Good and Bad Points.

The only thing that I do in my life, at the moment, is to study in the University. So, for me, is an important activity, maybe the most important and I try to do it at best as I can do.
I waited 32 years to arrive here. I can’t did it before because I had to work.
I like to study here. Since a lot of time I wanted to study English and here I discovered Linguistics, a new theme for me and a new discovery is always interesting. I hope that I will get a lot of new knowledge studying here.
I thing that I got no bad level in English, is not the best of course, and I fell I can get more improvements if I study hardly.

GREEN IS BETTER AND HEALTHY

We live in a world that gets every day more and more contamination. It provokes a lot of problems, for example the rise of the global temperature and pollution in the big cities. The worst of it is that we live in the middle of them and it can cause us diseases, health problems, etc. At the end, the contamination is causing a global change of our entire environment and this change can lead into the end of many species of animals, plants, birds and other forms of life.

Another problem that we find is referred to the water. Every year is more difficult to many human beings and other forms of life to get it. The industries contaminates the water as much as the air too, helped by the humans rubbish, our cars, our heating systems and any other kind of garbage. So, the pollution in the air and the contamination of the water are changing our environment very fast. It is time to do something. It is not easy to resolved because I think we have to change our entire style of life. Our civilization is based on the technology and that means industries, irrational consume, so we must to find a new way, a new form of life on the Earth. Every system has is own balance and we are breaking it and nobody knows what will happen in the future. But we can suppose that changes will arrive and it will not be good for our entire planet.

To return to live like our ancient ancestors is impossible. None of us can survive in a different world but we can help to contaminate less, waiting for new scientific discoveries that can preserve the whole life of our planet.

Of course, we need a new way and to create it isn’t easy. However, we can help with the “ Green Cause” changing our habits. In my particular case, when it is possible, I walk as much as possible to me. In my house we separate the rubbish, like glass and plastic bottles in one side, papers and magazines in another place and the vegetal rubbish in a dustbin. In the winter, we avoid, as long as possible, to use stoves or something like that because they use fossil fuels which cooperate to contaminate the air.

I hope that in the future the new generations will play in a forest, take a bath in a clean lake or look a beautiful blue sky, if it doesn`t happen it will mean that everythink is finished., so saving the planet means stopping with our present lifestyle, means to change our civilization.

Videogames

http://www.lineage2.com/
http://www.eveonline.com/

Videogames

The true is that I like top lay videogames, but not the usual videogames. I like to play online games, specially two of them: Lineage II and Eve.

Both are games called roll games because you build a character which acquire some particular characteristics, like race, skills, clothes, weapons, armors, etc. Playing Lineage II you have to play in order to leveling your character. If not you can’t grow and you can’t get more skills and a better level, so if you play a lot you can grow a lot too, if not nothing happened and the play become boring. Another characteristic of this game is that you must to join some clan – an association of players who play together and raise their players and raise the level of their clan too, which can get special skills. These skills helps the members bringing them another special skills which helps when a player is in combat.

You can build mages, fighters, dwarves, etc. There are 4 races: Humans, Elfs, Dark Elves, Orcs and Dwarves. Any of these races have some personal abilities that the others races don’t have. For example elves can run very fast or the human are standard abilities so they can develop a lot of skills better than other races.

Every two weeks the clans have the possibility to get control of a few castles which are in the game. This action is called Siege. You can the control of the castle if your boss clan arrive alive in the Throne room and cast a special item located behind this room. Is very funny it because a lot players are fighting against others and many are killed and resurrect at any time.

This game exist than a lot of time, about six years at least. Just few days ago all servers had been merged in two servers, first were 8. That means that the number of players is low than was few years ago.

Eve, in the other hand, is a game where you have to play in the space. You can drive a lot of spatial ships, which are different abilities, like to be combat ships, or miner ships, to be carriers, etc. Here the way to get better skills isn’t to play a lot to get them, just to have to train skills and don’t need to stay in front of your PC for hours and hours, like Lineage. So, is less hard to play. But there are common elements like form corps, you must to be together with others players.

A Career - Related Website

According to my personal “taste” I thing that a useful website for us, who are studying English, is. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/ This website is owned by the Oxford University Press and offer a lot of interesting themes that you can use for study purposes.
There you can found interesting news about English, like dictionaries, teachers, reading, exercises, school resources, music, etc. More precisely you can access from this website the Oxford Dictionaries & Thesauri or buy books online, like The Oxford Books of Flexible Carols, The Rise and Fall of Great Companies, which relates the story of many British companies which are fall and rise in the past,. Even you can buy music, for example Jazz on a Winter’s Night, which is a collection of Christmas pieces, or English Church Music, a sacred choral English music.
Anyway, for me the best is the links to access a lot of interesting books: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/category/librarians.do, where you can found “jewels” like Oxford English Thesaurus for Schools. In this book you can found thousands of synonymous, or Adonis to Zorro, strange title, a Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion, which teach us something about the meanings of references and allusions that is possible to find in modern English. In this case you have to pay just & 20 for it, that its around $ 16.000 chilean pesos. Maybe the price isn’t precisely cheap but you have to think that is very difficult to get this kind of book in our bookstore, or, if you find it, certainly you have to pay more than the price I had write above.
If you are interested in History you can look this book: Aleppo Observed, which was written in 1756, so is a old book and it study the Europeans. I thought that have to be very interesting because the date when the book was written. I mean that maybe this book is one of the first efforts to study a human society more scientifically.
That’s all, I hope that this website can be useful for all of you.