about the blog

Hello everyone!! How is everyone doing? Well, for today’s post we are supposed to post a post about posting on a blog. Funny isn’t it?
At the beginning of the pre intermediate English course, or English III as we called around here, Ms. Crystal proposed us to create a blog for the English class! (That explains why I have randomly posted things without any reason. Except the fact that this assignment it is mandatory and if I don’t do it, I would be bad graded)
I think my blogging experience has been great. Although at the beginning I wasn’t excited at all by having to keep a blog because I’m not really a blog’s fan-- I think they are sort of silly—I have come to find that I like sharing things with my peers stuff that is curious to me or make me think different. Is a way to put out there what I have learned so other can join me on my trip of “discovering life”. Sorry if it sounds corny! Posting on a blog is also a good instance for improving my English by practicing. I have lost my capacity of speaking and writing fluidly since I left the U.S.
But on the other hand, posting is boring sometimes, too basic, too lame may be? Even though I never did this before, I only found a few post that I was interested on writing or reading. But overall, it has been a good chance to meet my class mates… I have to admit I’ve started to talk to some people I never talked to before because of the blogging thing. That is definitely an advantage, I love meeting new people, but just people that is nice to me, not the mean ones. xD
Love my classmates !! :D

My ideal job.

I think my ideal job would be at the U.N. or any other kind of organization where I can do research and field work. I dislike being just at one place... I mean, like an office, doing just paper work, making calls, working on the computer all the time. That’s not the lifestyle for me! I would like to go out, to have the chance to meet different pespectives and experiences and then apply them to my work on political science. It would be easy for me to develop this kind of job because you need to speak other lenguages – no problem with that, I love other lenguages J . Also, you need to have social skills that will help you on meeting different people and being able to go through a cultural shock without dying on trying – I think I have ability too. But the most difficult requirement would be having enough knowledge to do the work. It is a must having recongnized degrees and a perfect academic history, in some way that proves that yo are smart enough to work on this. I’m to young to know if I’m cualified on this, but I assume that with the years I will learn more and I will be more knowledgeable... so far so good. But in an area where there’s a thousand people trying to get the same job as me, I know is gonna be hard!

“Design and the elastic mind”

On spring break 2008,I went on a trip to New York City with my host family and I met my brother there. He also went on vacation at the same time I did and at the same place I did. So, while we were taking a walk at the Central Park, he showed me some pictures he had taken at the Museum Of Modern Art. My brother is an architect, therefore he was all excited showing me by picture, all the great things he found there. One of those things was the 3D printer.
Basically, you draw something at a digital board with a 3D dimension, like a chair…and immediately the printer starts working with some rare kind of white plastic that is melted on the bottom of it. From that melted plastic it emerges a solid structure that is shaped with a specific laser -- it works by 'printing' successive layers on top of the previous to build up a three dimensional object In seconds. So you get a chair of real size made with plastic from a printer. Although I’m not sure you can actually sit on it, they wouldn’t allow it. You can print everything that’s on 3D dimension and digitalized. The weird thing is that is not something new at all, the first 3D printer was presented in 1990 at the Conference of National Computers Graphics Association but it was invented in 1987.
I was surprised by this because it was like a fiction dream, in 20 or 30 years we are probably going to have one of those in our house, and in 50 years we might have flying cars. This is my favorite piece of art! It is so high tech 


*for more information visit www.moma.org/elasticmind

Schooll kills creativity

It´s really hard to realize that what Sir Ken says is true. The speech he gives at the New York Public radio about the education system taking away from us creativity it is certainly controversial. We are made by education as people that think and live according to the needs of this new era of the information. In order to survive we study things that might be useful in the future to raise some money and live decently. So in the order to do it, we delete the rest of the stuff that is occupying space in our brains… stuff that are not useful enough –like art, music, painting, dancing. We are raised to believe that those kinds of subject won´t help us out to make our living, and we forget about how important they are to give to our life some meaning. I personally forgot about it, and I took them out of my life because of the lack of time I had… they were not my priority, I think. But they should be important in every human life, like the in Greeks culture. They put the arts above the development of other areas, because art would take you into perfection. Perfection now is having a huge degree and a big house with a big bank account, and don’t forget the nice car. If education wants to be successful, I think we need to put the creativity at the same level of math or literature… that way our priority would be the enrichment of our soul and integrity that comes with it… not just the money.