiestas PAtrias

In my family we’re accustomed to do a special “party” for Fiestas Patrias. This jeans that, two days befote the 18 of september, my uncle organizes a “Fonda” in his house. All the family goes there, and we stay until very late in the night, drinking “chicha” and eating “Empanadas de horno”, that are the special food’s eaten in these times.

We arrived at my uncle’s house at five o’clock, and the party was already started, because my other uncles and their families have already get there, many of my relatives we’re dressed like “huasos”, but I didn’t because it’s uncomfortable and I don’t like it.

Other of the important things in this party is the music, because we just hear chilean music, but in special the “folklore” music and classic music of our country. This party was the 16 of september, then the 17 I went to Parque O’Higgins, to the Fondas that are in there, it’s a very funny experience because you see a lot of things that you wont see in a lot of time, the bad thing it’s that sometimes are many people drunk and it’s unpleasant. Then the 18 and 19 of september I just stayed at my house, and the 19 I match the “Parada Militar”, but just a while, because I got bored.

That’s all, bye!

Assignment 3

I don’t like art very much, because I think that I don’t understand it, and sincerely I haven’t tried to understand it yet, so I searched in the internet about a picture (a piece of art) that I liked and I found that I didn’t like many of the pictures that I saw, so I searched for a landscape that I liked to be in, and I found this picture

The artist is Joan Colomer, and I first saw it today (It's oil on cloth). Besides, I like this picture because the landscape is very beautiful, and I’ll like to be in a place like that someday, a lonely place but beautiful, in which I could relax, read and think a lot. I think that I need it. The problem is that is hard to be in a place like that, at least here in Chile, because all the places like that are private or you can’t go in them, at least not “legally”. Well, I hope that someday I find a place like this…
Bye