Fly to the moon.

Hi, today I want to talk about my biggest dream… to go out from the planet earth. Since I was child, I always like to see the stars by hours imagining what there are on that far, far, far places. I used to watch (until today) universe documentaries, like the ones of Discovery Channel or History Channel, etc.

 Since we were child, in the school teach us about the solar system, the galaxies, planets, etc., but some times I wonder myself if all that is real, are we really floating in an infinite universe?. I know that the whole science has studies and investigations about this topic since seventeenth century, and even very old civilizations and cultures has the idea of planets going around the sun.  I don’t really doubt about those things, but for me is something so incredible, I think that we know maybe that the earth is round or we can know the earth’s size, but I’m sure that there aren’t many people who have seen this with their own eyes.  

I want to see some day the earth from the space, I want to walk on the moon , or even farther  on Mars… and feel and see that all that things that we know are real and that we really are in the middle of nothing. If this happen one day, I will be the happiest man in the world, just thinking in the fact of landing in mars, or see the earth from the moon, makes me get really exited. I really keep the hope that one day I will can go to the space, because now at days the technology is develop itself very, very fast, so I think that on the future it would be easier and more common the space travels for everyone.

Japan!

Hi:

 today I’ll tell you about a place I’d go if I’d have all the money I need. And that place would be Japan. I like a lot of places and countries also, but this one is the most mysterious for me, and the way that they live I think that is very interesting.
 I don’t know really much things about Japan, only that they are really good sea food eaters, and also that they eat a completely different diet than us. I know also that they have a lot of martial arts, like “ninjutzu” that is the one that ninjas practice.
One of the things that most call my attention is the scenery of Japan. On that island just the 18% of the land is habitable, the rest are hills, mountains and valleys where a city couldn’t be built. After I spent the money visiting tourist places, I would like to go to the country side and work and live with the people for know by this way their life style and customaries. By the way I would need to learn Japanese language and writing, something really exiting I think.

I think that Japanese people have a lot of things to teach us to make better our lifes.  

Spartacus the series

Hello Classmates:

 Today I will talk about Spartacus, a series that came out the last year, and it have had a lot of success. This series have been produced by “Starz”, a film studio that makes series based on historical stories, like Spartacus (based on the story of the slave in the roman empire) or Pendragon, a series based on the Arthur King legend.

 I watch Spartacus for first time on April of this year when I went home, and my parents had bought the full series on DVD. And when I saw it I got trapped with the plot instantaneously.  The plot is very intense and the script is awesome, the way that the characters speak is like heard speaking an antique roman.

The Series show the life of Spartacus as a gladiator since the moment when he gets into the barracks for first time until he riot with all the gladiators against their roman master or “numinus”. On the series you will see a lot of action, blood, suspense and scenes with sexual content. I think that all this characteristics together show very well the roman culture and life style and that is why I like so much this series.

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Education and Creativity

Hi:

 Education and creativity is the topic for this post. I think that that is a really interesting topic, for the moment that we are living in our country and how is the occidental world educating their child. I have share the same point of view, that school kill creativity, from some time ago.

I’m agree that the schools doesn’t foment a development of our creativity, because everything that we learned in the school is something already done, we don’t need to think about how you get to some math formulas and why the formula is like it is. The only thing that we do (the most of the times) is learn something and then apply it (but not on the most of the cases).

If with the traditional knowledge given by the school there aren’t so many activities for develop the creativity, what could we expect about artistic subjects? I know that in other countries the school realize more artistic activities than in Chile, and they also have better implements for that. But the matter is that those kinds of activities are not the most important in the curricular contents. I think that one important part of the problem is, as Ken Robinson says, that the schools are made for prepare university people, and obviously not everyone has the same facilities and skills for that, but they are really good in arts for example.

I hope that the education would be saw in other way with the time, because there are every time more people that take care about this matter and are suggesting new kinds of education. In fact there are some schools that have different philosophies of education, like Waldorf or Montessori. I suppose that the reason of why we don’t have an education that stimulates our creativity is that the system need people who doesn’t care too much about why things happens. I think that creativity make a awake mind, not like a sheep who doesn’t occurred how to change things that are not right.

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Magical Worlds

Hi people:

  Today I want to talk about the fiction, and about the books of fantasy and their worlds, like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, etc. Since I was ten years old I like this kind of things, especially when I saw the movie of the Lord of the Rings. I really appreciate the authors of the books, because you need a lot of imagination for invent a story and more for invent new worlds where the stories happens.  

Ok, what I most like are the main characters that have to pass for a lot of fantastic adventures and they need to defeat monster and all those things. I always wanted to live an adventure like those in that kind of worlds, and travel in my horse huge distances for some crazy mission or just in search of adventures, staying in different towns and cities. There is a lot of classic kind of characters, and the one that I most liked are the wizards, with their tunics and rods, using their powerful magic in the battles. You know that in some video games, or roles games you can play in a fantasy world and do all those things that I have described, and the times that I have played it I always select a wizard for my character.

