The best holidays I've had

When I was 18 my family and I travelled to the south of Chile, because my father's relatives are from Valdivia and Puerto Montt. So I have lots of cousins there.

I've always enjoyed our trips to the south, because of the rain, the nature and the food. If I had to move to another city, I would choose probably somewhere near Valdivia.

Well, this time we went over several places, parks, natural ressources and lakes. We stayed in Valdivia 6 or 7 days in my aunt's house, where we simply ate a lot, because my aunt has ahm....a bakery.

Then we moved to Puerto Montt just for one night, because the day after we continued traveling southern, until we arrived to a town named Hornopirén.

To arrive to Hornopirén we had to take a ship to cross the “Seno del Reloncaví”, it was one of those ships where you can go in a car, or with the car.   

In Hornopirén we did trekking through the forest and we enjoyed it a lot.

After a few days there we came back to Valdivia, and we started traveling home.

That was, in general, my last trip to the south and I would love to go early, because landscapes of the South are some of the most beautiful I've ever seen until now. And I also enjoy spending time with my family and relatives.

A country I would like to visit

One of the biggests dreams of my life is to travel to Brasil, but specifically to the Amazon. I think it's a wonderful place with awesome landscapes and whole world waiting to be discovered. I like to be in the Nature hearing its sounds, its music, walking the entire day without any destination.

Brasil is an interesting country that has many cultural views depending on the part you go. When I think about the people who live in the Amazon, I also think in how different their lifes are in comparison with ours. I would like to learn about them and also from them, like for example their lifestyle.

Well, I would like to visit touristic places too. I’ve heard about Camboriu, and it seems to be a nice place to take a rest and go to the beach. I don’t have to mention that Sao Paulo and Rio the Janeiro should be beautiful too, because they are famous cities that make advertising by themselves.

My Life as a Playlist

Well, I'm not sure I will be able to do a playlist of my life, but at least I will try to speak about songs and artists (singers, bands) that have been important to me in my 20 years of life.

When I remember childhood moments, the first artist that comes to me is Silvio Rodríguez. I grew up with his music because my parents and all my family have always enjoyed it. One of the most special songs for me is named “Como esperando abril”. Silvio remains one of my favorite singers.

Since I was a teenager I’ve always listened at least two ‘kinds’ of music. I admit that when I was 12/13 years old y listened to bands like My Chemical Romance and 30 Seconds to mars. Well, nowadays I couldn’t really say I’m proud of that, but when I eventually listen to their songs, good moments come to my mind.

Around my 15 I started to listen to grunge and metal (good music, for me), with bands like Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pantera and In Flames.

As I said I’ve always had “two faces”. On the other one, I’ve always enjoyed the Latin-American music like trova, “Canto Nuevo”, latin rock, etc. Silvio Rodríguez, Quilapayún, Violeta Parra and Víctor Jara (just as an example) are and I think they will continue being an important part of me.

 

An anthropologist at the moon

Well, I don't know much about the current web pages that people normally visit, but last month my cousin sent me something that I found interesting. It is a blog which link is "http://unaantropologaenlaluna.blogspot.com.ar/". Its owner is a social and cultural anthropologist from Argentina named Naomí.
The blog has many short articles about different anthropological matters. Here you can find things about evolution, economy, religion, politics and many other subjects, all related to different cultures, included the urban one.
The truth is that I've visited it just a few times. But I've found interesting what I've read until now, because maybe she isn't neither Lévi-Strauss nor Malinowski, but i think that she does a good job showing the
variety of cultures and ways to think that's at the world, and she explains her researches in a way that everybody is able to understand what she's trying to show.
I think that we need people able to bring our career closer to the people, and that's why I would recommend it to you.

Books!

A book is always a good partner, or that's what I think at least... It sounds like a book worm, and maybe I am, cause I enjoy reading books during my free time and being in another world for a while. With reading, people can feel like another person, they can understand them and also their ways to think and behave.


I like reading literature, history and philosophy. If we're talking about literature, my favorite branch  is the magic realism of the "latin american boom", but I like also some french writers and poets, like Victor Hugo or Charles Baudelaire. One of my favorite book characters is "La Maga" from Rayuela, a novel written by Julio Cortázar. La Maga is a woman who has had a hard life, and although she thinks she's dumb and stupid (because the rest make her feel that), she teaches her "friends" much more about the life than she can imagine.
I haven't had much time to read what I want to read, but one of the books that I've recently read is "The Savage Detectives"  (written by Roberto Bolaño). I enjoyed it, but it took to me around three weeks to read because I didn't have much time. The story is about Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, two poets who have invented a new literary movement: The "Visceral Realists". They disappeared in México and nobody knows anything about their location.
I would recommend it to people who like poetry, politics and the latin american history, but if you're looking for a love story or something like that, this is not a good book for you.

Elki

Today I want to show you a picture taken by a friend of me, he's name is Juan, but we usually call him"Juanothe". He's a nice photographer, and he always amazes us with something new.
This picture was taken last winter at the Elki Valley, where we were camping with our scout group.
It plays with the contrast between light and darkness, showing the Andes mountain range covered with some snow, the moon, some clouds and a beautiful sky.
I like this photograph for several reasons. One of them is that it reminds me that camp and every activity we did, my friends and all those moments that we save in our memories. I also remember the peace of that place, there wasn't any noise, all it was completely quiet. At night you could see the stars shining on the sky and the queen moon among them.
When I look this pic I want to climb those mountains feeling the cold wind blowing to my face and a kind of peaceful freedom that flies over that magical sky.

Animals and pets

My first pet was a rabbit, he´s name was Tambor. I remember that I was four years old when we got him. He was really cute, but although he was a rabbit, I think he was really crazy, because  he used to bite the phone wires and do dangerous things ajaja. Now I don't have any pet, but I would like to have a dog, at home in Coquimbo of course, because now I'm living in an apartment, and I think it's cruel to live in a place without green areas even for a human, so it should be worse for a pet.

I don't like zoos because I think that we don't have any right to shut them up in a prison. Some people say that it's a way to protect some endangered species, but I think that we are not doing a favor to them.

Well, I have had a good relationship with animals until now, I have never been bitten by a dog or things like that but it should be painful xd.

If I could be an animal, I would be a panther, because they're free and they also climb, run and do activities that I would enjoy. ajaja

Well, that was all for today

Best regards to your pets!

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