Fiestas Patrias doesn´t matter for me,  I don´t like this kind of holidays and specially here in Chile. It´s cool having a week for rest but I think chileans are " little" (for not say quite) patriotic and this really disturbs me because I think The Patria doesn´t have a value, we are all equals (we think of the same way, we have same problems, we lived and live the same history, etc. and celebrating "the difference" or we are the best in the world it´s so stupid, and this is the ambient of this holiday)  and also because the independence of a country in Latinoamerica, it´s a joke. 

Sometimes I think that a good idea would be exist the grinch and he steals the fiestas patrias like christmas or maybe I ´m becoming an ogre. I´m living in Chile for six year and I don´t used to "celebrate" the fiestas. 

So I never went to a fonda or ramada because I don´t like red meat and barbecue(just eating), there are vegan fondas but I don´t interest visiting. All the activities around this holiday they are boring and places I would like to go they are closed.

And what I did in  this fiestas????

Nothing special, share with friends(maybe the only chilean thing that I did ,   drinking terremoto) and playing poker. Also it was my boyfriend´s birthday, so I spend my time resting and enjoying with him and my close people :)

Sorry for not answering questions, I can´t . This kind of holiday is not in my DNA , I prefer the christmas  :D 

Hi,

today I´ll talk about about one of my  friends, He´s  Osmar and I met him since when I was a child, we lived in the same block with five house of difference and we went to the little school (kinder) too, until than I moved to Ecuador with my family. Then,  six years later we came back to my country and the neighborhood,  we(my siblings, Osmar and I)didn´t remember about our friendship because we´re very young ( I was 5 or my sister  2 years old) but my mom said Osmar and his sister always came to my house and we played all day. But this thing didn´t care because we started this frienship quickly.

Osmar is a nice man , he likes talking with people, everybody can be his friend, he`s always worried about you and if you need help he´ll is there. Maybe for that he decided studying laws, since we were teens (13-14), he´s been worked in an ong like Amnesty International(and others) and of course he invited me to participate there; now He´s one of the most important  man of the AI(been very young), with that Osmar had visited many countries for example Costa Rica, Belgium, Turkey, England, etc. And for those reasons he´s always busy working in many ongs. (hahaha)

Osmar and I we have many things of common, first we like helping people, the same sense of humor (ironic) and we share some ideas about the life and others things but about music our likes are very far.

Twice in the year, we see each other, he´s the first one in appearing in my house when my bro and I come back to Asunción(sometimes the day of we come), he brings ice cream and so starting the conversation and of course the games, we can play all night until at sunrise.

1st of january I was by a airplane coming back to Santiago because   the next day I had an exam, for me that was no funny, still in january in class, never I thought I´d be my birthday (21st jan) in class and without my family close to me … but it was the consequence of the strike where it was won nothing real for the education. The second semester of 2011-2012 was nasty for me because actually I didnt have  vacation. But month to month, the things  came back to be how it was.

This year in the university I learned a lot of things because 4th year is all about tv, for a while I thought I´d not learned  new something, the last couple of year was a repetition of the same, in my opinion.

Also this year I became a little lazy with sports, I played soccer or I ran  all the time, now the weather is better so I´ll try  again. 2012 brought many changes in my life like in other persons, 2012 have been a weird year for everybody who I know,   maybe because the end of the world or apocalypsis is coming and I ´ll be waiting on 21st of december, sitting in first row and expectant. :D