2014 :)

This year has been amazing! 2014 surprise me very much. I remembered when it started in January and up today has been incredible. In this post I must chose good and bad points that make me feel different things in this year. I start with the good things:

This year I met great people! They won a piece of my heart and make me smile when I’m sad. We share special moments that consolidated this friendship. This year I worked in a catering service until today, we make buffet and organize marriages, birthdays, baptism, etc. Sometimes I stay in the kitchen, but most of the time I’m waiter. And at 2014 I turned 20, I did a costume party with my family and friends, it was amazing! Music, lights, food and a limo! This experience was fantastic. Also this year I won a lot of prizes like books, cinema tickets, etc.

This year has been bad moments too, because nothing can be so perfect. But I think that bad experiences or moments make stronger to people. In a social job, I surrendered because I had problem with an insupportable person that wanted do bad things, I hate this people and I said her that change this way, but she never does, so I refused working in this group. It was sad, because I had friends in this place and this person manipulated their minds.

What a year! And it ain’t over yet! I’m sure that last months will be incredible!    

Food!!!!!

Today I’ll write about my favorite food. Is difficult for me because I love food and choose one is impossible ahaha. I love eating sweet things like pancakes, cakes, muffins or cookies. I love green vegetables very much; these salads accompany all my foods, I like lettuce, cabbage and celery, these are my addiction. I eat too all kind of meat, reds and whites. Roast chicken is my weakness (I love the chicken that prepare my dad) and I love all foods that prepare my mum, she’s incredible at the kitchen; I think that she should have been a chef. The foods that I don’t like are pastas; I’m not a fan of this. But pizzas and lasagnas from time to time make me happy. The junk food is bad for our body, but the people eat this food so much, and I love this food too! Actually I’m going to gym and I’m separating of junk food. Fruits are great, but I don’t eat this so much. The only food that I can’t eat is fish; if I eat fish, the allergy appear, it’s terrible for me L

I eat chocolate when I study or when it’s cold outside. I love drink Coke or natural juices and I don’t like alcoholic drinks.  Other food that I love is the soup! In winter, when the rain sounds outside, the soup is the favorite food for all my family.

Finally, the food that I hate is sushi! Iugh!     

Well, I mentioned all foods that I eat ahahaha eating makes happy our hearts J haha

How green am I?

I love the Earth and all environments, but I’m sure that I’m not ‘green’. I try everyday protect the environment, but it’s difficult for me. The greenest thing that I do is taking out the trash. In relation to the water, when I take a shower I stay under this like 30 minutes or regarding to electricity, I play videogames, watch TV and surf on internet very much time.

But when I go out and walk or know beautiful landscapes I reconsider all the bad things that I do and change my mind.

In the nature, all people must be detailed and worried with this, with the beaches, forests, lakes, trees, mountains, air, animals, flowers, etc. Actually the human destroys the nature! Sea and lakes contaminate with toxic substances, forests destroyed by fire and animals dying. It is a pity, but is the true. I think that the people must be educated with this topic, every person is fundamental in this process, recycling, take care of animals and plants, giving a breath to the Earth turning off the lights or riding a bike. For my part, I must do all the things that I write because is really necessary and important.

I love the ‘green people’. I think that this class of person helps very much to keep the Earth. I’m not considered a ‘green person’, but I think that I should change my habits.

Videogames!!!!

The topic of today is videogames. Actually there is a lot of videogames around the world of different categories like horror, action, fight, mystery, cars, adventure, music, shooters, etc. The technology transformed videogames, for example many years ago the console was a bigger box with many wires, but now the consoles are little and even without wires, also use online system.

I think that all people must love the videogames. Who can hate this? My favorite videogame is Grand Theft Auto 5. GTA is an action-adventure videogame developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. The game is played from a third person perspective and its world is navigate on foot or by vehicle. Player must complete missions to progress through the story. Outside of missions, players can roam. Composed of the San Andreas open countryside area and the fictional city of Los Santos. Players use melee attacks, firearms and explosives to fight enemies, and may run, jump, swim or use vehicles to navigate the world. This game is violent, but is great, it helps to release ahaha.

In this game we can control three characters: Michael (a rich man with many troubles), Trevor (crazy man that kill people and burn houses) and Franklin (a poor man that need money for survive). These characters are the perfect mix.

Other great videogames to me are Super Mario Bros, Super Smash Bros Brawl and Just Dance. I’m not a pro player, but I love play videogames in my free times. 

Falta un post xd

My Favorite TV Show

My favorite TV show is Glee!!!

Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on the Fox network in the United States. It was created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan. This has five seasons, and coming soon (at January) the last season will be released.

