If I were...

A friend told me that if she were more outgoing, she would be happy because she would do some things that she does not do because of shame, besides she would live carefree of what the people say.

Well, I thought about being different from me, so if I were a very intelligent person I could find the cure for cancer, do a lot of experiments and I would know a lot of things. Or if I were a model I would be famous, travelling around the world, knowing too many important persons, appearing in magazines and things like that.

If I were rich … my mom used to say that, “If I were rich the first thing that I would do is to buy a house for me and one for each one of my siblings” (they are six)… If I were rich I think I must buy a house for my mom. Then I don’t know what else I would do because everyone changes with money and power.

If I were an animal I would rather being a cat, because they are lovely and independent-, they can go out to wherever they want, knowing the world around their house and be at home at dinner time. In winter they spend all the day in front of the fireplace sleeping and being spoiled. There is no one like them.

If I were a writer I would write a long beautiful story about the ocean, about the life, about the dream, the fantasy and magic heroes or maybe a slow and deep poem which impress the world and become famous till the last nook of the earth.

If I were the president of a country I would try to do my best and more than that, because people deserve it. If I were a value I would be the truth, because it is the beginning of all the knowledge. It is what we are looking for all the life and it is the hardest thing to find. It is what give the sense to the life.

If I were food I would choose to be a sweet fruit like a strawberry, or something like that, because I could give a sweet moment to someone and make her or him to smile.

If I were citizen from the place that I choose, I would choose to be from my real hometown, I love it and there was my childhood. If I were friend of whom I choose, I would rather have the same friends, because they are the most important part of my beautiful memories, they are who make my life beautiful and happy. If I were daughter of the parents that I choose, I would prefer being daughter of my parents because they were who gave me the life and the first persons who loved me.

If I were student I would prefer being an English pedagogy student, because I am sure that this is what I want for my life.

If I were who I choose to be, I would prefer being me, because there is no one like me.

My haunted house

There are too many things that can scare us, especially when we were kids. Being kids we didn’t need to somebody tells us a story or to see anything weird. We just needed to see an empty house close the neighbourhood and our imagination could create a completely world of monster and pretty soon the building became into “the haunted house”.

When I was a kid there was an empty house in the street. The owners had moved recently, but we didn’t care of that. It took us no more than two weeks to convert the empty house into a scary house full of ghost. In our imagination it was the most haunted house of all. “If you go there, a ghost can appear in the window.” used to say a child. “I heard weird sounds from there the other night” said his brother. “Those are lies” my young brother always said that because he loves scary things, but then the other kids asked him to go and knock the door. “I bet you don’t dare to go there”. “I will do it” that was always my brother’s answer. Then he stood up and went to the house. He being a little kid full of scare never retracted of doing something like this, but anyway he never knocked the door because never missed a child who screamed “I saw something in there. Run away!” and everybody ran to anywhere.

We were around 7 to 11 years old and in summer night when we had plenty of free time we used to create scare thing and tell stories to scare each other and always encouraging, of course, to go into the haunted house.

“There are bats, ghost, and zombies.” “Yes, because a person died there, and the corpus in the garden” “sure, that is way the family moved out of the house.” the gang imagined things of every kind. I have always had a good imagination, but I was completely scared with the things that they said, so I never said anything.

The consequences of this appeared in my dreams, which always have been really weird. One thing that I always remember about that it is to dream with vampires. I remember that perfectly, vampires running behind me to bite me. I used to dream with this since I was around 4 or 5 (I remember since that age at least). In the beginning was scared, but then I gained confidence to fight against them. I always could found the plan to make them be in the outdoor at down time, (every night it were more complicated plans); that was the only way to make them disappear. Unfortunately they used to appear the next night and so on.

Cheating v/s honesty

The dictionary says that cheating means to practice fraud or deceit. We are cheating when we say that we did a homework and we really copied someone else’s work, which is very common in everywhere. There are known cases of scientist or important investigators who have been dismissed from their employments because they have cheated copying parts of a investigation or they have stolen complete reports. Also in schools, teachers have been discovered cheating. And we like future teachers must to learn why we ought not to do it.

Even if then we get more importance or earn more money after we do it, cheating is not only unfair but also is try to lie to ourselves and that is not possible. Maybe cheating we can advance faster than doing the work by ourselves but that doesn’t assure anything.

