Traditions in our Independence day celebration

Hi bloggers: 

Today I’m going to tell you about how I celebrated Independence Day.

Every year I visited my maternal grandmother who lives in Bollenar with her two sisters, we made “Empanadas” and then we wait for our guests from Rancagua, the other part of my family, and celebration starts. We eat all together in a big table and you have all types of salad and meat (I don´t really like it so they cook rise for me and my siblings) and then we dessert a “Macedonia”. Also, there’s a lot of soda, juices and “Terremotos” for adults.

After that, we play many games, like “Rayuela”, Musical Chair, Whipping top or sack races. Always is someone who falls and we all laugh, we record almost every moment because we love make memories of everything. Every reunion left many pictures and in the afternoon, we meet to see them with a projector.  

When the day in about to end, my uncles put traditional music like “Cueca” or “Cumbia” and we dance all night long.  This year, we were almost 45 people (we have to put 3 big tables) and we spent a great time together. I love this kind of family reunions because I think that we don’t know when someone is going to die or get sick so we must enjoy together as much as we can.

That’s all,

I hope you celebration was great too…

MY FAVOURITE FOOD

Hi bloggers:

Today I'm going to talk about my favorite food. In general I don’t eat too much junk food, one of the reasons is because I don’t eat meat, eggs, cheese, milk or butter but also I prefer homemade food even better when my mom or my grandma cooks form me. So, I have a strict vegetarian diet which is considerate eat very healthy.

About salty or sweet food I prefer eat a salty and tasty lunch and then a sweet dessert like a cake or fruits because I can choose one of them.  Is very difficult to me make a decision about what is my favorite dish because I have two options. One of them is lentils, I love eat this when is cold or raining served with a piece of bread and salad of tomato. The other option is pasta with Bolognese sauce but I change it a little bit because I replace  meat with soy meat or mushrooms. I love cook this for my family on Sundays and they enjoyed it so much. Sincerely, I learned to cook when I was very young because I have 3 little siblings and luckily they don’t like meat. So, they enjoy very much what I cook.

That's all, read you next week...

My favorite girl

Hi bloggers:

This time I'm going to talk about my pet.

Our story started in September, 2010. I was in my house with a friend when we heard a sad meow but it sounded very far so we started to look for the cat. After a couple of minutes, we found a 1 month old cat in poor conditions. She was weakened, malnourished and smaller than my hand so we took her and ran to buy her some milk. Then we came back to my house but we were so nervous because my mom doesn’t let me have pets, so when she came home I hid the cat in my closet but it didn't help because she scared and started to meow. Finally, my mom founded her and I told her the complete story. I think it touched her heart because she let me keep her.

That day, with my friend named her Bu, because she is so adorable like the Monsters Inc’s character. Since that day I love her and I took care of her buying her food, playing together, taking care when she gets sick and sleeping together. She is my inseparable company and I know she is grateful.

Blogging experience

Hi bloggers:

This is one of my last posts, this time I'll tell you about my blogging experience.
So, since  we start I was so ashamed to write in English because I use to think that mistakes are embarrassing, but writing my posts I realize that even when we are wrong we are learning and this is such a good tool. I had so much fun with each topic, I learn many new words and now I feel more comfortable about new languages. Actually I like to learn Portuguese now.

I think that speak English it’s an important issue in our field, even more if you like to work abroad. Because of that I started to teach myself English since my lasts years at school and I was lucky to had a great teacher, so this year I was so nervous about English class and the result was that I forgot to set the alarm so I fell asleep and arrived at university late.

Finally, we never talk about why we are interested in learning English, I mean, why is important for us, what we expect and when we realize that it’s an important thing. I like to do it.

That’s all,

Read you next time!

My favorite subject

Hi bloggers!

Today I’ll tell you about my semester.

To start I should say that last year was very tiring for me because I must travel about 5 hours daily between university and home. So, this year I need to reduce my course load and because of that I enjoyed all my subjects (they are 4). But my favorite one was “Products and services of forests” because in this subject I learn what kind of things can give us forests but also, how forest influence people’s life. The teacher makes me realize that we use forests daily in many ways even when we live in cities, they can give us food, clean up our air, timber, recreation areas and sense of belonging.  

In this subject, we have theoretical classes most part of the time but practical activities too in the university facilities. Its contents are divided in two parts, the first one is about forest’s products and was the easiest. The second one is about forest’s services by Dr. Claudia Cerda, who teach us to see the global image in environmental issues and I like that.

That's all

I hope that next semester will be easy to us...

An expert of Forestry

Hi bloggers: Today I'll tell you about a person that I admire.

Bernardo Zentilli studied Forestry from 1954 to 1959 at "Universidad de Chile" when only timber production was important. A few years later he started to work in national parks in the south of Chile but he had to leave our country. 

Since 1975 he started to work in protected wildlife areas in places like Switzerland, Rome, Kenia, Belize and Paraguay; also, he contributed in projects of CONAF, FAO, ONU, UICN and PNUMA being an expert of his area. Then 27 years later he came back to Chile and became in president of CODEFF. For 5 years, he represented Chile around the world in many conferences about environment.

Last year, we meet in Santiago and he told me about his life. It was a motivating meeting because he loves his job and always try to do the best. Also, he told me about biodiversity and how he has been trying to protect it his all life. I think he was a visionary for his time.

That’s all,

I hope you like it… 

MY IDEAL VACATIONS

Hi bloggers!

Some posts ago I wrote about my last vacations but today my topic will be what is an ideal vacation to me.

At present, if vacations were just a few months before I would like to celebrate my birthday in a beach, could be in Chile or not but it's like a dream because I don't used to make big parties. I prefer small celebrations with my family and close friends.

Also, in my life, I hadn’t much vacations so every new place is an adventure to me. But my favorite places are beach surrounded of forests like “Canelillo” beach. Because of this, I think my ideal vacation could be camping about a week in a forest near to a beach so in afternoons I could walk through the seashore without shoes and feel the sand and water. An important part of my travels are my family, my boyfriend and my cat because when I travel alone I miss them all the time or I feel sad. I think everything is better if you are sharing it with a person that you love.

That’s all,

I hope you like it J