Blogging experience

I think that the Blog is a good idea for improve my English and learn too some few new words that I needed to complete my texts. I enjoyed some themes like “Movies”, “Photograph” and “Hobbies” but I think there were some themes a little bored and asked many words! (Maybe the theme just needed 100 words) and I really didn’t know what to write in… for example “A career-related website” and this one.

In my opinion, in general it is a good technique to practice English, and now I can write a more fluid with my friend from Bulgaria and United States because before, I had to look for in a translator often, and now I just search some few words.

Well, the advantages I already said it (more fluidity, learn some other words, maintain a practice). I think too it is a good idea to send us the correction to our mails because there we can see our mistakes and try not to repeat it in other occasions (the next theme or in daily life).

The disadvantages are few, is more… I think there are not. Maybe we can talk about the proposed topics and see our typical mistakes in classes are good ideas because I always forget my mistakes and I need that teacher remember me sometimes: Hey, Scarlette, you always repeat it! Take care with this word or this phrase. And other disadvantage (but little and not too important) is that is much lost time (only sometimes).
But I think in general everything was ok, I enjoy it and I learned a lot… so Thanks.

On purpose, you didn’t sent the correction of “Movies”.
See you on next class.

Education as a human flourishing

Robinson says that there is a “Second Climate Crisis” (referring to the Algore’s talk) but now it’s calling “The Human Crisis” wich have to be treated with urgency.
We have a poor use of our talents and also there are people who don’t think they have any talent or they don’t enjoy what they do.
People do things that don’t like because the education inhibits the natural talents, so reform the education is not enough; we need a “revolution in education”.

He took a message from Abraham Lincoln wich says:
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew, we must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country”.
The meaning of this message is that many of our ideas have been formed with the circumstances of previous centuries and we have to “disenthrall” ourselves.
He says too that we are obsessed with getting people to college but it’s not always the way for all people now and we are almost forced to go to the college, to be a professional and had a great potential.

As a summary, we have to compare us on principals of agriculture: the human flourishing isn’t a mechanical process, it’s an organic process, and we cannot predict the outcome of human development, but we can create the conditions under which.
We have to reconstitute our sense of ability and of intelligence. It’s about the passion; it excites our spirit and energy because if we do what we love to do, all time’s courses change.

I really never got to thinking in this theme… but I’m agree with Mr. Robinson because since we are children, our parents, teachers and friends want to we were “somebody in this life”, and this society have the bad habit of demanding to be the best and make money, but doesn’t care what you want, what I want to do or for what I’m good. I maybe should be an artist hahaha.

Once upon a time seven Gnomes

I’m a person who likes fun and sharing with friends and I always think that the moments must be taxed in photography, to remember it when the time has gone. Because of this, I always bring my camera and I take pictures at all times.

I have thousands of photos without exaggeration and sometimes, when I’m bored I look them and I remember and laugh with some photos that not even remember that they existed.

My special photography was taken on December, 2007. It was the last week in my school as a high school student. It is special for me because are all my best friends in there (including me) and it’s a little funny because we are in order from least to greatest height and besides we assign numbers according to our height. I really love this photograph. We have called us “Gnomes”.

Appears in the photo (from left to right):

Gertye (Gnome one), Pepa (Gnome two), Cami (Gnome three), Angie (Gnome four), Mely (Gnome five), Me (Gnome six) and Paola (Gnome seven).

We are very close since we were fifteen years old. Now we see us less often but still we know each other and when we have time, we met and talked about our lives, we advice us, we laugh, take photos and had a nice time. I love them and I hope we always be friends.

Advantages:

The University of Chile is the most ancient university in this country. It was founded 167 years ago and has tradition and excellence. In Latin America this is the fourth university and internationally, it ranks the 182nd place, it’s not too bad because there are 8000 universities competing.
When I chose the university I had no doubts, it is the best in education, values and prestige.

Disadvantages:

In general level, even though the university is public, it is expensive. I think the state should pay a greater share of the cost of the careers. I think too, the money is unevenly distributed among faculties. For example, the FEN (Faculty of Economics and Business) has very good facilities and technology and, my faculty (Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation), has very poor facilities.

What I like about my faculty:

In first place, it is very large and with many green areas, I really like it; I have seen universities and faculties very “dry”. I could not go to classes only seeing concrete buildings and, with luck, a little grass… I think there would depress me because I love nature! and I can’t live without it. Thanks to this, there are many places where you can share with people and never get bored.
I remember when I went to school; I hated how small and little green it was… I think I’m claustrophobic! Because it depresses and bores me too much.

Because of this, I think I’ll have to work in field and not in offices.

My hobbies

I have some few hobbies, one of the things I like to do is watching movies so I love going to the cinema once a month with some friend or my boyfriend. I think I like it because the sound and big images, and more if they are in third dimension.

I also like swimming; I’m going twice a week with my university partners only for fun and I really love this sport. I recently discovered it this year, when my friend encourage to go whit her. We go to the Sports Centre of the university there, in Cal y Canto station. I’m thinking of keep going because every class is more exciting.

One of my favourite hobbies is meeting my friends, I spent a pleasant time with them, I relax, I talk funny things and I really love those moments, I forget problems and always learn something from people. In brief I love my friends.

Something I want to do someday is to travel and take a tour for all Europe, know the different cultures and appreciate the ancient ruins. That is my dream and I hope I can fulfill it someday.

Those are my hobbies and my dreams.

My websites

I have not a favorite website related with my career, but I have a website related with some important stuffs in my career like geology, taxonomy, botany, cytology, physiology, biochemistry, etc. The web address is: http://cienciasnaturales.es/ . I found this website through a physiology teacher who taught to a friend.

I really like how dynamic is this page, here you can find some process very important to our matters and it explain you so simple and easy that you will learn very quickly. Thanks to this website, I learnt about plant physiology, process like the photosynthesis and cellular respiration.

This page have too a link called “enlaces” here you can search any topic you want and this gives you a website related with that topic.

Another web site I like is http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/ibc99/botanica/botanica/presenta.htm which is related only with botany. I like very much this area. This page is like a book about botany, can be found divisions, families, names, glossary, among others and it helped to me to understand at first the classifications of botany. I found this website searching in my free time looking for information related with this topic two years ago (in my first year of career).

Movies

I love watching movies, I think I can be watching films a whole day without being bored, is more, I see at least one at day when I have not to study and I go to cinema at least one time at month. I've seen a very good movies as well as I've seen a very bad movies so I can have an opinion about.

I have a very long list with my favourite films, for example I liked so much “The bucket List” by Rob Reiner’s, here works Morgan freeman and I love this actor. He acts in other movies I like as “The Shawshank redemption” and “Invictus”.
Another actor I like is Will Smith with “Seven Pounds”, “I am Legend” and “Pursuit of Happiness”, and every film has a meaning so deep… I really cried all.
I can not name to “The Notebook”, what a beautiful love story! I loved it.
Well, as you noticed I love drama films... All can make me feel things like joy, pain and sadness but the most important, each one have a meaning of life.

More drama films I like: The Soloist, City of Angels, American History X, My sister’s keeper, The Blind Side, The Reader. And love stories like Young Victoria, 50 first dates, Twilight and The Illusionist.
Changing genre: I liked so much Avatar by James Cameron (very good in 3D), Up! (Very nice movie! See it) and I the list continue…

Oh! Movies I don’t like: All Stars Wars, I hate them.