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!