MESTIZOS!!!

A few month ago, de 30th of September, I went to Jauría concert and my life changed. 

Jauría is a punk rock  band from Argentina, make up for knowing musician of a different bands. Ciro Pertusi is the vocalist, before Jauría he was a vocalist of Attaque 77, and I’m a huge fan of these band for  almost 12 years now. The drummer is Ray Fajardo (ex drummer of “El otro yo”. Guitar and Bass are played for the Ambesi brothers, Mauro and Seba. These day was a chaos, because was the Black Sabbat concert to. I leaved to the concert and was a huge traffic jam, I was there almost 45 minutes, and I get sick in the car, y felt claustrophobic and mad, because I didn’t know if I was arrive on time to the concert. 

Finally, I arrived to the place of the concert, the Onaciu club, 10 or 15 minutes later, I lost a few song, but the concert was awesome!  I went with my friend Nicole, we are very emotional for the songs, because this are about profound subjects, like social injustice, life change and intense feelings that only this kind of music can express to me.  

When the concert finish, we met the guitar player Mauro, he was very kind with us and sig our records. But we was looking for Ciro, we both loved him, and was the first time that we had he so close. We waited for almost an hour, but we discovered a very exclusive V.I.P place, when the band was celebrating the concert. We almost begged to the security guard and he call to Ciro. We met him and took a picture together(the picture was very funny).  Was one of the best days of my life, we both was speak less and petrified, but absolutely happy.

Kokedamas

This year wasn't’t very interesting or exciting to me. In fact has been very boring.  The last year I use to be many plains to 2013, but these didn't work.

So now a days, I continue think what I can do to make December more interesting.

With Natalia a friend of mine, we want to be a business to Christmas (even me don’t like very much the commercial holidays).

Before I wrote about my hobbies, how I enjoy do handicrafts, I searched something interesting to decorated my backyard  and I remember a gift that I gave to my friend Pamela for her birthday: a kokedama. I spoke to Natalia about it, and we decided to do it.

A kokedama is like a Bonsai, because is a Japanese technique to breed a plant and trees. But the kokedama don’t restrain the growth of the plant. So you don’t maltreat the plant (like bonsai)  :(

The kokedama in Japanese means “moss ball” and consist in a technique to enclosing a plant's root mass in moss. You can have a beautiful plant without a plant pot. 

Take care it, you only need wet the moss ball ones a week… and that’s all!  

I love plant and flowers, and I believe like these need love, care and also speaking to grow beautiful and healthy,  but some people don’t have enough time or knowledge of plant, so this is an easy way to have one.

Here are some pictures of the different type and size, I hope you enjoy it!

Ghost writer

When I was very young (Maybe 7 years old), my grandmother contract Cable TV in her house. For me was the most cool. With my mother and sister visited her every weekend, and with my sister watch almost all evening Discovery Kids. The network was so much fun! My favorite program was the “Ghost Writer”. This program was about a gang of 6 friend and their adventures.
Gaby and her brother Alex worked in their parents store, for this they knew almost every neighbor.

Jamal, was a boy that lived in the apartment next to the store. One they cleaning the basement of his house, he found a very old journal of his grandpa and inside was a estrange “thing” that look like a quotation marks. This thing could take the letters of any place: a book, a paper or street sign and communicated with Jamal, but was invisible for the rest of the people.

Someday Jamal went to the store to bough milk and the Ghost Writer followed him, and Gaby and Alex could saw it too! … Jamal was very surprise and told they the whole story, and they was very good friend since then.
Later other kinds of the hood: Tina, Lenny, Rob and Hector, could see the Ghost too and they made up a crew.  With the help of the Ghost they resolved mysteries and crimes (they though that the Ghost was a detective when he was alive).
The show was very misterius and exciting and I suffer all week waiting for the Saturday for can watched.

I've tried to found this serial, but I’ve couldn’t :c

The best  <3

La gran Gabriela

When I was in the school, every year we had to remembered celebrated differents personages. In general, we commemorated some military hero, politician etc. But every year we celebrated too the birthday of the greatest poetess of the national history “Gabriela Mistral”. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature, on 1945. Every year we was recited “Piececitos de niño” a very sad poem about poor kids, and other poems “for childrens”. But when I grew up, I met more of her story and her writings, and I realized about how great she was.

Gabriela Mistral born in 1889 in a little village of the north of Chile. Her real name was Lucila de Maria del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga (when I was a child, this sound like a tongue-twister to me). She was teacher, poetess and diplomat.

Her work speak about love and desolation, a beautiful and sad piece of art. A critical review about her times and what she had to lived.  

She was a feminist and in a sexist country like Chile, she won many honors that only a few women can have.

For she, the most important relation that woman had, was to the children, no in the maternal way that patriarchy imposes to us, if not, in a way deeply and intimate for the communication with himself and the affections.

 She is a example for every woman. If I could have known her, I asked her how I can be so strong and brave like she was, in a this world so unfairness and suffering  without losing the mood to bring about change.

