Hi everybody, today i'm going to talk about my year learning english in the University of Chile.

I think that it was a good experience, I liked the english class. I like to learn english, I am so interesting to keep and improve my english so i think this class was a good oportunity to keep my english and not forget it. Definetively it was a good experience.

One of my favorite activity were the listening, i don't know if i enjoyed this activity, but i think was one of my favorites. I liked too when we listened songs and had to complete the letter of the song. Almost of them i had never listened, but were good songs. Another activity interesting was this blog. This blog was a know experiency, i liked to have to write about somethings almost always interesting, but sometime the topic was very bored, for example when we have to talk about shopping. I think that this blog was a good way to improve our vocabulary and writing.

I think that i didn't find the activities boring, but some time we have to read an articule and its topic was very very boring. generally i liked the activities, but when the topic was boring i dind't enjoy it to much, when we have to read, write or speak about a boring topic i didn't enjoy it.

The most difficult activity for me was when i have to talk. When i've had the oportunnity to talk when a english person i don't have problems talking with him, but in this class sometime i had soem problems to arm the sentence or usin the correct word.

In conclution this year in this class was a good experiency, i learned a lot of things and a could to improve my english, so it was a good year talking about this class. I think this will be my final post in this blog, so i want to be useful to say goodbye to everybody and say that was a good experiency to share my blog with you guys and your blogs with me.

Bye bye everybody.

Rodolfo's blog

Today i'm going to talk about a blog from one of my classmet. The blog that i like more than he others blogs. I don't know if is the best blog but is the blog that i always enjoy. This is the Rodolfo Soto's blog.

It is a blog that I always watch it and i chose his blog because i think that he always say something interesting. May be i am not agree with some of those things but is interesting to know it. I think taht Rodolfo is a person how knows a lot about history, culture, sports and others things, so at the moment to strike up a conversation with him (or just watching his blog) you can learn something new.
One of the pricncipal things that i chose this blog is as for the elemnts in there. How i was talking before, rodolfo always has in his posts one anecdote, a story, a fact or just a freak fact that always make it interesting.

I think his best post is when he talk about a profession that he like to do. He wanted to be a soccer coach. I chose this one because Rodolfo and me always are talknig about soccer, he likes very much this sport and me too. When i am talking wiht him i always learn something a new thing about this beatiful sport, for example from a new soccer player or a team, etc.

I know that Rodolfo knows a lot about soccer so i think that he will be a great soccer coach.

So my favorite blog is the Rodlfo soto's blog. Other blog that i like to watch it are the nicolas villalobos blog, Cristian's blog (although he is always talking about surf), the girls blogs and ruddy's blog.

FIFA 98

When i was a child i liked so muhc play any game, i was always playing some game alone or with my brothers.

I always played games like Ludo, Metropoli, carioca, ajedrez and some time I invented with my brothers some games as "El juego de la Oca". I liked too went out and play soccer or tenis in the street.

But my favorite game when i was a child it was a computer games, FIFA 98. For me the FIFA98 it was one of the best computer games that i have played. I have never liked the computer game or the consola (play station, nintendo) games, but this one it was very funny.

The FIFA is a computer soccer game. You had to choose a soccer selection and you had too play a soccer world cup and won. A soccer game but in the computer and you had too control the soccer players.

I played this game always, i spent a lot of time playing the game. I preferred to play "alley soccer" but not always it was possible, so when i was free time i played FIFA and when i was a child i always had free time.

Almost the time i played alone, but i could to play with other guy too and osme time i played with one of my brothers or a friend. each of us were one of the two team and we faced a game.

I liked this game because the soccer is my favorite sport, i always was playing soccer but when i couldn't play soccer i had the computer soccer game, so i always was playing soccer.

The last time that i played this game was 4 years ago when i was found the cd game and i installed the game again in my computer.It was a gtreat moment.

The best Chilean

Is difficult to decide who is the best chilean, because everybody are different and for me there are a lot of people who could be the best chilean like Violeta Parra or Victor Jara who are teh most influential musicians al the time, or other peoples like Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Salvador Allende, Chino Rios, Pancho Melo, Carol Dance, el Zafrada and many others. All these persons are different so is too difficult to dicede and talk about one of them.

