"Do Schools Kill Creativity?" (Yes)

Hello everyone, today's topic is, "Do Schools Kill Creativity?". To get into this issue, we focus on the presentation of Sir Ken Robinson, seen in class yesterday.

There are two points I found very relevant. First, I thought was very important, given the importance that Sir Ken Robinson on education, as a problematic that concerns us all, regardless of our social status, education for all is an important issue. In my view, education is treated today as "great way" to rise in society, is seen as the way to be a part of progress, but this is a very biased view of education, an education that does not allow working into something that highlights our talents, education today is not focused on making good use of the skills of individuals, is designed only to reproduce this model of society in which we are part. Second, and not least, is the view that currently being treated creativity as if it should govern only functional parameters for "progress" and what is outside of it, the other instances in which creativity takes part, such as dance, music, sports, takes no more relevant, make him a simple hobby, a skill in which, with the proper guidance could do well, and much better than just working on something, studying something, by the mere fact of having workplace.

I have a dream!

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Today I write about my dreams that I have for the future. I don’t have only one dream, I have too many objectives that I want to realize. One of them is related with music, I would like to learn to play the Piano, and in fact I want to be a Pianist, I’d love to play and perform different compositions from the greatest musicians and pianist like, Franz Liszt, Czerny and the legends of piano like Johann Sebastian Bach (Juan Sebastian Arroyo for the friends) and Frederic Chopin, I`m learning piano with their methods and score books. This is the principal reason because I want to be a pianist, since I was child I like music, and I love the piano because one day when I saw “Detective Conan” on TV, I listen, in this chapter the piano song “Moonlight Sonata” a composition of Beethoven and I really like it. The first score that I read was Moonlight Sonata, and with the help of my teacher I learned this song.

I admire the greatest and classical pianist. Their music and story of life inspired me, I’m not a genius like them, but I make an effort to be a better pianist day to day.  I take piano lessons and I play the piano everyday because I want to realize my dream. This dream means for me that I can express my feelings through the music and I can transmit a message for the people.

My favorite song "La Danza del Oso"

Hi, today i write about something very important for me. It is music. I will talk about my favorite song at the moment.

Well, I listen different kind of music, my favorites kinds are, Rock, Classical Music, Folk music from Ireland, and Metal music, but I don’t have problem to listen different music like Cumbia, Reggaeton, Bachata, etc.  I play different instruments like piano and flute; I play my favorite song in flute, and this is the reason because I like it. The band that play it, is a Chilean band named “Banda Celta Danzante”.  Whit my friends I play this song and other folk songs in the Transantiago :D

The name of this song is very funny, it name is “Danza del Oso”. When I listen this name, I imagine a bear dancing. But I really like the instrumental content of this song and the songs of this band, I listen this song again and again.

I listen this song for first time two years ago, when my friend, and flute teacher showed me a flute score and I laugh because the name was “Danza del oso”. I played this song in Crosswise Flute (flauta traversa) and my teacher played it in his accordion. 

I love play and listen folk music!

The skeleton photo

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Today I write about a singular photo. One of my favorites pictures, and I use it for my front page in Facebook. This photo is important to me because in the moment that it was taken, I was laughing whit my friends because the skeleton that appear in the picture look like if he slept.  I remember this moment because I copy the position of the skeleton and my friends tell me that I look like the skeleton because I’m very slim. The picture was taken last year, I don’t remember the month but it was in winter, because I remember the weather was very cold in this day.  The person who took the picture is a friend, who leaves the career in this semester; I and my friends miss that person in our group.

I don’t like appear in much photos because I’m not a photogenic person.  But this picture brings me nice memories and makes me laugh every time that I see.

Bye Bye. In Chilean: Chao cabros!

My favorite website

Hello! (In Chilean “wena cabros”)

Today i write about two differents websites that I really like. 

I´m very interested in manga and anime series; I usually visit websites that published the manga magazines and the chapters of different series. The first website that I present is www.animextremist.com I visit this website every day because every day they published a new chapter of a serial. For example every Friday I read “Fairy Tail” here, I read in this page most of 7 series, someone’s publish chapters once a week but other series publish their chapters once a month. I like this website because the administrators update this site every day and shows different news about the world of anime. I visit for first time this page when i search for another series to read. 

 The other site that I like is www.mediafire.com . This is a downloader page, I use this because, when Megaupload dead I think that I can’t download free anymore. Mediafire permit the download of more than one file from the internet. I visit this page every day because each time I should to download a file I use links from this website. I like this page because is free. I can download files without pay for it.  

Hello People!!

My name is Juan Pablo Zúñiga Jara, but i use a nickname: Johannes Krauser III. 

I was born in Santiago, Chile. I am 18 years old. I study psychology in the Universidad de Chile.

I like music; i play different instruments, piano, violin and flute. I listen many kinds of music but i really like the Folk Metal and Classical Music. 

In my free time i watch TV series and anime and play basketball with my friends. Near of my house is a basketball field in this place I practice every Sunday. Sometimes I play video games like Guitar Hero and PES.