Hello!

It's a shiny brand new day! :P
Well, this is my last blog entry and for that I want to talk about a social issue that's happening in our country and in others: the environmental problem.

In general, this problem happens because the imbalance between the acts of the humans and the state of the environment. The issue is that the people, in their daily lives, do things that adversely affects the ecosystem. The worst thing here is that, most of them, don't really care about it.

In particular, one of the problems in Santiago is the lack of green areas that can supply the minimum trees that requires a person, that, according to WHO  declarations, are  9 m2 per capita. The central issue here is that there's a project that want to take down the Panul forest, and build there a condo. There's people, with power and money that wants to take away a green lung of the city and bring more people!

I think that, in part, is a perspective problem. Maybe the business men doesn't realise the problems that this is  going to give to the future generations; with this actions, they are putting in danger their environment. Right now, we can see the pollution and the breathing problems that came with it. The air here needs to get clean, and isn't going to help at all taking away more Santiago's trees

There's people of the area, helped by the ones that are involved in organizations about environment, they are concerned about the problem, so they're marching and trying to be listened by the government, so they can make a policy about it and help to a sustainable development.

This problem needs to be discussed, so all the people involved could have a overall benefit


See you later!

The good, the bad, the ugly

Hello!

Well…my spider-sense  tells me that you’re using the internet, right?

I think that internet is a very useful tool, in particular because I can communicate with my mother and so she knows how I am and if I need something…or just if we need to talk a little. Also  I use it for read comics, see drawings, play videogames and watch funny videos (most of them, about cats).  

I remember that, unlike teenagers and children today, I met the internet more gradually. When it came , we had another ways to talk with friends, to play games and to interact in classes. I think that, maybe, it wasn't a big shock. We learned, step by step, how to live with it. But the kids these days, they came and the world was already changed by the internet.

I think that... the internet, as any tool when it’s in another’s hands, may  change its original purpose.  You can see things like beautiful pictures, the injustice in others countries, movie trailers…or things like pornography, violent fights, gore pictures, etc. Even, it could happen that you have contact with some pedophile, in that case the tool as a form of communication is used for depraved purposes.  

The point about this, is that I'm not very sure if those kids around the web have the criteria to know what's good or bad for them.  

The job of the parents is not to ban they to see this or that, is to guide them, educate them, prepare them, so they know how it is around there and with what kind of things they may found. Maybe, that way, they could really know what's the good and the bad (and maybe the uglier) things that one could find when you're navigating. 

Well, that's all for today

See you later!

A lot of green, a lot of fun

Hi, everyone!

In this entry I’m going to tell you about the best holiday I’ve ever had :D

I went to Salta, an Argentinian city when I was 12 years old. We were like 8 people in that journey. There was my mom, my aunt,  the family of two friends of my mom, and myself.

We traveled in bus and we stayed in a hostel. The travel and the accommodation were bought with a  family package on the travel agency, so it was in our budget.  

I remember that the hostel was near a park, with a little lake and a lot of families went to it. Also, from the hostel,  you could walk about 10 blocks and reach the city center.  In the way, we sometimes stopped in a little coffe shop, and I loved asking for “submarinos” in breakfast. A submarino is a glass full of homemade chocolate milk with pieces of bitter chocolate in the bottom.  

One night we went to a restaurant, but I just remember the Boleadores Show, not what we ate!

Another thing we did was go by bus to San Lorenzo, where is a hydric reserve in the farm Las Costas. It had a lot of trees and birds; I’m  not use to see a hill with all that thickness, but I love it.  We walk along one part of the river, it was very clear and clean, then we lunch and finally wait for the bus pick us up.

Perhaps on of the memories more crisp of that trip was the cable car ride, when we’re going to the San Bernardo hill.  I had never been in one and it was very exciting! And the sight was very beautiful, because we did that trip in the afternoon.

That’s all for today, see you later!

"Highs and Lows of my neighbourhood"

Hello, people!

Today I'm going to talk about my neighbourhood in Arica. In specific, I live in the "pasaje Calicanto"

The highs about it: a bus pass near to the street , and it can get you to the hospital, the center or the beach, if you want to. Or even more important, go to the "Agropecuario"and buy your veggies for the week.
But if you want to buy something quickly, you can go to the "Feria Cabo Aroca", walking some blocks down the street.
Also, the block is a good place to ride on a bike, and  I love that! Or let your children play in the afternoon.

The lows are that, in the same street there is a Evangelical Church. Sometimes is problematic because when there's too much people, they leave their cars in the street and so they don't let pass the people. Even, one day, they were singing very loud..at 3 am!
Another thing is that some people who live close to the street, are drugs dealers. There is a corner that is very dangerous in the night.

Even with that, I love where I live, because I have my family there and a lot of memories about it! :)

A story of a life for the cinema

Hello you, stranger? Jajajaja Sorry about that but I was listening a The Doors' song so I couldn't resist. Uhm...the sunny days were too little, I wanted more...for wash my clothes.


 So, in this final blog of the class, I've to talk about my favourite movie and I can't be more excited! That's beacuse my mother taught me about films world since I was a child and I mean the old ones, the classic ones, the romantic, the mysterious, etc. She made a good job, beacuse maybe she didn't show me all the movies in the world, but the fact is that she show me the basics of the today's movies.


  Among all the films that I saw, the special one for me is: Cinema Paradiso. Is an italian movie  where the principal actors  are Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Jacques Perrin and Marco Leonardi (who also makes Pedro in Como agua para chocolate, another of my favourite movies) and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. 


