My experience with english

First of all, I have to say that I have a special relation with English language. This is because this kind of language has had a big imprint in my family. My father and my mother live for several years on a country where English is the first language: Canada. After that, my mother became an English teacher, until nowadays. My father and my sister are brilliant dominants of this language. And, in my case, the situation is the opposite. I don’t have an accurate management about English. I really don’t like to learn new languages. And also, and just because my family is very near to English language, for a while – especially in mi adolescence- I hate it.
Today, I have compulsory English classes. If it were my personal option, probably I never take this class. This doesn’t mean that I think that English it’s awful or unnecessary. Indeed, in my opinion, English language it’s very useful because it is an indispensable tool for the social life today, allow open new horizons for the mind and the relationships. And in special for the people that love travel, like me.
So, ¿why I say that if it were my option, I’ll never take English classes? Well, this is because I think that the obligatory staffs don’t have good results, including language learning. When I was younger, I hate that my family spoke English on my house and my face. I felt that they wanted that I do the same, at any price. Because I was on my teenage time, don’t speak English was a reveal way from my mother (at that time my father doesn’t live anymore with me). By the same time, I had English classes on school. That experience was more fun (because I was with my classmates), but in the deep of my heart I don’t like it for nothing.
Nowadays, being in university, I think that the compulsory classes might do not exist. English is the unique obligatory subject in my career (Anthropology), and that is bad for a better learning. I believe that if you want to really learn a language, you have to take that option by yourself. You need a lot of time to study. It’s not useful have classes only once a week (like my case); you need to practice all the days of the week. And for the students that’s very difficult, because we have a lot of others subject. That’s way I will take English classes in an institute when I finish my career.

Faculty facilities

The general situation of my faculty is rather bad than good. There are serious problems with the infrastructure in general and the implements for the students. The building have some failures. The reason for this situation is the fact that this faculty doesn’t have too much money, in comparison with others like Economic and business faculty (FEN) and Medicine faculty.
For example, the different problems are:
- Students don’t have any lockers. We need lockers, because we always are with a books, notebooks, laptops, exercise clothes, etcetera.
- The library doesn’t have all the kind of book that the students need. Sometimes you have to go to other libraries faculty, other times the book doesn’t exist in all the university.
- There is not available a student study room. This year, the authorities decided that the casino, before and after of lunch time, becomes in study room. I think that this situation is untenable, because is a express and easy solution that doesn’t reflect real preoccupation.
- Sometimes there are problems with the computer rooms, because when there is some class happening in there, some people run out of computer.
- The amount of print’s paper is too low. Many times I have to go to other universality and places to can print all the stuff that the teachers give to ass.
- Some toilets units don’t work, making all the room very dirty. The same happens with the wash basin. Not always there is toilet paper.
- There are not available ramps for disabled people. I think that this situation is terrible for a Social Science faculty, a place that, in theory, worries about minorities.

The sound of music

First of all, I will say that I am a music fan. Without music, the world will be very boring! That’s why I always NEED to be with my MP3 player in the street, and with the radio blaring in my house. By the same, I listen a lot of different music. From reggueaton to trip hop, passing through funk, pop, hip hop, ethnic music (afro, arabic), latin music and movies soundtracks.
My favorite band is Jamiroquai. They are from England. The music that they play is a mix of acid jazz, funk, soul and disco. I like Jamiroquai because the music that they play its make me feels happy. The bits are perfect for dancing, they keep me high.
The Jamiroquai’s CDs are the only original that I have. For me, a student, buy CDs tracks is difficult, because they are too expensive for my pocket. That is the reason why I always download free music on internet, especially discography of my favorite artists. Approximately, I download about one CD track at a week.
Although I like a lot listen to music, I can’t play any musical instrument. That’s very sad, because I wish I can play saxophone, piano or drums. On the other hand, I think that I am a good dancer. I love to dance, especially reggueaton, salsa, pop… More in particular, I practice Arabic dance since 8 years ago, and Afro dance since 5 years ago. And I love to listen and to dance those kinds of music. Finally, about singing, I am really really bad. But this doesn’t means that I don’t sing. Contrary, I like to sing a lot, especially in my house.

