Blogging

I enjoyed using the blog this semester because i think it's a dinamic activity that promotes our imagination and helps us to improve our cotidian english writing. I think the post i like writing best it was the one about the holidays because i enjoyed a lot living those experiences and it's gratifying to share it in other language.
The most boring post i think it was the one about the year's review because i had to remember thing that i may prefer to keep it quiet. I think it's important to practice the writing in english because it can be very useful in a lot of aspects of cotidian life, to read an instruction or an article in english. I like writing and being able to express myself in other languages like these one and i think it's important to know it as a matter of general culture.
I enjoy reading Miguel's blog because he posted a lot of interesting thoughts very useful for the matter of our career and he updated in the correspondant date his posts so it was the first blog in posting the issue of the day, very comfortable to get the work done efficiently.

2016 review

Hey bloggers!
This has been an intense year for me... My year started with my girlfriends celebrating in Ñuñoa's Square the New Year's Eve and dismissing a great friend that is now living and studying in the South of Chile. After that, i started dating the most awesome guy i've met: my actual boyfriend that offered me a job in the beach making sushi with him. We worked a lot and then we went togheter to Bolivia (first time on my life that i realize a trip like that) and have an amazing time there. After that my bf got into a career in the faculty of Antumapu (Agronomy) and i continued on this career. We had the strike of the student and missed classes about 2 months which i spent in the beach and exercising. But that was a serious problem for my boyfriend who also was free of classes, because that meant he won't be able to work in the summer, so he decided to quit that career and move on with other projects. 
Usually i get a fracture like 5 to 2 days before my birthday but this year was different and that was very pleasent for me, i may had a few accidental cuts but nothing serious. Maybe i didn't meet so many people this year but i got to know in more detail or deeply the persons that already were part of my life. 
On September i had the luck to travel to Lima, Perú with my daddy. Also my boyfriend to Orlando, USA while i was working with the sushi in the beach. The rest of the year went flying in front of my eyes...
Now, thing are getting a little bit complicated because this man i love and the one with i had my longest relationship is planning to go studying to the South... So, i don't know what will happened but i ain't got more choice that keep smiling to nthe life even though i0m very sad. 
On music i was very lazy this year but a few groups i met and i liked are XXXYYYXXX, Psycho Tropical Berlin and The Roots of the Chicha.
In the matters of TV and cinema i've been ignoring all premieres and dedicating my time with series that i watch online. A good one that i'd reccomend it's Steins Gate and "Boku dake ga inai machi" (that means something like "the city where only i have dissapeared")
Regards!

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

Hi geo-classmates! If i could talk with a person who's already not here i'd like to have a one-o-one conversation with Leonardo Da Vinci. I guess you all know him, at least by name, but he was an important artist in the Renaissance humanism season in the XV and XVI century. He did a lots of thing, from arts, to study the human body and even projects of machine and weapon that already exists. I heard of him in school the first time and i was impressed with the amount of thing he accomplished in his life and the beauty of his art. I'd like to ask him who the Gioconda was, and it would be interesting to start a debate about catolicism with him, the painter of The Last Supper... If this debate goes good i would also ask him to make a paint of me and i would take a selfie with him to get him impressed. I imagine that if i were able to talk to him is because i have a time machine, so i would invite him to the present and show him the actual world situation. I'm sure everyone would listen to his comments and it'd cause chaos and awareness about the biggest issues that are conflictive now. Obviously, he may have a high criticism with the not-catholical behaviours and liberal speech of different people but i'd bring him here only if the debate i mention lead to a comprehension from him.
Cheers and see you next week!

