Chile o:

Today I’m going to talk about Chile 2010. Well, I’m sure that you all have a strong opinion about this subject, because now we’re celebrating Chile’s bicentennial year.

I should have to say that in my family, September 18^th isn’t the great celebration of the year that is in others families. I don’t know why, but that’s the way it is. So I don’t really pay attention to that time, but this year I think it wasn’t possible to omit it. Just because it was the “bicentennial year” doesn’t mean that Chile is better or worse than every year before… Don’t you think so?

My opinion isn’t very kind or popular considering the “special year” where we are. I think that all the people make a lot for nothing. Is just another year, is just another September 18^th. Well, obviously knowing that it was the 200 hundred birthday make a difference and makes people want to go back and describe what happens in this country. Things have changed, but that always have good and bad sides; if Chile wants to be a country more powerful and influential, it still needs a lot of progress. Okay, a lot of stuff is improving right now (like technologies or exporting), but at the same time million things are worse every time (global warming, traffics, public health, etc).

Now, for this celebration we all kind of forget the bad things and I’m not sure if this is something good. We need to focus. It’s all right to be proud of the improvements that we have reached till this moment, but we also need to realize that not everything it’s fine and better than ever. If we only think about the good stuff, we all are going to lose the critic viewpoint that it’s really important in those matters. We need to help to improving this country, and also to continue with the good things that has (and Chile has good things, don’t get me wrong. I love to live here).

I can conclude that I don’t love this thing of “Chile’s bicentennial year”, but I’ll always be very proud of this country. Obviously there’s a reason why people of other countries came here to live, migrations are a matter that became really important lately. It’s just that I don’t believe in these types of celebrations. But in spite of this, I really enjoyed the extra holidays this year. 

Home sweet home...

Well, in Curicó, I lived in 2 houses. But I stay like 1 year at my first home, so I can’t remember how it was.

My current home it’s so beautiful. It was near to my college and my friends, but the problem was (and still is) that public transportation don’t arrive to my place. So, when I was little I depended of my parents for going from there to another place. The bright side was that I have always a good friend’s house to stay when my parents has no time for pick me up.

There I live with my mom, dad and my older brother. We also have a dog: Kala.

My neighbors are very nice; in fact we have little doors that connect our houses. They are friends of my fathers.

My bedroom is a mess, but I really love it after all. A few years ago I painted it with my favorite color, and there I have so many good memories.

I love the fact that my house have a big garden, I enjoy it all the time that I can. The final touches are the hammock and the swings.

Well and here in Santiago I have something like my second home. I live in a flat with my aunt and my brother.

But although my bedroom is a lot bigger than in Curicó, I have to say that I don’t like it here very much because it is far away from the underground (and here I don’t have a car that I could borrow), there is no garden and we can’t have pets.

 It’s hard to adjust to a big change of environment like it is go from a big house in a town to a apartment in the capital.

I definitely prefer to live in a house. Is much comfortable, there are fewer problems with the neighbors, more privacy and you could have a big dog if you want to (I really don’t like small dogs…). I think a house is more yours, than a piece of floor in a common flat.
P.S: The photo is from a beautiful sunset at my home in Curicó.