Today I don't feel very good because the spring brings to me a big allergy so....... I choose very quickly a painter to write about: Salvador Dalí.

I remember a book of this painter that my father bought to my sister on her birthday long time ago. This painter makes me a strange sensation because I was very little and I used to see realism pictures with fruits or beautiful scenery. 

Dalí was a spanish painter, sculptor and writer who is famous for his surrealism style even  screenplay of movies like "Un perro andaluz" directed by Luis Buñuel.
He is very recognized for his special mustache and for his important career with about 1.500 pictures.

His pictures give many possibilities of fantanstic worlds with strange figures taken of crazy dreams, but all of these are combined in one big piece.

Here we are again

This year I learned a lot of things about how television works. To be honest, in the beginning I didn't like TV because the chilean programs are really bad and the channel environment is very hard and unfriendly.

But in the first term, my television class gives to me another experiences (even though I didn't like my teacher). We learned new ways to work in group, many times under pressure for the time. Also to respect different jobs inside the tv studio, and how we can make interesting tv programs with little economic resources.

But the most important thing I learned in my class was the "switch". I really love it, is so easy and enjoyable. I can take the control of three or four cameras and choose what of these are into the air.

About sports I dind't practice swimming, my favourite sport, because I was a little lazy, but now I retake it and I very tired but happy.

I hope this term will be like the past, because I didn't have a serious problems in my life. I learned a lot about something I thought boring.

Goodbye my friend

I had never had a blog before. When I was in high school I used to wrote in a notebook cover with newspaper or on pages like Fotolog (a horrible past we all had jajaja) and in MySpace where I could upload a song or any video with my personal words about the day. Well, the true is I'm really suspicious with my thoughts. 

I like writting but I don't like publishing in websites where strange people can read it, so if I decide to do, I keep the link of my sites in very closed secret.

But all of this change when I began my career. I had a lot of work so I left writting and I never use again all of this secret pages. Now all of these are closed, until this spring term.

In my English class I must retake my old habit but the difference is now I should do in English.

It has been very intersting and entertaining because I have a new blog where I left my comments and I can write about things I like as movies, photographs, books and music. So I can learn and practice another language and have a good time.

This work is only one time in the week. So is not very hard for me I guess. Is a different way to become accustomed to think, write, read and talk in English about personal things that my classmates will read after.

But I found a little problem in this blog: some days I'm really tired after a long day of class and I must sit in front of computer... this is terrible. In moments like those I think I could be in my bed rest and writing on my blog at the same time, but I can't because I need a good attendance in my English class. 
This is all I think. Goodbye classmates!

Movie guide

Bazuca is a company that sells dvd, blu-ray and online movies, books and video games in  our country on internet. Also, offers monthly subscription plans for movies that Bazuca staff carry to your home without extra charges.

I hired a plan so I must check the website to know movie releases and choose it for my list of the month. 

But the true is I visited bazuca.com before y get my plan. In this web page I can found a lot of movies, directors, actors and comentaries about movies and tv series. I can search some movie and the web recommends to me another similar to the first. I visit it every day so I'm keep abreast with foreign and national releases. And sometimes, if I can't free time to go to cinema I see on demand movies on high definition that aren't on dvd yet. 
Another sections are similiar. Books and games of Play Station 3, Xbox 360 and Wii are online so anyone can know and decide to buy or rent it.
The good of this web page is you don't need to be registered to see anything, unless you want to buy something.

A moment suspended

Today, I choose "The Truce" or it original title "La Tregua". This is a book I read in high school about five years ago. I remember it because I usually hated another books that I must read for my spanish class, so this and "100 años de soledad" are those I liked and read with time before my exam of literature.

Mario Benedetti wrote this work in 1959 about a men called Martín Santomé. He works a lot, is widower and he has 3 children but they don't have a good relation and comunication with their. He is very lonely and his life is the same every day until he meet Laura, a young women who start working in the company of Martín. 

They fall in love and Martin´s life change in 360°. But this happiness is short because Laura dies suddenly, so Martin comes back to live his old life.  

I really like this story because Benedetti wrote it like a diary, where Martin left his feelings and adventures of his days. "The Truce" talks about routine and how we should enjoy every moment of our lifes because good and bad things come and go. 

 A review of the book on Amazon:

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

 Love, Life and Solitude 30 May 2001

By René Orellano - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

this is one of the greatest works by Mario Benedetti, a story of sadness, solitude and routine. One great virtue of this book is the way it transmits all the moods that the author is presenting through it's descriptions and the way of living of the characters. La Tregua is about love, life, and the reality of a world who doesn't allows us to live as we may want to. There is people who work for a living and there are many who live to work. Share with Martin Santomé and Laura Avellaneda the social dilema that Benedetti is Presenting us.

I'm completely agree with René, because Benedetti relates daily lifes (that are very difficult to described) in an interesting and delicate way.

Emilia and the ghost

Last night I sleep just an hour because I made a work for university so my day was very long and tiring. But today I have the pleasure of make a interesting interview to Emilia Aguilar in my English class, and I forget my lack of sleep.

Emilia is my classmate in some classes at "ICEI". She studies journalism and I study cinema and television, but it doesn't matter because we have some communication lessons together.

In this afternoon, I have some curious about the successful of the TV program "Psíquicos, están entre nosotros" so I ask to Emilia about it. She hasn't seen this TV show on Chilevisión, and she laughed for my question. Well, the true is I saw this program for a few minutes some day and I think that it's terrible... so bad but a little funny.

And after my first question I descovered the true about Emilia's house. 

She lives in Peñalolén since 12 years ago in new buildings. But she doesn't know about these lands were a fields planted with vines before she and her family arrived there.

And this is very important to explain the strange stories of odd sounds and dark shadows around Emilia's house.

Her father saw in the middle of the night the back of a women down by the stairs of his house. She was a peculiar dark shadow. I think it was very scary for him, but Emilia says to me that these situations are very commun. 
Sometimes she hears sounds of invisible people using computer's keyboard and her brothers listen it too. I can't imagine live with ghosts, their scare me a lot, but Emilia takes it very well because she think that these dead spirits are harmless.

Lines

This is Toku Konno, a japanese tsunami survivor of March 2011. She has been photographed by Denis Rouvre, a french photographer, portraitist of many famous around the world.

Denis took many photos in Japan of people survived at this tragedy. He made a sitting in studio after the earthquake and tsunami hit that country. This photo is one of those and is third on singles prize of portraits category in World Press Photo, a famous foundation about photojournalism and documentary photography that receives many works of worldsides. 

I like it because the face lines are very deep. Her eyes hides many feelings and suffering for the tragedy. I think is very difficult take photos about terrible situations and is more complicated make portraits of this afected people. Sometimes photographers cross the line and choose awful events to make their photos at that very moment. I prefer something like this. Is not necessary for me see destroyed houses and many people crying for tsunami. Im agree with the decision of take the expresion of this oldest woman. Her face say more that Japan on ruins.