lunes, 26 de marzo de 2012

Poser From Hell

Music for me is just the air that I breathe. In fact, doing music or playing in a band it's not my hobbie, but it is the English Pedagogy career.
I been going through different kinds of music in my life, in a unconscious quest for satisfying my growing thirst of blood  knowledgement. But the reason of my existence was and will be the Thrash Metal.
I freaking live to glorify bands like Artillery, Coroner, Destruction, Testament, Sodom, and the list goes on. Why? because as a guitarist, I'm absolutely concerned about technicality and complexity at the time of making music, and through this 16 years of playing guitar it's totally a pleasure to share with other musicians what we have learned. And also the most important reason: because this stuff give me a real feeling of power and supremacy that none of other thing gives.
The real derivation of Thrash is known as Death Metal (not false styles as "Nu-Metal" or "Groove Metal") and also I like it; bands like Death themselves, Deicide, Decapitated, a little bit of Cannibal Corpse, etc.,  But my family don't like this type of music, they think that I'm related to satanism and stuff and that I'm sort of possessed. Actually, I am, but by those damn catchy riffs and rhythms. That still brings problems, even when I'm 21.
Obviously, I can't forget all the good old bands (Queen, Zepellin, Sabbath, etc.)
Lately, I'm sort of exploring other styles to enlarge my repertoire and apply those ideas to my music. Flamenco and Jazz are my new daily inspiration!

lunes, 19 de marzo de 2012

Languages a la carte

According to my research, "bilingualism" is defined as the ability of write or speak fluently in two languages. In my opinion (because this is all about), and as a future english teacher, I am mostly concerned about bilingualism in children, despite almost all people say about it.
Some people say that learning two languages confuses a child and decreases his intelligence speed; they only can learn one language at the same time; children who are involved in two languages don't feel really at home, but like in the middle of two cultures, and the list goes on.
Personally, I don't think so. Why? Because studies had confirmed that children have bigger intelectual capacity than adults, they have more social ability skills and an amazing capacity to adapt them in different contexts.
In this world that we are living this days, I don't mean it's an obligation to speak two languages, minimum, but we MUST encourage our children to learn another language, specially english.

lunes, 12 de marzo de 2012

What writing means to me

Since I was a child, I had the desire of writing more than making calculations or maths, I was definitely a humanist.
I spent lots of hours reading and writing, that's because I got a good redaction (I suppose so) and I feel that wiriting in english is easier to me, because I think english language is more direct than spanish, I mean, you need less words to convey an expression, even though sometimes I need a dictionary.
Once, I wrote an essay for my language class, and that felt quite good, I didn't have a problem with that. I think it's just to follow some conventions and let your pencil go free, or something like that.
Of course I need to improve my redaction and increase the level of my vocabulary, so I hope to learn and apply all the tools that this course can offer to me. I hope to give my best.