The pilot episode was broadcast on May 19, 2009, and the first season aired from September 9, 2009. During its first season, Glee received generally favorable reviews from critics.

It focuses on William McKinley High School glee club, in Lima, Ohio, called New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition circuit. The glee club members deal with relationships, sexuality, social issues, and learning to become an effective team. In this choir sing bigger hits, classic, pop, rock, love songs, etc. The cast included great actors that had participated in different series or on Broadway shows, like Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison or Amber Riley. In this school the “status quo” is very important and belongs to Glee club was bad, the loser stay there, but the storyline mixes the popular people with the loser. Over time, the friendships will make strong and the music join all.

This series, talk about different topics that are at the present, like bullying, drugs, sex, etc. And all this topics are mixes with the music! They sing songs since The Beatles until Beyoncé. A great TV show! I hope that this never finish.

The Best Holidays Ever!!!!

I love travel. Is the only thing that I want to do all my life. Since I was a child I was travel. But exist one holiday that makes me special, a holiday that marks my life and the life family.

The best holidays ever was the last year, at December. With my family travelled to United States, we travelled to Orlando. We wanted know Disney World. This is the best holidays because was a dream, and make it real was fantastic. My parents, my brothers and I felt like children, we enjoyed every game, every moment, and every picture. I’ll never forget this place.

In this place makes shows, musicals, meet and greet with Disney characters. The rollercoasters are amazing!! Fantasilandia is nothing compare with Disney. 

This place has four thematic parks and two water parks. The best park is Magic Kingdom, in this place we can found Cinderella’s Castle and different games, is familiar and beautiful. The second park is Epcot, this place show us different countries in where we can go over. The third park is Hollywood Studios, in where we can appreciate musicals and movies, car shows and terrific rollercoasters. And the last park is Animal Kingdom, we can found in this park a bigger safari!!! All things that I mentioned are a small sample! And we travelled in Christmas time!

But the more special and wonderful of this holidays was share this moment with my family, this was the best present ever!   

A country I'd like to visit

My great and big dream is travel around the world. I want know all countries, since that I was a child; my dream was know Europe, Asia and North America. 

I had travel for all Chile, include the islands and also for Argentina and Brazil. The most far away that I travel was to United States, specifically Orlando, Florida. The United States was the country that I wanted know, so the place that I'd like to visit actually is a State, New York City.

In older posts I wrote about different things about this city, I love the music and theatre and this reason makes this city be my passion. New York is the city that never dream, is the Big Apple, is the place where all music sounds and love flow. In this place I’d go to musicals, to Central Park, Chinatown, Statue of Liberty, etc.; and even I’d sing at the street in Times Square ahaha

For travel to New York is expensive but not impossible and I know with all conviction that I'll travel one day. I tell you a secret but you don’t shout anybody! Maybe the next year (only if God want) I’ll travel to New York, this magnificent city! 

My Dream Job is....

Hello! I'm here again. I thought that I never write a post again, but the destiny said other thing. Now I´m on English IV and started a new post season. In this first post I'll write about my dream job.

My dream job is being a Broadway singer. One of the most important things in my life is the music and Broadway. Since I was a child I love music, especially musicals; olds, news, of drama, action, comedy and romance. With the musicals I can find myself.

I love sing, I sing in all places, at home, at shower, at street, etc. I had a band and it was really great, but for time this band breakout, and at the present sing alone looks at me in the mirror ahahaha

But, why I want to be a Broadway singer and not a politician? Public Administrations was really great, but isn't my passion, I love help people and make public politics, but this doesn't satisfy me. But the music and sing satisfy me for complete. Obviously the money is important for subsist :(

I think that I can sing on Broadway stage in future, because I want that my dream comes true, maybe this thing sound crazy, but I believe that all dreams can realize.

My experience using a Blog

The last post :( I feel a great sadness. I wanted write more posts and make another blog ahaha

In this post I will tell you of my experience using a blog. Never in my life I had written a blog and do it in English was great because it's a language that I love. The experience was fantastic, because I could mix English with writing, including topics of personal taste.

 

I think I could improve my writing skills, at first I started very weak, but now I can flow with my words and write longer texts. I can say that my skills have been developed, they have increased.

 

In the future, you should let the students can write more post with free topics. In which they may write more fluently about things they love.

 

Following what I said in the previous paragraph, I would have liked to write more free post, and have written about singers, animated characters, writers, countries, etc.; no technical things.

 

In conclusion, I believe that this class was great, a wonderful teacher and amazing classmates learning English. And write this blog was so cool, because I could show my interests. I feel really paid :)!

