English Language Challenges

This semester has generally been a bit tricky:
I believe that I never before had so many activities and responsibilities together.
Under this paradigm, English has became a patch subject, especially because of the time (but that's my fault because I work very bad in the mornings).
I think my career has a big problem of workload: it is intended to do much in a short time, and we get stressed and frustrated.
Actually, English has, in this scenario, a very low priority for me.

But hey, let's focus in the area:

The Blog system is good, but the issues should be a little more varied and perhaps be aborded after a conversation: a good way to do the course would be, for example, develop a debate about an issue, then, the next class, exposing conclusions and develop a thesis on the blogs.

This would position us against an issue, and we should habe to develop more complex ideas.

This is English four, and we should be talking about more concrete and real issues.

Another thing I miss a lot in our English classes (and I am grateful that this semester this has been tried in a class), is to address vocabulary and concepts in our area; theater and design.

I think our future work is quite clear, and the nature of it (tours, postgraduate, interacting with people of other contries), English is a vital tool, but you need specificity.

But I insist on the issue of the times: our ability is limited, and between classes, external works and trying to have some life, you begin to prioritized.

Thanks so much for reading!

Some Reflections..

This has been a very moving, changing and transfiguring year.

I think it was the year that I've had more personal learning (especially now at the end), seasoned with travel, experiences and a lot of new people.

In June I had the opportunity to travel to Europe to the "Stage Design Quadrennial" in Prague, Czech Republic (PQ2015). The experience was unique and unrepeatable (at least for 4 years), and I habe meet many wonderful people and amazing places; I take the chance, and I visit several cities (Berlin, Oslo, Amsterdam, Etc)

I participated in four plays as a designer and as a helper.

It was definitely a busy year.

But not everything was nice:

I lost an aunt and my dogs. The first was because a disease (She had a bad alimentation!), and my pets because someone poisoned them. It was very difficult when I heard about this because It was very sudden and violent.

about college, I think it has been my most dispersed year, because I was having a lot of activity outside, I've been removing priority. A bouquet I loved was the workshop of this semester, because it is focused on street theater.

This year I worked in four plays as designer and in one as a helper; one was in one stadium and about torture, two were for University Festivals (in this university and in the Catholic), and other was with my class, for a subject. Although it was difficult and tiring , I learned a lot .

Im thankfully for This Year, but I want it to pass fast!

SUMMER PLANS

This summer will be very short : because of student demonstrations , our second semester half lasted until mid-January, leaving us only one and a half month of holiday.
This is not terrible, but leave a bad taste when you think about it.

In this short period I have two major plans :

* Stay in Talca (my original city ) resting and eating a lot , going out with friends that I haven't seen in a lot and going camping to the mountains in the Vilches reservation. I think I will stay there the rest of January after the exams.

* Travel south to visit some friends (to Concepcion and Valdivia , if I can). There I want to visit some forest and historical places, and do a lot of activities with my friends. I hope it will be like two weeks of February.

*After that, I Wanna stay the rest of February in Talca, and return to Santiago like the weekend before enter to classes.

Because this is my last summer before I left college, I had not planned to work like other summers; This was a very intensive and hard year and I need a relief.
Maybe chocolate and procastination will help. Like a lot.

Another activity that I would like to do this summer is learn to drive and get the license: although I have no car, I think it is very useful in many circumstances, and my family always is asking me for do it.

In conclusion, this summer will be like a flash, but I want to make it a great and joyful flash, with new experiences and with all the energies concentrated in myself.

An influential artist in my field:François Delarozière

  

François Delarozière is an artists , director of La Machine, a very famous street theater and instalation french company. He was born in 1963 and I Studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. After That, he worked as a stage designer and interior designer for 20 years, and in 1987, he meet Jean-Luc Courcoult, the director of the street theater company Royal de Luxe.

They worked together from 1991 to 2008. At this time, Delarozière had  developed an own style and interest, and he created ¨La Machine¨.

His first and most famous work was La Princesse, a huge mechanical spider that walks around streets.

                                                           

This is notorious in ¨Les Machines de l'Ile of Nantes¨, an island in the Loire river, where ¨La Machine¨ creations live.

Delarozière said that Jules Vernes, Leonardo Da Vinci and Gustave Eiffel are his influences. In his works The unveiling of materials and Mechanisms is Very Important, and too a methodical study of nature.

In this place we can find amazing machines, like a huge Elephant and a Marine Carrousel of three levels, Where you can ride an ocean creature.

Delarozière Has Been Described as an "engineering genius, and is obious why.

I admire in his work the way he and his team give life to their creations , combining magically matter and technique.

And too, his draws are something amazing.

The Chilean street theater is very fruitful , but unknown . Obviously , we can not compare the technical and economic possibilities offered by French and Chilean cultural policies ; our theater tends to self-management , so that recycling is the mainstay .

Another important difference is the importance of political and social message in our theater ; estrus only talks about the large number of "loose ends" of our society. Street theater has a wider arrival and shocking the public , so it is an effective tool for change.

Hopefully someday this theater is so valued and supported in Chile as it is in France.