Switzerland, a place I’d like to visit :)

Switzerland is a beautiful landlocked country, placed in Europe, between France,  Germany, Austria and Italy. It’s one of the richest countries in the world. It didn’t  take part in the world wars, even being between every belligerent countries!

Its neutrality attracted a lot of inmigrants, so it has a lot of cultures inside.  Swiss people speak french, germany, italian and romanche.

It’s famous because of its mountains, watches, chocolates, penknives, banks, trains and cheese.

I’d like to visit this place because I like chocolates, and there I could find the bets ones!

I would go with my girlfriend, I know she would love that place (she loves chocolate as I do).

Also, I like mountains, and here lies the Alps mountain range (don’t you remember the place where Heidi lived?)

I’d like to live here, milking cows in the heights of a mountain, singing old francophone songs and sleeping far away from city noises.  I could have a peaceful life in there.

But, it’s nothing but a dream, because I don’t have money to travel there, and I’m not saving at all. But maybe, one day I’ll win the lottery, so I’ll do everything I want, even the trip to Switzerland! :D

Daydreams are free ;)

...Radiohead...

When I'm sad I always listen to Radiohead. It's an English alternative rock band, formed by Thom Yorke (the one from the picture, who sings and plays the guitar and piano too), Jonny Greenwood (who plays the main guitar and a lot of other instruments), his brother Colin Greenwood (the guy who plays the bass), Ed O’Brien (guitar and second voice) and Phil Selway (drummer).

They started playing at 90’s, and they’ve done eight albums. I like the first one (called ‘Pablo Honey’, released in 1992), but my favorite album is the second one, ‘The Bends’. My favourite song is ‘Just’.

I always listen to them when I’m sad, ‘cause their music is sad. It really doesn’t make me happy, it just make me feel worst. But I like it, and after feeling sad and listen to them I start to feel better. J

I know them since I was twelve years old, but I started to listen to all their music when I was sixteen. I’ve seen a lot of their videos, I’ve heard all their songs, I really love them.

In 2008, they came to Chile, but I didn’t have money to go to the concert. :P

Maybe one day I’ll see them playing live J 

Watch a video!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qMagfZtv8

Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget is the person I admire. He was a swiss psychologist, known for his studies about how children learn while they're growing up. He placed great importance on the education of children. He was also a biologist, an epistemologist and a philosopher. He was born in the Francophone region of  Switzerland in 1896, and when he was young he started to identify common cognitive patterns on kids, young people and adults. Long after that, he propounded the Theory of Cognitive Development, one of the theories that I studied at school. This theory says that our knowledge is developed in four stages [sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete opreational and formal operational]. He wrote a lot of books about his studies. Finally, he died in 1980, and every year it's commemorated (every september 17th) in the 'psycho-pedagogue day'. I admire him, because he was one of the first people that studied the children's mind, and I think that's what I'm gonna do in my future job. Apart from that, I like two of his quotes: "Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do" and "Only education is capable of saving our societies from collapse".