CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

Today I have to write about some changes that could be made to my study programme. It's difficult for me to write about this, because I think study art in a school system is a contradiction. It's difficult to standardize art because art avoids "the rules". Maybe I'm wrong  but it's something that makes sense to me based on what I've learned in this study programme.

I'm agree with the current curriculum, there are many options to specialize in a technique like sculpture, engraving, textile techniques or painting. But maybe theorical courses are less important than they should be, and the knowledge of history or how art system works today is necessary.

Although I love the faculty (because I almost live in it and I have learned to appreciate every corner of it), I have many disagrees about infrastructure. Nowadays the building has many flaws, like asbestos roofs, smalls workshops and the floods and leaks when the rain comes. I have to paint in the workshop at least five hours a day, so I need a suitable place to work. I think the same about technology, because many easels are in poor condition, most of the computers the computers that teachers use to do classes don't work correctly, etc.

And as I said on the first paragraph, it's difficult to study art in a system that contradicts its gist. Because of that I think that the teaching methods are good. Teachers do what they can, they use different methods for every technique and every person, because of that I think most of them do a great job and I  appreciate it.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHALLENGES

I started to understand the language (a bit) without panicking the last year of highschool. Before after that year, the teacher only pay attention to the classmates who knows about english. I felt so frustrated all the time, and I was reluctant to learn english because of those bad experiences. But the last year of highschool was different, the school change the teacher and I think was a wonderful choice. He showed us movies, series and music. I think that with that teacher show to me an entertaining way to learn this language. In university I had the oportunity to practice, which I don't do because the opportunity hasn't been given. I think blogs are a fun way to practice writting, forces me to look for words that I don't know and I can write about things that interest me.

I think that speaking is the aspect that I really need to be improved. It's something difficult for me because even in spanish it's hard for me to say what I want, and it's the aspect that I don't need to use outside english class. I think a trip where people who speak english is the solution.

Ouside the English class, I use to watch movies and series, and I can understand some jokes that are just funny in the original language (for example). Also I can play online games with foreign people, communicate with them and understand what they said, even if only insults. For important things, English save me sometimes, because there's some art books that aren't translate to spanish.

PERSONAL OPINIONS

Today I have to choose four questions and expressing my personal opinion:

First, I'll start by talking about what I think regarding owning an exotic pet. I think it's stupid, it's selfish. When I was a child I always had pets , mostly exotic and I'm sure that all of them had a sad life. It's something I'll always regret, because I didn't know their habitat, or if they lived in a herd or alone ( I had two male hamsters, and they fight to the bitter end; and I had a guinea pig, animal that lives in herd, tip that I knew after his death). I think people shouldn't have animals as living ornaments (exotic or not). We need to be more empathic with living beings.


Continuing with animals topics, my opinion about killing stray dogs to prevent sanitary problems and animal over population is that I'm against killing stray dogs. There's always a way to not kill them, it should be as serious as killing a person. And about the animal over population, it's so easy, there's so much places where sterilization is free, killing isn't an option, never.

Changing the subject, about legalizing abortion in some cases, I'm completely agree. Moreover, it should be legal in any case. If it's legal, then abortion is more safe for us. Even though abortion its illegal now, doesn't mean that women don't abort, only mean that they do it risking their lives. We should be able to decide if we want to be mothers.

And the last one, what is my opinion about tatoos? Well, nowadays, who doesn't have tatoos? At least all the people of my generation have a tatoo, the strange thing is someone who doesn't have it. Tatoos don't have the same meaning as a few years ago. Before, tatoos usually meant something bad, like jails, criminals, murder, gangs, underground things. But now, tatoos are skin ornaments, with personal meaning, memories or simply without any meaning, just aesthetic. 


I have a beautiful sleeping Papitas on my ankle.

MUSIC

I love music, I used to listening to music all day. If I'm sad, I like to listen sad music, because with it I could being sad with style. If I'm angry I like metal or rock bands that my brother provides me every month. But nowadays, I want to be motivated and extra-happy, so I found a new genre like one year ago: Electro swing.

The way I found this genre was randomly. I like to play videogames on my computer when I have the time, althought I'm pretty bad at it. So, I usually find pro-gamers videos on internet, to extract some knowledge ant not die instantly (it never works). One day I found some videos about bad gamers like me with funny music, full of energy and a little taste of old music.
 I like it instantly, because its the perfect music for wake up in the mornings, take a good shower, sing in the middle of angry people in the bus or the subway, then painting my four /five hours a day, and if I have the time, playing games at the computer. Of course I mix this kind of music with other genres, but this is my new dicovery.

I don't have a favorite musician in the genre. Even though I like very much this genre, It's the kind of music that bores you in no more than two weeks, so I'm discarding songs as soon as they bore me and replace them with new ones. I know that this relationship has an expiration date (I have recently started listening Eurodance, there are very funny songs)