Hi. In this post I tell you what places I think should a foreigner tourist visit in Santiago de Chile. At first, I can offer them history places to visit. For example: where Santiago city was founded. This place is “Plaza de Armas”. In there we can see two monuments: the founder Pedro de Valdivia riding his horse in a corner, and the native people’s monument in the other side of the square. Around the square we can see the Catholic Cathedral, the government palace, and other buildings actually shopping places. In our historical tour we visit San Francisco’s Church, Santa Lucía’s Hill, and La Moneda Palace. In this moment of our trip we can be thirsty. Is time to know popular places. Let’s go to “La Piojera” for drink a “Terremoto”, then we can have to lunch in “Mercado Central”, and visit “Estación Mapocho”. We use “Metro”, our subway to go to San Cristobal’s Hill. In the top we see Santiago city and the smog cloud. The tourist can take pictures or buy Santiago city’s postcards without smog. In the base of San Cristobal Hill, we can visit “La Chascona”, one of many houses of Pablo Neruda, into this cultural center the foreigner can feel like a friend of the poet. In this moment we are very near of the “Carrete” zone. Bellavista is welcome us with open arms. And open bars and restaurants too. All foreigners should drink Pisco sour, red wine, and enjoy chilean cuisine. If they don’t have money, enjoy a “Chela” the actually name of beer in Chile. In a second day, I think the foreigner should visit our marginal places. The tourist should know Chile is not like we painting it around the world.

Hi, this post is about the country I would like to visit. At first, I tell you Chile is the country I would like to visit from Arica to Antártida. I know many places from it. All of them are beautiful. I find lovely people, impressive landscapes, and one amazing thing about language: all the different accents and words to use of it in any different town. But I would like to visit all the corners of my country. Dangerous places too. The last summer I stay in Chaitén, and a can visit, with a crazy guide, a part of Pumalín, just this is no admittance because heir is the Chaitén volcano. Fortunately, nothing bad was happened. But on the other side, unfortunately, the town was under the ash, the people was stay in other places, there are not water and electrical services, and I think in a ghost town like some towns of the north of Chile. Well, places like this I would like to visit. In this occasion I visit Hornopirén, and a part of the Austral Way too. Many other countries I would like to visit, but someone of them I prefer for begin a long travel around the world is Mexico. And why not, maybe study, work and live there. I hear interesting and beautiful things of the place of Mayas, Aztecas, Chiapas, Ciudad Juárez. A friend of mine tell me: Mexico causes you fear, but is a lovely country.

Hi everybody, this first post is about my experiences during the first term of 2010. Well I remember than the university year began with the February earthquake consequences. All the students were very worried for give help to people who fall from favor. In April the classes began. Today I think in the relevant things I learned: Organizational, Communitarian, and Legal Psychology, and of course, more details of English language. One thing that I specially remember was my first case with a patient of the real life. She was a woman who lives under pressure of her job. I had four interviews with her, and I can write about her habits, familiar history, and her distress. In that moment of my career I can’t make much more. This work was simple first diagnosis, that is, a primitive diagnosis. Then I gave to the woman devolution of interviews, and she was very grateful. The devolution was many useful comments and explains for her daily routine.
Out of the study, I played swim in the university swimming pool located at Independencia Street. I was to enjoyed with Football’s World Cup of Southafrica on Radio and TV, and celebrate many birthdays on July.

Hi, this is my first post of English Four’s course. In this occasion I tell you the topics I would like to write about in the blogs. Well, I like to write about national and international news, an ordinary day in the life, Mass media, Childhood, how we see the future, politics themes, History, Arts, jokes, social problems, psychological problems, ordinary problems, relationships, sports, identity, and all about my career. All these topics are some of the themes that I like speak every day. I know many people speak all they want about these topics, which is the interesting thing.

