The last Blog!

Every week, just after finishing the blog class, I must comment on my classmates’ blogs, three blogs every week, and they comment on mine, but all classes I finish last and rarely I receive a comment. In any case, I always read all the comments, and I read the others blog comments!

In the last months, the blogs that I have written have been the most difficult English texts in the year, and before, I only wrote in English at school, never in other contexts. As I had never written before in public, now my classmates are able to read my blogs and this makes all more difficult, because I must write for others and these others have to understand my blog.

Concerning the blog activities, it has been very entertaining, it makes me think about things of my life that I had never thought commonly, such as “person/academic that I admire”, “career-related websites” and “photograph that I like more”.

Finally, now in the end of the semester I feel quieter at the moment of writing in English. Now I know the key words to start any idea that I want to express, it is like losing the fear in writing, and a learning about my form how to write.

Admire?

Really, is very difficult for me think a person or professor that I admire, principally because one never know all about their lifes. I think that to fanatical admire is a bad activity, because the images that you have about the person is only one part of his life, and if one guide a field of his life base on this image, It will be difficult find yourself as individual.

I can admire postulates or hypothesis from someone, and some dazzle me, as Foucault, Feyerabend and Maturana, but I can’t admire the person’s body as image, or academic’s image, or scientist’s image. Relate an idea, postulate or hypothesis with a person image, academic image, scientist image, in my view is wrong. Nobody reach an idea alone, even though the articles and books have their names.

In any case, if I must choose any person to admire in my career field, could be Foucault (1926 -1984). Was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, philologist and literary critic. His theories addressed the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Foucault´s postulates about control and power, generate me explanations about dynamics social institutions and their history, objectives and consequences in the people and habits related to this institutions.

Life and games

Yesterday after the classes, I waited for a friend to see a movie together in ICEI. He arrived with his friend, an acquaintance for me. To arrived, Vuvuzela, my friend, and Katy, had greeted a girl who seemed to be their friend. We came into the cinema’s room, we saw that it was very empty, and we sat near the screen. A guy was talking to introduce the movie. The movie is about the game’s reality, and the reality, with “bioports” to enter games. The characters move into a game and reality, but they don’t know where they are. Finally, after the end of the movie, some persons discussed about the philosophy behind the movie, and the director’s objectives with the movie, we didn’t understand anything.

Prepare to the reality!

When we left the university, we walked to a place in front. Vuvuzela and his friend went to play in the park, Katy and I stayed talking. She told me about her university, her family, and her problems about the university. The principal problem that told me was about the conflict in her decisions. Really when I knew someone with these problems, it is very complicated because I have them too, but I know every person resolves their problems in different ways, just like the movie! After, we really felt in a real game, with game's problems with game's decisions!

An unforgettable photo

One photo has more that the only image. This photo was taken by “Domingo Tripas”. "Domingo Tripas" is an artist’s pseudonym. When I look a photo or picture, sometimes I like the image, and if I know something more about the context maybe I could enjoy more the picture. I don’t know who took this photo exactly and when it was taken, and you can see a way of looking that the photographer describes as towards the emptyness.

"Una mirada al vacío" By Domingo Tripas

In one occasion, I talked with Domingo Tripas, and he explaint me that in this photo, the time wasn’t important, when the emptyness fills the senses, and didn’t tell me when he took it. The face in the image is of “Vuvuzela”, a Tripa’s Friend.

The explanation of Tripas was for his vision of the Art. He describes the Art as a specific moment experience, a feeling and a part of you. So when he shares some photos, stops considering his, and the photos like Art belong to who is watching them.

In Tripa’s words, this photo is mine, and I capture it at every moment I see it. This form of seeing the Art is a gift of Tripas and Vuvuzela. And in this form, every time that I see the picture, I remember  Art could be mine, and because of this, I adore this picture.

