We can do it

I think that our planet is in extreme danger. Year by year the industry or factories, pollutant people, selfishness and other factors will destroy our ecosystem, because these reason, we are egoistic with our kind of live.

I remember when I was a child nobody knew the means of this strange word. We lived in an epoch where the pollution was not a big problem. The situation turned dramatically when a lot of studies gave the bad news: The earth has been extremely damaged because of our bad habits with the Motherland.

Systematically, people started to develop their conscience about their environment, and new words appeared: habitat, pollution, overfishing, overpopulation, recycling, desertification and deforestation. These words explained the new theatre of the new era.

I must recognize that at home we have a lot of problems to develop habits to help our ecosystem and change our habits. It is very difficult because my borough doesn’t have a recycling system, although we put our plastic bottles in plastic bags, and the paper in one different bag, it does not matter because this system is useless if you do not have a good recycling system. In fact, Ñuñoa has this system, but our country doesn’t have the machine to process the different waste materials. Moreover this ways is not a good option because always we have to put our garbage in plastic bags. It sounds as a joke.

I have an incredible bicycle, but I use it to ride near my house, on the hill or the rural ways. It is very funny because you can breathe clean air. If you decide to ride in the city, I think that is the worst idea that you can choose. Why? Because you are doing an aerobic exercise, you are forcing your lungs, and you are breathing a lot of smog.

In the 90s, I wanted to join Greenpeace. I believe that those boys and girls were real heroes. I remember that they put their bodies to stop the harpoons of Japanese whale ships. It was amazing because they risked their lives to save the whales.

I think people need an extreme change. The mankind has the opportunity to change this situation. We need to understand that the world is our home, and we must protect it. How we can do that? We should produce less heat. We need to turn off a lot the lights, because this is one cause of global warming. Also we can buy products that don’t damage the environment, and the most important is an advice: YOU CAN START IT RIGHT NOW.

A glance to videogames

In my neighbourhood, near my house was a great baker, and always I bought bread in that baker because my mother loved their “marraquetas”. One time beside the baker opened a business. It had a great notice in his roof. The new site was called “Videojuegos”. I saw those machines, and obviously, it was amazing. The video games were very funny to me, but I think that it was my undoing. The videogames token costs 5 pesos, and I spend all my change. As a result my mother punished me, but it was not enough, because I knew a new way to pass the time.

The first videogame I played was the famous Pacman. Everybody knows this game, a big yellow sphere eating the points, fruit and the colour’s ghost. It was very funny until I found the games called Popeye and Donkey Kong. I spent a lot of my time in Diana’s Videogames. It was placed in the subway of “Paseo Ahumada”. Today there is a commercial office. In this place I saw a lot of videogames. It looked like the paradise of videogames, and when I and my friend got money, we went all afternoon to play “Double Dragon”.

I do not remember the year, but definitely when Street Fighter came out to the markets the level of videogames reached his height period. Why? People started to do championship. Moreover this game was incredible. You could get fight with other guys, so people wait his turn in the queue only to fight with the champion.

The first time I have a personal computer, I did not like the videogames, because it was very poor in graphics definition. Moreover the computers games did not fight side by side with the arcades games. When I played “Age of Empire” I returned to my old hobby. It was amazing again, because it was very funny, and we could learn history through the game. I could play easily 20 hour in one day, and then I played my favourite game: “Medal of Honour” a simple third person game based in the Second World War. I think it was the most wonderful games in all the time. Why? It was the first time that a game had the real sound of guns, environment, and machines. Other point was that the enemies was A.I. (Artificial intelligent) etc.

The evolved of videogames is grow year by year. I do not know where we will arrive, but I am sure that I always will be a fan.

Searching the knoledge

I believe that one of the most important wonder of the modern world is the internet (obviously the computer too). You can do a lot thing, for example listening to the music, read a good or bad book, watch a movie, read the newspaper, learn to cook and of course study English language.

In my blog site, in the right column, I have a few resources and others sites to help me when I do my essays, homework’s and others works. For example, the web site called “Ego4u” is very interesting. Why? Because in this site you can find exercises of all topics as grammar, verbal phrases, passive voice, pronunciation and others. You do not need to move to other site, you have all in the same site. The best feature of “Ego4u” is that it is interactive; you can do the exercises and then checked the correct answer.

The Rae’s dictionary is very important and it has the second place in my priorities. Why? Because it is necessary to consult every time new words, moreover, you need to understands different meanings in different context. So, you must have a good dictionary nearly. The RAE is a good election, but Maria Milliner’s dictionary is excellent too.

Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries are my favourite’s dictionaries. It is very easy to explain. I like British English, and this election is better to me. Moreover both sites have a lot of resources to learn English. It is possible to find tip’s of pronunciation, spelling, writing and reading.

Finally I have in my blog Wordreference, because I think that it is an excellent site with incredible dictionaries. It is bilingual dictionary and always it is useful to consult a word that does not have other dictionaries.

Eventually I should buy a dictionary of synonym and antonyms in Spanish and English too, but it is very expensive I prefer look in the internet. I recommend using these dictionaries. For example: last week Ricardo tried to find a word. He was finding in the worst dictionary, and he never did it, So believe me and try to follow my advice.