English Language Challenges

In my experience, it has been difficult for me to return to the rhythm of the language and it is still happening to me. In school, the practice of English was much more constant, I spent time studying and I did well in school, I was sworn in a spelling bee at my school. Until then I liked the language, but when I got to university and not having the English course for two years, it cost me even more

When I took English II, it was as if I did not know anything, I did not remember anything. I felt really bad because I could not develop the subject well or maybe I did it well, but not like I used to do in school and did not have much time to study English at home. It was a bit difficult to return to a decent pace of English.

The use of the blog has not cost me so much, it's difficult to start, but then I can expand well. But I feel that my weakest part is speaking in English, it has cost me a lot, because I forget the words or the connectors.

What I have been doing to improve this weakness is to listen to music in English to understand the correct uses of verbs, connectors, etc. and also speak English with some of my colleagues in the brakes, where we try to have a fluent conversation. about any topic that we are seeing in the courses or what is happening to us at this moment. And with this last, I noticed that my problem is to speak English in front of a more or less large group, I tend to get stuck very easily. But if I talk to a partner or friend, it's easier for me.

I´ll say stop to the academic load

There are many changes that could be made to the study program regarding the load we have. For example, they give much more time to complete the works of the theoretical class and that there is greater coordination between the teachers themselves with the jobs they will generate, since teachers often place jobs for the same week. Sometimes because they advance the dates because the course does not respond and is a way to push for us to work. But there is also pressure from several more branches, where the jobs are long and tedious and need more time than only 2 or 3 days, because in addition to the theoretical classes, there is the main branch that has existed for a long time and this has a schedule that It is given at the beginning of the semester (or it has been my turn).

Then it happens that there are weeks in which we already have 3 scheduled jobs (long and tedious) and a teacher adds another job in that same week, then one has to organize again to do everything and really that there are times that we do not have time to finish On time or devote a good development because it is impossible. And that's when you have to stay up late to finish the work.


This should not be so, since it affects us a lot in our state of mind and health, we are more tired, we stop attending some classes to recover the lost dream and it is not the idea.

Therefore, to also improve our well-being, it is desirable to have a little more time for jobs and not always be rushed and stressed doing them.

end to cash or factual control?

It is a subject that is very present and every minute, who would have thought 30 or 40 years ago that, in the not too distant future, they would stop using the coins and tickets for day-to-day shopping ?.
In a globalized world, the use of credit cards and app(s) is a form of security in the face of skepticism about the management of sovereign currencies and the growing enthusiasm in alternative forms of payment, and greater control of the cost of using currencies physical

But what else is behind this? For example, in the United States, 90% of banknotes in circulation have detectable cocaine residues, we usually associate drug trafficking with the use of weapons and the handling of a large amount of money, the latter being in total cash, which it allows them to carry out transactions outside the financial system, without being easily tracked by the authorities.

But not only that, cash serves, for example, so that corruption occurs in different areas, a known case is when you want to offer a bribe to a police officer so that he does not infringe.

This kind of facts without cash could not happen, what do I mean by this? It is another measure of control on the part of the financial system and / or the state to keep us "guarded", and it would not seem strange, if the state is capable of much worse things.

Although for some people they like the idea of ​​not having to pay with paper but what about the elderly people, who do not have access to the app(s), those who do not even have a debit card, it is undoubtedly for them and for other factors that cash continues to work, Do not you believe it?

Beyond leaving the papers to pay, is how technology has influenced the new forms of control that the financial system or the state can have on us through credit cards, mobile application, etc. However, another question is, does Chile's existing trade have the proper system to pay through this medium? Is there a lack of national coverage for us to put aside cash? What do you think?

My cousin: he is my model to follow

When I was about 8 years old, I began to admire a cousin who thought he was very good, both because of the way he dressed and the things he did. To tell you a bit, my cousin gradually rose up in the Bata chain of stores, did not want to study a career as soon as he finished school and looked for a normal job, but astute enough to be promoted for his qualities and be frank with the bosses to the point of ignoring them when the bosses raised their tone of voice. These qualities, among others, made the superiors see him as a kind of "leader" and nowadays he is the head and representative of the Weinbrenner brand in Chile. Of course, as he was promoted, he had to study to have the necessary knowledge.

