What i miss...

Hi, today i'm going to talk about what things i missed of my home in Puerto Montt. Well, of course that i missed every day my family and i always thought about them, but i prefer to talk about other things... like food!

The south of Chile if full of inmigrants, specially in my region there are lots of german families, so we can say there's a german tradition that we can see in the food, particulary with the "cecinas" and with the cakes, pie's and kuchen's. I'm a fanatic of the sweet things... so image how i suffer! i remember that in my house there were always a pie or a kuchen in the larder, so when i finish the school and get to my home it was the best moment! Sometimes i invited friends to my house after school and we always eat a whole cake! 

Another thing that i missed is the Dane's cafe in Puerto Varas. Every sunday we went there to eat sandwichs and kuchen... in my opinion the best in Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt!!

How i missed that... luckily when my mom travel to santiago she always bring something sweet!!! thank you momi for making me happy!!!

Some (great) movies...

Hi! today im going to talk about some movies that i've seen this semester for the course "Estética y Cultura Comparada". We had to see 9 movies, but im going to talk about my favourites ones, that are three. 

The first movie that we saw was "Los Olvidados" (1950), and i love it. This film is directed by Luis Bueñuel, an spanish director who filmed this movie in the time when he lived in Mexico. This master piece show us the life of a group of kids that are excluded of society for their conditions of poverty, making them a marginal group of the society. Mainly, this film is a critic for our moderns times, were we see how the people that is not functional for the system is excluded of it, being this a product of the capitalism.

The second movie is "Nos habíamos amado tanto" (1974) directed by the italian film maker Ettore Scola. The argument is about three friends that fight together in the second world war, returning to their homes full of hopes and ilutions that the history is going to take the course of the socialism. This movie show us the differents paths that each man take in the life. It combines humor, love, politic criticism, italian culture... a really good movie!

The last movie that im going to refer is "Harakiri" (1962), directed by Masaki Kobayashi. In first place, harakiri is the ritual that samurais had to die. They embed the samurai sword in the stomach all by themselves and then removes all the entrails until they die. Well, the relation of this with the movie is that the main character go to and important house to practice the Harakiri in order to revenge his family. What i like of this film is that is extremly different of what we are used to see in films, because it is filmed by the eyes of an orient person.

How green i am?

Nowadays, everyone knows about environmentally friendly practices, mainly for all the publicity that remind us all the time that we must be green, so we can be that kind of person buying specifics products made for green clients. Sadly, people learn that the only path to be green is for the way of consume, instead of taking conscience that we are exploiting and destroying our natural home. This remind me a phrase that i read once that says The earth doesn't belong us, we belong to the earth. 

Anyway, i don't consider myself a green person, but one thing that i always do that it may consider as a green practice is to compact the tetra pak and all the garbage as possible. In the building were i lived there some boxes where you can put paper and old batteries. I preffer to walk or take the bus instead using bike (depends the distance of my destiny) because im not really good biking in the city.

I have never joined to an eco-organization (or any kind of organization) because it doesn't caught my attention, as simple as that. One thing i would like to do is start using the bike (little by little), not only for the enviroment, also for my health (im not very friendly of sports) and to safe money (i spend 2,000 pesos in a week... and maybe in the future it will be more).

I think what is missing in Santiago (and general in Chile) is to have a system of reciclyng garbage, but for that is necessary a industrial plant or something like that... but what i really think is that all this stuff are superficial, because the real problem reside in all the industries that don't take any ecological measure, and leave the responsability to us, the users, the clients.

"La Boca"

Hello, today i'm going to talk about La Boca, a place that it's located in the six region, in the commune of Navidad. I went there last week with a group of classmates to make an investigation for rural course. This trip was really amazing, we stay there for 6 days, in a community center. La Boca is a small village where you have beach and river together! so you can imagine the main activity practice there: the fishing. Everybody fish there, no matter you are 7 years or 99, if you can and want there´s no problem.

We meet lot of people of all ages; the "Boquianos" were always very friendly and kind with us, so we want to return someday and present the work that we had to do. I remember that one day a fisherman gave us for no reason like three kilogram of choritos! 

It's really a great experience, not only for the great time we had, also for know others ways of living. But at the end, you realized that there is no much difference between they and us. We became one with the sharing experience.

The ‘Womens of the sea’

The recently work of the photographer Nina Poppe show us the life and problems of an ancient tradition practice for a group of womens of 50-60 years old that live in the region of Ise-Shima, about 400 km south-west of Tokyo.

This womens are called Ama, and they dive searching for abalone, so they can provide their own food and money (with the profit of the mollusk). This tradition has remained in history for 2,000 years. The problem is that nowadays there’s no interest in young girls in following this tradition, because it’s seen as a male activity. Imagine that the people say that Ama are in-between people, which means that they are between a man and a woman. Instead of appreciate the labour of this group of woman that elaborate a solution of the non-presence of their husbands, the Japanese society condemns them to obscurity, forgetting all the skills that these womans had develop, for example, being under water for four minutes!

This traditions reveals us a different way to see and understand the figure of woman in Japanese culture (so different as the typical postcard of the Geisha’s), because the life structure that it shows is what in social studies we call ‘matriarchy’, which take the figure of woman as the one that not only take their own decisions, but also the socials.  

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/dec/28/japan-women-sea-ama-nina-poppe

Where do i want to go...

I don't have a defined place to go, because i want to go everywhere! every place is interesting by itself, so it gets really dificult to choose only one! Maybe if i had to take the decision right now i'll choose Perú, because i have wanted to visit for so long time the Machu Pichu ruins. But if i had the money enough i would like to travel for all the country, visiting all the towns and places possibles. A big atracttion of our neighbour is the geography: the amazonic jungle, the altiplano, sierra and the pacific coast. So easily i could stay in the country for more than a month. Also, another think for that i would like to travel to Perú is for the food, that it's just amazing! About working or studying there, i think that if there's any chance or if it is a good opportunity i wouldn't think it twice.

Bye!!!!  

Isabel

About two months ago, a new integrant arrived to my family, Isabel, my sweet-little cousin. I write about this, because in some way this arrival changed my life. It may sound weird, but this is like the first baby-baby that i meet, of course that i have meet others babys, but they weren't so close to me like Isabel is. 

When i see her i think about how someone so little can be a person... a person!! She thinks, she smells, she hears, she feels. But how does she do that things? What does she really think? My uncle says that her world is only chest and milk... really, who knows?

Being with her is so beautiful... it's like you don't think that you need more than that. I think that with Isabel i realized, in part of course, the feeling that the parents have with their childrens. You can say that im "cursi", but  i think it's like that the happiness and love had reached the top of the wave with the born of a child. So... if i felt this, what does the parents feel when their son or daughter born?