" a la chilena"

What kinds of things make our identity?

For Brazil is the rhythm, for Argentina is the personality, for Mexico the joy way of living life ( dancing, mariachi, meals, etc.) but what about us?

For Chile are many factors, we are creative, friendly, charismatic, clever etc. But I think the Chilean people are knowing in other parts of the world for our peculiar way of solve the problems (“a la Chilena”) in other words the Chileans are imaginative or maybe because we have a special aura. I am not sure, but I know people of other countries by internet and they ask me “Can I ask you something? Are you Chilean, aren’t you?” and I answer them “yes, I am Chilean but… How do you know it?” They always answer me: “…I was sure about it”.

By now we becoming in a “winner society”, because we want to be the first in arriving, the first of the course, the first in job, the first to get the bus, the first to get the big piece of meat at the barbecue etc. that means we are changing our mentality.

Don’t forget in our days we are knowing for ours sporting people like the tennis player Fernando Gonzalez and the number one Marcelo Rios, the football players David Pizarro and Alexis Sanchez, the swimmer Kristel Kobrich. And I have to mention the most important t.v man in the world Don Francisco

At last, is curious but in the news or surfing in the net you have always find one or two or more news about Chileans in other countries doing something crazy. That is true, if you don’t believe me, look it for yourselves watching the video below:

Santiago York

Santiago is a very big city (not compare with the New York city but is nice) with a lot of places to visit. The tourist can go to many places depending on their tastes. If they like the cultural tours, the first place go to visiting is the Cathedral next to the “plaza de armas”, after the Government Palace “La Moneda” and its cultural centre that offers the public many exhibitions of varied content. The next place to visit is the “Bellas Artes” museum with a large collection of paintings and sculptures or the MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art). Well, one of is my favourite tours is the “San Cristobal” hill. In this place the tourist can find many places of interest like a Zoo with many types of animals or a Japanese Garden. Also are cable cars with which you can climb the hill or if you prefer to keep your feet on the ground can also be walking. In the Hill’s summit is a statue of the “Virgen Del Carmen” patron of Chile.

Santiago may seem a Gray city, but the tourists can find a lot of activities and places to see and visiting. However we must consider certain things:

1. Plan your travel whit time to avoid the problems

2. Always keep a map handy, you never know when you lose (I say this from my experience )

3. Always be careful with things like your camera or your money.

4. always fun all you can ^.^

The avant-garde: surrealism

My favourite Avant-Garde is the surrealism, the last of the avant-garde.
The surrealism is an avant-garde movement began in the early 1920s. The surrealist ideas and his theories published in the “Surrealist Manifesto” in 1924. Surrealism searching to revived the “repressed” for occupy the same place in the world that the “real” for showing the “Total Reality”. For the surrealist movement the model should be an interior model like a dream.



Well, my favourite surrealist artist is René Magritte. He doesn’t work with the unconscious. He thinks he can be found the disturbing in the reality. Magritte use of ordinary objects in unfamiliar spaces is joined to his desire to create poetic imagery.
In 1960s the Magritte’s works is frequently used in publicity like books or music albums covers. As an example of this, the album “Beck-Ola” by the Jeff Beck group (reproducing Magritte's “The Listening Room”), Jackson Browne's 1974 album, “Late for the Sky”, with artwork inspired by Magritte's “L'Empire des Lumières”, and the Firesign Theatre's album “Just Folks” . . . A Firesign Chat based on “The Mysteries of the Horizon”.

I like so much the Magritte’s paintings, I love his “this is not a pipe” this picture seems to be a contradiction, but is a true: the painting is not a pipe; it is an image of a pipe. Magritte points out the reality can not be found by the realism-art itself, because the image of thing will be always an image of it, but not the thing itself.

Transantiago....

Well, the public transport has improved considerably, since the era of yellow buses, at that time I never used to much, but used the metro. Now I occupy the Tran-Santiago every day to go to university.

The good of tran-santiago: Well, I'm not sure that I have no benchmark against which to compare with, but I like it because transhipments from bus to subway are free, so you spends less. I like that the students have less different price for shipment that is good because has not changed. Besides the new buses are more beautiful, I love that each sector of the city has its own colour I live in Zone G and his colours is blue. Another good point is the fact that it exist special corridors for the public transportation.

The bad points: the are many, but the most important is that the buses are filling up at the times of high demand, and because there are not sufficient quantity of buses, travel times become longer (I hate to wait the bus >.< ) but I think the system to pay with the Bip card is safer than the yellow buses because you don’t need coins to pay.

I think the spite of details this system can improve travel times and the frequency of buses or subway.

Level 4

ANIMAL`S RIGHTS

Animals are part of our lives, they give us your love and company, give us moments of joy. it is only fair that we also want the best for them but there are many cases where animals are victims of abuse and neglect and their abusers to escape punishment.
The reality is that: in Chile doesn’t exist laws in protection of the animal’s rights. Slightly over half of the population in Chile have a pet and theme is considering a part of the family. But some people don’t care theirs pets or abandoned them to their fate. when you have a pet you have a responsability with them, the animal abuse begins with the irresponsible owners. animals end up wandering the streets and suffer the consequences of the neglect of human. therefore it is important to take care of our pets because they also have life and feelings.

For some time ago I saw in the news in the tv the noticed of a protector of animals that kept the poor animals in appalling conditions, had no food or water and they were full of parasites. many people to protest at this abuse, and punishment for those responsible but for different charges to animal abuse. so I think that there should be formal laws for animal protection in addition to existing institutions and that people should be aware if you have a pet and not going to care as it is better not to have a pet.

What would like to be doing in 5 years from now?

Well, I not sure because I not thinking in my future so much but one of my dreams is to travel through Europe to visit museums and monuments. In my future work I would like to work in something related to my career like teaching in the university or write articles for arts magazines. In the next 5 years I do not think that I am married but I would like to have a family as cute as mine. I would like to live in a house in the city because I don’t like the apartments and I would like to have a large garden with many flowers and trees so that my dog can run and play. Another of my dreams for the future is not losing the contact with my dear friends because I think they are part of my family because they are like brothers to me. The truth is that I have many dreams for the future and I want to become true some of them maybe not in 5 years but if one day they become in truth.

My dears Friends

I know is too late to post this but I do anyway for my friends ^.^

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I have seven best friends and the people know us as Mosketeras.I know this is a big group but each of them is very important for me. Well, my friend´s names are Javiera, Andrea, Catalina, Evelyn, Traudy, Nicole and Constanza but I writhe about one of them: Javiera. Because she writhe about me in her blog and this is a way to say thank to her.

I know Javiera (and my other friends to) in my first year in the high school. At that time she looked a very serious and mature person but only in the outside, in the inside she is a very cheerful and sensitive person, and she is crazy but I love her for that reason.

Javiera, more knowing like “llela” is studying public administration in Universidad de Chile, is very sociable and all of her friends is love her.

she love her dogs and give them names of literary characters like Otello and Amaranta. Otello is a shitzu and is very hiperactivy and sociable dog, Amaranta is a Show-show dog, is so big and look like a lion and does not like strangers.

I am drawing a comic where my friends are the main characters, i have working in this comic for five years and still not finished. the story of the comic is about of a group of girls who have a music band named "True light" and its many adventures in their school life.

I dedicate these few words to my dear friends, especially lleli because you will read it and I'd like to tell you I love you so much and I hope to remain your friend for a long time.