English 4

For the last time I am here writing. Beyond all the prejudices I had, English 3 was a good subject and I learned a lot more than I expected. He always thought that there is not a good system to try to learn English in a classroom where everyone speaks Spanish, but I do rescue many things unthinkable for me. The first thing is to have the opportunity to write and practice English about the topics of interest to me. That makes the subject much more dynamic and enjoyable for everyone. Before taking this course, I had forgotten many English words that I find really beautiful. Thanks to English 3 I have been able to practice, even a little, the English that I like so much and that I forgot so much. Maybe in the future it will be a good instance, being able to really converse with people who speak English in a natural way. It would be interesting to know other visions about education, about careers, about our disciplines, and about life itself, making it arrive through real commu...

Hello, class. I’m here again. This semester has been very difficult for me. For first time in my years of University I registered 7 subjects. The contents that we have reviewed have been very interesting for me. This semester I learned too much information. In this fourth year, my career (social work) has started to become in something more similar to what I imagined before entering. In the first year, the subjects were about general formation in philosophy, sociology, or history. Now, we have reviewed information about social policies, different form of inequality, the multidimensionality of poverty, and social movements. Beyond all these aspects, I loved a special subject of this semester: Orchestra, strings, and wings workshop. Each session the teacher brings musical scores to practice. I am playing trumpet. He lent me a trumpet and sometimes makes me personal classes. This is wonderful for me! In other post I told my history with the musical instruments. To have the opportu...

Hello, classmates. Today I'm going to talk about the history of my music dreams!! When I was child, I began to play the guitar looking at my father. I think that I don't play very well, but I enjoy too much doing this. When I grew up, I started to play latin percusions (timbals, congas, güiro) "taking classes" with youtube videos, but at this time, my obsession was to sing. Then, I began to sing, although I still think that my voice isn't very tuned. With part of my family and with some friends, we formed a Classic Rock band. We covered songs like "Highway Star" (Deep Purple), "The Ocean" (Led Zeppelin), "Bark at the moon" (Ozzy Osbourne), etc. I think that this project was a disaster, but when we talk about this time with my family and friends, we  always    rebember it with much happiness.  After that, we met the key of success: the CUMBIA. Then, we turned round to this "new" musical style. I played timbals, and made sec...

Well. I will talk about two websites that I really enjoy to much. The first, is  youtube  (www.youtube.com). I started to use this site in 2006, because a dear cousin showed me this site. We have seen many videos on it, about music and football, principally. With the time, I have found the most incredible information of the internet: I began to play Timbals by toutube, and I have learned some of music too. Sometimes, before an evaluation, me and my classmates look for vídeos on youtube where teachers of all the world teach us the things that we need. To learn about music on youtube has its cost: after to know a new musical instrument, I want to have it! It's a great problem, cause i'm a student, and haven't to much money to buy it. I think that to play music in this country is really expensive. The pr ice s of the musicals instruments are so high truely. In spite of that, I like to see this prices in a specifical shop, called  Audiomusica . For this reason, I a...

Quinta Show is a band started by my brother Juan Pablo (on the right, with a blue guitar), by Roberto (next to my brother, playing that "strange" instrument called  Baby Bass ), and by me, using sunglasses, playing timbals in the background). In this group also touches my dad (to the far left, playing that black guitar). The other members are David on keyboards, Carolina in  güira  and choirs, Agustín in the voice, and Gerardo in the congas (he is behind my brother). It is a family group, where friendship and fun is the best thing. We usually get together to play various musical styles at least two days a week. This photo was taken in 2013 by Valentina (David's girlfriend, our keyboardist) during a party at the Law School of the University of Chile, in the year 2013. It is a very important photo for me, since it is a great record where my father, my brother, me and my friends, are doing what we most like to do: to play music. That day was really beautiful and people lov...

I want tell you about Brazil. In 2014, I had the opportunity to visit Rio do Janeiro. My brother, my cousin, and me, were going to the football world cup. We loved this city! The first thing that we did, was to go to Copacabana, an amazing beach with precious palms, vast miles of beautiful sea, and the best of all, many friendly people. The Brazilian men and women are the nicest people that I have known. They invited us to their houses and wanted to celebrate with us in the street drinking some beers.  For them, the football world cup has been for always a very important party. I think that in Rio, the mix of football and music produce in Brazilian people happiness with no equal. Maybe the mixture of those things made Brazil, and Rio especially, my favorite place to visit. Walking on the principal Copacabana street (I don’t remember its name), we saw the most extraordinary things. There was a great Batucada where many people played theirs musical instruments. We also saw m...

         First, I wanted to study psychology, but my PSU score... you know jajaja...then I entered to study social work. I chose my career because since I was child one of my obsessions was to know prisons. I want to use music in the social reintegration of people who are imprisoned. I also chose social work because I think that I'm good solving problems, and I can to do a lot of that as a social worker. I can use my creativity in many areas of the social work profession. The Social Workers help people in their life’s most difficult challenges: poverty, discrimination, abuse, addiction, unemployment, educational problems, etc. Also, with our salary we can become billionaires .... jajajaja