Internet in your life!

What do you use Internet for?

Nowadays, the internet is used by almost everyone. The web brings you a lot of solutions, from working to studying or just for cooking. Generally, I use this method for having fun whit my friends. I download music and I play computer games, like Counter Strike or Age of Empires. I also use it for searching restaurants and bars where I could go, places where I can go swimming or doing different types of sports.

When I’m alone, and nobody of my family can tell me how to arrive to a particular place, I search in the Internet for maps, and bus directory’s to help me by myself. The internet also brings me a big advantage whit the “Messenger”, because is the only way I have to talk whit my friends of France gratuitously, without paying thousands of dollars in phone cards.

There are many ways of using the web, but, what’s yours?

what do you use internet for?

The Internet is a world, a universe by itself waiting to take you on a journey. I use the web to find addresses, phone numbers, maps, pictures of about anything. I read movie reviews, get TV listings, read the news, catch the latest weather.

I use the Internet to cook because I can found prescriptions of food with all the procedures. I can found the prescriptions of food of other cities like the customs of China.
Google is one of the most popular please that the people an i visit to found thing. Also Yahoo, for send email with other people. Wikipedia is a site where the teenagers look for information for their school. Teenagers use the internet look for games, for chatting, movies, music, imagines, and other thing.

Doing Maitena's homework

My student Maitena (also known here as Catalina) has written two posts here and here. I couldn't understand the problem she had with the third one, which I received via email. That's why I'm here, invading my students' blog to post this for her.
This is her "post".

Graffiti:

At the corner of 9 de Julio Avenue and Avenida de Mayo, there is a painting on the wall of the building, just at the corner, which summarises in images, the most significant symbols of Buenos Aire city.

Although Bueno Aires is a cosmopolitan city where you can final people from all over the world, it also has a strong identity, especially in its music Tango. Tango is Buenos Aires and the painting shows basically that. People dancing, musical instruments, all images that represent no other city but Buenos Aires.

Apart from the images related to Tango, we can also see typical things of Buenos Aires city such as buses, bus stops, people in general.

I think that this particular corner of Buenos Aires best summarises what we are, what we have and what we like.

Of course any society has many aspects in its characteristics and Buenos Aires is not an exception but the wall on the corner of 9 de Julio Avenue and Avenida de Mayo shows what we basically are.

I didn't forget to upload the photo. She didn't send me the link. Sorry, but you are missing the chance of knowing what she is talking about.

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Elmo is in a graffiti!

I took this graffiti from internet and I selected it because the drawing remembers my infancy. The person in the draw is “Elmo” a character of a cartoon called Plaza Sésamo.

When I was a little girl I loved watching that TV programme and my favorite character was Elmo.

I like this graffiti because the drawer used a lot of colors that do the grafiti looks like a photo. Also, there are some fluorine colors that attracts the viewer’s attention.

I think that this graffiti belongs to a band, because so many times appears the logo “Cha Noir” and also because Elmo is playing a drum. Maybe, the members wants to do publicity of his band and he think that the graffiti is the best way to the reputation.

Do you think that graffiti is a good way of publicity something?

photo by

liepype

A beautiful place

Puerto Madero is the newest district of Buenos Aires. Located by to borders of the river, with an ample supply of commercial and gastronomical attractions. One part of the zone of Puerto Madero grows incessantly, extending the supply of houses and offices. Every day there are more people who choose to live a meter away form the river. The district is a zone intensely visited by tourists.

In 1870 the economic situation of Buenos Aires was very good, already it was clear that the very old Buenos Aires port needed to turn into something more apt for the reception and the shipment of passengers and products.