Urban ethnography

Hello bloggers!
Today i'm gonna write you about the most interesting subject of this semester and it's called urban ethnography. The class is imparted by 3 different teacher: Paola Jirón, Walter Imilan and Carlos Lange, it has place on the Titanic (the F tower of the FAU) and it's after my General Formation Course of table tennis at 3 o'clock on Tuesday until 6 pm, just before Afro dance. It's interesting because they makje us read ethnographies written in different seasons and guide us in the process of becaming an ethnographer. I like it because is a very practical subject and it's important to participate to learn and realize all the practical activities that we do every class. It'll be useful in my professional life to understand other's opinion understanding their reality and participating in their lifes while the attention is put in the observation, imparcial and objective.
Last class, we had to write an essay that tried to approach the most it could to an ethnography. I talked about the public transport and how people behave when the use it, making a difference between bus, subway and interurban buses. Also, we had to read one of the first famous ethnographies made by Malinowsky, a french that travelled to New Guinea and studied the original people that lived there. Now, we are now reading a text of Wacquant called "Between the ropes" and the difference between these two text it's incredible and itshows somehow the advance of the antropology and sociology with the use of an instrument that was used with the object of comprehension for dominance (antropology's sin) to the comprehension of a cosmovision in orden to improve their conditions of life and have a empiric proof of their situation, I liked a lot the text of Wacquant, it's almoust a novel and very easy to read!
I totally reccomend the elective and i hope you like it too if you ever get to course it.
Cheers!

Circus

Hi Geobloggers! Today i'm gonna talk you about a hobbie that i've been practicing since 2 years ago aproximatelly and it envolves all related to circus. At first i learned how to get up in a aerial cloth with a lot of difficulty but after i bought one for my own i was able to practice more and now i can say i could teach someone else the basics of this. Afterwards, my boyfriend gave me as a birthgday gift a trapeze and three juggling toys so we shared knowledge as he tought me how to juggle and i teach him how to make tricks and falls on the aerial tools.
I love doing this type of things because, in the first place, it's very useful to imporve all the coordinate skills and stuff. In the second place, you meet a lot of people you want to learn or are able to show you something new! People feel very sympathetic to jugglers and it's rare in a lot of countries even if here in Chile is something that it's already more massified and anyone can learn (even here in FAU).
It's also very good for the body and it makes you exercise while you enjoy and learn how to make beautiful figures and awesome falls that forces you to control the adreline in your body and loose the fear of falling in the floor and getting hurt, the key is knowing how to prepare the fall, otherwise it's very dangerous to prove invented falls or something by the style. 
Cheers!

Mon Laferte

Hi! Today i'm gonna talk you about a famous chilean that is a singer that came out first in a TV show and she started to write her own songs and stuffs, viralizing it by Youtube... Her real name is Norma Monserrat Bustamante Laferte and she sings great! I really admire her because she also have songs with a very famous hip-hop group ("Los Tetas") and i would really like to have a voice like hers, even though if sometimes her songs sounds a little boring after the third time. She had a tough childhood and started to make music very early, starting in pubs in Valparaiso. Recently she went to México to try luck and she worked with a famous and great mexican group ("Cafe Tacvba") and participated in the MTV MIAW postulated in the title of "Latin video of the year" for her last song "Tu falta de querer" and recognized with the "Buzz artist of the year"'s award. I think i would talk about chords and things related to playing guitar because i practice it too, but i don't sing as well as she even if it's because of the amount i smoke i may have worn out my vocal chords... hahahaha 

I once dreamed on being a singer but i think i couldn't stand so much social pression! And I love to go unnoticed even if I can rarely achieve this goal in a common day of the week, thing that would be almoust impossible to do if you are a famous artist with more than 90.000 records sold!

A special birthday

I think my last birthday was particulary fun and special because i share the party with almoust all my closer friends and people i love. It was in June 6th of this year and after a day of strike on the university I celebrate my birthday in my house with a custome party! My boyfriend and I were like mimes and almoust everyone on the party was wearing some sort of disguise, for example my boyfriend's cousin and his girlfriend were like muslims with bombs, a classmate was like the mechanichal orange, another one like a boy scout, my brother was dressed as the leader character of the movie "The professional" and his girlfriend as the kid in the movie. I remember it was a rainy day and a lot of other classmates came after celebrating another birthday and any of them were disguised but I didn't gave them problem and they all danced a lot.
I prepared a lot of jellyshots with Pisco for everyone, bought 200 "sopaipillas" and made a "Navegado" a classical chilean drink that contains wine, orange and heat. It was perfect for the hungry and thirsty people and my cousin who was playing as the Death itself took care of cooking the traditional "Sopaipas" (that is a pumpkin dough) until 12 o'clock. Also, a lot of my friends stay to sleep on my house because they live far away.  
My parents gave me a green thermo that I use to bring water or tea to the places I go and some clothes. I had a really good time and everyone in the party smoke and chill a lot. I think a good party has to got a circle of people improvising Hip Hop and I was grateful to share this gift too :)
Greets to everyone and I hope you had a great birthday like that one:)

