Level 4, Intermediate, Post 3

 

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I have never liked football so much, despite the fact that my family watches every game on weekends, from the Chilean league to the European one. That is why my family felt so much the death of Diego Armando Maradona. My brother especially felt it a lot, because he is one of his "idols", that's why he saw all the reports that were shown on television.

In my ignorance of this sport, I sat on the couch with my brother to see the skills and goals of Diego Armando when he plays for Boca Juniors, Napoli and especially for the Argentine National Team. At that moment I realized why so much fanaticism, why so many people mourn a man who had only played excellent football. I knew that he was very close to the political left, he also had a tattoo of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. In my search I realized that in his childhood he lived in Fiorito one of the oldest and poorest towns in Buenos Aires. He was very poor then and one of his most remembered anecdotes is that with his first salary he bought a house for his mother.

However, is it possible to separate the artist from his work? Considering that Maradona lived a life of excesses and sexist practices, it seems questionable to "deify" him. Therefore, it seems necessary to remember him only as a skillful man is his job, but not an example to follow, much less a "god on earth."

Level 4, Intermediate, Post 6

 

Postgraduate Studies

One of my goals to do after I finished my carrer is keep studying. Maybe I will do a pair of postgraduates, but the first one I would like to do it about environment. In this case, about the everything related to this topic.

I would like to do this one first because the environment is the future of the discussion about the development of the planet and the one of the most important. Also I want to be one of the people that would work to solve the trouble.    

About the subjects that I would like to study one of my favorites is species protection, because I like the flora and fauna specially the Chilean one. Not so long ago I went to the Cajon del Maipo with my camera and I took pictures of some flowers and animals that lives in that place and I love them. The second subject that I would like to study is conservation of the environment, I know this is very similar to the previous one but for me this is the area in which I would like to work. 

I would like to take a postgraduate in Chile mostly because I would like to work on publics politics like in a National Park or on a Ministry. This year I have experienced the virtual class but I don´t like it, I would prefer a classroom course with daytime classes.

 

Level 4, Intermediate, Post 4

 

Golden age of Chilean series

With a total quarantine that made me impossible for me to go out I had to devise an activity to pass the time. My friends and my brothers told me that they watch a lot of series on Netflix, Amazon Prime or other platforms. But I’ve never been a really fan of series, so I told my middle brother if he wanted to accompany me to see a series so we could comment on it and I could enter on this world of seeing series.

We saw the catalog of a lot of platforms but we didn´t decide of any series, so I told him that maybe we can saw a Chilean series, but no an actual one. We already watch Sucupira and we like it a lot, so we look on the TVN channel in YouTube and we decide on La Fiera, one of the most awarded series on Chile.

When we finished it I can say that this is the best series that was made on Chile, above all comparing it with the new series. First of all, La Fiera was completely recorded in Chiloé so we can learn about the traditions of the zone like the food, the myths and some idioms. But the most important characteristic of this series is that an empowered woman is the protagonist, this surprise me a lot because this series was recorded 20 years ago when I thought that the feminism was not in the fore.  

Level 4, Intermediate, Post 5

 

My future job

Well the kind of job that I would like is one that allows me to travel a lot, especially throughout Chile. I would also like to be paid according to the time invested, I would not like to be exploited.

On this year I learned that I like to stay on my home, but not for a long time, so I would like a job that be outdoor, maybe on a National Park or on a Ministry or Public Service, where they will send me to different places to work.

I don’t worry so bad about the salary if I love my job, but I wouldn’t want to be exploited, my only worry is that have had a fair payment according to having a good quality of life.

In fact, I choose geography because I imagined that on this career I would travel a lot exercising my profession. Moreover, I have had a couple of travels to other cities to interact with other types of geographies and understand a little more about the profession of geographer.

I think that the work it’s just one part of the life but the life is much more multiple than the labor aspect. For me, the main aspect that one should worry about is the mental stability and the happiness, because without these two aspects you would never be comfortable with your life.

Level 4, Intermediate, Post 2

 

The Best Holidays/Concert Ever

On august 25, 2017, was one of the best concerts I’ve been. I met with my brother on the Metro station Universidad de Chile, and we walk to the Caupolican theatre, so we had a very long walk from the station to this place. This was the first time that we saw one of our favorites bands “Chancho En Piedra”.

 

I listen to it like when I was a little child so my brother, that are 11 years younger than me, also likes them. This is one of the active bands with more experience in Chile and also one of the most recognized in its style which is funk-rock.

During the concert the atmosphere feels like a party, this because the band celebrated the 20 years of their album “La Dieta del Lagarto”, which is my favorite album. I felt like when I was a teenager, like when I was going to see them so I sang, danced and laughed because in the middle of the concert they invited Pamela Leiva a stand-up comedian to make it more entertaining the interlude. Also this concert was very emotive, because this was the last time that we saw “K-vzón” the guitarist of the band plays with it, before of their separation.  

To the end of the concert we took the bus to our house, and we were listen to the same songs we had just heard with headphones, meanwhile we were talk about how good it had been.

 

Level 4, Intermediate, Post 1

 

“A country I would like to visit”

 

Hi everyone.

The country that I would like to go is Denmark, because this small country is one of the most bike friendly countries in the world, some studies say that in Copenhagen the 50% of the population goes to work on a bicycle. Also part of my family lives on there since 2002, so I have a place to stay.

Despite the fact that I prefer the heat than the cold I would have to get used to it cause in there it´s always cold and snowy, and the quality of life is much higher compared to Latin America.

Once in there, the first thing that I would do would be ride my bike all around the city, traveling the most emblematic places such as LEGOLAND or the Little Mermaid sculpture.

Well I would like to study and work in that country, the most important reason is related to the cultural differences between Chile and Denmark, the ways to expressing socially and culturally are extremely different so this makes it very interesting.  

 

POST 6: MUSIC I LIKE

Love for the music

For me, the music it´s absolutely important, because the music accompanied every day of my life. With music I have been able to make all the moments of my life more bearable. I like Latin American music in all its variations, from folklore to rock. Lately, I've heard a lot of Afro-Peruvian folklore and Venezuelan music like the joropo. I have mostly listen to music from my collection, but when I am doing my homework I listen to the radio. A lot of times I have been bought pirated CDs. When I was a little girl was impossible for me to buy original CDs all the time, so when I was go to the feria with my parents I bought pirates CDs, because there no exist the modern applications like Spotify. If I was a song I would be Tonada de Luna Llena from Simón Díaz. 

On these days I have had sing it a lot of times on my head and the voice and the sound of the author shudders me. I don't sing very well, but I don't sing too bad. I sing Karaoke but just for fun, most of the time I sing in the shower. The music is very important to the people and the culture because it's a faithful reflection of the deeper roots of the history and the emotional expression, social and political of the villages.