Bittersweet Memories with La Bombal

I have to recognize I am not a fan of the books, actually in my school period, reading was not an activity in my list of “things I enjoy” so always when my language teacher gave to the class the monthly reading I used to drop in a little depression! But before people start thinking I am a bad student, I must say that I am not the kind of student that does not understand anything while reading, actually I classified my condition a few years ago as a “lazy reader” which is a person who understand in a good way what he reads but who takes a while to end a book. Anyway, if I have to talk about a favorite book, I think many titles comes to my mind, but today I would like to talk about Chilean literature, specifically about María Luisa Bombal, and her book “La Amortajada”. This book is not hard to read, actually is a teenage/adult reading very easy to digest, with a simple structure but with many details in the reading, something characteristic of this author, and is about Ana María, a death woman who makes a self-examination about the people who come to visit her in her coffin. She is a very romantic woman who lived in the disappointment and in the unwanted love, always with a big sadness in her heart and trying to understand why the love she wants is not the love that wants her, and all the memories she has in her coffin are surrounded by her own sadness. What really catches my attention of this book is the very close relation that the novel has with the life of the author and actually many of the facts in the reading are inspired in the real facts of the author life, so we can say the self-examination that the main character does in the book is actually a self-examination of María Luisa Bombal. She lived her best years in the 1940 decade, a very male chauvinist age in Chile, and she was involved in many tragic situations like trying to kill her own first husband, or being married with a homosexual painter who never loved her and who inclusive has parallel relationships with men while they lived together. I think I can relate this book with the world current situation, and the gender inequality that many people is fighting for make it disappear, and I also think is very sad to think that a novel that tell the life of a woman who lived in Chile like 70 years ago and who passed through several bad situations because the male chauvinism, is something that still happen in our days, and that is something worriant.

fragment

"María Luisa in the stancy" watercolor of Jorge Larco

(her gay husband) 1930

An interest that grow with the time

Since I was a child I always admired people who had the natural talent, and I mean really talent, for dancing. I think not everybody has the needed skills to make the moves that professional dancers does, but if there is something that life has teaches me is about working hard to reach your goals, so in the last months I have been really interested in taking classes of Ballet. I know in my country practicing this beautiful discipline is something that people joke around when it is practiced by men, but since a long time ago the opinion of people about whatever I like or I try to do is something not relevant for me. Ok, returning to Ballet, I think the most I like about it is to put all your weight in only one finger of your foot, I mean, can you imagine how difficult might be to develop the precision and the correct technique to finally can do that beautiful pose. When I started the college I made really good friends, and one of them lives in one of the San Borja Towers, in front of the Alameda Ave. and with the view of the Cultural Center Gabriela Mistral, and the last year when I where in the balcony I noticed people practicing Ballet in one of the practice rooms that the center puts disposition to the public. I automatically thought how great would be to practice Ballet with that spectacular view of the main avenue of the city, and I researched a little bit about this classes and I finally found that they are all students of the Municipal Theatre and they practice two days per week in that place, and the rest of the week they do their normal classes in the theatre. But I wanted more, so I continued researching and finally I found the website of one school of Ballet here in Santiago, and they offer a part-time class for people who wants to learn in a non-professional way the art of Ballet. Anyway, I feel really attracted to this and I am planning to maybe take some classes the next year, I think this is something that is already in my “2017 to do list”.

A classic of the Ballet, "Swan Lake" of Tchaikovsky.

This picture is from the presentation of the National Ballet 

of the Municipal Theatre of Santiago

Friends, Party and Sun at Los Vilos

To be honest when I talk about my holidays, it is not something so current in my life. Well there is another curious thing about my holidays, since I am in college, except in my first year that was the only one when there were not stoppage on the classes, I have not free summer! Whatever, fortunately my last holidays were on 2015 summer, and my Boyfriend and I went to Los Vilos, in the 4th region of Coquimbo. We were invited by a good common friend we have, because Los Vilos is her hometown and she offered us to pass a week in her house. It was very fun, we met her friends of her childhood, and went to a few parties in the seaside together, and also enjoyed to swimming in the beach, because Los Vilos is a seaside town. In the middle of our stay  our friend invited us to known a Natural Reserve called Humedal Laguna Conchalí, and it awesome, because the landscape was amazing, very natural and quiet, with a beautiful lagoon full of native animals of that zone, and later the same day we did a picnic in a beach near from the natural reserve with a friend who also studies architecture with us in Fau that was with his family near from Los Vilos and met with us that day. That holidays are only good memories for me because it was my first experience of traveling with my boyfriend and doing it with our friends makes it even better... Oh and I totally recommend you to visit Los Vilos, because there are so much activities to do in the town during the summer, and the landscapes are another reason to go. Los Vilos is a town full of love for me.

The Town Seaside, and Isla de Huevos 

in the background

The view of the lagoon at the 

Natural Reserve Laguna Conchalí

Train Tracks at the other side of town

My boy and my friends

The sunset on the hills, in our last day there

Tumblr is my alter-life

This first post of the second part of my blog is about a website that I like, and if I have to be honest I thought first in Youtube, but the teacher already did a post about how much he enjoys that website so, to do not do the same thing, I chose Tumblr. I think this is my favorite website after Youtube, well I can spend a lot of time in Youtube, but then comes Tumblr, because there you can find everything you want, and when I say everything is EVERYTHING... Lol, ok as I was saying, I enjoy the social networks, I like Instagram a lot, and Facebook too, but Tumblr is the best because in that website there are no boudaries or censure, and I think there you can let your mind be free and unleash the imagination to post whatever you like, every topic is available and the possibilities are infinite. The website is a good tool to make known your works, in photography for example, or maybe in graphic design or simply just taking a picture of whatever you do and posting it there, and instantly it goes around the world to be seen by anyone. For people who enjoy interior design, pets videos, funny videos, erotic photography or anything else, Tumblr is the best website to find what you are looking for.

Here I let you the link of a Tumblr that I like a lot, because I am now very interested in interior design.

http://thecozyspace.tumblr.com/

It's a Second Time Here!

Hi everyone, this post is very special because this is the mark of the beginning of the second semester, and it means a new adventure in my career and my life. Is good to start new processes in life and I am very glad to do it, recording a weekly post in this blog. Hope this time everything goes even better than the last one. So let's get started!