$ Money $

Hello friends, today I’m going to talk about money. This is a topic that everyone has thought at least once. Last week, in every media was the piece of news that the “loto” –a lucky game in which you have to choose 6 numbers from 41, and if you guess them you win money- was accumulated. I played this game because there was $6.500 million pesos this time. With my family at dinner time we all dreamed about how it would be being a millionaire. If I were a millionaire, I would distribute the money to my family; also I would maybe start an educational project in Pichidangui –a place that I go since I was a child- and where there are not many educational establishments. A person that has the opportunity to study at university has to go to La Serena to study. Of course, there are other ways to be wealthy, for example you can inherit money, if this was my situation, I would spend money in the same things, but also, a thing that I forgot to mention was that I would spend a big percentage traveling.

I would like to be wealthy, not because I love money, but because I think that this could be helpful. And a way to keep being a millionaire I think that would be investing a part of the total fortune in different private companies.

Finally, nowadays money is not THE MOST important, but I’m sure that you can’t live without any money. I hope you enjoy my post, and share some of the things I had mentioned.

Have a nice week!

Pollution, environment and education.

Hello dear classmates, today, I’m going to talk about a topic that I like a lot: the environment and the pollution. I always liked recycling and all the practices that this topic includes, because I think that we can’t be selfish, we have to think in the future’s generation.

I think that the concerning about environmental things is a speech that nowadays appears in the newspaper, radio, television, internet, at schools, in every place. But unfortunately I have a pessimistic point of view of the "present conditions" of this topic. Most people –I say this because of my life’s experience- doesn’t care about recycling or buying biodegradable things. And is the younger people that is actually learning environmental friendly practices, such as dividing the waste, the biodegradable things from the non biodegradable ones, using less water in every activity such as taking a shower, brushing their teeth, washing the dishes, etc. These practices, I think that have been learned mostly at internet or TV. Greenpeace is a big organization that pretends making massive the information about genetically modified food, air and water pollution, species that are in danger, acid rain, global warming, etc.

Since I was child I had a concern about animals and the environment, I think that this can be explained by my mother, who is teacher of natural sciences. I try not to contaminate, I try to reuse plastic bags, and I don’t buy things that have packages with lot of plastic things, I also try not to take long showers, and I support environmental causes on the internet. I don’t use bike, I prefer walking and public transport.

Other thing that I have done was an environmental project that included every level of my school and included community work with the neighbors and the city hall. I pretended to create a little subject that could teach friendly environmental practices, and many other things that are a bit long to tell here.

I think that a thing that is missing in our society is popular education, and became aware of the big and serious problem that is the pollution, how it affects people health, animals and every member of our society. We can change this situation and make a better world to future generations! We can teach healthy practices for every living being.

Have a nice week!
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My experience during high school

Hello dear friends, today I’m going to talk about my experience in high school.

First I would like to tell you that I went to the same school since I was 5 years old, since kindergarten. My mother works there, and when I was in 8th grade she was my teacher of the subject of natural sciences. My teachers were really good, my favorite one was Miss Myrtha Sandoval, and she was teacher of chemistry, I loved chemistry. But, in my school when you are in 2nd grade of high school, you have to decide whether you prefer the area of social sciences, artistic area, mathematical area or scientific area. Although I loved chemistry, I was sure that I didn’t wanted to work a career related with that, I wanted to study something connected with human beings, and a work when you could work in many different things, investigations, and travelling a lot. That is why I decide studying anthropology, but the social sciences’ subjects that I had in high school didn’t helped me by the moment I had to choose my career, that doesn’t mean that the education was bad, it means that the focus of the school was to preparing in any area that you wanted, and also includes a preparation for the PSU. The education I received at my school, make me be surer about the decisions I have taken.
I think that my school, can improved the education they bring to the students, by including more ecological issues since the little kinds start going to school. Also they can improve the green areas, that helps students in order to connected with nature, and also they can generate a sense of responsibility with the community, not only the community of the school, but also a responsibility with family, animals, and different aspects of society. As I think that you can change things you don’t like or are disagree with, I tried to start an ecological project in my school, the authorities paid me attention and we had some meetings, but when I left school, the project was forgotten. In other area, my school is every day more technological, I remember that when I was a child, we used to have only 2 computers at the library; nowadays we have a computer lab.

Hope you have a nice week!

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Ken Clarke to unveil plans for prisoners to work 40-hour week

The justice minister, Ken Clarke -the person that appears in the right side of the photo- is planning a new scheme “to end enforced idleness in jails with some of cash earned going to victims”. The reason of this is because, the earning that the prisoner's work produces is very low, and other important thing is that the prisoners spend their days in enforced idleness in their cells, so the prisoners have to work a full 40-hours week. This is the solution that gives Minister Clarke to the problems that were mentioned before.
Part of the prisoners' salary would go to their victims, other part to the prisoners' family, and the prisoners will keep a part of the salary themselves. The important thing of this plan is that Governors cannot force prisoners to work; the only way of the plan’s success is to give prisoners incentives and privileges to reward the work they do.
The objective of this plan is to reduce the chances of prisoners committing crimes again when they are set free. That is the reason why the minister emphasizes that they need “to instil in our jails a regime of hard work. Most of the prisoners lead a life of enforced, bored idleness, where getting out of bed is optional." But the government could not instil this plan without the help of the private firms in order to employ most of the prisoners.

The information of this blog was taken in the web site:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/05/ken-clarke-prison-reform-work



Have a nice week!

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!