My last post: about all of this

First of all i’m terribly sorry for my delay, i had forgot that we had to check out the blog on Tuesday.

What can I say about this experience is that from my point of view it was a revolutionary way of learning and practicing english. I liked very much the freedom of producing my own texts using a foreign language, and according to my beliefs it’s the best way of learning a language, tring to comunícate your self with it.

I also had the oportunity to know a little bit of each classmate, likes, dislikes, experiences, plans, dreams, and i had a good time. Discovering thing about others, and sharing experiences that in some level marked our lives.

I think that the advantage of using a blog is the quickness of any sugestión, comment, and that is fun and gave us freedom to express ourselves the way we wanted. Using english as a tool. I’m very grateful of the way we used to learn english.

I never had any problems in learning foreign languages, and when i’ve met people that speak in english i never had any problems talking to them and listening, but I've never been in an English class that promotes production of texts in English, I think a very good idea.

My favourite topic was also, “My favourite dish” becouse I love cooking and it was great to share a recipe with my classmates, and also I’ve recieved good comments. It was good that we could do all of this things and I think we did it very well, improving our english knowledge and learning that we can express many things in a language different from ours.

My congratulations to the teacher, he was very nice and a good teacher, and he makes the class very fun also.

See you people : )

My favourite dish

I love cooking dishes, mixing different flavors and making news. I love soft, unique flavors in any dish with a spicy or strong sausage. One of my favorite dishes is sushi rolls, I love to prepare that dish, it’s delicious and you can experiment with many ingredients, much as I like.

Sushi rolls, also called Maki, are a variant of a traditional way of keeping fish fresh in long travels, occupied in various countries of Eastern Asia, It consist in rolling fresh fishes in a sea weed and rice roll with some rice vinegar mixed with sugar. Those are the basic ingredients, latter adding various vegetables, such as sliced carrots, fresh cheese, kanikamas (which consist in a soft roll that resembles the flavor of a crab’s meat), sesame seeds, sliced aguacates, etc.

Finally I’m going to talk of the recipe. You will need rice, rice vinegar, nori sea weed, sugar, fish or seafood or shellfish, and any vegetable you want to use! Or even other things like fresh cheese. You will start making the rice; it is most likely to use a pot and not a rice machine, and the rice you are going to use is wide and short, but any kind will work the important thing is the cooking. Begins boiling water with full fire, when it’s boiling you will add the vinegar and the sugar mix, then quickly turn off the fire, stir the rice and then cover the pot and let cool.

While rice is cooling pick your vegetables, kanikamas, fresh cheese, whatsoever you have for adding and just slice and dice all the things as you want. Then extend a bamboo mat, place the dried nori sea weed on it, and then pick your rice pot and start adding the sticky rice slowly, to cover part of the sea weed, then place on it your fish, seafood or shellfish, vegetables, etc. Grab the bamboo mat and roll al the thing to get a long roll (Tip: do not place very much foods on a roll. It will be too fat and will disrupt, don’t worry if rice goes out of the roll simply grab it and use it for another roll, and!! VERY important pack it, press the roll firmly, don worry it will not disrupt, but don’t use brute force too.)

Then you grab that rolls, and dice them in various pieces of 2 centimeters or slightly more width, and you eat them, pair it with strong soy sauce, wasabi and ginger, and any drink.

For dessert I almost all the time, take a iced tea with 3 or 4 teaspoons of sugar.

The photograph y most like

This is the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag

It was taken in May the 2nd in 1945 by the Ukrainian Photographer Yevgeni Khaldey. It is a very important picture because it represents the end of the World War II and the defeat of Fascism. It's a historical moment leaves a deep mark in the humanity. For me it symbolizes the final victory of reason, over barbarism. It shows Berlin devastated by the bombs, smoke rising but over the destruction there are cheers of victory and a flag of hope. It also represents the dramatic events during World War II and how terrible war is.

The photograph has been edited many times, to enhance details and other things. But it steel being basically the same.

As Berlin fell in the closing days of the War, Red Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldei gathered some soldiers and posed a shot of them hoisting the flag (called the Victory Banner) on the roof of the Reichstag's building. The photo represented a historic moment, the defeat of Germany in a war that cost the Soviet Union tens of millions of lives. The photo was published May 13, 1945 in Ogonyok magazine. Out of the 36 Images that Khaldei took and of all the other photographers who took pictures of the flag on the roof it was Khaldey's images that became iconic. On April 30th there was great pressure from the Soviet leadership to take the building seen as the, "den of the fascist beast" before May day celebrations. Soviet soldiers were able to use mortar rounds, fired horizontally, to punch through one of the bricked up doorways. Splitting up into small teams to hide their purpose the Soviets slowly gained more and more control of the Reichstag interior. Even with the hold-out defenders a small Soviet five man strike team was able to find a stairway and make their way to the top.

There are many places that i want to go. Such as Rome, Petra's city,Greece , the Mayan ruins of Tikal, Palenque and Chichen Itzá, Machu Pichu and Cuzco, The Taj Mahal in India, the Forbidden city of China, St.Basil's cathedral and the Red Square of Moscow, etc.
I'm also very glad to have been given the opportunity to visit Brazil southern regions, the Iguazu waterfalls, Buenos Aires and Paraguay in a study tour and Bariloche with my family. I also know several Chilean places like Chiloe, Puerto Varas, Puerto Montt, Valdivia, Pullehue's Lake, the Guanaqueros Bay, La Serena and Constitucion.
I would like to know Chile's northern regions, I went to Iquique once but I was a little child and i can't remember very much.

But talking of one place, there is a place that attracts me very much and that is Japan and Far Eastern Russia. I've allways liked Japanese and Russian culture, and i'm interested in both.

First i would travel to Vladivostok city, a place where Western and Far Eastern culture collide and coexist.

Named "Ruler of the East" from Russian words Vladet and Vostok, it's the Hearth of Russian Far East and a beautiful city with hills and wonderful sea views.

Then i'd take a boat to Hokkaido in Japan, it's the northern most island of Japan. There they make beautiful snow festivals, and is also homeland of the Ainu people, a indigenous people that where the first settlers of japan, and were conquered by actual Japanese

I'd then Travel south to the main island Honshu, to Tokyo visiting the Shibuya Station, and the statue of Hachiko, a dog that waited for his master even before his death, a beautiful story.

If I find a work there, I don't mind staying to live there, I would like to go with friends or my mother, but if I'm alone that's fine too.

And yes, I'm saving money to travel there some day xD.

Music to Cheer up

When I feel sad, I usually listen to jazz, and blues. That music makes me feel better, like I’m on a rainy night walking on the streets or something like that.

I like to go with my mood and a relaxing music like jazz and expressive music like blues are just great for me in times of sad mood. Random and soft jazz entertains me and makes me feel in fine.

I like to go with the flow, if you know what I’m saying, cheerful music is just not fine with me in times of sadness, I prefer to listen music according with my mood, when it’s party time the most awesome music, the most cheerful and loud the best. When it’s relaxing or thinking, soft, random, relaxing and expressive music are best suited in my opinion.

Music is just great; one of mankind better creations, besides, probably the diffusion of music in present time is extensive.  I don’t like very much the use of mp3 or headphones; use music to cheer up your mood is something that you can only do today, perhaps, too much noise had twisted our minds and the self-knowledge, especially in feelings matter.

I think music must be used in special situations. Using instruments, especially drums instead of recorded music, for me that’s the better way of listening to music.

Hello

Hi, I'm Gabriel Cádiz Castro, i have 20 years old and I'm an Anthropology student of the remarkable University of Chile. This is my new blog, used for English lessons.
Pleased to meet you all.