Writing Process

I think that blogs are not necessary, in my personal opinion; I don’t like blogs, because you have to dedicate them a lot of time. However, I have to say that this blogging experience improve my English, now I can feel that I’m a better writer; moreover, we learn a lot of new things. I don like post to others an that kind of things, but I did all work with my blog, I mean, I commented to my classmates and I did my post.

In some cases I felt that this activity was funny and sometimes I enjoyed posting to others, because when I read my classmates’' opinions I always was laughing about things that they said. I think that this writing process was very good for me and all my classmates, because now we can write well than before (at least in my case).

BeRnY's bLoG!

I’m reviewing Bernardita’s blog; we are always posting to each other. The blog’s name is “kbernita.blogspot.com”, and I really don’t know why! But I think that the name is comic. In the majority of her post, she has comments of my classmates, and of course I had posted her several times, I can see 4 comments in each post approximately. Bernardita is very creative, that is the reason that I visit her blog, I like the way that she said things, that things make me laugh. My favorite post of Bernardita is the football post, because when I read it, I was very pleased about she enjoyed the Chilean football games. And it was very funny read it.

Bernardita is very good at English, she has to write more, but she has fewer mistakes in her posts. I think that she has to focus in grammar mistakes, they are not much, but are very importants. In my personal opinion, Bernardita has to make her blog more interesting, she hast to put photos about the topics that she talks, and maybe she has to propose her topics, what I mean is that she has to talk about educations, music that she enjoys, her favorite books, etc.

We have to be better students.

I think that the person that wants to learn is going to put effort in classes; at least he/she is going to participate in classes. If somebody didn’t do anything, is because is a lazy student, or maybe he/she is not interesting in English pedagogy.

In my case I don’t do all homework, but if I didn’t bring one homework I do the homework in classes and I can participate like if I would done it.

I’m not feeling desmotivated, I really enjoy the classes, Miss. Beatriz knows, such an example, that I don’t like work in the blog, but I do my best, and I’m always finishing first in this kind of works.

I think that I can’t improve my English, because nobody wants to work in classes, so if a teacher tell us that we have to improvise, I know that nobody is going to do it, then I’m going to say: “I want to do it”, and if I make a mistake, some of my classmates are going to laugh, they are people that are not helping to others, they don’t improve and don’t let to others improve their shyness. I strongly believe that you can learn a better English if you learn it with people that are around you, because we are in the same conditions and nobody is going to laugh of anybody (we have to try it).

I think that this is a group problem; we have to correct it, because is going to give us tools for oral exams. If I have to make an oral exam, I’m going to study, and I’m not going to get a good mark, but if everybody help me and I can help others, the marks are going to be better.

Why we are Chileans.

In my personal opinion, Chileans are Chileans because they have a lot of singular characteristics that other people in other countries don’t have. If you look the typical Chilean man, that is called “Huaso”, has a nice behavior, and is a joyful person that enjoys his life. Chilean people have a lot of characteristic of this typical character. Other things that make us Chilean, is the food, the “empanadas”, the “mote con huesillo”, and a lot of other things that are delicious. The typical barbecues with all family, a nice celebration in September 18^th, and a lot of games, are things very important in our country. These games have to be more considerable by all Chileans, because we don’t play so much these games; the only exception is “el volantin”. The typical Chilean drinks in a considerable way. This is something bad for society, but is part of the culture. Other bad things that have Chileans, is that in some cases they are very shy, what I mean is some people can’t do some things, because they feel embarrassed. In my opinion, Chileans don’t have to be shy, my grandparents and my Dad are Spanish and they have a lot of personality and don’t feel embarrassed for things that they don’t have to, like me.

I think that Chilean lost they way to speak, because we don’t have an absent. If we talk correctly, we can found that we have an excellent way to speak, but it is neutral. We loose the way to speak when we travel to other Latin country, because all of them have a strong absent, and we use to imitate to other countries.

Education stops creativity.

Ken Robinson talks about creativity, he says that creativity is one of the most important characteristic in people, but is going to work if we use it. He says that we can learn from mistakes and wrong things that we do, we can use mistakes to be creative; moreover, we can improve our creativity. Sometimes we don’t accept mistakes and we can’t learn from it. Education without creativity is awful.

Ken says that in the school, mathematics and language are very important things, in education this subject are the most important to learn, and at the end of subjects we can find arts and music. We have to express art. Art is very important to society and for each person; we can work the creativity with this. The body is the best instrument to express feelings and art.

The intelligence is dynamic and interactive, this is the reason that makes us think and have ideas.

In my personal opinion, t think that creativity is an important part of each person, if you don’t work it, you are going to be less creative. However, everybody has the space to be creative, because creativity is part of your brain and nobody can forbid you to have new ideas, nobody can take control of your mind, we are autonomous.

My favorite area of art

My favorite area of the art in general is music. I really like listening to songs with a great voice; moreover, I really like to sing, so I’m always doing art, because I like to sing the same style of songs that I hear. I really enjoy when I’m in a stage and I sing for a lot of people, I sing since I was seven years old and I’m used to sing in front of a massive public. The first time when I sang, was in my school, in front of my class, and then in front of the school. I was in the school choir and I did a “solo”. It was fantastic, and I thought: “I’m going to be a famous singer”.
The style of music that I like is R&B, and before to classes I heard some songs. Songs like “I believe I can fly”, or “All my life” by “R-kelly” and “K-Ci and jojo”.
The things that call my attention in this kind of songs, is the great voice that the singers have, and the instruments like violin, piano and a Hip-Hop base. The singers of R&B in general have the best voices in the world, and they sing with a choir that sings like angels. For this reason the voice is the most important in a song.
I’m interested in art in general, I like dancing, poetry and drama, and I think that these areas of art are the complement of my favorite area of art, the music. You have to interpret the song that you are singing with others tools.

Orlan

I think That Orlan is a strange artist, and her performance of being paid to give a kiss it’s very weird, the most important thing of this piece of art for me, are the coins, because you can interpret that in different ways, for me, it refers to prostitutes.
The thing that I liked is the way that she uses her body to give messages to the society. She wants to show us through her body her ideas about different things that happen in our life.
I agree with her way of art, because her life change, and she decided to give messages to society through her body, and it’s good, because if she wants to show blood, or other weird things, she do it with her body, what I mean is that she produce hurt to her body, and not to others.
Her opinion about narcissism and exhibitionism is good for me, she says that don’t really matter be narcissist and exhibitionist, because singers and actors are narcissist and exhibitionist all the time. For me is good be narcissist and exhibitionist, but you know the limit of this, if you are very open to the society, they can interfere in your life, and they can hurt you, so you have to show, in the case of artist, things that you can to express, and I know what I’m saying, because I am an artist and I want to be famous some day.