Post 9: 2014 Have you had a good year?

Hi everybody! today I am going to talk about this year: 2014.

Well, this is my second year in Santiago and in the university studying sociology, while in this year the total of experiences are not new so not so difficult, in this year I took a lot of more responsibilities compared to last year. In 2013 I was living with my grandma and this year I have lived alone, also now I`m working in a political group called la Laucha, we work the popular and critical education in Renca. In addition this year I have had more musical presentations compared to  last year ... The synthesis is that: regarding the fact I have more knowledge about the university life, this year has been very difficult.

The consequences is that in this time of the year; November, I am so tired and a little demotivated. I only have desire to go to my city, Concepcion. It is because that I have been thinking that next year I should take up less activities, maybe take less subjects in the university because I don`t want to leave my other activities.

I am a lucky guy, because, in spite of the difficulties until today I have very good marks in the career so I am thinking, maybe, being an assistant of some subject next year.

For the rest of the year I hope to finish  the subjects fast and have time to create new songs that I have in my mind. Well, and in the summer I have to do some repairs to my old house in Santiago.

Good Bye!

Post 8: Let's talk about money

Hello everybody! today I am going to talk about a terrible topic ... The money.

We know that the money moves the world, that is why an international division of  labour was generated, also a division of  roles inside the societies. But, independently if I agree or not, I am a normal person in this world, and in my everyday life the money has a decisive role.

I think that it is very important not to forget that the money is only a means, not a purpose. First, without the economic support of my dad I can´t study in the university and I wouldn´t have been able to move from Concepcion to Santiago. Second, the money allows me live during the month: I buy food, I pay the electricity, water, gas bills and the rent. Also I use the money in musical productions.

I don´t have money for a luxurious life, even now I have only fourth thousand pesos to afford myself until the rest of month, but I like my life, I don´t need more money ... Probably if I was a millionaire I would choose the same life, maybe I would choose the same house and the same neighborhood, only I would pay for some repairs to my house because it is old.

If one day I had some economic problems, I am not sure if I pawned one of my belongings because I don´t have any expensive thing, only an equipment of music but I love it ..

Post 7: How Green are You?

Hi everybody! Today I am going to talk about my opinion of the Sustainability of society.

Well, it is a complex topic, but we all agree that the ideal is an ecologic society. But, it seems that not many people do something in their lives.The mass-media and the public opinion congratulates the ecologic micro-initiatives. Is that enough?

I recommend to see this mini-documental: "The history of the stuff"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_rbYcBi-Jw

These guys claim that the micro-initiatives, of the family house especially, are completely insufficient because the principal source of pollution is in the production of the stuff, not in the destination of the package.

In other words, to produce your garbage bag that you throw ... other seventy garbage bags are thrown by the industries! 

It is increasingly common that the industries buy fake green seals, and the governments are quiet and silent because they have interlaced interest with the entrepreneurs, in addition, paradoxically, the mass-media despite that congratulates the ecologic micro-initiatives they don`t show the bad practices of the industries.  The French-Brazilian sociologist, Michael Lowy affirms that the pollution is a characteristic in itself of the Capitalism, so that social model is incapable to do an ecological development. Within this logic, the NGOs, which are devoted to palliate the model instead of transform it are insufficient. 

I do not want to say that the ecological initiatives are bad, on the contrary, they are an important mean of learning but not the end of the way.

In a radical context like that ¿What can we do?

Post 6: A piece of News

Hi everybody today I am going to talk about some news that are in trend in the Chilean TV.

Since the explosion of a pump in the subway station "Escuela militar" many TV news and public authorities have commented about a TERRORIST MENACE IN OUR COUNTRY!!! chan chan chan!!!
Some News has done a ridiculous link with the suspect terrorist and some characteristics, like to eat wholegrain bread.
For example, the News of "Canal 13" linked implicitly our campus "Juan Gomez Milla" with hooded groups. The problem isn´t if that link is true, the problem is the use of the information and his context...

