An important test

Today I’m going to talk about an important test to me when I was in high school. I was eighteen years old and I just want to finish school phase and going to the university.

My last test in high school was an important test about chemistry. I really loved that subject, but the last part of the year was boring and I was demotivate with this. I didn’t want to study and, in this moment, I knew I didn’t want to study engineering, so the subject lost its importance to me. Because it was the last test, I didn’t need a great mark (they were good and my NEM didn’t made better), so I went to the school and I tried to think in anything else that wasn’t the test. When I was to the classroom, arrived the teacher and I decided that test didn’t matter, and I was finishing my school phase therefore anything deserve the suffering. I took the test, answered it and suddenly the teacher saw me (I don’t know why, until today don’t know) and asked me if I was fine. I answer something unintelligible and went on in my piece of paper. I finished and went to eat chips with my friends near school. Next week, when teacher gave marks, I had 70.

This test was important because reassert my decision about study sociology and any career related with sciences. And because it was the last test in my school life.

PET Words

Six questions witth PET Vocabulary words

Places: buildings

Tell about a visit to the museum you attended recently

How often do you go to the cinema?

Do you go to café when you hang out with your friends?

Food and drink

What beverage do you drink in a café?
What is your favorite dessert?
What do you think about women who live in diet?

A special gift to you

In last post we write about a special birthday. Now, because we are remember special things for us, it's good focus on another thing: write about a special gift you have received.

Say:
What was the gift
Why did you receive it
What you did,
Why you remember it.





Mention anything else you think is important. Write at least 250 words. Leave a comment on my blog and on the blogs of at least 3 classmates.

A special birthday

Hello

In horrible days like today (for the weather, nothing else) it’s always good remember nice situations of our lives. Therefore I want to share you one special birthday of mine, my 9th birthday. I don’t consider a birthday like an important celebration but in Latin America is a special celebration: I was born in german city in Belgium, where is not customary a big celebration in birthdays.  


I arrived to Chile when I was seven years old and before that I didn’t celebrate my birthday until the 9th celebration. My uncle lent his house, which was bigger than mine, my aunt gave me a great birthday cake and my parents bought the rest (food, decorations, music). The best part of that is a piñata handmade by my mom: a piñata is a container, which is usually brightly, colored and decorated, made of cardboard or similar material that holds candy, trinkets and toys, and it is generally suspended from a rope and is broken open by blindfolded children wielding batons or sticks during a party. Then, my parents, knowing my friends, invited them but in secret because they wanted to give me a great surprise.

That day, I was at dentist with my mom, and before that she said me that in uncle’s house my family were waiting for me. A family dinner is always a good moment, but when I came in a house and appeared in front of me my friends with gifts, it was so nice and I must admit that it was so exciting and enjoyed my birthday.

That's all for now, see you!

Free post: Rudin

Hi everyone:

Today, we should write about free topic. I’m not the most creative person, so I think is good idea talk to you about a book that has a profound impact on me.

When I am fifteen-year-old girl, in summer vacations I read a Russian novel, its name is Rudin, the first novel written by Iván Turgueniév. Story is in the middle nineteen-century in the Russian country, with a medieval landowner system that was against the interests of peasants. It talks about superfluous life and inability to act, and is a love story where young but intellectual and self-conscious woman is contrasted with the main hero.

In a country house lived Lasunskaya family, with Daria Mikhailovna (the widow) and her twelve-year-old son and Natasha, her seventeen-year-old daughter. Rudin is the Dimitri’s last name, a well-educated, intellectual and extremely eloquent nobleman that has economics problems and depends on others for his livings.  His childhood was poor, and his mother had to spent all the money she had on him and that’s the way that Dimitri went to university, in Moscow and then in Berlin. He arrived at Lasunskaya house because he met Daria Mikhailovna in a Moscow hall, where she is considered like a wealthy and distinguished lady, but rather eccentric woman.

Natasha is observant, well-read and intelligent, but also quite secretive. While her mother thinks of her as a good-natured and well-mannered girl, she’s not of a high opinion about her intelligence, and quite wrongly. She also thinks Natasha is “cold”, emotionless, but in the throughout the story, we are witness that her feelings were strong and deep, but reserved, she seldom even sighed and only grew slightly pale when anything distressed her. She engages in intellectual conversations with Rudin, about how old love is replaced by new one. In that way, Rudin fell in love with Natasha, and Natasha fell in love with Rudin.

However, Daria Mikhailovna disapproved this romance, and offered Rudin the opportunity to go away and she wouldn’t report him as a crime (Natasha is underage). So, he left Lasunskaya house only left a letter to Natasha, who wants to go out with Dimitri: he doesn’t want and go abroad.

Last thing we read s about an old man that die in a barricade, in a French Revolution of 1848.

Running like a lifestyle

Hello everyone

Today, I’m going to write about an outdoor activity I like doing.

I am indoor person, enjoy reading books or playing chess, and thing like this, but there is an outdoor activity that I really like, which is running. This is a good form to exercise and it’s cheap, too. You need running shoes, shorts and running vest.  

I like running since my high school years because I loved playing exercise and it’s a good way to kill stress. When I started my undergraduate courses, it was more difficult keep a schedule and put on a bit weight, and after that, I gave up running until one year ago, when I began to have a headache.  So, now I go out and run three times a week, at least twice.

When I started my race is really great feel the fresh air, how my muscles move, circulating blood and my problems go. While there is the potential for injury in running, just as there is in any sport.  Some of these benefits are potential weight loss, improved cardiovascular and respiratory health because reducing the risk of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, improved cardiovascular fitness, reduced total blood cholesterol, strengthening of bones (and potentially increased bone density, which is useful to me and my back diseases), possible strengthening of the immune system and an improved self-esteem and emotional state.

