The last post

This is the last post… I have the hope that this will be a reality!!!

In this post I am going to write about my experience in the level four.

For me has been a experience very difficult, because always I have trouble with the English. I do not like the English, however I know that it is necessary for my profession.

Although this time, it was not something tragic, I think it could have been worse, this comforts me. In the school I had an English class, this was so basic, perhaps this is the reason of my difficulty.

I think that the fact that the teacher constantly urged us  to we speak English helped us a lot to practice. Not being able to speak Spanish, we were forced to use even the most archaic of our English.

I think that the blogs are a very good way to improve the English knowledge, because every week we write about a different topic, so, this made it more interesting.

I need to improve my pronunciation, my audition capacity, my writing and my vocabulary; I think if I practice more I can improve significantly my English level.

In my opinion to the classes there is not much to enhance them, but if I had to say one aspect to modify would be to practice more grammar, that is always a weak point for everyone in the class, I think.

A news about psychology

Today, this post is different because is about the summary of a piece of news connected to my area of study, it is the psychology.

The news that I have chosen is about the loss of important person in the life. This news has the next headline: “A moment that changed me – the death of my sister and the grief that followed” and it went write by Emma Dawson.

In the account Emma starts telling the death of her younger sister, who was thirty two year old when died. The reason of the death of her sister went the cancer.

Later she tells about the experience of the grief. She says that the grief is as gargantuan freight trains that punch in the soul. Many questions arrive to your mind and the sensation is as if someone has sucked all your being even your oxygen. That these big trains come on the mind is a fear constant.

Speak about theme is very difficult. She explains that she did not speak whit friends because her fear of breaking down. For she went difficult explain to her children that the aunt was dead. Emma said to soon that her aunt was in the sky, that now she is an angel. Although she thinks that this can be confused for her soon.

The word that Emma writes in this news represents well what happens in the duel, so I chose this news. It seems important to look at all the conflicts that have a loss of this magnitude.

The link of news is this; http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/03/moment-changed-me-sisters-death

Corrections the last blog post of the classmate below

Yesterday I was watching TV when a story appears (T) about censorship of art, denoting exhibitions that have taken place in times of "democracy" (in 1990) These have been highly controversial because they have exposed from fetuses (replicas) photographs of dead babies replicating what was the popular tradition "el velorio del angelito" with current prospects and, of course, plays focused on homosexuality, dictatorship, genocide, among others.

In this sense, the reporter was says that until the end of (V) dictatorship there was a state agency called "tribunal calificador", who check the movies, expositions (WW) and plays arrived or presents in Chile and defined what yes and what no, even

become to prohibit the (WF) "The Last Temptation of Christ" movie in Chile (P) based in the moral and good customs of the society, i.e. (?) the catholic and cristians (S) values of the correct, not sinful and and (WF)  that wasn’t a moral failure wing (WE).

In diagnostic mode, since (V) colonization and domination from the XVII and XVIII centuries in Latin America there have been various control mechanisms in political, ideological and social terms, denoting certain ways of relating to an "other", certain public policies and certain forms control of identity /cultural aspects of the "other” for dominate.

In this context the art, since much time, has been used as the most expressive forms of identity from all cultural groups, and also, (V) gestated as one of the areas where the cultural control is consolidated. Situations like I described in the beginning have been generated through processes of cultural domination exercised not only in times of dictatorship (70’ or 80’) where political censorship was apprehensive, but since the early domination as an aspect to define, monitor and take from one class over another through their essential: the identity.

In this (WF) therms (WW), the fight also run to this way: the fight for our identity.

Cinco panes y dos peces

Hi classmates and teacher, today, in this blog I will talk about the book that I am reading at the moment, it is when I have free time.

The name of the book is “Cinco panes y dos peces”. His principal objective is show the experience of a catholic bishop that was prisoner in a Vietnamese camp. This bishop is called François Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan.

I am not sure which genre it is, but I think that belong to the novel, because the author –that who is the same bishop- narrate the history as a novel. He divides the storyline of the book in seven parts. 

First he talks about the five breads, in each one he tell the moments since that he was taken prisoner until that he was released.  In this part he remembers many people, persons important in his life. Finality he tells about the two fishes, in this moment he speaks of the products before of this experience.

Is a short book, is very simple, but for me is very interesting because in the book not only shows an experience from a religious perspective, also from the human experience, it shows us a reset mechanism to intense trauma.

I think the experience of imprisonment and torture is one of those experiences that certainly more brand to the humans. For me it is a great mystery, how they manage to recover from this.

I want have more time for reading this story with more dedication!

Exercises in English

In this post I am going to write about my performance in different English tests about three areas: reading, listening and vocabulary.

I started for reading, and then I did make three exercises. It was very easy, even I didn’t make a mistake.

Before I followed for listening, in this part was very difficult. In reality here I had a low score.

Finality I did the part of vocabulary, I can said that this area it was medium difficult, because sometime I had problem for I understand some word, but in general I know this word.

I think that I have that practice more in listening, because I never I listening music, movies, videos, etc. in English. This is a weakness for me.  

Important person for me

In this post I will write about a person that has marked my process in the university studies. 

This person is Igancio Martín-Baró. Before of I study psychology, I found in my house a book about his life. I was very moved for his history. After was a surprise for me know that this men before has been psychologist. 

