Webquest 2

Part 1

1) What is your carbon footprint?

Well, I only calculate the secondary carbon footprint because I don't have specific data in units of measurement about the other items.

Total Secondary Footprint = 5.85 metric tons of CO2e

2) What's the average carbon footprint of a person?

According to Wikipedia, for Chile it is 4,213 tonnes for year for person (per capita)

Part 2

1) Hand washing dishes can use up to __50____ % more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.

2) Only about 8 % of global energy comes from renewables.

3) True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity. False, clocks or remote control continue to use energy.

4) Can you make paper out of hemp? Yes you can, even from sheepskin or panda excrement.

Part 3

In my opinion the best tips are:

10) reuse plastic bags or having only one cloth bag for life

6) to recycle plastic bottles, clean them and then crush them to take up less space in the bin

2) try to use non-disposable and reusable things, like diapers.

My blog experience

Well, I thing it's a little bit strange, I mean to write a blog with my life experiences to share with people that don't know very much, but in a different language...! I got a bit nervous when my classmates commented my post, so I've tried to be the most funniest possible. Is there something interesting to have to think about the issues of the post, like childhood or my personal tastes, because there are things that even I don't know that I thought, like the camera is my favorite piece of technology.

The most difficult thing to me in this class was the time because I can hardly get up early, and I seem like a zombie looking at the computer, but this semester I was focus on my academical activities so I decided to do well all my task... well, sometimes maybe I failed. It was very funny when I wrote a post and some days later I discovered that I made a terrible mistake with words, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, so I ran to correct it... So sleep have all the fault!

Finally, another hard thing to me was to comment on the post of my classmates, because it's difficult to me to talk with people that I don't know, so I admite that I only commented on my degree classmates, but I promise today I will do it! haha

My experience at university

I am still in the middle of my degree and even now I considere my college experience as good, despite having had bad periods. My life has changed a lot since I came to college and that was because it has been expanded my circle of friends and acquaintances, besides my hobbies and schedules. Now I'm meeting new people all the time and have more options in my free time. If I want to go to a party, there is always one at friday. If I want to read and study all day, I have libraries available. I am also forced to get up early so I take a lot more day, but I have not taken away much my insomnia!

Besides all the social life that I have acquired, I learned a lot of my office, cinema. I learned a lot more of authors and especially cinema from all over the world besides Hollywood, and I love everything about hard and soft skills in photography and edit programs. I think the hardest semester I've had, have been precisely because it took me over my career and I had to spend much more time and effort, sleep and why not say, of many nerves.

Finally rescued most is the people I've met. Meet new friends from other parts of Chile and Santiago, people of other classes or with another education has been very nice to me and has helped me to be more tolerant and see life differently, removed prejudices and know that much remains to discover this world and its people!

My childhood monsters

When I was very very young I lived only with my two parents. One day in a TV program showed an ostrich stealing something to a baby and I was so scared that I ran to protect my dolls and toys. My dad was a little bit sadistic and poked his hand as an ostrich head in my door just for fun! My mom didn't make it very different... when I didn't want to eat she threatened with ostrich!! and I started to cry.

There was also a song of Mazapan that spoke about a white cat who lived in the moon and watched all the children's behavior. I think that for me it was the closest thing to the idea of God. I was scared so much when told a lie or committing mischief, because I remembered the white cat and I was afraid that he would be angry with me. Around the same time someone mentioned the existence of hell and I was really scared to go when I die. I think this idea crossed my childhood because when was grow up a little more still giving me much fear the idea of hell and the Devil. I got to dream about the Devil visiting my room and once finished a month sleeping in the bed of my mother.

I remember once some classmates began to play with a Ouija board and said they invoked the spirit of the joker, and it scared me a lot when I remembered the movie The Exorcist.

I think my last major childhood fear was the movie The Ring. I suffered a lot not only seeing, but a week later I was so much scared thinking that Samara would go out from TV to deform my face.

Today make me laugh all the stories and almost not afraid to paranormal things, I am one who is more scared by the living beings than the dead, but if I had kids I would try to not frighten them at least with beings that will punish for their little pranks, like a white cat living on the moon or the Devil himself.

An expert on your field: Gordon Willis

Gordon Willis was a photographer from USA that work all his life in Hollywood as a "cinematographer". He was a very important person because his unique way to see and show the spaces and characters. He believed that he had to not only make the images were harmonious, but should be consistent with the content, be part of the film, and that makes a beautiful cinematography. This thought led him to be the cinematographer of The Godfather saga where he won the nickname of "The Prince of Darkness", by showing the godfather Vitto Corleone (Marlon Blando) under shadows that hid his features, image immortalized the sicilian mafia character.

Also made the photography of some films by Woody Allen, still well remembered the image of Brooklyn Bridge at dawn in "Manhattan".

In 2009 he was awarded a special Oscar for lifetime achievement. He died in 2014.

About a photograph

This photograph was taken by my friend Victoria in november 2010, when we were coming out from our paint class in Balmaceda Young Art, Mapocho Station. The bicicle was also hers. I choose this picture because I remember with very much nostalgia that time. I was 19 and I worked in a videoclub renting movies, and I took cinema and art classes for fun, but all of this made me think about my future and what I wanted to do with my life. I enjoyed very much to watch movies and I think that in that times my life became very cinematographic to me! haha. It was spring, I was meeting new people, knowing love and alcohol for the first time, and I liked very much all the things that I was doing, and I have discovered that it's very hard that all this things happen at the same time. "Paradises remains a moment" wrote a writer, and that time was for me a little paradise... It seemed that it was magic in the air. Also I remember that I listened "There is a light that never goes out" by The Smiths all day! so this photo, that time and that song go together for me.

My favorite food

I’ve always had the same favorite food, and that is the artichoke. When I was a child I expected very much the winter only because this food (my favorite season is spring). I like the artichoke with oil, lemon juice and very much salt. I not only like the taste of all of that, but also like the entire process to get the heart removing the leaves, and arranging them carefully on the plate making a flower. I'm so used to do it in that way, that when I go to another house seems very strange when they eat it with mayonnaise or vinegar. Sometimes even prepared artichoke first removing all the edible part of the plant and serving a viscous paste along with some other accompanying... for me that is killing the artichoke! I love so much to defoliate it! My favorite part is the heart, I enjoy it so much that I take all my time to relish it. I can eat two or three or who knows how many artichokes can I eat one after another. Artichoke I love you for ever!