About Cinema

I am a cinema lover. I have a lot of movies in my house, but the 90% of them are copied. All the time I’m asking to my friends if they have new movies, for copies them. I choose the copy films because it’s the cheaper option. Go to the cinema it’s very expensive, and that’s why I choose to have my own films. The times when I went to the cinema have been because someone pays my ticket. Other times, I try to find places where they play movies for free.
It’s a difficult decision for me choose only one movie. For today, I will talk about V for Vendetta. This is a science fiction movie that it is based on a graphic novel wrote by Alan Moore. The movie was released on 2005, and its director is James Mc Teigue. The film stars are: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea and John Hurt.
The history is this way: The location is London, but not the actually London. It’s a city of the future! There is an authoritarian government, and the main character, V, is a mysterious wrestler that combats the sociopolitical situation, and specifically manner to do that is through the vendetta.
This is a really good film. Not only the history it’s good, also the special effects, the dialogues, the music, the actuation… that’s why I lost the count about how much times I saw the movie.

WHAT TO DO / WHERE TO GO IN SANTIAGO .

This weekend I supposed to write a post about what to do and where to go in Santiago. Once a time, in a holiday time, when I was in other country, I just think about this topic, because I was a foreigner tourist in that place and a lot of people recommend to me differente places and things to do. But, when I think about what to do in Santiago city, my own-answer was that I really don’t know!
Today, after a time about that firs thinking, I view more possibilities that I recommend to a foreigner tourist. But it remains being a little hardest for me. In first place, I think that a great place to go is Cerro Santa Lucía. This is a really good alternative, because in that place you can find a lot of things to do, like the cableway, the zoo, the japanese garden, the funicular; and all with a great view from above of Santiago city. Other place can be the Youngay neighborhood, because it’s an important key of Santiago history. A third possibility can be to visit Chascona, the Pablo Neruda’s house, a place with artistic activities. The fourth visit you can’t miss is Quinta Normal. This is a big public park, with a artificial lake and lot of museums inside, like the Museum of natural history, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Train museum. And the last thing, and if it isabout party, a good place to go it’s Bellavista neighborhood. There is a lot of pubs and restaurants, so you can choose the most you like.

Mi favorite TV serial: DEXTER

My favorite TV serial is call “Dexter”. It is an american television drama series that airs on the Showtime channel. It is based on novels by Jeff Lindsay: “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, “Dearly Devoted Dexter” and “Dexter in the Dark.” The serial centers on Dexter Morgan (the actor Michael C. Hall), a jovial employee in the Miami Metropolitan Police Department's crime lab, where he works as a blood spatter analyst. The interesting thing is that Dexter have a double life: he is a covert serial killer. His actions and thoughts are governed by a strict moral code: He only kill “Bad guys” (murderers, torturers, etcétera).
The first time that I listen about this TV serial was a couple years ago. Nevertheless, the first time that I saw it was this year, because I download all the seasons free from internet.
The principal reason that makes me want to see the TV show is that I think that Dexter have an internal justice principle, and the “strange way” (be a killer) that he use to satisfy that idea. At the same time, he has to resolve murders, so that thing make double interesting (because it have a lot of police cases). Also, the history is very exciting, with a lot of tension moments, many of whom are given by other interesting characters.

Transantiago

Hello everyone!
In a very first time, I hated Transantiago. That was because in the moment that Transantiago was implemented, I was living in La Reina, a neighborhood with a bad public transfer. If before Transantiago I have different bus routes, after I had only one!
But today, I live in another part of Santiago. I live in Ñuñoa, near to Irarrázaval, so I have a diversity of bus routes that cross this avenue.
I think that Transantiago is better than the pre-Transantiago system in only one thing. This thing is the BIP target. I think that it is an easy way to pay, because it’s faster and comfortable to transport. And, the better thing is that with one passage you can make more than one travel.
However, I think that Transantiago it is a bad system. The worst thing that it have it is that it doesn’t have coordination between buses. Because of this, sometimes you have to wait almost a half an hour, and sometimes they past one after other.
The last thing that I say it’s the first change that I will do if I could. The second one it is about the bus stop. I see on the street that they are very badly done, because some of them are very big for only one bus, and other are to small for a lot of bus routes.