Backward in time, in the dictatorship, there was an institution called ANI or in English: National Agency of Intelligence (NAI). This institution was the continuation of the DINA and the CNI, was designated to maintain the control of the society and take safe about the "subversive cancer", with autonomous attributes. In other words, an institution which could break your human rights if you don´t have the official ideology. That attributions have been taken out with the pseudo-democracy of 1990`.

With the social climate catalyzed for the News, the actually president of the "Nueva Mayoría", Michelle Bachelet, promoted some reforms to the project of  "Anti-terrorist law", in especial, return the autonomy to the NAI...

¿Who wins with the bomb and with the great show of the News?  

Post 5: My Future Job

Well, actually I am a student of Sociology, the truth is that I didn´t know what is this career, and actually I don´t know very well what it is hehe. But, I am here because I am very inquisitive and I like the sociologic knowledge.

Sociology is a career extremely absorbed in the academy, so I am not sure about a job as a Sociologist, but rather I think I would work as a history teacher in a school, because I like  teaching very much.

To choose a Job I don´t think in the salary, I have always had an austere life, I am happy with simple things :)

But a principal requirement that I need, is that the Job isn´t meant to help a bussines owner to earn more money, on the contrary, my ideal Job is the Job were I can contribute to change the social model. 

I think that in a Job I can contribute with social strength, because I can get on very well in a group work, also I can speak to a big audiencie very well. But one of my weaknesses is that I don´t like to be in a subject a long time, I need to escape of the routine with the music, so I am not a workaholic.

The Best Concert I've ever had

Hi everyone! today I am going to talk about my favorite concert

Well, I love the hip hop music, and the Chilean rap is cataloged by expert media like one of the best of the Spanish language.
But, like everything in this centralized country, the most famous groups or masters of ceremonies soloists live in Santiago.

In this year, a few months ago, a person called "Marmishen" (it is his nickname) who is a visual producer, master of ceremonies and a great producer of instrumentals, released a visual project called "Exit". Well, he is from Tome, the eighth region and the video consists in a song where he did the instrumental, sang and edited the video.

In that video-song he invited a lot of MC´s of the eighth region, mainly from Concepción and Talcahuano.

He did the release event in Concepcion, in a concert where all the MC´s of the video sang. It was an incredible event! I enjoyed it a lot because I like the rap of the south zone very much... I don´t know, because I feel that it represents me, maybe because I am from Concepcion hehehe

The best moment of the day was when "La Sikaria" sang, she is one of the best women MC of Chile and  she is still underground, nobody in Santiago knows about her.

I leave you a Sikaria´s song, Also I leave you the video "Exit" where the MC´s of the eighth zone sings.

Good Bye!

Sikaria:

Exit:

A country I would like to visit.

Hi everybody! today I am going to talk about a country that I would like to go: Brasil!

Well, it is true, I am still resented with the stick of Pinilla in the FIFA world cup, but it is not exclusive with my dream.

                                      

Brasil is the biggest country of Latin America and the only one where people speak Portuguese. Besides of being the country that has a greatest love and passion for football soccer, they have a very interesting Afro heritage that is latent in the poor class.  They have a culture full of music, traditions Afro-catholic, food, weather, flora and fauna. So I think that Brasil is a country with endless possibilities to have experiences and independent learning. The movie called "Ciudad de Dios" filmed in that country is one of my favourites.

                                   

(Capture of "Ciudad de Dios")

So, if I go to Brasil, I would live in a ghetto for a few months, to learn the language, and imbue in the Afro Latin American culture, and maybe improve my football skills haha, because I am very bad for that (and I love it :( )

A new semester!

Hello everybody! I am Martin García from second yer of Sociology. I am from Concepcion, so I live in this city since the last year. Actually I live in a "cite" in the district of Santiago Centro. I live with my older brother and a classmate of my career. Despite that my home is very old and it have a lot of domestic problems, I feel very comfortable living there.

