My english experience

At the University, it’s an obligation to pass four levels of English in your career. The English is a tool in our careers that it`s useful to read a lot of papers and essays like this, so the university bring us this language to become easier our life. This year I passed to level four in my English class, but all the work that I did in all this time generate a lot of benefits and useful tools that allow to me develop like a student and like a person. So in this essay, I will tell you about my English experience at the university.

At the first year of my career, I was in level two of my English class, this level was so easy to me, because I came from a bilingual school (well, the English was not my strong topic), and the English that teach in this level was so basic, like learn to see the time or learn some expressions related with travels or moments in your life (like meetings or comments about the weather, etc.). But, since I pass to level three, my life changed. We started to write in a blog, and this was so useful to practice and learning more about vocabulary and grammar.

Well, this year I’m in level four with a teacher called Rosa Zagal, she correct our grammar, vocabulary, expressions talk, etc. I think that this year was the most productive compared with the last year or the past semester. Apparently, I learned this year and this semester a lot of things about English, now, I can talk with fluency and I have less mistakes in grammar. I don’t know if this knowledge I learned in the University or in my home, but until now the English have become more and more useful in my life.

Well, now I can see tv series without subtitles and I can understand at less the main idea, I can read the nutritional information when this one was in English, I can talk better with my American cousin and I can read the papers of archaeology or anthropology with more facility. So the English at the university was so useful to me, in these three classes I learn a lot about this language and I knew a lot of students of this faculty too.

My experience in High school

hello friends,
today i'm going to write about my experience in my high school, called Pedro de Valdivia. I haven't good feelings when I remember my school, because I enter to this school when I was 15. All my old friends was in my old school, called "Francisco de Miranda", this is a extreme different school, because I went with casual clothes and the teachers was very close with their students, in fact, I can treat their called for their names. But, in my new school, I was to put a uniform (an horrible uniform, green color with a small tartan skirt) and the teachers was very formal, I was to treat their like a "miss" or "professor".
My favorite subject was history, my teacher was called Carlos Torres, and he prepared us to have a great mark in the PSU. But, I think that this class are not very interesting, because all the test was an alternative test, no one have a little of owns reflections or our thoughts about history. I know, my thoughts about my high school are not very positives, in spite of this things, I also live good things, like my relation with my teacher of biology or some friendships that I kept until now, and I remember my class with so much love, their are a good friends and their are a beautiful persons.

In my high school, the only technologic thing was the computer’s classroom. But, if you wanted use it, you have to ask for the librarian.

My education in the high school was very important to me, because I think that in my school, I learn to study, and to be a responsible person, and to exceed the bad things and make me a stronger person.

My favorite movie

Hello friends,

today I'm going to write about my favorite movie. Really, I don’t have a favorite movie, so I’m going to write about a movie that I really like and I saw it last week, it is called “Se7en”. In this movie two famous actors act, Brad Pitt (called Mills) and Morgan Freeman (called Sommerset). Their characters are cops, specifically homicide detectives, that investigate a lot of cases about murders connected with the Seven Deadly Sins. The first case is related to the gluttony, and the murdered person was an obese that eating a lot of food died. The serial killer tortured his victims represents the deadly sin that their was committed, and this killer was a psychopath called John Doe.
The story take place in USA, in a dangerous city. My favorite part is the final, because is unexpected and showed the sick mind of John Doe. The last murder was against the Mill’s wife, and he went mad because of anger and killed the serial killer with his gun. With these, all the murderers was fulfilled, and in spite of his dead, John Doe won.

I liked this movie because take your attention all the time, it’s one of the first movies that involved a serial killer, and the history was very exceptional. The picture of the murderers was very shocking, and the performance of Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman are brilliant.

In the movie, if I could change any part, would be the final, because in spite of this is one of the best parts of the movie, it was so tragic.

Santiago

Hello friends, today I’m going to write about my beautiful city called Santiago de Chile. Santiago is the capital of Chile, and here most of the people of my country live.
If you visit my city, you can go to the “Parque O’Higgins”, there are a lot of grass and you can fly a kite or make a picnic or enjoy with your pets and your friends with a lot of drinks and food. Also, you can go to San Cristobal Hill, to the statue of the virgin on top of San Cristobal Hill. And when you go down the hill, you can go to Bellavista, a neighborhood of Santiago that has many pubs and restaurants. This is so fun, because after a lond and hard exercise you can go to Bellavista’s bar to drunk a beer.
Another place to go is the government house called “La Moneda”. This is a historic center, and you can know more about the history of Chile if you go there.
And finally, you can go to the “Plaza Ñuñoa”, this is a square located in the neighborhood of Ñuñoa, and there are a lot of pubs, ice-cream parlour, restaurants and places to have fun with yours friends. Also, there are a fountain and there are the Ñuñoa’s municipality.
Well, these are my favorite places of Santiago and if you came here you can visit these places and a lot of more like the Mahuida’s Park or the biggest fun park of Santiago called Fantasilandia.

