POST 8: WHAT IS MY FAVORITE MUSIC OR BOOR OR SPORT?

In this time, I’m going to tell you about an old sport that was practiced by almost all the men in my family. I’m going to tell you a little about Boxing.

I remember watching my grandfather, when I was little, that, very often, I saw him jumping a rope. He was very fast, really fast, you couldn’t almost see the rope, and his feet were just a little separated from the floor. We thought it was easy, me and my brother, so we tried to do it and we couldn’t jump even the half of the fast that granpa was. I remember that time, because the week next to that my brother started to training box in our nearest old gym. I liked a lot that he was training, because he started to teaching to me at home. English Boxing (the classic box) is a professionalization of a street fight, it involves two people fighting to each other, and only using their hands. It was very helpful for me that my brother could teach me a lot, train me has he was training, because that made my body much more physically prepared, and made me feel a lot safer in the streets.  Also, has my brother has been teaching me some punches and defenses, I’ve been sharing those lessons with a lot of my friends, so we all could care for each other of us. More than one of them was deeply interested and started practicing in the gym.

Well, I think that’s all for now. We have to go to see a fight!

Bye!

POST 7 HOW GREEN ARE YOU?

People don’t learn environmentally friendly practices without difficulty. At least, not the people I know, including myself. I think that that is a consequence of the places we live in. We live downtown, or in the suburbs, and these are classical non-healthy places. One could say that, but I also think that it’s up to each one of us to learn by ourselves, selfeducation and all that kind of things that people do when they are really interested in learning and do something. Not wait that ideal resources are availables. And that’s why I think that I haven’t made a real compromise, because little things, like recycle, are very difficult for me to start to do. Not because I can’t, its only that I just don’t do it, and I would really love to start doing it.

I’ve always used a lot my legs and my bicycle to move myself around the city. My first reason wasn’t ecological, although, it was economic. Traveling in the public service has become very expensive. But, I have to recognize that now I’ve became more conscious about the necessity of stop using so much cars and buses, because all the smog they produce.

I think that we need, with urgency, it’s a better environmental education, at all levels in our society, because that’s an issue that involves all the aspects of our lives, and of the others.   

Post 5: My Future Job 

Although I’m studying Education, I’ve always been a very critic person about the role that schools, in general, have in our society. I think that, in a lot of ways, they are a very authoritarian institution. So, I would really like to work in a communitarian school. A communitarian school is a school that has been built by and for the people of a specific community or village. I imagine that it should have different ways of relations between the students and teachers. Like the Caracoles Zapatistas, for example. The Caracoles are educational institutions from the Zapatistas that are like our schools, but that have been made up in a totally different basis.

So I don’t imagine I could work indoor or in an office, but I really like the idea that I could travel a lot. For example, to Chiapas, in Mexico. It could be an interesting experience, for me as a teacher, to learn about the Caracoles, their organization, programs, and people. So, I don’t know if I could do that in  reality, but it’s a really good idea for me.

Actually, I’m not taking any major, and I don’t know very much of any of them, because I’m focusing in finishing this year. But, in a future, I would love to take a major about alternative pedagogies, which is a major that I know that can be done in this university.

POST 4 CULTURAL SHOCK

In our career, we don’t have a particular definition of Cultural Shock, but I could tell for sure that that’s a thing that we all know about, or that we should know about.

I think we all should know about, because, has educators, we should know that immigration is a reality in our country, and that it is very possible for us to find a kid from a totally different culture, who is just arriving in to our country and our classroom. So we should know how to deal with the cultural shock that he/she is probably going to experience. Imagine going to a class were you don’t even understand what’s saying the teacher, it could be very stressful.

Fortunately, I can’t think in a situation where a have feel in that way, cause my travels has always been very near (and not for so much long time) so I’ve always feel very comfortable, with my friends and family, and in countries with nice people. Also, I enjoy a lot meeting new cultures, so I always look around and study a little before going to someplace, so I have never feel in shock when I meet a new place, new people or new culture.

Good night my friends! See you later.

Post 2. My Career

I remember when I was still in school, that I looked at my good teachers and I knew how important was the work they were doing with me, because they cared a lot in making a good class and in being nice to us. I decided to study Education, when I realized that our pass through school was a crucial time for everyone, and that I thought that I could do a very good job.

Besides talking to my teachers, almost all the things that I knew about the career came from living with my mom, because she is a teacher. We could talk a lot and she answered all my doubts. I knew, for example, that my career will required a lot of my time in the preparation of my classes with the kids, so they could have a good time with me. In one of those conversations, she told me that the Universidad the Chile was the best university to go to, because they had the best department of Education and an historical compromise with public education.

And that’s why I decided to study Education.

My 2014

I am glad to say that this has been a year plenty of joy, although harder than expected. It's the last year for finishing my studies of Teaching and that makes me too much happy but also too much nervous. 

On other aspects, some simple events have become really important for me, for instance, I'm living with my child, a beautiful boy who is growing very happily and healthy.  We both moved to a pretty and confortable apartment in the downtown, which makes me easier to get the places where I must go for my studies or job.

Besides, I could go back to my group of dancing in meetings every Saturday morning. Dancing has been really meaningful for me since I was a child because I feel a powerful connection with myself and the culture of my ancestors. 

Unfortunately, some things did not go so well. My grandfather, a 102 years old man, is seriously ill and I am taking care of him.  This is an extremmely important responsibility in my daily routine, and it's also brings many new expenses.   Although it have taken many of my time  and some problems with some relatives have come up, I am absolutely proud and happy to be with him.  Sometimes he seems younger than me, because of his love for living.

About the things I haven't done yet, I have planned a travel with my son to Bolivia and I hope to make it true before the end of the year.

Whatever happens, I have to say that I always enjoy every moment of my life and being happy is the best challenge I have everyday.