Monday, November 19, 2012

That's all folks!

I've always loved English... I really mean it. When I was at the school, it went very well. The teacher support me a lot, because he noticed that I was interested, and actually, as I had good markes, sometimes I helped him to review some tests of my classmates. 
Sadly, when I arrived to the university, I forgot a little bit of what I learned, because I think english is all about practicing, and with 2 subjects in 4 years... well, I get losted.
So, after a while without this class, I enjoyed this "reunion" with english. Now I'm writing faster, I remembered the grammar' rules, and everything else. For that reason, I value the blog's work, because it makes you think in english, and I think that's the key to improve your level. Also, we used to write about fun stuffs, and I had the space to tell nonsense to my classmates... it was fun.
About the aspects that I think that I need to improve, it will be the oral part, because I think I know the rules,  and I handle enough vocabulary, but when I'm talking ¡I forget everything! Maybe is a lack of confidence... 
Another thing that I noticed was that my pronunciation it wasn't very good. When I was recording my videos and later I watched them, I thought that I was talking like Tarzan, so I hope that in this moment I've finally get over that diction' problems.
So, like I was saying, I love english, because I also love music and I used to hear mainly anglo music, so I'm always checking the lyrics. Moreover, I watch series and movies and I HATE when they're dubbing, and it's good to hear the characters and understand what they're saying. 
Well, this are my last words. I hope that you didn't get bored reading what I wrote.

Goodnight, and goodluck.

Monday, November 12, 2012

In Tyler we trust


I have to recognize that isn't easy to choose one movie above all of the rest, because I really like movies, and I'd fill a list with movies that i loved. But, the rules says that I have to pick one, and I think that I'm going to talk about Fight Club.
The first and second rules of Fight Club is DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB, so I'm starting with the wrong foot, but I want a good marke. This movie stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham-Carter... and this three-pack are on my top 5 actors. When you erased the action movies of Pitt from his filmography you can realize that he has a lot of great movies.
Back to my film, this movie totally blew my mind when I saw it, but to be precise, actually Fight Club is a book written by Chuck Palahniuk, and I read it first. Of course, I know that the book is always better than the movie, but in this case both are great.
Moreover, this movie became an 90's icon (it's from 1999), because of its look, but mainly for its breaking speech, and for this I mean that if you think about it, there's a lot of anarchist thoughts on the movie.
Well, Fight Club is obviously about a fight club, but don't get confused, it's not an action movie. Pitt and Norton establish this illegal club where people go to fight and destress, and its first and second rules, as I said at the beggining is do not talk about fight club.

Here's the trailer, and if you haven't seen it yet, I'm telling you, YOU MUST.

Monday, November 5, 2012

The democracy's party

Yes, I voted, but no, I don't believe in the current political system. I'm going to explain this.. or at least try to.

In this blog I've told a few times that I'm not from here, I'm from Ovalle, and I'm registred over there to vote. So, I traveled that weekend to the north only with the intention of voting. I aware that it makes no sense that I continue voting over there, because the posibilities to go back to Ovalle to live are very small. For that reason, I knew that this was the last time that I'd do something for my beloved city, and I HAD to do it.

Never the less, it was sad, because the political scene wasn't so ecouraging. Renteria was the strongest card, supossedly an Independent, but everyone knows that he's a right wing candidate. His contender was Marta Lobos (DC), well known as "Marta Robos", and I don't need to say anymore... you get the idea. Finally, Renteria won the election, but I'm sure that any result it had been awful.

I think that it's ok to vote for what we believe, in spite of the poor political system that we have, but I also feel respect for who think that the abstetion it's the right option... maybe it is. At the end, the discussion it's not abour who vote and who doesn't, but what we do to validate our opinion as citizens.