Experience blogging!

Today I am going to write about my experience writing! Well, for being more precise, I´m going to right about my blogging experience. I would like to start saying that I really enjoy blogs in general, but reading them, not writing. There was some moment when I think to do me a blog, but I´ll never do the next step: actually do it! Fortunately, in my English class my teacher makes me to do a blog! Just kidding… It was her job to make me do it!
The difficult part was, obviously, to do it in other language. It´s hard to express thought and feelings in your own language; more difficult it is if you must do it in other code! Anyway, talking and writing in my own language never been a problem for me, so I guess that is simpler to express my ideas in English if I can do it already in Spanish. Maybe it´s more difficult for someone shy, which is not my case.
Considering that, I must say that I really enjoy share my thoughts, but it´s more difficult in other language. However, I´m very familiarize with English, luckily, so it wasn´t so hard do a blog like this. In fact, this assignment helps me to improve mi English, I think, or I want to believe! Especially because I hear a lot of English, but just once in a while I see it write. So, I lean when is my turn to write, and when I have to read my classmates’ blogs for post them.
I think that is a great idea for an English class, because it´s more fun that being in a classroom for three hours nonstop. With a blog, we learn doing, and class is more useful and interactive. In other way, the blogs help us to know who our classmates are; considering the fact that we are from different career and generations, it´s more probably that we talk and know a little more about them… or that´s what I believe!
A pleasure to meet you all =)

About María´s Blog

Well, today I´m going to right about other blog! Yes, it´s a little wear, but that is the assignment! I choose María´s blog because I post her sometimes, and it was chosen at random too; between all guys that I ever posted (unfortunately, is not all class), I pick one. Beside, one of his last names is the same that mine! So, for me is easier to remember her name.
Her blog´s name is “English class”; is not a very creative name, but my blog it called “English III”, so it´s the same idea! Anyway, the name of the blog isn´t everything. In fact, it´s just a detail.
She has 12 posts for 12 classes, so she has all of them! I assume that she always came to class, or maybe she post in her home… can be too. Checking her posts I see that she dance flamenco! What a great hobby! Well, that is something that I didn´t know about her. But, that is not my favorite post on her blog. I like the post about her favorite movie. In fact, I really enjoyed that class, and could see all my classmates’ blogs checking his favorites movies. The favorite movie of María is ‘The Matrix’. Is not my favorite movie, is not ever close to be I must say, but I can notice that she really enjoy that movie and I believe that she always going to remember it.
I can notice that she is psychologist; well, she will be psychologist one day! I´m not very closed to psychologist, but I can see that she like her career. That is very important!
For what I see, she has a very good level of English! She has family living in U.S.A, so maybe that can help her a little. In that aspect, I have nothing to say. I´m just going to suggest one thing: more photos! There is so much text, that some people can respond to that not feeling desire to read it.
That is my modest opinion.

Here is her blog, by the way: http://olvi-english3.blogspot.com/

Education, Creativity and Intelligence

I´m very surprised! I came to right on this blog all Thursdays, but today I find a topic that I´ll never expected. Is not just about education or the changes that public education needs (a very popular theme in my University); it´s about whole education system around the world.
I watch a video where Sir Ken Robinson talks about "Do Schools Kill Creativity". I think that it´s related to what we call in Chile “Ritalin kids”. Robinson says that traditional schools kill creativity in child, because don´t develop all the types of intelligence that we have when are kids. In that case, society creates kids for the future without knowing how is going to be the future. However, educational system limits the intelligence of the kids, focus on mathematical on language, but not carry out on dance, art or music. For that reason, humans, and especially academic teachers, think that all they have is a head. They are not familiarizing with his bodies. For all that reasons, many types of intelligence are dismissed for the educational system, and create kids who think they not are smart, and for real they are! It´s just another kind of intelligence.
I think that he may be right on his ideas, but it´s difficult to me believe that a structure like education is going to change. If he can diagnose a problem but can´t offer a solution, it´s very difficult that he will be eared. It´s a new way to see education for me, because I always think that the best idea for make a better society is having public education of quality, and n that way inequality decrees.
It´s a new point of view.

My Favorites Pictures!

