Euthanasia

When I heard the word euthanasia I think immediately in a sick person who is suffering with his condition. I know that voluntary euthanasia is illegal in many countries except United States and involuntary euthanasia is illegal in the majority of countries. In this moment I don’t remember a famous case of this but I remember a very good movie called “Mar adentro”. This movie talks about this topic and is base on a true story. It’s about a man who was left quadriplegic after an accident, his condition is incurable and he was 29 years lying on a bed, this man try to do legal his own euthanasia but he can`t get the consent for the state so he committed suicide in collusion with various family members and friends who were never charged, because he developed a sophisticated plan to protect them. I don’t practice any religion, but the Catholicism (that is practice for the most of the Chileans) prohibits the euthanasia, in my personal opinion the government doesn’t have the right to keep a person alive considering the pain and the decision of the sick person and his family, In my case, I’m agree with euthanasia and I think that the discernment have to be more flexible.

*The image of this post is from the movie "Mar adentro"

A new and strange term

I would say that I dont have many academic expectation about this new term because is too short and the subjects that I`m taking are too boring like Introduction to the Psychologycal evaluation or Cognitive neuroscience. I know that this sounds very pessimist but it`s difficult form me go back to class afther six month on strike learning and doing more intresting things that are more usefull for life.

Apart from that, having class in summer makes me feel automatically tired. The idea of take a test a day after new year its sad and I can`t imagine the suffocating warm in the classroom

Anyway, I prefer to think that this two months will be past as fast is possible and all the time that we were on strike was necessary for a incipient construction for this student movement.

Bloggin experience

Maybe this is the last post in this blog, so today I will talk about the blogging experience during this semester in the English class. I can develop very much the write comprehension and my abilities to improve this language, now I think that a good way to learn another language Is with practical activities like this, so listening a talk and later write about it like we do once is a excellent way to put on exercise the techniques aspects of grammar, also write about interesting subjects is an extra motivation that becomes this homework in something more funny. In my personal opinion I think that write about our career or our favorite movie or photograph give us a better relation with these assignments, I enjoy writing about these topics and especially talking about my best friend because I have the opportunity to express little things of myself and think about important topics like education. In other aspects, reading the ideas or thought of my classmates I can knew more about different point of view or the interests of them. According with this I would say that the blogging experience has many advantages and good qualities and it becomes to me in an interesting and also a creative experience
In an ambit maybe a little lazier an a kind of trivial I would say that sometimes the requirement of have to write with a minimum of words was difficult in my case because it wasn`t easy think in more things to say in English (as now in this post), however I understand that do this duty is a important way to manage a good English and the ability to develop ideas.

Black and withe.

Today I was looking the blog of Tomás, and I realized that he used his own name to give a title to his blog. The name of the site URL is Curicorlz, I think this is because he`s from Curicó so he like very much his city. The first impression that I have when I enter to Tomas’s blog is of sober, I mean that the colors his choose (black and white) are very subtlest and they are also very pretty (at least in my personal opinion). Anyway, I think that he can add a little more of color to create a nice contrast between black and some colors.

Within the nine posts of Tomás there is one that I like it very much, the name of this post is “A nice place” and that was the same tough that I have when I read it because he talk about a trip that he do with his family to a beach that is located far away of the human settlement, I love when he talks of the moon and the beautiful and fantastic view that this place has of it, this make me thought in the nice view that you can find on the field.
Well, there is also another thing that I like of this blog, this is the good pictures that Tomás always add to his post , I think he takes some dedication when he choose the picture. With regards to the grammatical and technique part I would say that he has a lot of abilities to develop ideas but sometimes He forgets to pay attention to the tenses, this is an aspect that I also do, so we both have to improve it.

Creativity

Ken Robinson, in a talk about creativity and school raised and interesting point of view about the 2 topics and the relation there is between this two concepts, he says that school kills creativity, the principal reason he give is because traditional education is center on traditional areas like math and language so the all word is around this. The objective of the education is prepare to someone to enter to the university, but when people think in the most important and necessary careers almost everyone think in this two areas. In other aspect, creativity is seen like something wrong, and everybody is afraid to be wrong so the formal institutions of education, like schools doesn’t give too much importance to art, and doesn’t focus in develop this area.

I think that this point of view is very pertinent. If we just think in the subjects of school, math, language and science has more time in the schedule. The education must point at the complete and integral development of a person, and then the student will be able to choose an activity, so these three things (Math, language and art) must have the same kind of importance. The intelligence need to be seen as a way to solve problems and also to display innovation and creativity, Like Ken says intelligence is diverse and dynamic
In the example of the girl who like to dance is very clear the importance of other areas according to each person. If someone will tell her to calm down, she wouldn’t develop her talent and creativity with dance.

Photographs =)

I love photographs and cameras, the capacity and ability they have to capture moments and show expressions, emotions, feelings, light and colors is fantastic, also in many opportunities when you look a photo you can be many time watching it and discovering the details that revels is real content. So photographs has an emotional and an esthetic value that make me be very interest on this.

This photograph was taken for me a year ago, I remember I was with my family in my aunt’s house, it was starting to get dark, I look outside and I saw a great view of Santiago and a beautiful sunset with big mountains in the background, so I decided go out with my camera and take the photo, I took a lot of pictures because the first ones seems to me to much blurred, the reason was that the scenery didn’t has the light necessary, and I didn’t had a tripod so I cant move myself and I have to be very calm.

The 4th or 5th attempt was the good one son I can finally take the photo without move myself, and I like pretty much the results because the lights of Santiago appears very little and the contrast between the mountain and the sky was very amazing to me. The panoramic and nice view of Santiago makes me think that is not a ugly city like I often think

Days after I show this picture to a good friend of my and he like it a lot, so this was his birthday gift.

My best friend is Daniela Chacón but everyone call her Dicha, We knew each other since 2001, the year that she enters to my class. We started to be best friends a year later and since that date until today we had never had a big argument, I think this is because we share many things like music, movies, literature, and taste in food and clothe and we both have relaxes personalities .

Like we love the same kind of music she´s an unconditional partner to go to concerts or just sing nice songs while we are doing anything, we also enjoy going to the same kind of places, and we love go to new and different parts of Santiago with 2 of our friends, Cami and Paulina (Who also appears in the picture). In winter vacations we used to go to the beach the four of us so this are moments that I always remembered.


Dicha study at the UMCE, so in this year, the first year that we are not studding together we try to make us a little time to have lunch together or just a minutes to drink a coffee and have a nice conversation.

She has a specially personality because she’s quiet an peaceful but she also is very funny and has an agile humor, she thinks pretty different to other people so that’s a characteristic that make us good friend

She’s always a connection with the earth for me, specially when I started to complicate myself with everything she always has a good advice for me. I think that this is a difference between us, that she’s more practical. But this difference make a good balance in a frienship.