A day in London

Hello everyone!!! 

I loved the activity we did last class. It was very interesting. Travelling has been always one of my dreams, so planning a week in London, even if it is only a hypothetical situation, was very funny. I put on the planning sheet places I really want to visit someday, like Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, and Westminster Abbey. The part that causes me a little bit problem was identify the Travel Zones where stations on the Tube lines, there are so many stations!

If I go to London one day, the big problem will be the money, because some attractions are expensive. By the other hand, some places are completely free!
 
I really hope someday I can visit London.

Mother Mother

Hi everyone!! Today I would like to talk about a band that I really love, it is called Mother Mother.

They are a group of three boys and two girls from Canada. They play a style of music that I consider like indie pop or rock, but I don’t really know which type of music is it. By the way, I love them because I found them very unique, it is such an experience to sit and listen to them. In their instrumental they include the most commons, like guitars and drums, but in some songs they use violins to complement the harmony. I love that mix of sounds, and their lyrics too, even when some people say that don’t make any sense. In general, I think I like them because their songs sound really like they were written from heart.

My favorite song is Let’s Fall in Love, mainly for the instrumental, but also because lyrics are very silly when you hear them for the first time, but when you pay more attention they make so much sense talking about how is love or how it feels. At least that is what I think.

Here is the Music video of Let's Fall in Love:

Trying to learn french D:

Hi! Today I am going to talk about a recent thing I am doing. I am learning French. Or trying to learn it jajaj
So this started because I love listen music, and I have a few songs in French. I wanted to know what the singers are saying, so I searched translations of the songs to Spanish and English. But I found the language so beautiful, and the pronunciation so, I don’t know, fluent and natural, that I wanted to speak French too.  I though it would be easy, trying first with the lyrics and reading them while I listen the corresponding song, but I couldn´t even pronunciate a ‘Oui’( which means yes) correctly.

Then I started searching for French lessons online. It works so much better, I learned words and their meanings. I discovered an app called Duolingo, especialized on learning languages. It helped me very much with it, because  it works making you memorizing words in different ways, for example, how to use verbs depending of the grammatical person you’re using. And the best part is that it helps with the pronunciation, making you talk to the microphone on your device. But for some reason I stopped to follow the lessons, so in consequence, I stopped learning the language.

A few days ago I downloaded the app again to my tablet, and retook the French lessons. I forgot only a few things, and now I am very excited learning again in my free time. I hope start with other languages soon, when I reach a level that allows me to understand French musicians are singing.

Pets

Hey guys! Today I am going to talk about pets I have.
Actually, I don´t have any pets, which is sad, because I love animals, but I have really bad luck when it comes to take care of a pet.
I remember my first pet, a fish called Arturo. I used to love him, but sadly, when my mother was changing the water of his fishbowl, he fell to the dishwasher, and went down the drain. I was very little, and until today, I wish Arturo had freedom in the sea, if he finished there.
Then, for a long time, I didn´t have any pet, until a little cat was given to my mom by a teacher who worked with her. We called the cat Sushi. He was a precious  golden cat, with orange lines on his fur.  And was very sweet and affective. For nothing, he approached me and purred. He was very funny too, rolling on the floor for absolutely nothing. Then, two months later, a baby dog was given to my dad. We called Diva, but at first that was funny, because she was very shy. Over time, she was one of the family, very playful and loving. Now, I don’t have any pet  because Diva run away when she found the door open, and Sushi get sick at the beginning of this year.
 I really want to have a pet now, so i am trying to get my parents approve to have one again :)

Music

Hi everyone! Today I will talk about something that I like very much, actually, I love it: Listen to music.

Seriously, i love it since I have use of reason, almost every style of it.

 I have very clear why I like so much to listen music, because I firmly believe that it  can be one of the best ways to express our emotions, in any way that we want. Composers, singers, bands... I am going to talk about two of my favourites now.

  I like very much Béla Bartók, an Hungarian composer, who based his pieces in traditional Hungarian music. They may haven’t got a message or an emotion when they was composed, but when someone listen to it, can experiment a full variety of emotions. When I listen Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 2, I can easily imagine someone running afraid of something, or a suspense scene in a movie.

 And, in the other hand, I really love a band called The Spill Canvas, because their songs always are very deep and emotional, expressing feelings trough their lyrics, but in a way that  feel so much especial than other songs. That is because (I think) they use words to express in a less simple way that other bands, not using big words or anything, but giving them a sense of deep feelings and emotions, and, at least for me, that is what makes their songs amazing, filled with expressivity on each line.

Something for my presentation

Well, today I would like to talk about the topic I chose  for my oral presentation. It is has to be related to something according my career. I am studying Anthropology. Under my point of view, in this area there are many things I would think are very interesting for everybody, but I decide to talk about a thing that particularly caught my attention during my classes, The Kula.

The Kula is a ceremonial exchange made between people who lives in Trobriand Islands. The first time I heard of it, was while I was reading a text called Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) by Bronislaw Malinowski (an anthropologist who documented the exchange)  for one of my classes. The Kula exchange consist of two elements that go through different villages, a necklace( called soulava) and a bracelets(mwali), in different ways, depending on which corresponds to each.

My presentation will be like this: Probably I will start talking about how I know the Kula, say how this information came to us and who wrote it. Then I will explain how it works and dwell on it.

For me, the interest thing about the Kula consist of the way that it works, how societies that are participating on it are formed and respond to social patterns dictated by this exchange, how relationships between people are generated from this. I think it would be interesting for my Anthropology mates, and for everyone in the class who is interested in relationships in general.

Technology

Hi! Today I am going to talk about my favourite piece of technology. And that is my tablet. I really love my tablet. My parents gave it to me for the last Christmas, because the last tablet that I have broke up  when it fells. I think is my favourite technological device because it allows me to do a big variety of things, from play games, to watch videos or study for university with no problems. I think I like my tablet for that reason specifically, because I can carry it with me without use much space on my bag, and can use it in a comfortable way in many places, like the subway or the bus.
It has been very useful in my university routine, on my free time between classes I often use it for reading the texts for the subjects, study for any test and get information for my homework,  and when I have nothing to do, I play some games that I previously downloaded as apps. I don’t think I could live well without my tablet, it makes many things a lot  easier than if I haven’t got one, but I try very hard to do my tasks trying to not require my tablet, if not someday I don’t have it with me.