Hercule Poirot

Hello teacher and classmates, today i will talk about a character i like, he is Mr. Poirot.

Hercule Poirot is a character created by the writer Agatha Christie, and this character is a Belgian detective. The First appearance of this detective was in 1920 in the book called "The Mysterious Affair al Styles", and the last appeared was in "Curtain" in 1.975.

By 1.930 Agatha Christie said of Poirot that he was "unbearable" and by 1.960 she felt that he was "detestable and self-centered".  However, the public loved him and the writer refused to kill him, she said that was her duty to do what the public liked, and what the public liked was Poirot.

Poirot is the most famous character of British author Agatha Christie. Former member of the Belgian Police, came to England as a refugee during the First World War and never left the country, which was established as a highly successful private detective.

Mr, Poirot impresses everyone with his intelligence to solve the most complicated cases that are presented. Is a retired detective who always has a lot of work, and always seeks to solve mysteries that appeal to their intellectual complexity.

The character was brought to the big screen on too much occasions between 1.931 and 1.982. He also has his own TV Series and several highly successful seasons, named Agatha Christie : Poirot in 1.989 and starring by the british actor David Suchet.

Hercule Poirot's character has beeb so famous, and have even writtn a book about his biography.

Greetings to all, having a good week.

I like Santiago.

Hello everybody.

Well, this is the city that i chose to study, and leaving aside the problems to major cities, I think that this is a great city. Every day you have something to do, instead in my city no, the truth is that it is a bit boring.

I like Santiago because is a city with culture, entertainment, public transportation works day and night, there are many parks, it’s near the mountains and beach.

I think there are many interesting things to do in this city, for example visit the Cajón del Maipo by nature and beautiful landscapes.

Other place is The Palace of La Moneda and some remaining buildings with history in down town.

I would suggest a tourist to visit:

-The Cerro Santa Lucía, hopefully on a clear and clean day to photograph the city.

-Visit the Cajón del Maipo  to do hiking or trekking, and horseback riding.

-Go to Museo de Bellas Artes and its surrounding area to visit the coffe shops.

Greetings to all and see you soon.

A piece of art

Hello teacher and classmates, today i'm going to talk about a piece of art that i like.


The piece of art is a painting from Pablo Picasso, and this is called Guernica, it name is because Picasso painted it a pairs of month after of bombard the city of Guernica in Spain, in the Spanish Civil War. This is a wonderful work painted on canvas and Pablo Picasso presented his work in 1.937 in the Paris International Exhibition by to have the attention of the people in relation to the things than was happened in Spain.

I saw this work for the first time when i was a girl, and i saw this piece of art in a diary of my sister, this was a diary about painted and the most interesting was the Guernica and i liked it because this was the only one in black and white, all the others painting was in color. This painting was awesome because you could see as a puzzle.

And in those years was Franco in Spain, so Picasso opted to leave the Guernica in the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York. And he want that the painting should go back to Spain when return the democracy.
And today the Guernica is in Museum Reina Sofia, in Madrid.

Bye bye and good weekend.

A entertaining game.

I like a lot of board game as Ludo, Chess, Pictionary, but the most interesting and entertaining game for me is Attack also named Risk, a game of global domination.

I learnt to play this game 2 or 3 years ago, in my boyfriend's home with his nephew. In the game, you have armies, armaments and some territories or nations in five continents that you want to care and to protect from the attack of the others gamers, and the aim of this board game is to win or conquest territories to yours opponents and finally win the game with the one gamer who captures every country and continent in the board.

Now i not much play this game, because ever win the same persons, and this is not me.
But when i play i do it with my boyfriend, his nephew and his niece, and i never can to win, i think that this is because their play Attack a lot of years ago.

In spite of i never win, this game is very entertainin because is a game of strategy and i never boring to play,you can play this game for a lot of hours because you can lose your territories and after you can to recover this.

Bye bye classmates and techer.

A good book

This book was called Los Detectives Salvajes (The Savage Detectives) and i read four or five years ago, is very interesting and entertaining book. It was wrote for Roberto Bolaño in 1998.

I read this book because a friend was looking for a good book for read in his holidays, and a day he forgot it in my home, so i began to read and was very entertaining and finally i read the complete book.

This book was three chapter, the first was called Mexican lost in Mexico, and is about a young student of laws called Juan García Madero and tell how he meet a movement of literature. The young finally is part of this movement and finish left his study of laws, his family and tell how he begin in the sex and how begin write poems. The second chapter was called The Savages Detectives, and tell diferent tales of two poets, who was the leader of the Movement of literature. And finally, the third chapter is The Desert Of Sonora, and here continue the story of Juan García and his friends poets, they was looking for a woman, Cesárea Tinajero, who was the leader of other movement of literature born in 1920.