I don’t know why I feel attract by that kind of imaginary worlds, but I would love to live in one. Other thing that I always liked is the way that the people use to live on those stories, like on the middle age, without our technology.

I think that one character worthy of admiration is the Quixote, because he lived a life of adventures ass a knight just in his imagination. The book has a very, very deep story that goes more far than just the madness of the Quixote. There are a lot of reflections and learning for many, many people that has read it.

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Websites (june 7 2011)

Hi guys:

  Ok, let’s talk about the internet, specify of the web sites that I use to visit more often than other websites. I think that one of the websites that I most time on, as a lot of my classmates hahaha, is facebook. I think that the reason of that is that on that website, we can do a lot of things of our social life that we can’t do in certain moments. For example if we are in our houses we cannot spent all our time talking by phone with our known people. Also facebook is very useful for organize parties or our classes for example.

 Other site that I visit very often is YouTube, and I also like it a lot. In YouTube I use to see music videos more than any other kind of video. I use it for learn songs in guitar sometimes or for search some songs that I´m searching for. One of the things that I like of You Tube is the variety of videos that you can find in it, and that is free for anyone who dispose a web connection to upload their videos. I think that You Tube is a website, with Google and Facebook, that has revolutionized the use of the internet everywhere in the globe.

Those are the two websites that I most time spend on, also I visit g-mail and Hotmail, but just for check my e-mail. I feel a little bit bad because I use internet just for things that are not really important, and I could use for any other things that I should care more. Finally, other page that I use to visit for get some laugh is Porlaputa hahhaha…

that’s all folks!

Guitar

Ok today I will talk about something that I really like, the guitar.

I think that first I need to make mention to the context of the guitar, the music, a thing that I really like also. I use to listen music every day and every moment that I can.  I find that the most of the music styles are good (except from reggeatone) and I also like almost all the music styles. I think that with the time you can get accustomed to some styles that you didn’t listen before, or at least that is what happens to me. Anyway I find music awesome.

Ok, but let’s talk about the guitar now. I’ve plaid guitar from eight or seven years ago, I started on the school. I decided to learn because my father sometimes plaid music with a band, and I really liked it, by other way he play guitar as well, so I has grown up with that. With the time I’ve known different guitar play styles, and I like the most of them, but I think that my favorites are classical, flamenco and rock.  

I guess that one of the things that I like of the guitar as an instrument, is so versatile, you can make a lot of different sounds just by how do you play, and now with technology the possibilities of make different sounds has increase in a considerably way. So it’s really exiting when you listen music and sometimes the guitar sounds really aggressive and powerful, and other really quiet and delicate, or sad, psycothelic, etc. And that's the reason about why is guitar my favorite instrument, and other thing that it’s really important is that I get a lot of fun playing it.  So that’s my story about my likes in music and instruments… bye!Ok today I will talk about something that I really like, the guitar.

I think that first I need to make mention to the context of the guitar, the music, a thing that I really like also. I use to listen music every day and every moment that I can.  I find that the most of the music styles are good (except from reggeatone) and I also like almost all the music styles. I think that with the time you can get accustomed to some styles that you didn’t listen before, or at least that is what happens to me. Anyway I find music awesome.

Ok, but let’s talk about the guitar now. I’ve plaid guitar from eight or seven years ago, I started on the school. I decided to learn because my father sometimes plaid music with a band, and I really liked it, by other way he play guitar as well, so I has grown up with that. With the time I’ve known different guitar play styles, and I like the most of them, but I think that my favorites are classical, flamenco and rock.  

One of the things that I like of the guitar as an instrument, is so versatile, you can make a lot of different sounds just by how do you play, and now with technology the possibilities of make different sounds has increase in a considerably way. So it’s really exiting when you listen music and sometimes the guitar sounds really aggressive and powerful, and other really quiet and delicate, or sad, psycothelic, etc. And I think that this is what I most like of guitar, and other thing that it’s really important is that I get a lot of fun playing it.So that’s my story about my likes of music and instruments … bye!

Me and my Cousins

Hello:

 Ok let me tell you about this picture and why I like it. The persons that appear on this picture are my cousin Nicolas and my uncle Vartan (but he is like a cousin or brother). We know each other since I have memory I thing, and we have grown up and live a lot of things together. The good thing of these is that by the time our entertainments have been the same, so when we were child we use to play with toys and now we go out to parties and staffs like that.

The first picture was taken by my mom when I was three or four years old, in Santiago. I used to live in that house and that was one of the moments that we met because we use to see us really often.  The other picture was taken also by my mom, but this time, how you can see, we were older hahahah, it happens just like six months ago. The place of the picture is my house in Curacavi, and that place its great for the three of us because before that I lived there (like four years ago) my grandparents did it (they still live there), so we also have lived a lot of things on that farm. We decide to take it because somebody were searching something in the house and find that picture with other old ones, and the good coincidence was that the three of us were there that exact moment, so we said to take a similar picture, in the same positions to see the changes and differences. So that it’s what the picture shows, how the time has pass over us, and how we are after sixteen years later and we keep meting us. The idea is to take another picture like year by year to see the changes by the time. Thats all.

