About some Pokemon memories

I took this photo on a Pokemon Con on 14th January of this year called Pokemon Day, the first Pokemon related big event realized on Chile with videogame tournaments, cosplay, merchandising, contests and other things. I went with my brother Domingo (but he left the place one hour after we arrived because he needed to went to the train station). One of the stands of the event had a lot of decks of the Pokemon Trading Card Game, some of them was of the older collections (the left-sided ones) and another was newer (the right-sided ones). I like this photo because, as I said, have a mix of cards generations, some special editions and a lot of memories I have about the game.

When I was little I loved Pokemon, with my brother played the videogames, watched the TV show and played the Trading Card Game (or TCG). I don't remember if it was on 2002 or 2003 when we saw the first Pokemon TCG Deck on sale, we bought it and played until my mother saw us with the cards, she got angry because she thought TCG was a lost of time and money but, with the pass of the years, she give up with that idea (or maybe not, sometimes she says that). We played a lot of times, participated on little championships of Osorno and bought a lot of cards for create new decks but one day my brother finish school, left the home and started to study on Santiago. I was alone and lost the motivation to play because I don't find people who play that TCG (I knew people who played Raw Deal TCG, another cards I played with my brother, and I played with them).
On 2008 I finish school, came to Santiago and my brother lived with me and my mother again, however with all my homeworks and a little bit of lazyness I don't played anymore. Now I'll try to come back to the game because we found a lot of cards so I have to create a new deck, I want to play Pokemon TCG again (maybe with the decks of the Con I got some motivation xD), for other side, my brother and my boyfriend (another pokemon fan, he is like a human pokedex) are waiting for me to play.

A funny thing about the photo was my brother and I wanted to buy some decks, I wanted one of the older editions (The Lock Down theme deck) and my brother one of the new ones. The special editions, as we expected, was expensive but we got surprised when the saleman said us that the old decks price was $12.000 chilean pesos. Quickly our plains of buying cards vanished, we don't have much money and...

COME ON! Back in my days that deck's price was $9.900 chilean pesos! 

Maybe that the famous thing called "The nostalgia price"...

My own working center

Hello!

Yes, I am agree with the idea of technology as a simple mechanism (not exactly a big big machine on a factory) but I have to say something important too: The machine isn't the importance on this topic, the main deal is the useful things and the help that brings to your daily life.

For this reason I going to talk about an obvious kind of technology (the most known, maybe) which I needed with urgency. I talk about a common notebook.

When I started my career I don't have internet and an own computer. Months after I started with the college we have an internet conection on our house, which I used for reunions with my classmates, checking the e-mails (and u-cursos) and searching some information for my works. Yeah, Internet was a big help to me but I didn't have my own computer yet so I had to wait for my bother and my mother who used the computer of the house for work and leisure. When they used it for fun when I needed it, for example, to delivery a homework with urgency I got really angry (and when I'm angry you have to looking for a place to hide, I warn you). The other problem was the storage of the disk, my design softwares was occupying a lot of memory on the CPU and my brother got angry too and said that the future problems of storage will be mainly my fault. And finally privacy... oh, please, I hate when someone stands behind me and sees what I'm doing! If a talk with a friend, if I'm searching some music or some series, if I read some blogs... COME ON! I don't use the internet for porn XD

But with all this problems I wasn't able to get mad because we don't have enough money for a new computer.

For my 21th birthday one of my aunts (and also, one of my neighbourgs) gave me a notebook (Notebook Dell Inspiron... and I don't remember anymore) for a kind of reward to all the effort on my career. It was a really good gift because I can now go to my bedroom to work and have skype reunions with classmates, install all the software I want without worries of another users with the storage, customize the wallpaper, the bowser and the folders, work on the university with the notebook (but this gave me fear on the first days because I don't wanted to lose it or be a steal victim), play the games I want, have all the music I want... and a lot of things. Without my notebook I would back to use another computer and now this bothers me because I don't feel free at all and I can't use it quietly. Maybe it sounds mean but I am used to have my own work center and I don't feel confortable when I wanna do something but another person says me a lot of time that the storage is full for my fault.

