My blogging experience

Today I’m going to write about my blogging experience. I think that blogging was –sometimes- funny and- always- easy because I could talk about my interests, opinions and themes of my career. Although sometimes it was a little boring to write so many words, it wasn’t very difficult to talk about myself. I have to confess that I was always thinking about the minimum words to write and I had to pad out with reiterative ideas and . I think that the hour of the course influenced in how I expressed my ideas, because sometimes I felt tired and I only want to finish my posts. I think that to had classes before writing helped me too because I learned sometimes about grammar, ( even when I don’t used it here) phonetics and I learned more vocabulary in the classroom.

Finally, I think that this course was very good, because we made exercises about writing, listening, speaking and reading and finally I could improved these abilities. I think that it was very important to write constantly, because it is necessary to develop these habits if I want to improve my english. When I was at school I couldn’t develop these abilities and writing was always a temporary activity. So I think that this is a very good way of improve our english and posting to the classmates made things funnier. I value that Belén was always making new activities and trying to promote the group’s work. I could know what my classmates thought too and to know their interests and to discover that sometimes we liked similar things.

I think that writing here I improved my English and I got more facilties in the end of the course, and writing more wasn’t a problem at all and this is a very good way to learn.

Good bye. Relax and have a nice vacations!

Paz Errazuriz's Psychiatric Hospital of Putaendo

Today I’m going to write about a picture that I like. It was taken by the Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz and it shows a couple of the Psychiatric Hospital of Putaendo (actually, the Philippe Pinnel Hospital). They are embracing themselves and watching. The protograhper shows the love and affection of the people in the hospital, who expresses their loving and care to the others. She took it in 1994. She included some texts in the exposition (where appeared this photo), trying to emphasize in the sense of it: wonder about loneliness, lack of communication and tolerance in our society. Errázuriz wanted to show how we see the different people.

The photographer wanted to know the feelings, thoughts and, in general, how “the outsider people” live. She thinks that this people represents the non official speech, doesn’t have to adapt to the rules of the society. And she thought that people in the hospital were more honest and spontaneous. The photographer opposes the spontaneous and sincere life of people in the psychiatric with the ruled and false relationships of the “normal people”.

I like it because I think it’s very important the diversity and tolerance in our life and in the society to wonder why those people are (still) treated as objects. Errázuriz says that all the intents of classifying them are a way of keep our safety, be calm and forget about an uncomfortable part of ourselves (our society).

When all the people talked about “tolerance”, Errázuriz tried to know why the society put a frontier into the normal and those people who must stay cut off. I think that it’s really important to know what thinks people that aren’t included in our society.

The science of imaginary solutions

Today I’m going to write about something that I read and that seemed really interesting. Alfred Jarry, a French writer created one time a science called ‘Pataphyisics, and he defined it as "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments”. He thought that this science had to look for the laws that govern the exceptions. The name appeared in a text of Jarry called “Exploits and opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician”.

After that, some artists founded the College of 'Pataphysics (being inspired by the College of France). They created it as a sarcastic way to make fun about the scientific, artistic and academic language. The College of Pataphysics had to form erudite people specialized on invented and useless sciences. ‘Pataphysics made fun about the modern scientific thinking, which tries to find laws in all the facts of human life, tries to control to all the natural, human and social issues and wants to remove the exceptions and those things that human can’t explain himself. In opposition to that, pataphysicians express the absurd of human life.

The College of ‘Pataphyisics is organized in commissions, which are arranged in 77 subcomissions. It’s an institution with so many ranks. A lot of artists and philosophers write articles for the College of ‘Pataphysic’s review. Their writings are absurd and extremily erudite.
In 2000, they chose it as the Perpetual President to a crocodile called Lutembi, who actually lives in the Victoria’s Lake.

The man who lived Into the Wild

Today I'm going to write about a movie that I like. It is called Into the Wild, and it was directed by Sean Penn. The movie was based on a book (with the same name), which was based on a true story. The film’s premiere was on 2007. The soundtrack was composed by Eddie Vedder. It tells the story of Christopher McCandless, a young American man, who started travelling around the USA after he graduated from the university. Christopher rejected the conventional-material life and wanted to stay away from his parents.

He thought that society was sick, and that man in the city only has access to a false idea of himself. He broke his identification cards and donated his savings to Oxfam. Then he started travelling without telling it to his family.

In the film, Christopher meets many people and work in many places looking for a new life and wanting to go to Alaska, where he thinks he could live “on the wild”. Christopher wanted to start again and to know himself renouncing to the conventional values, which of them he considerate as values of hating and ambition. For that, he creates a new name for himself: Alexander Supertramp.

While Christopher was tripping, he changed and learned so much.

Music whenever you want

Today I’m going to write about my favorite piece of technology. It’s the MP3 player. The MP3 player is a tool that reproduces and allows you to hear the music that you have in your computer everywhere, but it also can keep any file that you have in your PC. It has a memory, which determines how many files you can save on it. This piece needs to keep charged, and that’s why you need to get a charger in some cases and in other cases you need to get batteries.

I got it the last year, in August. It operated fine until December, and that’s because it was very cheap. After that, the phones started to stop reproducing music (actually none of them sound). That’s why I used to fix it and adjust it, listening only with the good phone.

I use it when I’m at the subway, when I want to walk, when I’m not in classes or studying and when I’m not at home. In general, use it when I feel bored or tired and also when I go out with my bike.

I think that it’s very easy to transport it and I like it because it lets me listen to my favorite bands when I’m not at home.

I think that it’s not an essential thing and actually I’m not using it, but it helps you to amuse yourself, because it’s great to listen to your favorite music wherever you are.

CORRESPONDENCES

Nature is a temple in which living pillars
sometimes give voice to confused words;
man passes there through forest of symbols
which look at him with understanding eyes.

Like prolonged echoes mingling in the distance
in a deep and tenebrous unity,
-vast as the dark of night and as the light of the day-
perfumes, sounds and colors correspond.

There are perfumes as cool as the flesh of children,
sweet as oboes, green as meadows
-And others are corrput, and rich, triumphant,

With power to expand into infinity,
like amber and incense, musk, benzoin,
that sing the ecstasy of the soul and senses.


Charles Baudelaire

The life of Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

Today I’m going to talk about a poet that I really admire. His name is Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire was a poet, critic of arts and translator of the 19th century who is considered as a classic author in French poetry.He’s known because of his book called “The flowers of evil”. His art was important for the poetry in his country. In fact, Baudelaire have been considered as a father for the Decadent movement, which looked up to shock to the bourgeoisie with his art. Also, his influence extended to other movements as the symbolist one, which most important exponent was the poet Arthur Rimbaud, and whose objectives were to create a new art, using artistic language as a medium of human for knowing himself, putting emphasis in the dreams, the unconsciousness and using metaphors and symbols. This movement was created in opposition to the realist movement and the descriptive art. After that, he was considered as a father of the Surrealist movement.

Many of Baudelaire's philosophical proclamations were considered scandalous and intentionally provocative in his time. His familiar life was hard because of his way to be, his addiction to drugs and his bohemian life. In fact, the youth of Baudelaire was very intense because he turned into a negligent person.

At the end of his life, he died of syphilis. He wasn’t appreciated because of his poetry while he was alive, but after his death, the Baudelaire work have been considered as an important legacy of brilliant art, as a result of rebelliousness against society and originality.