Running can also have psychological benefits, as many participants in the sport report feeling an elated, euphoric state, therefore I feel my problems go out. Running is frequently recommended as therapy for people with clinical depression and people coping with addiction.

That’s all for now, see you next Friday!

A beach I like: Scheveningen

Hi everyone,

 Today, I will write about a beach that is very important to me. I knew the sea in that place when I am child, because when I lived there was no seaside.
I don't really think of myself as a beach person, I don't often like to sunbathe and I don't like the sun like sit in its. However, this place is important because it was my first time in another country (until I remember) and was my first time to see the sea, the sand and sun in a great combination.

I was born in Eupen, a little german city in Belgium, and because of it, I didn’t know the sea, so in my fourth birthday, my parent’s gift was a travel to Holland until Scheveningen, a district to The Hague, the seat of the dutch government and parliament, and international organizations like International Court of Justice.
 First of all, with my parents went over The Hague, Huis ten Bosch (home of royal family), Ridderzaal and Binnenhof, historic buildings that now are the parliament. After, we went to Scheveningen district, which is very full of life, winter and summer. The beach has a boulevard, cinemas, casino, restaurants, is a modern seaside where is common the practice of nautical sport, like surf. In this time, I went in july, in the middle of summer but water was so cold, so I didn’t swim. Instead, I walked by the sandbeach, bought an ice cream and sat on the sun, and saw the sunset likely this picture.

Is not a beautiful seaside (in Chile is better), but it was my first time in that and sun seemed different and sand smelled great.

That’s it. See you next friday

NME, my favourite website

Hi everyone 

As a fan of music, movies, TV and just about all things pop culture, it was hard for me to choose which was my favourite website. In this day and age, any and all information is just a click away. I choose a website that gives me access to all of these things and more, NME.com

NME are initials to New Musical Express, a british musical publication, published weekly since 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format, changing from newsprint in 1998. An online version, NEM.com, was launched in 1996. Now, it’s the biggest standalone music site in the world, with over seven million users per month.

I’m a NME fan since before I learnt to read, because my parents bought a magazine, and heard singles appeared on this chart. I remember getting excited when my parents daa came every week when a new NME magazine would find on a store. They couldn’t wait to read the news and reviews on what was going on the world of music. TV and movies, and with that magazine, they taught me reading.

Now, with NME.com, I don’t have to wait next week anymore, and I don’t have problems to buy it, like happened when I came to Chile, because all of the info and more is available with the click of a mouse. While, I will admit that the website has taken some of the fun out of getting the magazine weekly, I can’t help myself and check out the site.

See you on friday!

Rita Lynn

Hi bloggers:
Today, I’m going to write about Constanza’s blog

The blog is creative, I really like the title (Rita Lynn), it use images but I think it needs a little bit much colour and design is a bit simple. About Constanza’s posts, I like a post when she writes about youtube like internet tool, basically for her reference about short movie “the bear that wasn’t”, it’s so good!

I think Cuevana is a great website, because you can watch a lot of movies without pay, like her. However, I agree with her when she writes about low quality of movies that are available. I will watch "El secreto de sus ojos" after your comment. A friend of mine told me about this movie, too, but I haven't had time or internet in my flat. In that way, I will watch it on holidays.

When I judge comments that people write on your blog I think they didn’t read your posts completely. I recommend you to use more videos to illustrate better your posts and these can be more interesting, and more colour in your blog for looks like prettier.

However, I think your blogs is good and very creative.
See you later.

About a movie: The way we were

Hello everyone!

The last time that I write something was in 2009. Now, in 2012, is really great re-write about me in a language that I like very much. I love movies, because it's possible to see different lifestyles, cultures, and create other worlds, like aliens, hobbits in a "fictitious" past of the humankind, magic things like floating things, etc.

Today, in the first post to the class, I'm going to write about a 1973 romantic drama that I really like because it showed me an interesting story about love, and how sometimes it's not possible to think in an eternal love. This movie is The way we were, starring Barbra Streisand an Robert Redford.

Katie Morosky and Hubbell Gardner met in college in the 1930s, but their differences are immense: she is a stridently vocal Marxist Jew with strong opinions about everything (in these time, her opinions were anti-war), and he is a carefree WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, a closed groups of high-status mostly with British protestant ancestry), and he don't have a particular political bent. She is drawn to him because of his boyish good looks and his natural writing skill, which she finds captivating, although he doesn't work very hard at it. He is intrigued by her conviction and her determination to persuade others to take up social causes. The two meet again at the end of World War II. Katie is working at a radio station, and Hubbell, having served as a naval officer, is trying to return to civilian life. They fall in love and marry despite the differences in their background and temperament. Soon, however, Katie is incensed by the cynical jokes Hubbell's friends make and is unable to understand his acceptance of their insensitivity and shallow dismissal of political engagement. At the same time, his serenity is disturbed by her lack of social graces and her polarizing postures.

Although they are in love, cotidian problems are very common for differences about life: Katie tried to Hubbell seeks a job far way of Hollywood, becoming a serious witter because he's skills to do. With blacklist and McCarthyism encroaching on their lives, Katie's political activism resurfaces, jeopardising Hubbell's position and reputation.

Katie and Hubbell decide to part when she finally understands he's not the man she idealized when she fell in love with him and will always choose the easiest way out, whether it is cheating in his marriage or writing predictable stories for sitcoms. Hubbell, on the other hand, is exhausted, unable to live on the pedestal Katie erected for him and face her disappointment in his decision to compromise his potential.

In the film's final scene, Katie and Hubbell meet by chance, several years after their divorce. There, is finally clear about their story: both are better by each other when are together but love is not enough if they try to live it with perfection and how each thing it's right.