Last post and so on

I can’t say that I liked writing in the blog. I mean, it was really troublesome to come to the university only because of this class on Tuesdays. That's probably an external factor that influenced a lot.

However, sometimes I found it interesting to read my classmates' blogs, I laughed a lot with some stories and got to know some more about people I have "shared" with for four years.

This semester has been very complicated, in academic terms it have been really hard. Running from one place to another or simply missing classes, I think it really didn't help me to improve my English level.

Honestly I discovered very large flaws in my squalid English, but for time, encouragement and, maybe, just win, I didn't put my all for the better. I didn’t have enough time.

I can’t do much, just hope to review some vocabulary and basic rules I can’t remember for the next assessment. I have to prove particularly complicated English to graduate.

I don’t really believe in bad luck, certainly I have not worked hard enough to learn English, I'm interested but I have a lot of skill. It was the same with French, I usually understand it but at the time of expressing myself is really difficult to do correctly.

I do not know how much it helped me, hopefully I will find out next Friday.

Football

A stupid thing to many people. I mean, what’s the fun behind 22 guys running after a ball? Not even I can explain what the fuzz is all about, but all I can say is that the excitement and emotion of seeing your football team playing a game isn’t comparable to any other thing! Not in matters of intensity but because of the kind of emotion you experience.

I didn’t understand much of it when I was a little boy, I didn’t even play. But one day I understood that football is capable of forging a bond in people, reuniting them in the same feeling. It’s like a war where no one dies. It’s the fun of measuring yourself with an other, without having to leave your sofa or at much cheering at the stadium.

My team, Universidad de Chile, current champion of Copa Sudamericana and the national tournament, is now in a struggle because they have to recover from an upside. Now they have to win 2 – 0 to Boca Juniors to force the penalty shots in order to get to the final game of Copa Libertadores.

Journalism Grandpa

When I entered Universidad de Chile, Gustavo Gonzalez was my first teacher. I still remember when I failed my first assignment with a 3.7, I hated him. Nonetheless, with time I had the pleasure of knowing one of the best persons and one of the finest educators that I have met in this university.

Sadly, for the new coming generations the professor retired early this year. González wrote a great book called “Caso Spiniak”. That book and his classes helped me realize how much I wanted to be a journalist.

We knew him as “Gugo”. In his retirement ceremony, students from every generation thanked him for his teachings. The most touching detail of that ceremony was when he broke into tears remembering the kind words expressed by one of his students, and also when he dedicated some verses for his loving wife.

Someday I would like to be remembered like he was, as a generous and kind person, an insightful teacher. People that in today’s world no longer exist.