Between 1876 and 1886 there were two suggestions with their projects for the renovation of the port ok Buenos Aires.
Much money was spent to make all the work and it took more than ten years to finish it. In 1897 the new port was inaugurated.

http://www.puertomadero.com/i_index.cfm

The popular art

We can give the name grafiti, grafito or graffiti to the different ways of inscription or painting,
generally under private or public property like walls, vehicles, doors, and most of all skate parks. In the common language, graffiti also includes what we call drabs: the result of painting on walls signs, frequently with political or social content, without the permission of the owner of the property. We can also call graffiti the slogans that have been popularized with that technique, for example the phrase that has been used in May ´68 in Paris, France: “Under the cobbles is the beach”.

The expression “graffiti” is also used for referring to an artistic movement, different to painting or qualified as a subcategory of it. In my own opinion, I don’t really like graffiti, because it is considered an important element in the hip-hop culture, something that I hate. However, I have to admit that people who make graffiti pieces are really artists. I do not like that all the people who make graffiti are influenced by the culture of the United States. What I want to say is that the graffiti is not an art form that has been created in our country, on the contrary, it is an expression that has became famous some years ago, thanks to the strong influence of the American capitalism in Argentina, something that is impossible to stop nowadays.

In spite of all these setbacks, what I like about graffiti’s is that they always show the social moment that the society is living getting in touch with feelings through the colours, designs and slogans that are written. All the reasons that I have just stated plus the fact that I have never draw anything, can demonstrate that I could never made a graffiti or any other sort of art expression that can damage the public space. I found this graffiti in the Mitre train station between Nuñez and Rivadavia. If you like it, you must go and see it!

Graffiti

Hi!!
My assignment was to find or take a photo of a graffiti that I like. I chose a graffiti made in Palermo. When I saw it I liked because there were a lot of colors and it seemed to be painted by different persons. The way that people painted the wall was different because of the techniques. The color that protrudes is green and when I see the picture, I can recognize it immediately.
In the picture there is a man who finished painting the wall. It looks beautiful.
And… Have you ever painted a graffiti or thought about that??? I have never done it.

My Favorite place in Buenos Aires

My favorite place in Buenos Aires is Tigre because there are a lot of people

enjoying the environment and having fun.

Also, you can eat looking the landscape and when you finish your food,

you can travel on a boat and have a good time with family and friends visiting the city.
In Tigre, there is a place called “Puerto de frutos” where people can go looking for shops to buy fruits, clothes, etc.

You want to have fun, you can go to “Parque de la Costa” and enjoy the roller coasters. I have never gone there because I am afraid of this kind of games!!, but the majority of people have a good experience.

Villa Traful

Last month I traveled with my partners and six teachers to Villa Traful in Neuquen. The during of the trip was seven days. We stayed in a hostel and one day we slept in the “Cerro Bayo”.
Every day there was snow so we can enjoyed a lot. We did these activities: trekking, mountain bike, “culopatín”, we traveled in a aerosilla and the last day we did a stove and later a fancy-dress party . I dressed up of a baby: I used a bib, a dummy, an infantile pyjamas and a doll.
When we went to the mountain bike I fell down three times and in one of them I hitted in the pear but fortunately nothing happens to me.
I enjoy very much the trip along with my friends, it was a very nice experience and I hope that one day it should be possible to repeat it.

Here is the web site of the hostel:
http://www.vulcanche.com/

Traful

I went to Traful with the school. I stayed in Traful for ten days and came back last week.

On the way to traful the bus broke down. We stayed three hours inside the bus until a charter come to pick us up.Then we arrived at a hut and we had tea.

Another day we walkend up a mountain. When reached the top of the mountain we ate a sandwich. There was so much snow that If you sat down, you could not stand up easily. When we walked down the mountain we sat down on the snow and went down sitting. During the trip we usually had sandwich, chicken,escaloped meat, soup and toasts.

In the trip I learnt that it wass too long because you had to tolerate other people all the time.

During the trip I learnt to be patient with other people but next year I will not go again.

