The last post in 2012

In this moment I'm doing my last post of the year because this english class is ending:(

I really enjoy this english class that's the last course of english levels in the Universidad de Chile.

I think that there is always something new to learn and that always will be usefull, specially in english, that is an universal language.

In my universitary life thi is my second course of english, because when I got to the university I did the english test and it results on me in the third level, so I started to take the misssing course the first semester of this year and now I'm finishing qith this subject.

Like last semester, in this one we used the blog like a way of learning english too and I think it's a really usefull way to learn more and to practice wath we already know.

Beside this, there are still some aspects that I have to improve on my personal english, like verbal times and my language, I think that there is were i have my bigger problems, but I'm not shure if they are the only ones I will know it next week at the examns D:
My plan for now to improve my english is practicing more and work alittle harder to solve this problems, thoug I don't think that I can do it fast enough for next week.

I don't use very much my english usually, but lately I've been using it a little more because I have to read press that is in english for a university work I have to do for the end of this semester.
Most of the time, when I use english it's on entertainment web pages.

At last I have to complain about one specific point, the time of the class is awfull, form me it's really late because te two days that we have this class, monday and wednesday, I have long windows between classes :/

Beside this last point, I think this class has been really usefull for me :)

The best movie?

I don´t know how can I choose just one movie, but I'll try to do it.

Latelly I've been going a lot to the cinema to watch all kind of movies, but maybe ona of the last ones I saw in the cinema was one of the best I've ever seen.

Now I can only think of "Batman: The dark knight rises"

This is an american movie that I think we all know about. I saw it in the Cinehoyts located in San Agustín, maybe around two weeks after it got to Chile, I don't remember really well.

In this movie, the main character is protagonized by Christian Bale, there are also acting on this movie Anne Hathaway, like the cat woman, Michael Cain, Gary Oldman ( a clasic of the cinema), Marion COtilliard, betweeen others.

This movie belongs to fiction movies and that is one of the reasons why I liked it, because it had a lot of factors and scenes that in another gender couldn't be there, like action scenes nad some fights, that I have to say I'm not a big fan of, but in this case were perfect for the movie plot.

Batman is a saga, and in this part of it (the last one) mencions the end of his story, it tells us about the last return of Batman to Gotham and the troubles he has to overcome to save his city one more time, but in this part of the thriology, in the company of the cat woman.

I enjoyed it because it's the end of a time, and it was a really good way(form me) to solve wath finally happened in this superhero's life.

Here I put a video so you can understan better of wath I'm talking about :) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GokKUqLcvD8

Elections fraud

I have to admit I went to vote nine days ago but I`m not really shure if this affects in any way the results of my borough because my candidate only got an eight porcent of the votes, so maybe I`m a little desapointed in that way, but looking it from another position I`m really glad that Sabat is finally aout of where I live and we can got rid of his bullies.

 

I voted because I really wanted and still want a change in the borough where I live, that is Ñuñoa, and perhaps the only way of doing that is trough voting.

 After voting I felt really well because I always tought that it cuold be usefull for something the fact of voting, so I felt really well at the moment and really eager for the results that, especially in the place I live, was really tight.
 I don´t really like our political system but dough it's the only one we have we have to try to do something with what we have.

Y spect the fact that so many people didn't vote on this municipal elections, I think the most of us did espect it but never dimensioned the magnitud that it will be.

 

I hope that in the presidencials elections there will be more interested people in voting and we get the oportunity to make a change in this country once for all.

Besides, with the change of the ministers I think that desapointed us all, so maybe the people will feel eaven less represented for the politics of Chile.