His personality is clear, he is one of those people who are honest and who is always doing something, always looking for new challenges, he has a strong personality when he has to challenge someone, but it is still impossible to hate him. It was my main reference to "win" and I wanted to be like him.

I adopted or tried to adopt certain qualities, such as having the initiative in groups and doing things, being something like a leader, (but a good leader, haha) never forces things, if we do not do them correctly.

I think it would maintain some qualities that it has and that are an example. But also those qualities to adopt my person, because we are all different and each one has something special in his person.

Urbanism

It is still difficult to me decide what my "definitive" area will be. But taking into account the past publication, I would like to do a postgraduate course in urban planning, it is the area that until now I am more interested in, since urbanism is an area that also relates to architecture, it involves the social factor, how people inhabits spaces, how people  inhabits the city and there are a series of phenomena that occur with people, which are important when deciding important changes in cities, we can not ignore people as inhabitants and users of the city.

It is also urbanism a powerful tool when intervening territories that have some important social problem, I give the example of Medellin, Colombia, until a few years ago, was considered the city of drug trafficking and the most dangerous in the world, with deaths all the days because of the drug business. It was really difficult to reverse this situation, but urbanism took the challenge and through tactical urbanism and social urbanism could reverse this bad condition that the city had. These measures aimed at making people feel proud of their city, aiming for the best possible architecture of the new buildings, creating a network that reached all the poorest territories of the city and not concentrating them in a center. Well this is 10% of everything they did.

I put them as an example, so that they would see that social factors of a territory must be taken to confront and reverse certain problems, something can not be done without the participation of citizens, because it is they who will inhabit this improvement.

MTB & Architecture

Well, obviously I see myself working in the area of ​​architecture, but more towards sports, more related to the sport I practice. Is that these last two years, the creation of bike parks in Chile has been increasing, to explain myself better, the bike parks are fenced in hills, which create circuits for mountain biking of all levels and is a job in the that techniques are applied that are good. Developed and studied from the point of view of engineering, do not think that it is only about molding the land and creating jumps; Within this development, intelligent water drainage systems have been created in areas of the tracks where water accumulates much more. It has been studied the dimensions of the jumps, curves, turning radius in curve and a host of factors that even already appear in books. It is an area that remains to be discovered and is that fascinating things can be done with the land.

Some will ask and that has to do with architecture, well, the area that I like about architecture is urbanism and landscaping and a field where I can apply at least the landscaping would be the creation of tracks for bicycles, but with a different approach, perhaps not only creating circuits, but making real parks around the circuits that begin to include other variants, because so far the bike parks have only focused on making a certain amount of tracks, but that is not the case It happens with your environment. That's why I say there's a lot to do. But clearly it is not that I become a millionaire with this, but I would like to develop it.

Something about public space

Although Santiago is a city that has diverse services, it lacks public space, today we see that the priority is the construction of apartments, there is even a shortage of houses, for the number of people we are and there is no longer extensive land to be built horizontally. And the new way you have is to build vertically in height, but that need also leaves aside other essential elements in a city, such as public space, this is an important element, since the natural encounter of the same people and the interaction between them, is being lost. The city is not only heading to work, but the public space serves us for a social integration, to have a sense of belonging to the city, to feel part of it.

The city is also the space for meeting and exchanging, which enriches urban practices and encourages the participation of citizens and their interest in community issues.

                                                                                       

Something I liked a lot was that they took out the fences of the citizenship square in front of the Palacio de la Moneda, for me it was ridiculous that a square that was named "of the citizenship" had fences and nobody could use it of this, it looked like an insipid space, but now people took ownership of that space and took on another character, now there is a much more lively space and where anyone can go and sit in front of the most important building in Chile.

Social Networks and some problems

my favorite network now is Instagram because it is much more instantaneous with respect to important events, because not only do I follow ordinary persons, but also to news profiles related to my tastes, such as profiles on mountain bike or architecture, among several others that I follow.

I think I like  graphic designs more, to be able to see news or events portrayed, in a photograph is much better for me than reading an extensive post on Facebook, I also believe that on Facebook there is nothing new, apart from the “memes”, but one sees always the same types of comments and post, for my Instagram is a little more diverse than that. But I'm not an Instagram fan, on average a day I enter 3 times and more or less for 10 minutes.

