task 11

My blogging Experience

When I knew I had to write a blog I didn’t think like.. what a great thing! But now that I think about it, I have enjoyed a lot writing the blog, for many reasons. In first place, I have liked it because I think it has been the most usefull thing for learning english during the semester, it has made me think about many things I’m used to talk about, but in a different lenguage, with different concepts, and present me the challenge of translating opinions or points of view, what has been dervy difficult for me. In second place I have liked a lot the topics that we have written of, especially the last ones, because at the begining we write a lot about the career, and it was boring because when you have been all the day thinking and listening about anthropology, you don’t want to think about that, and in a different lenguage, but then, we start writting about interesting things, like our likes, experiences, and things that I love to talk about. Despites I didn’t like writting about anthropology, I think it was important to, because translating academic concepts, and explaining complex ideas, for me, the most difficult thing of using english.

Using this king of topics, the academic and the nonacademic ones, is very usefull for learning english. The first ones, because, like I just said, thinking in theoretical terms in english (or in any not-native lenguage) is really difficult, at least for me, because finding the exact concept that you need is not easy. In the other hand, the nonacademic topics, were important for learning too, because makes you not only to translate, but to think everyday things in english.

Like I have said, there are many advantages of writting a blog, and it is really usefull for the incorporation of the lenguage. Maybe a disadvantage is that, for those that don’t have a good english level is, maybe, much more difficult that for those who already knew at least a little of english, because it’s like a personal process, and the teacher help you when you need it, but it is still difficult.

So, writting the blog has been a good and usefull experience for me.

task 10

The World Cup

Southafrica 2010

Personally I like the Football World Cup, despite I’m not really a big fan of football, I mean… I like it but not like I’m going to die if I don’t see a match or things like that. I like it principally because I think it is a happyness party, a lot of people arround the world are looking at their teams, giving them forces, encouraging them, and expecting for them to give all in the matches.

Tomorrow is the first match of Chile in the World Cup, against Honduras, and I will see it in my house with my big brother, his girlfriend, my little brother, his friends, and maybe my friends… but no with my mom and dad because they have to be in work so they’ll see it there. My big brother says it’s bad luck to see the matches out side home, because we allways see Chile’s matches at home with my brothers, parents, and our friends, but I’m not really sure, because I didn’t se the match with Colombia (in which Chile clasificated to the World Cup) at home, but in a friend’s house, so I don’t know if it would be for good or bad luck!

I really don’t know what to expect from the chilean team, I really belive in their capabilities and skills, and I think they can take them really far, but there are also a lot of external factors that are involved in the winning of the match… so I hope the players to be really concentrated in the game, and quiet, because that coopled with their talent can give them the victory.

I think it’s relevant for the country because it make everybody to have a common purpose and to cheer our football selection together.

task 9

I don't know if this is my favourite photograph, but I know it represents one of the things I love the most in my life. I'm scout since I was 10, and now I am guide of children between 15 and 17 years. I don't really know who took the photo, but it was taken last summer, and on it appear all the children members of Intichinkay (the name of our ruta) in Calen, a town in Chiloé where we did our last summer camp. There we work with the local kids, making activities and games for developing their expresivity and care for enviroment.
I like it because of many reasons, the firt one is that the group on the picture was particularly difficult to working with the last year, we had a lot of troubles during the year, but then in the summer, it was as it was all right, like if we had have an intense year, with a lot of advances, so, despite it wasn't like that during the year, in the summer they make incredible advances, they show us they care about the group, that they had a commitment and principally, that they wanted to live the service, that is essencial on this scout unit. The most important thing on Intichinkay is to belive in freedom, frienship, commitment and humility, and to apply this to the community life, and serving inside the community and outside of it, trust in the reciprocity.
The second reason why I like it is because we were doing and amazing job in Calen, it was a really small town, with like 50 people, and despites it wasn’t what we were expecting (we only work with like 10 kids, and we were waiting like 40) it was a great experience.

task 8

My favorite trip

I did my favorite trip last december. I went to Torres del Paine, a national park on the chilean Patagonia, like 2 or 3 hours far from Puerto Natales. I went with my boyfriend, we went on airplane to Punta Arenas, and then in bus to Puerto Natales, an finally another bus to Torres del Paine. It was really special for many reasons. In first place I think I had never seen such beautiful places, It's definetly the most incredible national park I had visited. Another reason because it was a great trip, is because I did it with my boyfriend, and when we come back he moved out of Santiago for like 8 months, so it was an important trip to unite us more to each other. We stayed in Patagonia for a week, we arrived at night to Punta Arenas, we slept there, and the next day we walk arround, knowing a little the city, and in the afternoon we took the bus to Puerto Natales, we slept there and early in the morning we took the bus that would take us to Torres del Paine. We stayed there for 4 days, and then we went back to Punta Arenas, and finally to Santiago. In the park the mostly walk... like 78 km in total, doing the "W" circuit. It isn't the biggest circuit, but considering the time we had it was imposible to do the "O" circuit. I knew really beautiful places like Grey glacier or French valley.