Ignacio Martín-Baró was social psychologist and Jesuit priest. He born in Spain in 1930, however when he was a young, in 1959, he travelled to live in a little country of Latin-America, in Salvador. There he was a short time until that he returned in 1966 for dedicate his life to be whit the people of Salvador in the difficult situation of the country; they we was in this moment in a civil war. 

Concurrently he was accomplished your ecclesiastic functions, he studied psychology, there he discovered the social psychology, without know that before he will be a principal exponent of this area. 

I admire to Ignacio Martín-Baró because he was a valiant person. He had not concern for speak and denounce the crimes of the country. He was the voice of many people that had not voice. 

The war go troughed his life so much, to such a level of lost his life in the war. 

What impacted me a lot when I read the book about life It was the phrase: “The challenge is not limited to addressing the destruction and disorders caused by the war. The challenge is to construct a new person in a new society.”

The ecology

In this post I am going to write about the ecology.

To be honest I don’t consider myself a “green” person. However, I think that this is a topic very important in the present society.

The ecology have been the central topic of many studies actually because is a problem that concern to all people around the world.

¡The problem of the land is a global problem! Is possible see this when you look the weather in different part of the world.

The recycling has a role important in this problem. The humans has been produced many litter since a lot time ago. This situation, cause that today the Earth is too contaminated.

Personally I haven not incorporated recycling in my habits, although I make an effort, for example I do not use plastic bags and I do not use products in spray. Also I like care for the water and the electric energy.

Although I considerate the ecology a topic very important, never I has been think in belong to an ecologist organization , perhaps because for things of time.

I think that the problem is very complex, so can be many solutions. But the big solution is that all people take the conscience of this big problem.

In Santiago, my country, there is not lot information. I think that the people and the authorities think that this problem of long time.

 Prohibit the plastic bags, grow the number of bins and give more information, can be steps important for incorporate in Santiago. 

The Chilean Education

In this post I am going to write about a theme very special in my country, it is the education.

In my country the education is in crisis, this can be for different reasons, but some undeniable is that is a crisis.

The social movement that alerted us of this crisis went the “Revolución Pingüina”, a social movement composed of high school students. They denounce the situation in that was us education: bad quality, lucre and social inequality.

For understand this problem is necessary know the form of chilean education.

The kinder garden is a things that few people understand, there are foundations, public institution and private institution that give us education in this phase, they are free of educate as they want. Before, in primary and secondary studies, there are public institutions, subsidize institutions and private institutions, in this case there is a basic national plan that they must accomplish, finally the superior education is public and private, however the public and private you must pay many money.

This economic situation reports the social segregation. We are educating children with unequal opportunities to be what they want.

I think that the problem is not only the education model, but that in economic and social model. The neoliberalism is a system that through all spheres of the life in Chile.

I would like that for the present reform of government  take into account not only the European or "developed" models to make changes, but that they think in Chile, in culture us, in history us, in nears realities to us, as Argentina, Bolivia, Perú or other country of Latin-American. 

The music!

This time the topic is free choosing, so, I am going to write about my favorite music.

The music is a topic very important in my life; I think that for many young’s this is so, I do not know why, but I can hazard a guess.

I think that the music is a topic important in the life of young’s or of people; in general, because listen to music allows that they have a space of relaxation.

I was read many studies about the relation between listen to music and liberation of endorphin's (these are neurotransmitter associated with different nice sensations).

In my case the music is an experience very pleasurable, although I think that perhaps not everyone feels nice things when they listen to music, maybe because sometimes the music come on unpleasant memories. However, I think that this people are little.

I like different music genres. I like the ballad, the rock, the pop, the jazz, the blues, the reggae, but my favorite music is the Latin American folklore, for example “cueca chilota”, “zamba argentina”, “joropo venezolano”, “cumbia colombiana” or “samba brasileña”.

Also I like much the popular sings, as Violeta Parra, Victor Jara, Joaquin Sabina, Mercedes Sossa, Silvio Rodrigues and Carlos Gardel.

I forgot say that the “tango” is music very special for me, because my mom and my dad, they sang me when I was a child. Although the tango is not popular within the young's, I think that it is very nice. 

The Barbie

Write about a present that I received; a present in particular, is difficult for me, because I have many in my memory.

I can remember one that was very important in my life as a child.

This was in a Christmas. 

In the night my parents distributed gifts for all people of my family. 

They gave me a Barbie. I thought: “it is a joke? My parents know that I don’t like the Barbie. Why gave me this?” I felt a great disappointment in this moment, so I thought in cry. I went to my bed and I cried. I said: “I want a rollers skate”, because all children in my street, had theirs. 

My dad went to my bedroom and he said: “hey, you don’t cry. This is only a toy, there is something more important in the life. Do you remember the song “el tamborilero”?” I said: “Yes, I do remember. Why?” My dad said me: “The tamborilero is a child very poor and only he have a little drum, so, he gives this present for Jesús. We doesn’t money now, your mom and me were as the “tamborilero”. The rollers skate are very expensive and the only present that we can give you is a Barbie. Do you understand?”

Although never I liked the Barbie, this present is very special. Always I think in this present when I want something and it isn’t possible.