Well, today I'm going to talk to you about my experiencie in the English class.

I think the class is very good. It's an opportunity to improve our English in a different way. Highschool and other universities are always focused in the gramatic rules. It's ok. No problem with that. But the English is a language like the spanish, so we will have to talk it someday and that's a big problem.

In this class we always talk in English. We can feel the emotion of talking in English. I get nervous when I do it, but it's ok. It's a good experience.

Besides that, we write in a blog n English. Of course! We have to write about a lot of things and subjects. About what we like, why we like it, what part of it, what we want, what we think, etc.

Well, I have to learn a lot of English (like other things in the life). I want to improve my English and the only way to do it is practicing.

In my life I always try to use this language because in my career I will need it if I go to a different place to show my movies. That's why I watch movies with english subtitles to understand the dialogs and the story.

But I have to be honest. I prefer the spanish. I think English is very cold language. I've never read poetry in English in fact. Spanish is a beautiful language with a lot of rhythms, nuances, words, rules, etc. I think it's the paradise for artists. However, to be honest again, the English sometimes surprises me.

Maybe perhaps

Well, I think that the environment subject it's complicated now. In these times, everyone does what they think it's correct and nobody can't say that is wrong. Freedom and equality are concepts and they were made forgetting something important: the Earth.

All that stuff about progress and future is bullshit if we don't know how to take care of our home. People should learn about friendly environment practices in the school and the highschool. Instead, they should learn in all their life. Now, nothing about this is happening but the problem is not the educational institution, is the person.

I do nothing to take care of our home, of our Earth and this is the real problem. I don't recycle but I sometimes ride my bike to short distances. I get emails of Greenpeace in my spam and I don't want to read it, etc.

I must admit that I'm not the best example to talk about this subject because my actions are not very friendly with the environment. I prefer to stay quiet.

I think we're empty, that we need conscience.

Welcome to The Matrix

Well, I'm not a geek like my english class partners. I prefer to read a book from Nietzsche and Cortázar (Julio, the argentinian writer) or to watch a movie from Stanley Kubrick.

In my life, I played two or three video games maybe but one of them I can remember with love because I completed it. It name was "Enter the Matrix".

In that time I loved "The Matrix", a film from The Wachowski brothers. In fact, this film inspired me to study cinema. Well, in the beginning I knew that the video game came to Chile and I wanted to buy it, but when I knew the price I said ¡NO! It's too much :(

I was waiting for a lot of time with a boring new PC. Then when I was walking in a mall I watched this video game and it cost. That was my chance. I bought it then I played. It was like an orgasm.

This video game is about Niobe and Ghost, two characters from The Matrix Trilogy. They have to pass some challenges to help Neo in his story.

Director REDEMPTION

       Well, I chose an article in The Guardian webpage that was related to the next film from Cloverfield's director Matt Reeves.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/oct/02/dawn-planet-apes-director-matt-reeves

        The next film is the second part of "Rise of The Planet of the Apes" (2011). In the beginning Rupert Wyatt directed this movie, but problems came up. Wyatt was very upset for the decisions of the production company 20th Century Fox because they wanted to première the second part in 2014. The director thought that was very ambitious challenge. So, he quit the project. 

       But there was other director with a sucessful movie like "Cloverfield" (2008) who accepted it. I'm talking about Matt Reeves. He could beat Guillermo del Toro, J Blakeson, Juan Carlos Fresnalillo, Jeff Nichols and Juan Antonio Bayone and their films.

         I chose the article because it reflects a common problem in the film production. The production and the director of the movie always take part in a fight because the first one wants to make a movie very fast to gain money, but the second one wants to have time to think the movie, to produce it with calm. It's a great chance to him that people knows his work and his point of view of the world and the cinema and he wants to do his best.

Producers of the world have mercy with directors please!

"Pies, para qué los quiero si puedo volar"

Well, I'm going to write about one of my favourite painters. 

She is Frida Kahlo. 

Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacán, Mexico, in 1907. When she was 18 she had an accident in a bus transport. It was a very important event because it influenced her to do amazing paintings with a significant meanings. She met famous people about arts and politics like André Breton, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Marcel Duchamp, etc. Even the  Kahlo story says that she had an affair with a very important russian politician: León Trotsky. She stayed in the muralist world of that time all her life. That's why she knew Diego Rivera and married with him. Also, many of the rumors say that she was bisexual. No one of this information has been refused. 

I knew her in a big exhibition that came to Chile. I got there when I was in the highschool for an art class. I couldn't understand her in that moment because I didn't know the meanings of her paintings. In fact I was boring all the time in that place.

But the last week I watched a movie about her and her life. It was Frida (2002), from Julie Taymor. In this film Frida was played by Salma Hayek. I can understand now what's about this painter at the last.

Well, from this movie and the exhibition I love one of her paintings: Las dos Fridas (1939). I think this image (and all her work) has a strong and painful meaning. It has a big connection with all her life in fact.

A normal life (I think...)

The first term of 2012 was a cool term. I couldn't remember all the stuff that I did, but I can try.

This is my 3rd year of my career, Cine & Television. I filmed four (4) fiction short films. I directed one. Then I wrote the script of one of them and then I was the cinematographer of the third one. I was the producer in the last short film. I sent many of them to cinema festivals to have a chance to win a price.

My mom got a work in the first term and she was very happy about that, but now she's very tired. She has to do a lot of things because her work is about the social help of the chilean government. As you know, Chile has a lot of poverty and we will have to do a lot of things to make it disappear.

I met a lot of friends in the first term. One of my best friends got a girlfriend and that was the opportunity to get time to know other people. I knew cool dudes.

Well, I have to admit that my blogging experiencie was very good. I really liked it.

I prefer to write in English than to spell it. I can share with my classmates the experiencies of my life and hobbies but writting it in a different language. Sometimes I don't know some English words because I'm not a native from that language. In fact I love talking in Spanish, I love writting short stories and poems in Spanish. I think the Spanish language is very beautiful and complex. That's the reason why people from other countries have a lot of difficulties to learn it.

However, I like the English language and this kind of activities (like the English Blog) makes me improve all the stuff that I learnt on the school and highschool. I can know new words, new kind of expressions, I can improve my grammar skills, etc. I have to confess that I love the English past time. I studied a lot of time the difficult rules about the past tense on the school. I'm very grateful with my teacher in those times. I still remember her name. I read a lot of English books on highschool too. That helped me to know new words and a new kind of English, a new level.

Blogging in class is a very good activity to learn a new way to communicate with others. In fact I had the chance to do it when I had to resolve a copyright stuff with an england music band. I used its music for a short film and I had to warn them.