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My Favorite Song

today I will talk about music, great!! So the thing is my favorite song... I like a lot of music, so it's a quite difficult to choose a favorite song, but any way, in the latest time I have been listening a song called "Burn", from a band named Deep Purple, one of the best rock bands of the history. The first time that I heard this song was on the summer, I knew deep purple from before but I didn’t listen it like I do it now, any way when I heard it by first time I get really excited with this song, but I didn’t know the name, so I asked to a friend about it and he told me the name and the band, so I got this songs and another ones from deep purple like lazy, highway star, etc.
  When I listen this song, I feel like really energized and exited, I think that this song has lot attitude and power, but what I like more than listen it, its play it on guitar, I love that I feel really good doing it. There is one thing more that I like from this song, and that is the guitar solo, it’s a really good and difficult also, I like it because it sounds like a blues guitar playing so fast, that makes a nice sound.
  The music stile of the song its hard rock, and this band (deep purple) started with the stile that will evolution to heavy metal.
  Ok so I will let a video on the bottom, I hope you will enjoy it J

Technology object

Well, I don’t really like the new technology thins really much (like computer, television, the latest cell-phones, etc). But one of the objects that I like, and I would like to buy one soon, is the iPod touch, I find awesome that you don’t need buttons, you just need to touch the screen for operate it, it’s fantastic.

  The first time when I saw it, I was impressed, because nothing worked with touch technology as good as iPod does. I had seen some touch screen before, like in some malls or banks, but just for really basics operations, and they were a quite slow. I was impressed also because the iPod touch is to thin and small, even now I’m still impressed with the technology development, every day the factories are making the objects like cell-phones, mp4, cameras, etc. smaller and lighter, making really comfortable to carry them.

 The reason why I like it is because I love listening music, and I think that the iPods are really good for that, they have a really good sound and also they have a lot of space for upload music.  I’m always listening music in everywhere. Another reason why I like it, it’s because I find really funny to play and do things with the touch-screen and they have another applications like calendar, internet, games, etc, I thing that iPods are really useful for a lot of things that you need to do.

  I hope that the price of iPods decrease soon for buying one, because the problem is that the price of the apples products is really expensive

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What i am doing

Ok, I will talk today about myself also. I finished the school the last year and I got sure about study anthropology like three months before I finished (I was deciding between music and anthropology), so here I am. I decided to study anthropology because I like history and the human behavior and my parents had told me some things about the career, but I didn't know really too much about this career, I guess I just had some idea about this. But in the short time that I have been here I have learned some things so I know better what I am studding (but not really haaha).  A funny thing of this career it’s that the teachers says that no one knows what anthropology really is, even they.

 I have known a little bit about the professionals also and what they do, like some investigations (like going to live some where or making holes on the ground) that could help to understand some social phenomenon. A good thing is that I've liked the most of the subjects, but my favorites ones are history and biology, maybe I will follow physical anthropology in the future.

 

  When I finish my studies I would like to travel by South America by one or a couple of years and then work in something, I think that it would be a great experience for me like a person and like anthropologist (if a finish of course).

NZ

Hello:

 

   I would like to talk abaut New Zeland Also, the place is the Waitomo Caves. This is on the north island, more to the east side.

  The travel started on the school in rotorua, a town of New Zeland and it took like one and a half hour by bus. When we arrived, it was too humid, and we shoulded  walk like five minutes before we got into the caves. The caves inside are awesome, the ground, walls and roof are like rough, but the thing were getting better when we saw the stalagmites and stalctites, they were of all sices, some ones were huge. We got really deep into the cave, and always watter were falling dawn, we got wet in fact. Anyway the best thing of this was when we had stopped in the front of a river inside the cave, and then we sail in little boats. After a few minutes of sailing, that we were advancing the lights of the guides turned off the boat lights, and then on the roof were a lot of starts!, that was a little bit crazy, but there were them shining more than ever. The "stars" were glow-worms, that get stick on the roof to hunt some insects with a spit thread that hang on from their mouths that its sticky, so the flying bugs get trapped. There were a lot of them (the glo-worms) on the roof, it was awesome, it looks like a starry nigh. And the reflex of the glow-worms on the watter were even better. The sailing take abaut twenty minutes and then we went out of the cave by the same river. When we were going out, the cave was like a pirate cave. I think that the Waitomo Caves are the most crazy and incredibble place that I have ever known. I hope that one day i coud go again to see it, its really nice.

Introduction for English Class

Hello!, my name is Sebastian Moyano, im studding anthropology in the Universidad de Chile, i have created my blogspot account succsessfully, so im happy now. I live in curacavi, in a farm (not really a farm, because we don't cultivate veggetables), the place is to dry and a little bit ugly but in winter all the farm get green and its nicer. I have three dogs and five kitties, i live with my parents, my brother and my sister. I'm also livving in santiago with my grandparents near from san jose de la estrella station. I like to play music (i play guitar and sing some times) and also read some times. I like this class and i think that our teacher beatriz is awesome :). And that is my story, see you soon and have fun.

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