Meals

Well, today I’m going to talk about a special meal that I remember.

Two years ago, it was the last year days and in Santiago, you could feel the celebrating atmosphere for Christmas and New Year’s Eve, that were very close.

At the same time, between all of these things, student of all country made an important test to get in universities (PSU). I did that test and I’ve had a very good mark. So, with my sister and niece decided to go out to have a celebrating meal.

We went to a Mexican restaurant, which was placed at Barrio Brasil.

We ate burritos and we filling them with a lot of things, like guacamole (avocado, tomato and chili), meat and bean sauces, etc… We seat in the backyard, where the tables were and we ate feeling the evening weather and seeing the sun going down.

I remember this occasion very well, because it were a very important moment for me and my family was there making me company. Also, I remembered because we had a great time, we chat and laugh, and well, there weren’t so many people in the restaurant, so we could stay there calmly.

A beach that I visited: La Herradura

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Well, today I’m going to talk about a beach that I visited and I remembered very well.

This beach it’s called La Herradura and it’s placed at Coquimbo City in the north of Chile.

I went there for the first time, like seven years ago and it was part of a wonderful holiday days. I spent these days with part of my family and some distant relatives. We had a really good time and visited a lot of places, so we went to the beach just a couple of days.

When we got there all of these days, the adults were directly to lie down on the sand, but how I was younger than them, I went to swim on the sea, and it’s curious, because in another beaches you can’t swim in an appropriate way, but there you can do it! That is because on that beach there are no waves, it’s almost like a lake.

The fact that remember so much this beach, it’s because I enjoyed it for complete, for me it was perfect;  the water was a little bit warm, there wasn’t too much wind and from  the nearest kiosk from the place that we were sit, a guy put on good music all the afternoon.

Bass Guitar

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Today I’m going to talk about something that I would like to learn to do.

Well, in my life, I expect and hope to learn a lot of things in many different fields, but now I will talk about one of all of them. And this is learning to play bass guitar.

I would like to learn it, because it’s an instrument that it’s present in almost every music genre, it complement perfectly with guitar and, with drums, it establish the beat of every song.                  

And well, because there are a lot of great bass players with groovy bass lines in classic Motown songs, for example.

I think that it wouldn’t be so difficult to learn it, because I know to play guitar (in a basic way), so maybe that fact helps. But sometimes I have a little coordination problems, so I may work on it. Also another thing that could be hard, it’s the hands or finger resistance, because strings are thicker than guitar strings. And, maybe, it could be difficult too, to learn music theory, in a better way, that it’s something I don’t know yet.

Probably, it would take a several months to handle it, in a basic way. But it depends of how often I practice.

To start with this, I would need a Bass Guitar, an amplifier and just in case, a pick.

Fiestas Patrias

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Today I’m going to talk about Fiestas Patrias, it’s something that I don’t like very much, but I celebrate it anyway.

Well, I usually celebrate Fiestas Patrias with my family, but sometimes I went out with my friends.

One of these times, I was in San Bernardo, and it was 2010, so it was a special year because it was 200^th celebration. I was in my last school year so with my school friends group (which Jenny was into), we decided to use all holiday week to celebrate.  

On the first day, we camped in a plot, we bought a lot of thing and we made a bonfire. We had a great time, chatting and laughing a lot.

The second day we decided go to a fonda, but the best fondas were in Buin, so we took a train and get there. It was very funny too, especially for a little theme park that was inside.

The next days, I made a lot of things and I visited a lot of people.

I really enjoyed that Fiestas Patrias, because I had a good time with my friends, we collected a lot of new anecdotes and also, knew how another families celebrate it.

Free Post: Tame Impala

Hello Classmates!

Today I’m going to talk about a band, that I discovered a days ago and since then, I can’t stop listening their music.

Their name is Tame Impala and they are from Perth, Australia.

This, it’s a psychedelic rock project, but they describe it like “psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock music, but basically it's all about the feeling”

Tame Impala; it’s a five piece band, led by Kevin Parker who writes the major part of the music. Parker at the studio makes the albums with two more people, but when they have to perform it live, they make it with five members.

They have made two albums, two Ep’s and one live album.  But all the success started in 2012 with their album, called “Lonerism”. Since then, they start a world tour, preforming at festivals like Coachella and in live TV shows.  

This is a very interesting fact, because we can’t mention so many Australian bands that have been in this situation, especially in alternative rock circle.

I think that something, that it’s very remarkable in this band, it’s the artwork and the graphic side, especially in their video clips, which complete the psychedelic atmosphere that they want to create.

 

 

English Blog Experience

Hello Classmates!

Well, today it’s my last post, so it’s time to analyse what’s happen thought this English course.

I enjoy writing this blog, because the posts that we made were about a lot of different themes, the most were very funny, so it makes easiest the job  to explain things that you like and know very well,  in another language.  

My favourite post were “A concert or exhibition”, because while I were writing, I remembered the exactly moment, many sensations and details that in the concert itself you don’t pay attention to. Also, I like because I could read about my classmates experiences in live shows.

On the contrary, my least favourite post were “technology”, because I find a little bit bored to write about this things and above all, because I don’t have so many technological stuff, so isn’t  a main theme for me.

I enjoyed reading Gonzalo’s blog, because it has a lot of posts about bands and musical information, also I enjoyed reading Camila’s Blog, because were of the most attractive one with the design that she choose and the different posts images.

I think that, the blog method was a good language learning tool, because, as I said before, it made easiest to learn English, writing about things that we know and avoiding using technic words, which complicates everything.

A Cartoon

Hello Classmates! Today I’m going to talk about a TV show that I enjoyed watching when I was a child.

When I was a child I watched lot of TV shows, some days I spent all day watching TV. In those days I loved almost every program that was on Nickelodeon channel. But there was one that I liked more than others.

This TV show was called “Hey Arnold!” and it was about a nine year old guy named Arnold who lives with his grandparents and his pig pet Abner. They manage a boarding house where live some persons with different stories like Mr. Kokoshka, Mr. Hyunh, Ernie and others.

Arnold’s life runs in between his life in the boarding house, going out to play with his best friend Gerald and the kids of the neighborhood, going out to Public School 118 and the different activities and urban legends of  the city that he lives.

There are a lot of things that are a mystery in this cartoon, like its unknown where Arnold’s parents are (they get lost in the jungle), His last name was never show and we will never know what happen with his complex relation with his classmate Helga Pataki.

The series was aired on Nickelodeon channel from 1996 to 2004, but today it’s still repeated by different channels.

I enjoyed this cartoon so much, because it was fun and I felt that some of those things happened to me, especially for the games with the kids of the neighborhood and the fear that we felt when we heard urban legends, just like in the TV show!.