I feel fine about Chile. I mean, I've lived all my life here, and never left the country for whatever reason (althought if I had the opportunity, I'd travel somewhere else, but I'd come back), and for some reason, I feel comfortable. The only thing that bothers me at this time, is the importance people give to the World Cup. Its alright if you like football, but at the point of destroying public transportation and looting places? Come on!
The attendance people show to their cellphones always irritates me too, but I think that happens in every country.
I like my friends. But that doesn't mean every person on the country is friendly; but I like friendly people in Chile (and, in general) , specially my friends. I like the neighborhoods; places with lots of houses and often lots of short passagges where its easy to get lost. I like where I live because its near a hill. Ilike the beach. Ilike the forests. I like the street market. I like sopaipillas.And I think that is everything I like from this country.
What I don't like are: angry fat ladies in the public transprtation, schools, city convergence, large distance between cities, mongrels in the streets and people doing nothing about it (including me), ultra high prices, local football teams, local football fans, sink water (at least in the city), celebrity shows, streets with holes, and a lot more things I can't remember.
I would definitely change public transportation and make buses's frequency faster and fare prices lower, though I don't know how I could.
I don't know if I have to trust the news when they say others countries think Chile is good at sports, or a "tough rival". I just think they are overstating themselves, just for having more confidence. Anyway, I've heard a couple of times other contries think Chile is a "poet's country".
Like I said before, I like where I live, and I rarely imagine myself living in another part of the country, but my home. I think I'm just too homesick, or I just don't know much more places.
That's all guys!
Bye!!
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Sunday, June 15, 2014
9th Post!
2014 to me has been a very quiet year so far.
Academically, I have not much to say. I only have two different classes and this course. I think at this moment I've done well. I have plenty of time to do my homework though sometimes I don't do cause I'm lazy.
The best moments so far are: when I found $10.000 at the sidewalk, way to my girlfriend's house; when I had the oppornunity to see Pixies twice; going to the beach with my friends; taking my girlfriend's pig to its new home in valparaiso, and, lately, visiting the planetary for the first time. I think there are much more good moments to me, but those are the ones I remember more easily.
University experiences of this year has been very quiet, like I said before. Not much to say, really. I don't have too much classes, but when I come to the University its nice to be with my friends, at least for a short time. There has not been much movement related to the sutdent movement I've perceived. Classes keep its normal frequency without been interrupted. Just quiet.
During my freetime I do what I usually do every year; play videogames, go to the street market every time I can, seeing my girlfriend, and often study for tests and doing homework.
Relate to trips, recently I came back from Algarrobo. It was very nice. I went with my girlfriend's family to one of her relative's house. Weather there is very warm compared to the one we have in Santiago right now.
I expect this year to be hard before second semester begins, so I have to prepare. I'm too lazy right now. I hope everything continue calm and to not have bad news. Bye!
Academically, I have not much to say. I only have two different classes and this course. I think at this moment I've done well. I have plenty of time to do my homework though sometimes I don't do cause I'm lazy.
The best moments so far are: when I found $10.000 at the sidewalk, way to my girlfriend's house; when I had the oppornunity to see Pixies twice; going to the beach with my friends; taking my girlfriend's pig to its new home in valparaiso, and, lately, visiting the planetary for the first time. I think there are much more good moments to me, but those are the ones I remember more easily.
University experiences of this year has been very quiet, like I said before. Not much to say, really. I don't have too much classes, but when I come to the University its nice to be with my friends, at least for a short time. There has not been much movement related to the sutdent movement I've perceived. Classes keep its normal frequency without been interrupted. Just quiet.
During my freetime I do what I usually do every year; play videogames, go to the street market every time I can, seeing my girlfriend, and often study for tests and doing homework.
Relate to trips, recently I came back from Algarrobo. It was very nice. I went with my girlfriend's family to one of her relative's house. Weather there is very warm compared to the one we have in Santiago right now.
I expect this year to be hard before second semester begins, so I have to prepare. I'm too lazy right now. I hope everything continue calm and to not have bad news. Bye!
Monday, June 9, 2014
Post 10
I have to apologize cause this isn't really my 10th post, just my 9th. Its because I had not noticed the one from last monday. So, I'll do it right after this post, what its kinda confusing anyway.
My experiences while trying to learn english!
Well, I started learning english from the school, from the first year of basic education. I know that nowadays, kids start with english classes from early kindergarten, but back in the day, this was not very common (at least not for middle class/ low class population), and just a few schools had english classes. I even got to know classmates that came from other schools that didn't have english classes at all, and that happened a few times when I was like 7th grade, but that other story.
Well, at first I sucked to english classes. I didn't understand anything until, I think, 5th grade, when every kid started playing trading card games, and everybody was into yu-gi-oh! in a very rough way. There was some street sellers right outside of the school, and they had pirated decks. Everyone bought them, in fact, it was surrounded by kids everyday. The thing was that many of the cards were in english, and to try to understand what the effect of the card was, I used a dictionary and some of the things I barely learned at school.
From then, I started to pay more attention at english classes, and it worked somewhat. I started to get better
marks and even I thought I was good at it.
When I got to the University, I realized that approving english was necessary to graduate, unless you had something to certificate you know the language, so, I had to take the classes. English classes from the university are far different from the classes I had in school. I started from level 3 and half of the classes since that were blog based. I'm not disappointed, that helped me to practise my english, and I got used to the blog system very fast. I don't know how to use blogger at its best, but I least I learned how to post properly, I think!
I'm always using english in my daily basis. I don't practice pronunciation because I don't need to speak in english regularly, so I think that is the main problem of my usage of the language. Instead of speaking, I use my knowledge of english for reading other blogs, visiting websites in english and watching videos, what allowes me to understand what I'm watching.
I think I've not learned english in full, but what keeps me in contact of the language is pure interest in things written and spoken in english. So, I'd say the key for learnig a language (at least for me) is interest. Bye!
My experiences while trying to learn english!
Well, I started learning english from the school, from the first year of basic education. I know that nowadays, kids start with english classes from early kindergarten, but back in the day, this was not very common (at least not for middle class/ low class population), and just a few schools had english classes. I even got to know classmates that came from other schools that didn't have english classes at all, and that happened a few times when I was like 7th grade, but that other story.
Well, at first I sucked to english classes. I didn't understand anything until, I think, 5th grade, when every kid started playing trading card games, and everybody was into yu-gi-oh! in a very rough way. There was some street sellers right outside of the school, and they had pirated decks. Everyone bought them, in fact, it was surrounded by kids everyday. The thing was that many of the cards were in english, and to try to understand what the effect of the card was, I used a dictionary and some of the things I barely learned at school.
From then, I started to pay more attention at english classes, and it worked somewhat. I started to get better
marks and even I thought I was good at it.
When I got to the University, I realized that approving english was necessary to graduate, unless you had something to certificate you know the language, so, I had to take the classes. English classes from the university are far different from the classes I had in school. I started from level 3 and half of the classes since that were blog based. I'm not disappointed, that helped me to practise my english, and I got used to the blog system very fast. I don't know how to use blogger at its best, but I least I learned how to post properly, I think!
I'm always using english in my daily basis. I don't practice pronunciation because I don't need to speak in english regularly, so I think that is the main problem of my usage of the language. Instead of speaking, I use my knowledge of english for reading other blogs, visiting websites in english and watching videos, what allowes me to understand what I'm watching.
I think I've not learned english in full, but what keeps me in contact of the language is pure interest in things written and spoken in english. So, I'd say the key for learnig a language (at least for me) is interest. Bye!
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