My English experience

I think the English subject at university is very useful to our formation. Maybe, sometimes should be good to include readings of the different disciplines to familiarize our self with the specific language of sociology for example; this because sometimes we don’t know how to translate some words to the Spanish.

The use of blogs at the course is a very good way to practice written English. When we must to write of several topics we need to find new words or manners to say what we need to say. By other way, the use of blogs is a way to think our self in another language, is more that translate our opinions or experience. I always had think that the written English is a lot more difficult that the spoken, because we must to get attention to the grammar and orthography of the text and words. The spoken English is more familiar to us by the TV or the movies.

About the English and myself: I think that I need to improve the common use of the language, when I’m forced to use English sometime I get nervous and I try to explain with gestures or mimes . I also need to improve the use of the different grammatical times, I know its but when I’m talking I forget to chance the verbs.  I don’t have a plan to improve this aspects but the regular practice is enough to get better.

Outside the class I don’t practice a lot, I try to reed texts or watch the movies and TV series without subtitles nut don’t talk very few. Now is probably that for my possible new job I should to use English with costumers. I will do my best in this, for they understand me and me to them.

My wn business

In the future I would like to have my own business, to have my own cafe-bar. I really don’t like to work like a sociologist, generally is a very unstable matter, in this you must work by periods of time that is the same to not receive money every month. And actually I don’t want to have bosses, make my times and ways.

In this job, I would like to work with nice people. I hate routine, so I will have flexible hours. How I love to design, I will make a beautiful and stylish place to go. I love cooking too, so I should offer delicious options to the customers.

How I said before, the main factor to choose this job is that I don’t like the traditional way to work with boss, routine hours, etc. By other way, I don’t want to be a rich person, so I wouldn’t have the pressure to make big money. Am own business is a place to be yourself.

If I chose this way, I wouldn’t have a job interview. But certain I will have an interview with an investor; a natural person or a big investment institution like a bank or foundation. On this occasion I think I must to show them a serious business project, in this point my years like sociology student will be very useful, because if be a the thing I really learn is how to present documents and establish times, activities and indicator of objectives. I also know to categorize groups, see on them the most important things the search, etc.

I think finally, these years on school don’t will be waist. My business will be stronger and I will be happy.

Mate

Mate is a typical South American herb, this is originate of Uruguay and Paraguay, and it expand to many different countries like Brazil, Argentina and Chile, where it use is more restricted to the south. Mate is consumed from the pre-Columbian era for the Guaranies and the peoples which had contact with them. Later, the Spanish adopted this quickly and take them to other places.

The Mate is an infusion herb; it is consumed usually hot on a cup. But this is also consumed cold, taking the name of Tereré. Mate has a bitter taste and the people drink it like this or adding sugar.

Mate has several of good and useful characteristics. This is useful like a cleaning drink to the organism for the diuretic effect this produce, the mate consumption eliminate toxins from the body on the urine. The mate also produce a stimulating effect, the mateine is similar to the caffeine on this. The antioxidant effect is good against the “bad” cholesterol, and promotes the production of “good” cholesterol. The digestive effect of the mate had been used from centuries, the ancient peoples had a hyper protein diet, which can produce different disease; but the mate helped them to not tern seek.

By other way, the preparation of the mate is a serious matter. This is not only taking hot water and put on the herb. First of all, we must shake the herb on the cup and put the hot water on this. But the water must not to be boiling, and we served this on the extreme opposite of the visible straw “bombilla”.  And when we serve this again we must go closing to the straw.

I love mate, I drink it almost all days, even in summer. I like the bitter mate, without sugar, but I can tolerate in this way when I share a mate evening, because the most important thing of the mate the calling to be around them with friends and family.

European Union and Nobel peace prize

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/12/european-union-nobel-peace-prize

I think is very funny and ironic that the Norwegian committee gives this particular day the Nobel peace prize to the European Union. Is important to remember that centuries ago, in this date, started one of the most bloody chapters of the human history with the “ discovery” of America.

We don’t need to go so many years ago to see in this continent, and especially in the great potencies which ruled there a tendency to make war against other countries usually smaller and weaker on military terms. Spain and England strongly support the war against Afghanistan; months ago France had an active participation on the Libya’s war against the Gadafi regime.  

The important thing in this prize is how the Europeans continue looking themselves like the center of the world and protectors of the civilization. This is clear in the Norwegian committee reasons exposed on the news; the European Union is an active force of the peace on Europe and is the promoter of the alliance between France and Germany, the two of them great historical enemies. All this is true to certain point; first the Union is principally and economic agreement which have brought terrible consequence to peripheral countries like Greece when they must pay the “helps” of the UE. Second, the UE promote together with the peace, and single economic model which trays to any cost destroy the welfare state.

This situation shows that many things don’t change yet, how I already said, Europe doesn’t look like equal to the people across the sea when war there is not important to the peace here. And by the other side, the concept of peace the Norwegian committee has, doesn’t consider the social conflicts the UE generates on their own smaller neighbors. 

Today I will write about my dog, Dylan. Dylan is a west highland white terrier; I and my girlfriend buy it last year. She already had a cat named Sara, I like cats but this in particular is not very nice so I wanted another pet for me. His name is Dylan for the Scottish poet Dylan Thomas not for Bob Dylan, who took his name for the same person.

Dylan is a good dog, he learned very quickly to do his “business” outdoor, and actually it took him only two weeks. The first big screw up he did was destroyed a plant of our roommate that his dead grandma gave to him before to die. When he was a puppy, he failed into the pool on my uncle’s house, I saw him for far and I ran there to take him out, the funny thing was that he was swimming to the bottom not to the top or the edge.

In the present, we live with my sister who loves Dylan. She taught him to get sit when we ask and she taught him too, to wait calm for his food and rewards.

The last funny thing he did was to reject a girlfriend that we found for him. Josefina stayed three days in our house and nothing happen between them, actually he hated her.  

Mexico

I think my best holidays had been when I travelled to Riviera Maya. It was two and a half years ago on summer. I went there with my dad and sister; it was very nice because we enjoyed a lot on different activities together.

We stayed on a beautiful hotel with an amazing beach. I really don’t like the sun or swimming on the beach, because I hate the sand on the body. But, this time the beach was nice because it had a bar with unlimited drinks and beer. Another think that I love of the hotel was the food; I ate all the bacon and meat I could eat.

We also went to Maya ruins on the jungle: Coba, Chichen Itza and Tulum. I must to say that all this places are impressive, the pyramids, the roads, the stone houses...

One day we went to Xcaret, this is a huge park with a lot of different activities to do. In Xcaret we swam on subterranean caves with colour fishes.

I consider this holidays the better until now because it was useful to get closer between our three, and obviously for the excellent and lovely place we visited.

Cuba

It’s funny that the country I like to visit I already visited before. Cuba is the country I most like to go now. When I was there I went with my dad and sister but also with my dad’s girlfriend and her two sons, one of them my sister’s boyfriend. This was a very strange and uncomfortable situation for me, and over this I made the mistake of not go with any money to do my thinks by my side.

If I go to Cube by my own now, I like to rent a car and go to explore all the country, and the different cities and village. I wouldn’t do the touristic travel on the resorts. But one think that I will do on the same way I did on my first travel to Cuba is drink many Mojitos and Daiquiris, and eat a lot of Ropa Vieja.

Actually I love to live in Cuba by a time; I love to study something on the Habana University too. I love this because Cube is absolutely different society to Chile, I think that I really prefer this.