Tuesday, 27 November 2007

ABOUT THE BLOG EXPERIENCE AND THE ENGLISH CLASS


THE ENGLISH CLASS

Well, This post its not only about the blog experience, its about the English class, because a classmate explained me, but I’m not understand well the instructions, sorry¡¡¡ only right now, reviewing the blog of Simon, I realized about this situation, but is interesting too¡¡
When I was child, in the school I had like seven hours per week of English class, but always interested to me this language. But when I came to study to this University at 2003, I didn’t have any class of English, and for that reason I couldn’t practice my English all this time.
On June I went to Europe, and in this trip, I needed to talk in English in many countries, so I understand that I must to improve my English quickly. At the beginning of this semester, I asked to Simon about this class, and here I am. First, I have to say that this course was really good for me¡ I meet a lot of people from another classes and levels, of architecture an design, and also I did more friends. I think that this system of writing in the blog, about different things and topics, gave me the chance to learn a lot, and improve my English writing, because if you’re all weeks posted something, finally you write the summaries fluently. In class, we practice our “oral skills”, having conversations with our classmates, and we read different texts about technology, architecture and other daily news. Sometimes, in the computers we put the ear phones, and we listened videos. About the teacher, Simon, I have to say that he’s very nice with us, he always talk us in his “British English”, and help us with any doubt. Also he had various activities all the classes, including a movie (blade runner).
I know that I need to learn more, because its very important “be update” and practice continuously our English. For this reason I hope that on the next semester, I could participate in this or in another course, to continue practicing.

Saturday, 3 November 2007

TED WEBSITE


ARCHITECTURE IS NEW WAY TO CONNECT THE WORLD

I see the video of Thom Mayne about architecture. He is an architect, and he has a studio names “Morphosis”. He started talking about the new kinds of landscapes and environments. He thinks that the Architecture is an investigation of multiplicity of forces to create something, a building, a city, etc, and the relationship between the space and the buildings. He also talks about the importance of the “skin of the building”, and he compared this with the skin of the body. He said too, that if we dream with built something, or develop some system, we only have to do it. I really agree with this, and I think that all of us must have a big ideal in our lifes, related to our careers or other thing, and work every day for reach it. If the ideal is almost impossible, better because we will try hard and we are going to valuing more our results.