task 7

My favourit music group

Calle 13

I really don't know which is my favourite group, I like music, and I love really different kinds of it, but I want to write about one that is particularly different from the others.

Calle 13 is one of my favourites music group, y love their style, their song's letters and rythms.

Calle 13 play "urban music", despites a lot of people think they are reggaeton players, but they hate it, actuyally, they have songs against it. The urban rythm is kind of like reggaeton or hip hop, but with different content.

Their career started in 2005, when they made their first album called "calle 13", then they made "Residente o Visitane" and "Los de atrás vienen conmigo". At first they were very like reggaeton, just fun music, and then, when they have a big public they developed more their critical style.

The thing I like the most about Calle 13 is actually that, the critical character of their letters, despites a lot of people can think they are not serious, but I think the singer, René had shown he is seoursly, and he is not scared of criticizing, and that's something that big artists that are inserted in the hegemonic system never do, and I think it's good, because they have a lot of reach, people that listen them, and maybe never think about the things they sing.

My favourite songs are Electromovimiento, Que lloren and Pal Norte. The first is just really fun to me, I love listening, I like the rythm and the letter, Que lloren is a strong critic to the reaggeton singers, and Pal norte talks about the immigrants, identity, colonialism, and staff.

Task 6

My favourite piece of technology

My favourite piece of technology is my ipod. An ipod is a music reproductor that you can use everywhere. To use it, you connect it to your computer and you can upload 4gb of music (in my ipod's case). I use my ipod almost every day, but some times I spend a long time not using it, because I forget to charge it. I listen music from it when I’m in the bus or subway, when I’m riding my bike, etc. I use it principaly when I’m traveling, especially when I’m coming to university. I like it for many reasons, the first, is that it allow me to be concentrate when I’m on noisy places, so I can read in the way to home, which is really important because when you have a lot of things to read, using the traveling time is good so you can have some free time later. In second place, I like it because when I’m listening music with headphones is like nothing else is making noices, it’s like it give me a moment of don’t think particulary on nothing, a moment to just enjoy music. If i wouldn’t have an ipod or another music reproductor (I don’t care what kind of music reproductor it is, I just need it to play music well) I think nothing would be really different, but I just wouldn’t have the chance of being concentrate in the way to home, or listening music while I’m going anywhere.

task 5

My favourite food

My favourite food is chorrillana. Chorrillana is a tipical plate of chilean cuisine, specifically of Valparaiso’s gastronomy. In Valparaíso, there is a restaurant called J Cruz, and here is where the best chorrillanas are maken. In other places in Valparaiso and all across the country you can find chorrillanas too, but the original place where chorrillana was born is J Cruz, and they made unquestionably the best one.

Chorrillana contains a lot of fries, cooked onion, fried eggs, and minced meat. That is the original one, because in other places (not in J Cruz) they add other ingredients. To prepare chorrillana you have to cook all the ingredients independently, the fries and eggs fried on oil, the meat however you want (fried, roast, etc.) and the onion cooked on water. Once you have each ingredient ready, you put them together and mix them.

I like chorrillana because is very simple to do, and is really good and tasty. Also, I like it because I like Valparaiso and going there, and I think eating on J Curz makes the travel much more better. Besides, I like it because when I go out with my school’s friends to talk about our studies and personal things we like to eat chorrillana together.