This posts is about my blogging experience. It was great, I did enjoy it so much. In fact, I like write texts, but special texts. My job is about write advertising texts: Leaflets, enterprise's video texts, user's manuals, and many others text types. I write for advertising with responsibility and punctuality. But my job is only a job. Advertising text are not special text for me. These texts are a daily thing. But when I write my opinion, I feel like a newspaper columnist, and this is a special saituation for me. I know, I'm not a journalist, and I don't want to be one, but I like the "not journalist" newspaper columnist's job. I discover this when I write in the english course's blog. The blog gave me the opportunity to know how many like me write about different topics. At first, write in english was a problem for me. But day after day, class after class, the problem was disappearing. Today is not easy write in english for me, but any difficulty is a small thing compared with the pleasure to write. In fact, write in english did help me improve my english. Now I think: blogging in the English class is an advantage. I must confess: Initially, I use the translate "elmundo.es", but now I don't use it. Well, I use it less and less. Before the english course I wrote and spoke like "Tarzan". Now I write and speek like "Tarzán Reloaded". Like the Chilean says: "Something is something". Well, seriously, now I hear english at the movies, and I understand much more, I speek better, and write better. I hear songs in english and I sing it using the correct words. Day after day I say good bye Spanglish!

This post is about education. As we see in the news, yes, in Chile students are not learning in the school. But I repeat: in the school, and they not learning the contents that are important for the school. Because in my opinion, students and everybody are learning a lot of things everyday. I agree with Ken Robinson when he says:"Human intelligence is richter and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education". Respect to this, the children of a Fishermen's cove learn to fish in the sea, out of school. The same thing happens in other places around the world. Nobody would say this is not a learn. Nobody would say children can not learn infinite things. Human intelligence's resources are impressive. On the other hand the formal academic education give the children information, contents, habits for this future lifes. But, this type of education is the same for all of them, even they live in Santiago, Chiloé, Caleta Tortel, San Pedro de Atacama. This is the question, in my opinion, the education in Chile is not good, because don't see that ecological circumstances of the people are important for their lifes, their needs, their singular customs, their future life. The Chilean formal education are in a mistake. All the people are different, and need an education for their singular needs, in their singular communities. The SIMCE test is another mistake, it's measuring numbers, it's not measuring education! Like Ken Robinson say: "One of the real challenges is to innovate fundamentally in education". I think, in Chile one of the real challenges is to innovate fundamentally in the law, but in the political Constitution.

This post is about technology. I think many people consider technology like the ultimate generation of electronic pieces. Some of my friends consider technology like this. I know this is a point of wiew, but I have a different opinion. The technology is a very old thing. The clocks, for example, technological pieces they are. Today the clocks, make the same what they make yesterday. Probably I am thinking like an antiquarian. But many pieces of technology is not basic commodity. In fact, I can live without the pieces of tecnology, and I think many people are living in this moment without technology. I know, a Telepone, a Notebook, the instrument of navigation, make the life easy, but today we are falling in excesses. Lamentably, the economy in the world of the globalization walk with the technology, and don´t use it only for the progress and the solution of humanity problems. Use it like a product of consumption, like a route of leak, like form of evasion, like an anomia's control. I don't say: "The technology is bad", but I don't see it like the "Panacea". I like some pieces of tecnology. Specially those that I use in the University, and in the work. As well as the woodcutter estimates his axe, I like my Notebook. But no more like this. This is in the area of the studies and work. In the area of the entertainment, I can tell you something that confirms my thought. I hear MP3, yes, but I like more my old "Discman", and I still preserve a record player that was property of my parents, for is some day, the "vinilos" returned. Today in the morning I read in a magazine: "Discs of vinyl, it can be of return... thanks of God". I think: I dont be much mistaken.

To Camila Faúndez, I like her opinion of the cinema like a way for understand other cultures, other historic time or just other manners of see the world.

To Sergio Castillo, about his post of music, I coincide with his taste for "Los Jaivas", and "Joe Vasconcellos". Probably we were in the same concert some day.

To Isidora Pérez, I like the football team "La U", but I like the football team "Colo-colo" too, and the "Temuco Unido". Maybe she think I am crazy. I don' t care the teams, I like the football.