Good Luck!

A beautiful country

Hello Friends, today I’m going to write about one of my favorite hobbies in the world, travel. I'm addicted to travel, I always have the feeling to run away of my country, of my house. I like to travel because it is nice to see new places. One of the countries that I would like to visit is Mexico, because I think that it’s a beautiful country which has a lot of culture monuments of our ancestors. There are the bases of the American culture, with civilizations such as the Maya and the Aztec.
The things that I know about this country, is that it have a lot of beaches like “playa del Carmen”, the capital is Ciudad de México and there are world-famous monuments: the pyramids like Chichén-Itza.
When I go to México, I want to stay with my cousin that is Mexican, and travel around the country and to know different cities like “Ciudad de México”, Tijuana, Chiapas, etc.
I liked to study anthropology in this country when I finish my career in Chile, because it’s a good chance to know a different culture and many people said me that the Anthropology School its one of the best of the world.
Well… that it’s all! See you later!

My experiece during the first term of 2010

hello friends!
welcome again to my blog, this time, i'm going to write about my first term.
For the earthquake, we enter to the University with a month of delay, then everything began so fast. We had to read millions of papers, books and articles, and at the end of semester, we had to give a lot of test and I slept not much because I was studying or making a job. I went to the gym one month, and I felt very well because I felt more flighty, in the gym I went to funky classes and dance classes. Also I to get used to not drink coca-cola (I was addict to this drunk), and I to gain to take a healthy life.
In generally, my semester was bored, because nothing exciting happened, and I had to studying a lot, I learn a lot of things of my classes like materialism (anthropologist that was materialism term and Marx), prehistory or statistics.
And as well I went to different kinds of parties (in the university and with my school friends), and that was so cool.
In the past semester, I sold Chilean candies, called “alfajores”, and I earn a lot of money, it was like my little business.
Well, that its all… see you later!

Second term of 2010

Hello friends! this is the second semester of this year, so... enjoy my posts!

My Blog experience

Today, I'm going to write about my experience with this blog. Before this class, I had never used a Blog, some of my friends used blogs to comunicate their ideas or thoughts about life, but I never used this way to express my ideas. Well, when I discover the multiple benefits that a Blog can offer to us, I thought that this way of communication can be useful because it allows us to know better about all our classmates, and we can know the experience of another people in certain aspects of their lifes that can be interesting to us.

The Blog's time is the most funny in the class of english, we can talk with our classmates at the same time that we write the post, and we can laugh and be happy during that moment, because it's more relaxed than other minutes of the class. This blog allow me to share with other people and for that reason I like it very much
Last year, we didn't use the Blog so the classes were very boring and not very dynamic. But now, the classes are very dynamics and the Blog allow us to practice our english and every class we improve in our way of writing our experience, our thoughts about life.
I think that the Blog is a great experience, but I felt that I spent a lot of time so maybe some of the post could be written in our homes. Not all but some of them.
I liked that I could express myself freely in my Blog, I enjoyed sharing experience with my classmates, I met people from all our disciplines in the faculty. I think that the Blog is a great method for learning english.

And that is all I can say about the experience with this blog, I will never write here again, so I say goodbye :)

Idols from all times

The other day, I was with my friends and we start to sing the old songs... this songs that mark our childhood when we had between 8 and 14 years old. In that moment, we remembered songs like "everybody" of the "Backstreet Boys" or "Bye bye bye" of the N'sync. And we remind all our choreographys in the classroom, with the chairs like stage and our boys classmate like the public. I think that this period was one of the best on my life... because we were so innocents, and we dance and song the songs with all our happiness without afraid to make the ridiculous.

I remember that I with my friends had the cassettes of all our favorites groups of music, I have the cassette of "Backstreet boys" (called "Backstreet's back") and cassettes of latin music like "Shakira" or "Los Prisioneros". When I was in Elementary School (segundo básico), I fought with a friend because I loved to the best of the "Backstreet Boys", Nick Carter, and she loved Brian. I remember that I love him because I have a cousin that had all the pouster of Nick, and she was spoke to me all the time of Nick, and I copy her feelings and I loved Nick too.

