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.