film

My favourite film it’s a brazilian movie called ¨Central Station¨ from a brazilian director too. When I saw it for the first time I had 14 years old and I felt different kinds of emotions because this film have many different situations and it is a very realistic film of the ¨Brazilian situation¨.

That first time when I saw the film I was in La Serena on my holidays with my family, but I saw it only with my cousin. I remember that this moment was a very moving moment because the story that the film tells it’s an incredible sad story.

Well, the story of the movie begins when a little boy arrived at the central station of Rio de Janeiro looking for his father. Then he decides to write a letter to find him, but he can’t write because he is illiterate boy, so he pays to a writer to do it. But the writer (an old woman) decides not to send the mail and the little boy (Joshua) discover to the old woman and she decides to help him to find his father. But the old woman is apparently a wicked person and she decides to sell the boy to other bad people too, for some money. But then she regrets herself for what she did, and save the kid. Finally Joshua and the old woman discover that Joshua’s father is dead, however he finally finds his lost brother.

a little date.

The typical Fiestas patrias means nothing special for me. Because, in Chile doesn't exist or haven’t great traditions. Because, for the common people in the country the Fiestas patrias just means eat and drink a lot for two days, and the reflection or the true mean around this date is unknown for the common people. I think that the bad education it's guilty for the common people's disinformation about the real mean of the fiestas patrias.

Well, for the 18 September Chileans celebrate the first government reunion and this is the base for that Chile can calls itself an independent country. Is for that reason that this date the Chileans celebrate eating and drinking in excess, the typical food of Chile and other countries in sudamerican is the * Asado¨ and *empanadas* or *anticuchos¨ but you can to find this foods in the other countries in the region. And the typical cocktail is the cola de mono and the more popular drink is the Chicha and wine with coke and when you drink in excess this drink you should sick.

My best 18 september was the last year, because my girlfriend leave of the country and it was a great fare well.

For the future

Really, I’d never liked to think about my future or say how I would like to be in a couple of years. That’s because as the song by Ruben blades says: “Life gives you surprises, surprises gives you the life”, and for that reason, I never project my life. But, as Simon’s activity, I am going to do it.
Well, my life project now it’s to end my career the next year, and to work for a few time as a geographer in Santiago and then I would like to work in the south of Chile or in other region of this country. I would like to go to live and work at Punta Arenas, in any government department where I will plan as a geographer for the development of the region. Also, I would like to buy a house in that city and raise a family there. I think that the house that I want to have in the future should be a big house with a large courtyard, and should have many plants and animals too, maybe some dogs, because I love them, and specially, I would like to have dachshunds dogs. Forward, I would like to do a Ph.D. in a couple of years. That’s because, I like to study and I don’t think that in the near future I wouldn’t like study.

Finally, I have to say that I want have childs, maybe two or three and I would like that they grow living in a little city, out of a metropolis, in a beautiful and save environment.

Learning

My experience with learning English has had highs and lows, because in the school I had good performance and I had a good teacher, but I think that I had a very few classes of English. When I sign in university I had a bad experience, because I disapprove the chance in English two and reprove the class, because this time I not liked to study English and I not went to all class, but now I like to go to class, because my teacher is very motivating and he gives time to explain when I can’t understand in class, the major time I have problems with the vocabulary and my teacher explain of good form. Now, I enjoy with the English class and before I not enjoyed the English class. I think that learning English is not difficult but I feel that me study is very poor because with English I am very lazy. Personally when I find a web page in English I haven’t problems for read in English, but is very difficult for me write or talk in English.

About the English culture, I feel very close because I hear music in English and I have a sister that is English teacher but as the proverb says: “in house blacksmith, wooden knife”.

Finally, I know many people who speak English, for example my sister and my girlfriend speak English. And I think that the learn English is very useful for me, because I can read English text or see web site in English.

Me

My name is Sebastian Llantén and I live in ñuñoa. I have 23 years old and alive in Santiago nine year ago and currently I `m studying geography in the university of Chile and it is my last year in my career. Before I lived in Punta Arenas all my childhood and I think that is a great city for a boy, because I could play with the nature and this city is very safely for a kid, moreover I could see wonderful landscape and I could play with snow and skate on ice and is very funny for a little kid. My family is composed for five persons my dad, my mom, my sister, my brother and me. But I live only with my mom and my sister, because my dad live in other place and my brother live with his wife and his little son. My nephew is very young, because he was born two days ago, and I `m very happy because is a beautiful boy and his name is Nicolas. Currently besides of study I `m working in the military geography institute for my professional practice and I think that is very funny because you can read, talk for all building and the people are very friendly.

My Blogging Experience

The blogging experience was a great experience, because helped me to write in other language this case in English language. I think that write in English helped for me self-esteem with the English language, because I hadn’t the “trust of manager” and now can write with major fluent language, also I can show my blog in English with my classmate and I can see the interesting post write by my classmate. Finally, I think that all in the class enjoyed write in the blog, because all classmate and me could give personal opinion about the question that the teacher asked and also we could play with other tool different to the traditional class.

What I didn’t liked?

In generals terms I liked the Blog Experience, but I think that dammit participation in the blog, because the comment in the blog was two or three in the most popular blog and I think that this was product because we are very lazy with the English class.


What helped me learn English?

How said with previously I think with the blog experience I could win more experience with the English language and won more self-esteem with the language. Now, I can said that not fear learn English language.


My Favorite Post:

My favorite Post is the last post write by jean, because she… (Sorry) he is a storyteller because the form write about geography is fascinate and the history he narrates when he looks the show of the city for the window of bus.

My least favorite post:

My least favorite post is the last post the hector Aedo blog’s jejeje, because he never writes a post because he is a lazy classmate. But he is a great people, but I think the last post about the resume of the story is great.

Which is the best blog in the class?

The best Blog is the Montes blog’s, because he tell me for promotion his blog and he say “ my blog is excellent and upload a music disc and I kicking to all not say that my blog is great” and I have fear.

I study geography because I like to look at the territorial problems, also because Chile has various geographic regions and each region is very different and I like to study this variety of regions. I think that in Chile, despite the big variety of geographic regions, the people don´t know anything about geography. For example when we (Chilean people) have an earthquake or have a volcanic eruption the people are surprised and think that it is a punishment from the gods and not a natural process. For that reason I like to study geography. But the more I study geography the more I think that the knowledge problem is a global problem and not only in Chile, Proof of this are the victims in the natural disaster in the world, in earthquake, Volcanic Eruption, Flood, mud flow, Hurricane, monzón cyclone, heatwave, etc.

I think that the environment problem is one, but manage the environment is the other problem and I think that the geographer can help to resolve the big problem of manage the vulnerability of the people with the environment and reduce the numbers of fatalities around the world for natural disaster.

Finally I recommend a book about managing environment problems for successful and unsuccessful societies titled “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.” by Jared Diamond.