My international friend

Hi again!

¿What I could write in this post?

Really I didn´t know about what to write, but thinking and thinking I had one idea related with English: my gringa friend called Laura!

About Laura…

Her name is Laura Philpott and she is 21. I and my friends called her “Lora”, because this way is pronounced her name in English jajaja

 Laura arrived to Chile in august of 2010 and she decided stay for one year here, therefore she goes back to EE.UU. in august from this year. Laura lives in Los Angeles California but she bored in San Francisco. She’s in third year of psychology in Santa Barbara’s university in California. All the people ask her: why Chile??!!!!, and she say: I don´t know! Only were the country and the university that had a similar program of psychology that the program from Santa Barbara. Anyway I know that she is happy with her choice and I and her Chilean friends too, she is really a good person, very nice and funny and she is very dear by all the people that meet her.

I knew to Laura in a class of last semester called Psicología Social II, and from that moment, little by little, we have made a nice friendship =). We do the homework together and moreover we go out with our friends and have fun! She always makes me laugh with her “Espanglish” language, LOL.

The sad goodbye

She leaves Chile the lasts days of June because before to go back to U.S.A in august she will go to Bolivia with a gringa friend and later she will visit Perú.

Laura promised come back to Chile and I promised her to go to EE.UU. to visit her some day. I hope that both keep our promise because promises are promises!!!! J

GUSTAVO CERATI

I think that an interesting topic to post in my blog is about one of my favourite singer: Gustavo Cerati.

¿How I find him?

I knew this fantastic music, singer and composer for a CD that a gas station called COPEC gives to my dad. In this CD there were many Latin’s bands of 80’, and one of them was Soda Stereo. I was only a child, I was around ten years old, and this kind of music wasn’t the typical to my age, but from that moment I loved his voice and his music style.

Soda Stereo

Soda Stereo was one of the most influential and important rock bands of all time of the hispanic music and of the latin rock. This band was formed in Buenos Aires in 1982 by Gustavo Cerati (singer-songwriter and guitarist), Héctor “Zeta” Bosio (bass) and Carlos Alberto Ficicchia (Charly Alberti, on drums) and in 1997 they broken up for personal problems.

            About the middle of 2007 the band announced his return to make only one continental tour called “Me Verás Volver” where attended more than a million of fans.

My sister and I had the opportunity to go to this amazing recital in the estadio nacional in 2008. This summer’s day was great; we were very excited and happy about the recital. We arrived to stadium very early, around 15:30, and the recital started to 21:00 hrs and the first thing that we did was to buy posters and head bans of the band. Our sweet mom prepared us delicious sandwiches to eat while we waited to see them.

The concert was really fantastic, my sister and I were the youngest in the public!!! LOL but we didn´t care because we were the most cheerful in the concert.

No doubt it was the best concert ever =)

Pitifully the Gustavo’s health isn´t good, I really hope he gets better soon

Only one thing to say: “GRACIAS TOTALES”

Memories

This appetizing picture was taken in Puerto Montt, specifically in Angelmo. All began when my godmother invited to me and my sister to go on vacation with her family to Puerto Varas. My sister and I were very excited about this travel because long time ago we didn`t go to this beautiful place of south of Chile.

In the second day of vacations my godmother proposed us travel to Angelmo, because is a very popular place in Puerto Montt and it’s located very near from Puerto Varas, to half hour around. Before my sister and I went on vacation, our parents entrusted us cheese from Angelmo, because is completely natural and really delicious, and don´t sell it in Santiago. Then this was the perfect occasion to buy this fabulous cheese.

When we arrived to Angelmo, my sister and I began to look for the cheeses. Cheeses were at the final of that fair, and there were around five shops of cheese!!. We were very happy seeing a lot of cheese. At that moment my sister  took a picture of that fantastic moment.

I like very much this picture for two reasons: one, because is the proof that we went to Angelmo to buy cheese that mom and dad wanted. They know the the cheeses from Angelmo so we couldn’t deceive them. And second, because it´s a nice memory of this moment and this delicious cheese that we ate only in a week!

Finally we bought one piece of cheese, took it to Santiago and we and our parents were very happy =)

The Electric Blanket

The master piece of technology is the electric blanket. It’s a blanket with an integrated electrical heating device usually placed below the bottom bed sheet. The electric blanket may be used to pre-heat the bed before use or to keep the person warm while is in bed. This electrical appliance generally has a thermostat to adjust the heat that this blanket produces.

I got this wonderful piece of technology when I was twelve, and of this moment I’m an addict of it. Contrary to other persons, I use the electric blanket only to pre-heat the bed before go to sleep and I never leave it switch on all night. I use it every day in winter!, but in summer I get out it of my bed.

The main reason I use the electric blanket is because I'm always cold!, and even more in winter. So I never feel cold when I sleep and I have a very good night. I think that my life without it would be very colds and with many sleepless winter nights.

Definitely the electric blanket is the best human invention!!! =)

Superman, the best superhero

My favorite superhero is Superman.  He was created by writer Jerry Siegel and the artist Joe Shuster in 1932. The principal character's appearance is: a blue, red and yellow costume, with a cape and a stylized "S" on his chest.

The original story relates that he was born on the Kripton planet before being sent to earth when he was a child. Superman was discovered and adopted by a Smallville farmer and his wife. The child is called Clark Kent and his new parents imbued him with a strong moral compass. Very early he discovered his superhuman abilities, which he uses for the benefit of humanity. As Clark Kent Superman lives with the humans as a “shy reporter” for the Metropolis newspaper Daily Planet. There he works with the reporter Lois Lane, with whom he is romantically linked.

Superman's personality is rough and aggressive with a strong moral compass. The values that he represents to me are a strong engagement with the humanity and a big love to the earth and Clark Kent’s family and friends.

I like this superhero because he has some extraordinary powers!!! Superman's famous arsenal of powers has included: flight, super-strength, invulnerability to non-magical attacks, super-speed, vision powers, super-hearing, and super-breath.

Jerome Brunner

In my field, the psychology, I admire Jerome Bruner. Hi is an American psychologist who has contributed to cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology.

            One of his works has been to distinguish three basics ways whereby the man represents his mental models and the reality: 1. Enactive representation (action-based), 2.Iconic representation (image-based) and 3.Symbolic representation (language-based).

            I like Jerome Bruner because his theory has had important implications in the education and in the pedagogy. I like very much his interest about the evolution of cognitive child’s abilities.

            One of his criticisms is in the fact about which many important things that the culture suggests has been forgotten in the school.

            Some important masterpieces are:

• A Study of Thinking (1956)
• Processes of Cognitive Growth: Infancy (1968)
• Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language (1983)
• Acts of Meaning, Harvard University Press (1990)
• Minding the Law, Harvard University Press (2000)
• Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life, Harvard University Press (2003)

I hope my second grade classmates like this important man and his theory because they will see him in the Psicología del desarrollo’s class.

It's me =)

Hello my dear classmates!

Through this piece of writing I want you to know more about me and what are my objectives during this blog experience. Well, as you know, my name is Carolina Moreno, I’m 21 years old, I am studying Psychology at Universidad de Chile, and I live in Maipú with my parents. I have only one sister, her name is Gabriela. Our relationship as sisters is great, because we always are doing things together, she is so funny and also a good friend. One of my favorite things I enjoy in life is dancing. I think you can be free moving your body wherever you want. It’s so cool! In fact, this semester I took an artistic subject called contemporary dance. Related on what is my greatest this semester is that my English can be better, especially in writing and also I hope do not make a lot of grammatical mistakes.

I hope you have enjoyed my post.

See you soon!

Regards