Chilean character

I don't know if there really is a greatest Chilean of all times, if I had to choose I cuoldn't pick one in special, could you? 
Maybe if it's a character it wolud be easier to choose one because it's fiction, but in reality I don't think  there is one that overcomes all the others persons.
After saying that, so I can have something to talk about in this entrance of my blog I will choose a fiction character.
So... one of the greatest would be for me "Profesor Rosa" :)
Now, I know that his profile has changed from the show that he maid in my childhood.
I´ve already talk about his show made for childs in the previous course of english because I think it´s a really good character and tipicaly chilean for us that got to see him in those programs and now see him in another area of tv programs, like "Mentiras Verdaderas" on it fridays special called "Viernes Sin Censura" 

He started doing childs programs  but after a forbidden video he started toguether with Guru guru and Don Carter doing adults shows and programs, but now everyone of them work on their own.

I don´t know if he´s really like an important chilean person, but at least for me when I was a child he was :B

If I fet to see hime again, this time like a journalism student I would ask him if he doesn´t miss the program that he made for childs, the animals investigation and the blackboard where he draw animals and get childrens learning about the animal world in a fun way. Something that now in our country doesn´t exist.

I hope you remember him too :)

Practicing for PEt test

Hello everyone, after a long time without writting to you I have to talk to you about a practicing test I just did.

This practice is ment to prepare us for the final exam that's called PET, it's made of a lot of little test that see how are you doing in your english capacities.

Pet evaluates your skills on reading, listening, vocabulary, and language, all of this in the correct english form. 

In my case I just realice that I have some problems in some of this areas. I think my biggest problems were in the language part and also in the second part of the listening section that's were I`ve got the lowest scores.

but the good part is that I got complete score in the reading part, I guess that this is because this part is the one that we most practice in classes and in general life when we got to be in front og english words.

I hope I can improve the parts where I have problems from here to the end of this englis course, otherwise I'll have to do this level of english again :(. 

I wish you ghad better luck than I!

First day at the university

Well, this time I will talk with all of you about my first day at the university.

It was here, in the ICEI in 2010. A strange beginning of semester because of the earthquake that shocked us the twenty seventh of February and that put us a mark because there wasn’t Cartagua that year :/.

After some difficulties in the beginning of the year we finally started classes the third week of April and they were really strange, at least for me because you don´t really know who is going to teach you or how they are going to treat you in classes and in the evaluations.At least in my school we all knew each other so it was comfortating, but in this place everything was new.

So, the first day was strange in the classes, but not in the breaks because our generation of journalism made a reunion before we started classes. Around March to most of us, around 40, came to the reunion without knowing each other and to get to knew at least our names ajajja.At least in that part it wasn’t so strange because I saw familiar faces in some of the classes and after it, in the breaks we were all reunited to take a cup of coffee and try to get that sleeping face away.

I have to say at first I was out of place and felt really uncomfortable in the classes, but after it I got to speak with a lot of nice people, but I don’t specially remember with who I was talking to on my first day of university.

I remember drinking a lot of coffee and feeling overwhelm with all the books that I had to read, but after those first days of uncertainty everything went better than expected.

Parrilladas!

The Fiestas Patrias were specially long this year, they lasted all five days, in some cases they were longer because people, between some of them two my relatives that took extra days off from work for this holyday.

I will talk about this recently past fondas because they were really special. In this opportunity we, has a family, received a traveler. My oldest cousin (he is already 34!) came from Spain that is where he lives to visit us for this holydays.

We get to see him after 3 long years so it was a really important moment and with tears and all, tears of happiness of course jajaja.

What we did was simple, we spend the more time we could with him, talking about his life and how it has been for him to be away from us and how difficult it has been for us to don’t have him near.

Every day we were making parrilladas in different houses of my family, so after the first two days I didn’t want to see another piece of meat, it was so much food.

Beside my family, in two of the nights I went to fondas with my friends, but it was so crowded and there was only meat everywere so after the 18 I choose to eat only vegetables and some soups.

I really enjoyed it because I had a lot of activities and I get to spend a lot of quality time with my family in honor that was my cousin in the country, something that didn’t happened in a long time. So this Fiestras Patrias were the best that I had in a really long time! J