What do Fiestas Patrias mean to you?
I don’t have it very clear; I think I am not a nationalist person and when I hear some about our national holidays I don’t think in Chile but I think about how I am going to have a really good time with my friends or may be with my girlfriend, too.
What typical Chileans do
We have lots of typical activities. My favourite national activity is having an “asado”; this is like a “Chilean barbecue” if you life. In Chile when we take a grill and we start to cook meal upon it then you can realize that a fraternity air is turning around. When you are in a “Asado Chileno” you can share with good people and you can have a really good time and drink a lot.
What you did as a child
Wow, when I was a child I used to go out with my father and we fly kites together whole day, I loved do it very much.
What you do nowadays
I think this 18 will be the best 18 in my entire life; I am going to go to many parties, I am going to drink and eat a lot and I am going to share a good time with my friends and my girlfriend.
Which was your favourite 18 and why.
The latest 18 was my favourite and I am sure about that; I remember when I was waiting for my Italian girlfriend get to Santiago, I was so excited and when I saw her I hugged her and I kiss her. It was a really good time.
martes, 9 de septiembre de 2008
lunes, 1 de septiembre de 2008
ultima semana FUTURE
When I read about this post I was tearing my hair out because this pc is so slow. Well, in five years later I don’t know what I’m going to be doing. Now I am trying to finish my college studies, I hope have done my studies next year and then I want to travel, I want to make trips with my girlfriend to everywhere, every year. I want to enjoy my life. Well I also have other plans in my life. Sometimes I wish I’d taken more time for myself, I regret it. I have got many classmates and they took time for themselves before they got in to college.
Actually, a new idea suddenly occurred to me. I want to buy a dep. I wish I can save money and with this money I'm going to pay a dept, I hope it will be done. In the next two or three years I want to go to some country where English is spoken. I think that is a good idea to improve my English, when I thought about moving abroad I thought about the Falkland Islands, a I have a cousin and she went to Falkland Islands, she told me “the islands are amazing, you should know them”
That’s all for me.
Actually, a new idea suddenly occurred to me. I want to buy a dep. I wish I can save money and with this money I'm going to pay a dept, I hope it will be done. In the next two or three years I want to go to some country where English is spoken. I think that is a good idea to improve my English, when I thought about moving abroad I thought about the Falkland Islands, a I have a cousin and she went to Falkland Islands, she told me “the islands are amazing, you should know them”
That’s all for me.
lunes, 25 de agosto de 2008
to check by teacher!!!! English experience
Well, good topic. I started with my English studies when I was child, I remember my first English lesson like it was yesterday. I had my first English lesson at “Colegio Chile” when I was 5.
Really, when I was a child I never thought to learn another language was so important. I wish I had realized how important learning English is for my future jobs or something like that. In Chilean’s schools we were attending to English lessons since we were five or six years old, but although it seems incredible most of the Chilean’s students can’t have a conversation when they finish their English lessons.
Why is happening what I wrote here? I think that it’s because all the educative system is bad and if you want to get a good education you’ve got to pay more money. Well, getting back to our topic, I think that when a person speaks English or another language they stand out when they are talking and everybody wants to talk with them.
Really, I love learn English, but what do I find difficult? The most difficult to me is English grammar and it’s not because it’s difficult itself but because it’s different. Well, at least there are free web sites like The BBC’s website, I found this web site when Simon showed us in a earlier English lessons, and when I went to The BBC’s website I discovered a new world!!! Well, to finish I like this web site because it is has good things to learn.
Have I got any English speaking friends? Yes, when I was living in Buenos Aires I had an English friend, he lived with me and he taught English in the University of Buenos Aires.
Really, when I was a child I never thought to learn another language was so important. I wish I had realized how important learning English is for my future jobs or something like that. In Chilean’s schools we were attending to English lessons since we were five or six years old, but although it seems incredible most of the Chilean’s students can’t have a conversation when they finish their English lessons.
Why is happening what I wrote here? I think that it’s because all the educative system is bad and if you want to get a good education you’ve got to pay more money. Well, getting back to our topic, I think that when a person speaks English or another language they stand out when they are talking and everybody wants to talk with them.
Really, I love learn English, but what do I find difficult? The most difficult to me is English grammar and it’s not because it’s difficult itself but because it’s different. Well, at least there are free web sites like The BBC’s website, I found this web site when Simon showed us in a earlier English lessons, and when I went to The BBC’s website I discovered a new world!!! Well, to finish I like this web site because it is has good things to learn.