I love pictures!!! I don´t like very much appear on it, but I love to see it. It´s difficult to think in my favorite picture, but I believe that I have two favorites pictures.

One of that was token from me in Temuco, south of Chile. It´s very beautiful and wear, because I´d never seen something like that: It´s a tree in the middle of a lake! Wear and wonderful! I write about that trip weeks ago, and this picture is from that vacations. Relative to that picture, was great o took it, and I always remember of the picture and of that trip, and for that

reason I like it: it´s beautiful, wear, and it represent a great moment too!

The second picture that I choose is from 2006, when I finished school. That day all my class was surprised that day, ´cause all the school was saying goodbye to us, and in the door was all our family! Was very emotive! A friend of my sister took this picture, because in that moment we hasn´t a camera. There I am with two friends of that time: Enzo in the left and Seba in the right. I was so happy and emotional that day, we all have a great memory of that moment. Today, I still see Enzo, is one of my best friends! But I don’t talk too much with Seba right now. Well, anyway, I really like this picture, for the moment that represent and because I was very happy too! After that, I give it to Enzo, in a cute mark, and he still has it, of course!

My best Friend!

I don´t have many girlfriends, so must of my closest friends are men. Well, it´s very difficult for me think in who is my best friend, because all of them are very closed to me and I care about them very much. But, if I have to pick one, y think maybe Francisco could be one of my best friends.

I met him in my school in Rancagua. I was in my third year when he comes to my school, and immediately we talk, and since that moment, we are friends. More of 5 years are past for that day. We realize very quickly that we have a lot of thing in common; in fact, we think very similar in a lot of stuff. For that reason, we connected very fast! Both are very rational people, and we see life in the same way, but he is more pragmatic, and I am more idealistic.

I like go out with Francisco and all the friends that we have in common, from the school too. It´s great that his friends and I have a great relation, so it´s easy to plan the weekend together, when both are in Rancagua, ´cause we go out together with them and our old friends from the school.

We trust one each other, and for that reason we never fight; I don´t remember a big argue with him, maybe because we connected so well, that know how the other it´s going to react.

We don´t say it a lot, but both know that we are very important one for each other.

Skills in Sociology.

Well, like you must know, I study Sociology. In my career, you don’t need an inborn skill, I think, but you have to read a lot, so you have comprehension of lecture, and, of course, you must love read!
However, there are some skills that you should learn studying sociology. First, you must have “sociological imagination”, like Mills says. That is the skill of see a social reality and finds there some sociological problem. For other hand, you must have a skill to relate the ideas of different authors, so I believe that good memory can help you with that, but is not necessary; if you have it, some much better, but if you don`t, it´s Ok. Is not like studying art without knowing who to paint!
My University is providing to his students of these skills, but I think that develop the “sociological imagination” and the skill to relate ideas, are qualities that you can acquire with practice. With all the research that the career make you to do, and with all the courses of Sociological Theory, I think that the students developed all this skills.
For that reason, I don´t think that we need to change our course in my career. Well, obviously I´m interesting in particulars themes, like Sociology of Religion, for example, Latin American Sociology or Sadistic process. But in general, for the skills that I mentioned before, I think that we are very well.
I´m prepared to work? I don´t know actually! But I have a knowledge that I want to apply!

My Notebook!

My relation with technology is not very closed! I used, of course, but I always have problems with all kind of tehonogic object. However, if I have to choose my favourite piece of techologic, I think that I opted for my notebook.

Last year I worked in a research for Catholic University, so I could save some money and bought it! I used all the time, for things related with my career, with my work, and for my free time too. I have it since laste year, and I really care about it. Never put it pen drives if I´m not shure about his source, and don´t used for download music or movies. And, of couse, I keep it clean! I like it because it´s mine! I choose it, I bought it and I used! I don´t have to share the PC with my sister.

Since I bought it, my life became easier! I don´t have to wait until my sister finish her work, and she always download thinks, so the old PC that we usted to share, was with virus all the time! Now, I can do my thinks without think in finish early, and I can use my free time in internet with no problem. And, of course, can I choose without problems the picture on the screen!

So, for all this reasons, my favourite piece of technology is my notebook, but like I said, technology and I don´t have a very good relation.