Music!!

I like a lot listening to music. I think I wouldn’t live without music! Why? Because the music makes me feel good, and I wake me up every morning full of energy. I couldn’t bear to commute from home to university without music.

I think I inherited my mother's taste in music, because since I was very young, she hears every weekend different types of music lively.

I like various types of music. I think I could hear an entire opera, and then listen to reggaeton without problems.

Now, normally I don’t hear these kinds of music. I like listening romantic music, rock, some pop songs and music makes me think. In general, the music I hear it depends on my mood, of the occasion, etc.

I like bands and singers as varied as: Los Bunkers, Jarabe de Palo, Los Rodríguez, Bacilos, Los Angeles Negros, Aretha Franklin, Amy Winehouse, Joss Stone, Lauryn Hill, The Fugees, The Clash, The Beatles, Pearl Jam, etc. And some musical styles like “cueca”, “salsa”, “mexican music”, etc.

More to like a band or a particular song, I prefer to listen to all types of music and realize the feelings I experience when I listened to. I love so much hearing the different instruments that sound in harmony, to distinguish some of them and through these I tell if a song is sad, happy, fear, etc.

Besides, I like listening the soundtracks of films, because I'm always thinking that at some point I can serve this type of music making activity with children in my class, and this music relax me.

Moreover, I think I have some musical talent, because I love singing and I'm good, I play some percussion instruments and guitar, but not very well.

Finally, I think that music is very important in the lives of people, enabling them to develop their creativity, express themselves differently and in some ways to be happier.

SUMMARY FROM A CAREER-RELATED ARTICLE FROM THE GUARDIAN>> Creativity in schools: Every story needs a picture

Hello! Today I’m going to talk about a news I chose of the site: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jun/30/creativity-schools-childrens-laureate
In this news, Anthony Browne, the new children's laureate, says we should teach children, and adults, to read pictures.

He says it is very important, because to teach children to read images, it stimulates their creativity.

In contrast to the above, we see increasingly less stimulated creativity among children. Thus, when they reach adulthood they say: "I can't draw!" Children, too, as they get older, say the same thing. Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it. A stifling form of self-consciousness invades us, whether it be in drawing, writing, singing or (in the case of Anthony Browne) dancing.

According to the interviewee, If children are encouraged to think that pictures are for babies and that to become educated is to leave images behind and concentrate purely on words, we risk creating a country of visually illiterate adults. Research has shown that we spend, on average, 30 seconds looking at paintings in a museum and considerably longer reading the captions.

Thus, the challenge for educators is to design meaningful educational experiences for children and that they do not hamper their creativity.

THE CINEMA

Hi! Today I would like to write about my favourite film. This is hard for me because I like many films and I can’t chose one!

Anyway, I think my favourite movie is “Life is Beautiful”. Despite it is a film that exhibicionist long ago, is one of my favourites, because every time I see it generates in me a special empathy for the characters and although know how it ends but keeps my attention all the time. I think I saw it about ten times!
Life is beautiful speech of Guido, an Italian man of Jewish descent. The film is set in Italy in World War II. Guido falls in love and later marries Dora, a former girlfriend of a Fascist official. As she has a son named Josué.

This family's happiness is short because Guido, his uncle and Josué are deported to a Nazi concentration camp. Dora, who wasn’t called to board the train that leads to the field, it is entered voluntarily with the whole family will end up in the field. There Guido pretends to his son Josué that everything is a game that will only win if not be seen by the "grumpy" German guards. Every day new games invented for his son and is using all his imagination to save the life of Joshua and was not see what is happening. The child, tempted by the tank, his father said, will be the winner, lives the Holocaust as a game, which suggests that even in the worst cases there may be hope.

I recomend it, because it is a movie that shows a part of history interspersed with personal stories of ordinary people.

In my opinion is a very good film that, as I said, would be many times more.

WHAT TO DO/ WHERE TO GO IN SANTIAGO

Hi! Today I’m going to talk about the best of Santiago.

First, although Santiago is a polluted city, has very beautiful outdoor locations that can be covered, and interesting panoramas to be developed.

Santiago is a city that, despite popular belief, it has many green areas: the Quinta Normal, Metropolitan Park and O'Higgins Park to name a few.

At the Quinta Normal can picnic, you can go to the Museum of Natural History and spend an entertaining afternoon.

On the other hand, San Cristobal Hill offers several panoramas, including: the zoo, climb to the Virgin, the Japanese fleet and various places to eat. In addition, up the hill using the cable car offers a privileged view of the city. And in summer the swimming pools Tupahue and Antilen inviting to have a good time.

Near San Cristobal hill is a place that brings together many traditional crafts of our country, in addition to some cafes. Also, there is another place that brings together many of our country crafts: Craft Fair St. Lucia.

Furthermore, there is a lot of museums, among which I think a tourist should visit. These include the Centro Cultural Palacio de la Moneda, which is in the basement of the palace of La Moneda. It has a modern facility offering various exhibitions and native country.

Another museum that I recommend is the Pre-Columbian Art Museum, which is centrally ocated and shows a varied exhibition of aboriginal peoples across Latin America.

Finally, I recommend the museum of the Church of San Francisco, because offering an exhibition of art and elements used during the era of conquest and colonization of Chile, is in an area accessible and as in the past was a Franciscan monastery, is a quiet and full of nature that invites peace and seclusion.