the environment

In the last time, the global warming has become in one of the most important problems that we have as society in the world, crossingall the political opinions, social classes or place where people live, because the environment is very important for everyone, and we all have to be able ton save our world of the destruction that ourselves have done.

In that sense, nowadays is very easy to find information about environmentally friendly practices, because they are disseminated by the governmets, ONG’s and companies, encouraging practices like the recycling and making it more easy to do. For example, in my house, we recycle an important part of the garbage, and it’s very easy because there is a truck that goes every week to take the recycling. Also I try to don’t use electric machines as it’s possible, don’t waste water unnecessarily and I go everywhere in my bike when it’s possible too, because I live a little far of the places I use to go to. Some years ago, I have been working in a organization that plants trees in the Santiago’s hills, but I have stopped working there.

I think that all these everyday practices are very important to take care of the environmet, but all those things that the normal people use to do, must be accompainde with politics that regulates the big industries, because they pollute a lot of the pollution produced in the world, and sometimes is better for them to pay more taxes than having a way of production more friendly with the environment.

music

I have written in an old post the importance of music as the language of all the people in the world, but today I’m going to write about the music in a more personal way. I like a lot of kinds of music, because I think that the different kinds of music represent different feelings and states, but if I have to choose, I think I would prefer the trova or the ska, because I think that those are the music styles that I listen the most, but if I have to choose only one group or singer, I would prefer Silvio Rodriguez, because I really like his melodies and his lyrics. I use to listen music every moment it’s possible, even while I’m studying, but the truth is that I prefer playing music than listening it, I use to play piano and guitar with my brothers who play bass, trumpet, charango, violin and also piano and guitar, we use to pass a lot of our time just playing music or improvising, it’s very fun because we all like the same music styles. As you ca see, the music is very important in my life, but not only now, I have started playing music when I was six years old, and I haven’t stopped playing since now, so, I think that music has been a very important part of my life.

Happiness

The happiness is like the perfection, I think that if you want to be happy or make something perfect, you need to be doing something to achieve it all the time. Nothing can be perfect all the time, because in any moment it stops being perfect, and also I think that nobody can be happy all the time, because it would be so boring, and boredom is not part of happiness. But I think that there is another problem with the happiness, because the people use to think that we have to try to be happy all the time, believing that if you achieve it, you will be a better person, but I think that all the feelings are necessaries to be able to understand our lifes, our society and our world. For me, is very important being able to feel and understan all the feelings, not only the 'good ones', we have to know how to value the sadness, the hate, the love, the helplessness... The human being can feel a lot of things and we don't have to ignore any of them. So, I don't know if Chile is a happy country, or if for people is difficult being happy, but I know that being happy is very important for everyone, but not all the time.

Cuba

I love travelling, because I think that is very important to know about the lifestyle of the people in other places to be able to understand your own society. Of course that I like going to places where there’s nobody too, but I think that it’s another kind of travel and you don’t need to go so far (like another country) to get that experience.

Anyway, if someone ask me in this momento where I would like to go to, I would say taht I want to go to Cuba, because I think that it’s a very different society, but it’s changing, and everyday it’s more similar than the way of organization that we have in this country and the most of the countrys of the world. Every people that has gone there has differents opinions about if the cuban lifestyle, somebody says that the cubans don’t like their country and its system, other  people says that cubans are very happy living there… So, I would like to know it by myself. For this reason, if I went to Cuba, I wouldn’t like to go like a turist, because in that condition, you don’t understand the reality of the country and his people, so I would like to go there like a student or worker and live with the cuban people and no in a hotel.

English IV

Hi, this term I've take english four, the last one that  I have to take. I hope this term to be short, because I think I,m not going to do the best work in summer, because of the warm and I will be thinking all the time that in a ordinary year, I should be on holidays. Anyway, apart from english, I have take only five subjects more, so, I have not a lot of classes and that makes easyer to stay here on summer. And about the things I would like to do in the english class, I like to write about different topics on the blog, because I think that it is a good way to expressing about the things you would need to talk about.

Banksy

I have to write about a picture, but I prefer to write about an street artist called Banksy, who makes his art in the public space producing a lot of images in the city every day. Nobody knows excatly who Banksy is, because he is an anonimous grafitti artist. The only thing we know, it's that he is english, because his work has been known in the stretts of english cities.He gives to his art a lot of political content, like anti-capitalism, anarchism, exsistencialsm or anti-imperialism and how his way of producing art is sometimes illegal, he doesn't say his real identity. 

The techinque more used by Banksy, is the stencil, that consists in a thin sheet of material that you cut in the form of letters and images applying pigment trough the cut-holes in the material. I really like this technique because the work is done just once and then you can reproduce the image all the times that you want without taking a lot of time or doing a big work. In his stencils, Banksy shows a part of the reality in a very creative way, giving social and political messages with an irreverent dark humour, not only in the streets, because Banksy also puts his works in the museums in a clandestine way, he has had exhibitions and he has make films too, all this from the anonymity and without beeing discovered his formal identity.
I really like the art of Banksy, but not only in an aesthetic sense, because I think that the ideas that he represents by his work are very important for our society, because he is able to show our problems in a very atttractive way so everyone see it.

TURN THE TV OFF!!!

Today, I have to write about TV serials, but I have a problem : the only thing I watch on TV are football matches ( sometimes ) and films. I don't like watching TV, I prefer to do a lot of things before watching the life of other people, because hardly I have the time to do all I would like to do and sit in front of a box that shows images and destroys my imagination and creativity is not a priority for me. I studied in an elementary school where I had prohibited watching TV and using a computer, but now I use the computer like a tool or for listening music and be informed. Nowadays, the people don't get out of their homes, the children don't play in the parks and neighbors don't meet each other, everything because of the alienation that the TV or the social nets produces creating on the people of this society a difficulty to establish real relations with the other people and the environment in general. I think that people like watching TV because they don't have to do anything, neither thinking or imagine something, it's everything done and that is what many people looks for nowadays : they want everything already done, not doing anything, but that affects us like human beings that are able to think, to create, to imagine anything by our own. Is for that reason that  I call you to live your lives, not the one of other ones, turn off the TV and think by yourself!