think green!

Today we have to write about a topic that I’m concerned about very much and this is the environmental care.

Since I was a kid I felt that the people didn’t take care of the animals and the plants and I cried every time I saw a dog or a cat having a bad time on the streets. The schools and the society don’t teach anything about the environmental care that’s the reason why the people don’t know elemental issues like the water is ending and that sooner than later (I hope later) we will have to find ways to use the salt water to do all the things that are related to the water uses and that our children will not have the possibility to freely enjoy a glass of water.
When I realized that, I started to learn a lot about this topic and to teach to the people that are around me how to make their life in a greenly way. So I started to reuse things like the clothes or the plastic bags to do new and useful things: With my mother, we made old clothes dolls and stuffed animals and we used the old plastic bags to build a green house where we planted lettuces, onions, garlic, chives, beans and many other plants.

Even though, in all this time I didn’t join to any organization concerned about this topic because I feel that this kind of organizations are more concerned about money and biggest companies than in people who really cares about the nature, animals and the future generations. But I joined to an organization that cares about animals in risk on the streets: they recue the animals (dogs and cats) and find a new place for them with people that could take care of their alimentation and health.

In the other hand, talking about the carbon footprint, I use my legs to moving around the city every time that I can, but as my house is far from the city I mostly go by car, but my car is really green, despite this I hope to buy in the future a hybrid car that has a lower carbon footprint.

I wish that in the future the environment keeps as we know it so my children and my grandchildren could enjoy the nature, the animals and the wonderful places that our plant have. But that is a mission for all of us, hope you join to the cause!!

http://youtu.be/gOxYdF3OpBA (here is a beautiful video to "find the green")

See you on March!

My vacations

Vacations are important because we need to relax from our occupations, we need to get us apart from our jobs and studies and find a place where we can have fun and get a recharge for our minds and bodies to face the New Year.
Every year I used to go to the south of Chile and visit my family that lives there. This year will be different because we will go to a new place. That’s because my sister is going to study to the south, at los Lagos University in Osorno, and she doesn’t want to get there for vacations because she will be there all the next year.
This summer, on February, I want to go to the Maihue Lake with my friends and my sister, I hope to camp there a few days and then go to visit to my uncle at Puerto Montt city. I also want to go to Viñas’ festival with my friend Lucas and see Morrissey and sign alone with all his songs.
I think that I get to Maihue in a car, I don’t know if I will drive it or if my dad will do it, but I’m pretty sure that will be in that way. And to Viña I’m going to get there by bus, the same day of the concert.
I think that is pretty clear what I’m going to do on the festival: sing all the songs. But in Maihue ,I just hope to relax myself with the lake and have a great time talking with my friends, singing, swimming on the lake, exploring the place, and all that kind of things that you do when you go to camp.

Well that’s all about my vacations, see you next Friday!

Summary of an article from “The Guardian”

On twitter I have access to the daily news from the Guardian but indeed they usually don’t say much about Education. So, when I start to read the page with so many articles that talk about this topic, I found a lot of interesting things, but the reportage that caught my attention was “US teacher offer support for climate change lessons”.

This article talks about the hard times that are having some teachers in USA because of their decision to teach to their students about the climate change, and the needed of protect them by the authorities to keep them teaching about this subject because there is many people in the country that is against the teaching of this topic, believing that the global warming is a lie or that it hasn’t be caused by the human being.

In the article, the journalist says that is a terrible mistake to prohibited the teaching of the global warming or the climate change because we’ll have people in the future that will not know anything about this and will be under-educated unable to do anything to save our planet.

I think that this problem appears because USA hasn’t signed most of the international agreements on environmental protection, causing misinformation into the people of the country

I hope this kind of things never happen in our country because the teachers hasn’t be neutrals on the issues of national and global contingency, they need to teach and express what they thinks.

That’s all, see you next Friday!

Movies

I think that movies are an important part of the development of the media arts. In the beginning movies were used to educate people giving them information about things that were happening in different parts of the world. Today movies are a space of entertainment to any kind of people but some of them keep educating the population, as the documentaries.
I think that as teachers we need to be updated about the new technologies and try to incorporate them in our classrooms. This will let us be closer to our students and give them more possibilities to learn through the different kinds of intelligences.
Personally I like two kinds of them: Horror or thrillers or romance and comedy movies. My preference will depend on my emotional state. When I’m happy and enjoying a great day I usually like to see horror movies, I enjoy very much to feel scared specially when I have someone that can hug me! On the other hand, when I feel sad I need to see romance and comedy movies, this kind of movie makes me feel that no matter how bad are the things for us in a determinate moment we could be happy sooner than later.
Talking about a favorite movie, I don’t have only one but in the last years I fell in love with two movies: The notebook (in Spanish “Diario de una passion”) and Ps: I love you, those movies are gorgeous and I can’t stop crying every time that I see them.
The last movie that I saw was Blue Valentine. I saw it in the cinema’s day two or three months ago, with my sister and I love it even when it hasn’t a good and happy ending, I recommend seeing it to all the people that believe in love.
See you soon!