My favorite holidays. 

China: 

The extreme destiny 

I´ve the privilege to known very much countries around the world, but I was never more surprised to knew a country than when I first stepped on China. This huge and intriguing country, hides behind its monumental constructions, years and years of history and traditions. 

People in China are accelerated and aren´t t very open with tourists, in fact they are quite hostile, but that didn´t stop me from captivating me with the culture of that town, the biggest in the whole world, in fact. 

This powerful country is impressive, first because they do not depend of the social medias of the occidental world, they have their own social medias (no facebook needed). In fact, what we know as "WhatsApp" they changed it for "Wechat", a communication system with which they even buy in the market! That´s why it´s not weir to see a Chinese guy buying on the street with the QR code of his cell phone through wechat.

Surprises like these are what China gives to tourists every day. Every second is a new world with new adventures. Every minute you discover new traditions and new cultures. China is fascinating, it is a complete exploration. 

A great concert:

Depeche Mode: Global Spirit Tour

One of the most incredible concerts that I´ve ever seen in my life was the Depeche Mode show. This event took place in the chilean national stadium on march past, and the band play all the greatest hits of his career, including songs like Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence.

The intensity of the vocalist, Dave Gaham, and the professionalism of the musicians was combined to create a perfect show of rock, that captivated to the more of fifty thousand people watching. 

The other important thing that contributed to this spectacular montage was the visuals projected on the main screen behind the musicians. The images shown to the audience, express the profound meaning of the different songs with an artistic point of view, and that builds a perfect atmosphere in the arena that night. 

In the other hand, is the sound of the instruments. Most of the time, live music not necessarily sounds like the songs that we heart in our reproduction list on "spotify", but with this band is totally different.  They sounds better live!

For all these reasons, and ones again, Depeche Mode proves to be one of the greatest alternative rock bands of all times. They´re unstoppable!  

The blog era?

Writing stories in English on my blog has made me more interested in this type of platform, since I can read the stories of other people on the same topics that I wrote.

I think blogs are very successful way of telling stories, and in particular blogs in English seem very attractive to me. At best in Spanish they made me bored but in English they are quite entertaining, I think it is because of the challenge of writing in an ideioma that is not mine.I also believe that they are a very useful tool for learning English as they are more dynamic than conventional forms of learning.

Particularly the blogs we have done in this class have been very interesting to me, because we have touched on different themes with different degrees of difficulty. Also through them we have been able to show a critical look at different situations

My Indignation? My country. 

My biggest indignation is the pussy behavior of Chilean people in the last fifty years, and I really mean it. The fact that people are a blind accomplice of many atrocities in our country for many years is unacceptable to me. Not only because nobody did anything to avoid them, but because it would be intrinsic to our culture accept with the head down mistreats and humiliations.We´re very proud of whom we are, of our heroes and our football, but nobody is proud of our bravery, because there is no bravery in Chile. Because even when our country returned to democracy, the president of the time said that “there was justice to the extent possible”.It´s so hard to find someone to admire, but I do not lose hope, I know that better generations will come, brave generations, Passionate generations, and an army of voices thinking outside the box and tell the mighty guys who control everything: fuck you all!

Webquest 2 

Part 1- Calculate your carbon footprint!

1. What’s your carbon footprint?

My carbon footprint is 7,47 metric tons of CO2e.

2.  What’s the average carbon footprint of a person?

3.87 metric tons of CO2e.

Part 2 -Take these Recycling Quizzes

1. Hand washing dishes can use up to 50 % more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.

2.  Only about 10 % of global energy comes from renewables.

3. True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity. False

4. Can you make paper out of hemp? Yes.

Part 3- Video >>Top ten tips for recycling

1. “One Bag for life”

2. Double bag for organic trash.

3. Minimize use bags for fruits and vegetables.

Carl Sagan: The scientific journalist who wasn´t a journalist

A good scientific journalist is capable to disseminate science to society in an easy and interesting way; this permit that people around the world knows many aspects of research and discover a lot of the answers related to some of most enigmatic questions. In a certain way, a scientific journalist has the responsibility of produce knowledge using their abilities of build a bridge between the “common society” and “scientific society”. In this note, I want to talk about Carl Sagan, the most important scientific journalist of our time that in fact wasn’t a journalist.

Carl was born on November 9, 1934, in Brooklyn and he graduated from the University of Chicago, where he studied planets and explored theories of extraterrestrial intelligence. He worked with NASA on several projects a he was a very important antinuclear activist. Many of their work were based in the relation of planets with the space-time inside the evolution theory, generated by Charles Darwin.

But Carl not only investigate in his lab and wrote many papers, He was in fact a true visionary and a true scientific journalist, prove to that, is the interested that he maintain in dissemination of science through his work with schools and TV. Sagan was the father of TV series “Cosmos” in 1980, which was reborn on TV in 2014 with one of their disciple, Neil Tyson. This program was so success that is considerate one of the most important pieces of science´s communication in history.

Carl Sagan death in 1996, and his legacy was tremendous, not only for the advance in his particularly area of astronomy, but also for their inclusion in science communication. Prove that, Carl is called the “Father of scientific journal”, even when he wasn´t received the title of this career. This teach us that sometimes a person not necessarily study something to be something.  

Apolo and Luigie: My partners in crime ;)

I have the privilege of has two beautiful dogs in the house of my parents, located at the countryside of Santiago. They live there because I think that´s a evil thing to have dogs in apartments with reduced space. In that type of places dogs are not really free and they are conditioned to the time of their “owner” for any kind or natural necessity. But anyway, at least my dogs have very much space to run, to play and to be happy.

One of them is Apolo a labrator dog who came into our house in a very blue situation, he was abandoned for their old owner, and we received him very honored and happy. The other one is Luigi a beagle dog, and all I have to say about this little one, is that all the myths that’s rounds this kinds of dogs were true! Is an insatiable Tasmanian demon, with full energy and no sense of quiet. But for me is perfect that the way he is.

These guys bring me happy, hope, love and company, they help me to disconnect of all the city´s noise, that´s why I try to visit they every weekend. They love get up into my car and ride with me up to the hills and lakes around the house.