Hobby

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Today I will write about a hobby I have.

My hobby is belly dancing. I really don’t know at this point if it’s a hobby, because with the time I’m more involved with this dance and I spent more time and money. So, I think is something more professional right now.

Anyways, I started to dance last year at January.  I began to dance in a summer workshop, but I was in love with this dance at the moment I started, so, when the workshop finished I started to assist to my present studio: Estudio de danza oriental Nazli.

Right now, I’m in my second year and I’m a member in the amateur ballet of my studio: Troupe Shadia, but I was promoted to the professional ballet: Ballet Saeeda, and I will start next year.

I enjoy belly dancing because when I dance I feel happy and my heart is full although that sounds like an exaggeration, it’s true. On the other hand, I like belly dancing because I learned more about this culture and because I travel and meet different people, like belly dancers, musicians, etc.

Finally, I spent a lot of time in this. I have regular class at mondays and I have rehearsal with Troupe Shadia at saturdays, but when we have a presentations we have rehearsals in other day at week. 

Gabriela Mistral

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Today I will write about the greatest Chilean of all time in my opinion.

I think the greatest Chilean of all time is Gabriela Mistral. She was a poetess and was an important figure in Latin America and she won Nobel Prize.

She did so many things, she wrote a lot of book, for example: “Lecturas para mujeres. Destinadas a la enseñanza del lenguaje”, “Antología” or “Ternura. Canciones de niños: rondas, canciones de la tierra, estaciones, religiosas, otras canciones de cuna”. (The last book my mom read to me every night before I went to sleep), and she was a diplomatic woman too.

She is important to me because I grew up with her poems and because her history. She was a woman that broke with structures in the way that she could in her period of time. I think she had a hard history, but anyway she made in an important figure.

If I could make a question to her or talk with her, I would like to ask things about feminism and her opinion about this topic, because I think she was revolutionary and I think she had a lot of things to say. I think it’s interesting think how she react in our age about the process that we are living right know, and think about the obstacles that she had to pass for been a woman that she was and today we all remember. 

sport

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Today I will write about a sport I enjoy watching.

I enjoy watching soccer. When I was a child I usually played soccer with my friends, but when I grew up I started to watch this game more than I playing it,  I knew the rules, so was easy for me enjoy watching this sport.

When I was younger I was a big fan of this sport, in fact every weekend I watched the games, but with the time I started to be more critical with the people that get their fanaticism to the next level and hurt people or break things because of that. The stadiums are more dangerous because people goes with the predisposition to fight for their favorite club and we have all seeing the episodes that people fight because the team that they love most. I think it’s very dangerous these practices because none exist a dialogue and in consequence we don’t have tolerance. I think all these things makes that I take distance with the game.

However, I still enjoying watching soccer. It’s a good panorama for me, go to the stadium or see the game at home with family or friends and snaks or go to see my boyfriends soccer games.

I hope in the future we can live with more tolerance and enjoy with this sport  and also I hope today Chile can win. 

a Job

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Today I will talk about a job I would like to have.

It’s difficult to think in a job, in fact I don’t know yet which area I will choose in my degree.

However, how I mentioned before I’m belly dancer and recently I planned teaching this dance. 

I would like teaching belly dance because is a dance that I love and heal me in a differents ways and I think by teaching I could make people closer this culture and help that people lives healthier and ¿What is better? With dance.

I had propositions for teaching, but I think is irresponsible accept this job because I think that I don’t have enough experience, but next year I want take classes to teach this dance. I believe every belly dance teacher have to do this.

I think the most satisfying in this job is in first place doing something that I love and second help to other people enchanted with this dance.

On the other hand, I would like work in judicial psychology but I don’t make the decision if work with victims or work in penitentiary in reintegration programs, but I would like work in these areas because I think the system doesn’t care so much in this topics and I think that are very importants, so it’s a lot of work to do and that motivates me.

Book

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Today I would like to talk about a book that I’m reading for a subject of my degree. The book’s called “El árbol del conocimiento”, the author is Humberto Maturana and it’s an academic text.

I enjoy reading this book because it made me understand the bases of systemic psychology and help me to think the world in this way. I have to admit when I took the subject that it’ called “Introduction to systemic clinic” I can’t gave a sense to the subject because I can’t thought the world with this point of view, but right now with the classes and this book I can understand better this line of psychology and I can say I’m in love with the systemic clinic.

The book is oriented principally to biology because Humberto Maturana is an expert in this topic, but in the subject we used to understand how the systems interact with the other systems and with the environment. And also because it’s important to know how we adapt the systems in the relations and how that helps to keep the balance.

It’s a very interesting text, but has so many concepts that are difficult to understand like “autopoiesis”. I think if I don’t have the classes maybe could be more difficult to understand, but it’s a very interesting book and I recommend to all!

Hi! 

Today I would like to talk about a good friend of mine. She is Belén and I met her in 2009 because back then we were classmates. Since she joined to school we are friends and I always known that I can rely on her. She is a great counsellor and everytime I have troubles I talk to her because she always have the perfects words to make me feel better. 

We have so much things in common and we lived some great experiences together, like go to voluntary jobs in summer or when we went on a trip to Spain. But, this particular year we got really close, because we both are belly dancer! When we left school the distance and university were a problem to saw each other and keep in touch, and for coincidence we started to dance at the same time but we didn’t know about the other. So, we talk every day about dancers or music and we asked for help for choreographies. Right now we are studying belly dance at the same studio and we see every week and that make me happy because our friendship is very cool! 

The first picture shows us when we were 16 and we were in Toledo, Spain. And the second was taken this year at belly dance studio.

 

A present

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Today I will talk about a present that my parents gave me at Christmas a few years ago.

I always love music, but when I was younger I was obsessed with playing guitar. I remember my parents gave me my first guitar when I was a child but only when I was fifteen I learned to play it and since this moment my obsession with playing started.

So, a few years ago at Christmas my parents gave me an electro acoustic guitar and amplifier. I remember I liked so much because it’s beautiful and also because the sound is very different to an acoustic guitar. At the beginning I remember that I suffered  because my fingers felts so much pain because the metal strings but anyway I still played all day long.

Right now I don’t play so much guitar because since I joined at university I don’t have so much time and that it’s really sad. My guitar is in my bedroom and when I have time I play it.