lunes, 30 de junio de 2014

Literature

      Hello again. The last post wasn’t the final haha. And today it seems to be like I have good lucky. In the classroom we wrote in a piece of paper possible topics for the blog and the destiny chose for me “Literature”. Literature can be defined by “The art that uses the word like a weapon”. I think that all people have a favourite book or a favourite song, because you have to remember that the lyrics of a song are a piece of literature. Our entire world is replete of literature. Reading makes me happy, especially to reading poems. I consider that poems are the best part of the literature; it’s amazing to read a piece of paper and start to feel different emotions. Not all the people can write a good poem; here in Latin America we have a lot of good poets like the Chilean Pablo Neruda, the Uruguayan Mario Benedetti, the Argentinean Jorge Luis Borges, and my favourite one, the Cuban Jose Angel Buesa.  He is a genius, his poems are very easy to understand but they lend on you things to think about. He is very simple in the way he writes.          For finish my others favourites poems of him…
EL EXTRANJERO
«Mirad: Un extranjero...» Yo los reconocía,
siendo niño, en las calles por su no sé que ausente.
Y era una extraña mezcla de susto y de alegría
pensar que eran distintos al resto de la gente.

Después crecí, soñando, sobre los libros viejos;
corrí, de mapa en mapa, frenéticos azares,
y al despertar, a veces, para viajar más lejos,
inventaba a mi antojo más tierras y más mares.

Entonces yo envidiaba, melancólicamente,
a aquellos que se iban de verdad, en navíos
de gordas chimeneas y casco reluciente,
no en viajes ilusorios como los viajes míos.

Y hoy, que quizás es tarde, con los cabellos grises,
emprendo, como tantos, el viaje verdadero;
y escucho que los niños de remotos países
murmuran al mirarme: «Mirad: Un extranjero...»

CANCIÓN DEL VIAJE
“Recuerdo un pueblo triste y una noche de frío
y las iluminadas ventanillas de un tren.
Y aquel tren que partía se llevaba algo mío,
ya no recuerdo cuándo, ya no recuerdo quién.

Pero sí que fue un viaje para toda la vida
y que el último gesto, fue un gesto de desdén,
porque dejó olvidado su amor sin despedida
igual que una maleta tirada en el andén.

Y así, mi amor inútil, con su inútil reproche,
se acurrucó en su olvido, que fue inútil también.
Como esos pueblos tristes, donde llueve de noche,
como esos pueblos tristes, donde no para
el tren.

POEMA DEL FRACASO
Mi corazón, un día, tuvo un ansia suprema,
que aún hoy lo embriaga cual lo embriagara ayer;
Quería aprisionar un alma en un poema,
y que viviera siempre... Pero no pudo ser.

Mi corazón, un día, silenció su latido,
y en plena lozanía se sintió envejecer;
Quiso amar un recuerdo más fuerte que el olvido
y morir recordando... Pero no pudo ser.

Mi corazón, un día, soñó un sueño sonoro,
en un fugaz anhelo de gloria y de poder;
Subió la escalinata de un palacio de oro
y quiso abrir las puertas... Pero no pudo ser.

Mi corazón, un día, se convirtió en hoguera,
por vivir plenamente la fiebre del placer;
Ansiaba el goce nuevo de una emoción cualquiera,
un goce para él solo... Pero no pudo ser.

Y hoy llegas tú a mi vida, con tu sonrisa clara,
con tu sonrisa clara, que es un amanecer;
y ante el sueño más dulce que nunca antes soñara,
quiero vivir mi sueño... Pero no puede ser.

Y he de decirte adiós para siempre, querida,
sabiendo que te alejas para nunca volver,
Quisiera retenerte para toda la vida...
¡Pero no puede ser! ¡Pero no puede ser!

lunes, 23 de junio de 2014

My Blogging Experience.

Hi everyone.  Today I’m going to talk about my blogging experience. All this time writing in my blog was very productive, because it helps me to improve my English in different ways like grammar, writing and also speaking (With myself). The blogging experience helps me to know more of my friends and classmates; it was very funny, like the day we wrote about phobias I could not stop laughing, it was so funny to read my friend’s phobias (some of they were really strange, like mine). The days I wrote about my favourite pictures, movie, and book were also very nice, because I showed to my friends the things that I like. The best part of blog was expressing my opinions, my thoughts and in some occasions my feelings.  I like to write. In English is more difficult so I prefer to do it in my born language (Spanish – Español) It would be very awesome to still write, maybe about poetry, music or art; they are a lot of things to write. Maybe in a future I can be a famous blogger (Just kidding). If I have the possibility of changing some things of this experience I would not change anything. Everything was ok.

So, I would like to still writing about poetry. Maybe I can do it in a future.