People, great people

In this semester I stay in new class with different people, people that I had never knew. I had a group make, and I don't want more people in this but something broke my thought. In english class I knew a group of girls that make happy my afternoons. All my english classmates are great but this girls are amazing, they are cheerful, beautiful, likeable, so sweet and charming.

I'm really meticulous respect the people that I know, but they win a highlighted in my life.

I quot a part of Barbra Straisand song called 'People' for express what I feel:

'...With one person, one very special person 

                                                           A feeling deep in your soul 
                                                                Says you were half, 
                                                                 Now you're whole. 
                                                         No more hunger and thirst 
                                                              But first be a person 
                                                                Who needs people. 
                                                           People who need people 
                                                            Are the luckiest people 
                                                                      In the world!'

I didn't say their names, they know who they are, and in this picture appear. I love you girls!

Pd: Simon appears gate crasher in the picture ahaha

Central Park

 

Central Park is an urban park located in the metropolitan District of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park was opened in 1857, it has a rectangular shape and measures around 4000 meters for 800 meters and the park is larger than two small nations in the world, wich are Monaco and Vatican City.

With some 25 million visitors annually, Central Park is the most visited park in the United States. It is maintained by the Central Park Conservancy, a private, not-for-profit. Its appearance on many films and tv shows has made in the most famous park around the World, for example West Side Story, Barefoot in the Park, Funny Girl, Love Story, Home Alone, Enchanted, Glee, Friends, etc.

 Declared a National Historical Landmark in 1963, the park was designed by then park superintendent Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, a partner. This large park seem natural but contains a number artificial lakes (contains lakes called Bethesda fountain, Turtle Pond,etc), two ice rinks and many Green áreas for sport and recreation. Also the park is a popular oasis for migratory birds, this makes bird watchers meet. Central Park is inhabited by squirrels, birds, fishes, rabbits, frogs and other.

This park breaks the view of everyday experience and it gives a breather to 'crazy' New Yorkers.

Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon franchise produced by Hannah-Barbera Productions (now Warner Bros Animation) in 1969 and it has remained until today.

It is the history about four teenagers called Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers and their dog named Scooby-Doo, who travel solve mysteries that involving supernatural creatures and incredible events in their Mystery Machine.

For more than four decades, Scooby-Doo has received several awards, including two Emmy nominations and two Kids Choice Awards nominations.

Between 2004 and 2005 this animated cartoon maintained a global record with a greater number of episodes. In 2013, TV Guide ranked Scooby-Doo the fifth greatest TV Cartoon of all time. There are now television in Cartoon Network with a new version called Be cool Scooby-Doo.

Due to its popularity many movies were made, movies were transmitted in television and cinemas, in animated version like real actors. The movie like real actors was created in 2002, and was a financial success take in money 130 millions of dollar. The sequel was created in 2004 and take in money 84 millions of dollar (In personal opinion, the second part is the best, is my favorite).

Verónica Figueroa

Verónica Figueroa is a teacher of Universidad de Chile that teach different subjects. She is post doctoral of Center for Latin American Studies of Standford University, California, doctor in Management Sciencies, ESADE, Public administrator, Universidad de Chile.

She is the director of Escuela de Gobierno y Gestión Pública of Universidad de Chile since 2013. In this university, she gives the subject of Organizational theory, Administrative theory, Seminar of degree about formulation and implementation of indigenous policies, Seminar of Innovation in Public Management.

She has written a lot of publication about different topics and she has contributed in our area of studies like principal researcher of FONDECYT N°11110052 to advance in multicultural area as well as she was co-researcher of FONDECYT N°1120546 to implement public policies of moderniaztion of management, AUGE and public transport.

She is my teacher, I know her since 2013. At the present, she teachs me one subject, I love her class and I hope be her assistant in the future. She is the best teacher for me.

The Violin

The violin, is a string instrument, with four strings. It's the smallest and high-pitched among the violin family, wich includes the cello, the viola and the double bass. The violin is used in orchestras, chamber music, background music and solos. 

It's really traditional to see violins in orchestras, where people play classical music. This music is really wonderful and it is categorized like cultured music because in the ancient times only the elites could go to a concert or presentation of great musicians.

Over the years, the violin started to be used in contemporary times, the most famous singers use this instrument like background music, from latin singers, bands, romantic musicians, etc. 

Also, the violin is considered to be a romantic instrument because its sound is fine and elegant and it's usually used in romantic songs. In churches also, they use this instrument to accompany the choirs. And also exists chamber music, which is composed by a small group of instruments, especially violins.

I love this instrument and I play the violin at present, it's difficult but not impossible.

My favourite picture

To choose one picture is really difficult because I have a lot of favourite photographs. But I choose one I remember because it's full with good moments. This is when I traveled to Disney World with my family last year.

