Never I received something special, I think  (or maybe I don´t remember in this moment)...

but  when I was child the christmas and the time when I and my siblings received our presents were special (but it´s not for the gift). Never my parents put the presents around christmas´ tree,and we didn´t have one. Sometimes we(I and my siblings) thought that our parents didn´t love or they really forgot the chirstmas but, of course that´s not true, we were just  children and  they were different to plan "that",  when we talk about this holiday. 

The presents always appeared five minutes before midnight or sometimes very later... so never we saw gifts around the house, often we looked for  it and we didn´t find something and we are sad or nervous. Once time I don´t know how they hidden our bicycles(the house didn´t have a big and closed space to do it)  or another time our  lovely nintendo 64.

Now, I´m older and maybe my parents did it because they wanted teaching to us that present are not the most important in this holiday, this is  just "a custom global" and these(presents) don´t have a big value. The essential about the christmas is enjoying with your family and close people.

And where are my christmas presents?

maybe the bicycle doesn´t exist... and my nintendo is alive yet :)

Before of studying film I was in architecture, why? because my score of psu was low and so I decided to be an architect... I was a year in Utem and the career I didn´t like so much because I think I didn´t have the skills for that, I have a respect for the architecture ( I  like design and decoration of spaces and places) and the knowledge that I learned I put it in practice yet, for example I would like to be art director ( the person who is charge of atmosphere in a film, design of spaces, colors, composition, etc).

My first day in architecture started good, we had a reception in the auditorium(with a lot of food, yummy!) and then workshop´s class( maybe the only subject that I liked because it was the most important and I learned a lot)but when it finished, it began the worst,"the terrible mechoneo".

The utem´s mechoneo is in another level compared to "la Chile"(it was a game of children), never I forget because our classmates of second year did what they wanted with us, shave head, cut hairs, cut socks, clothes, paint with stencil our t-shirt, shorts, they played with us and the worst of everything... we had 3!!!, 3 mechoneos!(3 times to get money) It was monday, wednesday and friday while the week passing, it was worse. The last mechoneo they cut our clothes one more time (  My friends and I could run away of the second mechoneo, in this moment we felt we´re the best we could escape of these men!!!  (h)hahahah )Friday was the famous "kiss the pig" while they threw rotten tomatoes, fishes, etc. And that was my first day-week at university.

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

Santiago was  my favorite place where my family and I rested in our summer vacations when I was a child, also we visited other relatives in Buenos Aires and Asunción(I was born there) but  Santiago was  where  we spend more time enjoying.  This city had and still has many things that I like for example the weather, it´s not hot and damp compared to Asunción or Bs As (the temperature reaches 38º ) and when it starts the afternoon,  a good idea is going to a park or walk down the street because the wind will appear and the weather will turn nice. 

The proximity between the city and the mountains or the beach is another advantage of Santiago, there are lots of places that you can go for a weekend but of course you need a high Budget and here it begins the stuffs don´t really like it,  this city is one of the most expensive of south america , having a good quality of life is restricted for fewer.  I think this is one reason why people have a bad humor or seeming that they live hurriedly.

If I could change something of Santiago would be the smog but it´s complicated because demolishing a mountain or to establish efficient enviromental laws, it´s very far of our means,    another thing would be public transport, especially the subway and its timetable.

Again, an advantage for the people who want to  know Santiago that main places are on alameda avenue,  the street cross all the city, so you can´t lost.  Don´t worry if you got up late  in this town , everything begins late!!! And of course  enjoy the sun until 9:00 pm .

When  I knew wikileaks  a couple of years, I thought it was a joke of Wikipedia like others sites on internet and because I didn´t pay attention to the tv news. Now, I could say I know something about Assange and his supposed “crime”, in my opinion  it ´ s not fair to acusse somebody who is telling the truth to the persons, he was making his work like journalist- report to the people about it´s happening around the world- so I can´t consider to him as guilty. Many governments of different countries who involucrated in corruption stuffs, they are acussing him for having an incorrect attitude as journalist but I think (and other people) this case became to a scandal because one more time politics and businessman are cheating  to everybody.

I t´s funny to compare wikileaks with facebook where nobody is judgying to its founder who is selling private information about us to differents companies in this case doesn´t exist a scandal because mass media is hidden this kind of news when it has importance. 

Maybe Julian Assange and his trial will finish bad, althought he´s been supported with Ecuador for example or trying to convence other states (Usa, Australia, etc) about wikileaks and his work. 

This story will pass to be a big hits in the modern history and comparing with facebook again, it´ll have the opportunity to be a film or a documentary about how it doesn´t respect the freedom of speech, probably.