For finish a poem written by Jose Angel Buesa.


Viendo pasar las nubes fue pasando la vida,

y tú, como una nube, pasaste por mi hastío.
Y se unieron entonces tu corazón y el mío,
como se van uniendo los bordes de una herida.

Los últimos ensueños y las primeras canas
entristecen de sombra todas las cosas bellas;
y hoy tu vida y mi vida son como estrellas,
pues pueden verse juntas, estando tan lejanas...

Yo bien sé que el olvido, como un agua maldita,
nos da una sed más honda que la sed que nos quita,
pero estoy tan seguro de poder olvidar...

Y miraré las nubes sin pensar que te quiero,
con el hábito sordo de un viejo marinero
que aún siente, en tierra firme, la ondulación del mar.

domingo, 22 de junio de 2014

Books

Hello everyone. Today I’m going to talk about books. I have a lot of favourite books. Some books are really good like “El Tunel” written by Ernesto Sábato, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” written by Stephen Chbosky, “Ansichten eines Clowns” in English “The Clown” written by Heinrich Boll, “Crónica de una muerte anunciada” written by the genius Gabriel García Marquez. But my favourite book is “The Sorrows of Young Werther” Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is an epistolary book that was published for first time in 1774. Werther is the main character of the story; he tells his story through letters which are sent to his friend Wilhelm. Werther is a very passionate and sensitive writer who lives in the Village of Wahlheim. He writes about how the things like the nature, the colours, the weather and the village in general make it feels and think. In his stay at the village he knows Lotte, a young woman who takes care of their brothers and sisters following the death of their mother. She is engaged with a man called Albert. By the time Werther starts to fall in love to this woman. He starts to be more and more confused about his feelings… love, angry, saddles. This book like others has a dramatic final, and I can’t tell you more, you have to read it.


This is my favourite book because it made me think a lot. Your life can be changed only for the way you feel. Our emotions and feelings can control our life, the way that we act and the way that we see the things. Maybe our life is good and everything is ok but our feelings make us see the things in a different way.

 

jueves, 5 de junio de 2014

Websites

Hello again, today I’m going to talk about websites, especially the websites that I use to study in this career. I always use websites like Facebook.com and do not think bad, I also use it to study, because my friends share data and important information.  Other page is morfo.cl, there you can practice for the anatomy’s exams. Morfo.cl is a private website that only can be used by students from the Universidad de Chile. But my favourite website that really helps me to study is Dropbox.com.  Dropbox is a file hosting service, where you can upload files and information. Is like an online pen drive. That is very useful because you with your friends can create an account, and start to upload information, guides and papers very useful to the career or work, so everyone with the password of the account can obtain them. I always use dropbox.com because people. People from previous years have downloaded transcripts from anatomy, histology, biology and more. If I need something for study, I go to the account of my colleagues and I can find there what I want.




lunes, 26 de mayo de 2014

Phobias

Hello my friends today I’m going to talk about phobias. Some people have serious phobias, but actually, I don’t have a real phobia, but I don’t like the most insignificant animal in the entire world: Ants.
I had a bad experience with ants. When I was 8 years old my friends and I were playing volleyball in a camp. The camp was very green, with a lot of grass and plants. I was very tired of playing so I sat down on the grass, after a few minutes I started to felt pain in all my body, when I looked to the grass I was shocking, because I was sat on a big ant nest. I started to run and I called to my mom. My mom with her friends (My mother’s friends) shook me very faster, took out my clothes and put me in the pool. After 4 minutes my body was a complete disaster. It was very swollen and the pain was very strong, because I’m an allergic person. I couldn’t move my legs for 5 to 6 hours. After that I had fear of ants.
With the pass of time the fear was decreasing, but I steel having precaution. When I feel an ant moving on my body I have goose pimples. But I have the solution…

lunes, 19 de mayo de 2014

Photography

Hello again. Today I’m going to talk about my favorite photos.

2 years ago in Ontario, Canada. More specific in Niagara, I went with some friends to the Safari Niagara.  When I went to the zoo I saw a lot of animals, some in a very good state, but others not so much. Some animals stayed alone on a jail for more than a year; their partners were dying so they had to live alone. The faces of the animals looked bad, like they were desperate to freedom. After that I put on my camera and I started to take them pictures, trying to catch the feelings of the animals more than a good pictures of them.  How I did it? I tried to focus their eyes.  After I had a good day with my friends but a bad experience watched the poor animals I began to see the pictures that I had been taken and they were very good. Now they are my favourite collections of pictures. I don’t wanna to sound egocentric but I feel very happy with the results.

I like the pictures because it transmits what I was thinking in the moment that I took it.

Now you can look them. I hope you like it.

