Chile 2010: a view of ourselves

This year, our country marks two hundred of birth. In 1810 started the emancipation´s process which Chile becomes independent to Spain. September 18th was the "Primera Junta Nacional de Gobierno", where the natives decide that  they recognized the king´s sovereignty, but as long as Spain´s king didn´t return to the thunder, they governed themselves.

The thinking pro-independence was an idea of the high social class. They were who head this process and took control of Chile until nowadays. They are the same persons - or their descendants, to be exactly- that have the power, all the power is held by a few people and the great mass of the population can´t  take the most important decisions about our country, it means that many people are discriminated and their role in the society isn´t considerate.

This way is the view of our history. We could not learn about our own mistakes, the history has not changes and the misery, economic inequality and ignorance of the nationals throughout the country to remain. So, this year we celebrated  nothing especial, we haven´t achieves. If  it is truth that the abject poverty doesn´t exist now, the cultural poverty is incredible. Currently is very easy to buy many things with credit cards, but the interest about our traditions and the general knowledge is very trifling. We don´t worry about strengthening the national identity.

To improve education becomes a trivial thing. The governments´ don´t hear the students request. He (the government) never has taken educational measurements.  The education to be part of market, it is an instance to make business. He thinks that the education must be regulated for the free game offer and demand.

The better way for a country improves is education. If our population is not interested in this issue, it is very difficult that Chile achieves like a developing country  far away from trade statistics. But if the interest of the powerful people are not invest in education, and if the education is the way for the population to become aware of  social unfair, they don´t allow to improve the education´s quality and continue use this like a tool  for get money and that way  they are enriching themselves.

Women in Power

 Women  gender has always had an  historically disavantage  behind of men figure.

Once, an stupid man said (He had a theory about the superiority of men) that the women´s brain is smaller than the men´s brain. When this guy died, the doctors took out his brain, and they realized that  it was a very small brain.  However, many of the women have demonstrated similar skills and personal qualities wich have helped in their careers.

Women have determined the course of events and the forms of human culture. We originated, founded, governed, created great art, etc. But  we are  ignorant of these women, because the mission of information in different societies according to female role in public life, diplomacy, medicine, religion, arts, etc.

So, we need a remedial history that reconstructs the female dimension of the human experience and achievement.

 Nowadays, we have more tools to fight the sexism, that is thanks to mass media, mainly internet. It does not only allow the joining of women´s groups, but of many different one, which has been concieved like minority.  In this kind of websites it's important focus them  to reach equal rights and opportunities for women, especially the extension of their activities into the social and political life.

The miners

The thirty men rescued of the San Jose mine are an example about the precarious and  unsafe conditions of labour in the mines. This is an important point, because mining industry is the most important profitable area  in Chile, so is necessary that our country supervised  to the firms, because it´s a very risky activity that involved human lives, which the state must to protected (because  live and  personal safety are Constitutional Right).  That is why is not  enough   that state created  security rules, he  must  have control about the implementation and inspection of  the rules that have been announced.

 The rate of death for   mining accident  is  an average around  thirty-four people per age (between two thousand to two thousand nine), I mean, the same number that the miners rescued.  This rate is very high  if we considered that the mining activity is the main source of  job in the north of our country.  Therefore, is an urgent need to improve the systems and procedures to protect the life integrity and dignity pf the workers, not only in mining, but for all workers in Chile.
Now, owners of the San Esteban mining company suspended all activities after the collapse of their mine San Jose and two hundred fifty people are unemployment. So, it is important to make a balance between to create jobs and  the labour conditions.
Even with proper legislation in place, businesses in Chile are prone to ignore regulations, and with eight hundred thousand businesses in the country it is impossible to monitor them all.  The supervision of safety and heath in mines is of vital importance. The inspection of mines by inspectors designated fof the purpose by the competent authority.

                                                    

I would like to go to Italy

I´d really like to go to Italy sometime in the next five or six years,  in a trip on holidays .I´ve always wanted to go there. I love Italian food - especially pizzas, pastas and ice cream- and I think it´s got incredibles sceneries when you can visit.

Particulary, I would like go to the capital,  Roma, for many reasons. First, the weather it´s OK this is very important for me, I don´t like feel colder or warner.  Second, I think that the people it´s nice and happy, so it´s a good place where to make friends. Finally,  it´s got everything: great parks, great museums, great churchs. It´s a really old and historical city - it´s the nucleus of civilization-, so it´s got lots of amazing old buildings, so I find the culture and language really interesting.

So, if I go to Italy,  I would think that I eat good food, then I visit many  museums -included the Vatican  and Capitole museums- and the Roma´s coliseum and I looking for a good place for stay there - I have chat´s friend who´s from Rome, so maybe one day I´ll go and visit him-.

I would like learn Italian language before that I go to this country, that´s my trip be easier. Now, I´m trying to learn, and think that it´s not very difficult, because is similar to Spanish language.

