High school and Education

Hello everybody, today I'm going to talk about my experience in high school. I can say that my subjects were like in any other school, I had basic subjects, and then I chose the elective subjects, that were Biology, Chemestry and algebra and functions. I think the education in my high school wasn't bad, but since it changed teachers, the education level went down. I had nice teachers, older and younger ones. I studied in a private school, so I did have acces to technology, like computers and internet. I think the education level I had was mean and a little bit dispersed, because of this teacher change. The elective subjects wans't really well distributed, for example, I was in the biologist course and I had a subject with mathematicians, because the school had not more subjects or teachers to fill our curriculum. That's why I considerate that the education that my school provided me wasn't important to take future desitions, i think it was more meaningful the values and the service spirit they gave me, because it was a catholic school. I would recommend to the authorities to improve the subjects curriculum, because you are learning some useless things, and there are others missing. Besides, the education levels comparing public and private schools are very different and poor people studies in publics school that are often very bad, so, at last, you can't move up in the social scale.

Well, I think individuals are important till the point they use what they have, to be responsible of your marks or things like that, but I still thinking about how difficult is to move up today and achieve a better life or education. Today, the responsability is focused in the ability of the person to take advantage and doing something to survive and improve its own life. But I think this "encouraging" point of view is just realising an entire state, goberment and public policy from true social problems of the neoliberal system

News: The paradox of middle-class aspiration

America is a very unequal society and it has been this way for decades. The Great Recession was a positive event in a way it focus politic and economist's attetion in social unequality. Economist just started to worry about the middle-class situation, wich is the most injured sector of american society. Besides, politics and polocies generally damage middle-class people.
Real wages have not been increased or went down and income inequality has been regularly rising in the US since the 1970s. The recent census shows that the median income was down about 4% last year and the number of families that earn less than 25,000 increased by 1%.

In the attempt to solve this unequal situation, the Republicans wants to increase taxes of rich people in $700bn dollar. But the problem is many americans, from all social classes are opposed to raising taxes for the rich. One posible explanation of this position is that people belief you can ascent social scale or that they may one day be rich themselves. Therefore, this is the "American dream", the one politics tell you, but actually this is not as probably, considering US has the lowest social mobility of any industrialised nation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/sep/30/taxandspending-republicans

Nothing Hill

I am not sure which is my favourite movie, but It is the movie that I have watched the most. It is called "Nothing Hill" or "A place called Nothing Hill", directed by Roger Michell, realeased in 1999 in U.S.A . The main actors are Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. It is a love story that happens in London, England. He (William) falls in love with a famous actress (Anna Scott), almost unreachable for him. He is a normal man who works in a travel bookstore in the traditional neighborhood of Nothing Hill and one day this famous actress comes to his bookstore to buy a book. They started knowing each other because of life circunstances. She, with the showbiz behind her, and he with his simple life, with a complicated roommate. I like the part when William told their friends and family when she asked him, sincerely , to love her, instead of all the things that have happened, and then he told her he didn't want to, because it was a strange thing to be with her. So, all his friends and family starred at him like "Oh man, you are a complete idiot" Because she was a beautiful and good woman, who wanted to date him and love him. Well, I said It was't my favourite movie, but I realize that I have watched it a lot of times, and when it is on TV I watch it again, and I am not the only one, because I watched it with my dad, who likes it too.

Visiting Santiago

If a foreign turist comes to Santiago and If I would be his tourist guide, I will recommend him to visit like Bellavista neighborhood, which is a night-typical neighborhood. There you can go for a drink with your friends, accompanied with good music, also you can go to a disco and dance all nitgh long!. Santa Lucía's hill is another beautiful place to visit and recall the colonial times. Other historical monuments like La Moneda or the National Library have an antique arquitecture. He should walk and tour this old streets of Santiago, he should visit the Lastarria neighborhood, when you can find a lot of Bar- restaurants and coffe shops. Also you can buy antiques like old books, vinyls, old discs players, etc. In this cosmopolitan city, you can find a lot of shopping centers like malls or ferias, too, like Patronato with many cheaps clothing stores.
I think this city, like many on this country, have a lot of history in temporal terms, a thing you can find in its streets and its old and colouring houses. Furthermore, there are more antique communes like Ñuñoa or Providencia that are near of Santiago's center and you can visit too. Besides, I would like to add another final place, that I think deserves to be visited. Cajón del Maipo is a place where you can find beauty and peace, both in contact with nature. There you can camp or rent a hut and spend a nice time with your friends, family or partner.

Breaking News: school suicide

The last news I heard was this morning. It was about a school boy who commited suicide. He decided to kill himself last friday, in Puente Alto, where he lived. It was a very shocking news because he did it because his school's inspector insulted and treated him badly, so he took the decision and ended up his life. His family didn't know about the bad treatment from his inspector, but his classmates did. So they told the news how hard was this man with the boy. This is a very awful situation, on the one hand this man should not be rude with the boy, but on the other hand, I think he never imagined what his words and bad attitude could cause.
I think that the impact this situation caused is very strong, every mother thinks about what is happening with her kids and maybe would result that mom and dad or closest family will be more worried about their children and spend more time with them, talking, having fun, being affectionate, etc. Furthermore, every kid is different and you don't know if they are living a depressed stage or if they are more sensitive than you believe. This is the second scholar suicide in two weeks, so it is a very worring situation.

Well, about things I would like to hear in the news, there are that inequalities finally finished, that every people could have decent vacations, that justice is done quickly! or that we care about our enviroment.

France

Talking about knowing and visiting new places, I would like to go to France because I really like its culture, architecture, language, etc. I have heard that in this country there is a lot of art development, as well as music, because this place was the origin of it. Before going to France I would like to learn French, because, like I said before, I love this language and I think It won't be the same If I can't communicate with French people.

Once I get there I would like to take some interesting tours to Paris and then visit nearby areas in the capital. I would like to know the principal monuments, like Eiffel tower and Versalles Palace. The thing I would love to do, would be to attend to music festivals (specially jazz) and go to museums, like Louvre museum.

Being really sincere, I would be very happy studying, working or living there, clearly any option seems good to me. I wish I could go there to continue my posgrade studies. After that I don't know if I'm going to come back to Chile or stay there... It is a dreaming trip for me and for now I can just imagine and speculate.

My last semester

The first semester of 2010 was a little bit different for a lot of reasons. I think, in generally, it was not bad, but neither an excelent period.

First, I didn't lived the earthquake because I was in Antofagasta, but I was very worried about my family in Concepcion and my friends and family in Santiago.

Personally, I started the semester doing new things like having a dog, she is a very good partner and I appreciate her companionship. Also, this year I am more accompanied by my boyfriend and friends, they were an important part of me (and remain it). However, I always miss my family that lives in Antofagasta, but I really spent a lot of time with them this summer and I usually visit them.

At University, I can say that my grades were good or regular but not all of them were satisfactory, in spite of this I think I learnt a lot and I grew up in many different ways. I think it really helped me to know how to do things right and to think a little bit more before doing or saying something.

However, I liked first semester because I experimented new things and learnt about personal and non-personal stuffs.