It is true that if we cheating we can seem more intelligent, smart, powerful and successful, but that is just for a little time because the next time we will need do something more difficult, will not be able to do it and we will cheating again until it will no possible to continue and at the end we will be discovered and we will receive the punishment.

Till now I have asked to three friends why do not cheat and their answers are similar and expected, but I would like to tell them anyway.

The first one told me that cheating is not fair for classmates and for us and he would feel bad and guilty if he would do it. And I am completely sure that he never has done it and he never, ever will do it.

The second one told me that honesty is one of the most important things that families try to teach us since we are kids and cheating is to forget the family and everything that it has given us.

The last one told me that she doesn’t like cheating because she wanted marks of her own effort, thus to know how is she doing; besides if she would cheat she wouldn’t learn anything and the she wouldn’t be a good professional.

Those are examples of why do not cheat, mainly are ethics reason and it is true that everyone know what does and have to choose what to do. But always honesty will be better even if someone is not discovered, because that doesn’t mean that he or she is better than someone else, but means that the person who is cheating is too lazy to do a work by herself or himself, or maybe that he or she is not able to do a work. I choose honesty!!!

healthy habits

Nowadays people haven't enough time to have a healthy life. We are always running everywhere, having half lunches, going to work haven't ate anything, smoking, drinking, going to parties and never resting.
This is not a good way to live because we get stress, sick, tired, cardiac problems, etc.
In the last 20 yeas it has been a change in the way to live which has brought with itself an increase of diseases in the adults and children, being food the main causer of this, or the bad way to eat that the people have in the last time. Because of this and despite we have a higher life expectancy; we are having a worse life quality. I mean, we can have a longer lifetime, but we spent it sick.
Everything because the food we choose it is full of calories and fats, specially saturated fats, sugar and salt, when we must eat fibers and carbohydrates, this is why people are sick and are dying of diseases that our parents and grandparents never had had.
The last studies effected in the country show that the priority of interventions in health and nutrition are cardiovascular diseases, obesity, cancer, arterial hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis and anemia. The solution for all these diseases is to have a healthy life.
Following some advices we can have a life free of sickness and stress, besides we could feel better and be happy:

• To eat different kind of food during the day, because none can give us everything that we need eat. that is why we must combine them to have a healthy diet.
• To eat more fruits and vegetables because it has been demonstrated that eat some vitamins and compounds present in them reduce cardiovascular risk and some kinds if cancer.
• To use vegetable oil and don't eat animal oil, this because the vegetable iol has no cholesterol and it has a source of essential oily acids.
• To prefer meat like chicken, fish and turkey. Meat is an important source of proteins, but is better to eat white meat than red meat.
• To drink more milk, but without fats, because we just need the calcium.
• To eat less salt, because the salt is a causer of arterial hypertension and cardiovalcular diseases.
• To moderate the sugar. It produces caries, obesity and it increase the risk of diabetes.
• To try to drik two litors of water, to keep the body hydration.

With these simples steps we can have a healthy life, but do not forget we also need to do some exercise.

diamante poem

earth
round, unpredictable
sowing, trembling, growing
round, power, peace, majesty
flowing, raining, shining
infinite, blue
sky

Spring

Spring in a season which is between winter and summer. It is when plants realive and start growing.

Spring is one of the most beautiful seasons of the year; most of people think it is a time of flowers, love, birds singing, sunlight and children running. The people fall in love frequently during this time, you can see a lot of couples in parks and everyone is happy, or almost everyone because not everything in the life could be colours and happiness. Spring also is the season of allergies, sneezes and itch.
With the spring comes the bloom of the trees and the pollen begins to spread in the air and what does that the people star to cry and sneeze. They can't sleep in night and breathe in the day. This begins in September and has no determined time to end.
Doctors think people is everyday more allergic because everyday they have less field life and their bodies have no the habit of facing the nature. Because of this, their bodies attack the natural agents.
Something very sad it is that when spring comes more people commit suicide. That is because of the change of ionization in the air. That makes the people get an imbalance in their mood and make them to take this kind decision, specially what we talk about people with psychological problems.

But spring is not just sickness either. With spring comes the good weather and sun, everything awake after a long time of cold and rain, people is happier, have more energy. Days are longer, we have more time with sunlight and temperature is higher.

