Fiestas Patrias

I don’t really know what make us Chileans. I think it could be the fact of being born in Chile, to speak in the particular way we speak or at least to understand when others do, to be raised surrounded by all the other Chilean people and things. 

I usually celebrate the 18^th with my family and friends. I eat meat and drink terremotos and just hang with the people I love. This year I played lota with my parent´s friends and went to the ramadas with my friends. I eat a lot with all mi family to.

I don´t have a good memory and I usually do the same things for Fiestas Patrias every year, but I know I have a great time every 18^th. I don´t tend to do traditional activities in this time. In fact I´m not really sure which ones are the traditional activities for this time. The things that are traditional to me are to spend time with my family and friends, go to the ramadas, to eat empanadas and drink terremotos.

Last week, during Fiestas Patrias, my father told me that people complained about everything, if they do Chilean rodeo people protest for animal abuse, if they don´t do Chilean rodeo people say we don´t respect our traditions. I think there is an abuse of the animals in Chilean rodeo, and an abuse shouldn’t be considered a tradition. Traditions can change if people do it too.

September 11th

I think what happened this date 40 years ago should be remembered for all of us. Especially young people like us. To remember all the pain, all the death and all the damaged caused is the only way we make sure it won’t happened again. Of course is ok to complain about human rights violated 40 years ago, especially if the ones who did it haven’t got their punishment yet. Anyone who violates human rights should be punished; it doesn’t matter if it was one or forty years ago.

I don’t think the state of Chile has deal with the people responsible for these crimes or the victims at all. The victims in particular have been left aside by the state that hasn’t given them answers or any kind of retribution at all.

I don’t really know how I feel about people building barricades on the road, burning tyres or being violent to police forces. On one side I don’t believe this is the way but in our country this seems to be the only way of pressure to get reactions from the politicians and make real changes that actually beneficed all of us. It is in fact outdated but so it is the politics and constitution in Chile

A place I´d like to visit

Hi. Today I'll talk about one of the places I´d like to visit. I kind of have a Bucket list of places I'd like to visit so is not easy for me to choose just the one. One of the first places that come to mind when I think about this is Italy. I like history a lot so to visit a country like Italy which is old and has a lot of history sounds really exciting for me. I really like old architecture from the renaissance and baroque period so to be surrounded by these old buildings excites me a lot. I also think Italian is a beautiful language and I would like to learn to speak it. If I went to Italy I would take a few classes or a curse on the language so I can talk some and practice when I get there. Although I´d like to travel all around Europe, if I have the opportunity to travel to Italy I would like to visit as many different cities and towns as possible. Later, I would like to go back and visit all the others European countries once at time so I really get to know them. If I only had enough money…