Chile's bicentennial year

Since 2007 we’ve been hearing about the Chilean bicentennial, waiting for 2010 to celebrate our national independence. So, since that date, publicity about the topic has been around us, telling to us in what country we are living. Television, radio, newspaper, and even the subway were a big important part of all the publicity. And then we start to become more close to this celebration, and we fell in some way kind of real patriots, but at the same time it’s a weird felling, in fact, we don’t know for sure what is a bicentennial, and what are we talking about.

Certainly, we’re celebrating our first step to the national independence in 1810. The TV shows our history, our most important heroes, transcendental facts of the twenty century and all the things that make us proud. In the streets, the walls talks about the celebration, about the big country that Chile is, and why is so big. Everybody, including journalist, publicist, business men, and the government too shows how this country is like top on everything as a country from the third world, with a brand new democracy and a nice economy that fits as a example for our neighbors of the continent. It’s all that true? It would be great, but looks like Chile is still far away from all that. There are so many people in this country that have nothing to celebrate and the most incredible thing is that they have been convinced to celebrate, to be in the party even when they are not even close to be top in anything. And probably this bicentennial celebration it’s about that, just about make people to believe in a country that doesn’t exist.

However, there are still persons that are not happy with this celebration, angry people from social movements who thinks that it’s enough of telling lies to the people, talking about a dream country, and talking about hope. These persons, these social movements just want to use their rage to make a change, a big social change for all the Chileans that are not part of this celebration, not cause they have been forgotten, but abused by a system that has nothing to do with the poor, with the ones that think in a different way, and all the persons from the minorities.

sabbatic Year

Really, I never have one “sabbatic year”, because all the time I study: in the secondary education and then in the universit. For this reason I don’t try to visit other places outside Chile, but when I finish my career, I want to travel to other sites for example, I want to try visit Granada, in Spain.

But I prefer travel in other time of my life, because I need to work inmediately because the Money is very important for me in these days. I prefer saving a few sum all the days, and in the next year I consider this possibility. Today, my economic situation don’t permits me this privilege, because my parents don’t have a big remuneration. I remember a school friend, she always was visit all the places of the world, and my question is: Where she obtains money?

The sabbatic year is for other type of persons, but in other moment of my life I can enjoy this possibility, and when this moment arrives, In first term, I prefer visit the arabian sites because this architecture is surprising. In second term, I visit my nieces in Chillán, because I don’t see they in a several years, and they are very old at the moment! (ajajaja) Finally, for my free year, I prefer visit to my father and my mother in Curicó, because since I study in the University, I don’t travel all the weeks and they are very worried for my new personality, a distant personality.

I a pig

In my personal experience, the environment is a very important fact in theory, because I promote the importance of the purity of our mountains, rivers, and the air. But in the practice, my action changes all the time because I make harmful things who that affect the place where I live, for example I throw the batteries to the garbage.

I haven’t planted one tree in all my life! My indifference reaches to the extreme because the urban life (in Santiago) changed my perspective and I prefer the inhuman life. In my house in Curicó my mum has a big garden that I like, all the wind is very soft, and I visit this place because it’s very attractive and I have one dog (it’s beautiful!).

Also, the importance of the organizations to protect the environment doesn’t invite me to develop my own conscience, but my friends are very interested in that fact, for example they pick up the bottles of beer after the party in the university, and I consider this attitude as “hippie”. The environmental organizations are very important in the University, and they advertising for the protection the nature, and water the plants, and promote the healthy life of the body and the order of the grass.

They put much letters across the university, but one day I broke one of this because I hate the hippie man and women, because the middle-class life permits this interesting and the revolutionary conscience are not prefer in the present thanks to the humans.

I don’t use the bike in Santiago because I don`t have one, but in Curicó I take one and I used this when I go to this city. I think that the modern life excludes the use of the traditional elements, and the activities of the human are deleted in progressive form. I don’t think about this fact change.

In conclusion, I think that the environment is very important, but in the practice I a filthy person, a pig.

River of beer

In the past year, I remember a day in which I enjoyed with other friends in the University, and I drank in that place all the beer of the universe. For moments, I don’t remember what happened, and many people arrived in my group, and for this fact I'm very happy because my body is in electricity state of mind and I run for other party in which I was swimming across the river of beer.