Have I got any English speaking friends? Yes, when I was living in Buenos Aires I had an English friend, he lived with me and he taught English in the University of Buenos Aires.
miércoles, 20 de agosto de 2008
simonresum!
This article talks about deserts regions around the world and what’s going on with these major areas. This article has been drawn by UN and invites us to take aware about the climate change’s consequences.
This article warns us that higher temperatures are coming. Deserts areas around the world are drying up, this has provoked that many animal species and many vegetal species are dying.
This article argues that global warming is triggering dangerous climate changes... and what should we do to facing this problem?
This article warns us that higher temperatures are coming. Deserts areas around the world are drying up, this has provoked that many animal species and many vegetal species are dying.
This article argues that global warming is triggering dangerous climate changes... and what should we do to facing this problem?
lunes, 18 de agosto de 2008
to check! (by theachers)
Well, my name is Ricardo Paulsen. I was born in Santiago de Chile; here in my country our culture is like any other western culture on the world. I think that the culture I grew up is very good and I’d like living it every day.
My family is quite normal; I live with my parents and my brother. My father has worked in a security company for as long as I remember. My mother is a housewife; my parents got married when they were twenty-two years old. My brother is called Juan Pablo, he is studying at the high school, and he’s 15 years old.
Well, What do I like to do in my free time? I like travel; every year I save all money I can. When I have enough money I always draw up my holidays with someone else. Last summer I took my bag and I went to Mendoza city, in Argentina. From this city I was visiting every cities I could. Three weeks later I got to Bolivia, I was in “La Quiaca” one day and then I went to La Paz city.
I finished high school when I was 18, then I got in to the college. I decided to study geography because I have a special interest about the urban problems.
My family is quite normal; I live with my parents and my brother. My father has worked in a security company for as long as I remember. My mother is a housewife; my parents got married when they were twenty-two years old. My brother is called Juan Pablo, he is studying at the high school, and he’s 15 years old.
Well, What do I like to do in my free time? I like travel; every year I save all money I can. When I have enough money I always draw up my holidays with someone else. Last summer I took my bag and I went to Mendoza city, in Argentina. From this city I was visiting every cities I could. Three weeks later I got to Bolivia, I was in “La Quiaca” one day and then I went to La Paz city.
I finished high school when I was 18, then I got in to the college. I decided to study geography because I have a special interest about the urban problems.
lunes, 14 de julio de 2008
blogger experience
What I liked?
The blog activity has been very interesting. I’ve never made an activity like this in others English lessons. By the way I remember about my school time, the most of us had English lessons since “kinder garden” and almost everybody didn’t know very much about English. Really, it is so incredible to think that we studied English about thirteen year in the school and a lot of us could not keep a simple conversation before to take the Simon’s English lessons. Go back to the question, I liked to have the opportunity of read my classmates’ post and see what they have written. So, the blog gives us the opportunity of communicate us each other, this must be exploited because add this new tecnologies is very important to get new knowledge.
What I didn’t like?
I didn’t like the George lessons, not by George but what we had to do in this lesson. In my opinion, we’ve got to practice conversations between us. We need somebody who take us and make us talk each other. I think that in the next semester we should put special attention in practice conversations, this we could do it with videos and practicing dialogues.
What helped me learn English?
A lot of thing, but the most important thing to me was the Monday’s lessons because we had the opportunity of listen to Simon. As I said earlier in another post we should practice conversation because if we are be able to keep a conversation we will be able to take control when we want to say some idea.
The post that I liked least…
I think there was not a post that I liked least; each post had a something funny. But if I’d have to choose I’d choose “Why, Why, Why”, because was the funniest and this post gave us the opportunity to know each other.
Which is the best blog in the class?
Really, I don’t know which the best blog is, but I know that my classmates gave the best of them doing their blogs. If I’d have to choose I’d choose my blog, because I think that is the most interesting and complete.
The blog activity has been very interesting. I’ve never made an activity like this in others English lessons. By the way I remember about my school time, the most of us had English lessons since “kinder garden” and almost everybody didn’t know very much about English. Really, it is so incredible to think that we studied English about thirteen year in the school and a lot of us could not keep a simple conversation before to take the Simon’s English lessons. Go back to the question, I liked to have the opportunity of read my classmates’ post and see what they have written. So, the blog gives us the opportunity of communicate us each other, this must be exploited because add this new tecnologies is very important to get new knowledge.
What I didn’t like?
I didn’t like the George lessons, not by George but what we had to do in this lesson. In my opinion, we’ve got to practice conversations between us. We need somebody who take us and make us talk each other. I think that in the next semester we should put special attention in practice conversations, this we could do it with videos and practicing dialogues.