Halloween weekend

As usual in the weekend more extent like these one that finished yesterday for me (because i don't have classes on Wednesday) i went to the beach of Algarrobo with my boyfriend to work. We made around 200 sushis this weekend and maybe we could have make more but we were exhausted. Luckily, a friend went to work with us on Sunday, so we work on Saturday all day the two of us and in Sunday we had a helper that made our work easier and less hard. We went to the disco on Monday (the only one in Algarrobo: Pao Pao Discoteque, even if we wish there was a place to drink a beer quietly). I had a lot of ideas to have a couple custome but with all the working it was impossible to me to make anything, even though I was able to getting in the sea and have a bath in the beach with my boyfriend.
I enjoyed a lot this weekend except for a knock my boyfriend accidentally gave to me in my toe with a monocycle, that made me hurt a loot my foot and make me less efficient in work, i was in big pain  because maybe I'm too exagerated with my feelings but my boyfriend almoust convinced me to go back to Santiago to see a doctor, which after thinking it a while i totally refused. In the past I had a lot of fractures and sprains in my feet and I couldn't believe this accidental knock could cause me more damage than something I did in the past, so I'm better now even though it hurts a little when i walk. Regards and I hope all of you enjoyed a lot your weekend and partied with customes ! 
I 'm gonna post the facebook page of the work that my boyfriend and I have so if you let your thumb up it would be awesome, Thanks!

Umi Sushi :3

Music as a valuable tool for the brain training

As the studies published by the University of Westminster in the UK, which i knew by an articule in The Guardian online newspaper, playing and knowing how to play a musical instrument affect directly to the structure and size of brain's connection and, also, the abilities of perception in matters of language, lecture, memory and therefore our brain's capacity of neural responses. 

I recieved as a child classes of piano, traverse flute and the typical instrument that make us learn how to play in school, but i didn't have idea the effects that haves in the present for my brain. Accord to the articule, that learning decreased the risk of being dyslexic and the development of cognitive impairment and dementia. 

I'm really grateful with my parent for giving me a musical education that until the present day i approach and enjoy (more by playing guitar than other instrument, but anyways) and i'll share this information with all my dearest friends so they improve their musical abilities. Also, i think i'll try to play again the traverse flute that is such a beautiful instrument, but sadly i forgot how its played. 

Strange days on Planet Earth

I enjoyed the documentary because it represent and exhibes in a very empiric and direct way the effects of the climate change on more than one specie, including the human one and involves a lot of important studies about it. I understood almoust all of the narrator english but i had difficulties by the people with different accents like the people  in the street that gave their opinion about the global situation, particulary the asian woman that talked in this scenes. I found interesting the order and structure of the documentary, because is very well - presented the issues and problems and its effects  around the world, specially for giving the arguments of why is this a global phenomena that is interconnected and it involves more thatn one territory and aspect (For example; the atshma problems in the Caribbean sector with the dust generation in the Sahara desert and the ocean temperatures with the athmosphere behaviour). I don't usually watch documentaries like this but i try to do it at least once at month because is very useful and important to be conscious about global problems, its causes and effects. So i'd like to watch other documentaries like this one, that i totally reccomend.

