Your experience at learning English at the university

Maybe this is my last post in this blog, so it is very important for me post something relationed with this class and maybe concludes some relevant things about it. First, I am going to write about the importance of the blog; Second, and the main idea of this topic, I am going to write about my experience of this class. And finally, I am going to write about the utility and inutility of learning English at the university.

I started to write in this blog in April, but I feel that I have learnt much more than the things that I learnt in the same time in classroom. To write in the blog is, in my opinion, the best way to improve your vocabulary and grammatical techniques. And also it is a good way to improve your oral expression, because you discover what words you really know and with time you can improvise, and write very quickly.

My experience in the English class was very strange, I really have learnt a lot but it is really stressful came to classes and also cannot sleep in them. In the first term, I was more motivated because I was a novice in this, but with the time came to class was a very hard mission. In the second term, was more difficult come to classes, but at least this is the last term with English so it was a good motivation. It is very important to practice what you learn, but it also has been very difficult for me because I think that I am very Hyperactive, so the experience of being sitting for a while has been hard for me.

Finally, I think that my experience at learning English at the university was good, but it could be a lot better. Maybe it could be more motivating if the classes have counted with some foreign students, so you can learn some cultural things at the same time that we learn English. For example in my public school it was in that way and the classes were really funniest.

How green I am:

I am very green.

The environmental contamination problem is one of the most popular topics of this century, especially for the hippie rich boys and also for the other hippies. Also it has been an important topic for the normal people, principally because Al Gore made a movie (I can’t remember the name) supported by new technologies developers companies, obviously to introduce in the best way some products like hybrid technology and things like that.

So, how you can notice, I am not a big fan of this topic. I think that it is important, but I think that the big problem is caused by the big companies and the rest of the people have a lot of other problems in the present to be worried about the future.

The topic is very popular but the diffusion is very bad, it is possible that an important number of persons have forgotten the topic. I have not incorporated important modifications to my habits by this problem. In my family the recycling of garbage was a habit before the boom of the environmental problem, I don’t know the reason. For example I have in my room some batteries of the past century, because we do not throw it into the garbage, and I have never founded the recycle zone. I never use the car; I live in the center of Santiago so all the things are very close to me, and also “all the busses are useful for me”.

I don’t support any eco-organization, I hate the green people.

Finally I think that if the world turns a disaster and the temperature make us crazy, that doesn’t care. I only expect that we never forget that the battle against the big companies have to be for and by the people, and not for a tree, I think that is inconceivable that the hippies were more worried about the green world than the people who suffer or who lives in bad conditions.

My last wild party

This week I have to write about the last wildest party that I had or attended. I really do not know what the parameter to define a wild party is. Because when I heard the words “wild party” or “crazy party” I think in parties like the parties of the American pie movie. In that way I never had had a party like that. So, I am not going to talk about my wildest party, I am going to talk about my last bizarre party.

This party was in the house of one of my ex classmates, this party was a meeting with some of my ex classmates, they have made a lot of this events previously but I never have go to one of this. All started very well, we talked; we made a barbecue, all very friendly and funny. In my school always had existed some weird mysticism, a special “chauvinism”, so the fraternity is very strong. But in some moment, when the alcohol came to visit us, our meeting ended in a very bad way. I think that is the first time of my life, and I expect that was the last, when everybody in the party get drunk and vomited.

I can said that I do not remember all the things that I have talked, but I can said that I was very responsible of my acts, I vomited always in the places that the people vomit.

So that’s all, and I don’t want to add a picture. The house was like a battlefield after de battle.

Do you want a cup of tea?

Englishman in New York

This song is very special for me for some special reasons. One of them is the fact that “The Police” and Sting are not a important musicians for me, I like some of them songs, for example message in a bottle, Roxanne, Every breath you take; but I do not appreciate their songs or the way that they make music. So the symbolism of this song does not come from the band or the singer. I always make jokes with this song, especially with my new classmates, because when we went to the beach they drink tea at six o’clock or after the launch and I found it very weird, so I put this song that I found weirder than the situation, I thought that it was a very good complement.

About the Sting I can say that his real name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, he is an English musician. He was the leader of the English band “The Police”. They started to play in 1977. The band was formed by Sting (singer, and bass player); Andy Summers, who plays the guitar; and Stewart Copeland, the drummer. They have 5 studio albums, but Sting by his own have 10 solo albums. The band plays together between 1977–1984, 1986, and in 2007–2008.

How I said before I do not like this band so much. But I have to say that Sting and his band have a very special music style, rock, jazz, and some other influences. But they mix this special music style with very bad lyrics, they have some exceptions, but there are not so much.

Víctor Jara’s Shed

After this wonderful week, those kinds of week were the night becomes in day to some us, if the expression “to be sparing with, you shouldn’t go out so much at night” it sounds common to you and if you feel that you are drinking like a fish so you want to stop I recommend Victor Jara’s shed to dose.

This place is placed in Huerfanos street; found this place was very easy for me because I am very near of this place. This place is very special for a lot of reason; one of them is the fact that in Victor Jara’s shed always are recitals, so it’s very funny go there and hear some good live music.

Victor Jara’s shed also is one of the most important recitals places of Santiago; it’s like the home of the new Chilean music. In this shed is very usual the presence of important musicians of Chile, like Inti Illimani, Los Jaivas, etc. And how I said before, promising new musicians of the local scene, just like Juana Fe, Manuel Garcia, etc.

I have been in this place a lot of times with a lot of different people, and all kind of people. The last is very interesting; in this place you can find all kind of people always.

So, the invitation has been done. This place is cheap, friendly, nice and a lot of other adjectives. In other way, if you don’t want to pay you can be outside drinking and hearing good music.

Cumbia nena!

Bicentenary

I will celebrate this special national holiday in a wonderful and colorful city, Santiago. Probably, I will be with my parents, my friends and some other people. I think that is not necessary to spend much money celebrating this special national holiday, you always would invite somebody over to your house and make that he pays, but with this option you have to be very cautious and select your friend in a very meticulous process.

The thing that I like of the national holiday is the opportunity that it’s bring to you to get drunk and ‘rest in peace’. The truth is that at this age you really don’t need a reason to get drunk, so I am not so sure if that is a good reason. Other thing that I like of the national holiday is the barbecues, so many dead animals and all for me (evil).

Other important point of this special national holiday that I consider important is that this year is the 200th anniversary of our Independence that’s it different of celebrating the 199th anniversary or the 201th anniversary of our Independency because… is weird, there are no differences; it’s only the obsession of the human being for the ceros. Why? I have no idea.

I think that the privatization of the education in Chile, it’s not the problem of the University’s system. The university system is only the finalization of a long process, and this process starts in the primary level of education. The differences created by the system are very dangerous in sense that it
I think that the privatization will not impose in our state university system, because this is problem for a whole society. I cannot see any solutions to this problem, sometimes you felt that this is a problem that nobody wants to solve, the politicians, the authorities, only the students are trying to give solutions, but even that solutions seems like charity, more than real solutions. For example, this week almost everybody has forgotten the problem and now are busy with their tests and works. This is a cultural problem and if we don’t take it seriously, obviously we are going to fail.
About the question: “Do you think this government will privatize Universidad de Chile?” I always have had this question ¿ it hasn’t done yet? If you look the students of this faculty, you have the answer. It is very sad, but this university shows us how big this problem is. We are not fighting for this; we are fighting for something better.