My little contribution

Everytime when the environment theme is mentioned i can't avoid to feel little wrong because, i don't do enough to help in a good way like other people do. Some times i have interested to participate in activities or groups of environment help, but it's temporary, i guess because of my education. In all school I have been, the learning of the enviroment care  always take lightly, in this way, i never could internalize the importance of the environment.

some acquaintances took this way seriously, so when i ask them about their recycling activities, they answer me about what they do. But is very difficult think a life completely different regarding usual practice. The fruits and vegetable composting, recycle carton, drink tins, paper, plastics bottles and others. Don't use cars or chimneys, makes a vegetable gardens, and take care about the use of energy. They are amazing!

In my house, the usual practises regarding recycling, are reuse of plastic bags, collect carton, we use electric heating, and my brother has his own vegetable garden! unfortunately the dogs company make all more difficult to him.

when i was younger,the recycling activities in my house was more constant, because the school helped motivated to do it. Now that i am older than that moment, my own little contribution to help the environment, it’s use my bike every time i can, i always prefer to drink a water bottle than buy another drink, i always check all lights in my house to make sure that they are not doing a bad use.

i think i am going to start helping the environment with the nearest thing i have, the vegatable garden of my older brother! wish me lucky!

A career's future not clear

When i choose this career, never thought in what kind of job i will have, principally because the psychology have a different application areas, like educational, legal, social, labor and clinic. This feature of psychology is a plus for me, it allow me change the specific job when I want, doesn’t matter if is outside or inside. And I imagine me in the future in an office making labor interview, or in an examination room with a clinic patient, or in a community working with them, or in a school with a lot of children and helping them. A disadvantage in this jobs is if I think in a travel’s jobs, I gonna find not many, but make a little travel in free time isn’t bad.

Really is very difficult think in the future, but when I do, I cant imagine me studying other major, not by cause psychology its my favorite major, is because I really don’t want study other career, maybe a postgrade, but live through again the timetable like now for other five or six years, is not mine. I thought in study a postgrade, but I don’t know much about it, and I have hope to find something that liked to me, and generate me the motivation to study it. But if I can’t find something, I will work in a job that have similarity with my personality, and pleasure to me. Never more I will do something that don’t like me, the school and six years of university are more than enough.

uncertainty

Movies!

I think that the kind of movie that one look determine features of personality, like books or kind of music. My favorite kind of music it’s not very clear, but i love police thriller, detectives and counterculture’s movies. And obviously, movies’s best thing is your partner. Some movies depending on of the person that accompanies you, you will like in different ways. For example, I love watch marcial art’s movies with my brother, but with my sister I love watch animated movies. But when I am alone and watch the type that I like, all my family finally accompanies me. All they know me like the good eye for the movies. The last best movie that I saw was Mr Brooks, it’s a very interesting because its dynamism and problematic stay me inside the character and his progress! But the best saga that I seen is Hannibal, I expect that i can read the novel!

A new semester

Every time that i begin an academic term, i think in a the all of new emotions, people and adventure that i will have to know. This semester the matters that i do, are Psychological basic processes, statistics, sociology, psychology of the personality, basic processes of learning, epistemology and preintermediate English! This matters are the curriculum map of the second semester, excluded english. I consider that in my first year of university, take more matters will make this term more difficult. But the next year i will prepare to take extracurriculars! And as the university not is all, in my free time i read bigger quantity of books that i can, see the more exciting movies that i can found, and write my reflection, though in a more interesting way. So everything for what i can ask in this semester, is a lot of people, emotions and adventures!

My Auto Biography

I was born in santiago, at hospital barros lucos, even if I wanted had born in a spain’s monastery in 1690. I studied in a six schools in my life, even thoug four has been in primary education, and in all I tray of counting the type of relashionship that had the 17^th century’s people. I have a brother and two sisters, and all of them aprove my dream and my ideas of trying a be a Caribean’s sailor! ... obviously a sailor of 1690. My hobbies are very particular, because my bigger hobbie is read pirate's novels, and historic's accounts. I'm studing pshycology, and the things that i learn are very important for the performance of a master's pirate.

Me and my best boatswain, in a spain's wharf looking the horizon for a new  travel.