English Language challenges

Hi guys!! It's the last Blog Session
Today I'm going to talk about my experience learning English at University and in the future.

We started the English class in the second year at the University until the last year. 
My experience has been regular ,although, I have been studying English but in a complementary and sporadic way, I have not been able to learn many words yet.

However I must mention that the schedule has been the worst! Which has caused me some disinterests to attend classes,.

And also consider that having the possibility to study a language should be one who chooses the language that wants to learn, for example, in my case I would choose Arab, which is a language of difficult access.To end this, I believe that outside the University I have to take a course of English for satieate all my doubts. I think also English is a basic tool of universal communication.

For me the most difficult in English is to catch the ideas in a fluent conversation, when the people talk more quickly I don't know if I understand all very well, there are words that the sound is very similar.In the courses at the University I learn , but it's not enough, I need to make the habit of reading in English.
On the other hand, I think it is very important the training in English from the early years of life, a duality between English and Spanish. This is the key to speak a fluent English.

Changes to my study programme

Hi guys!!!

Today I'm going to tell you about what I would change in my career.
In my experience  as student of Bachelor of Arts, I would change several things.
In my career there are most subjects that are not important, and I would prefer choose the subjects in the first year, called first cycle, because there are most thing that I consider was unnecessary , so that I think we should have chosen the teachers, then had very differences between theys. Like a subject called 'volumen' , this was a introduction to scupture, and she teached contemporanean scupture, like volume positive and negative, this was a torture ! She was never satisfied with anything.

In as to theory branches, the classes were in the afternoon, and I was dying of sleep , and I missed a lot of classes of History of arts and aesthetic.

In a certain way, I liked Drawing , because the teacher was an expert in what he was doing, but he was very unpleasant sometimes and very nice others, but out of class , you could talk with him.

In the third year the things changed, and I think since the career should have been , we can choose the teachers and subjects, according to the preferences and aptitudes of each one.

On the other hand, I find the university needs a structural reform, all is so precarious, especially the workshop .

And, for last, the teachers leave us free to choose the projects, and don't question too much our choice.

Summer Holidays

Hi Guys!

 Today I'm going to tell you about my next summer vacation.
The last year I went to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires with my friend Julio, and this year I think travel with him and my friend Paulina.

We think to start the travel in San Pedro de Atacama, after visiting Salar de Uyuni, immediately go to Carnaval de Oruro and visit the small islands that surround it.
For she would be the first time in to leave the country. We want to go for ten days and visit all small villages nearby.

We want to travel in February, because in this date is carried out the Carnaval de Oruro and the effect of mirror in the Salar de Oyuni.
We want to spend the time riding a bike in all the places that can be, take a lot of pics, swimming in a salar, walk a lot of time, and camping, I think that we don't stay in a hotel, maybe a day, because you lose much time.

Julio and I think about the possibilty of changing destiny, like Costa Rica, I'd love to visit it, and enjoy the jungle, waterfalls, and wild life. This country is specialist in extreme sports, I'd like to do canopy and others.

However Bolivia is a beautiful place to visit, and have many advantages like language, cost, distance, and its landscapes.
I hope everything goes very well, and don't get lost in the salar or fall down, julio suffered a fall when we stayed in Niteroi, I was nervous.

Picture of me

Hi Everyone!

This day I chose this photo of me to show you, because I really like it.

This photo was taken by my ex boyfriend in the summer of this year. 

He didn't know this place and I went there once before with my family, but I'd wanted to go again.

 

That day was extremely hot, we went in the afternoon, already 4 pm., we walked a lot and took a lot of pics.

The place is called 'La Raja de Manquehua', which is located around the city of Salamanca, in northern of Chile; it's a remote place and difficult to reach it.
To get to this place you have to follow a path that is on the rise and it has many curves. Besides it is very extensive.

The photo shows the view that I have of the mountains and the landscape that surrounds it. I love this city and especially this place, because it is a mystical and awesome.The sunlight, sounds of nature, the smell and the energy that exists there, are very special.

This place gives birth to a legend, which tells that there, in the ''St John the Baptist'' a witches coven is done, and that night the witches are flying over the place. Also, people say that witches make a bonfire, which is seen from the city!

 

I hope you have enjoyed some legends of the Chilean countryside, and my photo too!

 

 

 

My post-graduate studies

Hello everyone!!

Today I’m going to write about my post-graduate studies.

I would like to go to Spain to study, since there art lives in a more universal way than in Chile, and the value of the study is something accessible.
My purpose is to study in Malaga, I love it because it was a city under Islamic rule for at least eight centuries, the constructions and customs persist to this day; In addition to its coasts which are the most famous in Spain.
The Master is a year long, the University is relatively young compared to other Spanish universities dating back centuries.
The Master is called 'interdisciplinary artistic production' I am very interested because the performance of art in society is something that is generally invisible, especially in a country like ours, therefore this teaching links art within society, how my art, my work can be inserted into something global.
The teachers are theoreticians, artists and art critics. Is the only Master in Spain who is concerned with the individual teaching of the artist, in which his work is guided according to the insertion of this with other disciplines.

 I find it ideal to study in Spain because from there, you can know all of Europe, and for me it would be wonderful to go to Morocco, my dream would come true!

    Málaga

My favourite song : Samba de verao

 Hi everyone!

Today I want to write about my favourite song, choose only one favourite song it's so difficult, but I try it.

Well, my favourite song is 'Samba de Verao' by Caetano Veloso. This song belongs to the type of music called Bossa Nova.
Caetano Veloso is a Brazilian singer and he has a lot of songs that I love, like 'Garota de Ipanema', 'Cais', 'Sozinho', 'Alegria, alegria', 'Voce è linda' etc.
He was born in Santo Amaro da Purificaçao in 1942, and he published 'Samba de verao' in 2002.

This song speaks about a guy who waits his love, and his love is like summer.
The first time I listened this song was when I saw 'Laços de familia', a brazilian soup opera and I attended at primary in that time.
Not long ago I saw 'Lazos de familia' again and I love it, its soundtrack is very special , different mix of types of music, like bossa nova, pop, rock, reggae , etc.

This song is in my cell, and I hear it every day, specially when I'm happy and I want to go out with my friends. When I was in Brazil, I heard in every place, there this song is very popular.

My favourite artist

Today I want to write about my favourite art
It's very difficult to me to pick just one, but anyway! I've done .
His name is Jean Leon Géròme, he was born on May 11th of 1824, in France.

He was an academic painter and sculptor whose works are usually of historical subject, mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects.
In his work can be seen his laborious, thoughtful, mastery in drawing and color, so his painting has a powerful realization.

I like his realistic style of painting and even more I like the topics adressed, mythology and specially the scenses in the Middle East, are about everyday situations but manages to make a special and as the atmosphere fills the picture of a soft golden light when represents the twilight.

Some of most important works are:
Cockfight (1847)
Conssumaton Est (1867)
Louis XIV and Molière (1863)
Pollice verso (1872)
Excursion to the Harem (1869)
Summer afternoon on a lake (1895)
The slave market (1867)

Finally I have to point out that one of his works is called 'Summer afternoon on a lake' which reminds me of the colors of those summer afternoon of my childhood, with my family when we were doing picnic along the river.