The Final Blog
I think that the blog activity was interesting and different in general, sometimes it was bored but anyway it helped me to improve my writing skills a lot. I learnt new vocabulary about different topics: music, movies, series, books, and law. Also I learnt how to use the verbal times correctly and I improve my reading skills too, while I commented in my classmates’ blogs. Sometimes the topic lets you show your interiority and I met lot of interesting and nice people in this course, with different feelings, likes and dreams. In the future I would include more topics that are unrelated to the career, because in the free courses we want to scape a bit of the career, and write about something different is a good option. Topics like: “what is your favorite (something)” or “what do you like to do when…” or “where was the best trip that you ever done” … maybe, just saying. Topics that let you have fun writing them. Maybe I would include more images, videos and interactive things. Make comments about a video or an image or watching a movie sometime and talk about it, I don’t know, you are the planners, be creative :). By the way, thanks for all teacher, you are great :P

My Favorite TV show

When I was younger, there was a lot of tv shows very interesting. The cartoons were awesome on 90’s and 2000. Dragon Ball, Hunter X Hunter or Captain Tsuabasa (los supercampeones) were some of my favorites ones.

But now on TV we just can watch bizarre cartoons as Adventure Time or just garbage TV shows on Chilean TV. The best series come from foreign countries: Game of Thrones, Spartacus, Lost and one of my favorite ones, Breaking Bad (sorry teacher, but I prefer to see Malcom’s dad cooking metha than being a normal man).

I saw Breaking Bad on summer, and I think that is the best serie I ever seen. It has everything: drugs, science, violence, police, guns and even a Chilean character that loves the paila marina.

Walter White is a Chemical teacher in the Albuquerque institute. He was 50 years old and discovers that he has incurable lung cancer. He is married with Skyler and father of a disabled son. The brutal news will give Walter a drastic change to his life and he decides to make drug to sell, with the help of a former student, Jesse Pinkman. Its main purpose is not to enrich himself, but to solve the economic problems of his family after his irreversible death. Thanks to his knowledge of chemistry, he can make the best meth in the market. From there the problems begin.

It’s a very recommendable serie, if you haven’t seen it yet. The tittle of it is because you can see how Walter White begins his evolution from a simple school teacher into a drug lord.

Greetings J

A movie that I like
It’s really hard to decide what my favorite movie is so I just will talk you about a film that I liked very much since I watched it. As teacher’s blog, this movie is based on a dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess. Its name is A clockwork orange. The movie is directed by the great director Stanley Kubrick. I saw this movie a few months ago and I really liked it so I hope to read the book too.

The movie talks about Alex, a teenager that lives in a dystopian future England. He is the leader of a band of teenagers that dedicate to cause pain, suffering and all the acts that generate violence to the other people. They enjoy it very much because they consume milk-plus that is milk mixed with drugs. They speak in strange English with words influenced by Russian, this is the Nadsat, a language created by the author to contextualize the readers into the dystopian future.

In some of their misdeeds, Alex is kept by the police and in spite of his age, he is jailed, because he just murdered a woman. Being in jail, Alex listens about a treatment that changes the prisoners to become them into good people. It’s based on the classical conditioning of the psychology, which justify their effects in negative reinforcement.

Finally the treatment works on Alex, but his life will change forever. I will not say anything else to not spoil the people that did not watch this movie.

The movie show us the evilness of humanity combined with the science advances, that could bring us a dystopian world as is proposed here.

There is an interesting polemic between the author of the book and the director, but you can read more about this on the internet.

Greetings J

An expert in your field

Today I’m going to talk you about a Chilean historical character. The most of the people don’t know that he was a lawyer,but he is well known as “el guerrillero”, his name, Manuel Javier Rodriguez Erdoiza.