I think in this opportunity i'm gping to choose a musician, Violeta Parra because i think she is the best chilean artist all the time. Her poems, verses, pictures and specially her music have been very important in my life and i think in a lot of chilean people. For me Violeta Parra was and is the greatest composer and she was a great poet too.

She started with a new stage in the chilean music because she was the booster of the "popular chilean music", the field music or rural musci from Chile. She was who opened the traditional chilean music to all the country, latinamerica and Europe (actually when she was live she had more recognition in Europe than in Chile. She was more importance in Chile after her death). She was who stimulate to many others composer and artist to follow in her footsteps, her legacy. she really was a great artist, her music are were very original and had a importance social.

If I meet with her i think i ask her about her career If she wanted that her music had more relevancy when she was alive and not after her death. Violeta Parra is one of the best artist in Chile all the time and her legacy and relevancy still continue to these days in Chile na dthe rest of Latinamerica.

Cruise working

Today i'm going to talk about a job that i would like to do.
If i have the option to choose a job i choose a geography job, because will be my future profession, but if i don't choose a geography job and may work in it, i think i would choose a job in a cruise. Any kind of job in the cruise, waiter, employee, etc.

I would like to work in a cruise for many reason. I have always wanted to be in a cruise, and if i have the possibility to be in a cruise besides it pay me money i would agree and really would enjoy it. Other reason taht i have to work in a cruise is because i could know other places in the world, though i am working and probbably i couldn't meet the places, but anyway is a reat opportunity.

I think taht could be really interesting because i would live in the sea for a few weeks and i think i would make some friendship which i will be all the travel. I think that i could know a lot of people (other employeed or worker, or a passanger) from other countries and that will be really nice. I really enojy it, fro the reason that i gave and toher i think that could be a very great experience, know places, know people know others cultures would be so satisfying.

A couple of years ago i meet a girl, may be two or three years older than me that was working in a cruise. she told me that she got the employ by casuality because some people ask her when she was traveling in a cruise if she knew english and if she wanted o work attending the passenger in the cruise, so she accept the job and when i knew her it was her second year working in the cruise.

Soledad Pastorutti is an argentine singer, a floklore singer. She was born in 1980 in Casilda, Santa Fe.
In her country she is vary famous, but not too much in Chile. She started her carrer when she was very young, she was 15 years old.

I would like to know her because i consider that she is one of the best floklore singer in her country and all the region. She has a great voice and I love her music. I'd really like to be in one of her show, beacuse i have not had the possibility of being on her show, i have only seen videos. besides i would like to know her in person i think could be interesting because i consider her so pretty, that is other reason to know her.

If i have the opportunity to be with her i think that i talk wiht her aboit her musical carrer and the music in general because she has honoured several artist from south america, she has a lot of covers from them. Artist like atahualpa yupanqui, Chabuca Granda, Violeta parra and other that almost i like all of them. So i think if i have the opportunity to talk with her i'd have a lot of things to say.

Definitively will be intersting know her. I think she is a sociability person and is so young too, so i think i don't have problem to talk with her and maybe i could to learn from her and to share a lot of things about the southamercian culture

English

Today i'm going to talk about the importance to learning english.

When i was in the high school i hated the english class because for me it was very difficult to learn english. 3 years ago i didn't know anything about english and i was not interested to learn english. But ones i went back to the high school i started to think different about the importance to learn english.

Today i think that to know english is too important because is the principal language in the world and if you know the language you will have much facilities to develop in almost the world.

In 2008 when i took a english course i could to learn a lot, but with the time i have forgotten a lot too, so i like to learn english because when i am learning i'm not forgeting. Also i like to know new things and practise. In the biginning for me was a little bit difficulte to learn english, but when i already had a base in english it was easier to continue learning. I think my big problem is the vocabulary because i don't use too much vocabulary, i always use the same words.

For my carrer (geography) is very usefull th know english for many reason. There are a lot of geography documents only in english and some time those document could be very important or usefull. Other importan reason is about the software like autocad, arcgis and others. All these software are in english and are a very important geography tool. If you know english you always will have more posibilities and facilities, so i think that to learn english is very very important and very usefull in this carrer and in the general life.

soccer t-shirt shopping

Today i'm going to talk aboit shopping, but i actually hate shopping. I go shopping only when is important.

