"If all insects disappeared from the Earth, in fifty years all forms of life will end; If all human being disappeared from the Earth, in fifty years all forms of life will flourish"

Hello readers!

For this task, we saw a video called "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" that is a conference by Ken Robinson, he is a teacher and a writer, he talks about creativity and education –a topic really controversial in this moment-. The main topic is that he says that the education in this moment is really focus in some things like math or languages, and that are importants, but the education destroys the creative capacities of children because she don’t give the same importance to arts, like dance or theater.

I haven’t known this guy, I saw the video and I think it’s amazing, I haven’t thought this topic deeply, but if you think about it, you will realize that we are really immersed in our economical system so education is focused on that system, so we are doing professionals to the system and we don’t give the space for other things that should has the same status. 

One of the phrases of Robinson was really interesting to me and I’m really agreed with this topic “If you are not prepared to be wrong, you can’t be prepare to be original”. I think that this one of the more essential things of the conference, because he is right, when we grow up, we make the things try to do everything well and we try to impress the people and be the best, but this is not the important in the society –or at least, I think so-. We are in a really fundamental in education and maybe we could related the actual moment in Chile with the conference, because both are conditioned with the economical system, and we have to do something to change the approach with we see the education, maybe we have to change some of our mentality to start to value all the things, and not only those that are polite.   

"El Baile de la Victoria"

The  last year I took a sabbatical year, I took this year because I wanted to do many thigns that I couldn’t do if you were studying, I worked, I studied English and I decided what career I want to take. Also, I could do many others things because I have time, one of this was go to the “Book Fair” in the Mapocho station. I really like read and this year I could read many books.

Well, when I went to the fair I see many books, one of their caught my attention, that was “El Baile de la Victoria” by the chilean author, Antonio Skarmeta. I read the book and I fell in love with it, the plot of the book is about a girl, who is a ballet dancer and her name is Victoria, and two inmates recently released, one of them is boy and his name is Angel Santiago and the other is an adult who is called Vergara Grey, three of them have very different plans about their lives but life unites.

I really love this book, and I can't say that Skarmeta is my favorite writer because it’s the only that I have read by him, but it’s my favorite book. Later to read the book, I saw the movie based on the movie, but I was really disappointed the film, because it’s very very different to the book, it has very little relationship between them (book and movie) and I really hated it. The actors are good, Ricardo Darin –an argentine actor that I like- acts in the movie, but this story, for me, it’s very bad. 

So, for the moment, this is my favorite and I had really good luck to find it in the fair, without any suggestion.

Websites .-

Hello everyone!

Today I’m going to talk about internet and websites.

First, I’m not a fan of internet really, I prefer do others thing, but anyway I need it and I use it. 

Every day I check my e-mail and the e-mail from my course and my facebook, actually I see these sites more than once a day. Often, I read news from some alternative websites like http://www.elciudadano.cl/ and http://www.elmostrador.cl/ , but I also review the “official” newspapers on the net, especially to see news about my soccer team, for this purpose I visit websites like www.terra.cl or www.prensafutbol.cl , for more information I check forum, where everyone talks about they want related with the team. 

But the website that I really enjoy is www.charlatecnica.cl this is a blog about soccer, this website is made by normal people, are not necessarily journalists. I like it because the website contains info but they write with humor, the writers are very sarcastic but in a good way, also they people can comment in every post. The post are almost always related with soccer and they do a post for every match of the Chilean championship.  Unfortunately, since I enter to the University I don’t have much time to see this page.

Also of these websites, when I spend my time in the computer I try to surf in the internet searching new things, I try to read a lot and I dowload many movies of the web. I cannot deny that internet is very useful and practical to find what you want.