Manuel Rodriguez on his early age studied at Convictorio Carolino, with some of the young ones that will be very involved in the independence of Chile, as Jose Miguel Carrera, a personal friend of Rodriguez. Then he studied law at Real Universidad de San Felipe (after independence known as Universidad de Chile) and became a lawyer in 1807. During Jose Miguel Carrera’s government, he served as Minister of Finance and Defense and personal secretary of Carrera. His most important work was during the Spanish Reconquest, serving as José de San Martín’s spy, wearing different disguises as monk or simply farmer. During this period he won his nickname “el guerrillero” because he with a group of bandits led by Rodriguez and Jose Miguel Neira, began to do some guerrilla actions of resistance, trying to make born the patriotic sentiment on the Chilean common people that stayed in Chile during the reconquest period. Finally after independence, Rodriguez had political quarrels with another important character of Chilean history, Bernardo O'Higgins, blaming him for the dead of "Los Hermanos Carrera" in Argentina. O'Higgins ordered apprehend Rodriguez accusing him of troublemaker. When he was being transferred to the prison in Quillota, nearby Til Til, he was cowardly shot in the back by Lt. Antonio Navarro. His remains were transferred from Til Til to Santiago.

Some people say that he was just a revolutionary and that he didn’t do important things compared with another characters on history but I admire him because of his courage, his patriotism and for being who made born on common people the Chilean spirit of perseverance, hope and trust on the patriot cause. After Cancha Rayada battle when the people thought that everything was lost, he motivated the people with the great phrase “aún tenemos patria ciudadanos”.

Also he appears in the two thousand pesos bill and the FPMR took his name inspired on him but that’s another story xD. Greetings.

My favorite song.

There are a lot of songs of different bands that I really like but I think that my favorite song is Blackbird by Alter Bridge (It was written and composed by Alter Bridge, not a cover of the homologue song by The Beatles, a good song anyway). Alter Bridge is an American band formed in 2004 (they are not well known). The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Myles Kennedy, lead guitarist and backing vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall, and drummer Scott Phillips.

The song was realized in the second album of the band named Blackbird too. The song is a metaphor that talks about a blackbird that flies away, escaping of the suffering of his world to find the freedom. It represents the dead of a good friend of the vocalist, Mark Morse, who died as the song was being written. Mark Morse sold vocalist first guitar when he was a kid. The lyrics were written by Myles Kennedy himself.

 It is the band's longest song to date with nearly eight minutes long. The critic says that this song represent the crowing point of the album and band career. The solo of the song that is performed by both Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti, was chosen as the greatest guitar solo of all time by the Guitarist Magazine, defeating great songs as Sweet Child of Mine or November Rain solos by Slash of Guns and Roses and the previous winner of the magazine, the solo of Hotel California by Eagles (A great song too).

I like this song first because Alter Bridge is one of my favorite bands, second because it’s a really good song: it has some amazing vocals by Myles Kennedy, really good bridges and chorus and finally that great solo performed by Myles and Mark (in my opinion not the best of the history but one of the best that I listened). I really loved this song since I hear it like two years ago when I began listening Alter Bridge. It brings me good memories of the past but when I realized of the lyrics I discover that it was a really sad song. Well, whatever, I share it with you. Greetings people.

I photograph I like

Well, this picture was taken by the camera itself, using the timer and putting it on a tripod. On the picture you can see me and my best friends of the worldJ. They were all my classmates at Liceo Camilo Henriquez of Temuco.

It was taken in the last time that we were all together before go to study to different parts in Chile. It was in December 21 of 2013 (after that we have some meetings but always one of my friends or me could not attend because of vacations sometimes or because we had to do the paperwork at universities, so we were not all together)

One of my friends, Pablo (the blonde one) stay in Temuco to study Medical Technology at Universidad de la Frontera, the guy behind me that wear a shirt (Rodrigo)

 is studying at Valparaiso the career of Engineering at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, the black guy behind him (Mauro) is living at Concepción now, he studies Geology at Universidad de Concepción and the others including me are studying here in Santiago: the guy wearing the white T-shirt (Felipe) is studying Medicine at Universidad Católica, the guy with the black T-shirt (Benjamin) is studying Engineering at Universidad Católica too and the guy beside me (Orlando) is studying to be a Commercial Pilot at Universidad Federico Santa María.

