My experience with blog activities

I think the blog activity is not a good way to learn english. It’s more practice than English theory, and that, with people who didn´t have a good English education, is a bad way to know this language.  

In spite of this critic, I had a lot of practice in English with the blog activities. I don´t write in English constantly, so this activities helped me to refresh all the things that I know in this language, like the times in the sentence and it ordering, besides the vocabulary.

Other good thing in the blog activities is the possibility that we can know with our classmates and the teacher. Activities like “the best drunk story” are very lightweight to do, and very entertaining to read.   

Finally, I think the blog activities are entertaining, but they are not suitable with people who don´t know English very well. English three needs more theory than practice activities. There are a lot of thing that we don´t know, times in the sentence, vocabulary, and things that didn´t teach in the school, and very useful in our future work. 

The Transfest

My best reporting story was in my first year of university, in the year 2015. We had to do a chronicle for a subject, and I didn´t have a topic. I search in internet, and I found an event in Facebook: the Transfest.

The Transfest is a festival dedicated to transgender persons. That year was the first celebration of the Transfest. I saw women talking with the voice of a man and men with the voice of a woman, in that moment, that was strange for me. 

Fort he chronicle, I had to interview someone of the Transfest. When I was thinking to who do my interview, I saw a woman on the festival’s stage; it was Claudia Rodriguez, a transgender poet that was reading her work. 

Her poetry interested me so much. When she get down of the stage, I walk beside her. I say hi, and we started a conversation. That day I take awareness of the reality of transgender persons, their diary problems and the constant problems that they have with the society. That conversation it was really good for me.  

Mass culture and cultural industry

My favorite subject in this semester is “Mass culture and cultural industry”. This subject is shared with cinema classmates. The professor is Felipe Espinosa, and the way he does classes it is based in the presentation of slides. He is very didactic.   

In “Mass culture and cultural industry” we talk about, like the name says, the implication and problems of the mass culture. We have to read a lot of theorists that talk about the central problem of the subject, like the Marxist theory, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, etc.

My favorite part of the subject was the part when we read about the critic theory. I like the Marxist vision of the theorists of the Frankfurt school a lot, and the critique they do to the historical materialism.

A thing that I don’t like about the subject is the mandatory making of weekly works about some aspects of the subject. The work consits, frequently, of three questions that are often very redundant between them.

But that thing is irrelevant in comparison to the interesting texts that we have to read, and the critic vision that they have with cultural and structural construction of capitalism.