My last semester´s experiencie

I´m in my fourth year, actually (in my eight semester), So the next year I will finalize at University  in de Law school. The career isn´t difficult for me, but it´s a bit boring, because the classes aren´t connected whit the real world. So, in this moment I´m concentrated in learn to English language.
Well, I was in two previous semesters and I feel that I learned a lot. The English language was very difficult for me, because I didn´t have good opportunities to bring near whit him, so these courses were my first instance to learn this. It´svery important for me, because de English language is a essential tool actually.

Last semester worked in  many activities for example, we wrote in ours blogs (all Thursdays),  many activities in pairs (with my classmates) orally and in writing, which we talked about differents subjects, activities with the English´s book and many listenings. So, it was a interactive course.

I think that my English has been improved considerably. Now I understand many texts , newspapers and websites in English, I watch movies or TV in English and I speak better. The life is easier when you know English, that´s why I want to learn this language and this course it´s a great opportunity to practice and improve.

Sleep

One of my favorites hobbies is  sleep. I love to sleep a long time, but I cann´t, bcause I have read to much for the University and sometimes I cann´t even sleep at night.

Some people -especially doctots- think that sleep should be to relax the body and is unhealthy more than eight hours in the case of adults. Doctors recommend it and they say sleep  has benefits for the body  that accentuating the growth and rejuvenation of the inmune, nervous, skeletal andmuscular systems. For example, during the rest, the brain process and keep all information obtain along the day and eliminate insignificant details. Also serves to prevent tomors, heart attacks or depression.

I like to sleep, because I have many many sophisticated dreams. I can have many dreams in one night and I can remeber most of them.  Scientific researchs say that in the last  stage of sleep called REM (rapid eye movement) is where dreams can be made more  elaborate, allthough people can dream any stage of  sleep.

I like my dreams, because they are creative stories that creates my subsconscious, is like watching a movie.  Also when I am dreaming  I think that I am living the reality and I always show in my dreams, then I am as an actress.

I have a very artistic dreams, they have many colors and it show many people that I know, por example my friends, my family, etc.  they are usually all dressed and the places that I dream  are very rare, because are very bigs and spacious.

I would like recourd my dreams, so I think maybe write in a copybook, because the may  offer go a good stories.

Somepeople say that dreams have interpretations of  ehat you feel, I think that this maybe be this way, but en concret my dreams not always to express that my really feels.

my favorite otograph

This photograph was took a year ago, in April, when my friend and I went to the rock festival called "rock carnaza" in Mapocho station. We went to see the show of  our favorite singer called Manuel García, and others chilean singer, like Fernando Ubiergo and Camila Moreno. We like this music, because this is a music very critical of society and of the moderns times and sounds good. This people are artits, because not only sing, too play instrument like guitar. And after the show, we all went to drink beer y then to dance salsa to the neighborhood Brasil. It was a fantastic day.

We took many pictures that day, most were funny photos. In this phot,  we sit in the stands in a row, for to give a special touch.  A friend -the last girl that show in this picture- climbed the photos to facebook, in an album  photograph called "my bestfriends".

I like this photograph, because can  not be most artictic phot that I taken me, but is special  to me, because  it are my best friend from school. We met eight years ago, and we are friends all the time. We try to get together when we can. That is very difficult, because we are all university students , and then we are always busy.

this picture is very especial for me, because we never take photographs together. we were at school, the photographic cameras  were not very popular yet and  are now popular, so we can to take many photographs. But I think  this is the most beautifull picture that  we together.

I like this photograph because it is a memory that will forever be a nice and great day.

Franz Ferdinand

My favorite kind of music is  indie rock  I love this music, because it cheer me up. I listen to  indie rock  all the time, especially when  I go to University and when I study, but  I not concentrate  so I  don´t haven much time to listen to music while I study.

My favorite band is Franz Ferdinand. They are scottish group that  formed in 2001.They chose their name in honor to Archduke  Ferdinand, who was assassinate before to begin the first war world.

I meet this group  seven years ago and I loved it. I really like the sound´s  electric guitars, the  voice of the singer and their lyrics. I listen to their music in my MP4 and internet, but I preffer MP4 - is better than  internet -because I can to take go anywhere I like, so I listen to Franz Ferdinand all the time. I went go see their show to "Festival de Viña" , in 2006, and recently  I went go a concert  in "Arena Santiago". It was fantastic, because I like live concerts, but this was too expensive for me.

  Obviously, my  favorite piece of music is of  this group. its name´s  "No you girls". This song is about of  feeling´s boys for girls and what she unknow about feel in minds of boys when they to seduced and boys don´t care less the feelings of girls, his indifference.

I like the word of this song, because say the truth about seduction and too I like very much its sounds and rhythm. When I listen to this song in the concert of  "Arena Santiago" I thought  it was to sounded better in all the show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25sBhhOR4lw

My favorite piece of tecnology is the MP4. I love it, because is a little machine, easy to use and I to take otherside easily in my bag. 

In my MP4, I can to put  my favorite music and videos and  I enjoy listening to music in the bus, because I do a long travel by bus. Besides, I can too put my  homeworks, documents and information related with my career, so is very useful for a university student. Finally, I can to record anything, por example a class.

