My life these days

Actually in my academic life things has been some complicated, in fact  i didn’t want to back to class, because is our last semester with presencial class and subjects,  so I don’t think  that we could exploit it in 100% with the rate that we must take, also we must do big jobs for every subject and maybe we will cant do it good, but I’ll do my best. Anyway I think that we have goods subjects, very interesting and aplied.

In other aspect of my life I feel happy because Christmas is coming, and I like this time of year: decorate the christmas tree and the house, buy gifts, look for clothes to wear  these day, think about what to dine the Christmas night, and many things more. I feel happy when I give gifts and when my friends or family give it to me, although sometimes I give useless thinks but with love ;)

Well, In my free time I like to be with my partner and with my family, go to the cinema, go to dance, to the gym and cooking. And when is the training day I really enjoy play table tennis, I am still learning so the guys use to win me but I hope to win them some day, they are really good.

My neighbourhood

It lies in the limit with Santiago Town, but it is in San Joaquín, in a condominium whit 4 floors building. There there´s common spaces like square and parking that everybody can use, even visits. Even though is a enclosure condominium, no body limit entry. Most of the people who lives there is old people, and even though are buildings many of we had pets, principally cats and dogs.
Close to this zone is located the “Persa Bio Bio”, there the dealers sell all kind of things that you can imagine, from antiques, clothes, pets to food or technology artifacts, but this place is really dangerous, there are many thieves.

A nice detail out of my house is that I have a bike line that bring me almost right to the university, and most time is faster than take the public transport. Although the busses that pass by my neighbourhood take to many places that I use to go or to the Subway (that is not so away).
In my neighbourhood there is many stores, there is bakeries, off licenses, Newsagent´s, fast food  and  fruit and vegetable store, one close to the next  in the same sidewalk!. Just around this corner there is a drugstore, a hairdresser and two call center.  Even banks, but those are a little bit away. Too there is a primary school, and two street  down there is a plastic factory, a gas distribution and a big industrial warehouse.

So I have many services close to my house, but what I dislike Is that people don’t care about the environmental and you can see the trash in the street always.  Is not nice, some time the garbage cans are full and the trash go out of this. PUAJ!

My Puppies

Today i will write about my Little doggies. Everything begins when i move to my new home and I did has to be alone a long time in the night because my mother works in the night time, so my mother’s boyfriend bring me a little female dog race pincher or miniature doberman, and my mom called her Niña. Then arrived a poodle toy, she was called Blanquita, she was a funny doggie, skinny and lovely, but then visited to my godmother and stolen her, I hope she´ll be fine  =(  Wherever…  later (since eight month ago) Niña calved three little doggies with a chiguagua, they are called Romeo, Homero and Ícaro, but Romeo was sold to a neighbor so I see him sometimes, and now I have to Niña, Homero that is a faaaaat and scary dog (he pee when I want to take him)  and Ícaro he is the littlest of the litter, everyone wants to take him  because is really beautifull and funny.

In fact this summer my mother, Niña, the three puppies and I went to La Serena and Punta de Choros and everyone looks them and wants to caress them, too ask us if we sold them, and everyone laughed when all my doggies barked to one bigger dog and this last run for his life.

Now they accompany me when I am alone, turn happy when I arrive to my home and sometime Niña even laugh because I am in home. But sometimes they bark in night and this is annoying.

Anyway I love them!! 

Niña and her sons  (Homero, Icarito and Romeo) when born

Blanqui dressed in bee (L) 

anything

Talking about free, some of the things that i do and make me feel it is sports.
My favorite is cycling, makes feel free because I can go anywhere I want and that I don’t need anything else that my chancha, I feel cool when there is traffic jam and I advance to the cars, makes me feel alive, that I have my body and I use it. Unfortunately I don’t have my bicycle in home, so I have lose the habit of cycling, just I use it one or two times at week, I miss her but also is cold in the morning >_<
Another thing that I like to do but I have not made for a loooong time is trekking, the last year I used to do it with Amaru, we went to the Pochoco hill, we arrived there at ten in the morning and we were at fifteen in the afternoon in the house, this was really tiring but very stimulating, Also when the days were good and with few pollution you have a great view of Santiago. This is a sport subject that you can take in FAU is really recommended.
Finally I must say that my favorite sport now is tennis table, I use to practice it Tuesdays and Thursdays in FAU, I am not so good as many girls that play it a lot, but I enjoy it too much when I do it, also is really stimulating and makes me feel with many energy and happy.
I think that there are few people that practice sports in my generation and this is an invitation to everyone to looking for someone what you like, there are a lot and for every liking.

Lican Ray here we go!

