Session Blog 12: The last one!

Wow! Suddenly this is the last post in English, after all this time I think that It wasn't to difficult, at least how I thought that It would be...

Actually I enjoy this class because I feel that It was a relaxing time and my classmates make it more fun even, the only thing that I didn't like at all was about the schedule, It was to hard to keep it on, because I slept over or because the subway was already full and I can't get in it.

About the blog system, I think that is very comfortable but when I forgot to write one, It became into a little disaster because It was difficult to me to find another time to do it. And also I dislike to comment in others blogs, I don't know why jet... I think that is for laziness and because I didn't do it on the same class that the blog was write.

Perhaps I need to increase my vocabulary and to improved my talk skills, actually my pronunciation. I'm going to practice more with my dad, because He has to practice his english too, also I would practice whit my elder sister but she gets a little annoying and conceited. Also I practice by watching TV series without subtitles.

Besides the english class I use it for watching TV series when it don't have subtitles jet; and when I have to study and i can't find information in Spanish, so I look for it in English. It was happening a lot when I had to find old pictures of Sweden for a project of the workshop.

Well, See you later!

Blog Session 10

Oh no! This is the last time that we have a free post and I don't know about what to talk about.

Well... I'm going to talk about group works.

I'm not a social person, so the group works always has been an issue for me. In the elementary school it was easy, because I had some friends and I always worked with them and we did it good. Once my mom wanted to change me of school, but I didn't want to so I failed the entrance test.
But now in the university it has been quite different, because how I reprove a subject my classmates and friends changes and I don't like the new ones. And for doing it worst I had to work with all of them in a class, the theatrical staging workshop. In there we divided into teams -set design, costume design, lighting design and production- and I chose production because I thought that in that role I would had less contact with the rest of the class, because in that team we were just two of us and also my partner didn't work too much, but at least she was in charge of communicate thing to the rest of the class.

I now that one of the components of this career is to know how to work with others and I have to do my work the best possible and I must try to enjoy it.

Blog Session 11: Year 2013, good and bad points.

Well, this year has been a moving year in all sense.

In my family by the side of my dad an uncle past away because of the cancer that He had. It means that while He was in the hospital my aunt suffered a lot because of their daughters and They hoped for he to recover in the end, but it wasn't like that and now She must do everything that he did on the house and she still suffer because she depends a lot on him. 

Also the last year I failed the workshop class in the first semester, so this year I had to do it again and I finally passed the course. The bad thing about it is that now I have different classmates -I miss my old mates- and I don't have the best opinions on them about they're performance in class. I think that they are boring because their are to similar among them, but the worst thing is -I think- that in matters of creativity, they shut off between them selves... or maybe it's just because They're to similar. But I can't be so mean and I must say that it don't apply on everybody.

Other thing that happen this year is that my older sister got graduate of kinesiology from the Universidad de Chile, the bad thing is that she didn't find work jet and she's getting anxious and on a odd undeclared depression.

On the other hand, this year I met a person on Internet, specifically on Tumblr, we sent messages to each other for a while, after that We saw each other by tinychat -Is similar to skype but less private- and finally We made a date. On that day we started to go out together and now We are a couple. It's been very funny and I like him a lot. 

And that was this year for me until today... Now I have to prepare for the finals exams and end the best way possible this year.

Blog Session 9

Hello everybody! Today is a free post. I don't know why but I was thinking about todays assignment and I guess it... so today I'm going to talk about love... yes, love.

I believe that the idea of love in everybody is different and it is build above their references about it, like parents, friends, even movies... and something very important is how the person is

I think that my idea of love is a little bit distorted because I've got different models, my parents got divorced a long time ago and It wasn't in good terms, I was little to remember things and also They didn't told me about it but when I grew up I started to ask more and more and in consequence I understand more. In the end, my mom cheated on my dad... I'm not in place of giving any kind of judgment to her neither to my dad, it was a long time ago and I can't figure it out how was or would be if They were together... once I dreamt about it and It was terrible. After that, my mom lived with another guy and it ended bad, really bad. And know my mom got married again, They seems to be good together but I don't know... I don't think in eternity when is applied to couples.
Also I've got the example of my maternal great fathers, They are going to celebrate their golden anniversary... It's amazing to see them sheering and how my great father look at her. Is really comforting to see them because They gave me hope in a kind of way, I know that it wasn't love and peace everyday but They teach me that with patience and understanding It can last.