I can to connect up any computer or laptop and from there aploads or download information, music, videos to internet, so I can see the information that I put in my MP4 in any where. I can to trasladate information from the computer to MP4 or in reverse order, so that I don´t need  be internet connected  if I have the necesary information in my MP4.

But it has a disadvantage, because this machine to run off batteries and if to finish this, I can´t to used, so I have that to take a battery in case like this.

 Anyway is my favorite tecnological machine, because my hobby is listen to music and my MP4 permit me enjoy my music anywhere. So, if  I don´t have my MP4, I can only listen to music in my home and I would be very boring  in my travel by bus, or to wait of doctor, etc.

The "scupulture aérostatique"

My favorite piece of art is a photograph. It was taken in Paris, in May 21th 2007 in honor of Ives Klein. He was a french artist considered  an important figure in post war European art. However, he never  painted, but he made an artistic exhibitions.

In 1957 he made his first monochrome exposition, which he called  "International Klein Blue". When he taken this exhibition to Paris, he flung at sky thousand-one  blue ballons, which he called the "scupulture aérostatique" The piece was a huge success.

I like photographs in general, because  it captured  imagens of important and beautyfull moments. But I  like this photograph in particular, because I think about that is  more a photograph, is a different concept of art, a message of freedom and is not an art static. This is important, because art is not only a paiting or picture, but also it can be things that happens everyday in a show, por example.

Klein, in his blue epoch, made this show he take in his mind  the concept of abstraction, connected with spiritual and experience values. I think that is a great idea, but the fotograph is not just limited for this concepts, because if any people look this photo, lots say that is a expression of freedom.

When I look this photograph, I feel relaxed and I forgot of my problems and I am think in other world, I´m flying between clouds, like a one  ballons more.

Priest, pedesrast and privilege.

The catolic church to had much power from midle age, power that to perserve along of history. This power can be used by priest for good intentions, but also for bad intentions like for sexually abuse to the children, this is serious, because the children are in process up bringing and is very important to protected their suitable develop and this is very difficult if any people made an attempt on their sexual integrity.

The situation is most reprehensible when a priest to make sexually abuse, because the mision of church to protected, help and learn to the people pauper(and the children)according to catolic beginnings, and the priest must to abstain of all sexual conducts. This is not normal, because the human nature to determine at procreation and for be member of catolic church they have to repress, that probably to incite the many priest to make clandestine conducts often and they to abused of their power which whoes cann´t to denfensed and haven´t conscience of the sexually to mean, like that they to satisfy their sexual needs and they used the institution of church for to protected this conducts, which also don´t condemnation this situations for to make her power and looser her legitimacy.

Is very important the parents and family protection and comunication with their children and doesn´t to give of the third people, because the principal process of education must be in the family nucleus and don´t believe in institution that it isn´t pefect and its credibility it is broken.

www.u-cursos.cl

I know this website when I started the University, four years ago.
Here, the teachers to upload documents on the website about differents subjects related whith the class, so it was important to download the different class materials, for example: texts, power point presentations, syllabus, test corrections, etc.
Also it is important enter to the website, because the teachers or class plubished very important information about class, for example exams or academican activities.
I visit de website very often, at five or six time a week, because it is important for de reasons I gave before.
I like the u-cursos site because besides it provides me very useful material about class, also allow me to interact with my classmates, wich is a very powerful tool for comunication: we can make some class related questions.
Maybe this website isn´t exclusive for law career (is a website of the University of Chile and others academicans institutes), but is very helpful for all the students whatever they careers are, because it is makes the communication more fluid and the class relationships more open.

earthquake

The dawn of Febreuary twenty-seven I was in the Papudo´s beach with my family and my boyfriend, in the apartament of my uncles.  we are all slepping in this moment. At the beginning of the earthquake I stayed in my bed, but my mother arrived to my bedroom  screaming: earthquake! go the apartament!. So  my family, my boyfriend and me to left at the garden and we stayed until it finished y then we come inside the apartament. Lucckily, we are fine.
In the morning of Saturday, I go to the center of Papudo´s beach and a lot of cars to leave the beach, because the people have fear to the seaquake. But my family and me to left the beach on Sunday. In the road have very much congestion. When we arrived my house, it´s not have light for five days.

I feel worried to my family - they live in Santiago-,  and my friends that live in Constitucion and Concepcion, because   can not to called, because all the telephone lines was out off.
when can talked wuth my family, I feel to lighten, becasuse I knowed that they were ok. But about my friends I don´t know in vey much time, then I was very sad. I though that could be in the same situation of very chilean peoples of those places, whitout home, water, foot, etc -because trust and believe that they were to live.

introduction

Hello, my name is Romina Signorreli. I am twenty-one years old.
I am law´s student of de Universit of Chile. I am in my fourth year and my favourite subject is family law and constitutional law.
I  am in third year of the Plataform English Program an I  hope learn English this semester, because I  don´t know even enough English and it is a language difficult for me.
Well, I say goodbye now and I hope that you post me.
Bye.