   The story is about a man's life and how this is developed with the love for the cinema. It began with the  retrospective of Salvatore Di Vita's childhood and youth, the protagonist of the film, in the city were he use to live Giancaldo in 1950.  Also is very approach to his relation with Alfredo, an old man that works in the Paradiso, the only local movie theater in the little city.

                     


    In that time, Salvatore was 6 years old, he was curious, cheerful, playful and stubborn. He made company to Alfredo, an old married man with no sons, illiterate and who only knows to make the projector of the cine works. Salvatore always want to make company in his work (even if he said many times to leave him alone ), learning about how use the cinema's projector and the love that Alfredo had to the movies...A love that he said is a bad one, because it take you in chains and never let you leave. If you see the movie, you would understand this words.  


    Is an intensive movie, with a lot of characters that goes to this cine and makes this place a center of meeting. The people fell in love, fights, made jokes and even had sex in it. In resume, it was the bond of the city. I don't just like this movie, I love it, because is not very complicated to understand but the story is very touchful...It had at least one part were you can feel identified...Because is about life, the losts, the profits, the love, the sadness and the death. Also, it has a plus: Ennio Morricone. He made the music for the movie and always, when I heard it, I remember many of the scenes.

    All the movie  is special to me, I can't change anything. It's not perfect, but just as it is, it touched me deeper. I have many of favourite parts but the principal is the final one: the scene of the kisses. But I can't talk you about it, you have to see it! Is a favor,you had to saw it first, and when you maybe started to cry you'll appreciate that I don't ruined the surprise. 


  Well, that's all. I liked to talk about it. See you anytime!


  Take care and eat cake!

A person who did something

Hello people! How are you? In this cold days, I had survive. But I always want to stay at home and be in my warm bed sleeping with no world's worries. Possibly, is something that many people wants. 


  My college, for example, gives me a lot of worries, like the homeworks, the examns, the credits, etc. However, it's delightful being  in this place. "How is that?" you may ask. Well, I learned about many things, even if I didn't like some of them. Also I learned about a lot of people that writed of the political sciences or public administration, being the majority men that used most of their time investigating. Sadly, that just show me that they have a lot of free time, because a big part of them never need to work... At least, some of them like Henri Fayol, Frederick Taylor, Karl Marx and others had to work for own some money, and as a starting point, they began writting about the political or administral issues that they saw.  But they never had to take charge of their home or their family and all the responsability that society gives to the woman.


  So there's a women that I want to talk about, but I'm not very sure if she counts as someone of my field: Susan B. Anthony, a feminist and a prominent american civil leader in the United States. 

   She was born in February 15th in 1820. At the age of 29, she moved to New York, taking part of conventionts about the temperance movements. But that was just the start, because later she traveled a thousand miles across the United States and Europe, giving over 70 and 150 convetions per year about the vote and women`s civil rights. It didn't matter how, she moved to all the places as posible, even if it had to be in carriage, train's wagon, mules, bicycles, ferrys or a dog sled. This journey was a big part of her life, being around 45 years that took for teach and informate all people about the unfair tratement between this two genders. It was March 13th of 1920 when she died in Ronchester because a pneumonia. 


  The first time I knew about her was in Power Puff Girls jajajaja. They talk about her and how police send her to jail for voting. She claimed that she must be traited like a man and wanted to be judged as well. 


   I chose her because of the effort that she make for advocate about the equal rights in her sexist society. She was a precursor of the women's rights, but also a fighting woman, that tried all her best for make a difference. I mean, she DID something for the people, no like the men that we learn about. They sit in their table to write about important things, but the ones that my teachers talk about were a zero on the left. I know that men made great things for the history, but in my personal opinion, part of they did it in scorn of women.


   Well, that's all for today. I hope that you, women and men, don't take my opinion as an attack of a fervent feminist, it was just a though across my mind. I'm in favor of equal rights, that's all.




  See you soon


Take care and eat cake.

The best escapist in the feline world

Hello! How are you everyone? I have to admit that my day didn't start very well, but I hope that it will get better soon. Sometimes you got to stay calm and be positive :)

So..did you ever know how I look like? Ah well, you saw the picture when I was in Arica with my friends, Maria Jose y Francisco, so you may have an idea about how I am. But you never saw a picture of my little friend Robert Houdini. I'll show you a photo when he arrived to my house:

  

    This photo was taken by my boyfriend Oscar,  the day that I adopted my baby. It was a sunday in november, but sadly I don't remember exactly the date. The story goes like this: In that sunday morning, when Oscar and I were going out of the market, a married couple came around with a bunch of cats in a box. They told us that the cats and  the mother were abandoned in their garden's house. They didn't know what to do, so they were in the market giving the babys of the cat, because they only could take care of the mother. I doubt about take one of those cats, because I live alone in a department, so if I went to the college or somewhere else, who would take care of the kitty? 

  But Oscar knew that I always wanted a cat for pet and how lonely I felt because my family is far away, so he insisted to take one of them. With his support, I decided to choose the little one that was desesperated to get out of the box. For his playfull attitude and the repeated times he tried to escape from the box, we called him Robert Houdini (for Robert Houdin and Harry Houdini). I love this photo because he was so little and cute, also he was very excitated with the ball I bought him. However, he was very scary in his new home. In the photo he is calm, but in all that day he hide of us. 

  Today, my baby is not a little one, he grown up in a healthy way and I'm very happy about it.

 He runs around the house with a plastic bag in his mouth or a shoelace, goes for a walk in the backyard and a days ago he came with a present: a dying rat. I was scared all night long.

   That's the story of my roommate! Now, he maybe is sleeping or playing around the house jajajaja

See you soon!

Take care and eat cake! ;)