2013 - 2014

Waiting for 2014

Hello friends, we are in November, and we only have a month before the year is out. So today I’m going to do a little evaluation of this year 2013.

Well, this it wasn’t a really good year, but I don’t believe that it has been horrible. According the Chinese people it was the snake year, characterized by changes… I don’t usually these things, but my year started with a very big change for me. I was scout since when I was 11, and this summer I left scouts and it was little hard for me, but I think that it was a good choice. Anyway, my last summer camp was amazing, a very good experience.

In February I went to Antofagasta to see my brothers (they live there) and it was a really good experience for me, because it was the first time that we could talk as a man about our things. Then I travelled to Europe with my parents and it was so good to because I really wanted to know Europe… it’s very beautiful and I would love to go back. Well, these were my summer vacations.

I think that it has been a quiet year… nothing really big has been happened yet – with exception of my retirement of the scouts – This year my bike has stolen, and I’ve been looking for job all this semester and I couldn’t find… well I don’t really need a job because my parents can support me, but I would like to make my own money… so I hope that I could find a job for the next year.http

I don’t know how to evaluate this year, I think it was extremely quiet….i don’t know if it is good or bad. Well I hope that 2014 will be better.

See you!

Eating food

Hello friends! How are you?

I’m ending the semester and I have so many things to do. Anyway I’ll write a post for you. Today my post will try about food and eating habit.

Beetroot

I think that eat is one of most important things of my life… obvious, if you don’t eat you will die. But we don’t eat anything. Some people doesn’t eat meat, other people are allergic to the seafood and other people doesn’t like some food, for example I don’t like beetroot, I really tried for years, but it have no case. It could be an a biologic thing? Psychological thing? In taste there’s nothing written, above all in food.

Burned rice

Well, usually I eat anything, less beetroot, but if I’m in a situation that I have to eat it certainly I will. I prefer to eat beetroot than be hungry. I was scout in we used to eat some disgusting things… burned rice, annealed noodles, etc.

I usually eat fast food, not in a restaurant like mc Donald’s or Burger king’s, but in the university I buy hot dogs, and food like these.

Pastel de choclo.

One of my favorite food is the chilean food, and my favorite dish is the corn cake (pastel de choclo) that’s one of the reason that I love the summer… I would like to eat one right now. I like the chilean food, but I love to try foreigner food when I have the opportunity.

Well… that’s all folks!

See you in other post.

Remember, remember.... my childhood days

Hello friends. Today I'm going to write about my childhood.

I was born in Santiago, in December of 1990 and I passed my first days living with my parents in my grandmother's house in Ñuñoa, then we moved to another house, and then to another... and then to another (my actual house). 

I remember my childhood as a happy chapter in my life. I don’t know what is my earliest memory, but I can remember when I went to my first school…  I think I was four. And I remember a day that it rained and a rainbow appeared in the sky, it was very nice.

When I was child I wanted to be cartoonist of cartoons, actually I remember that I went with a friend to a cartoon classes. In these times I loved to draw, and today too, but only when I get bored.

I had neighborhood friends and we used to play on the square near our houses with toy cars and things like these. And we used to play “a las escondidas” and other classics child games. I remember that I had a supernintendo in my house, and I used to invite my neighborhood friends to my home to play, but one day they bought a playstation and then they never came back to get out of their home and I didn't hear something about they anymore.

I learned to ride a bicycle when I was nine… a little old. I learned because all my friends used to go to cycle so I had to learn, and I believe that it was one of my learning, because nowadays I love to ciclyng. It was one of my best experience of my life, I felled like I was flying… was amazing. I have not felt anything like (riding my bike).

About the school, I went to two schools in my entire life. I wasn’t a very good student, but neither a bad one. I enjoyed going to school because it was an opportunity to play with my friends, but I did not like doing homework… I really hated to, well today too.

In conclusion I can say that I had a happy childhood. I’m not saying that every past was better, but my childhood was good.

Well it’s all for today.

See you.

PD: If my "neighborhood friends" see this I got a message for you “Go to hell”

Mr. Green

I´m green?

