Post 5: My Favorite Photograph

Hi classmates and miss Rosita, today I will talk to you about my favorite photograph, which is a photo about me and my brother.

I don't know who took it, but I think that was my mother, with our old camera. I have just one brother. In this photo I'm with him, my big brother called Gerardo, he is nine years older than me. I don't know when it was taken, but I think that in this picture I was two years old, and my brother was eleven years old, therefor this picture was taken around twenty two years ago, approximately on 1993. I like it because makes me remind my childhood, some things are sad, but played with my big brother was actually great thing. I remember his child-jokes and makes me laugh now. Also I know that the dress that I was wearing was choose by my mother, because she likes that kind of dresses a lot. Also, I like this photo because I think that we look very similar, almost identical, our eyes are the same: we are two drops of water! And we are equal to our mother, who is beautiful. Now he is a 32-years-old-man, and I like to see the man who became on.

Kisses :)

Post 4: My Favorite Festivity

Hi classmates and miss Rosita, I will talk to you about my favourite festivity, wich is Wiñol Tripantu. 

Wiñol Tripantu is a Mapuche festivity and that celebrate the Mapuche New Year. Wiñol Tripantu or We Tripantu means "new sunrise". It's celebrates between June 21st and June 24th at the winter solstice, in the shorter day of the year.

Every year at June 21st I begin to send greetings to my family and friends wish them a good and prosperous new year. Since a few years ago I have go with my family to the Mahuidache park, wich is a ceremonial center located in a space gave for the municipality of El Bosque, for celebrate this festivity.

Actually I have another dates in the year that I like, as Worker's Day on May 1st, or the Birthday of my mom on March 21st, but I thing that we have to recover our traditions, that's why I choise the Wiñol Tripantu.

Post 3: My Favorite Piece of Technology

Hi classmates and miss Rosita. I will tell you about my favorite piece of technology, which is my cellphone. 

In the past I have had some cellphones, some of them turned bad, another was stolen, but no one was like this one. I have this since last year, and the price was almost zero, because my father had a "plan" with the company, and they gave him a cellphone every 18 months, so that coincided with the theaf of my last cellphone, and he gave it to me.

I use my cellphone to be connected with my family and friends for whatsapp, and that's very cheap because the i-phones have the possibility to deactivate some functions and permit only one, so it's possible not to spend gigas unnecesarily. Also I can read texts of my studies, use it as a camera, as a personal stereo, and as a newspaper too. That's why I use it everyday, and I like it because it has many functions.

Sometimes the battery is gone and the cellphone turns off, when that happens I wait to arrive to my home at night, but I don't get uneasy or something. So if I didn't have it, probably my life would continue normally,  I know that, but meanwhile I have it I prefer to use it.

Post 2: My Expectations for the New Semester

Hi classmates, I'll tell you about my semester.

In this term I'm doing seven subjects at university: Quantitative Methods II, Statistics II, Statistics III, Sociological Theory II, Epistemology, Economy II, and Preintermediate English. The last term we couldn't finish  Statistics II, because the semester became longer than we planned, because of the strike that the universities did for educations demands, and our teacher had planes to finish his post degrees studies abroad. So, we decided to postpone the subject to the second semester. But now, we have two statistics and it's a little difficult. I like statistics and Quantitative methods very much, but Epistemology is difficult for me, because I don't use to read frequently.

Out of University I have other activities, I work in different things, but all of them are related to the teaching. I work as a teacher in a elementary public school, helping 10-year-old kids to reinforce Mathematics. Also I'm an assistant of two subjects in an institute. And finally, I  work as a guide in the Planetario de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile, I have to speak about many themes related to the astronomy. I like very much my jobs, and I know that I have to leave one, but I don't know which one. 

For this term I would like to learn more English, because grammar is my weakness and I think that is an important tool. Also I would like to finish my subjects in the best way.  And I would like so much to practice some sport frequently. 

Post 1: My Autobiography

Hello everyone! My name is Daniela Olivares Collío, I'm 24 years old and I'm studying Sociology at Universidad de Chile.

I was born in Santiago, Chile, specifically in San Bernardo. Now I live in El Bosque with my mother called Frida, my grand father, and my two she dogs: Juno and Crespita Rodriguez. Crespita is daughter of Juno. I have a big brother, who is a good singer.

When I was a child I went to Colegio José Abelardo Nuñez, located near to my house, in my neighborhood, that was my elementary school. Then I went to a high school called Colegio San Agustín, also near to my house, there I knew good friends. Later I began to study Mining Engineering at Universidad de Santiago de Chile, for 3 years. After that I entered to Universidad de Chile to study Sociology, now I'm in my second year and I like this.

I like to dance and sing, but I'm not a good singer, also I like to play football and make things of carpentry. I collect minerals and rocks.

Welcome

My name is Daniela Olivares Collío, I'm 24 years old and I'm in my second year of Sociology.
I think that my strength in English is the listening, and my weakness is the writing.
My expectations for this class are find in this course a space to practice the speaking, because I thing it's very important break the barrier of shyness and embarrassment for learn, also can boost my skills with the writing and reading.

Second term 2015