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Blog 8: English Language Challenges

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Hi everyone! This was my first English course and I had a really good experience in it. I liked a lot that this course's focus was to use English more that learn grammar and that stuff. I think that grammar is important but, to learn a language, the most important aspect is to use it. Considering that, I think that writing the blogs was a really good way to use English. Also, the topics we had to write were interesting and motivate the writing, especially the free topics we vote in classes. I also liked a lot the topics we discuss in classes through interviews, poems, videos, and texts. I think that one of the major things that I'm thankful for this course is the new authors that the teacher showed us. I would like to read some of them on my vacation. I think that one aspect I need to improve is to talk more freely and fluidly about diverse topics. Making the videos I notice that talking confidently is hard for me. I think that a way I could improve this is by talking...
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Blog 7: Music

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I recommend you to listen to this while you're reading ↑↑↑↑↑ Hi everyone! Today I'm going to talk about music. I'm really into music, so it's really hard for me to choose one artist to write about, but lately, I have been listening to a particular musician a lot. Hope you enjoy the reading! I listen to a lot of old music, but if I think in current music there is an artist that stands out: Robert Glasper. He is an American composer, pianist, and producer that has a jazz rooted discography that blends with hip-hop and soul. I love his work mixing genres but, especially, his intent on doing culturally relevant music and considerating the power of music to communicate even without words. He has recorded albums as a soloist and in groups. My favorite albums are Collagically Speaking (2018), by a group called R+R=NOW (Robert Glasper, Terrace Martin, Christian Scott, Derrick Hodge, Taylor McFerrin, Justin Tyson) that is a jazz reflection on society and culture, a...
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Blog 6: Postgraduate Studies

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I haven't thought so seriously about the idea of taking a postgraduate study but I think I would like to take one because I really like to learn and this also improves your job opportunities. However, this could change depending on my life interests. I don't know specific postgraduates but subjects I would like to study are related to the anthropology of music, multiculturalism, identity, and Latin American studies.  I would like to study abroad because that gives you the opportunity of seeing your reality from another perspective and I would like to live in another country. Therefore, I would like to study in person and part-time, to have the opportunity of doing other things like meet people and play music. About study anthropology of music, I would like to study in the US because of the musical history that they have and how this music is related to topics like racism, identity, and sociopolitical themes. Also because I really love black music and I would like ...
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Blog 5: My future job

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Hi everyone! Today I'm going to talk about my hypothetical future job. I really haven't thought so much about my future job because I'm present-focused, but considering my interests I think that a job I would like to have (maybe in a very idealistic way) is to work as a cultural manager organizing social, art and cultural events. This could be either outdoors and indoors or both, depending on the event. I would like to do this because I'm really into arts and its sociopolitical and cultural relevance. As a pianist, I have had the opportunity to play in diverse events and I enjoy that a lot, so this job could also give me the opportunity to play music occasionally in these events. Depending on the event focus and planning, this could also allow me to travel, but I would like to do this in Chile because I think Chile has great artists, an important heritage of art reflecting the social times and a tremendous artistic potential. My two older brothers are artists s...
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Blog 4: Favorite Movie

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One of my favorites movies is Green Book . A drama-comedy film of 2018 directed by Peter Farrelly that won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor.  The movie is inspired by the 1962 true story of the relationship between African American classical and jazz pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and Italian American Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) during Shirley's musical tour to the Deep South when Vallelonga worked as his driver and bodyguard. The name of the movie is a reference to "The Negro Motorist Green Book", a guidebook for African-American travelers in the US. In the movie, Tony and Shirley use this guide to travel safe in the racist South. I like this movie because of its cinematic discourse about race, social status and homophobia. It's interesting the development of the inicial gap between the two characters, Shirley being a recognized musician of high status, and Vallelonga an unemploye...
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Blog 3: Quarantine Activities

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I have been in quarantine since March 16th, so tomorrow me and my family turn 3 months of confinement. Despite that, one week ago we move from an apartment in Ñuñoa to a house in Macul so my quarantine shook a little bit.  My daily routine was very different before we had classes to how is right now. Nowadays I'm waking up early so I can have a little time before classes to have breakfast and catch-up the class contents. Then I connect to class. Later on, me and my family eat lunch and spend time talking and drinking a cup of tea with some cookies. After that, I usually give time to university asignments.  I'm trying to spend my free time in "screen-free" activities. I usually play piano, it's a great way to disconect from the digital world. Nevertheless, I also spend my free time in playing Call of Duty in my cellphone with my friends and my elder brother, this way I connect with them. Also chatting on WhatsApp and Instagram are ways I keep in touch. Besides,...
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Blog 2: The best vacation ever

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I think my best vacation ever was last summer. I travelled during almost all february to the south of Chile with my two best friends. The first week we stayed in Osorno in the house of the family of one of my friends. One day we travelled to Cascadas (a village next to Lago Llanquihue) to do trekking and get to know the sorroundings. Also, as my friends and I are musicians, we were invited to play music in a "cafe concert", it was very surprising and funny for us because we didin´t expected it at all. The second week we went camping next to Lago Ranco and spent the time talking, swimming, singing by the campfire and playing cards. Our penultimate day there my brother and his girlfriend arrived and we spent that last night there together singing by the campfire. The third week we went to Coñaripe where my family (my parents, my sibilings, and my cousin) were staying and we stayed with them, and enjoy playing cards at night and laugh while talking. I chose this as the be...
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