What helped me learn English?
A lot of thing, but the most important thing to me was the Monday’s lessons because we had the opportunity of listen to Simon. As I said earlier in another post we should practice conversation because if we are be able to keep a conversation we will be able to take control when we want to say some idea.
The post that I liked least…
I think there was not a post that I liked least; each post had a something funny. But if I’d have to choose I’d choose “Why, Why, Why”, because was the funniest and this post gave us the opportunity to know each other.
Which is the best blog in the class?
Really, I don’t know which the best blog is, but I know that my classmates gave the best of them doing their blogs. If I’d have to choose I’d choose my blog, because I think that is the most interesting and complete.
WWWHHHYYY???
Why are you studying Geography? / Why did you decide to study Geography?
Before entering to the college I didn’t know very much what I wanted to study, when I was an adolescent we were always made the same question along time until I left the high school. The last year in the high school was terrible, because we always had somebody who was saying us what we had to do. I had good classmates in this time. I also remember that I belonged to special group called the “chichas team", that it is like say a “drinkers team”. Well, what was the question? Why am I studying geography? I am studying geography mostly because I think that the territorial problems are very interesting and the normal people don’t know very much about this. I like the urban problems, too, I love the city and its ways to live it, if I’ve got a great dream, undoubtedly is to know everyone cities around the world.
What will you be doing (professionally) in 10 years time?
This is the hardest question that anyone has made me. Really I don’t know it very clearly, but I’ see me travelling around the world, I have always thought that the best geographer is the one who knows more, it is by I want to know everything I can. So, I think that in teen years I am going to be working outside the country, I don’t know where but it doesn’t matter of any way, because the important is be “outside”, knowing…
How can geographers help save the planet?
This is a children question. Who do want to save the world? We are not superheroes and I won’t try to be one of them. We live in a neoliberal world and everyone have their business, every person takes care about his problems. If we want to save the world, we must be able to change the way the people think, we must build a collective conscience that protect us of the human evil.
What tools will the geographer of the future need to have?
First, we need to learn English very well, if you can’t understand anything about English and you want to go outside the continent; you are dead because you won’t be able to talk with anybody.
Other important tool are the GIS, if you aren’t able to take a computer and use software like ArcGIS or Erdas, you are a dead man, too. Both things are linked very strong and if you cannot drive you remained in the past.
What is your favourite subject?
I think that my favourite subject is the urbanism because as I said earlier I love the city. In relation to urbanism I could say that my favourite subject is the gentrification process. This urban process began in England, specifically in London city. In Chile this urban process has begun slowly to appear on the urban spaces of our cities, getting an important increase since 80’s until now.
Before entering to the college I didn’t know very much what I wanted to study, when I was an adolescent we were always made the same question along time until I left the high school. The last year in the high school was terrible, because we always had somebody who was saying us what we had to do. I had good classmates in this time. I also remember that I belonged to special group called the “chichas team", that it is like say a “drinkers team”. Well, what was the question? Why am I studying geography? I am studying geography mostly because I think that the territorial problems are very interesting and the normal people don’t know very much about this. I like the urban problems, too, I love the city and its ways to live it, if I’ve got a great dream, undoubtedly is to know everyone cities around the world.
What will you be doing (professionally) in 10 years time?
This is the hardest question that anyone has made me. Really I don’t know it very clearly, but I’ see me travelling around the world, I have always thought that the best geographer is the one who knows more, it is by I want to know everything I can. So, I think that in teen years I am going to be working outside the country, I don’t know where but it doesn’t matter of any way, because the important is be “outside”, knowing…
How can geographers help save the planet?
This is a children question. Who do want to save the world? We are not superheroes and I won’t try to be one of them. We live in a neoliberal world and everyone have their business, every person takes care about his problems. If we want to save the world, we must be able to change the way the people think, we must build a collective conscience that protect us of the human evil.
What tools will the geographer of the future need to have?
First, we need to learn English very well, if you can’t understand anything about English and you want to go outside the continent; you are dead because you won’t be able to talk with anybody.
Other important tool are the GIS, if you aren’t able to take a computer and use software like ArcGIS or Erdas, you are a dead man, too. Both things are linked very strong and if you cannot drive you remained in the past.
What is your favourite subject?
I think that my favourite subject is the urbanism because as I said earlier I love the city. In relation to urbanism I could say that my favourite subject is the gentrification process. This urban process began in England, specifically in London city. In Chile this urban process has begun slowly to appear on the urban spaces of our cities, getting an important increase since 80’s until now.
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