A country that I'd LOVE to visit.

There are a lot of countries that I would love to visit: Norway, South Korea, Japan, USA, Iceland, but if I have to choose only one that would be England without a doubt. Since I was a Child, England has being one of my favourite’s countries in the world, if not the ‘Favourite’.

There is just ‘something’ about England and Great Britain in general. I like the accent, the places, the shows on tv, some of the food, but specially… the music.

Leeds.

The thing is… I have always wanted to go to a Music Festival, a big one… Soooo, why not Lollapalooza in Chicago? Why not the ones here in Chile? Why not Rock in Rio? The answer to that question is quite simple: I just want to have the whole experience, you know? Bands that you go to see only ‘because’ and most of the people there don’t even know, camping, friends and a place nowhere where I can actually disappear for a couple of days, be free, feel like I’m still in that magical age where you can just forget the world for a little time, even if is not real.

Glastonbury.

My dream job.

I like my career, I really do, but the true is that it was not always my dream job, especially when I was little. Before I got into this university I was in one in Temuco called ‘La Frontera’ and studding something in the medical area, that something doesn’t really have a simile in most of the countries but it has a lot to do with medical exams and blood, you could call it ‘medical technology’, quite a literal way to translate it from Spanish to English, so, the thing is that when I was little I used to dream about going to other countries and help people in need of medical assistance, help them in their illness, cure their diseases, that used to make me really happy, I was a kid, war, hunger, guns and lots of things that I know now where not the same for me at that moment in time, but the true is that when you get into the university that changes a lot. I’m not longer in that university, but I still want to help.

Now, with a lot of ‘new’ things in my life, new career, new city, new university, etc, my dream job is most likely to be a different one, a ‘new one’. In the future, I want to work in diplomacy, I would love for it to be in the field of international affairs and politics, because I like them more than the national ones, I dream about traveling around the world learning different things, helping people to improve their lives and solve their problems, that is the future that I want, that is kind of my ‘Dream Job’ right now. 

In the end, is still a big dream about helping people around the world… 

The blogging experience

            I quite liked the experience with the blogging. I like this assignments a lot, and I wish that could keep doing them. (I probably will try it) because is good exercise for this class and my English in general.

            I actually have another blog already, but it’s a blog that has mostly the stories that I write, is not a personal one. This blog could become a personal one if I try hard enough (I’m not that good at keeping a journal, I never was).

This blog helped me a lot, it kept me in ‘English mode’ at least once a week, and that is actually pretty awesome. The good things about it are that you can expand on your own thoughts about several subjects in a language that is not your own, but I would love to have more days with free themes, because I didn't like to write about some of the things that I wrote, for example the web site (Something related to the career) and I would pretty much love to write about music etc. (I have to do things for my career in every other subject, so I would like to escape that in English).

Chile: A country that I actually love.

Chile is the country that I was born into, while I grew up I didn’t liked it that much, I always dreamed about going away, travel the world, I still do, but I came to like it a lot. I can say with conviction that I love Chile.  

Santiago.

I love the weather of Chile, especially the one in the south (This one not that much), traveling around the country is beautiful like the travel that I got to tell you guys about in my last entry.

Torres del Paine.

I don’t like the inequality in the Country; I wish we could have a better way to share the money, the educations, and the health. That would improve the quality of life here a lot. That is what I would like to change, doing better public reforms, having politicians that actually care about the situation and don’t want to just stay the same. Beginning with the education, because the education is what builds a country.

Rapa Nui, Easter Island.

I have been to Argentina and Brazil. I specially loved Argentina, the true is that the country is pretty much the same as here, but don’t tell them that, because they will not like it. I love their south is stunning. I didn’t enjoy Brazil that much because of the weather, tropical weather is not my thing, Rio de Janeiro was beautiful, but the Favelas were heart breaking.

Not the same.

I’m not sure if the international community knows what a Chile is, if they are not talking about food or Mexico. Maybe they know about Pinochet, Allende, the miners… probably the earthquakes. So, pretty much the same that they think about the whole continent? For them we are the same, but we are really different.

Pretty place is pretty.

I would live in the south in between the IX and X regions, I love the weather there, the rain, the beautiful landscape and that is the place where all my family is. Still… I wish Santiago was down there, because living in ‘the big city’ of Chile has a lot of advantages. 

Travel experiences in Chile.

Travel experiences in Chile.

I know Chile from Viña del Mar to ‘la Laguna San Rafael’ (San Rafael’s pond). In between those I have been to the ‘chiflón del diablo’, a really big copper mine near Lota, Coyhaique, Tomé, Concepción, Puerto Montt, Valparaíso and Ancud, also when I was little I spent almost all my summer time in Valdivia or Caburgüa (A nice lake). 

This one is from Ancud.

But my favourite travel around Chile was the ‘Cruce Andino’. Is not only Chile on it, but Argentina as well. You begin the experience on the X region and the travel takes place between Puerto Varas and Bariloche. You basically go from one country to the other, so… What is so awesome about that? Well, you don’t really do it on a bus as always but in between the lakes, on a boat.

On a boat~~

I went there with my brother and my mother three years ago. It took us the whole day to get to Bariloche and in the end we were exhausted, but it was worth it. Beautiful, that is the only word that I can say to describe that experience, everything was beautiful in both countries.  

Career related... Kind of.

The webpage that I would like to talk about is Scielo, and this is the link: http://www.scielo.cl/

Scielo is a webpage that basically is a Scientific Electronic Library Online (That is what it actually says in the web). I used to go there a lot more in my other career, because we had the ABP system there (Apredisaje basado en problema), and we used to read and need papers for every class. I don’t use it that often now, but still helps me when I'm in need of a paper. 

I like that I can look there and have a reliable source of information without going to the big libraries online (Like Medline in the health area, a database that I used a lot), but I like it especially because it has papers in Spanish (More than the rest of the databases) and you can put the page in Spanish as well.

You can search by author, subject or key words. In general is a good place to start an investigation and a good place to go back when your are lost in all the information available in english.

A picture of my life.

This picture is special for me because that place right there is my home, or at least it was my home when I was little (until I was 4 years old, that was the time when I had to go live in Temuco for school). I used to live in the countryside of Chile, with my parents and my great-aunt. It was an interesting time for me, my parents were still together, I learned everything from them, and even if I didn’t had that many friends (Because there wasn’t any child near my home), my cousins used to go see me at my birthday and other important dates.

When I was little, the house used to look bigger...

This picture was taken by me, but a year ago. The house collapsed with the earthquake in 2010 and now no one can live there. I miss it, and I wish my brother was alive at that time, so he could have the experience of living there with me, but he was born when we already where living in Temuco.

My great-aunt passed away four years ago, I miss her as well too.

This is were the house is located.