Blog experience...

It’s time to say goodbye so, personally I have to say that post in the blog is the part that I like most about the class. At first I didn’t like the subjects, because were repeated with the other class (English 3) and as I already wrote about that was a little boring. But then, they became more entertaining and interesting.

This semester the post I enjoyed writing most was “Ten things I'd like to do before I die”, maybe because I don’t usually think of these things and at time of writing the blog I noticed that ten things were very few thing and actually are so many things I want to do before I die and I hadn’t even thought hahaha.

The posts I enjoyed writing least I think were three “A journey” (To the north of Chile), “A photograph you like” and “A country” (Thailand), like I said before I didn’t these topics because in the blog of the past semester we already had published then it was difficult for me to decide for one photo or a country, if I have a favorite photo for example.

The blogs I always visited and I enjoyed very much were Marcela and Karla’s blogs, because they are my friends and my classmates not only in this class but in other classes of geography too. I don’t mean that I haven’t seen and enjoyed reading the blogs of other classmates.

In fact, the most attractive blog I think is the Martin’s blog; it has a great and interesting design. Personally I don’t know how to use the blog’s templates and configuration, but I think this blog is very nice… the nicest of the class.

Something of art...

Even when I don’t know much about art, I really like it, I enjoy a museum, looking the collections, the details of each piece of art…

I remember a day in January, 2008. I was in Santiago, waiting for a friend in Lastarria so, I decided to know the MAVI museum that is right there. When I was in, there was an exposition very interesting; there were three works of art that  really caught my attention. One of them had a landscape made ​​of toasted breads, the other represented a giant stain, but when I approached, I noticed that it was made of toy soldiers. And the last, which was maybe the most significant for me, I found amazing, very original, In fact I’ve never seen a piece of art like that. It was fifty-five sheets of telephone directory painted with Chinese ink, the silhouette of a girl underwater was represented in them. When I was seeing this work of art, there was a guy at a table ordering phone guides, each guide contained an equal copy in all its sheets, there were fifty-five guides that corresponded to this last piece of art, which was called "Detained in Apnea".

He asked me if I wanted to take a copy and I understood that all these copies were for the public, and then told me he was graduated in arts from the University of Chile and I started talking about art.

In this link, you can see his pieces of art:

- www.carloszuniga.org

- alejalea.blogspot.com

Another pieces of art that I like very much are the watercolors of Antonio Oyarzún. He’s a painter of La Unión, but many of his watercolors represent different places of Valdivia. I've been lucky to be in some of his exhibitions and to meet him personally. His greatest influence has been the painter Ricardo Anwandter. I don’t remember exactly when was the first time I saw one of his works of art, but I've always admired him and I liked the variety of colors he uses for his art and the places that he represents. The piece of art that I show here is called "Tugboat El Pampino".

Bridget Jones's Diary

When I have free time, I spend most of the time watching movies. The last year I broke my ankle so, I passed like a month in a bed and I couldn’t do anything apart from watching a lot of movies… I really passed all the day watching different sort of films.

Personally I prefer comedies and romantic movies, and if these two genre are joined, even better. Is about that, my favorite movie is “Bridget Jones’s diary”, the first movie and the second part “Bridget Jones: The edge of the reason”. These are two films that I never tired of watching again and again, even I have to say that I have them hahaha. The first time that I watched was on the TV in my home, the first part, and the second part I was in the school in Valdivia with my classmates (we was all women xD).

On this film act Reneé Zellweger as Bridget, Hugh Grant as the bad guy that hurts her, Daniel Cleaver and Colin Firth as a good guy that really loves her, Mark Darcy.

I think this movie is the sort of the movies for girls haha… I love to watch it, because I always laugh with it, because Bridget is a very particular character (like how she dress), from her family to her romances, she never goes unnoticed and that entertains you the whole movie. Is not the typical romance movie, always when she is sad about love, something funny happens, each character, even her friends gives a humor touch to the movie.

Ten things I'd like to do before I die

If you ask me what things I’d do before dying, is inevitable for me to remember the movie “The Bucket list” by Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. Sometimes there are many things I want to do, but other times I think that despite not to be so old I’m very happy with my life till now... but well, there are always more things you want to do hahaha.

Here's a list of ten things I would do before I die:

    1.  All my life I wanted to be an archaeologist and work in Egypt, I didn’t study archeology, but definitely Egypt and its culture is still something that I love so much and I'd like to visit. 

    2.  I’d like to climb a mountain over 6000 m.

   3. I’d go to a karaoke and sing alone, I’ve been always very shy and I’ve never dared to sing, because I sing very badly hahaha.

   4.  Another thing I've always wanted to do is learn to play an instrument, I don’t know how to play anything, an instrument that I love is the piano ... I find it very delicate.