 As you can see we are all studying very different careers (except for Benjamin and Rodrigo) in very different places of Chile and we have not been all together again since that occasion, that’s the reason because I like this picture, we look very happy and we were. We spent a lot of time together, laughing, playing games, chatting, drinking and a lot of things that I really miss to do with them. Nobody can replace them L (it sounds very depressive). Well, I hope to see them again at winter vacation or some weekend maybe.
Greetings!

Christianity

Well, the religion always is a polemic topic. You can be like all the day discussing about it, between people of other religions or between Christians and atheists. We can see in history the influence of religion in general from moral things until the things that you must eat or not eat.

I am an atheist, but my family in general is very Christian (Catholics and protestants) and it was not an easy matter. I am really respectful of the beliefs of other people but my position is hard to understand for them. I hate when the people try to impose their faith, but I really hate more when the other atheist try to show them as the smartest people of the world. I think that being all a life believing in something and arrive to the conclusion of not believe in nothing is a hard and personal process, that require a lot of study and reading. You cannot be atheist because it’s fashion or nice.

I admire some things of Christianity. I personally think that Jesus existed (because it’s written on the history) and he was a very wise philosopher (but he was just human). I like the holidays of Christianity as Christmas day(I hate when people say that the atheist should not celebrate Christmas, in fact originally it was not even a Christian party) or Easter because it’s a good moment to be with family, having a good time and give and receive presents or chocolates.

There are more things that I dislike of religion but I prefer to keep them to me to avoid the polemic, because it’s a topic that require time to be discus.

Greetings. Don’t be haters.

My favorite piece of technology.

My laptop is my favorite peace of technology. Well, everybody knows what a laptop is; it’s a kind of portable computer that you can use where ever you want without needing any big box that the normal personal computers have.

I got my laptop on 2013 summer when I was just paid of my first job in a car park (I was the guy that check the license plate of all the vehicles that get into the park, but that’s another story). I was very proud of it, because I got it with my own job and I was so happy because I really needed it.

I use my laptop for everything, I mean to study, to read, to chat with my family in Temuco L, to listen music, to play computer games, to be informed of the news, etc.

When I’m not at university or when I’m not reading, I’m using the laptop.

I like it because it’s very useful for me. It lets me be in contact with my family without paying bigger costs (just internet). I can use it to distract myself, etc.

Without my computer, or without computers, the life would be really different than it is. We would not have automatic cashiers or we would not be in contact with people around the world. We would not know about that news that happen in other parts of the earth, etc. If the computers would disappear now, the world would be a chaos.

My courses

Well, the first semester is one of the most important to anybody that get into a new career and I hope to do my best in all the subjects. I have four obligatory subjects: introduction to law, history of law, microeconomic and moral philosophy (we already had the test on Thursday, and it was not really easy, in fact, it was hard, but I tried to write all the things that I knew). All this subjects are necessary to get other subjects for the second semester and almost every freshman took them. About optative subjects, I have two of them, institutions of Roman law; a subject that give more credits than the others optative courses and it’s much recommended for the other students. The other optative is accounting. And finally I took English because it is very necessary and useful to look for a job in the future or to study abroad maybe.

My expectations for this semester are not very complicated. First of all, survive in Santiago and in the university, then to pass all the courses with an acceptable grade, but the most important I think is try to learn something of all this and try to enjoy too.

Hello. My name is Bastián Venegas. I'm 18 years old. I'm not from Santiago. I born in Temuco the 12nd of September of 1995. I moved to Santiago to from the south of Chile to study Laws at Universidad de Chile. Until March, I lived with my parents, Alex and Karina, my younger brother, Antonio, my cat, Sabina and my little dog, Loki. They lived in Padre las Casas, a small city beside Temuco. In this moment I'm living at Ñuñoa in a pension with my cousin Jorge, he studies History Pedagogy at Universidad Metropolitana de las Ciencias de la Educación, and we are both freshmen students.

I studied at Colegio Mundo Mágico (yeah, I know that it sounds like a kindergarden, but it was a good elementary school). In high school, I studied at Liceo Camilo Henríquez and then I came here to Santiago to study Rights.

I always have liked a lot the history and the letters. I like reading, , listening to music, watching movies, being with my friends, listening to music, etc.

Greetings people!