My favorite piece of technologic

Hi!

Despite I’m not the technological type; there is a technologic devise that can’t miss in my life. This object is an mp3, mp4 or any object that play music, because I can’t live without music.

My brother gave me my first mp3 when I was 14 years old. It was a master-g gray, battery-operated. It has 2 gigas of size, and it can reproduce fm radio. I used every day in my travels to school and, when I finish the school, in the long travel to the university. I always changed music very often.

I have it until I was 18 when, sadly, I forgot take it out of my jeans and my mother washed them whit my mp3 on it. I was really sad about this loss, because I never could find another mp3 like this.

After that, I start to use my cell phone for listen music, but never was the same. It was heavier and it listened slowly. A few months later, I lost my cell phone, so I had to buy another one, which doesn’t reproduce music. That is why I bought another mp3, Fujitel, which got broken two months later (an advice: don’t you ever bought something of Fujitel). Since that moment, I didn’t bought another one, but the next month I will bought a new one, Sony make I hope.

Well, that is my story. How you can see, mp3 is an important object in my life because it gives me the possibility of listen music every time that I want, which is necessary to relaxing and be happy. I think that is the function of technologic devises in the life of every person.

In my free time

Today I’m going to tell you about things that I do in my free time.

First of all, you have to know that I don’t have enough free time since I start to study sociology. That is why the most of things that I do in my free time, are related to my career assignments. I’m at the university from Monday to Friday and, at weekends, I study and do works. Despite this, I do some hobbies no related to sociology stuffs.  In my house, I read novels and listen music. Every time I can, I go out with my friends to have a good time. If I don’t have any test, I go to parties and I laze around.

One of my hobbies, in this year, is circo. This is an artistic subject of my career, wich teach the different disciplines of circus, like juggling, telas, trapezium etc.  This activities demand a lot of physical abilities, so I have to practice every time I can, in my free time.

I like a lot to go to the theater. I try to go to free events, but also go to the plays of the Catholic University’s theater. Also, I like to watch movies that my friends recommend, most of the time, form the internet.  

When I was a child, I used to play with my friends. I was also fan of toys, especially barbies. One of the hobbies that I had when I was a kid, was theater.  I did theater until I was thirteen, and I acted in many plays.

At future I want to learn taekwando, because always I wanted to be a ninja.

I think that I spend my free time very good, because I try to do things that I like every time I can, including studies. I don’t make things that I don’t want to do because all the things that I do in my life, even universities stuffs, are things that I like, and if I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t do them.

Paulo Freire, a man commmitted with his reality

Hi! Today Im going to tell you about an important author, who broke the traditional educational models of his time. He is Paulo Freire.

First of all, a little biography. Paulo Freire was born 19 September, 1921, in Recife, Brazil, within a middle class family. In 1943 he matriculates at the law school of the “Universidad de Recife”, where he studies philosophy and language philology at the same time. He never practice advocacy, he preferred teach Portuguese at high school. In 1994 Freire married with Elza Maia Costa de Oliveira, a elementary school teacher. In 1967, Freire published his first book, Education as the Practice of Freedom. He followed this with his most famous book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in 1968. Freire died of heart failure on May 2, 1997 in São Paulo.

About his work, in general, he reveals how the institutional education reproduces an unfair system that makes vulnerable people bear the negatives consequences of this system. This is because the ways of teaching doesn’t favor the creation of a critical subject, who is able to transform his culture. That is why he proposed an alternative way of teaching that makes possible that the subject be conscious of his reality and the roll that he have. In this pedagogy, the teacher is just an assistant for his own education. Al this concepts are development in his greatest works, “Pedagogy of the oppressed” and “Education as the Practice of Freedom”.

An example of his works is when, in 1961 -when he was appointed director of the Department of Cultural Extension of Recife University- 300 sugarcane workers were taught to read and write in just 45 days. In response to this experiment, the Brazilian government approved the creation of thousands of cultural circles across the country.

This author is important for me because, across his career, he try to create real ways to improve the system where he grown up. As a sociology student, I realized that this system is unfair, and thinking I can`t change anything. This unfair system is reproduce by formal education, and this is the way to change it. Despite pedagogy is not directly related with sociology, I think it is a real way to make my ideals about society come true.