My Blogging Experience:

I liked my blogging experience. I think that it was a really good way for practice and improve my English knowledge.

An advantage of blogging in the English class is that it helps to practice writing texts and giving opinions in different topics.

I think that this activity hasn´t any disadvantage, anyway as a result of the strike we hadn´t a lot of classes that could be important for developing these activities. I should complete the activities at home instead of do it at classes.

Moving to another point, I think that even when I practiced a lot with this activity, the major that I´m studying at University, doesn´t less me the time that I need to increase my English awareness. I need to practice more and more to internalize the language.

Anyway, with the good and bad things, the blogging experience gave me the opportunity to meet my classmates, talk about funny things, my favorite movie, Penal Law, my childhood, my friends, and other interesting topics.  

My Favourite Subject: Penal Law

My favorite subject is Penal Law. This area concerns rules prohibiting, crimes and misdemeanors, that is, actions that violate those rules, performing the types contained in the penal code (substantive criminal law), the due penal process, that is to say, how justice reacts to the commission of a crime and the rules who governs the process that respects the accused´s rights (adjective penal law), enforcement of penalties (executive criminal law) and the phenomenon of crime (criminology).

I like this subject because I think that it concerns the involvement of the most important human rights, those are life, freedom and sometimes property. And even when in most of the countries, death penalty is banned; I ask you, a life without freedom, is really a life? Especially in countries like Chile where prisons are horrible places, with very poor conditions.  

In second, I like this subject because is an area that mixes many subjects, such as psychology, sociology, legal medicine, philosophy and obviously laws.

Some things that I would like to change in penal law are:

-          Between crime and poverty exist a very close relation. Yesterday, I went to three oral trials, with some classmates. All defendants were accused for drug trafficking (Law number 20000), and they were poor people. They said that they trafficked out of necessity; we could think that all the defendants said the same think, but I think that this is just an excuse, the excuse of blind people or people that prefers to be blind instead of to do something trying to change the things.

-          Animal abuse. All the politicians talk us about economic growth and development, but nobody notices that development and culture means a good relation with nature to. We need a substantive develop in this area. Animals aren´t thinks, because they have the ability to feel pain. 

The Best Place To Eat : Restaurant Manhattan

The best place to eat is Restaurant Manhattan. It´s located in pedestrian street Rosa Rodríguez number 1373, local number 16, center Santiago.

Last month Bárbara told me about this place, because the lunch in our faculty´s casino isn´t good and the prices neither. We and a group of friends decided to eat in that place a Friday.

That lunch was really good, it was meat (I chose chicken), accompanying (rise or pasta), salad (cabbage, lettuce, tomato, potatoes, beans, black beans, peas, broccoli and cauliflower), sauces, natural juice or soda, bread and dessert. We eat all those things for two thousand and eight hundred pesos.

The place is cozy and people who attend are executives or people who work in downtown. Restaurant Manhattan is a big place, with a capacity of two hundred people roughly speaking.

I don´t know many places to eat, I generally have lunch in my faculty. In my first year at university I knew Vegetales, located in Providencia street, that place have good lunches to, but the dishes consist of less food and the prices are similar to Manhattan´s prices, so I prefer obviously the second one. I can really say that this is a good place to have lunch, because it´s cheaper and the food is ok.

 In the image, Restaurant Manhattan is the number 1.

A Picture

When I was a child I used to visit one of my father´s aunt, Chepa, her name was Josefina, but all the family named her as Chepa or Yaye (some cousins). She died last year, I was in Santiago when it happened and I couldn´t go to the ceremony. I was really sorry because of it.
This photo was taken in her house, specifically in the dining. I was wearing a Coke´s jockey that my father gived me. They are my sister and my younger brother. I guess that I was five years old, because I didn´t go to school yet. My sister was four and my brother was three. These day we were celebrating my eldest brother´s birthday, so we ate some cake, cookies, fries and all the things that children eat at birthaday´s parties. I guess that my father took this photo, but I´m not sure.
I have other photos of that special day, but I chose this because I like it. I think that it shows in a very clear way our faces, and even when it´s not a very old photo, it looks like an old one.

My Most Embarrassing Moment:

When I was sixteen I went to the public library of my town, I needed a book for a homework and my family didn´t have it. In front of the library was a woman who looked alike an old teacher that I had at primary school, Marta. I was really excited because I hadn´t seen her for a long time, so I walked up to her. She was talking with another woman, and I just could see her back, but it didn´t matter because I would give her a big surprise.. I just touched her back and said: Hello miss, How are you? Do you remember me?
She turned around and said: Who are you child?.. She was another woman. She looked alike my old teacher, but she wasn´t her.
Obviously I couldn´t see my face in that moment, but I´m sure that I just blushed, I felt really ashamed ...
Nowadays I think that when I was a teen all the things were so terrible to me, but life isn´t so horrible. Ok!, you can´t go touching people´s backs when they look like someone you know, but it doesn´t really matter if you confuse people sometimes, or not?

My MP3

Hello. This time I want to write about a little machine that have changed my life: My Mp3.

I bought it in summer of 2008, before to come to Santiago, I had worked that summer, and I remembered how I needed a technological device to listen to music when I am traveling, specially in a city like Santiago, where you need to travel a lot. 

My Mp3 costed me thirty five thousand pesos, it´s a Sony machine, black colour, a little shiny. It have just two gigas: I know it´s limited capacity, but I don´t have money to buy an Ipod, and I think that it´s ok, because if someone steal it, he or her won´t get  a lot of money for it.

 

I bought it with headphones, but I´m really good breaking them, so I´ve had to buy many headphones the last three years. In my last birthday, Bárbara, Seba and Álvaro gave me a new Sony headphones, I really want this to last a long time, I will strive for it. 

Why I love it, because I always say that now, without music, my life have no sense. I really get angry when I break the headphones and it doesn´t work, I must spend all the time that take me to arrive home, listening to cars, busses, people, underground, etc.

My Favourite Holidays.

Last summer I went to El Tabo with some friends:  Bárbara, Sebastian, Chio, Cata and Naty (Perrita). 

We had talked about go to Buenos Aires this year and to do something last summer as well, but we haven´t go to Buenos Aires yet and we didn´t  planed very well the summer´s trip, that makes me remember something that my brother always said : Best things happen when you aren´t waiting for them. 

 

We went to the beach´s house of Bárbara´s family, located in El Tabo, a little town near to Cartagena and El Quisco, in the fifth region. The trip started in January 21, at night, I had come to Santiago in the afternoon, because another friend, Mariela, invited me to her birthday´s party, Sebastian was invited to, so we went to the party, that was a meeting instead of a party. At midnight we went to Bárbara´s house, where the girls were. 

We arrived to El Tabo around two o´clock... So, we started a really crazy experience, full of horror stories, waves, sand, orange tea, music, photos, videos, a parking fine...  and some things that are not suitable to write here. The whole  trip was conducted by the idea that we were on a reality show, so we made some stupid competitions, and we promised that in our next trip, the show will continue.

I must said that I´ve done other trips that I always remember, but it was very special because at University I´ve met wonderful people, at school to, but I realized that with my new friends I can really be how I want to be.