I've got other examples of it... but in the end it's always depends on you and what you decide to believe about it... I think that time is maybe overestimating, I always found my self thinking worried about the future and forgetting the present, I don't want to think about everything that I might have miss... In the end, I'm enjoying now... Love found me, now I'm in a relationship, He makes me happy and He worry about me (He always tries to make me sleep early and do my assignments in time). Finally I'm just try to live and be happy :)

Blog session 8

I think that people learn about this when someone else told them about it or just by doing it.

In my family we have some practices about recycling like the organic trash –overall fruits and vegetables- that we produce. We put it on a special place in our garden so we fertilize the ground. Also we collect beverage cans from the street and we sell it to a guy who recycles them. I think that something important that my mom did was to fix the house and made a lot of windows, so we use the electrical light just at night because the house is full of sun light since the sunrise until dusk. And on my own I always try to recycle and to reuse the cardboard or the paper that I use for the university.

When I have time I walk instead of using a car or the bus specially when it is a short route. The last year I used a lot my bicycle to go to the university, but I lost my physical resistance.

No, I didn’t join an ecofriendly organization because I’m lazy, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t try to support the environment.

Something that I do when I’m in the street and I have garbage with me is to keep it with me until I find a garbage can or until I'm back home, or to reuse  the plastic bottles that I have.

About the carbon footprint, I didn’t know well about it but reading now I avoid misusing the consumption of electrical energy.

I think that that the society –most of it- don’t understand the big picture of it, that everybody is affected by pollution and we must concern about it.  

Blog Session 7

Today is a free post so I'm going to talk about an orphan elephant and his dog friend.

This elephant called Bubbles was save from the ivory hunters in Africa and Bubbles was move to "Myrtle Beach Safari" a park which takes care about the conservation of the wild life, this place is located in South California.

When Bubbles was found their parents were already dead, according to the news this hunt was a massacre. When Bhagavan Antle (the director of the park) went there to take care of an orphan elephant, He found this little elephant of 340 pounds and 42 inch. Bubbles was one of a few elephants who were taken to USA and the rest of them just died because the lack of help.

Bella a Labrador dog lived in the park before Bubbles arrived. Since then Bubbles plays with Bella. Now Bubbles has 32 years old and Bella has 3 years old.

In fact, Bubbles is a famous elephant, he play a role in "Ace Ventura 2" and others movies.

Blog Session 6

Today I have to do a summary about a new related to my studies.

So I took this news http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/aug/01/rio-2016-olympic-urban-plan-legacy and it is about the planning of the next Olympics games. Also I saw other column about some similarities between designs, one from the Olympic ceremony in London and the other from a design student of 2005.

I choose it, because it's related with the idea of confront an unusual place for a spectacle and all the creation of this place and their functionality.

Summary:

The Rio 2016 Olympics. 

The next Olympics Games will be in Brazil and the Olympics architects revealed that it will be placed over a lagoon.

But there is a big difference between London and Rio, because Brazil is an emerging nation so they have to do more things in less time than they did in London.

This project is on the hands of Aecom, an initial of Architecture, Engineering, Consulting, Operations and Maintenance, but they include a lot of others jobs. It's a huge company with at least 45.000 workers, offices in different sides of the world. They have all the required disciplines for building a city, because the games at the moment aren't just games, also involves an urban regeneration in the place.

Beside the time factor, they have a good point as the place is about the half of the size of London's and they don't have to fix a lot of problems in the places, as pollution or others (But the lake it's too polluted for swimming)

The Olympics games will be across five places, from the forest of Docoro to Copacabana beach and the opening and closing shows will be placed in the Maracana Stadium.

Aecom will focus the Olympic park in the district of Barra da Tijuca, crated by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. For the kind of architecture in the place it will be easily mixed.

This park will be placed on a flat triangular peninsular which is over Jacarepaguá Lagoon. This is a mixture of leftovers that they will reuse. And it's between two mountains in a valley so they design a "river" that go thought the park, it will have the shape of a snake and it's made of stripes.

Being the host of the Olympic plays gives you transformation on the place (about urbanisms) which is taken as a legacy; and this year is about reduce the national discontent (about the public money spent on the Olympics and the World Cup)

Obviously they have issues with the people who lives around because of the evacuation order and the destruction of their communities and mostly because after the games they place will be for rich people and not for them.

Blog Session 5

Today, also is a free topic so this time I will talk about MythBusters, because I dreamt about something like an usual programme of them... It was something like I had to seed this grass carpet on sand and in sort of challenge against my dad but before that we were walking on a park in front of the Moneda and I didn't notice that the grass in the floor was new and that some people was seeding it, I felt shame about it... The thing is that I was trying to seed on sand and I did a huge mountain of sand and I put the grass in little balls inside it, however I was pretty sure that It wasn't work at the end... and I ended to feel very odd, like if in the end nothing matters but I really don't know if that is the correct interpretation about who I felt at the end.

