Blog post N°3- Topic 1: My feelings about music

            Music for me is kind of a therapy. I learned to be organized with my types of music, I create a lot of folders with the same type of music in them to appeal there if I need to. For example, when I have a test, a quiz or I just want to study, I open the "study music" folder to help me. There are just instrumental sounds without anybody singing around, it icludes different kinds of groups and bands like Inti Illimani, that is a Chilean folk band, Yann Tiersen, that is a French composer who is in charge of movie soundstracks, Ana Vidovic, that is a Russian guitar player who plays classic piano music in the guitar, among others. I also have music to workout, when I'm very energectic and I want to do some exercise I draw on that folder. It include a lot of variety of music, it goes from Rammstein and System Of a Down, that are heavy metal bands, to Hardwell and Avicii, that are more like electronic music. And of course I have a folder of music to just listen when I feel happy or enthusiasmic, and this is more like "popular" music, like Maroon five, Pharell Williams, Imagine Dragons, and others. I really like to listen music, but the right song in the right time, that's way I like to have my music structured, because that way it helps me more.

           When listening was not enough I started to learn how to play the guitar, that way I could create my own music or sing my favorite ones. At the beginning it was really difficult, my fingers hurt and I felt that I was not making any progress. But with the time the musical notes and tones were becoming easier and easier. When I considered myself a good guitar player, I started to sing while  playing a song on the guitar. That was the very hard part, because it is difficult to coordinate your voice with the guitar tone and rhythm, but although it was hard I really enjoy it, because I felt that finally I was reaching my goal: Play the guitar and sing at the same time. When the time came, I felt really happy, so happy that I spent an entire day looking for the chords of my favorite songs to sing them. And now I am really proud of myself for learning how to play the guitar, it really helps me with my problems, because when hearing some music is not enough, play the guitar and sing to express yourself, really helps you. 

Blog Post N°2 - Cultural Characteristics

             One of my favorites countries that I would love to visit, is Japan. When I was a little kid my uncle was training a Japenese marcial art, and he taught me how to fight and some hints of the japanese culture. I learn a lot from my uncle, he was a really good teacher, even though it hurts to learn. There was one time that my uncle said to me that followed him to the hill, we were going to train into the woods, like the old japenese marcial artists. It was a exhausting yourney because I was carrying a backpack full of items that we use for the practice. There I felt a connection with nature, one of many that I had experienced, I learn a lot about the marcial art, and how did the techniques worked and of course, the origin of the techniques. When we finish and we start to pack away our items, I started to ask some questions to my uncle about the japenese culture, because it was really interesting, and  we didn´t stop talking about it on our way down to the house. It was a really good day that I will never forget, I learn a lot of the japenese culture, and of course, I couldn´t move for the next three days.

One important thing about the japenese culture, is Honor. In the old japan, the japenese people lived by the Honor, it was something that you couldn´t explain. There are a legendary warriors that they dedicated their life to the Honor, the Samurai. The Samurai were warriors that defended a family or a whole nation, they were experts with the Katana (the blades that they used), and it was very symbolic to them. A katana wasn´t just a weapon, it was a part of their bodies. When the master of a Samurai got killed, the samurai turned to be a "ronin", that means a Samurai without a master, the people didn´t like ronins, because they said that they had no honor.  And as I said before, the honor is the most important value between the japense culture, or it used to be, because now they are really different.

Blog Post N°1 - Autobiography

Hello class,

My name is Benjamin Cuellar. I was born in Salvador Hospital and I lived three years on the commune of Conchalí. But then my family left the commune because there was a lot of delinquency and drugs. Then my family went to the commune of Barnechea, in a sector called "El Arrayan" , where I was raised surrounded by trees and amazing nature.

I studied in Santa Rosa School for seven years, but I had bullying problems there, so my parents change my school to San Rafael, where I finished my studies.

I have four sivilings, two elder ones and two little ones, I'm the one in the middle, the forgotten one. My elder sister lives in Mexico, where she's living with her mexican husband. Then it comes my elder brother, who is living in Valdivia, where he works in a mine. Then me, I'm studying at the Andres Bello University cursing my fisrt year there. Then my little sister, who is fifteen years old and she is still in the school, same as my other little brother who is eleven years old.

I pesonally love my all of my brothers and I don´t know what I would do without them.

my elder sister and her husband

my little brothers and me

My elder blother and his girlfriend