"Use of blogs"

This semester we have being using a new way of learning English. At first we didn’t know how to use it but time past by and now I can say that we have become professional’s bloggers. At the beginning of this new experience I didn’t imagine how useful it would be to use a blog.
Some of my classmates weren’t very happy with this assignment because they don’t like to work with computers and internet tools. In my personal opinion, I really like this experience because I love to use technology and I think that it is necessary too. Internet and Computers are very useful to learn English as a second language because we can learn the use of English in programs, software, games, and also on line in order to practice the four essential skills, reading, listening, speaking, and writing. As future teachers we must be updated with the new inventions and new advances so that is why we have to make use of any kind of resource that can help us to teach English.
Using a blog has many advantages as students of a second language. First of all you can practice your writing and also the way you evaluate others. Most of the time, you can write about your own personal opinion, personal experiences and topics from your own area of interest. Using a blog makes you be more aware of current events and also to use your critical thinking about different topics.
Maybe the only disadvantage that it can affect the use of a blog is when a blogger don´t know how to use it and he doesn’t take advantage of it. Otherwise it could be an excellent tool to learn English in an effective way.
If you have a good use of the blog you can obtain amazing results. I think that in the future I will use it in order to teach my students because it is a different activity were they can express themselves and use their knowledge. In my experience I have also notices that students enjoy very much going to the computers lab so this activity will be more entertainer and a rewarding experience.

Comparison between social classes in “The Commitments” and “Rumble Fish”

Each story contains a different topic that depends on the social context that the characters are involved in. Every social class causes different situations or realities. As the web site describes, social classes is a distinction between groups. They are usually divided and grouped into classes according on their economic position and economic and political interests. [1]
A writer must be informed about the real life of the different social classes, which are grouped in a specific place, before he starts his work in order to describe it according to their own experience.

The Commitments is the story of a group of people that are big funs of music, especially blues. As an individual and as a group they have a purpose, a motivation in life. They want to be someone and be recognized for their work and talent. The book shows as that they are class that has many possibilities to carry out with their own dreams.
On the other way around, Rumble fish is a story that relates a different reality. It shows the cruel daily life of a group of people that have no purpose in life and no interests in their own development. They don’t have any goals and they waste any possibility to be someone in life. They imitate and follow a figure that isn’t an example of person for everyone just for them.
The Commitments and Rumble fish shows two different realities. Each of them has different interesting. The characters of The Commitments have goals and dreams in life because their society has shown them that it is necessary and also because they know that they need to be someone in life to survive. The characters of Rumble Fish become from a society were surviving is something that you live every day. They don’t think that a job is necessary, they only live thinking and acting against their own lives.

In conclusion we can say that The Commitments and Rumble Fish contains different topic in order to exemplify their own reality. Both characters have different thoughts and realities that are shown to make the reader more aware of the develop of each topic.
As readers we must be aware of the different realities in the social classes in order to have a better comprehension and also to clarify the reasons of the development of the story.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class

"MY LEAST FAVOURITE SUBJECT"

My least favourite school subject was Mathematics, especially geometry and algebra. I studied it for about, my entire life, since I entered to school. Even I had a course in our first year here at Alberto Hurtado´s University. I think that mainly I didn’t like it because I didn’t understand the lessons and also because I wasn’t interested in it. Each year I had a different teacher of maths but I remember especially one. His name was Antonio; he was a very old man, that every student was very afraid of him. I think that he was the only teacher that woke up an interest to study maths. He told me ones, that maths were everything. That I was always going to be involved with maths and that it was fundamental for our daily routine. I remembered that I had my best average in maths, when he taught me that year, because he explain me it uses and also give me the chance to make mistakes. He always said that you learn making mistakes.

"The persistence of Memory ( soft watches), 1931

I think that the first time I saw this painting was a long time ago. Maybe I was 11 years old. I remembered that I was in an art class at school and I had a teacher that was a big fun of Salvador Dali. She taught us a lot of him and she showed us many different paintings of him.
I like his paintings because I think that each painting has many details that are hidden. In some of his paintings there are images that appeared like a combination of others elements that are shown in the painting. Each time you see a Dali’s painting you can spend many hours in front of it looking for details and hidden messages. I like this painting in particular because it makes a contrast of time and loneliness.
It makes me feel that time is not everything that in the end time is not something that really matters. People nowadays think that time is everything, they live in a hurry, but this painting shows that you need to make a stop and think about the things that are around us.