Amelie, an spectacular movie

Hello dear friends!
Today I’m going to write about my favorite movie. But first, I have to say that one of my hobbies is to watch movies. So, if I have to say my favorite, it is a really difficult decision. After thinking a lot, I choose Amelie. In this movie there aren’t a lot of characters. The principal one is Amelie, a young woman that is 22 years old, which is very different from everyone; she is very special, has “strange” likes and has a view of life unique. She works at a coffee shop, with other characters like Suzanne, Georgette, Gina. One day, she found an album full of photos, and decided to return it to the owner. Later she realizes that this guy –the owner of the album- is as weird, dreamer and special as she is. She left him mysterious clues; this is the moment when Nino –the owner-, gets anxious and try to discover who is the woman that is “playing with him. Finally, he falls in love with her and after a series of exotic scenes Nino and Amelie gets together and both are happy.
This story take place in France, specifically the most part of the movie takes part in the apartment of Amelie, where she has a friend, and old man that is about 80 years old, that gives her advises- in a special way- every time she needs them.
I have many favorite parts; first, when the movie starts, a voice describes the things that Amelie likes, and I think that I have the same likes, she is happy with very simple things, she doesn’t need fancy things. Other part that I like is when Amelie leaves in a kind of park clues for Nino to find the Album, this parts is really exciting because you are thinking when Nino Is going to find who is the mysterious woman.
I wouldn’t change anything about this movie. But a thing that I want to bring out of this movie is that besides that has a great story, and has a bit of romance, and comedy, the soundtrack of this movie is spectacular, Yann Tiersen is a great musician and is capable to move everyone.
I hope you can see this movie if you already haven’t. Have a nice week! Bye bye!

Where to go or what to do in Santiago

Hello dear friends, today I’m going to talk about what to do if you are a tourist in Santiago. I think that this is very useful, especially if we think that summer vacations are in about 2 months.
I believe that there exist many kind of tourist, so there are a big variety of activities that people can do. If you are a tourist that likes the nature, or animals, maybe Santiago is not the best place to enjoy vacations, although, Santiago always has options, like visiting the Zoo, or the Japanese botanical garden in the San Cristobal Hill. But, to begin a small list about places that as a tourist you MUST visit, we have to establish that here in Santiago, you must have an adventurous spirit, and also you must being a curious person, because there are many places that even Chilean people doesn’t have idea about their existence.

The top 5 of the places you must visit –they are not in order, because it depends on the likes of every tourist-:

1. The San Cristobal Hill, there you can do many activities, you can do a nice pic-nic with friends, also there is a place to do a barbeque, you can visit the Metropolitan Zoo –as I already told-, and before the Earthquake, you could have a good time in the “Teleferico”.
2. The Forestal Park is a park very beautiful, you can walk over there, take pictures, and if you are tired, you can visit a good coffee shop.
3. Near the Park, you can visit the Museum of “Bellas Artes”, a really beautiful, place that you can visit, and is not very expensive. In the other enter of the museum, many people or artist get together there to show their art. Also you can visit the MAC, a museum of contemporary art.
4. Fantasilandia, is a park with a lot of funny games, it`s similar to Disney world, but obviously smaller. This place if for people that like extreme sensations, and like dangerous activities.
5. At last, but not least, you can go to the Arms Square, there you are in the center of the Capital, you can visit many places, such as the Cathedral, the Post Office that has a museum with the story of the place, the “Moneda”, the government palace, and many other places.

The reason of the places that y choose, is that in every place you can have a lot of fun, you can visit many places that are near, and also you can learn a little more about Chile, and its culture. Hope you enjoy my selection, have a nice week!.

