First blog

Hi, I had never had a  blog, at the beginnig it was a little hard to use it. It was a good experience, the posts were funny, and I  have to say last post was my favourite because it reminded me a lot of  things that i have forgotten, my sister was helping me to chose the tv show for the blog and suddenly I remembered which was my favourite series. A post that I did not like, was A piece of Art, basically because as i wrote, I do not know much about that but it was good to read the others posts. My favourite clasmates´s blog was Shine on you crazy diamond, even i did not comment in all posts, i read almost all of them,  for me it  was interesting, and it gave good and enertaining information, and other interesting blog for me it was Chocolate from a shop, I read too Francisca´s blog , and Elizabeth´s blog Creatively which i think it was the most attractive because of the colours. I read almost all blogs at the beginnig, but now  it is  end of semester, it is more difficult XD.

I think it is a good idea to keep an english blog it helps to have practice for writing, even in my case i think my grammar is dangerous, but now it is easier for me to write about a lot of things, and of course to read classmate´s blogs it is was funny and good for the vocabulary.

 

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A TV Show

When I was a child about eight years, some of my favorites tv shows was Tales from the Cryptkeeper, it was based on the live-action television show, Tales from the Crypt. This series was broadcast on the afternoon I do not remember the exactly time, and it  had three seasons, I only saw first and second season, the third season was not broadcast because in other countries it did not have a good audience, because it adopted new laws of an institutiton wich was controlling  the tv show´s contents in United States. This tv show is an animated series about a friendly corpse (Cryptkeeper) who was narrating horror stories , the storyline  was about kids or adults who were taking bad decisions in their life or they were causing some problems, so in consequence they had to confront scary situations which gave them a reason to reflect. There were antagonistics characters who were treating of to steal show like The Old witch and Vault Keeper. There was a moral in all episods. This serie really was my favorite, I think    kids likes  scare story because  are attractives, and beside this series was animated, it was not so scary. The principal theme  was cool.

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El Guardián de la Cripta

Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

I agree, It is true, during  students life until high school, we do not have many options, it is almost an obligation to learn maths, chemistry, or history but the other subjects like dance  are  not appreciated. I have a cousin he is really an artist with his hands, since we were child, he was drawing very and he did ceramic work too, he was a common student, but it was a little hard for him, he had particular teachers to supporting him.  His parents are traditional and really I never saw  they have given enough attention to this artistic part in his son. Today he keeps working in ceramic, in fact  in my house´s living room  there is a decoration done by him, It is a ´´gnomo´´ I think so, it is beautiful, it is perfetc, my cousin even he did the clothes, I think he has a real talent, now he is an psychology student, but I know he still doing his sculptures.  My cousin studied in an excellent school, but  even there, the artistic subjects do not have  a true importance, and it happens in all the world,  as Ken Robinson said. 

A weeks ago, I saw the Ballet Nacional  in Teatro Universidad de Chile, it was cool, and as Universidad de Chile´s  students,  we pay less XD. I like so much seeing  live danza.

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A building

In Santiago, there is one building wich is my favorite,  I think is beautiful, The National 

Library, I have gone sometimes in 2007, in particular because of PSU, that was a perfect place to study. This beatiful and big building was founded in 1813 under government  of politician and  soldier  José Miguel Carrera , the architect was Gustavo García Postigo, and together ¨Archivo Nacional¨, these buildings were inspirited in École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts or ENSBA from Paris.

I have walked a  lot of times close by this building, however, I have gone in a few times, the principal place is big, the desks and desk lamps are antiques of course, but very good maintained, it is beautiful. I see many people walking every day by there, and I am sure not much people go in, obviously we are very busy.

Surrounding the building there are some referents too as ¨Cerro Santa Lucia¨, ¨Universidad Católica¨,, and a modern building wich I like too ¨Centro Gabriela Mistral ¨ or ¨GAM¨ (ex Diego Portales)  wich offers ballet or contemporary dance, music concerts, stage play and art exhibitions. Definitely The National Library gives a distinct touch in the Santiago´s modern center.  

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Hi, really I do not know much about paints, I only have seen some of the most famous but, It did not   cause impact in my life XD, that is  because I do not  know about art paints, but I will learn some day, so this homework it has become a little difficult for me.

 

Recently,  sometimes I see photographs of famous artists. When I was fourteen or fifteen years, I had to do a homework about ¨The year of the Science¨ so I chose Albert Einstein, between photos that I found, I saw one wich calls my attention: It shows Albert Einstein playing violin together his wife in the piano. That  photo calls my attention because It is weird to see this genius man in a distinct facet.

 

The other photograph is the front cover of first  disc (1969)  of Carlos Santana, the image  is a lion but, if you look in detail, yo will see a child,  really I think it is a man, and four human heads. These under-cover  images are a little crazy, I do not know   who is a the author of this picture,  I saw it   some years ago, when I was looking for new music.

 

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Food

I like very much the peruvian food, because  I was born in Lima, so I grew up with a variety of dishes and desserts . In Santiago there is a plenty  of cultures, and there are a lot of peruvian restaurants of course, thanks god :), sometimes I go to ¨La casa del Cheff¨ www.lacasadelchef.com, the prices are a little expensive (not much), but I recommend it, this restaurant has many dishes. Close my Faculty (Independencia), there are many peruvian restaurants  I used to go to ¨Tacu Tacu¨ (Bezanilla with Independencia), it is close by a lot of undertaker´s  XD, the prices are a little cheaper  than ¨La Casa del Cheff¨ but the food is delicious too, a menu price is about 3500 ¨pesos¨ (include a starter,  dessert and a drink), I recommend ¨Pescado a lo macho¨, my favorite meal, it is a seafood, a good fish, a delicious sauce, and a little of rice, but if you go you should say that no so much salt, because  sometimes they cook with a tiny excess of salt. I think that the best oven Empanadas  in Santiago  are in   ¨Ña Matea¨ , Cheese prawn pasty is my favourite,  the location: in Bellavista Purisima 171, and there are branches in HUechuraba and Providencia districts , for more information:  www.namatea.cl.

If you like Italian food, ¨Pasta E Basta¨, its a good option, a little expensive, it is in Isidora Goyenechea with Vitacura I recommend Spinach´s  Gnocchi, I do not remember the dish name exactly.

PD: Pasty=Empanada, is it a good translation? I am not sure…….but I am hungry now :)

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Nirvana

Hi: 

A t the beginning, I have been thinking to write about Marie Curie ( I think she is the most important  scientific), it had to be woman !  but trying to  get away  for a while of the  chemistry environment, I decided, and all  my apologies to Madame Curie, however, in fact I would like to have met to  Kurt Cobain and his band of course, unfortunately he is death. His songs  lyrics are very simple, the guitars, the battery and the Kurt Cobain special voice are wonderful,  I think  that a tour  with them  must have been the most exciting event ,  funny and a crazy experience, I imagine being  with them in a tour we could  talk  about their firsts songs, and how they recorded their songs. It must have been interesting, to meet them at least for a while and know something else about their life. I like Nirvanas songs, specially  ¨The man who sold my world¨ it  is my favorite,  I can play it with my guitar, It could have been wonderful to play this song with them.

The second video, is the song  She smells like teen spirit, but in piano, I think it is perfect.