Music!

Hi everyone! Today I want to share my musical tastes, including my top bands and songs

   I think music represents a different thing for every person. In my case, songs are not important for being bad or goods, they mean something for me because they help to evocate important moments in my life which are impossible to describe in other way (like a soundtrack)

  I remember that when I was 5 or 6 years, I listen for the first time a marvelous song called “Hotel California”. At that moment knew that I like music (and very much). I started with bands like “Los Prisioneros” and “The Beatles”, because it was the music that my parents listen at home. I knew all the song and lyrics, until one day my older brother came at home with the cassette of an unknown band for me: “Korn”. At this moment I started to diversify the bands that I listen: “Limp Bizkit”, “Blink 182”, “Red Hot Chilli Peppers”, etc…Music became something important in my life. Every day I returned from school and turn on the music really loud

   At the age of thirteen, my first boyfriend influenced me with the band that he most likes. One of those bands (and probably one of my favorites in the entire world) was Iron Maiden. It was also my first concert. It was a magical experience, and I became a fan of concerts for the energy that they have

   At the day, my musical tastes are very diversify, and includes grunge (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden), Chilean bands (Los Tres, Los Jaivas, Illapu, Sol y Lluvia), classic and actual rock (Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppellin, Deep Purple, Credence, Faith No More) and metal music (Metallica, Iron Maiden, Sonata Arctica). My weakness is guitars. I love Santana, Eric Clapton and Joe Satriani. And of course, I can obviate the cumbian music 

The Mapuche conflict

Hi everyone! I want to give my opinion about the mapuche conflict, which has recently divided the public opinion in our country. First, I want to say that I completely support the mapuche cause, because I think There´re just victims of the economical interests

   This conflict it´s really old, but in the last decades has rebirth, principally because the increase of the education, which made possible the incorporation of a developed ideology in the minds of the mapuche´s leaders. They fight for their territorial autonomy and the recognition of their collective rights. This fight is against the State, who in the last years has clearly favored the foreign companies, which used those territories for forestall and agriculturalist exploitation. The consequences of this have reverberated on mapuches, and they have been expulsed of their own lands. They don´t have the economical mediums for defended themselves, and the worst part is that the national mass media, dominated by big groups of actionists, represent this people as terrorist, which produce that a big part Chile believe it. But the fact is that the national police put tools and guns in their houses to have excuses for arresting them. They are not even rewarded for used their territories

   The solution of this conflict seemed difficult to found soon. First, it´s vital that the Chilean State makes respect the Constitutional state, guaranteeing the property law and defending the public order. Also, the State has to create projects against the poverty of the mapuche people, and make programs of education and capacitating. The education has become an important tool for this people because has returned to them the conscience of people and dignity. The marginality of our ancestors has to be eradicated forever. They have to become agents of their own development, and not depend of the State

Places to visit in Santiago

   If you want to visit Santiago, you have to spend more than one day to do it. First, if you want to eat, you have to visit the famous “Mercado Central” and ask for the famous sea food (the most recommended is the “paila marina”). At the corner of this place, you will find “La Piojera”, a typical place of Chile. There, you should drink the famous “terremoto” (made of wine and pineapple ice-cream) or drink some good wine

  But if you´re interested on visit public places, the best option would be the “cerro San Cristóbal”, where you also will find the best zoo in Chile. There are many other options, like the Parque O´Higgins or the Forestal, but I think the San Cristobal is more typical and beautiful. Another great option is take a bus to the famous “Cajón Del Maipo”, where are many activities to do, like horse-riding or canopying. This a place designs for nature lovers and for families.

   Another good choice would be visit some of the museums who offered the city. The most famous (and principal) is the museum of “Bellas Artes”, which also has good and interesting expositions. Very close to this museum you would find the “Museo de Artes Visuales”, design for people who enjoyed the modern and alternative art

   But probably the most typical place ids the house of the Government named “La Moneda”, which is placed at the heart of Santiago. There, I think, you will feel the real Santiago, not because the building, but for the people and the places around it. But the problem is that you can ´t visit it wherever you want. But at the subway you can visit the permanent exposition

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2010 (until today)

During the first term of 2010 I´ve learned so many things that it´s pretty difficult to remember all of them. Speaking as a student, the University was for me an entire new world. Until today I´m still discovering it. In just a few months I Knew a lot of people, and most of them became my friends, even if they are very different to my old friends. The university it´s an excellent place for learn how to be a most social person


But The University isn´t just met people. During these past months I´ve learned a lot of stuffs, most of it just listening my teachers. They are very wise people, and they love to share what they know. My favorite class was without a doubt Latin-American history, because our teacher it´s really involved with the class

The biggest change for me was the fact that I have to move to another city (I´m from Viña del Mar), but it wasn´t such a terrible thing as I thought it would be. The fact of living alone help me to be a more independent person, and force me doing things that I didn´t before, like cook or wash clothes. Also it helps me to learn how to administrate money