In all my adolescence, I forget all this groups of music: Backstreet Boys, N'sync, Sclub7, etc. But this year, I bring it all them to my mind, and now I think that I like all this groups again. When I listen this kind of music, I remember all my games of the Elementary School, I remember all my classmates and my teachers and my beautiful school called "Francisco de Miranda". Undoubtedly, this times was the most important in my life, there I knew my best friends and there I learn to be the person that I am.

Nice moments :)

Hi Friends! today i'm going to write about my favorite picture. To begin, I don't have exactly a favorite picture, I don't know nothing about a famous photographer and the photography it's not my favorite hobby. But the photographs in general, bring it to my mind the most important moments of my life. I chose this photograph, because I appear with my two best friends of the world, that I met in the school garden, when we have only 5 years old.

This photo it was took by a friend called Elo, when we where preparing ourselves to go to a party in "La Maestra Vida", a salsoteca that stays in the neighbourhood Bellavista. We always go there to dance "salsa", but this time we went there to a concert of "Santa Feria", a cumbia's group of a friends. We dance all night long, I remember this special night because two days later we started our travel to Bolivia. In that moment, we were near Pablo Neruda's House.

I love my friends, they called Natalia y Antonia, they are so important to me because I think that they are the only persons (apart from my family) that really knows me. I think that this kind of friendship is almost impossible to know... so I'm so happy to know this kind of love, a disinterested love and a pure love! I think that exist differents kinds of frienship, a school friend or a party friend, but the friends of the life (OF THE LIFE!)... it's a thing that nobody can take you easily. It's a thing that to construct with the life... with shared experiences, with unconditional love.

I trust 100% in my real friends, they are my two favorite people of the world!

My cool hobby

Today, I'm going to write about one of my favorites hobbies of the world, the cookery. When I was a child, I hated all kinds of food, when my mom cooked to me foods like lentil, or Italian pumpkin I hated her, because the only food that I loved was the sweet food, like chocolates and candies, I was so skillful!

But now, I love all kind of food, the salad food, the sweet food, the sour food, etc. I loved cook and to try to cook new kinds of dishes. Recently, I learn too cook a chilean candies, called "alfajores", and I sold it in the University, I'm like a street vendor.

Well, in the future I want to study bakery, because then I want to work in a mixture of Anthropology and cooking of different places of the world. My dream of the life is to open a Restaurant that have differents foods of differents countries, and with a differents internal atmospheres.

The Anthropology and the cookery are my two passions of the life, I love to manipulate the food and transformate it in a delicious dishes.

Well... that its all!

Bye friends... see you soon!

The Lion King

This time, i'm going to write about my childhood, more specifically my favorite movie when I was a child, The Lion King. When I was 3 years old, I went to the cinema with my cousins and we saw the movie "The Lion King", I don't remember this moment even though that this movie that markes my life.

The Lion King is a story about a little lion, called Simba, that his only dream it was to be the king of the jungle. He started his adventure with his best friend, Nala, and Zazu, a bird that was the adviser of the king, Mufasa. But, in his life not all the things were of pink color, because he had a evil uncle, Skar.

After a lot of adventures with his best friend, Simba had the worst experience that markes his life, the death of his father, who was murderer by his uncle Skar. Simba, thinking that the death of his father was his fault, it escaped to the jungle and knew to Timón and Pumba, two friends that accompany to Simba in all his adventure to recover the kingdom with their motto "hakuna matata".

When Simba grew up, he met again with his old friend Nala, and she convinced him to fight to recover the kingdom of his father of Skar's claws and his allieds, the hyenas.

Rafiki, a wise monkey, convinced to him to fight, and in spite of the fact that Simba didn´t want to be going to fight, he went to fight against his uncle and he won.

I remember with all my love this movie because I watched it all days, even though that I was busy with my homeworks. I too memorize all the dialogues and all the songs... I was so happy! when I watch the Lion King , I remember all the sensations that I felt when I was a child :)

The magic of my mp4

My favorite technology item is my beautiful and wonderful Mp4. When I was a kid, I never expected that this kind of technology would be in my life, when I was 11, I have a personal stereo and the cassettes still existed. I was so happy with my personal, but then the personals changed to walkman, a new technology that worked with a CD room, I loved my walkman too, but it was inconvinient because it had to take all my CDs in my bag, and they were weighing very heavy.

But then, after a lot of years, the technology came to its perfection, creating my Mp4. It is phillips brand, and it have 8 GB of memory and in this space it fots all my music and some video music. With my Mp4, i can to record my classes of my career.

