good byeeeeeee

Being sincere, i didn't like to come to English that much. I think it doesn't reach the results that it shod reach, in terms of the improvement of each student about the manage of the language. Also, the fact that it is obligatory, makes the students, and myself, think that it is tedious and boring. In many times I was in the class of English thinking about what I could be doing in that moment. I am really happy to be finishing it. I think that the class of English could be more interesting if the teacher teach us how to use the language in benefit to our profession or career. Because thats the way we are going to use English in our future. An I think thats why nowadays almost every career in all the universities have English in their academic courses, to use it in their future, to be part of these globalist world. I have always think that this university isn't ready to give a course of English, I am not talking about the teachers, I have nothing to say about them, they are good people, but these was all bad organized. We started the course like two month after we started the semester, I was already in another CFG, and I had to leave it because I wa taking these course too, but they give us the days of English too late, so I had to reorganize my timetable. The use of the blog was a good thing after all. I think that I practice a little bit about my writing, but I sometimes felt very uncomfortable talking always about my self, I am not used to it. I need to improve my speaking of English, because I don't know hoy to communicate very well, I have it all in my mind but when it has to come out it cant. Also I have to improve my writing, there are a lot of words that I don't know how to say in English, or I write them but I write them wrong, I have the same two problems in Spanish by the way. I think the best way to learn a language is to be living in a city where nobody talks your language, so yo have no alternative. I really don't use much my English, one day a north American man come up to me and ask me for some directions, an I think I helped him.

Money

I think money its no so important for me in this moment, but it is just because I still live under the roof of my parents. I am not a big spender, I just buy the necessary, what its not so much because I don't have to buy my own food or to pay the rent. Mostly I spend my money in materials and tools to work with. This is not a cheep career so each time I can I try to reuse materials I found in the street, from the garbage. Also when I propose myself to save money its not a big deal for me. I keep it all in a box and never open it again.If I were a millionaire I, in the first place, would help my mom with all the expenses of the house and the studies for my brothers and me. And then I would go traveling around the world, to know all the places that I would never have the possibility to go like Mexico, the jungle of Sudamerica,China and el Tibet, depending of course how millionaire would ill be. Also I would like to keep studding other things besides art, like botany and ornithology, and besides all that ill save money for the future. If I have to pawn any of my belongings I think the only object that I own that could give me some money its my computer I really don't have too much valuable things.

I think that I learned about sustainability in my house, with my mom, but I am not sure. Anyway the green trend have been appearing in the means of communication in these decades, so its impossible not to hear about it. In fact the biggest industries are taking advantage of these trend and are incorporating the terms of recycle to convert their image, but in the essence they are still the same.Like the green spot in Jumbo, where you can leave your plastic bags, your bottles or your tetrapak. It is really very small and its impossible that it can contain all the waste that the supermarket leaves. The same happens with the reusable bags, and the ones that are "biodegradable". There is something beyond only recycling, it is about changing the way we are living. In my house we collect all the organic waste in a can, and once a week I leave it to a box in our neighborhood where we have worms so they can made humus. Since we do that the waste of my house has been reduced to a half of what it was before. Also I try to reuse the maximum of the stuff we use to trow up, but the most important thing is to reduce the quantity of stuff we buy that we don't need. Also I harvest some vegetables from an orchard we have here in the park of the university, so there we are reducing the carbon footprint of all the contamination that the agriculture are generating there days, its is a very small contribution but it have change my vision of what I am eating every day. I have a bike and i use it around my neighborhood or when I have to go to the center of the city,but I don't use it every day because my house is very far of where I study, and I don't have the resistance so I use the transantiago. But i Think Santiago needs more cycling culture, to respect the cyclist and motivate people to use their bikes, for example with more cycle paths, not just for riding, but for a serious mobilization in all the city.

Ai Weiwei sunflower seeds

The Guardian, Monday 5 March 2012 Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist that has become very famous because of his troubles with his native country, aiming to his work.He was in house arrest for tax evation, but the real reason for it is that he often talks about human rigts and he critizice the totalitarism of China. One of his most interesting works, in my view, was an instalation of 100.000.000 hand-made seeds of sunflowers in the Tate Museum. One of each seed was made out of porcelain by Chinese craft workers, painted one by one just equially as the real ones, in a town where ceramics represents their tradition, generation by generation the families had been working on the creations of ceramics. As well the sunflower seeds are very important in China, they use it as a base of their feeding, and was the diary diet in times of war. His work represents the overpopulation and workforce of the people of China. Reciently, the Tate Museum baught 8.000.000 (10 tons) of these seeds , at £3.50 each seed, just the 10th of the total. In the begginig the instalation creates a sea of seeds, where the spectators can lie, thow them up, and dive their feet in, but the quiantity that the Tate buys was not enaugh to do that, so they decided to pile up them in a cone shape.

first semester

In the first semester I took a course of forge here in the university. I learned how to use the forge, heating metal and then hiting  it when it was hot enough. I also learned how to weld the metal, it was very exiting. We had to wear special clothing like thick shoes and leather globes, also we had to use special lens when we use some of the tools because they can be very dangerous if you dont take the nessesary measure.
I were working in the orchard of the garden here in the faculty. I learned very much about  plants, botany and biodiversity. We planted lechuse, radish, chard, peas and a lot of things more. Also we planted some bulb flowers in winter, they are now blooming , it looks beautifull. I enjoy very much to see the seeds sprout and grow up, and they tasted very good.
 I learned to create candles from an objects, taking a mold from it. I made candles about the virgin Maria, which was very difficoult but i like it a loot.
I learned a lot of things that i am steel interested in, in fact i keep working in those  subjects because i enjoy them very much.

about myself

My name is Andrea Gutes, I was born in Venezuela the 4rth of March in 1991. I have a twin named Sofia and two cats, one is named Pepa and the other one is named Tito. I am studying arts in Universidad de Chile, in am now in my third year working on sculpture.
 I like to swim in the ocean and going to the mountains  to see the stars and the animals that you don't see in the city.  I am very interested in all kind of birds and insects, I found them very attractive.
Now I am in a curse of English writing on a blog, i really don't like that much to have a blog because I font feel comfortable taking about me all the time, in this moment I don't know what to write.

level 4 second semester