    5.  Also I would like to dive somewhere, where there are corals and colorful fish. 

   6. I’d go to do some kind of social action to Africa, the truth is always have caught my attention how the people lives in some countries (the poorest countries) and I wish I could go help.
   7. A city I'd like to know before I die is Paris, I love its architecture, I would walk its streets, its cafes (I love going to cafes) and of course fashion haha ... I'd have to go with money, because I'm a little consumer when it's about fashion.
   8. I love drawing and painting, especially portraits, so someday I would learn well and be more professional about it.
  9. Someday I'd love to dedicate to yoga ... like an instructor maybe ... achieving good spiritual balance, knowing cultures that dedicated to this like in India.
  10. Finally, I would be forever closed to my parents and my brother, even though we live apart, I think today's technology allows... be very close, I want to travel together whenever  we can ... And if I can, give them a trip that we're four.

Concerts in which I've been...

Something that I really enjoy, apart from food and travel, is music. To watch a national band in Chile is more accessible than a foreign band, even there are some times when the bands play free in the massive concerts like “The day of music”. The last time I went to this event was on 2009 or 2010… I don’t remember exactly, but there was a year that it didn’t perform. There I went to watch Chilean songwriters like Nano Stern, Manuel García, Camila Moreno, Fernando Milagros, Kike Neira, Chinoy and Chilean bands like Los Jaivas, De Saloon, Juana Fe, Chico Trujillo, Chancho en Piedra and many others of different styles as rap, reggae, pachanga or Chilean trova.

I love Chilean music, but being in a concert of a band known worldwide is really exciting!!... When you’re there, singing in front of a band that you never thought to have in front of you, definitely is priceless. The truth is I haven’t been to many of these concerts, because usually when coming bands that I like and go on sale the tickets, I have no money. When I was sixteen was the first time watched a live band, I traveled from Valdivia to Santiago to watch Placebo, I loved at that time. Later I moved to Santiago by the university and I thought I’d have the chance to watch all the bands I liked hahaha, but it wasn’t that way, because every time one came, I had no money to buy a ticket.

Until now I've only gone to the Phoenix Festival where come Starsailor, Travis (one of my favorite bands) and The Killers, I also went to watch Cat Power, the great thing about this time is that it was at the Amanda Cultural Center and as a space very small, my friend and I were just on stage, then Cat shared out roses to the fans and she gave it to us too.

Definitely the most exciting concert I have ever attended in my life, was Coldplay, I didn’t care how much you spend on the ticket. Chris Martin made me cry with “Fix you”, for a moment I thought they wouldn’t play, but I was happy :)

Well, and my last gig was in the “Arena Puerto Montt” on the last year I went to watch Calle 13, I danced all haha. 

Today I've been waiting for Sigur Rós... I hope they come to Chile very soon!!

A place for dinner...

I think one of the great pleasures in life is eating. Even when I’m a student and I have no much money, I spend a lot of it going out for dinner. Is very hard for me to decide about my favorite place for dinner, because there are many places that I like from small locals where sell hot dogs to japanese restaurants, pizzerias, barbecues, chilean food, etc.

One that I like so much is called “Gohan”, this japanese restaurant is in Valdivia in Teja Island. I knew about it by a friend with whom I went the first time.  I can’t go always when I visit my parents and my friends in Valdivia, because it’s not a cheap restaurant, but when I go usually is on Mondays, ‘cuz is the cheapest day of the week.

I often go there to eat sushi, but any dish is a delight (seafood, steaks and chicken, etc). In this restaurant was the first time I tasted “tempura” and I died hahaha… definitely it’s my favorite sushi!! I love it!!

The last time I went with the same friend I went the first time he is named Tomás, but this time another friend joined us. We ordered sushi each one, then gyosas, then gyosas again, then sushi again, a caipirinhas too and finally a dessert hahaha my stomach was going burst hahaha. When we was going to our houses, we found with other friend that was working in that restaurant, she is a waitress, but we didn’t saw her because she was in the “smoking area” (we don’t smoke) and she asked us to go out to a pub… that day I fell into ruin!!! Haha… Tomás always claims me that he spends all his money when I go to Valdivia only going out!!

I would learn...

Maybe I have never stopped to think about what things I would like to learn and now that I do I think basically I’d have liked to learn two things. I would like to learn rock climbing and playing piano. The first one is still possible, but the second I think is a talent, with which you must be born, otherwise you should start from an early age to play the piano.

The piano seems to me a wonderful instrument, with it you can create the most beautiful melodies. Last month I had the opportunity to go see Mahani Teave, she is an Easter Island’s pianist, an excellent pianist, is the model for the clothing brand Umbrale. I met her because she moved to Valdivia to study piano at the Conservatory of the Austral University and studied at my school. Today Mahani has traveled around the world with her ​​talent, seeing her playing is really amazing. In addition, she is creating the first music school in Easter Island.

Moreover, extreme sports have always caught my attention, of which rock climbing seems to me a very complete sport and which you are full contact with nature, this is what more I like. I admit that I suffer from vertigo, in fact I would never bungee jump, but in the mountains or rock walls are the only places where my fear of heights disappears, not a hundred percent, but enough.

Well, I hope someday to do some of these things, although I think one of them and I didn’t, but I think I can still learn the other.