Gustavo Cerati

The singer Gustavo Cerati has been changed of the room of the clinic Fleni in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This apparently indicates that he could be better from the accident that he has on May 19th of the present year. But, the real reasons of the change of room, was that there is not many doctors taking care of him.
This news is significant, especially for the fans that are really anxious from hearing good news about the health of this famous singer. The bad thing is that it could make the fanatics could have false hope about the true state of health of this famous singer.
But also, we have to consider that this news is not as important as the news about Mapuche people, or the problems with the education system, but is important because this singer left an important print in the Latin-American music. Everybody knows Soda Stereo, one of the famous bands of Latin-American rock.

I think the communication media always show negative and pessimistic news, they always show the same news, there is nothing different. That is why the news I would like to hear would be on the agreement of the problem with the Mapuche people, also, that the education minister, Joaquin Lavin heard the demands of the secondary and the university students. I would also like to hear that the miners were rescued. These are some of all the news I would like to hear, because there are many news that comes to my head.
Good bye friends! I hope you share the news I would like to hear.
Have a nice week!

A Country that I would like to visit

Hy everybody!
Today I’m going to talk about a place that I would like to visit.
As I study Anthropology, I always like places different of what I’m used to, so a Country that I would like to visit is Marruecos. I choose this place because I always wanted to learn about different cultures, and I think that this culture must be so interesting and different from our culture.
This country is in the North of Africa, with coasts in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea. 98, 3% of the population is Islam, and the Jewish or people from other worship are about 1%. Other thing interesting is that the language that people speaks there is Arabic and French.
If some day I can go there, I would like to stay for 6 months or maybe a little more to travel not only Marruecos, but also the countries near it, like Spain, Argelia, and other countries from Africa. I would like to live there and maybe do some anthropologic investigations about religion. And also I would like to study the language there, I think that the best way to learn a language is to live and practice with people that speak that language since they were born.

Y hope you enjoy mi preference!

Have a nice week!

Good and bad things of the first semester

Hello friends!!

Today I want to tell you about how was my experience the first semester of this year.
The last semester, started late because of the earthquake, which was a terrible thing. Of the seven classes I had, including a CFG, I had only one that I liked; the rest was very useless academically speaking. Maybe served for the experience and to develop tolerance and patience and learn to accept that I will not always have to like all the classes of the semester. So an important thing that I learned last semester was the material way to explain some social problems or situations. For the other hand, I didn’t have much time to practice some sport or a free time activity, because almost every day I went late to my home, so at the end of the week I was really tired. I noticed that doing some sport was very necessary because it helps you to get relax, that is why this semester I take a class that is called “fun dance”, and it makes me very happy. Though it wasn’t a very nice semester sharing time with your friends always help you to see the positive side of the things.
That is all for today! Hope your first semester has been good and that this present semester is much better.
Have a nice week!

SECOND SEMESTER

The experience of the blog activity!

Hello classmates! As this is my last blog entry, today I'm going to write about how was this experience for me. At first, when we started classes, I was not convinced I liked the idea of making a blog because I never had one, and I thought it was very difficult and you needed to know a lot of technology.

After creating my blog, I realized that was not so difficult and I could decorate and add friends and was much more entertaining than I imagined. By the time we started writing, it was difficult to choose the topic that I was going to write because every thing that I published, the things I had written and expressed on the blog may be read by anyone and anywhere in the world. As the course progressed I started to like the idea because it allowed me more to learn, and to practice English in a way I have never done. I'm not very good at writting in English, I prefer to listen or read. I feel that I don't have a lot of vocabulary, therefore, the blog helped me a lot to expand my vocabulary for words that I didn't know. Although I do not deny that the schedule of classes when we were writting the blogs was horrible, and many times I didn't like the topics that we were given, also, it happens that you are not inspired and you have to write, you are obliged to write and sometimes even issues that you are not so interested, then maybe something good for future courses, it would be to assign a number of blogs to be written and make it as a homework, so that each one could make it at their own rhythm.

Thank you very much for reading me this term! I hope you have had a great time and you have been able to know me a little better! ... Have a great end of term! and enjoy your vacations!