In my opinion is a interesting book, because i feel that was in a travel with the personage in the book.

See you the next week. Bye.

One of my ambitions

Hello everybody, this week i want to talk about an ambition that i have. One of my ambitions in this moment of my life is to travel to Australia and stay in that place to live for a while.

I would like achieve this ambition because is something that i want from a lot of years ago. And i like to travel to any place unknown.  And when i was a girl i saw a Kangaroo in the zoo and my dad told me that this animal lives in Australia, and then i wanted to know this country.  Time after i saw a tv program from Australia, and in this program showed the sea and the desert, and the landscapes were really beautiful.

This ambition is like a dream of child, because really started from a situation so simple.

To fulfill this ambition would mean to me to do something i’ve wanted for a long time, and i hope can go to live or to visit this country continent soon, because after fulfilling this ambition i will have to find other ambitions to fulfill. But before, i want to travel through of Chile, specially the South and the Islands.

Bye bye classmates and teacher.

Favourite Beach or Coastline

Dear teacher and classmates, today i am going to talk about a beach that i like to me, because really is not my favourite beach.

The beach is Canelillo, is near to Yacht Club of Algarrobo. I went to this beach in august of the last year when my boyfriend and me went to meet a new house of a friend, and someday we walk to downtown of Algarrobo and arrived to the principal beach of Algarrobo , Las Cadenas and walked by the way to yacht club, and finally we arrived to Canelillo, and like was winter, there aren't palmera sellers or ice sellers, and also the kiosk was closed.
So we were watching the sunset and took some pictures with my boyfriend.

This beach i like becouse is a little place and the sand is white and soft, and the better is that the water is calm -this is important becouse i don't know how to swim-, while the others beach like Santo Domingo or El Quisco there are a lot of big waves. Another reason why i like this beach is becouse don't have rubbish in the sand, is very clean and this is an important reason to me.

This place is near to Santiago, maybe i will go soon.
Bye bye.

My ideal holidays

Hello everybody, this week i'll speak and describe my ideal holidays.
The truth is that the place i don't care, but i prefer a place near a lake or some place in the mountain, because i don't like the beach in Chile as place of holidays, i lived in the beach, so that is like stay in home (except Rapa Nui of course).

So, a ideal place is near to mountain of ninth or tenth region or a place in the south of Chile, and here i would like to do trekking, ride in bicycle, to take a lot of picture from the place and enjoy three weeks of the nature.

I would like to go with a lot of people, like my family, my boyfriend and friends. I would like to go specially with my dad, sister and brother because when i was a little, we could never go on vacation. Maybe is too late to do this but i would do some day. And for this reason, this would be my ideal holidays.

Also i would like to go to Torres del Paine with my boyfriend, and maybe this summer we can go, everything depends of work, time and money.

Regards everybody.

I like this photograph

Hello everybody, today i'll comment about my favourite photograph. Well, i have many photograph that i like, but this is special for me.

This picture was taken by the camera, was automatic, becouse only was there my boyfriend and me.
We were in Laguna El Alto, in National Reserve Altos de Lircay  (Region of Maule).

This was in december of 2009 and this trip was too short, between Christmas and New Year, and it was my first trip with my boyfriend.

To take us this picture, we walked more of five hours, we start in the morning from the camping and arrived at El Enladrillado, and finally we walked more and  arrived at the lagoon and it is a wonderful place, but we had to go back to camping, so we could not go down to the shore of the lagoon.

Well, here is my favourite picture and i like becouse this trip was whith my boyfriend and also to know a beautiful place.

Otai Sushi

Hello, this week i going to talk about my favourite place to eat.

Except the fast food restaurants, like Pizza Hut, McDonalds and others, my best place to eat is OTAI SUSHI. It is in Irarrazaval avenue 3097, in the corner of José Pedro Alessandri, in Ñuñoa.

One day  my boyfriend and me were looking for a place to eat sushi, and it is near to my home. So we ate there and the food was excelent.

This is a special place, becouse here have different rooms, and you can call to make a reserve and invite to your friends, and is like to stay in the room of your home, but you don´t have to clean or to wash dishes.

When i go to OTAI always order the same promotion, this is Bambu, and has 30 pieces. This is ok to 2 persons, and the best of all, it.s very cheap, only $8.600.

There is other cheaper promotion, Agua, this also has 30 pieces , and the value is only $7.000.

You know the address and also know the promotions.
www.otai-sushi.cl here you'll find more details.

Stereotypes from the faculty

 
Hello everybody, in this time i want to write about the different stereotypes from the FAU, specially, i want to write about the students of this faculty.


In the faculty, there are two types of people: the students of architecture and design and on the other hand the students of geography. I think that this difference is very notoriously or evident.


