El Último Don

Hello!

This is one of my favorites books and it's written by Mario Puzo! This book is a gift from an uncle, I said him that I like very much the "gangsters" (Mario Puzo wrote "El Padrino" too). The title narrate numerous histories around a family, but this family is particular. The family Clericuzio is a gangster family, and they manage many "deals" and social networks (for example with film industry, drug trafficking ring and casinos). 

This is a gangster novel and it's very famous in U.S.A because it's inspired in real histories of mafia facts and, for this, it's a realistic novel. Also, there're many characters and social interactions that make this novel popular and interesting (it's amazing considering the 718 pages).

I like this novel for two reasons: because it's a gift and because it catches me (isn't easy). Now, I'm very satisfied with this book! because it's elements allow to increase our senses about the gangsters and mafias, but in my role as sociologist I could appreciate many things so interesting for my discipline (for example the codes, the antagonism and rivalry, the concepts of love and family, the criminal actions, among other things).

Finally, this novel relates about the plans that Don Clericuzio thinks, with the objective of leave the criminal ambit. In this direction, the family it's divided between "legals deals" and "illegal deals". It's funny because the end of all the illegal deals happens with the annihilation of the rival family, the Santadio. The novel, besides the blood and dead, have histories of love and enjoyment that produces fun as same time that suspense and drama. 

Which's your favorite book?

A Place in Santiago

Hello!

I don't have a favourite place in Santiago, because the place is special if the people who's with me is special too. But, if I must mention one, I'll says: Parque Bustamante. This park is placed in Providencia, near to Plaza Italia, Worker's Hospital and "Vicuña Mackenna" Museum. In this park, we can find children's games, a skatepark, statues and monuments, a scenary and a Literary Coffee.

I like very much this park because it has nice places to be. I specially like the Skatepark, the Playground and the Literary Coffee store. I think that this places are wonderful to be with someone, to talk, to rest, to get inspiration, etc. Also, I was there with my "bikers" friends to have fun, everyday! But now, I don't have my bike, so I don't go more there :(.

In my "biker" days, I used to go everyday for practice BMX!, but now I just go there sometimes. Today, I only go there for take the Metro, and I always remember my past as a biker.

Finally, I need to mention that the people who I have met at the park have marked my life, and I love them so much! So that park is really special, because the things that I did and the people that I have met brings me nice and cute memories :3.

It's all for this week! thanks.

Things that make me happy.

Hi!

Today, this topic's great for remember some cute things :)

Firstly, I need to mention that there're a lot of things that makes me happy, but today I'll tell you about 3 central concepts: Friends/Family/Pets, Hobbies and Passions. 

Well, about the first idea, for me the friends are fundamental for the happiness. Doesn't matter the number of friends, matter if you love them, because the feeling of "love someone" (this apply to family, boyfriend/girlfriend, pets) is great! All the people "love the love", for this, the friends/family/pets in this moment is the thing that makes me happiest!

In second place, some hobbies always makes me happy like draw, train, play music, etc. My first great hobbie was play videogames, but then I discovered the sports (tenis, bmx and soccer!) and these sports was great for my maturity. But today, I'm spending my free time drawing and I like very much it! All the draws are special because all the animals that I draw means special things.

Finally, the passions are little feelings that make us happy. For example, support a football team (this is the more classic passions haha), but also we could be passionate for art, movies, music, etc. Do things related with our passions always makes us happy. In my life, i'm fanatic for Olympia (a football team of Paraguay) and my cousins also! Shouting is a good action for release stress, I think.

In general, all these things I discovered when I was a little boy, so in my life I only flourished them. I think that happiness doesn't depends of material things. On the contrary, the actions and social relations are the best things for be happy.

PET test

In the reading test (in my opinion) I have a good performance, in general I had few wrong answers (between 1-4), I think that's nice.

In listening test I could see my weakness, specifically the long audios... But, as a kind of self-criticism, I can understand the ideas of the sentences, but I can't understand the complete sentence, for this I had many errors (around 5).
Finally, I think that the vocabulary test was the more easy (for me), I had good performance and few errors).

