martes, 23 de junio de 2009

My blogging experience

Now that we are so close to the end of the semester after all those posts that I made, I think that was a very good way to learn and practice my English. This blogging experience for me was and still being very good exercise to improve my writing skills, and also my grammar. After all this 11 post that I made ... well actually there were just 10 because I miss one (that one about a website related with the major). At first when I started this exercise I thought that was a very good way because we no don’t use to write a lot in the English classes, and then when you have to write you realize that you don’t know how to do it. Now I think that I know a bit more about sentence structure and that it’s very important if then I want to apply to a student exchange. So of course that it helps me!
The advantages of bogging are that you can practice you English, and you have the chance to create and think about some special topic that are changing every week. If you are no good with grammar you can correct it and try to make it better every time you write in your post, and also because in our major is very important know how to write in English, we never know where we will be in our career. Also you can chare your blog with people of other countries and make friends. The disadvantages of using blogging in my opinion could be that we also need to improve our speaking with a more percentage of oral presentation in the semester. I know there are some people to is harder to speak in English but is the best way to learn, if you are a shy person and don’t practice, will very more complicated latter when you want to talk with someone. You can know all the grammar and all the words but you don’t know how to say them you may lose the opportunity to interact with people of other countries.

martes, 16 de junio de 2009

My ideal job

My ideal job is working as a counsellor in the ministry of housing, I would like that job because I think that in Chile the policies about housing are not good targeted. For me the skills that a good counsellor in that area must to have are: know a lot about urbanization, planning, sociology, ecology, and anthropology. Over all that technical skills you have to be emphatic with the things that are happening around you, and to know a lot of management because probable a lot of people will work for you. It’s very important to be present in the ground and see what it’s really happening in the street, you have to understand what are the needing of the people and try to make a plan incorporating all that factor. Working in the ministry of housing for me is not just built, is create a better place to live. A better environment to grown up. I think that I’ll be very good doing that job because I’ve studied those topics, and because I like very much to work for the people and solve their problem in that field. I want to specialized doing a MBA in urbanization so I think that I’ll be ready for that work. To find that job is very difficult, one because you need the experience and to get a job in the public service is no so easy. But if I am good like I’ll hope to I am going to be there.

martes, 9 de junio de 2009

A perfect piece of art


For me the most beautiful and wonderful piece of art is the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence Italy, this cathedra was built in the Renaissance. Its main feature is its huge dome of more than 100 meters tall, never before has been built a dome-shaped structure above a cathedral. The dome was built by Italian architect Brunelleschi, there was a so big task that he even thought in full the cathedra with earth to create the shape of the dome. He finally was able to build it using a crane design created by Da Vinci.

I’ve never been in Italy but the first time I saw it was in my history class when I was in the high school and the teacher shows us the picture in the screen of the data show, I liked so much and I like also the history behind the building. I considered a piece of art and I like very much because shows the human been skills to create new things.

martes, 2 de junio de 2009

do schools kill creativity

Yes they do. sir ken speaks about the influence of the actual educational system in the formation of the children. he says that alL the school are down the same structure, they were made after the industrial revolution and it’s only reason was produce professional to increase the production, the wasn’t room for the music and drawing. but now we know that the education is unpredictable and we never know where we are going to end and about this point is when he says that the creativity and innovation is the most important think that we have to put into the education system in the schools. the school has to push the student to create and think news ideas. the problems as sir ken says is that in the school if you make a mistake is the worst thing that you can do and if you don’t give to the children the room to mistake you will be afraid to create and be innovative. “ we stigmatize the mistakes”.
So the schools just want to produce professional for the university, just think in the production and doesn’t move to think in others way to teach. The schools have to incorporate a very important and new concept that is the human ecology if they don’t and the teaching still being the same the life in earth will end in 50 year as sir ken says, so it’s very important to create a new education system for the schools around the world.