Spring also is the love season, as I told before, spring bring a change in the ionizatioin of the air and for the people who haven't psychological problems, this change of air added to high temperature and be light of clothes makes a hormones revolution, specially in teenagers. The result is parks full of couples making out.

In some places people make celebration when this season starts. Festivals can be very different in one place from the other. there are to many countries who celebrate the welcome to the spring like: India, Australia, Afghanistan, Vietman, even Chile. I am from Chillán, so I am going to tell how the people celebrate there.
The festival is called "la fiesta de la primavera" and people make allegoric cars full of flowers, some people disguise themselves and everyone is in the central square. In the evening and night you can go to listen music and take part in contests.

Bicentenary

Though it's true that this year we are celebrating " the Bicentenary". We weren't independent two-hundred years ago. But right there we started a process to be free. In 1810 the king Fernando VII was Napoleon's prisoner. Because of this some people decided to meet and talk about the future of the colony without the king. That is what we know as opened chapter where the politic started to be public for the natives. In that date also the people chose their representatives for the country. This meeting was, in the beginning, just for look after the country while the king was prisoner, but then the people realized they could be independent from Spain.

Being strict with the history we can say "this year is not the bicentenary and everything is wrong" because it is not this year. We have not two-hundred years of independent life, but as I saw once in a Simpson's chapter: is better if the people things that and do good things for the others even if it's a lie. Just look at them and see their happiness. Why stop them? Why break in what they believe?

So, this year the celebration will be great and bigger than the last years. Everyone wants to do something special: schools, colleges, TV, stores, the government are some of them. The "Ramada" will catch the attention, BBQs, and cueca promise to do these holydays perfect with the family.

we are already on Septembre but the people is not preparing the things to celebrate because like a good Chilean, we do everything at the last moment but we don't like stores be full of people buying and we always say: the next year I will prepare all early. And that's a lie. But one thing it's true: this year shops will be really full of people.

Since the beginning of this year we could hear thing about the bicentenary: not even Condorito is out of this celebration. As every day he is informed about the main things and the bicentenary it's one of them, of course, he can't be out of this, because he is an important Chilean person.
I don't know if in some years more somebody will say something like: "now is the real bicentenary of independency" and the people will want to celebrate again, but now just let's enjoy. Nice bicentenary for you!

Winter Vacations

We came back to class just one week ago and after this newly spent vacations were a great time. I spent the days with my family in Chillán. During these I did a lot of things and one of them which is really important is to sleep. Of course, I not only slept. But also I hanged out with my friends, who I hadn't seen too much time ago.

These were two important weeks in what I knew some news about my friends that I hadn't seen, such as people who are in a relationship, who broke up. What about the people who is studying or working and things like that.

Also I could do things that I couldn't do during the first semester like watch some films (in english of course), go to parties, eat a lot, etc.

But there are things I couldn't do as well, whether because I didn't have time or because there was no moment, such as see a friend who is pregnant, she is already eight month and I just knew three weeks ago. The truth is that this piece of news surprised me too much, but the life is like that.
Another thing I hadn't time to do as well was travelling to Rancagua to visit my mother. That is why I went this weekend.
One thing to what I had time and also is really important too is go to the church. During the last couple of month of the first semester I couldn't go there because I had much to study. I was missing to go there. I think it is a place like no other. I always have a nice time when I go to the church. There I can meet my friends, ex classmates, and meet new people as well.

Maybe these newly spent holly days were a short time, but they were necessary and I am grateful for them. I relaxed, rested and filled of energy myself for this new semester.

Of course, these were wasted weeks for studying, but if it weren't like that, it hadn't been vacations.

Tendencies

Everyone follow a tendency or fashion. Even when we think not and make everything posible to don't look like the most of the people, because always exist somebody else doing the same or thinking just like you.

Tendencies or fashions could be about clothes, music, ages, thinks, nationalities, sport, works and a lot of things.

At this very moment the tendenci is the world coup which is present one month and come back every four years.

I think the world coup is important even if you don't like soccer because for a country like our which is just standing after an earthquake is a way to cheer the people and make them forget the problems. Besides for the host country is a good way to earn a lot of money, get better their economy and give job for unemployed people

Another example of fashion was Michael Jackson recently death. People followed every step, everymove he did and people look like him and dance like him. Other example are the beatles. People even copied their haircut.

