lunes, 27 de octubre de 2008

Field Trip

Well, I remember specially a field trip. It was the last year when we went to San Pedro de Atacama in the Antofagasta region. I remember this field trip because I like mountains and all the special meaning about the culture of the mountains, like the music and the native people. In this case we went to a house of atacameñan people, the leader (The Boss) of the house, called Carlos, who was very friendly when he opened the house for us. He told us about his life style and usually he cooked typical atacameñan food. Also we have long time to talk with Carlos about his people and their stories, generally old stories, about his mom or his family. But in the nights we went to the town to drink something and talk, and that was very funny. Well, generally we had a few field trips to other places around the Salar de Atacama and we visited other people who live there to talk about their problems. Finally, we travelled all the way long by car and it was so long, but I never get bored, because we heard lots of music or we have long talks too. Sometimes, we smoked some cigarettes and other green things and it was so nice, because the people who I travelled with are wonderful guys.

miércoles, 22 de octubre de 2008

By Sebastian

Dear Marjorie,

How are you? I hope that well. I would like to know about you, and I don't want that you think that this is psychopathic letter, I just wondering, what do you like to do in your free time? And also which is your favourite activity? Well, please, tell me things about you.

In other topic, I want to talk about your corrections on my post. I think that you make a great job and you are very perfectionist, but always it says in Chile that "English Teachers" have a big problem and I feel that you have it too. And the problem frequently is that "the teacher" can see the problems that have the student –in written text, for example- but rarely analyzes and explains the mistakes to the students and I feel that the real education o pedagogy goes for that way. Because is not possible that in seven or eight years of English classes, the general people can't understand English and I take this to a country level.

In order, that's the reason to the question "Why?" the education is so bad in Chile.

Regards.

Sebastian

martes, 14 de octubre de 2008

dogs

In this post I want to talk about my dogs. Actually I live in an apartment and I have two dogs living with me, the name of one of them is Zepequeño and the other is Maki. For me, they're very special and I feel that without them, my life would be very sad. Personally, I like walk through the park with them, but I have a little problem because my little dog called Zepequeño is so angry and he likes to fight with other dogs or kids when they come close, then the dog begins to bark and I feel shame. Well, my other dog is very quiet and always moves her tail when other dogs approach. Well, my two dogs are very different but they're very special.

lunes, 13 de octubre de 2008

Pierce

My favourite piece of technology is the laptop, because it’s a great tool for work and with it you can do other activities like hear music, talk with friends, see videos and play pc games. I use my laptop mainly to work, because I have a geographic software and generally, I make geographic information, but that’s not all, because in my laptop I have my favourites songs and frequently, I do my work listening music. I like to play pc games too and in my laptop I have my favourite game called ¨Civilization¨ (you can call me “nerd”, but this is the best game in the world). Other great property of my laptop is that I can go with it to all places, because it’s very light and comfortable. The ¨main problem¨ of laptops is that they’re so expensive and for that is a little dangerous to walk for the streets with it in your hands. Is for that reason that truly I can’t go to all places with my laptop, for example, today I left it in the office because I can’t walk calm with it through Santiago. Finally, I guess that my life without my laptop would be not very different, because I think that it’s a great piece of technology but it’s not essential for me.