Something that to say with regard to the social networks in general is that these problems can cause you with other persons that you love and that for some motive it is possible interpret badly something that dresses or to read and believe me it is possible to ruin a friendship for something silly as a comment or post.

also is making us change, since we believe blind (sometimes) in some comment or news in Facebook and really there are too many things that are not trustworthy, clear there are some of them that are very credible, but after a moment you realize that they are false or tricked.

Los Jaivas / The High and Bass (old name)

I am not much of attending concerts or rather paying for them, but yes, I have attended festivals, where they invite great and renowned Chilean artists. Of those festivals there is one of them that set a precedent in terms of musical taste and style of one of their groups to my short 13 years. This was in the commune of Talagante and the group Los Jaivas, known to all, appeared on the final night. The group's style is rather psychedelic rock and progressive rock with the fusion of Latin American folk instruments.

I had heard them before and mainly influenced by the taste of my cousin who lent me their records to listen to them in my house. But that day of the festival for me was great, mainly attracted by its characteristic sounds, I was astonished at the execution of his songs, because it is one thing to listen to it on a CD, but another is the staging and the energy that they deliver in their concerts. He was hallucinating with Juanita Parra's drums or Claudio Parra's keyboard or the psychedelic sounds of their guitars.

During the concert, the people were euphoric listen to every song, the people sang very loudly all their songs and they danced the ones that could be danced, in the style of each one of them. 

In this concert I felt like one of those adults who sang non-stop, almost to the point of shouting some emblematic themes, like for example and my favorite song: Mambo of Machaguay, it was very exciting for me to be there and every time I have the opportunity to go see them, I go.

Canada / Whistler

Since I am a mountainbike lover, the paradise for riders is called Whistler!

Whistler is located in Canada, in the high mountains and has a great high level bikepark where competitions are held throughout the year and at the highest level, in particular there is a date of the mountain bike festival called Crankworx, which lasts approximately one month and everyone who wants to can go to compete, but also taking into account the level of tracks that you have, because although there are tracks for all levels, they are very different in the level of difficulty of the tracks in terms of national tracks .

The trip to go for a month with all the expenses covered, such as, for example, lodging, food, registration for races, mechanics for the bicycle, costs 4,300.00 USD. The amount is relatively high, since, if one pays this amount, it goes with 3 Chilean guides who already know all the tracks and possible problems that may occur.

During the development of the Crankworx festival, we can see and also participate in several disciplines of mountain biking, such as:

Red bull JoyRide

Canadian Open DH

Dual Slalom

Pumptrack Challenge

Garbanzo DH

It is really fascinating when one of your friends has gone and arrives counting the level of hallucination that the tracks have.

It's a trip that I have to do without a doubt, but for the moment the University takes a lot of time to go on the dates of the Crankworx festival.

The Blogs

In my experience, I do not like to write a lot because it is difficult for me to write in English, I like to read the rest of the blogs, but I do not write my blog. It takes me a long time to think about how to write what I want to say.

But I liked the writing topics. Write of course it helps to develop a foreign language, but if you do not like to write a lot, it's more of a nuisance, because you know what you want to say but you do not know how to write. Although it may be a very simple sentence, you get stuck or you forget how Say it or you forget a word that you already knew and you lose the narration that you wanted to do.
I like to read the blos of my classmate, some were funny and others quite "common" or boring, but I liked to read them.

My comments on the classmate's blog were very simple at the beginning and then they had a bit of progress, but I do not like writing so many comments so much (for me, 3 comments are many).

At the end of the class, I felt I could develop more the oral part, but not in my writing.

Teno Sandwich

This place of food is located in Curicó, in the town of Teno, next to the Panamericana Sur route. 

Every summer when I travel to the Nevados de Chillan bike-park with my friends, we spend the night at the mythical Teno Sandwich, where the sandwiches are quite big and delicious. My favorite sandwich is the one that has meatloaf, cheese and lettuce, it's really big and the preparation of the meatloaf is quite delicious. 

The place is quite big and has two enclosures, one in each direction of the route. This chopped is well know by truckers, most of them go to eat, but also families who have had a long trip and need to recharge energies. 

Of course they serve other typical foods, not just sandwich. It is open throughout the day, so there is not problem if you go near late at night. 

