A Birthday or Celebration

Hi geobloggers! Today I have a new blog for you!

The most memorable birthday it was 6 years ago, when I turned 15 in 2010, I celebrated my “sweet fifteen”, in the USA are the sweet sixteen, but we decided to do it at 15, because in Latin America, this age is the “important”. That year I started to study, how called in Chile “La media”, that is, the last four years at school.

But whatever, I celebrated this especial birthday with three of my best friends at school, they were Claudia, Valentina and Fernanda. This birthday it was in a restaurant called “Bar Requegua” in San Vicente, in this place they had a dancing skating room, for skates on wheels, my mom told me that when she was a teenager, she was going to skate with her friends. The skating room we used it as a dance floor. Also in the restaurant they had a kind of aquarium with frogs that was so rare, but it was funny!! Next to this was the area with the tables.

I remember… All the people had to go formal dresses. A friend was worried that someone would come to the party with her same dress, and that happened!! She wanted to die!!! HAHAHAHA

Also Claudia´s older brother took us to the city by car and it was carrying balloons outside, when we arrived there were people who wanted to take photos with us, this embarrassed me!!

And we did many others things, but it is a long history!

Bye! See you soon!

Last Weekend

Hi geobloggers, today I speak about my last weekend! It was a long weekend, but despite this I don’t do anything great. I went to San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, and I stayed from Friday to Tuesday in my mother’s house.

Friday and Saturday I slept till late and I stayed in internet all day, but Saturday’s night I work in 2 homework’s. Sunday´s afternoon I went to the cemetery with my cousins, Gabriela and Josefa, we visit our great-grandmother and two other relatives. I don´t enjoyed much this visit, I don´t like this places and because this day was very hot, but I liked the part of flowers! Also this is so sad, because many people don´t had nothing! But whatever, I can’t do anything. Then we went to city and bought some ice-cream and finally we went to the house of our grandmother and we talked with our grandfather, that afternoon he spoke to us about trains and about their father. Then my cousins had to go to Rancagua, they live there.

Monday’s night I watch “Antes que sea tarde” NatGeo documentary, I love it!! But I’m scared by the situation on the planet. I watched it at 2 in the morning, the next day I was very tired, but it was worth it. You should watch this!!

And Tuesday I went to Santiago with a friend, we were in a traffic jam, but we arrived to check, then the subway was full, but I arrived well! That was a very tiring day!!!

And that was my weekend.

Bye, see you soon! 

Documentary

Hello! Today I have a new blog, I talk about documentary “Strange days on Planet Earth” part 1.

This is a good and interesting documentary I loved it!!. But I don’t understand some things, my english it’s not very good, and the narrator’s or interviewed people sometimes spoke very fast and I can’t read subtitles or sometimes I can’t understand her pronunciation, but that doesn’t mean I don’t understand anything, I think I caught the main idea that was the film. This is about change climate and her consequences.  I liked this documentary, because talk about many situations or phenome occurring in different countries and how affect each other, this is amazing, because this showing how the Earth it’s a big system and as our actions affect the world.

I found interesting in the film the connection between Sahara’s drought and asthma problems in Trinidad. Once again showing the great Earth system. Also this scared me, because I don’t know how people all around the world try to avoid this, because it’s a big problem we affects all!! I don’t understand wing people don’t believe in climate change, I crying!!!

I watch documentary about nature many times, always in my weekends. I love this type film!! I would like watch others documentary about this, I like nature, animals, everything about this. 

And finally you need watch "Life after people" ! (other documentary)

See you soon!

A book

Hello! Today I talk about a one book I recommend and this called The Book Thief by Australian author Markus Suzak, this is one of the most beautiful and brilliant story I have been able to read.

I started to read this book recently because I don’t have many time for this, but I’m a good reader and hope to finish the book soon. I know about “The book thief” because I watched the film adaptation about this novel time ago with my little cousin and I was in love with the story, the plot, and character, everything in the novel or movie grabs you because you want to know everything about this.

