MY FAVOURITE PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY

My favorite piece of technology is my mp3 player. The fist one that I got was for my 18th birthday. That was poor quality so I could use it for three months, and some day it died. After that my uncle gave me another one, that was better but the same thing happens again, so I decided don't bought another mp3 player.
Last year my brother gave me one, and that was the best gift because it was small, comfortable and it has a lot of memory, so I can take a lot of music with me in every moment.
Now I use it every time, in every place, I can’t stop listening music... All I have to do is put on me the earphone and turn it on to start a new trip. And when that happens I'm the happiest person in the city, I don't care about the people, the homework, nothing is important to me, the music relax me.
If I didn't have a mp3 player I could have the same happiness riding a bike. It's because to me, the bike is another way to forget all the things around us, to breathe in a different way.
And if you're lucky and could take those things together the trip is better.





A good movie

Hello.

Well, I’m going to tell you about “CINEMA PARADISO” an Italian movie that was filmed in 1988 and directed by GIUSEPPE TORNATORE.

This film won the Óscar in 1989, a Golden Globe and another European awards.

The argument is about the life of a respected film director, Salvatore (interpreted by Jacques Perrin) that comes back to his Sicilian hometown for his oldest friend’s funeral. The friend was Alfredo (interpreted by Philipe Noiret), he was the first person who shows to Salvatore the film world, because he was the film projectionist of the Nuevo Cinema Paradiso film of the town when Salvatore was ten years old. And they met each other because they were neighbors and Salvatore was a very restless child.

The film is a sentimental portrait of postwar Italy and a declaration of love to the cinema. Salvatore grows up in the cinema seeing a lot of movies, learning about the life, love, family, and friendship through the films.
Personally, of this movie I really like the music, on one hand is very happy and on the other hand is very sad, but I love it. That’s why a friend gave me a CD with the soundtrack of the movie.

A long trip

Hello classmates, my most important trip was the summer of my first year at university. My grandparents invited me to see our family in Australia for the Christmas and New Year (so lucky).

The first interesting thing that happened to me was travel alone, because we couldn't take three tickets in the same flight. I decided go alone because I wanted be responsible for myself and feel free about the cares of my mother. She's nice but, she's also overprotecting.

The trip was exciting and the airport was really huge. On the one hand I was nervous to forget instructions, on the other hand nervous to don't found my uncles, but everything was ok.

I stayed at my mother's sister's house with my grandparents until Christmas, that night I wore a costume of papa noel and brought the present to the people in the party. The next day we went to my grandmother's brother's house and after two days we drove to another town to celebrate de new year. That was really unbelievable. We could share good times until my grandfather started to lose the sight of one eye.

I was sad and I didn't want back, but my grandfather's health was more important so we decided come back to Chile to get an eye surgery. He's fine now and I usually spoke or wrote to my cousins.

Hello today I’m going to write some things about Rodrigo Alonso, he's one of the "new" Chilean eco-designer. He studied graphic design but he also has different works of industrial design. Actually he's owner of a design studio.

I like his work because he recognizes the Chilean culture and he use that to make interesting products. I think he can see beyond the limits of the form and the materials. If he has an idea, no matter what he tries to get it, if he doesn't know about a process to get a product or what kind of material use for, he doesn't stop to try even if he was deceived and lost a lot of money in bad results.

I think that he's a good example of work, he was recognized few years ago for his sleeping bag with human shape (selk' bag), and now he's working in a project with familys in social risk, he helps them with another organism to create job places with his armo project. This project consists in make urban shoes with zippers and different color parts, so you can combine those parts as you prefer.

Rodrigo is also interested in eco-design, has some works with e-waste, most of them were sold in his studio, but another products were not economically profitable because he work with eco resin and it's very expensive. So the most of people couldn't buy them.

Still with all his mistakes I would like to be a little like him in a few years more...

Ok, here is the link of his page if you want see more of his works http://www.rodrigoalonso.cl/HTML/home.html