Now this notebook has one year and one month with me and I am so happy with it and I used it with another gadgets like pendrives, headphones and a tablet pen. Is like a tech-bunker XD No, I don't stay far of the people with it but I can play and work without problems.



P.S.1: Sorry if I wrote a big text but I felt inspired XD
P.S.2: I have to draw some things for this posts

Taking a look on BBC english learning website

Hello friends!

Today we had to visit the BBC's english learning website, taking a look on the quizzes, articles, episodes of their mini show (The flatmates), and other features. After that, we had to write our opinion of it.

When I started to check the website I think fastly on the big number of sections and features, taking a lot of aspects and kind of teaching the language. I entered on the "Express english" feature and the first thing I saw was an article about computer games, I think that's so important to remember, we learn english going to classes but we can learn it and use it in our freetime, for example, reading books, playing games or singing songs. I liked the fact that the website talked about it too.

Ok, that made me laugh (I would do it if I wasn't on the classroom that time xD).

Another useful thing I found was The Flatmates, the mini show on the website. You can read and/or listen to the episodes (there are almost 200... well, that's not exactly a "mini show") and then you can vote on a little survey available about a question about the current episode. You can download the texts and the audio archives and use it wherever you want.

 Tim, don't be stupid and feed the kitty well...

As I said, one funny way of learning is playing, so here I found a lot of games for training language skills. There were a lot of them, like thematic crosswords (about rock music or witches for example), common quizzes or a game called "beat the keeper" (you can read the instructions before playing). I played the crosswords and I checked the hints sometimes (hints are clues you can see if you are a little bit lost on the game) and, when I finished, looked the answers. In the case of the "Beat the keeper game" I found it funny and easy to play, so you can recommend it to a friend who has problems with the learning of the language.

Funny learning, here we go!

Leaving for a while the games topic, I found tips for teachers and guides. So, if you are teaching english to someone you can check the website and seach tips and download some texts for english pronunciation, grammar, listening and more. That topic it's so important for me because I think that the teaching methods need to be in constant change, innovation and dynamic for reach the principal goal: Make the people learn about something and remember it for a long time.

A lot of clues

Finishing the review, I highly recommend this website. You can find a lot of useful things for learning, read and debate opinions, topics and looking the english language applied on creative things (I found a thematic callendar with photos, reviews and data). You can use it for learning, teaching and, also, have a funny time. So come on and give a chance to this site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/


Have a nice day!

Frutillar: A place of relax, crafts and music

Hello!

I'm going to tell you about one of my favourite places I visited in my life. If you want, maybe you can visite it and spend a great time. So let's begin.

When I was younger I traveled to some places near my city. One of them was Frutillar, a little town 1 hour away of Osorno (going to the south), I traveled with my mother, my father and my brother when I was 8 or 9 years old (I don't remember the right age because we went to this place a lot of times).

One of the scultures of the city.

We arrived to the town and we saw signals and scultures in the entry (some of them were like big musical notes and instruments), then we saw the lake and its little beach so my mother parked the car and we stand all the day here. We played in the sand, swam on the lake, saw the Osorno Volcano, eat sandwiches and drinking juice. There was a volleyball champeonship near us and a construction (it became the Lake Theater of the city, here played concerts and chorus for an event called "Musical weeks of Frutillar") so we saw them for a while.

The theater on the lake of Frutillar (sorry, I don't remember the name of the lake).

Before we came back to our house we take a look on the streets, the crafts and the german colonial houses, some of them was a little bit like some colonial houses of Osorno, others was prettier (I thought them were like chocolate houses and I started to get a little hungry).

The old houses of the town.

I liked Frutillar because is so quiet, pretty, without big buildings and with clean air. Also, is a great place for relaxing and leave the worries behind. I traveled to Frutillar a lot of times, sometimes on a car with my mother and my brother, sometimes on a bus on a train with my brother and my father. This is one of the places I miss the south, I hope I can visit this town again (and others near Osorno like Pto Varas, La Unión, Llanquihue, Pto Montt, Purranque and Valdivia).

Osorno volcano.

P.S: Thanks google for the images :D