Whenever we go to eat, they have treated us very well, it may be because we are the only ones at that time of night, but even so the attention is good, they wait for the clients always with a smile and kindness. It is a good place to rest and eat something that will leave you with a smile and quite satisfied. 

In the English class I can understand what the rest says and the texts, but

 what it costs me is to start a conversation with another person. 

I forget the words or they cost me certain verbs to be able to develop a fluent conversation, 

and sometimes I find it difficult to write a paragraph well or that this makes sense

Here we go again

The sport that I enjoy watching not on TV, but on online streaming is the UCI Downhill World Cup, which Redbulltv airs every year for 5 months and other races that hover between the world cup downhill.

For me it is simply fascinating, the bicycle came to me when I was only 4 years old, when I was an X person, who contacted my dad to give me a small bicycle I had, because I had seen it before and had been hallucinating (still I remember it) and my parents still did not plan to give me one, because it was very small, but here is the magic, in a very short time I was able to stabilize myself on the little bicycle at a young age, from there I never went down more than one, this is how my Parents every 3 years renewed my bicycle, adjusted precisely to the periods in which the bike simply fits you, until you know this sport, thanks to a cousin who started and joined me immediately.

This sport - Downhill - is quite expensive, we must admit, sometimes it is difficult to get the right pieces to build a good bike for the season, the trips to compete in different regions are even more, but I like it, there is nothing more extreme than going down to an average of 70 km by a hill, with rocks, roots, jumps and others. Take your mind to the limit of the fall, your mind is the one that makes you release the brake or tighten it in a risky area, but you have to be too concentrated to let it pass, it sounds almost unreal but it is real.

Every year I see that the world cup downhill - which certainly has not yet been done in Latin America due to the distance of most of the riders  that are from the European and American continent - means to see the advances in terms of the technical development of the bikes, with new prototypes of parts and also with new riders who are reaching the top of their careers in a short time, it is quite interesting for me to see every down-line that is transmitted online because the technique that each one has when it is down-line, is very different and the times are so tight that if the one who is in first place with 3.25.50 minutes and a runner that follows him 3.25.76 minutes is already in the position number 18 of the competition, I mean that everything implies a downhill , brake a lot, take a wrong turn, miss some rocks, jump very high, everything implies, that's why the mind takes the limit of concentration to go down as quickly as possible and commit the menu or possible error. I just love it.

OLD TIMES & RAINS

Wow, it's hard to choose a free theme.

But I will talk about something that we are experiencing today and not, it will not be about the feminist mobilizations, it will be something simpler, as simple as the weather. No one is new about the fact that a change in nature is taking place, but how radical it is, nobody knows, for some it is just that the climate is being delayed, in reference to the rains.

But I would like you to go back to when you were in school, if the school, you remember when you were in 4th or 5th grade or maybe less, but at that time the winter was still feeling, the first "soft" rains had almost finished in March and already for April and May it was almost an eternal flood and because I wanted to remind you of the school, because simple, because in those years the rains were tremendous, all the streets were flooded, the houses were flooded, and in the school was common in that moment that the classes were suspended for even days. So our parents were waiting for the latest television news to see which schools were suspending classes, because in those years there was no Facebook, let alone WhatsApp, the only way to know if the classes were suspended was the television.

And I tell you this because I began to remember how different it was at that moment, in my school they suspended classes for a full week, of course it was great not to go to school, but sometimes it was terrifying to see so much rain and now nothing, since I remember the basic 6th grade, the rains were decreasing, it was even strange that they did not suspend classes and now what is happening? We do not see rain in months, maybe 1 or 2 rainy days, but not as intense as before. What is this? Is the human being responsible? Is it just a change in the cycle of nature? I leave these questions so they can go through your mind. 

SOMETHING INTERESTING...

(If you are reading this blog and you could not comment and you know how to solve this problem, please send me an email to ian.inostroza@ug.uchile.cl explaining how to do it, I have tried several ways and I have not been able to solve it. I can not comment on other blogs and others can not comment on my blog :// )


My life revolves around bicycles and with this stoppage that emerged in the faculty, I have been able to resume downhill training, I have been out 5 of 7 days to the hill during these two weeks to ride a bike and with a special focus; recently began a national downhill championship called "DEACHE SERIES", this championship consists of 7 dates, in different cities and towns, this year all the dates of the championship will be in the 5th region but in different towns, which I think is perfect for me because they are quite close to the metropolitan region and it is easier for me to go.