Recoleta cemetery´s

A lovely place where I like going, is the cemetery of Recoleta. This cemetery was founded in 1822 and it’s the place where a lot of presidents and national heroes have been buried. I like the cemetery because I appreciate his architecture orientated to the European architecture of the seventeen century. Inside the cemetery there is a lot of flours and the air is very pure. When I am inside, I can feel very relaxed, and I feel that my soul is in a perfect harmony whit myself. Sometimes I just sit over a stone close to a big mausoleum and I stay there thinking about the people I love.

Here there is a poem about the cemetery that I loved; I’ve just translated by my own so it is possible that it has a lot of mistakes. Anyway, here it is!

The life and the death by Susana Espósito

Recoleta, a district so ambivalent, on the one hand life, on the other one death.Bars, restaurants, flowering parks, craftsman fairs, people laughing . The death looks at them silently, on the other side, peace from cemetery. Behind his walls, rest the valiant,poets, sportsmen’s, several presidents, catch the mystery of young girls, the history of love and sleeping beauty. Angels watch over their shattered dreams, swords rest, those that so much had fought, laurels crown the achieved glories martyrdom palms, embitter tears. An anchor wants to be reinforced in the earth; she ignores the mystery that death shut in, and the mother’s son who watches whit a sweet look, bless everyone who arrives to his eternal dwelling.

This is a link for a website where you can go if you are interested in founding more information about Recoleta cemetery:

http://gosouthamerica.about.com/od/bacult/ss/RecoletaCemt_5.htm

Here there is another link, this time you can see a video about de cemetery:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6407yDA1Hw

roberta

Hi everyone! My name is Roberta, I am 16 years old. I live with my parents , my brother, my sister, and my uncle.I go to "Paideia" school and I´m in fourth year. i have three dogs and a cat. In my free time i like going out whit my boyfriend and I like seeing movies with my uncle. I also enjoy listening Sabina .I`m going to study medicina.

My name is Maitena. I`m seventeen years old. I live with my brother, my sister and my mother. My father liveswith his wife.
I go to "Paideia" school and I´m in fourth year. When I finish school I believe that I`m going to study psychology, Literature, Political Sciencecs, History o Sociology.
It is more probable that I``m going to study Psichololgy.
I like going out with my friends but I don`t like going out with my grandmother because she has a bad temper.
I hate when my mother shouts.

Hi everybody, my name is Octavio and I’m seventeen years old. I live in Buenos Aires with my mother and my sister. When I have free time, I like doing sport and playing with my dog. I also enjoy listening free jazz and blues. I have lots of friends with whom i share good times going to bars, to the cinema, or simply going to walk over the park.

Nikki

Hi everyone!!!
My name is Nicole and I’m seventeen years old and I live in Argentina. I am in 4th year.
I live with my parents and my two sisters: Katherine and Constance (I am the oldest).Well, I love listening to music specially Hilary Duff (she is my favorite singer). In my free time I like doing manual works, singing, cooking and playing the guitar (but I have just started). Also I like seeing movies with my friends.

paula

Hi everyone! My name is Paula, i am 17 years old and i am one of Gabriella´s students. I was born in Buenos Aires but i wish, if i could, travel all over the world when i became older.
In my free time i like watching movies with mi friends and what i enjoy more is seeing fashion shows. Today i went to one of this fashion shows called "Buenos Aires Fashion Week" and it was fantastic.

A little of Ana's life

I’m Ana. I’m sixteen and I live with my mother, my sister and my mother’s boyfriend. Three times a week I visit my father and also, I go to sleep to his house or we go to the cinema.
The school where I go is very strict and I have to study a lot, so at the weekends I can’t go out very often.
Next year, I am going to finish high school and I would like to study something like social communication or education because that's interesting me and also because I hate subjects which are related with mathematics and natural science.
When I go out, I meet my friends at their houses (sometimes we meet in my house) and then we go to a party or we go to have a drink.
I like listening to music. My favorite kind of music is the “national rock” and in my free time and before I go to sleep I love listening to it.
On Saturdays I do swimming. I do this sport because I have a problem with my back and the swimming helps me to stand straight.