The Guardian article.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/22/students-march-chile-education-protests

This text that I have chosen is about when the student Chilean movement was installed in the mentally of Chilean people and press too. This article was written on Wednesday 22 June 2011 by Cristian Cabalin. He’s a Chilean journalist from University of Chile. I knew him; he was my teacher in the first year of my career. 

Cabalin wrote about the Chilean education and the different mistakes that the system of education has. The article is related with how the Chilean Government faced the student’s uprising and how the President of Chile, Sebastian Piñera, had to face the survey about his popularity. This because the result was a scant popularity, so the people and the press made critical analysis toward the form how the government had to cope to national problems.

Also, the article made a presentation about the public universities and their administrative problems and of financing. It explains how  Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship had very bad laws and programs that  made a big problem about how the State sees the education in Chile.

The central idea of this text is that the Chilean Students are making big efforts for change the education system  in our country. The Chilean system of education in Chile is very inequality and very expense. So, the students are marching for a better country. Like the titular says. 

Which country would I like to go to?

(Outstanding text)

Always we are thinking which country we like to go; there are a lot of places in the world that I like to visit. So, this task is complicated. 

Personally, I’d like to know more sites of our country, I think that is amazing place and it have many cities interesting and natural attractive. So, my answer would be: Chile.  Yes, is a politically correct answer but is true. 

But, I will try  follow the instruction. 

I would like to go to visit one country like Thailand. And the reason why I’d like to travel there is very simple: in pictures and other films I could know the Phi-Phi beach and many times I dreamed with know this place. Phi-phi is an island in an archipelago south of Thailand.

I would go on holiday there, and if I can make the decision to live forever on the beach, I would have no problem. I think I would be very happy in a place like Phi-Phi.

Who would not?

                                                       Phi-Phi Beach.

 

Best holidays

I don't know which was my best holiday... It has been some good trips and summers. But, I can remember one of my trips to south of Chile in 2002 when with my parents and my extended family (cousins, aunts and uncles) traveled from Marchigue in 6^th area until Chiloé, an island in 10 ^th area.
 

I was 10 years old. It was a particular journey because was very funny and extense. We traveled for some days and we stopped over in different cities like Chillan, Los Angeles, Angol, Temuco, Villarrica, Pucon, Valdivia, Osorno, Frutillar, Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt. 

We were 15 people traveling on a big van, so for that sometimes we had to sleep while the driver made his job> drive.  Because the most difficult was find house for many people. The trip was for 2 weeks visiting different, beautiful and unknown places. That was fantastic; we could find enormous wood with millennial trees. I was very amazed; I never saw something like that. 

I think that the reasons why these holidays were so good are because I made a nice trip with my family and I could know many cities of our country. In the future I hope to travel again to south of Chile because there are a lot sites for know. 

In the next photo you can see some members of my family and me. I'm the girl with the yellow t-shirt. We were in Valdivia, next to river Calle-Calle.

(how time has passed! )

That's all, friends!

My last semester.

Hi

I will write about how was my first semester this year.

I'd like to know you that in general words was very perfect, with that I want to say that I’m very satisfied because at the university, in my career, I could obtain good results and good comments a about my performance. Personally, I think that was a learning experience because I could put in practice some knowledge and understand new things.

In other aspects, this semester was a challenge for me because I started to share my apartment with my best friend, Lu, so that was very complicated… We didn’t want have problems in the habitual life, because we wanted that our friendship stayed intact.

Fortunately, we didn’t have problems. It’s been a great experience because we are very happy with this lifestyle and I think that has been very enriching because now we are more tolerant and we learn to share everything.

I think that this second academic semester will be a little weird or strange because now we are living big problems with our education, so the Chilean students are making important changes in the of the mentality peoples and putting important discussion in the present contingency. The Chilean people need know the problems that have the present system of government. So, this second semester will be essential for that.

(I was very disperse, sorry)

bye 

: )                                                  

Ester & Lu  - 101 apartment

Parties ICEI

Usually you can find a lot of panoramas in the campus JGM.  For example, there are many places where you can enjoy different parties, like the famous  “Pérgola de Ciencias”,  the grass of faculty of arts, “theater” of philosophy faculty.

And THE MOST IMPORTANT (for me) place for the wild parties...  

I’m talking about the “HOYO of ICEI”. That is the open subterranean of Cinema’s School.  Everybody name this place “Hoyo” because it’s like a pit.  And surely anybody has “fallen” in this pit. Probably you have finished the Friday in this place. And this talks very good about you, because it shows that you make very good decisions.  

Personally, I like so much this parties because you can forget the academic responsibilities (?)  And have a very good timet with your classmates and friends. 

The most popular drink that consume in this opportunities is beer, white wine with  pineapple beverage (the people call “tropical”). But I prefer the “piscolita” that is pisco with coca-cola and ices. Somebody drinks rum, vodka and other kinds of mysterious drinks. 

And the music that plays is varied. Since reguetón, until metal, Caribbean music or verse music. Really, you can find a lot of styles of music for dance. 

For don’t have accidents I advise you that you carry just the necessary. Like a glass (jiji), the best movement of dance and above all the keys of your house in a security pocket.

 

I'd like you to meet Many.

Minutes ago I was talking with María Francisca, probably you don’t know of who I’m talking. But if I say “Many” you know perfectly who is.

Since 2010 Many lives in Santiago, before she lived in Calama, mineral zone in the north of Chile. Many said me that sometime she miss this city because the weather is most nice that Santiago in winter, particulary.  But now she is very happy living in Santiago because since this year her parents live there too. They live in a beautiful house in La Reina. 

Many studies journalism, and this semester her favorite subject is photography because she loves take pictures in the city, she loves the lights on sunset. But she told me that sometime the class is very boring because the teacher isn’t very enthusiastic. 

Also, Radio is one of her favorite subjects; the teacher of this class is Raúl Rodriguez. He makes an Epistemology class, too. Many likes this class, she thinks that Raúl is very nice and flexible teacher but she believes that the evaluations are very demanding.  Indeed, tonight she has to studying for Epistemology class.

Many told me:  “My favorite teacher in this career was Gugo, he was the most sweet teacher that I have it”. Gugo made a class of redaction and report. And I strongly agree with Many.

Many dislikes the food of casino’s ICEI. Every time that she eats in there she gets sick. But she said me that I don’t give details about this. 

 That's all :D

 

This is Many puckering her brows in Atacama Desert. :-)