Best gift ever

Every birthday, my mom wakes me up in the morning singing the Happy Birthday song. Sometimes she brings me a cake or something with a candle on the top and I make my first birthday wish.
On 2010, she woke me up with many presents in her hands. One bag was bigger than the other. It was red and with tiny little hearts on it. When I opened it, my life changed. What a surprise! It was an awesome camara!! I had always wanted one of them because I love taking pictures every where I go and I also love travelling around the world and obviously, taking photos is a very important thing when you're in a place you have never been before. Because after the trip you can remember it and show the photos to everyone. The remember thing is beautiful and very important for me.

The present was actually from my mom and my stepdad, not only from my mummy. Now, my camara is exactly in front of me. I still using it everytime. I use it even in my job. It's like my life partner and it gives me the possibility to freeze every beautiful moment, place, people I love, people that I don't know and other stuff. I love taking pictures and I hope you love too because is a wonderful thing. Thanks, mom and stepfather!!!!!

My first day at the university

Ok. Join into the university wasn't my dream at all. In fact, even now I'm not happy studying. But I have to admit that my first year was better than now. What I mean is that I was more motivated at the beginning. I'm not good at remembering things but I’m doing an effort.

I live really near from my university. So, as always, my first day I came here walking. Obviously I was a little nervous and excited because of my new friends and challenges. I was very lost about my timetable and that’s why I found my first friend in the ICEI.

I was walking, probably with a strange face, looking for someone who can tell me where was my class or who was my teacher. There I found Gabriela. She was at the same situation and we tried to solve it together. Then we started to get closer. Obviously, by the days I also started to speak to other people and made other friends.

I remember that I loved my teachers and all the plans they had to make during the semester and the syllabus seemed to be fun. My classmates showed being very smart and I felt afraid of seeming stupid.

I could lie about what I did exactly, but I prefer to admit that I didn’t remember. Actually, I luckily remember what I ate yesterday. The worst thing is that it doesn’t even mean that I had a great day, because I don’t remember the bad things either. Let’s think that it was awesome!

Fiestas Patria's homesick

I believe that there isn't a celebration of Fiestas Patrias that I specially remember, but Fiestas Patrias is a special celebration for me since I was a child because my grandpa always enjoy it so much. He was born in the countryside and loves the traditional dances, food, games and specially the rodeo. He loves horses deeply and I always remember riding with him at the hills during the weekends. When I was 9, he joined into Club de Huasos de Las Condes. There we still doing the same thing and he bought me a horse too. My grandfather participated in the rodeos every Fiestas Patrias but I really didin't like it because the animals made me feel sad.

In the club there were always fondas. That means a lot of drinking, dancing and eating. We used to go together. Also my mom, her boyfriend and some friends. My grandma used to stay at home because she didn't like Fiestas Patrias because of the drunk crowd. We did the same thing for around four years and there I tried with some difficulties to dance cueca and played with my "huasos" friends all night long. I obviously didn't drink anything because of my age, but I ate a lot and had a very great time.

These are some of my best memories but I hope next years bring me better things and experiences. I hope you had a very fun and memorable time too.

A good friend

Today I would like to tell you about Camila Ramírez (Ponpon) who’s my best friend since I was thirteen. She was from my school but a year older and I met her because my first boyfriend was her classmate. By those years we got very close and also we went on vacation together.

Later, we had some issues and disagreements and we were apart for a couple of years. But our circle of friends made us being together again. Two parties were enough to recover our friendship and love each other like nothing had happened between us.

At the time, Ponpon is finishing her psychology’s studies at Universidad Diego Portales and lives near from my home so we really don’t have many troubles to hang out together. Both of us have free days in the week so there’s always time to see her at least once a week.

We love happy hours and food, specially the sushi, but sometimes we don’t have money to buy something for eat and just meet for chat and laugh all day long.

Ponpon always has the greatest advice and is very good at listen to people. It’s funny, loyal and smart. These and other things make me love her deeply!

About the WikiLeaks scandal

About the the issue that has been in vogue this weeks I got some things to say. I think that what WikiLeaks do is a very important work to the humanity because they make possible to common people to know many privileged information that affects many people all over the world in a bad way. In that way I think that Assange is a man who's with the people and with the truth so he doesn't have to be a prisoner or suffer persecution because he (and WikiLeaks) is just unmasking fake or corrupt people and making that knows by too many people. Also, I think the Ecuatorians were right offering him political assignment because of the same thing. We have to backing him because he's doing the right thing. The problem is that ecuatorians may have issues with England and other powerful states or persons. Anyway, I think that's justified.

As a journalist, if I had the opportunity to interview him I'll ask him why he decided to found WikiLeaks and take the risk of messing up with the powerfuls, knowing all the big and small problems this could bring and which otherwise are happening now.

I believe that if people continue pressing on the witch-hunting of Barack Obama and more people begins interesting on this case, that pressure could make this scandal ends good to Assange, WikiLeaks and the truth that we all need.


  

My blogger experience

I have never interested on be a blogger. I'm not a techie person so I didn't even know how to use a blog and stuff. But in this English class I learned to post and I really liked it. Actually, I created another blogs to continue in this blogger path.

I think that as a way for learn is very useful, because most people understand the English when they hear it, but only a few can talk or express ideas in this language. In that way, for me this experience has been very useful and now I feel more prepare to speak in English to anyone, watch movies without subtitles and learn a lot of songs without searching the lyrics.

Besides is a fun way to learn!!! And it helps me to knowing my partners too because we talk about ourselves and at the university we don’t have the chance to do that.

I think that the blog sessions didn’t have disadvantages. In every way they were useful, funny and relaxing. I hope to continue writing in this blog, and I would like that my classmates do it too because in that way I could comment their posts and still knowing them.

The best man in the earth

It was on 2006. I went on vacations with one of my best friends, Ponpon, to Alagarrobo. One of our common friends called us begging for a place to stay one night. He was with five more people. Ponpon accepted them in her house, but that “one night” became in a whole week. In that group was Yota, the person who will be my best friend until now. So we really met there. Because he was from my school and we had seen each other several times at parties or stuff like that.

Yota (José Ignacio) is my best friend because of too many things. He’s a great person, very loyal funny, generous, shiny, kind, bubbly and he loves to help people, integrate them to our group, and cheer up all his friends. He has accompanied me in every hard moment in my life: when my grandma died, when a boyfriend cheated on me and other difficult situations. When I am sad, he always try his best to make me happy. He takes me out and figures something out to distract me. We spend really good time together.

Is so hard to pick just one best memory with him. But obviously the vacations and the moments that we have supported each other are some of my treasures. We go to the mall together, to parties, on vacations, we met for lunch, eat sushi, and a lot of things more. My family loves him and his loves me too. I hope to be always with him because my life would be very different if he wouldn’t be on it.