Besides the university studies, I sing rap, I am a master of ceremonies and my nickname is "Skombro". Actually I am working in a Long Play called "Arisco" or in English: Gruff, so I am very eager.

In this semester of the English class I hope that I can expand and deepen the knowledge that I learned in "English III". Especially strengthen my oral pronunciation because I think that is my weakness in addition to my little confidence.

SEMESTER 2 LEVEL 4

Feed Back

Hi! This is my last publication on my Blog ... and today I´m going to talk about my blogging experience 

I think that I had never written in English so much that with this blog. Is a very good tool to learn a lot of vocabulary in the practice, In addition in the social sciences we must write a lot so this educational process is related with our formation like professionals.

In my personal experience I think that I improve my vocabulary and syntax, and I feel comfortable because I don’t consider me good with the oral pronunciation.  But this last thing would be a weakness because in this process I practice my pronunciation and my oral syntax ability only a few opportunities.

I don´t wanna be too critical but, writing is OK, but in an internet social red? I don´t like a lot. I think that in this modern society be left over the individualist tendency, and the internet interaction is replacing the interaction face to face. Maybe with the internet we can do more interactions, but I think is only a quantitative jump, but with a qualitative set-back.  

Maybe we need find another pedagogic methodologies to learn to write English combine with face to face interaction.

Well, but in summary, blogging was a good experience with a lot of fun knowledges acquired.

OLD BOY

Hi! long time ago that my last entry but, I am here again!
Today I am going to talk about a really REALLY good movie. Sincerely usually I only see movies from Hollywod becuause I hadn`t searched movies from other places because I wasn't interested but when I see this movie I was very impressed.

The name of the movie is OLDBOY, is from south Korea, and it was directed by Chan-wook Park. Is the second movie of the vengance trilogy. Three independents movies that adress about the same topic: the vengance.

 OLD BOY adress about a normal person that one day, without a apparent reason, is kidnap in a litle apartment and someone kill his family and the protagonist is blamed. Then, after fifteen years, wihtout a aparent reason again, is liberated. The protagonist begin to discover who kidnapped him to take vengance but he don´t have succes. In his way he know a joung woman and they make fall in love. The uniques clues that he find is because his kidnapper give to him! ... I don´t wanna talk more about the movie because I don`t like the spoiler :)

I like this movie because it have a own esthetic and rate, so different that the Hollywood movies. And is really unpredictable! have a lot of turnarounds so, without a doubt, I recomend it!

Photograph

Hi! today I going to talk about a photograph, this photograph isn`t my favourite but i choose it because I think that represent the star of a period valid until today.

This photograph was taken in the morning of September 11th,1973.
In this picture appear two soldiers threatening to a civil cervant of the Popular Unity government. That day the militaries institucions made a coup d'etat and took the power. The oficial history say that the coup d'etat was because the Unity Popoular administration had big economycs problems, maybe is true, but, I think the true razon was because a idiological dispute that took place in that period. A dispute of societies visions.

Regretfully, in my opinion, won the posture that represent the militaries and managed establish a social model use as basis the copetition between persons and a human vision like a individuality person called neo-liberalism and that govern us until today.

I don`t who take the picture, but if I know him, without a doubt, I would congatulate him because he gotten freeze a very important and sad moment of our history.

My Favourite Cartoon

Hi! is my again. Today I'm going to write about my favourite cartoon. When I was a child, and I didn`t had class I saw all the morning "Hey Arnold" in Megavisión.  Is my favourite cartoon because it consist in a real-normal child with a real-normal life.

The majority cartoons talk about people with a lot of money, so their adventures take place in amazing scenes but not accessible for the most of people. Arnold have adventures in his neighbourhood with normal persons, so he have stories that anyone would have, besides, he and his neighbours don't need money for have a lot of adventures..

