Recycling!

Today I´m going to write about the environment, about how ‘green’ am I. Someone who is called green is someone who really cares about the planet, specifically about the environment. These days are an important topic around the world!  In fact, since the documental “An Inconvenient Truth” of Al Gore came out, I feel that this topic increase his importance.

With this movie and other kind of documental, people can learn about what they can do in his life for helping the planet. Now more and more people thing that recycling is something that you most in your home, and actually more people are in fact doing it. In my home, we recycle many things: tetra pack boxes, bottles, cardboard, paper, cans, etc. My mom started with this new habit, and very quickly we learn to do it, and now is a habit in my house in Rancagua and here in Santiago. However, I´m not a ‘tree huger’ or anything likes that. I do save energy in home, but I do it for the bills most of all.  

In a regular day, I don´t do much for the planet: I traveled in bus every day, I don´t use bike, I don´t separate organic trash, etc. however, I think that a lot of person don’t do that and not because they are not worried about environmental; they don´t do it, and I don´t do it either, because is not easy and our society doesn´t make it any easier: if we had a recycling culture, would have different trash can out of our houses, and the garbage truck would be separated spaces for different type of trash: paper, organic, non organic for example. Unfortunately, that doesn´t happened here in Chile, not even in Santiago. However, where I live here, in Ñuñoa, we have many facilities for recycling.      

In conclusion, I thing that people is knowing about importance of recycling, but isn´t easy in  our society.  

Art, Art, Art!!!

Art is very important! As a future sociologist, I believe that art is part of society because they reflect the status of society in a moment. For example, Andy Wharhol show us a different type of society that Da Vinci; his message was different because there societies was very different too. We just need to see more pieces of art to understand that.

Duchamp´s work.

Luckily, mi mom is an art teacher, so she always teaches me about art. Since I have memory, I visit art museums everywhere I go; in fact, coming to Santiago for visit his museums use to be part of my family vacations. For that reason, I really enjoy art... it´s part of mylife!     

Talking about me, I must say that I don´t have many talent in that area; I can draw a decently in a piece of paper, but I don´t paint at all. When I was a kid, I participated in an art competition, but I lose it. Well, when you´re six years old, you draw like a kid! I guessed that I lost the talent.

However, i still appreciate art, how can I don´t appreciate it! I love any type of art, by the way. Well, maybe not Duchamp and his wear piece, but like every artist he has a message for society. Even appreciate graffitis and any type of urban art. Art is a way that human being has to express herself, and that is the most important thing about art.

Even when I really enjoy art, I don´t have a favourite painter. My mom loves Dalí and his work is awesome and rupturist, but is not my favourite artist. She loves Van Gogh too, and his work is beautiful and with great technique, but is not my favourite either. Like I say, apparently I don´t have a favourite artist.    

Well, like you can see art is almost part of my family!

Movies!!!!

Today I´m going to write about my favorites movies. I´m a big fan of cinema, I try to see a movie, always when I have free time. The last movie that I see in a cinema theatre was “Wall Street” with my boyfriend, and before that I saw “Inception” with DiCaprio and directed by Cristopher Nolan. It´s a great movie, with good music and a beautiful image. If you can watch it, do it!     

Because I´m a big fan of cinema, I try to buy some movies, so that I can see it whenever I want, and show it to my friends and family. For name a few, I have: Cinema Paradiso, Psycho, Rape, La Lengua de las Mariposas, Citizen Kane, etc. It´s difficult to name my favorite of all the movies that I have; in fact, if someone ask me about my favorite movie, probably I´m going to answer saying the list of dvd´s that I ever bought. Well, for that reason is that I don´t rent many movies; if I want to see a movie that I don´t have, I use to watch it online.

However, Citizen Kane is one of my favorites, and not just because is a good movie; I love it too because it was the first movie presented with a different order in the history: it stated with the death of the citizen Kane. The story is about C. F. Kane, an important man who dies, and his last word was “rosebud”. With that information, a journalist tries to figure out what this word mean.      

It´s a great movie! Please, watch it if you can! One of the best movies ever