English IV Post 2: The best concert I've ever been to

Hi, today I am going to talk about the best concert I´ve ever been. When I was 17 years old, I went to a concert of Pearl Jam here in Chile, 2015, in the National Stadium.

This band is a type of grunge music, I really like the lyrics and the musical composition of Pearl Jam and about his main singer, Eddie Vedder. The band is composed by Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guitar), Mike McCready (lead guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar) and Jeff Ament (bass) and Matt Cameron (drums).

The concert was fantastic, was a lot of people in the stadium, in the moment that the band start to play all the people started to sing with the band and follow the lyrics. According to the song the ambient of the concert was very different, in moments was very emotional and in others all the people started to dance and jump wantonly. 

I remember that in that concert all the people started to shout: “Gary Medel, Gary Medel Gary Medel (8), with no reason apparently, and The singer Eddie Vedder says : Thank you…Thank you thinking that the people says his name. That was very funny.   

English IV Post 1: A country I'd like to visit

Hi, today I am going to write about a country that I like to visit in the future. That country is Canadá; I would like to go to Canadá because the country seems very beautiful, with different natural landscapes that I lose my breath when I see photos of them. I did not know much about the culture of Canadá, I know that the country has a cold climate, where the winter is the predominant station of the year and the temperatures are very low. The citizens of the country are representative like very nice people, and the cities seem pretty nice.  

Well if I am going to Canadá, I would visit Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver, important cities of Canada goes to museums, squares, and iconic buildings in the city. Also, I would to visit the natural national parks of Canadá and enjoy the climate the much that I can, I would like to see to snow in the city and in nature, because of I never seen snow.

About the travel, I would go like a tourist, and according to the experiences that I had in there, I would think to move out to the country and live there in the future.

BLOG 10: EVALUATION OF YOUR BLOGGING EXPERIENCE

Hi, welcome to the last blog of the assignment of English, the experience of write a blog about some topics like our history or hobbies I think that is something reflexive, in the way that when I write about that stuff I always thinked a lot about the experiences and how I can translate that experiences to something in other language and that someone is going to read, the experience that you want share and what that mean to you. In some blogs I put some feelings about what that mean to me, so I think that the blogs are an opportunity to share and know more about the people that are around us.

Well, I don’t think that my writing skills have a big development, I think that my vocabulary about concepts have increased, especially with the different topics wrote in the blogs, but the fluency of my writing is the same that I have before. In the future I would like to include a feedback about the blogs, something like each two blogs have a feedback about the writing and what I can improve, with the objective of feel that with each blog you are improving in your writing and in how you approach the different topics. I hope that the way in which blogs are developed is considered more as a form of learning in interaction rather than doing activity just to fulfil, since I really believe that sharing with others is part of the teaching that seeks to inculcate the development of blogs. :)

BLOG 9: PARANORMAL PHENOMENA

Hi, the topic of the blog is about paranormal, so I am going to talk about paranormal things that happened to closer people and to me. My mom always say that she has more “connexion” with things related to paranormal, she sometimes has dreams about people that later have an accident or died, so she always calls to the people the next day of the dream to make sure that the people are okay or if something happened. Also, she speaks about “energy”, like good or bad energy that some places have, and the situations that happened in that place, so, the paranormal topic it´s something common in my family. In my experience   I didn´t have so much experiences with paranormal things, the most common are dreams like sleep paralysis, where I can´t move and are very frustrating. When I was a child happened like several times that I saw things like shadows moving in the house or the feeling that someone sat in the bed when I was trying to sleep, but that things happened when I lived in Antofagasta, so I only lived 2 years there and things like that did not keep happening in the other houses. Well, I always have been in an ambient where the paranormal things are something more common that in other families, and I never thinked in more logical or scientific answers, are experiences that I have and no need more explanation, only happen. Thanks for reading!

BLOG 8: A SUBJECT I ENJOY STUDYING THIS SEMESTER

Hi, today I am going to speak about a subject that I enjoy studying this semester, that subject is Institutional Analysis.

The professor of this subject is Horacio Foladori, and the dynamic of the class is established in a lecture of one of the authors related to the concept Institution and in the end of the schedule block we have a discussion between the students, about the concepts of the class, and the conclusion of the discussion is shared with the professor, who give feedback about what he thinks about the treated in the discussion.

The contest of the subject is related to the institutional analysis, so we see different authors that they refer to the creation of the institution and the state, the influence of they from the state and the place that we occupy in the different institutions. We also see the different points of view and how is possible to develop an analysis of an institution that has problems in its operation, and how can they solve it.  

I like the design of the class, the dynamic of discussing after every class about the topic is very interactive and the opinion of everyone is considered in the class.

Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?

Hi, today I going to talk about an expert of the psychology of the development, his name was Lev Vigotsky. He was a Russian psychologist of Jewish origin, was born in November 17 of 1896 in Belarus and died in June 11 of 1934 at the age of 37 years old. The fundamental idea of ​​his work is that the development of humans can only be explained in terms of social interaction. Consequently, most of his work involved the study of infant and child behaviour, as well as the development of language acquisition and the development of concepts.

His studies also include interpretations of the cognitive role of mediation tools, as well as the re-interpretation of concepts in psychology such as internalization of knowledge, he introduced the notion of zone of proximal development, and the perspective of the education and the development of the child. The studies change the form of knowledge in the human development, the concept formation and the importance of the language in the development. I like Vigotsky because these studies have been very important in the knowledge about the development of the child, and highlighting the importance of the stage of childhood in a moment when it was not highly valued. 

BLOG 6: FAVOURITE MUSICIAN

Talking about the topic of music, at present I heard different genders of music, but nothing established. So, I going to talk about a band that is very important to me. When I was younger, around 15 years old, I starting to listen grunge music, with bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains. In this moment I started to listen the band Pearl Jam, but it not was until 2 years later when I started to really like the lyrics and the musical composition of Pearl Jam and about his main singer, Eddie Vedder. 

When I was 17 years old, I went to a concert of Pearl Jam here in Chile, 2015, meaning that concert a lot to me.

 The meaning and the feelings that the songs give to me are the more important that I consider of this band. I really enjoy heard them, in bad and in good moments, but the memories that I have related to this band are very important to the form in that I think of me. Memories of older friends and cities where I lived, relationships that are gone and others that grown more with the time, the music always helps with this sort of things.

Well, I really thinked a lot about what music video include in this post, so I finally decided for something of the emotionally side of Pearl Jam.