But the great moments don't follow for all the night because the horror arrives and this fact stops my funny experience. We went to one house in Ñuñoa, and I don’t remember for what reason I went to the bathroom and I hit one piece of the bath, and it’s broken. The sound of the crack is very intense, all the water of the bath goes out to the bathroom, and it be flooded. For this reason I finished my alcoholic performance and I worry for the state of the house, and my friends listened the catastrophic hit, and they went to my position and they answer to me: What’s happened? I don’t understand the reason of my attitude, but all the persons in the party roar with laughter, the sound and my terrible face permits the question for all the men and women.

Camilo, the owner of the house was very angry and the people of the party stop the music and turn the lights. I see all the people and I understanding the problem! But this fact is one of more performances of mi unfortunate life, my “amarga” life.

Regards

For Tomorrow

Today, I talk you about of one of my favourite band: Blur. The truth is I don't have a favourite band because I'm always changing the musical group that I hea, but Blur is a band that I hear since I was about 15 years and it's one of my favourite because their songs makes me happy and I remember with them all the England musician tradition since The Beatles band.

This band was born in 1989 in England, and became one of the most important Brit Pop bands.Blur is formed by Damon Albarn (vocalist and keyboardist), Graham Coxon(guitarist, who retired in 2002), Alex James (bassit) and Dave Rowntree (drummer). They have released five albums in their musical career, they are called: "Leisure", "Moddern life is Rubbish", "Parklife", "The Great Escape", "Blur", "13" and finally, "Think that".

Their lyrics speak about the things of daily life and some of them don't have a specific meaning, but I really love the sound of their songs, especially the guitar and the melody of these songs.
Some of my favourite songs of this band are: "For Tomorrow", "Country House", "Parklife", "The Universal" and "Out of time", but I can't choose one of them, because I like all the same. To conclude, I recomend this band because it represents the Brit Pop rythms and I never forget this paradigm of music because in my family they prefer all the English music, and they listen to all the bands, for example Pixies, Grandaddy, Oasis, Pulp, Travis and The Verve.

Teno

I think that in the Bicentenary activities, we had to do the things that aren't part of the daily routine. It’s for that reason that during the celebrations I took a bus to visit my parents and I visited some places of the rural zone around Curico. These places are special because in this I find the chilean common people, and the places are part of the patrimony of our country and they remain more than the traditions of the people.

One of that places is Teno. Teno is a great place for visit on the Bicentenary. Many people were in this site, and the “Ramada” is the best of the Chile! I recomended this event because the musicians bands are incredible for his lyrics about the drunk’s histories, and the rytms (for example a country music) expresing the chilean traditions. the boys and girls dancing with this songs, and the womens work in all the things that the celebration required, for example, preparing “anticuchos” and “empanadas”. Teno is a site in that the people enjoy the popular games, for example the “palo encebado”.

If you visit that place, you can go to the “rodeo”, and you need visit the square: two ways of understanding the traditions of the Maule zone. But the rural isn’t a simple world: the cities have social problems, for example the lack of access to the basic services, and the form to arriving to some sites is an adventure.

To conclude, I recomended these sites because all the places, vegetation and the people are very ordinary and sympathetic.
Regards!

Chicha y empaná

Hello,

I think I will stay at home during the national holidays, with my family in the Curicó, and I am going to do good things of a good man. I imagine who I'm going to eat empanadas with my brothers and sisters, I will find some moments to relax on the “Carlos Condell” hill in the center of the city. In that place a “ramada” is located and there are many places for drinking “chicha”, eat “anticuchos”, and dancing with other intoxicated men and women.

I think that the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of our independence is not an important fact, because the human conditions for the poor people are very similar to those of 1810. For example, the miners of the “San José” mine were and are caught by the laboral conditions because of the proletarian class conditions haven’t improved, and the busissnesmen increase their fortunes. Yet, the question of the development is important today.

In this week, I celebrated the funeral of my country in “Quintero”. I'll go with my university friends, they are very funny, and I enjoy in the parties with them because they are fun. I will be until Sunday and I prepare all my body for receive all toxic and harmful substances.

Regards!