Saturday, March 31, 2007

WESTS TIGERS VS. PARRAMATTA EELS




This wass my first NRL game, I head to the Parramatta stadium with Erick, Kate, Harold, PJ and me of course!! The final score was 22-20, a penalty kick in the extra time, 2 minutes before a draw. Erick's team, the eels won, it was a good show.

Full news in http://au.sports.yahoo.com/070213/2/13i3a.html

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

GUERRILLA GIRL



Frank Piasecki Poulsen is a Danish who creates movies. In 2005 he released a movie where his intention was to show the human side of a "terrorist group" called FARC (Fuerzas Armadas de Colombia). He based it on the fact that FARC have been declared as a terrorist group by the US and the EU.

This movie was shown in Colombia in 2005 and I just watched it on SBS the other day.(http://www.sbs.com.au/).
I was greatly interested on taking a look to this documentary when announced in Australian TV, unfortunately, I felt like the movie was no real and without knowing it was from Denmark, I thought it was made by Venezuela's government.

What was shown in this doc was simply false. I am Colombian and I have lived there for 23 years. FARC men and woman are not victims and do not represent the people from Colombian, in fact, a majority of the population is sick of the war.

I am returning soon from a two years period of studies here in Australia. I don’t know if these two years here affected my hearing, but I am pretty sure the accent of some of the girls in the movie is Venezuelan and not Colombian, I might be wrong but that’s how I felt it.