I hate go to shopping but there is one thing that sometime i like go to some store for shopping. I like so much going to see soccer t-shirt, but false t-shirt or how here in chile we say "piratas". I can't find this kind of t-shirt in any place. If a go to adidas or nike's stores i'm gping to find good and expensive soccer t-shirt. if i want to find this kind of t-shirt i have to go to some fair or the famous "persa bio-bio". I can find it by Internet too, in some page like ebay or one more local like mercadolibre.

i like all kind of soccer t-shirt. When i want to buy ine i don't have a favorite soccer team, i just buy the t-shirt that i like more.

Not always i buy "piratas" t-shirt, i have a couple of original t-shirt, but almost t-shirt that i have are not original, but are good t-shirt too.



When i have to goign shopping i spend just the necesary time, for example if a need buy a jeans i going, i see a couple of jeans, i choose one, i buy it and i'm going in only 20 minutes or less. But when i going shopping for soccer t-shirt i saty there more time, but not too much.

18 on the beach

Hi everybody today i'm going to talk about the "fiestas patrias" celebration when i was a kid.
When i was a child i almost always went to the beach with my family in september for the aniversary of Chile.
We usually went to Algarrobo or a nearly place, but i didn't like go to the beach in that date because i prefered to be here in Santiago and go to a funny "fonda" or go to a family BBQ. So i remember ones when we stayd here in santiago so we went to a "fonda"(i don't remember where it was) and for me was a very good experiency because i could to see a lot of folklore music groups like inti-illimani, illapu and others groups. I could to play a lot of chilean and traditional games (rayuela, gincana, etc.) and other kind of activities like to raise a comet and eat all kind of thinks. that may be is one of the unique memories that i have when i was a little kid but is a very great memory.

today the days of the fiestas patrias and thecelebration are totally different. My parent still are going to the beach in this date my my brothers and me usually stay here in Santiago. So i spend my time with my friends and girlfrien going to some fonda in saniago or near santiago and making barbecues with them and my brothers. I already don't do spend my time as i was a kid, today a like g to dance, cueca and cumbia, eat a lot and drink chilean drinks like chicha or "terremoto".

I think this is one of the best dates in chile. i like so much to celebrate the fiestas patrias.

Boca Juniors the best team in the world

One of the best events that i have gone it was when i went to the stadium, in Argentina to see my faorite soccer team, Boca Juniors. It was in 2007 when i travel to argentina with some friends and we decided to go to one match from the argentinan championship. One of us wanted to see to River Plate, the typical enemy of Boca (like Colo Colo with U.de Chile), but almost of us wanted to see Boca Juniors. So one afternoon we went to one of the most traditional stadium from argentina and southamerica, the known "La Bombonera", the stadium from Boca Juniors and one of the most special and beatiful stadium that i have known. This

That day Boca Junior played with San Lorenzo another big team from Argentina and Boca won with the final result 4-1. that day i could to see to my favorite soccer player, like Juan Roman Riquelme, who made a goal that day, and Martin Palermo, who made two goals that day.

I enjoyed so much that day, i like too much the soccer and i enjoyed more if is southamerican soccer, because i think that is too much better that the european soccer. I think in southamerica there are much passion in the teams, the players, and the fans, so i like it so much. the staidum it was so beatiful and the ambient is fantasctic around this is fantastic in every moment.

It was a very great experency, because i could to see my favorite soccer team and two of my favorite soccer player. also i could to see the match from the galery of the stadium, with one of the most popular group of soccer fans and the biggest in Argentina, the Boca Juniors fans, named "number 12".

Escher, house of stairs

Hi every body, today i'm going to talk about a work of art, my favorite work of art. The known house of stairs, which has a lot of stairs and these don't have any direccion, are infinity stairs.

This work of art was created by M.C. Escher, a dutch artist, who born in Netherland in june 17th, 1898 and died in march 27th, 1972. He is known for his mathematically and impossible art.

I sow this painting for the first time when a was a little kid. I remember that i was so confused with the painting, because is too stranger. It hasn't a direction or doesn't has an end.

