Thursday, November 25, 2010



To begin with, these classes had been meaninful in order to reach a higher level of English. I think this has been THE class the have to give opinions at the time we have doubts and clarify them inmediatly, I am not saying that with the other ones we cannot ask for help and so on, just that we (or just me) feel confortable and yourself. I don't look at you -teacher- as an authority in the class, as the other teachers we have, but that's not the mainpoint. Furthermore, teacher and students have a synchronization between them, making the most of that.
I would like to add more, but I think that is a summary of what I think about.

Regards.

Thursday, November 11, 2010


Flow: An optimal state of human experience in which individuals are fully engaged in creative endeavors, experiencing fulfillment, happiness, and well-being.

Life satisfaction: A sense of well-being and may be assessed in terms of mood, satisfaction with relations with others and with achieved goals, self-concepts, and self-perceived ability to cope with daily life.
I looked for information about these words, I chose those definitions because I agree with that ones, I mean in terms of psychological stability in order to reach happiness in the future; relations with others, achieved goals, well-being, among others, are concepts we have to face and solve them of the best way we can.

In my opinion, they are considered important because they are a part of our lifes. Reaching happiness is the purpose of human beings, everyone wants to be happy and everyone has a concept of what does happiness mean, the idea is to get an optimal state, do not feel pissed off for problems or issues that have solutions.

These concepts have been applied in surveys, magazines, and jobs, to name but a few, to consider the productivity of the human being, for that reason magazines, tv shows, among others, try to sell us a kind of "flow". Obviously human beings are going to consider the better job in terms of money to reach happiness, nevertheless, jobs persuade them with more benefits than other jobs, selling the happiness for work.

In my case, I think about a concept of happiness, maybe it is similar than other, maybe not, but my idea of happiness involves money, unfortunately without it, we cannot be happy, it does not matter if we have good things to do, if we want to do them really good, we have to spend money. Nevertheless, there are cases we have no use money (or less than other times), I recall when I was younger and I went to a concert, I lived lots of things in that week, I did not have much money, but I spend a great time with friends, and then in the gig, it was the happiest moment in my short life, even though I had to pay for the ticket, but in that selling it was not include the greats moments with my friends.

If there is someone who inspires me in terms of having a positive attitud, that person is my girlfriend, I do not know how she can be such a positive girl, she is always with a great smile facing the life, I think i'm learning how to face reality and common problems with her, i'm trying to do not be so negative or realistic, i want to find the middle, my life satisfaction.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Happiness and work

Why do you think so many people are unhappy in their jobs?
I think that happiness in some cases is related to work, in fact, there are a few people who really feel confortable with their job position, nevertheless most of people do not feel happy with their job position or even they do not feel happy with working in general. In my opinion, I think the reason why so many people are unhappy in their jobs is because of the stress they feel while they are working, besides the fact they do not like their jobs.

If you could choose any job, what job would you choose and why?
If I could choose, I would choose Net-Workaholic, it is one of the new and weird job, it has appeared these last years because of the increasing on social networks. The reason I would choose this job is simple, you just must having an account on facebook and twitter and use them, as simple as that.

Why do you think you would enjoy this job?
Easy, because I will play all day on websites ._.

Why would it be a satisfying job to do?
It is an interesting job, even though you just have to sign in to create an account and use the sources you have at home or everywhere as Internet. I am not quite sure if the right word is "satisfying", but it is a easy job and you can earn a considerably salary for it.

Do you know anybody who has this kind of job?
I do not know anybody who has this job, because the only place I know it exists this sort of job is Argentina.


To conclude, I think globalization is affecting our as daily routines as work, and because of that appears new and odd jobs, if we have no idea what we want to do for living and we are used to use social networks, this kind of jobs could be a way to earn money in a easy way, but in my case, it will be just for fun, not for living.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

El Túnel


by Ernesto Sabato


"The Tunnel" written by E. Sabato is one of the most important and known Sabato's book, and not for any reason, this book is more than interesting, it is full of intrigue, regret, pasion, among other feeelings.

To begin with, the main character started to talk about a crime that commited himself. Juan Pablo Castel, the main character, is responsible of the Maria's death. Showing a kind of regret the main character can express he is sorry of his acts, but not just the acts he did, but the men's attitude, and behaviour.

Juan is always complaining about life, and the way other people are, nobody can understand him, no one, just Maria, the girl he had killed. Juan was an artist,he was in his exhibition, showing his painting "motherhood", he tried to avoid critics, he hated them, because for him, they were kind of boaster and talkative. In that momment he met Maria, a girl who appreciate the details of the painting. In addition, the book show an excellent intention of demostrate the details of the real world, how a man almost fall in love with a girl inmediatly, as Juan, who then decide to follow María, arrived toward her house, it did not matter what people said, juan continued with his thoughts. Even though, it is a story about love, it was not a mutual feeling, reaching such a point that Juan told her if they do not see each other, he will kill her. Also, jelous is an important issue because that detonate to kill María.

Other people can think it is a violent book, with a lot of bad feelings which can affect other ones, nevertheless a good book makes you feel all the possible feelings, and this is not the exception, Ernesto Sabato show an ordinary story that turned another color afterwards. Furthermore, the book show a common world, with people whom you can meet at some part of your life, or maybe you already know them; that is the idea of this author. Taking real life stories or facts, it envolves feelings and characters you can easily know at the corner of the street.

Everything stated, Ernesto Sabato's book show a great history full of feelings an common characters that you can know in the real life, not just on books, introducing yourself into the history.








Friday, October 8, 2010

It seems to me that that sometimes small groups can make a difference in terms of spread information, for instance, some brochure and pieces of advices like those. What is to say, if some small groups are interested in give the first step, in my opinion, it is es best way, because if nobody spread information, try to make people aware of important topics, the small groups should do it.

Youth, and students in general are not interested in get involved in important issues, manifestations, not to mention the fact of participating. Nevertheless, they can participate by themselves, I mean, I as Felipe Espinoza, can make a difference if in some parties about things which for me could be interesting and show mi viewpoint, that's another way to express your ideas or make a difference against stablished things.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

THE song I've heard this month.

This month I have been listening a really good song, maybe most of one of you know this song by Blur.
The first time I heard Tender by Blur was when I was younger -I'm not saying I'm aged by the way-, In that time I wasn't interested at all on that band, though. I was about 16 years old, and I didn't get the idea of the song, in fact, I wasn't quite good listening lyrics. Nevertheless, 1 year ago I don't know why, but I started to listen it again and I realized how describe me in some ways, I needed someone who could heal my mind, but not anymore. Furthermore, This song reminds me a phase of my life.
Tender by Blur, makes me feel sorta thoughtful, reminds me how much I thought months ago, waiting for "that feeling", as the song say. I was not waiting all the time, but I thought in one person who makes me feel in love, however, that's the reason I said it was a phase of the past, because we are together again. For that reason the song reminds me sort of the past of mine.