I like this book because it’s the way of seeing a terrible time of humanity and I promise with this book you can smile and cry at the same time. I like when the book exited with small details, with a daily things for example make a snowman. This is a one beautiful part and if you don’t understand me now, you will understand me when you read the book.  We must seize the small details of life, how to read.

I would have much time to read many books, now I want read all the books of the world :(

See you soon!! 

Holidays

Hello, Today a have a new blog! The new topic is about holidays!

In my last holidays I went to “Safari Rancagua” with my mom (She feel alone, because my brother and I stayed more time in Santiago than home). And she decided to invite a most wonderful experience in my life, because I love animals! We went in the last month, in September, we take advantage, because on those dates, all people in Chile stay at home with his family.

We were in there all morning and part of afternoon.

In Safari I saw tigers, lion, giraffes, ostrich, ducks, bears and many others animals. I saw very close, so close toy could touch them, but only if they do not want to cut an arm (tigers or lion). To see the lions and tigers, we went up to OLD jeep and the lion jump over jeep and I could touch their legs, but him snarling very strong!!! I and the all people in this jeep we are cared by them.

Also, I gave a cookie to a one peacock, and he followed me around the grounds!

And a visit the place of herbivores, where I saw a giraffe to a meter away from me. And finally we visit “Jurassic Park” in this part I felt like a child, because it reminded me a one of my favorite movies as a child. This is a one most funny moment of day! I enjoyed it a lot!! <3

And this is my experience in my last holidays!

See you soon!!

Website

Hi! Today I speak about a one website i like, this is "See Winter", in this website you can see in real time a dolphin called Winter, this dolphin when he was young lost its rear wing, and he was rescued by ClearWater Marine Aquarium where he live today. I found this web because I saw a movie "Dolphin Tale" in this film shows all its  history and in the end, in the credits, you get the address of the page so you can adopt a dolphin, this also shows you a video where you can see Winter doing exercises with his prosthesis. For me, this is very beautiful experience.

I watch this page not very often, because it’s a live webcam and sometimes is very repetitive. But anyway I visit occasionally because his story is very interesting and also you can see various topics on this page for example “Tips for a healthier ocean”, “Careers in marine science” among others, where you can educate about life in the ocean. I like this page, because I’m an animal lover and everything that has to do with them. And for me, the Winter´s history is very motivating for everyone and this page it’s a great idea to approach the marine world.

See winter’s page: http://www.seewinter.com/

Other page similar you can visit:

Animal Planet: http://www.apl.tv/pandas.htm

Explore: http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls

See you soon!!

Education in Chile and Student's Strike

The place where I come, the student’s strike are not popular. In my school there was no talk of this. Through 13 years in my school not knowing about it.

When I started studying in university I moved to Santiago and I chose to study in “Universidad Diego Portales”, for one year I had a “normal” student’s year, that is to say, I finished this year in December. But the normally student’s year in Chile it’s not like this. In my second year in Santiago I decided to change my career and started studying geography at the “Universidad de Chile”in my first year I lived my first student’s strike, at that moment I was very angry, because, for me this method is not good. The student should look for new method, more effective to achieve their demands, because the loss of classes does not help.

Now, this year we have lost 2 months, maybe 3 and again my parents will have to pay more money for my stay in Santiago (one month more). Because this year ending January.

The student’s strike in my opinion injures human’s rights, because this movements is not democratic, every day the “majority” goes out the minority, and this is so bad. But actually the majority is not who make the decisions, because, the people are not interested in these movements or if students think differently are attacked by it. All student have a voice, but in FAU many cannot give your opinion. It’s crazy guys!

But the reason why fighting is very important, because the quality and equality in education it’s a human right and it’s important for the development of Chile. And to get that it’s necessary the dialogue, brainstorming, different opinions, and of course, respect and tolerance.

Bye, see you later guys.

Peace!