Well, about the programme! MythBuster is a TV show of scientific divulgation show by Discovery Channel. It is starring by Adam Savage and Jaime Hyneman and They have co workers who helps them, Kari Byron, Grant Imahara and Tony Bellecci. They all have a lot of experience in special effects.

The plot of the show is about to check if the urban legend are true or not by using their knowledge
on special effects.  I think that this kind of job must be so fun and it seems to be, overall when they make things explode in the hollywood way with those gigantic fire balls.

For some technical information, the creator of the show was Peter Resee, the TV show has 12 seasons and 178 chapters of 45 minutes each one and It begun in January of 2003 and It is still on air.

Blog session 4

Hello, today is a free topic so I'm going to talk about the people who can't live without them cell phone.

This era is all about being connected to other people and this connection has to be fast or it doesn't work. So one thing that is very common is to has a cell phone, some people take it as a necessity for been reachable at all time and it could be one with all the comfortably from the era, like a cell phone with Internet connection, camera, games, for texting, music player and a huge memory for doing all this without getting frozen... well-known as smart phones; or a cell phone use just for calling and not all those extra use.

So I understand when someone need to be close to their phone for work or an important call but I really can't understand the people that don't even left the cell phone away for eating, overall when they are eating with other person, I believe that is very impolite. And this behavior gets worst when is nothing important! like when they are just playing or seeing facebook.

This kind of behavior is something that always bring me some trouble when I share with my family or when we eat all together, because I got this uncle and he is always seeing his cell phone so I complain about it at loud and I make that everyone listen why I complain about, and after that everyone complains with him.
And also my mom rent a room to a boy who studies in the PDI and he had that behavior too... but I persuaded him to not to do that by said him that i would broke his cell phone if i see it on the table while we eat.

Blog session 3

I would like to visit China but in a specific week, the Chinese New Year. Because It is a big celebration and also for go all over the temples tour, go to museums and visit the Chengdu Research base of the giant panda breeding.

I know that first the currency that they use is the Renminbi, so I'll have to exchange the money first... Then, I must arrive at China a couple of days before the celebration. 

The Chinese New Year depends of the Moon; it starts with the New Moon of the first day of the year and finish with the full Moon, fifteen days later. This is a family celebration and for thanksgiving and it is a religious ceremony in honor to the Earth and Heaven.

And I know there for pictures that I saw, also that the food is really different because what we know for Chinese food is the smallest part of it. One day I watched a TV show of traveling and there a guy showed that they cooked something like a mouse's soup, and that there was very usual.

Well, how I said early I'd like to visit the natural reserves and go there in the Chinese New Year, also for visiting the different temples.

Yes, I would like to stay there for a couple of years, maybe studying or in a temporary job but I don't think move in there permanently because sooner or later I'll miss people or little things like talk in Spanish.

Blog Session 2

My ideal job would be to photographer for Natgeo and go to dangerous places, or better than that! Go and live with hidden tribes somewhere on Africa for a documentary... or work on those TV shows where the host must taste a lot of different foods from everywhere. I think an ideal job for me could be one that involves travel, know different places and have adventures.

Something really important for this could be to have a good physical condition if you need to run like hell from a place or for an extensive walk, tracking or something like that. And be ready for anything that you must do. 

I believe that this kind of job would be perfect for me because I don't have problems with getting off for a long time or losing the connection with my family... I don't feel limited by my family or friends, because I think that those bonds are unbreakable. 

I think that with a good contact it would be easy, but deeply is clear that You need to have a good technique and some kind of fame... or even been discover for someone. 

Blog Session 1

Well, the first term this year... 

The first semester I did again a class that I failed the last year because I was to lazy... the bad thing was that the class I failed was the most important of the year, so I got late with a lot of other classes. Basically the class was about how to face a design project into a Italian box... design the scenography was very free about the ideas and the references. 

About the sports, I didn't take any class of sports or something like that; sometimes I rode my bicycle but nothing more.  But, the last year I was playing Judo, I went like for three months and I fall bad in a practice and I got hurt on my shoulder so I didn't practice for two weeks and later I failed the workshop... and I didn't go again to play Judo. Sometimes I dreamed about playing again and it's a kind of sad... 

In the end of the last year in my father's family an uncle was ill, they brought him to Santiago, because they are from Copiapó, and here he discovered that he got cancer... it was very aggressive and he died about a month ago.