 



 My favourite characters  are Gerald and Sid because the are the most street characters and they know all the stories about their neighbourhood and they always warned about the dangerous of the adventure to Arnold. On top they tell the stories with style, because Sid played the bongo while Gerald sang rap. Actually I don't see "Hey Arnold" because where I live we don't have TV because we don`t like it. But I would like see the carton again when I have a little of time.

My favourite piece of technology

Hi! its me again, today I`m going to write about my favourite piece of technology: my cellphone.

<- Samsung C3300

 I have the same cellphone  since 3 years ago, and actually I use all days, two hours at day. But I don`t use so much because i like talk with another person at cellphone or have a conversation by "whatsapp" or another chat , on the contrary, i don`t like speak with a another person if the conversation isn`t face to face, even, I don`t have equipped it with an internet plan. I use my cellphone to listen music, hip hop music, A LOT of music, actually I have six gigabeats of music. I listen music in the public bus on the road to my house. I like my cellphone because it have a good capacity but  the volume is a litle slowly.

If I wouldn`t have my cellphone my days would be very boring above everything my run from my house to university. And, I think I would have a lot of stress.

Expectations

Hi! Is me again. In this blog I will talk about my expectation of this semester.
This first semester of the second year of Sociology career have 5 subjects: Economy I, Sociological theory I, Statics II, Quantitatives techniques and Chilean Social History.

In Economy I the contents is not look difficult, but the teacher is old and a little boring and the class is at half past eight of morning so I usually keep sleep. Statics II is a mathematical subject so I am a little worried but the teacher, Paulina is very likeable and very good teacher. In Quantitatives techniques we had a good teacher but he is going to another section and now we have a very disagreeable teacher. I so excited in Chilean Social History because the teacher, Gabriel Salazar is an eminence of the Chilean History but, sincerely, he isn`t a very good teacher. And finally Sociological theory I is a very important subject of my career, I don`t wanna do it wrong, but the class is very difficult and we must read A VERY BIG NUMBER OF TEXT.

Besides of this five subject I decided took the English class, because I think that my career is so difficult in the next years so I don`t wanna risk. Out of academic activities I am participate of a political group called "La Laucha" or in english: The Rats. We work the popular education follow the Paulos Freire`s postulates. Actually we work in a secondary school in San Miguel and in a occupation land called "La Cerro en Toma" placed in Renca. To all this I add my musical project that I mentioned in my past entry. So .. Uf! for a few moment I am under stress. But I am still stoic :)

For this academic period, sincerely I am not so motivate, is so dense an difficult and the subject aren`t of my pleasure and spend a lot of time. But I am inquisitive, I like learn so I expect that this semester will be a good semester. 

Good Bye! Until the next entry!

Hello! My name is Martín García a.k.a Skombro. But my friends call me Marvin. I am from Concepción (South of Chile) but i born in Chillan (Eight region too) and I have nineteen years old.

The last year I arrived to Santiago to study sociology in the Universidad de Chile. And actualy I am in the second year of my career. I live in a "Cité" in "Santiago Centro" near the underground station "Quinta Normal". I live with my older brother and a classmate.

If you don`t know what is a Cité I include a photo.

This is a Cite, but isn`t my Cite because I haven`t a picture from it. A Cité is a traditional homestyle of "Santiago Centro" and  surroundings.





But my life aren`t only study. Also I am a Master of Ceremonies (MC) of chilian hip hop and my nickname is Skombro. The last year I published my first Long Play called "Sintaxis en la Aldea" and recently I published my first videoclip of a song called "Estas Cadenas". Actually I sing in differents stages in Santiago and Concepcion and I am preparing my second disc called "Arisco" or translated to english: Gruff. And now you know because why I called mi blog just like that ...

So, now we are here, if you want to listen a litle of my music I include my videoclip. I hope you like my blog. Until the next entry!

Martín.

"Estas Cadenas":