When I was in Bolivia, my mp3 died in the trip in bus that I did from Oruro to Potosí. I was so sad, because all the rest of travel I was without my music. But when I return to Santiago, I bought my mp4 in a offer of the supermarket. I love my mp4, it allows me to travel happier, with it, the hour pass flying to me. My Mp4 accompanies me in my long treks for the city and in the moments of leisure.

my little rufo

hello friends!
this time, i´m going to write about my beautiful and nice dog, Rufo.
Rufo is the only dog that i have in all my life, he is a pedigree dog, more specifically it is a Golden Retriever.
When i was 8, the only thing that I want in all the world was to have a dog. But my house in this time was so small, so my mom always was refusing to leave me to have a dog.
But in the 2001, a bit before that were falling the Twin Towers, i moving from my old house to a bigger house with a big courtyard. So, one day my mom call me and all the family went to look for a beautiful dog. We found two male dogs, one fat and playful and the other was shy and thin, and I chose the shy dog, because he was so nice, and my brother call him Rufo.
After all my story, I realized that my dog, Rufo, is so important to me. He is a good friend, that always stand by my side, the only thing that it knows is to give love, and now he is so playful and independent, he walks alone and returns to the house without problems.

I love Rufo! with all my heart! If something was happening to him, I not what it would do

The great Franz Boas

Franz Boas was a famous anthropologist. He was born on July 9th, 1942 in Minden, Westfalia . And he died on December 21, 1942. He was called "the father of American anthropology". He studied in many of the Universities of Germany, but his PhD did it in University of Kiel. He was a representative of the relativism school and, in turn, predecessor of the historical particularity.

In his first time of student, he studied physics. But in a travel to Canada, he got lost of the route, and he was rescued by the indians Inuit, and he decided to turn into an anthropologist.

He was the creator of the historical particularity and in addition he was the creator of the Anthropology as we know it today, it separated it in physical Anthropology, social Anthropology, Archaeology and linguistics.

I like Boas because he understood the culture as something that could change and like a thing that was not certain. And he was giving him value, for the same thing, to all the cultures, he didn`t discriminate the cultures for it degree of civilization, because he was anti-evolucionist.

Well, i think that Boas was a great anthropologist for all the things that i said and for many more.

My crazy holidays

The past Holidays, in February, i went to Bolivia with my best friends of the University and with my best friend of the school. We begin the trip on January 25, and our first destiny was Arica's city. In Arica, we stay in Mario's house, because Mario is our classmate and he offered his house to us. Our first plan was go to Peru and Bolivia, but when we stay in Arica, Machu picchu, our most important destiny in Peru, had been flooded (most specific, "Aguas Calientes", a small town near to Machu Picchu). But this didn`t dishearten to us, and we decided to started our travel in Bolivia. The first city that we visited in Bolivia was La Paz, in the way towards La Paz, all the girls have the "mountain sickness", included me, but with a coca's tea, we feel better. All the places that we know were beautiful, the people was so nice, but the roads were of being afraid, because it was so narrower. And the other bad thing was the food, because it was so greasy (all we rise of weight :P).

Well... Another day I continue telling the adventures of my trip, but now, I must to sleep because last night i slept like 3 hours.

Bye !

Earthquake in my sweet home

My holidays was so exiting. In February, I went to Bolivia in a cultural travel. But, one day after that Im return to my home in Santiago, something incredible happened. The 26 of February, at nine o'clock at night i was in Carolina's house, in La Reina's neigbourhood, so near from my home, in a meeting. Then, at 1 a.m i returned to my home. I was so tired, so i went to sleep inmediatly. At 3.30 a.m, something incredible happened, all the things of my house started to sound and the floor was started moving strongly... it was a earthquake!! Oh my God... this is so amazing, all my life waiting for this moment and NOW... im sleep. YES MAN! I WAS SLEEPING HALF EARTHQUAKE!! But im enjoy the other half :) well, in spite of the disaster that the earthquake left, in the moment I enjoy the effect of the movement.
The days after the earthquake, I helped in the student volunteer, but I realized that the help was very small compared with all that the people needed.
Well, I learn that Chile is not prepare for a disaster as this one, and if in the future there is another earthquake you have to be calm... and you have to be awake.

Welcome to the jungle

welcome to my blog my dear friends.
In this space I will write all the things that appear in my mind... so you must preparate to enter in a wonderfull world of words.
My name is Alejandra Le-Bert, I am 19 years old and I study Anthropology in the University of Chile.
I think that this blog will be the best blog of the world... well... not the best, but I'm going to do the best effort.
so.. lets go to the party!

see you guys!