Santiago

I from Los Andes city, I live almost three
years in Santiago, and I lived for one year in Belgium. I think that every city
have good and bad things. I have a strange relation with Santiago the most of
the time I really hate a lot of stuff, but I have also my good moments. I love
that you can do a lot of things; of course if you have time, even if you don’t have
money, you can go to the theater, the cinema, carnivals, exhibition, listen
music, and the best that all is free, you just have to look at internet and
decide what you like. Also I like walk around the center or parks , like neighborhoods
of Bellavista, Lastarria, Brazil, Yungay and others. The parks and are a good
option in the spring like Santa Lucia` hills, the Forestal` park and Quinta
normal. I have a very romantic view of walking around in the spring with the
sunset and in company of a good friend, my boyfriend or sometimes alone.
But in the other side I dislike all the noise
of the city, that never stops, the traffic is crazy and the people get stress
for that. Also I don’t like the distance, Santiago is so big that everything is
far away, We don’t have this problem is Los Andes because is small and you can
go on foods to every place and it not take so much time. But here I live in Lo
Barnechea and is far away almost 30 minutes or more to place like the
university, or houses of my friends.
For visitors I would recommender see the center
of Santiago like Plaza de Armas , walk around the Mercado Central and the
Vega, and eat something of the Mercado
also go to the Santa Lucia´ hills and the Neruda’ house.

Nicanor Parra

Fist I disagree with the concept of “the greatest Chilean of all time”, because I think that the history is not about a person, because that person is in relationships with other factors, like the family, teachers, and the ideology of the time, and also the history is writing for a group of people that make things that have consequence in a future, and we would choose since the present which one history is real or valid for us.

Most of the history is writing since the paradigm or view of victors and vanquished, the victors represent all the power of occident, represented in a hero that has always the same characteristics: is man, is white, is colonist and have political power. So the greatest Chilean of all time is naturally related of that concept, and you think immediately in names like: Andres Bello, Balmaceda, Pedro Aguirre Cerda include Salvador Allende. So, in politics I can`t say that someone was the greatest, because all the figure are related to the “perfect white”.

I think that some people can stand up because they contributed in their area or specialty like writing, arts, science, etc. In that way I would name some people that I consider that make interesting contribution to their area, but for the time, I just would refer to Nicanor Parra.

Nicanor Parra is a poet (yes, he is alive, although some people given up for dead XD) member of the Parra`s Family, a know family of Chillan that were artist, in things like music, writing and painting. He is distinguished in the poetry because he is a antipoetry, He won a lot prices, but I think that most destacated about his career is how he laugh of all the things, the politics, the capitalism, the love, etc. He is very ironic , and also have other way to write, that escape of all the formalism of the poetry, so is very free and sarcastic. I think that if I will know him, I would invite to drink a “vino en caja”. In his web site you can find some of his work, I hope that you will enjoy it. http://www.nicanorparra.uchile.cl/

I`m snake!

I think the horoscope or the Chinese horoscope are interesting to analyze , because produce me a strange feling; in the first moment I always say, that I dont`t belive in the horoscopo, this is because I don`t believe in the way, how they get the information, I know that is something about the position of the moon, and the stars, and them I ask me , how could be that posible? So I dont`t understand how can you say so much of the people only for the position of the star.

But, in the other way; Sometimes I like to read my horoscope, and see what would be happen, in that way is like a game, because I dont`believe, but I find that is nice sometimes know what is the destine about. ;)

In the Chinese Horoscopo I `m Snake; the snake are intelligence, gracefulness (expression with the body) and materialism, they are analytical when making decision, don`t like the problems, but if they want something, they getting dosn`t carry about the others . I `m desagree with the part of the materialism, because I very simple, and I dont`carry about the things and the Money, I never have Money, so I never buy luxurious furnishings how they say.

About the health I think that the most is true because I like the calmnes, be quiet with out noise, and also I get easily stressed, so I have to manageable workload rather.Another think that is also true, is that snake are job-hoppers, because they become easily boring.

In the relationships they say that the snake are very seducers, and always atracting people, I laughed when I reed that, because I `m the least seductive. And also about partner the snake is very jalours ans obsessive, I don`t think that I`m that caint of person, but the only thing that I believe and I hope , is that the 2013 is gonna be my year :)

The summer´ riots

In the summer of 2011 in London , was effecting for riots or street disturbances a big sacking likeprotest. Hundreds of people came out of the street and sacking store and houses. The situation was controls after that the police applied more repressivemethods. The summer ‘riots have a impacted in the population and politics, but also is interesting for the social sciences. So The guardian post and the London School of Economics, made a project for research the cause and the implications of the riots.This article inparticular is called : English riots were'a sort of revenge' against the police and is about a almost 270 interviewsof rioters, an important result was about the view of the police, the 85% of the people that participated in the riots of Augustus, said that the police was a factor in the reasons of the riots.The rioters said that the police are a “gang”, they are protect for the law and the politics, so the police have the power to do whatever they want. So the young felt that the police abused in the dairy life of the poverty people. For their defense,the Association of Chief Police Officers said that the situation was of extreme violence and the way in which events escalated rapidly forced to the unprepared police to do what they done and required 16.000 polices to restore the order.

link:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/30/black-britons-missing-confidence