My favourite present!

Hi!

Talk about presents -for me- is difficult because I don't like the materials objects. But, this present is
-for me- the best of all! My own guitar.

When I celebrated my 15th birthday, my best friend came to my house for be together. That day I was very happy, was a typical familiar day (for me, that friend is member of my family). When he arrived, he was carrying a big box and I was surprised for it! When he gave me the box, he said: "Open it, it's a present for you". I only had one way in that moment: Open the present, when I took a look about the contents, I couldn't believe it!

The contents was an acoustic guitar! In those times, I was member of a rock band and my role was the bassist (I knew only how to play bass, but no guitar), that present was for me the start of a new era for me!

I'm playing guitar since that day, and I never stopped my flair's development. My guitar survive many problems: chords broken, fall in earthquakes, etc. But I'm taking care of it every day (or I try to...).

Now, I know how play the guitar and how to compose music (rhythm, harmony and chords), until today I remember how was that moment in my life. My guitar represent a strong friendship, and the way that I took was the independent learning, in honor of the friendship. 

That guitar have now 5 years old, and it has the essence of my friend.

My guitar is like this

Good Afternoon!

Today's topic is education, I'll take this and I'll centered at the contemporary educational system (in Chile, or countries that have a strong liberal politics).

In first place, we can find the access. The access's a big problem in these systems because it's limited, for access to the education, the family or tutors must have a base of some kinds of capital (like cultural, economic or social). My personal's interpretation is that the school or university (or any educational institution) brings the student a 'status', this status is -also- a kind of capital (the symbolic capital). The people in countries like Chile wants to study only for gain more and more capital.

Secondly, the primary education (schools). The problem that I see is the mentality of order, in this mentality there're roles which consist in domineering and dominated, the teachers are domineering and their actions are always centered to keep their students ordered and controled. This is a problem for me because the differences will come only in the professions (in function to the liberal economic system), and -in my opinion- the differences are important in childrens between 5-15 years old because they allow have a social vision of tolerance and respect (and this could eliminate the ideas of classism or any kind of social discrimination). For example, if there are a boy that wants study something not convencional, their classmate will not judge him. Also, I propose eliminate the schools that aren't mixed.

Finally, the last problem are the conception of power in education, in my opinion the power roles in education must disappear. If the power doesn't exist in education, so the participants of the educational system could take actions based on the opinion of all (my perception of democracy in the educational system).

Those are some of my ideas about education. I would like to read some judges or contributions.

It's all :)

Free topic: One Piece, my favourite animé (and the only one for me)

Hi!

Today's topic is very very funny for me because One Piece changes my life! before, I didn't like the anime, but a friend says to me: "Hey, you can't give opinions if you didn't see animes before", so I saw the anime. The anime relates the history of a band of pirates that travel around the world with the mision of get the "One Piece" (nobody knows what's this, but all the people thinks that's a treasure).

The anime's very funny because it has a lot of people that are important for the history, also has a lot of places (islands and countries) and each character is funny. But it also has drama and emotion because there are a lot of fights with powerful enemies and our hero-protagonist (called Luffy) must beat them for gain the freedom for the people that he likes (he's so charismatic and has a lot of friends).

The anime also has political messages because the principal enemies are the "World Government" and the "Marines" or "Badly Pirates". The "World Government" remembers to Foucault because their objective is control all the world and they have many secrets, are corrupt, abuse of their power, etc. The Marines is like a police institution that guard the sea and pursuit the pirates (because 'their freedom' is dangerous for the world's order). Finally, I think that the aparition of slaves and aristocrats is important for understand the develonment of the real history, because the message that Eichiro Oda wanna send to us (Oda's the creator and drawer) it's of eliminate the social privilege that makes differences between normal people (workers, profesionals, students, etc) and aristocrats (nobles, kings, emperors, etc). Also the aparition of a "Revolutionary Army" can explain this kind of messages.

It's all, I hope that you'll see this because is so funny and interesting!