The Fundation

Hi, today i wanna talk you about a saga that i'm actually reading called Fundation, writed by Isaac Asimov, one of the most important science fiction authors. This saga is about an hipothetic future of the humanity where humans lives not only on Earth but in a lot of different planets that are united by a Galactic Empire, being a myth that we live in only one planet once, is a very funny and interesting saga and i totally reccomend it. It's difficult to buy it on paper because is a little bit old but I'm sure you can find them online and read it on your PC. I fund about this book because my brother is an active reader that loves sagas and reccomend it to me. I like it because is a source of inspiration and also a way to travel across different time lines and also because the history and some characters that are connected between them from book to book inclusive in different sagas. I invite you to discover the magic of science-fiction and to let your imagination fly with the book of this author. I've read others books of him and they're all good :)
Bless, i hope some of you read it and love it <3

Getting to know a neighbouring country: Bolivia

Last summer my boyfriend and I worked hardly from December to February to collect the money to get to Machupichu, then 20th of February we started our trip by going in a airplane from Santiago to Calama, where we spent a night at the street to save ourselves the night in a hostal because the bus that goes to Uyuni, Bolivia goes at 5 am. After that we arrive to Uyuni at 4 am so we took a breakfast in a local and then we bought a tour to the Uyuni's Salar, that include the view of the train cementery and when we get to the principal attraction of the tour (the salar), we ate some delicious breads with avocado and the salt of the Salar, we also took a lot of good pictures and met european people very nice that accompanied part of our trip. Then we went to Sucre with two spanish girls and a french guy, here we noticed about the acutal capital of Bolivia that we thought it was La Paz but we were wrong! Also, i lost my wallet with my ID, the paper that the driver of the bus deliver you at the entrance of the country and you are not suppose to lost it in any way and all my credit cards. 
The next city we went was Oruro, where we visit a thermal bath and had a relaxing morning, after that we visited Cochabamba and decided to travel to Villa Tunari, a very exotic and rainy town near to the afluents of Amazonic rivers. Here we were travelling only with our french friend, Clement and we had the luck of meeting a blovian couple from Santa Cruz that went there to celebrate their aniversary. We went togheter to La Hormiga park and then they invited us to their city and after thinking and considering this big opportunity we agreed.
So we went to Santa Cruz instead of La Paz (that is at the other side of Bolivia) and meet the family and house of this bolivian couple that called Dillan and Boris, we got there at the afternoon and enjuoy a slice of pizza and a very pleasant night of quiet party with Nicole (Dillan and Bori's daughter) and her cousin. The next day was Sunday and Nicole and her cousin took us to meet the Botanical Garden and decided to trip with us to Samaipata on Monday, where we stayed in a hostal all together and enjoyed the day by visiting the sorrounded parks and the biggest hotel that i saw in Bolivia at one of the sides of the Amboro National park. 
As I lost my wallet with all my legal documents i was ilegal in the country which means we can't go to Perú and Machupichu so that's the reason of travelling more in Bolivia but anyways i had to get to La Paz to solve this mess. So after Samaipata we went back to Santa Cruz and farewell our bolivian friends to travel to La Paz.
In La Paz we took a tour to "The Route of the Dead" and had an amazing day riding a mountain bike in one of the most dangerous path of Bolivia. The next day I had to get to the Chilean consulate and finally we returned to Chile.

The Useless Web

This is a website that i visit once in a while when I'm bored or I want to discover a link unknown that may been funny or useless. This isn't my favourite site but it's useful when i want to spend some time of distraction. It contains a phrase that says "Take me to a useless website" and "PLEASE" with a random link that get you anywhere in the web, maybe it's about an image, a game, a gif, another site similar that takes you to amazon called Weird or Confusing that has the same format but says "Sell me something weird of confusing" and "PLEASE" with the link again.

The links are at the end of this post if any of you guys reading this are interested in wasting some time seeing things you probably haven't. Sometimes is fun to navigate the dumb side of the web through this re-directing website. I invite you all to do it ! :)

Sincerily, i don't remember where did i found out about this website, maybe i looked up in Google about a useless web in my free time. I hope no one else in the class knows it because it's funnier when you first meet this, in other case is often to repeat a site you already know and there's no joke about it; It's like whwen you see a video you have seen uncountable times in the past and there's nothing fun or new about it anymore

Here are the two links if you are interested about it!

http://www.uselessweb.com

http://weirdorconfusing.com/