Music to fly

It’s difficult to me try to talk about my favorite music. Are many the bands that like me, but there are some more special than others. The most important are rock’s bands, especially classic rock. I enjoy so much listen bands like Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Beatles, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Jimmi Hendrix and others. I listen this music since I was a child, because my older brother likes it. Then, when I was a teenager I found new bands that attract me with their music. Even I had the chance to assist to two concerts. I went to see Pearl Jam in the year 2005 and Radiohead in the year 2009, this was a moment amazing in my life, I think that there are not something better that to be in a full place to people that enjoy with the same music than me. Feel the music so strong in my ears from the band that I like, doesn´t compare with nothing.
Also I had the privilege to see Roger Waters in the year 2007, who did a spectacular show compiling the disc Dark Side of the Moon completely.

The experience that I had in the three concerts is very fresh in my memory, even more when I listen some songs from their. I like much the last album of Radiohead (In Rainbows), and also Kid A and Ok Computer. The songs that I more listen of those disc are: Idioteque, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Jigsaw falling into Place, The Tourist, Let Down, Paranoid Androids, and many others.

I can´t leave to mention the Eddie Vedder music, when I saw the movie Into the Wild I loved the Soundtrack, which is more melancholic and slow that the typical songs of Pearl Jam.

The music is indispensable to make our own soundtrack of life.

Everyone need to travel

I would like to know many places, but is difficult choose only one. I think that I would choose Denmark. I know very little about this country, but one day of this week, news showed that Denmark was a country very comfortable to live. The people from these place have more conscience about care the air and planet. A good quality of live is an important point for to go with the family, or for have family there.

There, everyone use like transport a bicycle, which help to people have a good phisycal state, without stress. Besides people that doing exercises for 30 min every day, live for a long time. That like me so much, I love ride a bicke in places with beautiful landscapes.

I think that Denmark could be a good choose for stady too. The image from Tv transmit me a special sensation like if everyone were so happy. I imagine that Education in Denmark have a good quality like the life of their residentes, but I know so much about these.

Even though Chile is a country very friendly, I think that public politics aren’t the better for needs of people who really wants a differents things, like a better education, health, home, etc.

Last semester

Well, today I start to write a new blog, but it´s necessary make a recount about what happened the previous month.
The year started with a some things which changed the course of Chilean history. I refer about earthquake of February 27th 2010. In these momento I stayed in Talca, very closer of the epicenter. The 8.8 degrees Richter scale shook my house horribly.

The February 28th 2010 was my sister`s birthday. I remember that we were in the garden, with my family under constant aftershoks.
When finished my holidays I came back to Santiago with my boyfriend. The class started and the stress and fatigue, came back too. But despite theseI had a good semester in the university, I got a good average of marks. I feel very comfortable for these.
Maybe the strikes in my career and in the university in general, were the “black spots” during the semester, the ugly face of this was that our demands have not been heard yet. We continue waiting for comfortable answers from department of Education.

Sadly, I lost an important person, my grandmother. It´s was a sad moment for my father and was really shocking see him so distressed.
In conclusion the first part of this year was very changeable in all aspect.

My blogging experience

Well, during this period of class that we have been working in our blog, I learned of fun way. These kind of learn is more significant for me because we have the opportunity to give our opinion respect different topics that are interesting, as well, at the same time we practice English.
I enjoyed very much this opportunity of learn English, is different, I don't like be sit down all the time in the class, is something that becomes daily and bored, overcoat when you want learn a new language.
I think I improved my English, specialty my English writing, because the work have been constant in class.

Some the advantages of work in blogs are that you see how your English vocabulary progress in the time. Every posts show the advances that you have class to class. But, is important that you always practices English, because the idea is that stay it in your memory. Other interesting point of this way of learning is that you can see the posts of your partners of class and know their points of view.
Perhaps a big disadvantage of blog is that not exist interaction with the others persons of class. This point is very important in the learning, because with the interaction you have the possibility to have a conversation in which the learning be enriched for both persons.

In general, I have been a good experience working in the blog; I consider the blog is a useful tool to dare to learn English from your own experience. Is novel and original way, the schools should include this methodology in the class of English to incite the learning of children and young people.

Witten by...

The blog that I chose was “English class” written by María León. Her blog have 12 posts about different topics that we have been working in class.
Essentially, I like the color of background, is a green very intense, really beautiful color. Almost all posts have a photograph according to topic. Other important point, for me, present in this blog is that blog have a list with all our names, this is a good option for who are forgetful.
In general, I think that is a blog very complete, with all topics that we have been seeing during the semester.
Particularly I like the post with named “Skills” in which she speaks about her career, psychology, and the skills or abilities that the students of these career needs in their process. Personally, I consider very interesting the psychology like knowledge area and I think that I have this kind of skills that she mentions. Many times I asked myself if I could be a good student of psychology, overcoat when I was “younger”. But… I'm not sure what happened in the way, anyway I'm not regretful of my career.

About her English, I think that its very good, maybe because I consider that I don't know write very well in English, but I understand without problems her posts, are clears and precise.
In my opinion, respect to her blog, she could warrant her posts, with the intention that it look more organized, but in general I like it so much.

Schools are killing the creativity

The education is an extend topic, but it has secondary topics that are necessary to work. One of them is the creativity, and how the schools are involved with development of this.
Ken Robinson says that the schools are killing the creativity of children, the teachers and the education in general, emphasize just some areas of body like brain essentially. Actually, in Chile happen some similar. The schools impose to children a way of work in the classroom. In the last years our country had been worried of scores obtain of SIMCE, like if the results of this kind of “test” is the only parameter of development of children. But, what happen with abilities like arts?, paint? dance? Children have a tremendous talent and we don`t value it.

This topic interest me a lot, I will be a teacher, and I don`t fall in the practice in an education that not consider a complete development of children. For me, is very important and urgent that the education have others priorities in the learning of childhood.
The futures teachers must be promote of an integral education. Many times developing artistic skills, others skills are developed without the need of children keep sit down all the time.
Children need liberty of choice and decision, the imagination can open ways of learning with a sense much more significant for their. The world has been change, and the educational practice should do it too.

Zoom

I don’t want to be auto-reference, but I took this photo in my first initial practice at school “República de Alemania” which is locates in neighborhood Yungay. There, I had an unforgettable experience, because I watched a hard reality. The school “República de Alemania” is a public and multicultural stablemen which receive essentially children from countries like Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, between others less massive. The context present in that place is a great challenge for teachers, but I felt that teachers were not committed to their students, the teacher of the course that I watched, maltreated psychologically to children, it was horrible!

The violence, mono-parental families, boys and girls with alcoholic parents, are elements that affect in educative process.
The picture was took it in May, 2009. The school celebrated the “day of student” with different recreational activities for all students. The boys of the picture have around fourteen years old, but they are not student of grade where I was. I remember that two of them are from Perú, and the first (in the picture) is chilean.

I love this picture because I like the contrast that produces with the background and their color of skin. As well, the smile of the third boys is very natural and intense. It was a great capture.
When I look this picture, I think many thing respect schools and teacher without vocation. Is unbelievable how these children needs love, affection. This kind of experience motivate me to continue working and studying my career.