Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Last Post.

Well, this is the last post that I will write in this blog to the English III Class in the first semester. I hope that anyone who read it will enjoy some of which I've written or, at least, it seems consistent.

This wasn’t the first time which I write in a blog, but is very different do It in English, thinking that after It will be assessed, mainly because the subjects are given or agreed, limiting the free writing. Either way, it takes much imagination to make from small ideas a full post.

No doubt I enjoyed writing this blog, I found entertaining and a good experience. To express ideas, however small or incomplete to be, they help to improve the communication skills.

Gradually I got used to thinking in English, thing which still remains very difficult to me, but with practice I could improve. By no means I am good in English, but I'm slightly better. Mainly, it has been very good to understand how to sort ideas in another language to preserve the original meaning, or at least, that It does not vary much. With regard to vocabulary, I have learned many more words and the different types of conjugates, in addition to practicing a more relaxed communication, not so formal.

There are many advantages of writing a blog in English class, one of them is the constant help which the teacher provides to solve all sorts of questions, is an excellent guide. Also writing in conjunction with other classmates, which enables the exchange of ideas and a pleasant working environment. One drawback for me is the time that usually I take to organize and structure ideas in English text correctly, so I work a bit faster in the time available, thus sometimes I make silly mistakes.


Bye Bye

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

FIFA World Cup

If we think which the football is the most popular and practiced sport on the world, the moment where the 32 best countries compete while they had be seen for severeal millons of pairs of eyes, we can be seen to the FIFA World Cup as one of the few events of the humanity meets without it has relation with a war conflict.

In this moment, I do not know where I going to see the match of tomorrow: Chile vs Honduras. I have two alternatives: to see the match in the university, but for It, I would have which awake very very early to arrive to the university to the start of the match. The other option is to see the match in my house and when it end, run to the Transantiago, from here to the Metro and keep running again to the Transantiago for to arrive on time to the class. Both options are very difficult. If I see the match in my house, I going to see the match with my parents; if I see the match in the University, I going to see the match with my classmates.

My expect from the Chile’s participation on the match of tomorrow is which they show a good football like a team and to see some goals and very much courage. I hope a chilean victory, nothing more. With respect to the Chile’s participation in all of the World Cup, I do not know if Chile win, I just hope to see a good play and many goals.

I understad the behavior of the chilean people about the chile’s participation: the bread is richer and tea is sweeter when chile wins.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

A good photograph

Hello to all!!!!

This photograph was taken by Wen Fong, a Chilean student that lives in Santiago. He has been in North America, Asia and Europa taking photographs.

The photograph was taken on January 8, 2010 in the Meadow Village, Big Sky, Montana.

The name of this photograph is Winter Fire, and was publicated in Isocien which is a chilean website dedicated to the photography and in Flickr, the bigest website made to share photographs and videos with the world.

An important point is the camera that captured this photograph: a Nikon D40X. This is a great camera, and his price is over $ 300.000 chilean pesos.

This photograph shows wood burning in winter. It is very difficult to achieve combustion in bad climatic condition, but we can see how flows the fire and which is feeding from to the wood and the cold oxygen of winter. For this reason, this is photograph need hard work.

To take a fire photograph needs knowledge and experience in the world of photography, Wen Fong could not took this photograph using flash, with a low exposure time or a auto zoom. All of this factor must be selected for the photographer with so much carefully. Each element of the nature could ruin a photograph, and more in winter, the enemy of the fire.

I like this photograph because It shows a big concern and care in the details: the photograph is centered, the colors are very marked and the contrast is optimal. Exist the possibility which I am imagining all of the good characteristics of the photograph and could be the result of an error or just for luck. Even so, this is a great photography and It has the classical features of hard work.


Wednesday, June 2, 2010

My favorite trip

My favorite trip was this year at El Tabo. The Tabo is a municipality in the Province of San Antonio, in the V Region of Valparaiso. It is located 120 km from Santiago, exactly in the east.
This trip was made with two old friends, Bianco and Francisco, both former classmates. In fact, we plan to make this trip for quite some time, resulting only February 26, 2010.

I think you understand why this trips is special compared with my others trips.

The first night we spent in El Tabo, occurred the Earthquake of the 27-02. It was not the same earthquake what it did special this trip, yes did do the consequences of this earthquake, which I can define in three words: freedom, isolation and independence. These three things made me understand my abilities to solve problems. These problems can be seen as simple, but are rare as the lack of drinking water, the decrease in the ration of food (prices rose and began to lack some products) or our security.

Initially we plan to be in El Tabo three days, but were eventually four days because the bus would bring us back to Santiago simply did not picked us. Be careful when you are traveling in Tur-Bus, jajajaja.

What most we did, finally, was to know the city walking, taking many photographs of the coastal landscape with long journeys through the various beaches. I think that was the best of this trip: despite everything that was happening, always we could sit, watching the sea and hear the sound. Just to rest.

This is my trip.