Post 2: The best concert ever

Wow this subject is always dificult. Fortunately I´ve been in a lot of concert of diferent types of music but it is very difficult to choose just one. But there is one that I will never forget. Mika´s concert in 2009 was my first concert I´ve been to, and it was with my best friend, Amanda. We met because we both like Mika and at that time it was very unknown.

I can´t remember where it was the concert, but I will never forget all the show. He came out all covered with flowers, singing just like in all his albums and we knew every lyrics and every detail of his songs. We were really fans at that time. And of course we stayed at the first line all the concert, being constantly pushed but really really happy.

I think it was just a concert like any other, but I will always remember it as a very important event because of my friend. After this concert she left the country and went to live to Mexico, and despite of the distance we are still best friends, remembering that concert like the best.

Post 1: A Country I will like to visit

Welcome

My name is Sofía, I´m 22 years old and I study Architecture at Universidad de Chile.

I learned English almost by myself, watching movies and listening to music, so I think I can understend very well. But that´s why I still have problems to deal with connectors and grammar I hope that is something I could learn here in class, with a lot of practice to improve my English and hopefully be qualified to go to study someday in the United States or England.

Level 4 semester 2, 2019

Free themed topic. Favourite music

Since I remember, the music is one of the most important things in my life. I like to hear music, I like to play it, I love to sing, and listening other people playing music. I think music can connect people, and make a lot of changes in a place.
I don´t know if I can choose just one kind of music, but I love to playing latin music. I start to play guitar since like 7 years. I stat with rock songs, like Led Zeppelin or The Beatles. Then I became more grunge, and learn some songs of Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Mad Season. All this songs I learn in guitar to play it and sing were the best way to learn english. But latin music have something different, something more simpler, more acustic that I´ve always liked. You just need a guitar and desire to sing, nothing more.
I always listened to the classics Argentine rockers, and the Chilean folklorists, but it is very easy to leave them behind with all the Nothamerican music that surround us. On the other hand we have the reggaeton thay has created a stereotype of latin music, as if the only thing we want is dance in the beach.
So every year, at summer, I make the exercise of finding new latin music, from Argentina, Peru, Colombia, México or Chile. There is a lot of musicians coming out all the time, trying to enter in the market and losing chances among the American industry,so I thing we have to do our bit to help.

If you would like to listen some latin music, I can leave you some names here of my favourites:


Eterno retorno- Perota Chingo
Duda Morena- Churupaca
Si vai pal sur- Churupaca
Soledad- Jorge Drexler with María Rita
La muerte- Monsieur Periné
Negra Presuntuosa - Susana Baca
P.F.- Diego Lorenzini

A subject you´ve enjoyed studying this semester

Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?

Denise Scott Brown is an American architect, born in South Africa in 1931.  She work with her husband and partner Robert Venturi and write with him one of the most important ideas of de postmodernism.

Was an african woman who succeeded in a world of men in the other in the other side of the world, North America. I think thats a very good reason to admire her and start to looking about her and her career.

The bad part of her career is that all the recognition for the work they did together was given only to him. In 1991, Venturi awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture, the most important prize in architecture, but the academy was not able to recognize the award to a woman.

Later, a group of women architects attempted to get her name in the prize, but they didn´t do anything. 

The most important book of the couple was "Learning from Las Vegas" a text that studies the fury of advertising and the new architecture born of that. But I think are two Denise´s papers that I recommend to understand her work : "The art in the waste" and "Learning form Pop".

As a feminist, I think it is fundamental to start looking for feminine references, and give them the value they deserve. I still find it hard to believe that she is so invisible when Robert Venturi is so renowned and named in our career. Look for your own female reference, I'm sure you will be surprised!