            


lunes, 12 de mayo de 2014

My favourite movie.

Today I’m going to talk about my favourite movie. Actually I like lots of movies like “Dallas Buyers Club”, “The Help”, “Inception”, “Grease”, “Super 8”, “Star Wars”, etc.  But the one that I prefer is “Cast Away”.
Cast Away is a movie performed by the 2 times winner of the Academy Awards, Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks interpreted to Chuck Noland, an American who Works in FedEx. He was traveling to Malaysia when the airplane starts to present some serious problems; it crashed at the middle of the Pacific Ocean. He survives to the crash and stop in an island. The story shows you the life of Chuck trying to survive in the island, without technology, friends and family. He improved him wilds instincts and found some food from the sea and from some boxes that fall down from the airplane, water from the coconuts, supports the tropical storms in a cave, and much more; all this for more than 3 years. At some part of the movie he decides to commit suicide, but he learned about that and gave him forces to stay strong waiting for him rescue. He knew a particular friend: Wilson. Wilson is a volleyball ball that he treats like a real human. He stays all day with Wilson until he loses it in the sea. That part makes me very sad. After everything he comes back to him home. Her wife has other husband, and him life never be the same again.



You have to watch it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lunes, 5 de mayo de 2014

TECHNOLOGY

Today I’m going to talk about technology. I like some parts of the technology because it can put more closely the people who are away, like my parents, but I hate the other part because it can put more separated the people who are close. Today you can see how a lot of children do not play each other like in past times, now they have video games in their rooms, portable video games for travels, cell phones and many more things that obstruct the childhood. Some adults do the same, now in a restaurant you can see how a lot of people don’t have a table talk; they are always watching their cell phones. I have contradictory feelings about technology I love it but at the same time I hate it. Do you feel the same?



Looking for a good part of the technology I’m going to talk about my laptop. My laptop is an HP Pavilion from the year; it is 15.6" so it is a regular size. I use that because it helps me to do some homework, entertain me, and communicate with my family and friends which are in other countries. For the last reason I use Skype, that is a perfect app to talk and see people who are in other cities or countries. I use it frequently because I`m in the university and I always have work to do. I Like my laptop very much ,but I think that I can live without my laptop, it can be difficult in some ways but in my opinion people don’t need technology to survive (except for the medical technology). 

lunes, 21 de abril de 2014

University

From this new and my first academic period in the university I expect to increase my knowledge because I want to be a very good Dentist. I hope to have great marks in all my subjects even thought that seem to be impossible. I actually want to make a lot of good friends.

Now I’m doing 6 subjects: Biology which is my favorite, Anatomy, Physics and Chemistry which are united, Initiation to the Dentistry, Society and Culture and last, but not least, English.  Society and Culture can be considered like an extracurricular subject because I choose it.



Right now I’m not doing other activities apart of the University because it takes all my time. But, when I have a little of time I want to playing tennis, go to the contemporary art museum and travel to my born country to see all my family and friends.

Venezuelan in Chile. Autobiography.



Hello my name is Gabriel Alessandro Gárate Veroes. How you can read I’m a Venezuelan boy living in Chile. Now I’m fighting against the circumstances to be a dentist in this beauty country. I don’t want to sound sad so I’m going to tell you a little of my past.

I was born on 8th of June, 1995 in the most warm and precious city “El Tigre”, ubicated at the north of Venezuela. I used to live with my parents Gabriel and Patricia and my little dog Kendra until the day I come to Santiago. I have no brothers or sisters, but sometimes I consider to Kendra as my sister haha! I used to go out with my friends every Friday or Saturday and we had a lot of fun. My best friends are Edgardys, Gustavo and Elise. Elise is from Canada and I met her because she was an exchange student. She feels the same like me; we are both in love of the little country Id born. And this is the moment when I tell you the reasons of why I’m here. From the beginning my Father and his family are Chilean, so I have a lot of family here. When I finish the high school I lived in Canada for 4 months. There I learnt English. After that I return to my country to apply to the University. No univerties accept me even with notes (17.50 of 20). Day after day the situation in Venezuela was more difficult, we have to made very large files to buy just a little of food, the insecurity increase more and more, and in March my parents told me about the possibility to study in Chile so I took the offer and I started in this country to improve my quality of live. Now I’m living with my grandaunt in Santiago. I started the university and now I’m studying for be the best Dentist in the world.


                                                  






Other things about me:


I love playing tennis and listening music especially Jason’s Mraz songs. My favorite colors are dark blue and yellow. I considered I consider myself a happy and a kind person, maybe it sounds “cliché” but I like to help the people. I’m always the first person who started to dance on the dance floor and I like dancing salsa, merengue and other Latin’s sounds. I like very much watching movies and also I enjoy seeing paintings.