Hello friends, how are you? Today I’m going to write about a very important topic: The care of our environment. Nowadays everybody has been listened about global warming, and many organizations have been created to reduce the risk of this weather change, and many people with little daily actions try to contribute and reduce their carbon footprint. We can do some little actions to reduce our footprint, for example we can recycle, plant trees, don´t throw garbage on the floor, try to use less as possible the car, etc.

Guys biclycling in the city.

So, the question is How Green I am? Well, this is not an easy question. In first place I don’t like the term green to refer to the people who cares about the environment. For example so many companies, like coca cola, mc Donald, and others use the term green to express that they are ecologist, but certainly they are very polluting. If you want to help the environment, you are welcome, but not destroy the Amazonas please.

Every one leaves a carbon footprint, so the mission is to reduce as less possible this footprint. What do I? In my house we recycle plastics, paper and glasses and in my daily life I try to don’t throw garbage. I think that the earth is for everyone and we have to cooperate to take care of it.

I could use a car to come to University, but I prefer to use the bike, not only because it is not polluting, is more fun bicycling than driving. I’ve never been in any eco-organization, but I was scout long time, and we cared about the environment. Also we have a compost in the house to use the biodegradable garbage.

Santiago

I think that Santiago has to motivate the use of bicycle, making bikeways and educating the car drivers, because they, sometimes, doesnt know how to react where they drive near of a biker. And of course, Santiago has to improve the public system of transport, especially the subway.

Well. That was all by today.

See you and try to be friendly with the environment. 

A very special Castle

Directly from my bathroom. I hope you enjoy the video.

See you

Mental health before birth?

Hello buddies, How are you? I hope you be fine.

A pregnant lady.

Well, today I’m going to write a summary about a news that I read. What it is about? It was about an study about the influence of the depression in the pregnancy of the mother on the baby. This study suggest that the high level of the cortisol, the hormone responsible of the stress, may affect the development of the foetus, and the kid could be more susceptible to devolop a depression in the adolescence.

This studio was published in a leading medical journal. Was developed in Bristol University in England.

The experts called to present more attention to this kind of research and be more careful with depressed pregnant womens because it could be a very good indicator to predict a future depression in her son.

By other way, this research indicate that the depression in the father could doesn't affect the future mental health of his children.

A sad baby

But no all is the pregnant, the depression in the mother on the post natal increases the possibility in her son to get a depression in the adolescence, so it is very important to care about the mother after and before the pregnancy if she is depressed.

The experts said that this study it is important because gives the possibility to predicts and heal the depression even before the birth. This research, finally, proves that the mental health begins before we used to think. 

Congratulations to the investigators.

See you next week.

PD: I left you the original article 

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/09/depression-pregnancy-children-mental-health

A nice place that I would like to visit

Fuerte San Fernando in Cartagena.

Hello everybody, this is my first post and I am Johnny smokes (Johnny for the friends). Well, the first topic that I want to write it’s about travelling.

I think that travel is one of the funniest things of the life and I really enjoy travelling.  I’ve been in so many places and countries, but I’ve never been in Colombia, and I would like to travel there. Why I want to go there? Well, I remember when I was younger, I was watching television in my home and I saw a commercial inviting to travel to Colombia, it looked so beautiful. Then I started to search information about Colombia in Google and it looked great.

Colombia is a south american country, borders with Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Panamá and Perú. The capitol and the most populated city is Bogotá. This country is characterized by their culture; Botero and García Márquez are proud colombians. Colombia has beautiful beaches, like Cartagena de Indias, but also has part of the Amazonas; the Magdalena River is the most important.

García Márquez house, in Aracataca.

If I were there, I would like to visit the jungle, the beaches and García Márquez house in Aracataca, and, of course, I would like to dance cumbia with a colombian girl.

I've been heard that Colombia it’s a not very safe country (because the narcotraffic, I think) That’s why I don’t know if I would be there for so much time, but who knows? If I go there may be that I stay to live.

Well, that was my first post. See you the next week.

Greetings for colombian people.

PD: I leave you a colombian song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtOvOWWeD9A