My best holiday was at Lican Ray this year, a lake that lie at the Araucania region. I went with five friends and my partner. We stayed in a hut fully equipped for 8 days long that was close to the lake, so in the day we had lunch, seen “Oro verde” and then we rented a little boat and we gone to center of the lake where we swum, or arrived at an isthmus to rest. Through the night we gone to the principal plaza to buy somethings like food or something to drink, ah! And too fillings “churros” (it was so good), then in the house we cooked some tasty food and then we played “UNO” and drink something or gone to the lake. I enjoyed this so much because were the first hollidays without family, just friends and with my partner. We could do anythink we wanted at the time we wanted, also I love to swim and the lake was wondefull, crystal water, few people, a beautiful place, my friends funny, good food, good drink (although one night we tried to make a drink with blueberries an cachaza, but did´nt works).

Wherever, this was my best holiday, was a really nice place, you should go to meet it ;)

Latin American stereotypes

I think that in Latin America stereotypes exsist , those are based especially in the clothes they wear, the food they eat and them traditions, and one characteristic typical is the accent to know about which nationality i’m talking about. One stereotype is the colombian, everybody think that they have relation with drugs and guns. Another is the bolivian, they have de characteristic that are attached to them culture, with them clothes made of wool and everybody know that they talk right, like peruvians. I think that the stereotypes exsist because when we try to characterize some of those, everybody know about how i’m talking, for example i f i say that one latin american is a womanisers, where you’d say that he is from?

I think that other Latin American countries view Chileans like sopportive and nice. I have listened that sometimes the foreigns think that we talk fast and they dont understand easilly.

About the stereotypes of diferent groups of chileans i think that this could be accordinto the region (noth, central, south). I think that too there is stereotypes in the young population, about the diferent styles, like Pokemones, skaters, punkies, gothycs, metalers, emo, hippies, etc, this is more relationated to the clothes they wear and the music they listen.

Playa Chica – Cartagena

Maybe almost everyone think that Cartagena is a “flyte” place, and in fact i think the same but now im talking about the beach called Playa Chica. As his name say, this is a really little beach, has a length around the 365 meters, his bay has a position with respect to the marine derive that give him a reflective condition, so this is a quiet beach generally. Also I like the landscape around the beach, there is a castle in at the north of it called Ferreiro built around the 20’ that is really beautiful but is left and neglected. At south of the beach there´re another bay and some creeks, that have beautiful vegetation that give it a nice detail. I think that because of this it is full in summer. What I don’t like is that the sand is dark, there is a little river mouth from I don’t know where, the people don’t care about the garbage (sometimes even you can find pieces of broken glasses, so dangerous), also the people sometimes is not nice (they are flytes and it intimidates me), but… well I think that this beach should be more cared for everyone of us to change the image that the people has of this and make it nicer.

The  last time I went was almost one and half year ago, with my friend and classmate Luis, and the last time y swam there were in eve of the earthquake, was fun because the waves were big and we tried to survive.

A.N.A.T.O.

A Night At The Opera, this was the fist cd i buyed. it was when i was at the high school i think, maybe i was 14 or 15 years old then. I used to go to the Mall Plaza Vespucio after class and i liked to go to La Feria del disco to see cds, one day i get enought money and went for it!
To be honest Queen is my favorite band, one of the first song i listened from they was Somebody to love in a featuring with George Michael and i thought it was by he, but not... then i discovered Bohemian Rhapsody, one of the most populars song by Queen, in fact this song appear in this album, which made them famous. I think that Bohimian Rhapsody is a really good song, but in this album the most powerfull is the song called The Prophet´s Song, and the most powerfull ever from Queen, the lyric is some confused, not so eloquent, but it shows what is Queen in all (liryc and instrumentally). Another song that i really like is Seaside Reandevouz, this try about a boy who wants to conquer a girl and invite her to take a walk by the reandevouz to convince her. Another popular and beautifull song in this album is Love of my life.
A characteristic of this album that i like a lot, is that every song is conected with the next one, so sometimes is hard to define where begins the next, and some funny. Sometimes when i back to listen it, so carefully, makes me feel strange things... makes me back to the time when i buyed it.

ps: this cd helps me a lot to learn English, because i tried to traslate the songs that were in the songbook.

