jueves, 27 de octubre de 2016

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.

jueves, 20 de octubre de 2016

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

jueves, 13 de octubre de 2016

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.