hAAPPY hOLIDAYS

Hello everybody, today I want to tell you about an important national topic of the present, it is the Mapuche conflict, and how I see it related with the last national holidays. This thing made an important pressure on what suppose to would be the perfect celebrations of 200 years of independence of our country. Beyond what I think, I want to tell you what I notice of this in my daily life, I mean, on the ordinary things from celebrate with my family, go out with my friends, till watching television and news. I made this decision because in my opinion it isn’t lower that the media still manipulating all the information of this case, and this is affecting to us all. They are lying us, and we started to care less and less about the Mapuche conflict, misplaced for the stupid news of showbiz. The media is hiding important information and just there is it’s lies. I don’t know what are they hiding with accuracy, but I’m really sure that I don’t care about if Malene Olivarí is a lesbian, or drug addict, I’m waiting to know something that really care to the Chilean people. If my opinion sounds a little exaggerated, I attribute this to the same myth that the media created arround the facts, and it have the consequence of also a nocive group created to itself.

Well, I haven’t answered all the questions of the present task, because I consider very important to talk about the media work, I believe is so important to discuss more of it. But I’m writting for a mark, so I want to answer some of them. I believe if the Mapuche people are judged without the transparency that they and the nation need, they are being judged absolutely unfairly. But this unfairly judgement has been doing above all the goverments, no matter the wing, always the conflict has been dilated through the years, without gain any real solution. I can't say if Piñera did or not a good job, I only can say that things haven't changed till today, is the same as always. I am only waiting for something... something good.

Flower strike

Hello everybody, today I want to tell you about many things related to our university. Well, for what I have to start? First, the topic of this time is not very clearly-defined for me, so I will write some things that maybe could be useful to comment. So, I believe one of the most important things that happened during the last month in the university was the student organization and their strike to improve the education in the country. In our career, I think the directing ones have managed to make theirselves heard, and get succesfully a way to organize the force the movement. We still have the problem of an insufficient participation of all the student body, but already there are much path covered.

That's because we had a assembly many times, and discuss what we want of the education in Chile, what we wait of this, and what we specifically could be real, I mean, what of all those year of dreaming would come true finally.

Ok, the part of the student organization is there and at work. Many ideas result of the gatherings, and then, we make an unconscious slogan of fighting, a protest to get the promise of a top-quality education on Chile. Now, I wonder how we are protesting? How do the strike goes? I think is terrible. In our career is so much difficult to make people go to the strike in the streets, is quite a miracle if a few students go there. This is one problem, and the other is that some students think that violence is necessary to get changes. I think this is true, but there are many ways of violence, I believe that burn things on the streets and a chemistry fight between the students and policemen are definitely unecessary.

We have to find out another new way to make ourselves be heard. We could think in protest with art, maybe...

Love, Mary.

Hello everybody, today I will tell you about an interesting topic, this is what I think is the most important or shocking Chilean piece of news in 2010. This is in my opinion, I mean, maybe it is not really like this. Well, this year, that even isn’t finished yet, have began with one change at national level, the transition of Bachelet’s government to the Piñera’s one, and meanly, the back to the right wing government on Chile, after twenty years of “the other side”. But this was replaced by other scene. The earthquake that affect our country, everybody’s eyes were focused on it, because it affected physically and emotionally to all the population, the nation, even persons of all the world were touched by it. During a few months after the earthquake, on the television news we saw images and videos of this tragedy, because people needed to find out what happened, after the shocking minutes of fear that they lived. After that, the press passed all the day repeating those materials on and on, like a movie, with a lot of edition behind, I mean, at first, it was necessary to related with the news, but then, it became a business because of the TV and radio ratings…
So I think the press and media accurate the important news thinking in the gain that they can get by alienating people to the screen, because the TV gets more effect on the brains, I think it is terrifying. How can they transform cinematographically the tragedy, only for money? The media is powerful, is an effective tool to control people, but as a hard conviction, as the real meaning of what is be part of the media of a country, they are very empty in all the senses. To the rest of the world, I think it is familiar, because these practices that Chilean press has done, have their reference on the rest of the word media work.

The possessed Barbie

Hello everybody. Today I want to tell you about a concert that I went this summer. It was on the Tuesday 25th of January, a damned hot day in the Riding Club of Santiago, Chile. Always I was very excited to see one of my favorite bands, so when I knew that METALLICA came to Chile, I started to save money with a group of friends. So, when the time has come, we were all ready. We had to make and wait in a large line before we finally enter to the club, that had blocks and blocks of measure… It was so exhausted, but nothing compares to the waiting inside, without any type of shadow over us, at least. Hours and hours there, dehydrating myself, all the evening there to nine o clock when the gig began. I know it sounds horrible, but it was not that terrible. At nine the concert began and all the effort and the grief was forgotten by all the fans screaming for their idols. I enjoyed all that day, with the bad and good things that happened, because Metallica is an influence to all the actual bands, and that makes it important to the history of rock and metal, and I don’t regret for the reputation like a crazy headbanger girl, or “as a possessed Barbie” like a friend said, cause Metallica make that to girls like me with the classic "Master of puppets". That’s why I decided to go to this concert, because I would never forgive myself not been there. So I tell you, if you were there, you rock! And if you not, I probably mustn’t write here what I think about you. No, I'm just joking, but seriously, it was amazing, a great memory to keep to the rest of my life.

Education, made in Chile.

Hello dear classmates. Today I will tell you about something that capted my thinking during this week, is about education in our country, especially, the university education. Not long ago, I heard about a new proyect by the Education Ministry to give an incentive to all the students that will enter at university to study some career about pedagogy. The objetive is to increase the number of graduated techers in Chile and improve the quality of education. The incentive become reality with material settings, like credits, even money, free university fee, etc., all to relieve the economic burden of the students that enter to the university. That's all what I heard and I don't know the details, so maybe I am just lying... But it is not my intention. I have some worry about this proyect also. I will be short. I think this is a good way to incentive students, in fact, this method will get its objetives. But, I believe it has to extend to students that started maybe until three years ago to study pedagogy, because they did it without any incentive, whatever the kind of this. Maybe they did it for vocation, and I believe it deserves a prize. Even the graduated teachers that had excel in their works, deserve one. I think is the time to be fair and reward the work maded.