Amost Famous

My favourite movie is Almos Famous, a movie from Cameron Crowe. The movie starts in a small town and ends in New york when the tour of a rock band finishes. It is about an adolescent who likes to write about rock. He writes for an important magazine and one day the editor of Rolling Stone calls him and tells him that he wants him to write an article about a rock band. He knows a band called Steelwater and makes the tour that the band is doing. During the trip he meets groupie called Penny Lane and falls in love with her; also he really knows how the rock band is because he sees all the egos, the infidelities and the drugs. The principal characters are William performed by Patrick Fuggt who is a very shy boy but a good writer. Russel is the guitar player who William admires represented by Billy Crudup, he is a good person but is unfaithfull to his girlfriend with a groupie called Penny Lane. Penny Lane is stared by Kate Hudson. I have a lot of favorite parts but the one that I love is when William introduces Penny Lane to Russel. The scene is very funny but romantic because they have met before a long time ago, they were lovers. In that scene Penny Lane tells him her name and act like if she doesn`t know him. The scene is very beautiful and the images is amazing. I love this movie for the story and over all, for the music. In the movie there are songs from Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Led Zeppelin, Elton John and a lot of other rock bands of the 60`s. The other thing that I like is the character of Penny Lane. I like how is she and her lifestyle, she is a free soul. I wouldn`t change anything to this movie because every time that I see it I discover something new.

That horrible image...

The last piece of news that I heard and surprised me was that “Café Torres” gave to the president Sebastián Piñera the "honor" to have a sandwich with his name. The name of the sandwich is “el sandwich Piñera”. It happened yesterday in a ceremony for the Bicentenary at the “Café Torres”. The people there were the diplomatic corps of Chile; they were there to make a toast for the bicentenary with the president. The shocking part for me is that Piñera is not a good person and he doesn`t deserve all the popularity that he is having. Also I think that it is like giving him more reasons increase his ego, he thinks that he is an important person and I don`t agree. I think that this piece of news is not so important but for the people who know “Café Torres” it would be terrible because it is known as a place where the intellectual people go, so to have a sandwich with that name could make a reflection of the change that the intellectuals are living in Chile. Besides I think that Piñera is becoming a cultural referent very important and it is not very good because he reflects values that are not the right ones. He is not a sincere person. I would like to hear some news about more cultural projects because I think that the Chilean people have to do more things for their own and not to depend on the state. We can create a great city with a cultural population movement, not with public figure like mister Piñera who wants to impose his way of being.

Let`s go to China!

I would like to go to China because I love all the culture over there. There are a lot of different food and condiments; I would like to know about how to cook it. Also I would like to learn a little of Chinese and about all the ceremonies that they do, like the tea ceremony. I know that China is a difficult country because the people are very shy and it is a communist country so they are worried about what kind of people travel there. I also know that they are very worried about the manners because they are people who respect each other with a respectfull attitude. If I were in China I would like to visit all the monuments and the historical places like palaces and beautiful gardens. And how I say at the beginning I would try all the food because I really love the things that they do, like use different ingredients from us and weird condiments. I am not scared about trying new food because I learn that we have to try everything we can in this life. I would like to live there for a while, not for a long time; just the enough time to learn some of the culture. I would like to live there and have long walks for all the places of China, even the unknown little villages.

The last semester

This year, during the first term of 2010, I made my third semester in the University of Chile in the carrer of Anthropology. I liked this semester because I had a lot of theoretical courses and I loved it. I learned about Materialism and Linguistics. The importance of these courses is that when I work I will put into practice all this theories on the reality. So I will help the people but with knowledge. I didn`t do any sport because I didn`t have time and also because I wanted to do sports this semester to prepare myself for the summer. The challenges that I had to face were to learn things that I didn`t like, for example I hate Prehistoric because the professor wasn`t a clear person. Besides, I didn`t like “Etnohistoria” because we had to read and comment all the time, we didn`t do anything else so it was very boring and monotonous. With my family the year was a little difficult because we had a few problems but now we are working as a team and we share all our problems and find a solution. My family was the most important support for the last semester because they always helped me when I was stressed or sad. The last semester was very hard but I feel that it shows me that I can beat a lot of difficulties with a little help from my friends (and family).

second semester 2010!

During this semester we wrote on this blog for our English class, we wrote about a lot of topics and now I’m going to talk about our experience writting. I really didn’t enjoy it because I don’t like to write a lot, I prefer to read. I am not used to write so it is difficult to me because you must have imagination and I am not a creative person. I think that it helped me to improve my english but not in an important way because I wrote a lot in the school so I used all the things that I learned there. Maybe it helps me to remember and practice, but not to learn new things. Besides this, the blogging have advantages and disadvantages. Among the advantages we have that the people of other parts of the world can read what you write and comment about a topic. Another advantage is that you can read about differents topics, and in our case we can read differents views of one topic because all the people of the class wrote about one subjet. On the side of the disadvantages you lose some of your privacy because all the world can read about you or what you think, also they can get personal information from you or your friends. Besides, some topics could get anger some people because they don’t like what you said, there are people that not use the argumentation and only fight. Concluding I think that blogs are a good way to put on the world your ideas because a lot of people read it, but you have to be careful of bad people. The blog is an opportunity for discussion but with real arguments, not only because you don’t like what I write.

Cheer up!

The last Friday started the World Cup. I like the World Cup because it is a great time to see matches of soccer with your friends or your family and celebrate doing a tasty food. So the World Cup is the perfect excuse to celebrate and do a party. Also I like the soccer because you want with all your heart that your team win, so you exited for it. Tomorrow plays Chile and I’m going to see the game with my friends, we are going to have a little party all the night and wait for the match of tomorrow. We are going to make a mexican night with tequila and tacos. The problem is that we have a short test tomorrow so we have to go to class without sleep, it would be a real challenge. I am expecting that Chile wins this game and at least the game with Switzerland, because I know that it’s very possible that we lost the game with Spain. I would like that Chile pass to the next round, that would be perfect because I think that Chile needs something that cheer up their spirit. I think that the people had passed for many problems this year and if Chile wins some games the people will have a hope to overcome their problems. I think that the World Cup it’s no so important because Chile has a lot of problems that are forgotten for this, but also I think that it is a very good way of relax yourself and have a good time with the people you care. Also how I said it is a opportunity to give a hope to the people and show them that if you want you can do better things.

I have fear!

This photograph was taken by my friend Coté. We were returning from a trip from Pichidangui in 2008, a nice beach near to Los Vilos. In that moment we were waiting in the car because my mom was shopping in the supermarket. The picture shows me and my friends, the girl next to me is Pamela and the other girl is Coté. The first is very clever and talks a lot and the second is very shy but at the same time very friendly. We were bored so started to take funny photographs. The camera had an option to take photographs at the night, its name is night shot, so we invented horror stories and took photographs of this. In this photograph I was the evil and my friends showed a scared face. I like this photograph because I remember when I was in the school and we made a lot of funny things and we didn’t have shame. I rememeber that in that travel we took a lot of photos in the beach and running or wallowing in the sand or riding horses. Besides we cut our hair and walk across the beach. My friend Coté broght to the trip a game that called “Cranium” that was about doing mimic, draw things, etc; it was very comic because all my family played and everyone did funny faces. Also we talk about many things and ate a lot of food. I missed my school friends, I miss see them every day and teel all my problems or even fight for some stupid thing. I would liked to have more time to visit them but I am sure that in holidays I could do that.