I like this paintig because i like to imagine if this can be possible, or if is possible to build something like that. I like a lot of painting and woodcut from Escher, every work of him are like this one, every work of him are so stranger. Is a very special becauseis not common watch this kind of art every day, not everybody estimate this kind of arts, painting or sculpture.

Favorite website: Minijuegos.

Today i'm going to talk about my favorite website, one of the website that i use more. This website is Minijuegos.I like so much this website because i can play a lot of games. I use this website every week when i am boring or when i take a break when i am studying.

This website has thousands of differents games, and i can play them free. For me is too funny those games because some of them are funny, i don't spend too much time play them and i can relax of the study.

I found this website a lot of time ago, maybe five years ago, when i was in boring in my house and i was looking for some game to spend the time. I found a lot of website of games, but this liked me more because have all kind of games, sport games, logic games, adventires games, etc.

One of the good things in this website is that every day there are new games, so are not always the same games. the games taht i like more are the sports games and strategy games. I play some geography games too, for me are funny.

One of the things that i don't like of the website, Minijuegos is that some time the games repeat themsalve so in some moment this wbsite hasn't too much variety.

I don't know if you know this website, is a good option to relax when you are studying so i recomend you to visit this website, is a very good website.

The weekend in Parral

The last weekend my classmet and me went to parral, a small city in the south of chile. we went to work for the "geografia cultural" class. we went with our teachers, enrique aliste and froilan cubillos and with another 4 assistant of the class. The work was very hard but was a very good experiency.
I can see all the earthquake destruction in Parral. it was very impressive, i saw a lot of fallen houses and in some places every houses in a block, all the block distroyed.
It was a very good experiency and i could to share with all my classmet.

Beatiful places, good moment and good friends

Today i'm going to talk about a trip to the south of Chile with my family and after that with my best friends in february from 2009.

Maybe is not my favority holiday, but i remember those holiday because i traveled with ll my family and after that i traveled with my best friends.

The holidays began in the first days of february. i went with my parent and my two brothers to the south of Chile, to the "Carretera Austarl". We took a plane to Coyhaique and rented a car. We stayed over there 2 days, after that we went to Puerto Chacabuco and stayed here anothers two days. In Puerto Chacabuco we made a travel to a glacier, the San Rafael galcier. That day was raining and it was too cold, but was a very good travel because the glacier is very beatiful.

In the fifth day we went to Puyuhuapi, to teh north of Coyhaique. It's a small village but so beatiful. over there we visited another galcier, but over the mountain with a waterfall, it was so beatiful, i really enjoyed visiting Puyuhuapi. we stayed there two days too.

after taht we went to the lake "General Carrera", to the south of Coyhaique. that lake had very clear water with a color like a blend between green and blue. it's a veru pretty lake.

We returned to Coyhaique and my family came back to Santiago but i didn't came back to Santiago, i took the plane jsut to Puerto Montt and went to "San Jose de la Mariquina" near Valdivia. I meet with one of my best friends and we stay there two days waiting to my other friends.

That was very pecial because we are friends since we were kids, but we traveled together by first time. We went to mehuin, valdivia, panguipulli, puerto fuy, villarica and other places. we knew veru beatiful places. for me the best place was puerto fuy because it was a very small place with a few people, so quiet and very beatiful. there was a great holiday.

Anothers trips that i liked it were a travel to New Zealand in 2008, i went alone by 3 month and there was a very great experiency, and a liked too the last holidays because i went by first time with my girlfriends and was very special taht travel to the north and i went to Constitucion with y friend one week before the earthquake so a remember that so clear.

Bersuit Vergarabat

I'm going to talk about my favorite music band, Bersuit Vargarabat.

bersuit is an argentinean band created in 1988 in Lanus, a place in Buenos aires. In the begining they were only five people and one year later another 3 members joined in the group. They have 9 albums. the first one is from 1991 and the last one from 2007. the proncipal members of the band are Gustavo Cordera, the singer and Juan Súbira, the pianist. Unfortunately for my, the separeted the last year. The song most known are "La bolsa", "Sr cobranza", "murguita del sur" and the cover "El tiempo no para".

i like this group because bersuit plays a lot of diferent kind of musci but alwas with one style very typical from them. They blend argentinean folcloric music with rock and ska. Is a very good music band.

i have seen them 3 times in live. The first one was in 2006 in the "Caupolican thetre", the second one, and the best time for me, was in 2007 in the "teleton theatre" and teh last one was in 2008 in the velodrome from the national stadium. In the 3 tims i enjoyed so much the show. When they play in live usually play wearing pijamas, i don't know why but is typical from them. They usually get people up of the stage. Ones they got two friends up the stage and they danced with them in one of the songs.

