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.  

Wanting to go to London!

Well if there's something I love to do is to travel. I try to do it every year, and if it's possible, do it twice. Obviously, there are some places that I wouldn’t miss for anything. But that places are too expensive to visit them at the moment. London, New York, India and New Zeland are just some of the unmissables on my infinite list.

But dreaming is free and today I’m gonna tell you about one of them: London. Maybe is music’s fault. Many of my favorite singers live in England. I don’t even know how to explain why I would love to go to London. I think that it goes with my personality. Since I was a child I have dreamt about that. The telephone booths, the red buses, people, weather, music, music…. I really can’t explain.

If I could go I’ll go to the London Eye, I’ll walk through the streets, and I don’t know, I would like to let it flow. If I would have the possibility to travel to London, I’ll do it by myself because I think that it allows you to do different things, knowing more and in a different way. Travelling is a great way to knowing yourself and stuff like that. I absolutely picture myself there, walking down the street, looking around in peace, feeling cool and happy.  

When I finish my career I intend to get a part-time job, doing some money and travel to Europe to see my sister who lives in Barcelona. In that way I will travel around that continent and arrive to London. I think that it’s very possible and I hope I am not wrong. But at the moment, I just have to wait.    

Inking yourself with culture!!!!

Today I’m gonna talk about one of my favorites websites of journalism. There are many funny and  interesting websites about it, but I decided to write about Con Tinta Negra (www.contintanegra.cl) because I consider it very different. It was created a couple of years ago in my university by a group of students. They created it because of a class work in the reportage course. Today is still being managed by the people of Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen and the career students write for it.

The main goal of the website is to show today stories, places, dreams, grievances and cultural stuff. All from the point of view of the future journalists of Universidad de Chile. They define themselves like independent journalism with a special view.  Every two weeks they publish a new edition which includes chronicles, reportages, reviews, interviews and stuff. 

This edition of the online magazine.

Obviously I always read it and I recommend everyone to read it too. You also can comment in the website, write to the editors and stuff like that. In that way you can make an input to build this project.