This picture that I show you, was taken by my mother. In this photo you can see me in the place 'where the dreams come true'. Last year, with my family, we made the decision to travel to the United States, specifically Orlando, Florida. In december 2013, we traveled and enjoyed like never before. Apart from me, in the picture we see The Cinderella's Castle, which is really big and beautiful, and at night it shines to the beat of the music. Under the castle   musicals and shows  are presented with Disney's characters and dancers. This photo was taken on december 3rd, which is a day I'll never forget.


I love this picture because I'm happy and smiling. This moment was great because travelling to Disney was a dream since I was a child, and sharing this dream with my family was wonderful.

I'm ready to comeback.

Is Broadway Baby!!!!

Since I was a child I love music, especially musicals. Since five years ago I found charming with the musicals, and I started to sing the songs.

Broadway is my dream, in this moment is the unique thing that I want. Why? Because in the musicals i feel really comfortable. I've always loved singing. When i was younger i sang in a choir and in the present i sing with friends in a band. But in this band I don't sing Broadway's songs, my weakness. When i say that let's sing Broadway's songs, they don't want to, a pitty.

All my friends believe that i'm out-of-date because the music is really old, but i don't care what they say. I love "Les Miserables", I know all the songs and it is my favourite musical. It's about the story of a man that learned to love when nobody loved him; "West Side Story" is another musical that I love, it's related to a western love story. "Grease" is the best musical ever!!! I think that the songs and the plot are really great. "Funny Girl" is a wonderful musical, a great actress participates in this act, Barbra Streisand. Other musicals that I love are "The Lion King", "Wicked", "Anything Goes", "Cats", "Sweeney Todd", "The Rocky Horror Pictures Show", etc.

I'm sure that in a few years time, I'll travel to Broadway with my cousin, she is the only person that loves musicals like me. And our dream is to sing on a stage in New York with a complete audience.

New York is waiting for us! Is Broadway baby!

My favourite piece of technology

The technology is very important today, in all parts of the world the technology take a place. In all houses we can found a cellphone, or a notebook or a tablet. I believe that in 20th or 30 years, the technology will consume us.

My favourite piece of technology is my cellphone, it contain all that i want, my music, internet, mi pictures, and other things. I got it the last year in Christmas, i really need it, because i needed comunicate with my friends and family in emergencies. I use my cellphone like a part of my life, i know that it is bad, but this piece is a part important in my daily living. I use like alarm, like mp3, for surfing the internet, calling friends, take pictures, etc.

I use this piece all the time, in the morning, in the lunch, in the evening, in the bus, in my bed; i know that this piece consume me, and i will trying change this situation. I like this piece because contain all that i need, and i can conect with my friends.

If this piece not exist, I don't know what to do, because is really important for me, and because have all my information and because i can join of fast way with my friend.

I think seriously that it's disease. I need cure.

My expectations

Well, my expectations for a new semester (the 3rd) are to pass all my subjects! especially statistics, is really difficult for me. And obviously with  goods marks. This semester I couldn't take extracurriculars subjects, but I do activities extracurriculars, like sing in a choir and play violin in my church. Also I'm teacher at church, I teach to children and teenagers about the Bible, I'm their reference.


This year at the University I could not participate in other activities because i can't by the time, this semester is really difficult for me. But probably I join at AIESEC, is an ONG of Young people for Young people.


I want to have a good semester and a good year in all my areas. I'm sure that this year will be the best!!!

About Me...

Hello everybody, mi name is Maximiliano Javier Epulef Morales, but my friends call me Max or Maxi, because my name is very long. I'm 19 years old and I live in Santiago. I was born in Chile, on June 30 1994. We're five-member in my family, my mom and dad plus my two brothers; I'm the firstborn, but my second brother is more taller than me, and the last brother too. We live all together in the same home.


I studied in different school all my life. My first and second grade I studied in "Jorge Hunneus", the other grades at "Los Pensamientos", and from seventh forward at "Instituto Nacional". In this school I meet with bigger friends, true friends that always worried for me. Once a month we meet in a house (always is my house) and shared experiences, we laugh and do things really crazy. Now I study Administración Pública at "Universidad de Chile" and it has been a wonderful experience, I meet with people very different to me, but I learn to tolerate. Great people and great friends.


I love travel, is the unique thing that i want. I have been at Brasil, Argentina, United States, I have fulfiled my dreams, and now I'm waiting for travel to Europe. I like music and sing, my dreams is to be singing on a stage of Broadway, one spotlight only for me, is really ambitious jaja. I play the violin in a orchestra and sing in a chorus.


I participate all my life in a church, because I love God and is really funny all that we can do it. I participate with mi family.


This is a Little extract of my life, there's still more!


See you!


Max