At the last time appeared a lot of tendencies in the young people the most famous is called "pokemones" using colors in hair, pearcings or things like that. luckly this tendency is almost gone.

live in a weird house

Most of us can say we live in a big, small, nice, ugly, old, new, two floors house, but no one can say live in a weird house like this.

Carol is the owner of this very special house. She is an artist and she decorated the house with her own style. "Usually when people see my house they say: 'hey! look these. Is a really weird house.' or 'Is these a house?? it's look like a shoe' or things like that but I'm very happy with my house because it's creative and different from others. When I thougth in build this house I remember the story for kids which a family lives in a big shoe and when I was a child I used to dream living in a house like that. And here we are now!" she said. But even when the house has form of shoe the interior is perfectly normal. Actually has very nice rooms.
Carol's family has a normal life in the house. Kids love the house too because everyone payd atention on these.
But in the beginin people don't believe where Carol's family lives. they say "Are you kidding me? How can you live in a shoe?" but when see pictures or go to see the house they say: "This is incredible. It's a shoe"

Shopping

There are many diferents kind of shops or stores for whatever you like. Depending of the thing you are looking for, you must go to a specific shop. there are shops about sport, books, hairdresser's, medicine, home, gift, shoes, babies, food, computers, but I think the king of them is the clothes shop. Because it is the center of atention for thousand of people, mostly women. Always most important shops are about clothes and people are always attentive to any change in the mode and they run to buy everything mode say. Even when it is something weird. But supermarket are big shops too, and are very necessary for daily life. Those two shops are the most important and move the mostly of the money in the shops world. But each store is not the same than the other one. Depending of quality the price of something can be more or less than others. Generally expensive things means high quality, but not always is in this way. You must to be careful about this.

Well, go to shopping is fun, because you don't go just to choose things. go to shopping means go for a walk, meet people, eat out, maybe go to hairdresser's shop, know new things and know the news. But go to shopping could be hard too. Specially in the festivities because the people drive cracy buying everything they found. uff!!!! that is awful.

places to go out to eat

There are many different places to go out to eat, it depend of the partner. If you go with friends you'll probably go to eat fast food, because it's cheap. Also you can go to pubs, pizzerias, Ice-cream parlour, etc. places when you can eat and drink. talk and make jokes, to share with them and spend it well, maybe meet new people. And go at the evening when the class or job is over.

If you go out with your family you can go to a picnic, bbq, fast food places, pizzerias, Ice-cream parlour, restorants, etc. I thing go to calm places, when you can be relax. usually at the weeckend.

But if you'll go out to eat with girlfriend or boyfriend it's completely different. You'll choose the perfect place, take care of every detail. If you are the boy is better go prepared to pay expensivly.
In this case the food and place is very importat to make the perfect enviroment. The place can be a restaurant or a coffee or anyone else but if you want a romantic date you must to know are many places where you NEVER go. Like fast food places. Well, isn't completely wrong, but just is not the best place.

Dating someone

When the people are meeting each other usually they have dates. Couple go to the cinema, restuarants, parks, coffees, go for a walk, etc. to have a good time together and be romantics, nice,to share with each other and things like that.

To go to a date the woman always take care of every detail with the clothe, make up, hair, etc. to look most wonderful posible for her handsome boyfriend. But even when the man doesn't care too much, they look great anyway (some of them, not all of them).

I think the first date is the most important because if this goes bad could be the couple don't go out together again, but if the date goes well probably they will have more dates and in the end they become girlfriend and boyfriend.

I think in the first date must pay the man to demonstrate he is a gentleman (or seem if he isn't) but at the next time I think must to pay who is inviting.

Task nº 4

Until now my life at the university is pretty good. I really like it. I enjoy with my classmates and we learn too much together. Specially talking among classes. Actually I never thought be a teacher but I'm not sorry about take this way. And day by day I like it more.

The classmates I normally share with are: Antonieta Macaya, Silvana Leiva, Fabiana Ramirez, Bastian Kind, Sergio Zarate, Paula Silva y José Reyes. The last Two are very good in classes. They know so much and they help us in every thing.

In class I always try to sit me at front of the teachers but my classmates prefer stay back. usually I'm sitting by the window. But when I'm late doesn't matter where I am.