My blogging experience.

I can say what my blogging experience really help me to improve my English. Write different texts periodically is an advantage in relation to other courses where we only must to listen the teacher. When we write texts, we need to find new words what we don’t know before, find it to say what we want to say; and we must to learn too how to combine these with the grammar rules.
I think what I really write faster now that before, this is a good way to evaluate if blogging was a useful work to improve my English.  It helps me too to advance in thinking the text in English, not only translating from Spanish to this.
Maybe, I can consider like a disadvantage some topics what don’t motivate me too much; but sometimes write about simple things is more important because like this we can learn how to use English in real and daily situations.
In same occasions I actually enjoy did my blog, I can’t say what it was like to go to a party but it was fun. Topics like favorite music show me what same of my classmates have similar taste to me and this really like me. 

Panther

I think my favorite animal is the panther. The word “Panther” refers to different kinds of felines, this depends of the region in the world where we could to be. The panther is in really a black jaguar, leopard or cougar. The term “panther” is used to define a big feline with a mutation in its color.
Among the different kinds of panther, my favorite is the black jaguar. I saw it once on a Mexico zoo, and I really love it. The black jaguar lives in Central America, these are jungle animals. Black jaguars are hunters, and they really are the maximum predator where they are, together with the normal jaguar.
I like panthers or black jaguars because I like the black color and cats or felines. I think what is difficult to have a panther at home, it could hurt me or worst, it could eat me.
A particular characteristic of this animal are their special skins. Even when they are black, they still have spots of different tone to rest of the skin. The panther is a beautiful animal.

Cuba

I think Cuba is my favorite destination to travel. I traveled there once with my dad and my sister, but it wasn’t a good travel. The ex girlfriend of my dad and her sons joined to us before go, and this situation actually ruined this holidays because she didn’t want to travel to Cuba to really know the country and its people, she only wanted to take picture in the beach. So, I loved to return there, but this time, know the real Cuba not only the touristic places.

On Cuba you can visit historic places from the colony and Revolution time and visit too many museums. You can talk with Cubans, who are famous to their culture and intelligence. The food is delicious: “Ropa Vieja” and the different forms how they cook pork with beans and rice. Mojitos and Daikiris complete the menu, those are my favorite cocktails in all world.  

If I go to Cuba again I love to go with my girlfriend, Amaya. I think what is possible to do it, maybe in a couple of years… working both of us. I hope this will became reality. 

Laclau

Ernesto Laclau is an Argentinian political theorist, but he has development most of his intellectual life in England. He was born on 1936 in Buenos Aires. He studied History in the UBA Faculty of Philosophy and Letters where he participed in different political and students organizations. Later, Laclau received a scholarship in Orford University supported by Eric Hobsbawn. In England he made his career as teacher in the Essex University mainly in the analysis discourse area.

Laclau had a lot of theorical developments, but the most important of them is the Hegemony Theory. This included different topics like the ‘subject’ status, the formation of social identities, the demands as the unit of the society, among others. His analysis of populism is one of his recent works, in his book On Pupulist Reason he considered the populism as a particular phenomenon. It is a manner of construct politics from the people against the power.

I like a lot the Laclau works, as you remember he was my presentation topic in this course. I enjoy read him cause his writing is very clear even when his ideas are not a simple thing. His concepts are for me a right way to understand the society and the politic, and its make us to question about our own ideas.

Forgetting Sara Marshall

Forgetting Sara Marshall is a comedy and drama  film. The main stars of the film are Jason Segel, Russel Brand, Kristen Bell, and of course… Mila Kunis. It was directed by Nicholas Stoller, and it was filmed in 2008.

The movie is about Peter (Jason Segel) and the way he must to deal his breaking with Sara (Kristen Bell). He fell into a big depression, and after a couple of weeks, he decided to go to Hawai . In this particular holidays Peter discovered that Sara had the same idea in the same hotel, and he discovered too that she was not alone. In this process of forgetting Sara with her in the next room, he met a lot of new friends and one particular, Rachel.

I don’t know if it is my favorite movie, but I like it a lot. I can see it a several times and not get bored. It shows a fun way to see a bad time in life, and how new opportunities presents to us in this.

Taking of the Reichstag

This picture was taken by Tevgeni Khaldei, on April 30 of 1945.

This picture shows two soldiers hosting the soviet flag over the Reichstag. The Reichstag is the German parliament building located in the city of Berlin. The picture was taken after the taking of the building, and is the symbol of the Soviet victory against the Nazism. This is important, because usually the roll of the Soviet Union is forgotten by Occident. The Great Patriotic War is like the Soviet called that war, millions of man and woman died on this and is celebrate until today in the old countries of the Union.

I like this picture because represent the sacrifice of the Soviet people during the War, as a less prepared army could defeat another with the strength of them bravery and conviction. I don’t like Stalin or the terrible way wish take the Soviet Union later, but is important to remember this part of their history.

Pad Thai

Is difficult to me choose only one favorite dish. I love almost all food, except the sour-sweet dishes.  But, how I must to write about a single dish, I choose Pad Thai.

The Pad Thai is made by a base of rice noodles, chicken, tofu, eggs, coconut milk, chives and other ingredients; mixed with different spices. This dish come from Thailand, is a very typical food in this country and now is also very popular in other places.

I ate Pad Thai by first time at a restaurant called KY. KY is a Thai restaurant where they offer different dishes from this country, they also offer excellent drinks and cocktails.

Now, I eat Pad Thai at a small restaurant in Providencia, here the price are lower but without worse food.

I love Pad Thai because I love all its ingredients and its mixed flavors.