I knew this band about 2001 but i am a fan from 2006. I have five from 9 of his albums and i listen his music always in my pc or my MP3.

Chile goes to the world cup

I choose this picture because i like it so much, i can remember one of the best day in the last time when i see it. That day my firneds, my girlfriend, my brother and me, were celebrating the victory from our chilean selection and the classification to the next world cup in Southafrica.
that was a very good day for mebeacuse a could to enjoy the game drinking some beer with all my best friends.

This photo was took it the last year. I was in the house from Leo, one of my best friends and it was took it by Camila, other of my best friends.

that day we met few minute before the game, and we celebrated every goal from Chile. after the game we bought pizza and we ate it. after taht we went to "Plaza Italia" to carry on celebrating. we took the subway and all the people in the subway were singin and jumping so the subway moved too much, but was very fanny. That nigth we celebrating about to the 3 on the morning in a bar near my house.

That was a very good nigth, and in the next world cup in june i'm pretty sure that i'm going to celebrate a lot too.

China, one of the countries that i'd want to visit.

China for me is a very sensational country, i have always wanted to visit it by many reasons.

I think China is a country with a lot of history and unknown cultures. i think that know a diferent culture should be a very great experience, know other kind of habits, other kind of food, other religions and a lot of different think with the latinamerican culture and the west's culture.

Another reason is the big cities of China, for example, Pekin, Shangai and Hong Kong. i would like to visit these cities because i like the modern cities, the illuminated cities with high biulding.

And one of the most important reason is the beauty of the country. I'd like to visit the great wall, the forbidden city, the infinite rice's crops, the terracotta army, the yangtze river( for me one of the most beatiful rivers), the guangxi province, and another places.

i think that China is too interesting because, have a lot of different things. Big cities, a lot of rural places, a beatifull scenery and a lot of culture.

China is not the unique country, i would like to visit Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand and latin america. I'm interested about the marcial art in Japan and China too. I don't practie it, but i think that the marcial arts in these countries have something special.

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For the earthquake, I was sleeping, those(ww) February 27th at 3:34 am. I was in holidays, with my family in my house, in Los Andes. My father woke up me(wf) and he said that we must to keep calm, be(?) he had lived other earthquakes before.He ordered us to dress and he went to the downtown for visit your(ww) parents, because they live alone. My mother had lucky, because she could talk for telephone with your(ww) parents. Meanwhile, I could see a caravan of people returning to their cars to their homes to find their loved ones. In the house, my brother and me has(wf) a battery powered radio and and lit(wt) for know some information about the disaster. Ironically, the unique information with the rest of the world came from Argentinians station radio (mainly from Buenos Aires), and thanks to, I can quieter sleep, although in the morning, I recently become aware about the damage of the earthquake, the 1st great Chilean earthquake in the 21th Century.

Correction

1) those(ww)= that February 27th
2)woke up me(wf)= My father woke me up
3)your(WW)= He ordered us to dressand he went to the downtown for visit his parents.
4)your(WW)= because she could talk for telephone with her parents.
5) has(WF)= My brother and me have...
6)lit(WT)= And lit it for.....

Rodolfo's blog

The rodolfo's blog is a very great blog i think. I every week read it and i almost always comment in his blogs. His blog has six post (the earthquake, his hobbies, his favorite movie and other post) and about 20 classmate's comment.

I like it because i share a lot of things that he writes in his blog. For example he writes about his favorite movie "dead poets society", which i like it too. I like too watch the tv in my free time and a lot of the channel that he watches, for example "history channel and natgeo", i like watch it too.

about the design of his blog I think is good and he has good pictures, but i think is too dark. May be if he changes the colors of his blog could be funnier and if he puts up more picture and photos will be more showy.