Well, as I was saying, my training is about taking downhills, which last around 5 to 6 minutes, but going to the limit of the possible speed in each section of the hill, playing with the speed of reaction of both my body and mind as of my bicycle.

Obviously there are areas of training, such as some days I go to tracks where most of the track has rock areas or as we call them "rockgarden" where it is to go as quickly as possible, looking for fluidity or buoyancy on the rocks. In other tracks the jumps abound, which is perfect because I focus the technique when entering the jump, go in the air and fall, in order to win the most thousandths, hundredths and seconds. Other tracks have many curves in which it is sought to be accommodating the body to the curves and looking to gain as much pedaling as possible.

Which at the moment of arriving at a race where all these factors and others come together, can be a little easier because you already have them trained and you know how to pass each zone of the track. The races usually have tracks that do not exceed 4 minutes of descent. So if you train on tracks that last twice as long, it's much better since the "explosiveness" you train on long tracks tends to improve physical endurance and concentration on races of shorter minutes.

I hope to have a good performance in this championship to be able to climb to the Elite category, where the competition is much hard.

PINK BIKE

Since I discovered mountain biking (downhill) I have not stopped receiving comments about different areas of this discipline, as well as about products, races, events, etc.

Searching and searching the Internet when I was only 12 years old, I discovered the page www.pinkbike.com. This page provides information about any new product and race that appears for bicycles and also the latest bicycles. It is a website in English for which I have been able to facilitate reading and understanding in some way (but not the talk).

Since I was 16, is where I became more aware of this site, which really is very useful for someone who practices a little known discipline in Chile and that otherwise is expensive, taking advantage of the information that gives me the site, not so only to see the latest and most recent videos of professional racing teams, but I also learned about the different bicycle mechanisms that exist, for example, how a certain bike works with an angle, height, suspension travel, to see what the factors of advantage that the international professional runners had, with respect to the Chilean runners, to be able to analyze and compare their style of walking and, of course, the settings of the bicycles. But not only that, but of the different trainings that I recommend to improve gradually in descent and enduro, being able to take that written information to the practice and realizing my potentials and defects, being able to improve them.

It is a very complete website, that every mountain biker should know.

One Vision of Santiago

Today I will to you speak about my vision of Santiago.

For me Santiago is a city very interesting for a architect student because I see all the contrast respect to buildings and public space.

What I like of Santiago is can to contrast urban situations that are everywhere in the city, but that the “normal” persons can’t see in the moment.

What I dont like is a the high level of stress that exist in all the streets by people who are in a hurry to get somewhere.

The changes that need Santiago is a better urbanic plan about the public spaces, because the public spaces that exist are very precarious and tend to be in places where people do not meet so they fail. The idea of public spaces is tha people can interact with each other and occupy space as they are. Today the buildings occupy the great part of the Surface of Santiago and do not contemplate a space so that the people can inhabit them.

Enduro World Series.

I'am write about the Enduro World Series a sport event of one discipline of mountain bike.

This event happen in the center of ski La Parva this year in Lo Barnechea the last month. The riders (competitors) of all nacionalities such as Italian, Canadian, British guys  they were in competition for five days, riding in the top of the hill, down the mountains at high velocity for the to be one of the winners.

For me this event is fantastic because can show the great tracks we have in the hills and mountains of Chile and also showing great potential of the Chilean riders of the Enduro.

THE MATERIALS IN THE ARCHITECTURE. 

I am going to talk about the materiality of the constructions and what are the indicated ones regarding the environment in which they are built.

I will talk about this, because it is super important to see what material is adapted to the geographical location in which I will build my building, because it is not the same to occupy concrete or wood in a geographical place like a mountain.

The materials affect the acoustic quality, light and duration of the building itself.

First I will talk about how climate affects materials. Second, see which ones are appropriate for the basic climates we know.

For later give examples of these, already built.

Hello, my name is Ian Inostroza. I practice downhill in a mountain bike and compete representing the University of Chile, as well as participating in an organization of the university. In addition, I study Architecture.

I am fascinated by the landscape of mountains and to be able to interfere between them by their tracks with my bicycle.