El mundo through our eyes is growing!

Since 12 March this year Erick Alejandro and I started the blog El Mundo Through Our Eyes. "the world through our eyes".. 

I met Erick Alejandro through this blog and for about a year we now have almost daily contact. We started the blog to compare our different cultures and the use of our Digital Lifestyle. 

In the chats I had with Erick I noticed there are so many differences in use of digital media just because of the differences in culture. 

It's a fun concept but it needs some changing. We would like to expand the number of bloggers so we can make a world wide discussion panel of Bloggers just like us. Next to that we are using flickr, Twitter and our youtube channel to bring our stories to life. 

We however think that expanding the blog from two bloggers to a bigger number can create a great international network of interesting people and ofcourse discussions. 

At the moment we have contact with people from :  Honduras, Chile, Colombia, Germany and Spain. 

Feel free to drop me a line if you are interested in joining the group. 

The blog will continue in English. The quality of your english is not really important. It is mainly to have a basic language in which we can communicate and discuss. With google translator it is easy to understand the main lines of the stories we will post. 

For input or other ideas you can always contact me or Erick. 

Looking forward to hearing from you guys.

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Guatemala in 2 minutes

This video was made when I went to Antigua Guatemala. After the intro you can see a glimpse of the central park in Antigua Guatemala. In the third scene you can have a look at "El Arco de Santa Catalina".. When you see the market you will hear Hold the line of Toto playing at a Pirate cd store. I also filmed at the Antigua Bus Station. This is the public transptor from Antigua Guatemala to Guatemala city. At then end you can see my return to the city. The big green bus is part of the new public transport in guatemala.

A Bus trip to Amsterdam

just thought you might like to see some of the dutch landscape.. Here is a small video of me filming when I was in the bus to Amsterdam

Amsterdam city games ( Amsterdamse StadsSpelen)

Just filmed a bit of an event in Amsterdam where I was filming for www.stadsspelen.nl. I make some videos for the videoplatform.

This is just made with my N95 so you can see what It's like.




also this is a film I made for the website..

El Mundo Through Our Eyes

El mundo through our eyes!

My house this afternoon

Just thought it would be fun to let you know what my house looks like.

I also parked my scooter in front of it. I have this for 2 years now. Just got my driving licence so maybe some time soon the scooter becomes a car=).

What to know about Christopher?!

I think it will be good to share a little about ourselves. Who am I? What are my passions? And what makes me Chris?

My life is about stories. Tell them, hear them, read them. And well that's the reason why I really like to communicate. I use lot's of different media to reach that. I'm always in contact with a media type. This way I'm up to date with things I should know. I read different kind of blogs to brief myself. Feed my mind with topics to start conversations.


I live in The Netherlands. It's a small country, with a LOT of people( + 16.000.000). And a lot of different cultures. The biggest hill in the Netherlands is 322 meters and 26 % of The Netherlands is beneath sea level. Next to that is Gay marriage allowed and freedom of speech and human rights is very normal. A few facts of this little country with a nice picture were you can see what Holland would look like if it wasn't protected by dyke's.

OK enough about my country. I am an eighteen year old student, studying Interactive Media in Amsterdam. I am a music fan (Toto) and a drummer for 6 years. And I like to share my ideas with people. I'm also very internationally orientated, that's the reason why I am learning Spanish can speak English, can understand French and German and speak dutch (of course).

I met Erick through my personal blog, and we created this blog since we had loads to discuss. We'll make the same discussions in written in "Spanglish" and publish them to the world. I'll write in English. Erick will write in Spanish. We will discuss Gadgets, new technology, Media usage, lifestyle and culture shocks.

Two continents discussing about life tomorrow...





* We would very like people to contribute via comments, e-mail, twitter or any other way ;-).

How the Internet could make a world so immense, something so small?

1 week ago, I knew you, Chris, but, before that I never thought about having relation with somebody so far... Yo estando en Guatemala, y tú en Países Bajos.
Es algo extraño, pensar en cómo el internet puede abrir tantas oportunidades, así como nosotros, que nos conocimos por este medio, hay muchas personas que incluso viven por esto.
I think that this blog, could be very interesting... two guys, two cultures, two points of view, two realities...

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Antes de seguir con el Blog, voy a hablar sobre Guatemala...

Guatemala:

• Se encuentra ubicado en América Central.
• Su población es de 15,000,000 habitantes, 56% meztizos--44% indígena

Guatemala tiene dos lados: uno muy bueno y hermoso -- y otro malo y feo.

BUENO Y HERMOSO:
Guatemala cuenta con paisajes en todos lados, sus montañas, volcanes, lagos, etc. El clima es muy agradable, llaman a Guatemala el país de la eterna primavera. Tiene lugares turísticos muy interesantes, como la antigua Guatemala, Tikal, parques de diversiones como Xetulul, y muchos más.


MALO Y FEO:
Guatemala se encuentra en problemas de inseguridad, falta de oportunidades, y desorden. Las maras, son una de las partes más importantes en la inseguridad, en todos lados de Guatemala hay mareros. En Guatemala, las oportunidades de trabajo no son abundantes y las que hay la mayoría no son bien pagadas. Negativismo en la población y falta de visión al futuro.
Y también problemas de corrupción en el gobierno.

El mundo through our eyes!

Hola,

I also think we can make this work, we could have discussions on the blog and upload pictures and video of our lives. My knowledge about programming is not that broad. I can make what I would like at the moment. And I don't have the ambitions to learn it even better ( at the moment). I think I would learn it better through the years. Not by studying it, but just because I'm in contact with it. I'll make some pictures today of my school. Maybe with the "high-tech" facilities.

Buenas dias!