Transantiago rules

In general I think that transantiago make public trasport a lot better than before. Obvioulsy the sisten has some problems but, mostly will be resolve by a couple of year.

The pre-trasantiago sistem (with the yellow buses) has seriously troubles of all kind. First of all, the chauffeurs of the old buses, souffer a lots of attacks by robbers because the money were in the bus. Today they are almoust no robberys because the the "bip!" card. The target make the sistem makes easier and faster also to users. Other thing is the cuality of the buses. Yellow one were in so bad state that mously of the time the buses just broke on the middle of a trip. Now, with the nwe buses it can be more people on a bus because of the size. Also are cleaner for insite and out site, in other word, they help to enviroment because yellow buses emaneted a lot of pollution. But unfortunatly, not everything it is so nice. The sistem has problem to users, they still have to wait a lot for a bus, and also, almoust all the time, do a lots of transfers to one bus to another, and they are still a low number of buses for some boroughs. So the guberment should wait and work hard for make solutions.

Obviousy, the fist monts of transantiago were a disaster. People, not undertand a thing about the sistem, they were very angry for the subway situation, etc. But with the time I guess those things will change. Today the all sistem it's more fast and efficient, the studenst also no have problems with the chauffeurs, and this no do the old "racing" for get more passenger (because they have an statesalary). I thing that the biggest problems its that people not pay his ticket, I would applied some reglament for that.

Education in Chile

Education in Chile it's a very controvertial subject today, since a couple of of years ago. The reason of this it's because, as a country, we suffer a lots of problems especially in the economic sense. Well, even if Chile has nearly the strongest economy in Latinamerica, it has the worse investment. Since Pinochet dictatorship in the seventys thanks to the changes in the constitution, the neoliberalism (beetwen other things) did in the chilean education a very unstable sistem. Although this last guberments are been trying to fix some problems (securing free education for primary school for example) the structural ones, are persisting. They are big troubles with the cuality of the schools, and it's also the problem with the spensive costs of universitys. Not every people can have superior studies because, first, you have to get in with an specifical mark in the PSU test, and second, tu should have money to pay, so a person who didn't have a good education has lowest chances to get a good mark and probably if he didn't have the money for a good school, he wouldn't have money to pay university either. There are private universitys too but those are more spensive almoust all the time. This is the reality of the chilean universitys.

Blogging/Posting

I have to say that blogging became a very interesting experience, maybe not at first but later i can see the results. well, the first time we did did the blogging thing i thougt "oh this it's new", personaly I never tried to do it before, so it cost me a bit. Then couple of times later, it was easier to use (so in the tecnical sense i definily improve). If I enjoy or not doing it, it's relative of the topics of the blogging, there was some post about art and our preference, that was nice because you can say what you like and thing like that. The bad side was doing it at home, when you were not in class. I enjoy comment other people too, and read there's posting work. But tooking about the real progress in english thing i think that the blogging and the posting thing it really works to make you improve you writing and reading habilities, you cant notice how you make ideas and sentences more fast and better and you can use a more creative way of writing. Other thing that i guess it's great is the freedom of treats the topics and ways to express yourself, because with that you learn and practice an especifical and usefull way of normal tooking, this is a fluid and daily one. At the same time the sistem it's good because, you are force to an especifical number of words so you cant notice how faster you are improve thanks to the time you use to make your post. Well, finally a really recommend this type of homeworks, i think there are interactive, ludic and playful, and we can prove what you improve working with it. Maybe i've change doing on the class time, because we perfecly can do ir at home, and use that time for other activity, but this is just a detail and i can also see the good side of that and it's that it force us to do it, because you can forget it doing outside of de classroom.

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between-look= entre-vista

First of all, i have to mention it's that the way that Ken Robinson has to says thing, making jokes and everything i thinks it's great and make that espontainously you put more attention of what he it's saying. so about the contain of that, well i'm agree with what he says about creativity and the way that shools kill it. This i guess it's a fact (and not just because there art estrict school) the school programs should increase all kinds of skill and help to develop diferent ways of thinking and not under an squematic pre-determined way. You can see the consecuences of this problems for example, in the academical choises and work choises, people are not just to it to do what they want with liberty, the ajust to universal canons of save successful. Killing creativity it's killing liberty in many ways. Education should be more flexible and less punitive, kids have a lot to say about that.

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e.s.p.e.c.t.a.c.u.l.o

Well, my favourite subject this semester is “ the spectacle society: reeding Guy Debord”. This course it is about neomarxism on the perpective of one author who it’s cineast and writer and has diferent reflexions about comercial and consumer contemporary society, he speaks from Marx but also from Lukacs and other authors who saw the expantion of the capitalism economy to all the dimention of life. The name of the profesor who teaches this course it’s Rodrigo Zuñiga, he it’s a great aesthetics and teacher, we are all, agree with that . I like this subject for two reasons, The first one its basicaly because I all realdy have one course with this teacher so I know his sistem of working and the way the see and treats the topics, and the second one it’s because de topics of the book “spectacle society” the movies, the other authors and the other topics around are very interesting to me. At the time, I’ve learn the begginings of marxism and the way that the society of spectacle applies to all usual life, not just television and cinema.

T.h.e....B.e.s.t : uncle Martin

This it's very hard thing to do, because in my field there are millions of greats minds, and always a good writer has lots of other influences before. But if I had to choose, I think will be Martin Heidegger's work. Even if he didn't work in the specific art area he did an incredible writing about certain topic of post-aesthetics. Well, he it's an german philosopher from twenty century, and he changes the way to study art and see the artwork. It was an disciple of Husserl, the pionner in phenomenology and best theacher of Heidegger, where he gets the biggest influence in this particulary way to look at the studied objects. I find Heidegger's work as the most important theories of art in the last years because what he tried to do it's a construction of an specifical treatment of artworks leaving all what tradition left for us, he change the aesthetic look for an fhenomenical one (worried about "world" and "earth" two concepts that conform human life and has the best appeareance in the art). He invent a position to art."Ser y Tiempo" it's the most important book of Heidegger, but he treats arts in "Caminos de Bosque".

Best friend in the world

my best friend's name is Sebastian Santander. Hi has almoust my same age, twenty two . He just to live in my street, very close to my house, but he left that house a couple months ago. Well I know him sense 2000 or 2001, thanks to his cousin, he didn't like me very well at first I thought "he its kind of nerd". We are similar in many ways, taste en music, art, literature, close, studies, hobbys, way to see life, kinds of people that its important to us. But we have totaly different personality he it's very inmature sometime, impulsive, extremly espontanious. I think and then I act, he it's totaly the opposite. but that it's exactly the reason why we get alone well, we complement each other. One of the things that I love most about Sebastian is that he is the most friendly person that exist, everybody loves him right away and the other thing is that he is very clever, has greats ideas, and he it's good and what he do, he is always making academic and social proyect, always busy. I can do anything and go everywhere with him. I think that the only bad thing in our friendship it is that we argue often, but its always for small thing, he it's very sensitive and worried so sometime he make things more important that what really are. We need each other alot the biggest experience should be growing up together.