 “ Las mujeres formamos un hemisferio humano. Toda ley, todo movimiento de

libertad o de cultura nos ha dejado por largo tiempo en la sombra. Siempre hemos llegado al

festín del progreso, no como el invitado reacio que tarda en acudir, sino como el camarada

vergonzante al que se invita con atraso y al que luego se disimula en el banquete por necio

rubor. Más sabia en su inconsciencia, la naturaleza pone una luz sobre los dos flancos del

planeta. Y es ley infecunda toda ley encaminada a transformar pueblos y que no toma en

cuenta a las mujeres” 

Rita

When I was a little girl I had three cats. They were a beautiful black twins and theirs name were: “Entra”, “Sale” y “Come”. They were very smart and also mischievous so my grandma don’t really like them. In my family we already had a dog, his name was “Cachilupi”, he had a wedding gift to my parents and he deeply hated my cats. For a space problems we kept Cachilupi and give the twins to a neighbor. Until this day I never want to have another cat anymore. 

Nowadays, I’m a dog lover <3. My dog’s name is Rita, she is a beautiful mongrel. 

Th Rita’s history is very special. The August 15th of 2010, we went to stroll with my mom and my sister. We went to a metro station “Vicuña Mackenna” and in the streat was a group of people give in adoption different pets. I went to saw a beautiful dog (she looks like a Labrador) and between she was the ugliest dog I ever see. 

Here she already looks like a dog

The dog size was like my hand. She was undernourished and dehydrated. I asked what happen to her, and the people told my that she was the only girl in a litter of 15 dogs, so her brothers don’t let she be breastfed, and she almost died.  I carried she and saw that had ringworm under his eye and also had flea. So I beg to my mom and my sister for let me adopted she, and finally  the little E.T (she really was ugly) went home with us.



Rita is the craziest dog in the whole world. I think that she think is a human, jajaja because she love walk in two feet like us, and now she’s a preciousness

The sexiest dog in the world

BFF

Hi every one, I'm supposed to talk about my best friend but I have 2 of them: Nicole y Natalia.
Nicole is my partner in all my adventures, we have many histories. We are together almost every day for the last 4 years, and without she my life would be boring and lonely.


But today I going to talk about Naty, because her birthday was the last week.

Our friendship started when we were very young, in the school.

When I went to a new school, I was very afraid because this school was huge and expensive ( I had a scholarship) and I thought  "I will never fit in here".   The first day I arrived to school  I was very confused because I didn’t knew anybody, but when I entered to classroom two girls came to me. They were very friendly and invited me to sit with they. On of this girls were Natalia.

We are the best friends until these days. We are friends for fourteen years now. 

Naty was very shy when we were child, but always was friendly because of that to everybody likes Natalia. She always painted beautiful pictures and nowadays she studies to being Art teacher.

But life isn’t fair with Naty, she had to pass through many painful stuff. Her father die when we were little girls and she and her mom and brother and sisters were always depressed because that.  Also a couple years ago she had a huge accident. With our other friends we work very hard to collect money for her surgery and she managed to recover.

Her life wasn’t easy but in all this harsh moments did strengthened  our friendship.  In a period she moved with me and my family and we were very happy.  She is like a sister to me, I loves her deeply and I can't imagine my life without she.

Greeen

When was a Little child my grandma teach me that we didn’t waste anything.  We always take advantage of all our resources. We do not throw away food and we were doing compost  with the remains.  We also did “cocinas brujas”. These  was a box painted black with paper inside, we put a saucepan  with food  (beans mostly) in a sun place  and the heat  was cooked the  food.

This was my first approach to environmentally friendly practices, although we did this things because we were very poor, and need spend the less possible.

Nowadays I try to be responsible with my acts to do the less damage to the planet. This were more easy the last year because I lived in Ñuñoa and is easier recycling. Today  I being live in La Florida, and the municipality don’t have the recycling policy, like in Ñuñoa.

I make “ecoladrillos” to reduce garbage. I give it to my grandpa and him build many thing in her piece of land. I always put the oil in a bottle and I throw it to the garbage instead of pipe for don’t contaminate the water. I ride a bike for short trips. I hope to do longest trips in the future (I need training!)

I don’t  know to much about the carbon footprint and I have joined either to any enviromental organization.

I think that Santiago is not a friendly city in general, recycling isn't easy and ride a bike neither. We need a enviromental policy in the whole country, implement this ideas in the educational program for change the mentality of people and really enjoy  of our country.

Fiestas Patrias

The last week we celebrated the “Fiestas Patrias” in Chile. I think that we are the only country that no celebrate its independence day,  because we commemorate the September 18th of 1810,    when was make First Committee Governing Body.

Although I love celebrate the “dieciocho” with my family and friends, this is a party full of contradictions that makes me question very aspect of our culture, and don’t afford me enjoy some elements of this party, my family call me “ the Grinch” of the 18th.

Something like this

The Chilean culture is a mixed of elements, of the local cultures and the Spanish conquistadors.  For this festivity, in all schools children wear customs  of the different native people like Mapuche or Rapanui, and  dances dance of  distinct areas of the country: north zone with "trote tarapaqueño", the center zone with “cueca” , the south with “vals chilote” and “sau sau” from Easter island.

If you takes this element and added one “empanada” (local food which are a sort of bread pastry) one glass with chicha (a fresh sweet wine) you have a typical Chilean picture. But in a country like exterminate the most of native people and even now discriminate against this decedents, this party’s custom represent the big Chilean hypocrisy.For all this, the best of the 18th is take advantage of holidays with family and friend, and (of course) enjoy the delicious food and drinks :)