Education

Education is a main topic here and everywhere, of course it must be considered as a right, giving the time we are living in, educations has become one of the most important tools to develop in life. Here in our country we have a very good example of how inappropriate some education system has become. For example it’s a whole world of difference between private and state schools, according to infrastructure, quality of teaching, relationships inside school, etc., and in the end that contributed to create not a good environment to learn for those kids. This should be taken as a main issue in our national agenda, and solve it from the very basic stuff, just like infrastructure is, and then go on to the next problems…go step by step, cause solving a little bit of everything doesn’t solve anything at all.
If I look at my own experience, I can’t complain much. I wasn’t at the very best school, but neither at the worst. I learn enough to be able to get a solid foundation.
Right now actually I’m not aware of any important project in matter of improving education, the only remarkable thing is that after the earthquake everything goes different, and a lot of student get into class only last Monday, and in modular schools (not permanent ones), as the one in the picture.
It’s a long way to Chilean education, even comparing it whit other countries of South America where education is mostly free.

Interactive english learning

I`ve just finished to visit the page of the BBC world about learning english on a different and less formal way, and I think it’s quite cool because it has games, quizzes, even cartoons in english and lots of other things.
For example, the cartoon on it are called The Flatmates, and terats about four flatmates that pass trough different situationin their lives. Hellen on one side had a classmate that is cheating in college and she doesn’t know if tell her teacher about it or not. Tim, another flatmate is applying for a job, and so on, the different episodes area about how they live their lives… Also in all this chapters the thing they are saying appears also written, so you can found out how to write them properly. I’ve also play Wordmaster, which tries your English by completing sentences whit the missing words, I’ve really like this game cause trains you on writing the word right, because many of those words I’ve all ready know them but didn’t know how to write them. And finally I've tried Beat the keeper which put you out kicking a ball to heat the right answer.
In general the page seems to me very interesting and I found great and funny the different ways that they offers you to learn a little bit more.

First erthquake in my life

At February 27th i was peacefully sleeping in my bed whit my one year old daughter that by the way has a cold that day, and I wake up like 10 second before the earthquake started… when it started I stay in bed for a while to see if it just pass like many other quakes, but it just got stronger so I stand up and grab my baby, but like we sleep at the second floor we couldn’t go outside or to the main door and we stay at the door of our room an just wait until it gets calm and I could go down stairs without the fear of falling doing it. When I get to the first floor I saw my mom that was coming to get me so I tell her to come down that we were ok… by that point we were all calm because nothing serious happens in our house or any of us, so we go back to bed, but everyone yn the first floor now, just in case. Like an our later my older brother came to our house, we were really scare cause hes apartment is on a 15 floor so it really shakes hard with the earthquake and we couldn't get in touch with him until that moment. It was a big relief. when he came we ask him if he knows anithing about other relatives, espeacially my grandma, cause she lives alone an she's old so we thought that may fall down or anything, and like the cell pohones were dead we ask my brother that goes to a public phone to call her and my other grandma also.. so he went and came back like in ten minuts and tell us that both of them were ok. After that we were much more calm so finally go back to sleep, and next morning fix everything that the earthquake mess up.
The other part is that my father was in colombia by that time so he got really despered to came back to chile but it was really hard for him because the state of the airport in Stgo. So he took like tree airplanes and a bus from arica to came here... and the sadest part is that we have some relatives in Chillán and they suffer damage in their house but fortunately they are ok beside that. That was pretty much the earthquake to me, i’m not afraid to it, but the consecuenses it have left to so many people is tremendous, and remind us that the earth is powerful and we shouldn’t abuse of her and trat her so wrong.

Expectations

i'm Camila Guzmán, I came from sociology and this its my firt class of english at the university.
During the semester i think we are gonna write, read and talk a lot more in english that what i'm used to, so i'll expect to improve my writing and also my speaking english. Talk in inglish during all class its a really good way to practice and also learn much more, besides the disposition of a good teacher its very important, it helps you much more than learn by your self, so if i know a little bit of english its ok, but it always can be improved.