You have to visit the rodolfo's blog because is so interesting ;)

my favorites things

In my free time i like to do a lot of things. I don't have a favorite hobby because i always do something different in my free time.
Studying in the university i don't have too much time, so i try to spend my little time meeting with my friends and sleep some time.
when i met with my friends we usually play soccer and drink some beer or some coke. I started to play soccer with my firneds when i was a child, but five years ago when i was in the school we played soccer every weekend, but know we don't have to many days or time free, so we try to play every time we can.
I like it so much because i can see my friends and i always have a good time with them and i like to play soccer too, i always have played soccer so i enjoy do it.
i like to sleep a lot too, because i have so wake up to soon in the morning and i'm going to the bed too late. Meybe i'm a lazy people, but i am ok with that.

I don't have to much time free, so i don't have too many things to do. In the summer when i have a lot of time free i usefull doing a lot of thing as read books, watch soccer game or go out.
One thing that i do sometime in the summer is go out alone or with a friend by a day and walk or take a bus to a place that i don't know before. I like go to places where i'v not been before.

In two month more i'm going to spend all my time watching the world cup.

One love

The kiss between paul schole and gary nevill, two player from manshester united was not the first time in the history from soccer.

I remember the kiss between Diego Maradona and esteban Canigia, when the played in Boca juniors, the best team in argentina and one of the best in the world.

The Lion King

The Lion King is a Disney movie from 1994, about the life in the jungle.
This movie was produced by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff and the movie won two oscars Nad another two awards.

The history is about a little young lion named Simba, whose father(Mufasa, the lion King from the jungle) was killed by his own uncle(scar).

The Simba's uncle is a terrible lion and is too envious and jealous because he wanted to be the King like his brother Mufasa. So Scar killed mufasa and blamed to Simba. Simba escaped anda knew Timon & Pumba and they became the best friends from Simba.

Scar had the power and with the help from the Hyenas(Ed, Banzai and Shenzi), hehad the chaos in the kingdom. A lot of year after the Mufasa's dead, Nala, the best friends from Simba when they were childrens, went for help anda found Simba and counted all about the kingdom, so Simba returned to his home and killed Scar and the Kingdom came to be the same pacific place when he was a child.

Characters:

• Simba
• Mufasa: simba's father
• Scar: Simba's uncle
• Sarabi: Simba's mother
• Rafiki: A wise monkey
• Timon: Simba's friends
• Pumba: Simba's friends(wild boar)
• Nala: Simba's Friend and future Simba's couple
• Hyenas (Ed, Banzai and Shenzi)
• Zazu: A bird who work to Mufasa and later from Simba

P.S: This is my favorite movie, i have whatched a lot of time. Enjoy the movie

The Earthquake

One week before the earthquake I was in Constitucion with some friends in holidays. we are 5 friends in the house of one of them and we met a lot of people and beatiful places. One day before the earthquake three of us came back to Santiago, but the others two friends stayed there.
When I listened about the tsunami in Constitucion i tried to comunicate with my friends and o knew that a wall fell in one of my friend and he broke his leg, he is ok riath now. Also the tsunami flooded the house of my friend but he and his family are ok.

Almost the places that I knew a few days bofore the earthquake were destroyed(Iloca, Consitutucion and Duao).
I have lucky from stay in Santiago and not in Conti.
Here in Santiago i was in a party in the moment of the earthquake and everybody in the party were scary, but everybody were ok, just some glasses and some plats broke.

In the morning when a went back to my house i couldn't take a bus and I sow a lot of walls from houses and building on the floor for example a school in Maipu and a church in Providencia. Ones in my house i had to clean and order beacuse everything fell in my house.

I have never lived something similar, is very sad see the news in the TV and Know about the people hoo lost everything.

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Name: Pablo Corvera
Age: 20 years old
Birthday: 06/07/1989
Profession: student.(geography, U.de Chile)
Hobbies: I like to travel, play a lot of sports, lisen every kind of music, read before go to bed.
Condition: single

Commentaries: This is my first blog. I don't really like it, but maybe can work. Will probably i don't use my blog too much in my home or other places outside the university.