¡Aún tenemos Patria, ciudadanos!

Hi!

As you can see, my post has become finally in a very patriotic one….because today I will like to tell you about The greatest Chilean of all time( for me obviously) …

The fatherland defender… Manuel Rodriguez!

This Guerrilla leader born in Santiago on February 27, 1785. He is considered one of founder of independent Chile. He took a lot of roles like lawyer, politician, soldier and  guerrilla leader  in the independent process.

In the “ Reconquista” period his work as a bushwhacker, spy an principal figure of the resistance made of him something like a myth and a popular legend in everyplace in Chile.In fact He was the most-wanted man during the rule of the Spanish Governor of Chile.  

One of his remembers heroic deeds were his assaults on Melipilla and San Fernando that became in a important part of San Martín's strategy to divert attention away from the "Liberating Army" that entered Chile and triumphed at the Battle of Chacabuco.

Sadly he dies betray with a bullet wound on his back nearly to Til-til while He was moving to Quilota`s jail.

At this time Manuel has become in a very popular Icon, inspiring poetry and a lot of Folk Literature and Music as “El Aparecido” a knowing song from Victor Jara inspired in Manuel Rodriguez “ El guerrillero”.

He is really cute isn`t it?

Now that I look his biography and I can tell all the great things he do for his Fatherland, I would really  like to met him, and asking a lot of questions, for example I´d would like to ask him ¿What he thinks that fatherland is? ¿Where he takes all that power to protect it? I can’t ask him… but anyway all his heroic deeds make me believe in his person and in the power and solidarity of human beings.

Presents

Well, this happens a lot of time ago, but how this was the best present I ever recived I remember as it was yesterday...

Every Christmas , since I had memory we celebrate with  my big family all together!,  , with a lot of presents, " crhistmas songs" and all that things that you usually do for christhmas , like make Pan de Pascua, cola de mono"...well thats not the point...ajajaaj
Whatever, in 1998, when I had like a 5 years old and I still believe in the " Viejito Pascuero", I ask to Viejito Pascuero a litlle jumper horse....yes a small horse made of gum and you can jump mounted on him...
Well the magic happens that Christmas and the little horse arrived... When I saw at first I couldnt believe that Viejito pascuero brought to me what I was asking for, was unbelievable, I was in shock cause it was all I wanted ,A purple Horse with yellows spots!
I dont Know Why that Childhood present was the best for me , It wasnt a big deal but I really love it!
Well I have to make a special thanks to Viejito Pascuero that made my dream possible !

Now that I look some pictures of it..I think its very ugly, but when you are 5, you feel the the things in other ways, I just remember of the fact of being super -mega happy with my horse. Thats Awesome!
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The Power of language

Hi everyone! Today I`m going to talk about Language
How I can tell from Mark Pagel talk :"How language transformed humanity", language it`s the only solution to end with the selfishness , how Pagel explain on the video language has been as the big and fantastic tool that the human could ever invented. If we think a little bit, nothing will exist if we didn't have language , everything we do as a social individuals we do trough the language. And we can live alone, we need the others ones , that`s  why we called sometimes social animals , and Mark Pagel says so...we used language because we need to cooperated between us, its the essential thing to be  part of the society , to be part of a family, to have friends.
At this Globalization times, English has been the tool to express to others our feelings, our thoughts...everything.We can be part of this one big world knowing english. Somebodys says that all is work of  Yankee Imperialism ...I do the same sometimes, but  after this video I think a little deeper and I realize that using the same language is the only way to share with others, to make friends, to make a better world that respect the differences. Sharing our knowledge , ideas, good feelings... and spread the peace around the world. :)  At the end that`s the thing that make us humans.

Mark Pagel Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImQrUjlyHUg

The best celebration of the year: National Holidays

How you can tell, I´m very patriotic (that for my blog calls The patriotic pig ), so for me september is the best month ever. The streets ,the people, the houses get very colorful , flags everywhere, the smell of "empanadas", barbecued meat, “mote con huesillo”...The cheerful kites in the sky...the people getting celebrate , happy, relax, and living their problems behind, and also the beginning of spring....all that magic combination makes September  the best month of the year!

Well in this National Holidays I come back to my hometown: Teno, a little town in the seventh region, near to Curicó. I enjoyed the all week with my family, friends in my house, doing Empanadas, barbecues, Pajaritos (this are like a sweet bread very typical of the south). We danced "Cueca", Cumbias, Mexican music (very country alike) and all that parties’ music. In fact in front of my house there was a "Fonda" so... we went there everyday and had party there, was very funny have like a our own Fonda...and party with my brother, parents , cousins and uncles.

Also with my brothers, we try to fly a kite....but we fail...we try like a hundred times to fly just one Kite and we couldn`t... Was a BIG FAIL of our proud...but anyway we had a great time laughing of our fail....

I havent came to my home since we get into college ...so I take this opportunity to see my old friends from school!, we met and we do like a party, that we called "Nguillatún Patriótico" we drank "Terremotos”, we danced cueca...and the most of time we remember the old times...all the good memories that we have from our school.

Yes, was a very good 18, I ate, danced, saw my family again...and enjoyed every moment of that mini-vacations!

                          Me ( with my Chilean Flag T-shirt ajajajas) and my brother
                                                     drinking Terremoto.

A Friend : Cata Martins

Hi everyone!

Today I would Like to talk about a crazy friend that I have:
She is Catalina Martinez also now for me as "Cata Martins" she is my friend since I was on school. We get to be friends ´cause we share a lot of stuff in comun, like music, thoughts and paradigms .
Is my friends from Curicó but as we have to get into college we have to separate, and she went to study to Valparaíso and I came to Santiago.
She went to study to college commercial Engineering,  I think she don´t really like this, because she considered her thoughts " anticapitalism" and all that things , but she entered in that career because of the influenced by her family...but anyway she is doing very well, so Im very happy for her after all.

                                                   Cata Martins as a "China" ( uyuui)


Yes as any friend, we have our dramas and fights...and she is a little "drama queen" but she makes me use all my tolerence!
I haven´t seen her since vacations, but now for National Holidays I will see her, and laugh, and be happy again, as we used to be on school.

The begining : The Last Semester

Hi!

This is the begining of this blog and its necessary to tell you how was the last semester of classes for me:
Well this is my first year in college so at the begining of the classes I was completely nervious, I couldnt sleep tight , everything and everyone was completely new and different from what it used to be. New friends, new classmates, new house, new city...NEW LIFE!
So how you can tell....it was very weird my first semester on University...I have to used to the new schedule , the new study training....and all that things that we have to do when we are studying and we leave the safe place call " School".
But nothing was so terrible: I met great friends, I get to know more about the city that it will be my home for a few years ( I hope so), I study what I really like, I get more independent, and the College schedule it wasn´t so terrible... the classes began at 10.15 a.m...so I didn´t have to wake up so early in morning....the best ever!

                              Image from "Mechoneo"



For me was an excellent first semester .... I have a really good time, I approved all my subjects...and basically I could finally be part of the university life.