Time flies!  And the next years is coming to us.

Well, this year was a good year for me. Like all the things it has good points and some that there are not so good. This year I started to play volleyball at the university, this was a very good experience because I did exercise and I also knew new people.  

About the academic things I can’t say anything yet because we don’t have finish the year yet, so I have to still studying and doing test. So I can say that we still at the 2013, so we cannot celebrate yet.  But the end is coming, and we will have our merit vacations!

Well, returning to the topic, this year I also worked a lot, because I want to save money for my vacations. Sometime I was really tired (like now), but I know that it will worth it.

So, there are also things that I wanted to do but I didn’t do, because different reasons. One of these things is to learn to dance tango, but maybe the next year I will be able to do it. Well, there are also a lot of things that I would love to do in my life, but this year I didn’t do, like learn to play piano, or go bungee jumping.

To finalize, I want to say that this year was a good year, and I hope that the next year will be better, and in spite of the fact that I didn’t do a lot of things that  I wanted,  I hope that I will do it the next year, or the year after.    

Pd: I love fireworks 

I think that friends make life more pleasant. I don’t think that there is a list of qualities that a good friends must have, because that depend of each one. I think that we have different features, so maybe we can feel more comfortable with someone similar to us. For example, I like the cinema, and I have friends that like it too, I know that this is a very superficial thing but its just and example. Usually we have friends that like the same things than ours.

For other hand, I like to have friends which have different features than me too, because in this way I can learn different thing and have different experiences with them.  So I consider myself like a friendly person.

However, I think that my best friends are just a few, because I don’t like tell my confidence things to all people. I like to have friends who can listen and take care for me, because I take care for them too. Well, I`ve have this friend since school, and now I have a new friend at the university. We used to meeting when we can and also we used to traveling together on vacation.  One of my closest friends is Valentina, we met at school. I have to say that now we don’t meet so much, because we have a lot of things to do at the university, and the time flies. But I always remember her and we talk from time to time, when we can.

I live in Santiago since I burned

There are a lot of thing that I don’t like of Santiago. One of this is the pollution. This city is a place that has a lot of people, a lot of means of transportation and there is also a lot of litter.

I think this is a big problem because we don’t have a culture that teaches as environment friendly practices. I think that there are a lot of little things that we can do to take care of environment but we don’t know. By another hand, maybe we should be more independent and look for practice of our own accord.

In my case, I don’t have recycling systems in my home, but I really would like to do it. Some years ago, we recycled glass like bottles or pieces of glasses because near of my house was a special place to put it and in this way was more easy for as to recycling. Now we don’t have a place near of house, so we don’t do anything and just put all the litter together. I think this is important because there are a lot of things to do to encourage the recycling.

Well, the transportation is another problem, because there are more cars every day, and we should do something about that. Personally I think ride a bike is a good idea to go to some near place.

I think we need be more responsible with the environment and take care of the nature because it`s beautiful and it is the life of our planet.  

 I like travelling, I have been to the south of Chile in many occasions, and I think it is wonderful. I really love his colors, his nature, and how the people are in it, I mean more relaxed and friendly. I think there is another pace of life, more peaceful. I would like to visit north of Chile too, but I haven’t had the chance.Nevertheless, I have always wanted to visit Italy. I don’t know exactly since when I start to want it, I can say that I want it since about 8 years ago. I would like to visit Italy because my grandparents were Italian, and I really would know the customs and cultures characteristics of this country.  I know they lived in a little town called Citá ducale that in English means Duke´s town.I would like to know this place, and if I like it, I really would like live there for a time, maybe working or studying, I don’t know, all of these details depend of the moment.  In fact, I used to saving money in a piggy bank for my trip to Italy, but recently I change my mind, because this year I have the chance to travel to New Zeeland. I break my piggy bank to count the money and now I’m working for save more.

To be honest, I have to say that I miss my piggy bank.

POST 5: ANIMALS AND PETS

I’ve considered myself an animal lover all my life, since I was little I used to dream about becoming a vet and spend my life surround of animals. I usually find myself thinking that animals are many times more kind than humans.

In fact, I’ve been vegetarian for around five years now, just because I can’t stand the fact that poor animals had to be kill for me to eat them, that it’s so mean.

I love all types of animals, I particularly love cats, fishes and axolotls, this last one it’s a very exotic animal from Mexico that I’ve met at the Zoo and immediately felt in love with.

I’ve had many pets in my life, and I’ve loved every one of them. Now days, I’ve a Cat his name it’s Julio :)

Julio has been living with me for around three years now. I and my girlfriend met Julio one night at the street in downtown; it was love at first sight.

Even though Julio was really skinny, dirty, and acted like a rough street cat when we met him, he has become a nice and cute domestic cat; he just needed some love and care to get better.

About the use of animals for human’s progress, I completely disagree. I think that the use of animals it’s most of the times unnecessary and cruel, many industries use animals when they could use technology to test their products, like the cosmetic industry.

I know that many people don’t feel about animals like I do, but I just can understand why would someone think that the skin of some other living being would look pretty on them? In fact i think fur coats are the ugliest thing ever.

I’ve never been bitten by anything but a spider, but I know that dogs and other animals might be very dangerous when they are keep in not right conditions.

About that I don’t think that the right solution it’s to banned or muzzled a dog or another animal, I think it could be a much better solution to created rules that sentence the people that don’t take care of their pet properly, like the rules that exist do in New Zealand.

Finally, If I could choose what to be in my next life, i would rather to be any animal that a human be, especially I would like to be a little bird to fly all over the world and sing the most beautiful song ever. 

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/education/26805-striking-chilean-teachers-occupy-preschools

Striking Chilean teachers occupy preschools

This article is about a nationwide strike that stars about ten days ago. People who are strike are the educators who care a lot of Chilean children, between the ages of 3 month and 4 years. They work for Integra foundation, and they are looking for better condition for her and for children they care.  Integra is a non-profit foundation. Some of the points in discussion are about teacher-student ratios and organization’s pays structure. Integra plans to raise the student per teacher, and teachers think that this new policy will hurt children.

Workers of Integra care about 70.000 children, many of they come from low income families. The teachers strike says that more people are joining the movement because these things affect everyone equally. They are “standing strong” and waiting for swift answers, and they are hope for reach an agreement soon. If this happen, they will be able to come back to the preschools. They want to come quickly because they are aware for the responsibility that they have for the children of the preschools. Teachers really want to changes these things.  Unions also say that they are considering taking legal action, because the Foundation is not protecting psychological well-being of the children, and they must to considerate the physical and mental health too. 

Movies! What a nice word

I love watch movies everywhere.  Between watch movies at home or going to the cinema, I prefer go to the cinema. There is more exciting.

I can say that my favorite movie is “Fantastic Mr. Fox”. This is a stop-motion film based in a homonym book.  The director is Wes Anderson. I like his movies because he has a very special sense of colors and art. Other movies of this director are “The Royal Tenembaum” and more recently “Moonrise Kingdom”.

 Who stars in it? Well, in voices are Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Meryl Streep and others, but the star is Mr. Fox.

Movie is about the history of Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox (his wife) and their son. Mr. Fox is a very special fox, because he has a hobby, steal chickens of his neighbors. This family experiment a lot of thing that make this movie fanny and entertainment.  Mr. Fox say: “I’m a wild animal”. This feeling complicate their home life.

 I love the colors, and the drawing of this movie. I really have fan watching it.

I really recommend these movies to people who like cinema.