This last stereotype, in my opinion, every wear sport clothes, and specially wear brand trainers, for example North Face or Columbia. I think that is because in our career we have to go out for terrain to different places, and for that we need to have got correct clothing...

My favourite piece of technology

Helo everybody, today i 'll comment about my favourite piece of technology, and it is my laptop, because i am not very technological.

My laptop is the thing most technological that i have, really i don´t have mp4, ipod or a technologycal mobile, the truth is that my mobile is very older, it don´t have camera, music or TV.

Well, my laptop is a present from my uncle, really my uncle send me the money (because he lives in Norway), and i loking for a laptop cheap and cheerfull. And i have it from one year ago.

I use it for everything, to make homeworks, to see movies, to save pictures and information that interesting me, and too i use my laptop to play in internet or some games older that i played in SNES when i was in my home.

Generally, i use it every days in the night, when i arrived to my home, and i can speak with my dad and my sisters, because my dad is not in Santiago, but he is not very good to write in the computer, so that i prefer call him.

Really i can live without my laptop, although now it will be so hard because i am used to using my laptop.

Bye everybody.

My Favourite Movie

The Shining (1980), this movie i like so much. This movie was directed by Stanley Kubrick, and besed on the book of the same name of  Stephen King and starring by Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall and Danny Lloyd.

I like because keep me alert all movie, and that is a very good reason, because as a rule i get distracted a lot. 

When i was little, i could never saw a complete movie, so, i saw to my sister: what happened?,  i don`t understand why...finally i slept and next day i asked her: and which was the end of the movie?

Well, the first time i saw The Shining was in 2002 with a group of friends from the Universitary residence.

The Shining is a movie of  psycological horror, and the plot is about Jack Torrance (a writer) and his family, they arrived to the Overlook hotel to take care while this is empty, and here happened strange things. 

The Jack`s son has terrifying premonition about the hotel, and Jack with the lonelines and pressure for write his novel he begins to go crazy, and to get violent.

Finally Jack want to kill his wife and son...and to know the end, i recommend you see it. 

Bye bye, dear classmates.

A great trip

In the summer of 2005, my friends of school and me went to National Reserve 7 Tazas

(i think know is a National Park), in the region of Maule.

We was five persons, and this was our first trip together,

fot this reason this is my most significant trip.

When we arrived to camping, in the nigth, just we to find a place to our

tent in Municipal Camping. So, the next day, we went to camping of CONAF, because it was most

safe to our bags and tent. But we had got a problem, in the camping hadn´t place for more people.

However, we did to find a person that we invited to stayed with he, his name was Gato

(not really name of course), so that we equip the tent

in his place.

Now we was 6, and this guy was nice and interesting.So that we was all time with

he and too we made some friend in the twoo weeks that we stayed

in these place.

Finally, my friends came back to San Antonio, but Gato and me went to Alto BioBio and Temuco, so that i can say that he was my love of summer. And this is a story for other post.

Bye bye.

a person that i admire

I really don`t admire anyone person related to my career, geography. But there are some people that i like some things that they done.

For example i like the works of some teacher than i have before studyng at the University of Chile, and i like a person who is know in the world, he is Charles Darwin, he was born in England at 1809 and is a scientist who is present today in the many studies done regarding the evolution of species.

Charles Darwin is not exactly a geographer, is a naturalist who studied the living things and concluded that all species have evolved over time from a common ancestor through a process he called natural selection.

Well, what I admire about this person is that he traveled to many places in the world and became interested in investigating sites at the time were very distant and maybe unknown.

And I find it interesting to see and visit the same places where he did his studies,for example the mount "La Campana", which is located on the fifth region.

27 th february

I lived the last earthquake in my home in Santiago. I was whit my boyfriend, Leo and a friend, but he was sleep and his girlfriend, Eva, was drived in the street.

I was go to bed and i can´t do it, because started the movement and i have afraid of the tremor and little quakes and of course the earthquake, so i jumped for the bed and run to open the door, and well, my boyfriend was my hero, he made me at ease and all was rigth. But i was nervious , becouse i can't called to my family in San Antonio.

After the earthquake Leo, my friend and me was have a look in the home for a torch to chequed the home and we went to see our neighbor and to wait for Eva, she arrived well at home.

Finally, in the morning i could speak with my dad and my sisters, and their was ok, but i saw the news and this was terrible.

After all, i learned to stay trained for an any emergency and to try to keep calm.

Introduction

Hello teacher and classmates, this is my new blog for english 3 and get your comments about this subjects and learn more.

And this is the first task, writing about me and then keep posting here and commenting the blogs from my classmates.

About me, my name is Pamela Cerda,i am 27 years and i study Geography in the FAU in the University of Chile, i' m from San Antonio, in the coast, but i live in Santiago with my friend's mom.
My dad lives in San Antonio, and i hope to go this weekend to see.

See you the next class, bye.