Mother's correction (my favorite websites)

Hello friends, today I am to talk (SM: i’m going to talk) about my favorite websites.
Web tools are most used (SM: The web tools that i use more  are) e-mail, msn and facebook). I use to ( SM: i use it to) communicate with (SM: my) friends and family, specific to (WE: specificly whit) a cousin and daughters who are in Spain.
Was first e-mail (WE: at first i had an email ), through this create (WE: through this was created) a msn account(P: , )  11 years ago. Till recently this was my favorite web tool (WE: even now this is my favorite web tool), not only for the chat, also because you can talk like a phone call, even see the other person through (SM: the) web cam.
I now use (WO: Now i use) gmail chat (P: , ) but not for a specific reason (SM : because) it has(WT: this have) the same characteristics.
There was a time long used facebook (WE, there was a long time when i used facebook)  now (SM: i use it) a (SM: few times) to get in touch with school friends with whom we meet every so often. ah! and (NN)also (SM: i use it) to play games that have this network.

regards =)

Juncal Alto glaciar

My favorite  field trip was to the Juncal glaciar, it is located in the fifth region, to the east of Los Andes, in the Cordillera de los Andes. This field trip was for three days long, and we were like ten classmates, and the teacher (Francisco Ferrando (L) ). The first day we traveled to the place in a van arround four hours and then we had to walk with our giants bags like five hours more trough the valley, it was really beautifull, and the walking, despite to the long, worth! When we arrived to the camp zone, we must up the tents and quickly the night falls. The next day we should wake up early and strart to walk to the glaciar (the ice),  it was really fun and some complicated to walk on the ice, even one classmate almost died because he fell in a  rift. We had lunch close to a “glaciar table” and then we descended to the camp. I remember that the two nights that we had there, the moon was full and we could see everything arround in the landscape, this is one thing that i’ll never forget, was a really beautifull view. The third day we took our bags and did the same route back to Santiago, but with less weight because of the food thta we ate. 

Social networks tools...

First i must make clear that i am not a big fan of the "ciberworld", but in the moderns time is almost impossible to be out. Years ago i used to use diary messenger, have conversation with my friends, spent a lot of time in this and usually i got fighting because of the coumputer with my stepbrother, but now i dont enjoy it so and i use it just for specific this, like coordinate works and this kind of things.
Actually the social network that i take a look now and then is Facebook, i use it to let post to my friends and receive information about events and partys.
And now i'm learning to use this tool "Blogspot", i think is a good idea to know how are our classmates in this class and maybe help someone.
Moreover i use Myspace to listen music from some band that i cant find to download or know new bands, in fact right now im listening through myspace a Chilean singer called Mamacita, i saw her the last week live and i begged her to give me one cd that she was selling, because i didn't have more money to buy it (she gave it to me free). she makes really funny music! LISTEN TO HIM!
well... i don´t use to use another social network tool so i can´t tell anymore. 
that's all


pd: Simon  sorry for dont wen yesterday to your class, i can't wake up -.-

Simply Red live!

I must begining saying that this have being the best concert in my life!
Simply Red is one of my favorites bands, and after they came in 2009 to the Festival de Viña del Mar i lose my hopes to see they live. but not! they announced a visit to Chile, the last one, to the final of april in 2010.
So i retired my money from my account in the bank and i bought my ticket. when the day came i went  alone to Movistar Arena, but there i found a great surprise, one friend was there whith her sister, so we listened the gig together and enjoyed it a lot. Micke´s voice was amazing and all the band played really god, we lived the gig so happy, and we sang in the street with memories that we bought outside the stadium.
I think that i met this band through my mom, she bought a cd of Simply Red with a Copec's promotion long time ago and i liked it, years before looking for music i found it again and i started to download music from this band.

the video is from the song that drove me crazy when they played it, because i never thought that they would, the title i "Ain't that a lot of love" and is really god to dance, enjoy it!

My favorite movie: Megamind! :D

Well, i dont know which is my favorite movie, but this is one of the last that i have seen and i love it!
The history is about a extraterrestrial baby (Megamind) that arrive to the planet earth running away from his planet that was being eaten by a black hole, at the same time whit Metroman. Once there happens incidents that make that people think that he was evil, but those happens while he makes inventions and scientific experiments whit help of his faithfull friend Minion (Servil), and Metroman was the boy who fixed it. At this way Megaman grow up in the prision, learning bad thin guided by criminals.
So, this is the way that is developed the history, until the eternal Megamind's enemy (Metroman) is defeated. Megamind gets so happy until he see that the life is not the same without Metroman, is bored and have not sense, so he decide to creat a new enemy and superhero: Titan, who is not who Megamind wants him to be, and comes to miss Metroman. All this happens while love grows... the sexy and beautifull reporter Roxanne Ritchie.

I hope some one of you have seen the movie, is really funny. And if no one know it, is a good view for the weekend.

laGodiva

My name is Geraldine, i'm student in 4th year of geography, i like phisical geography and hate the social  . i have three dog and i love them. i love to listen music, cooking, dancing, bike, sleep and eat.
That's all folks!

Simply Red - Lady Godiva's Room