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!

Utaku Zone Fanzine

Ok if I have to talk about fanzines, this is something kind of new for me. My first meet with a fanzine was at university, when the Workshop teacher assistant asked the class to make a fanzine with some magazine clippings, and it was very funny and an easy way to understand what a fanzine is. So now, as a teacher request I have to talk about a fanzine made by students of the Anime & Manga Translation & Betrayals CFG, it is called Utaku Zone and is related to Japanese pop culture and manga and anime topics. I liked a lot actually, I never had read a manga book, I know what it is because some friends use to read them, but I never tried to choose one and read it, actually once I were in a manga store, located in the Lyon Gallery in Providencia but I did not feel attracted to one in special. Anyway, the fanzine is very good, I like a lot the fun facts about Japanese culture in Chile, and the places where you can find some information or food related to the Oriental traditions. I hope the production group can keep doing this project and publish more editions of the fanzine, because I feel really attracted to the Japanese Pop culture and having this materials available to read any time is good to keep knowing more about this interesting culture.

The cover of the fanzine

The fanzine includes some tips about several ways to 

learn more of the Japanese culture in our country

This post interested me a lot, I think I will

visit this coffee bar.

Classmate’s Blog Review

The post of today will be a little bit different than the other ones, because the teacher requested to the class a review of the blog of one classmate, and by the list in the teacher´s blog I have to review the blog of Francisca Rojas. By the first sight her blog is very feminine, the colors she chose makes the blog’s appearance looks very light and calm, and she is very methodic with her posts. The blog has 10 publications in total, and every post, excepting the first one, have a picture associated, and two of the posts has three each one, so it counts with 13 images and some of them I think may be photos took by herself.But what catches my attention is that she always try to fit the images among the text, as a newspaper publication, and I like it, but I think sometimes it makes the blog looks a little messy, but I think it is because the tools that blogger gives to us to work are not the best ones for publications, and another detail is that she uses a different typesetting in each post and I think it makes the blog looks messy too. However the blog is very interesting and the posts are very dinamics and I like the way she explains her point of view of the things, that makes the blog very authentic.

The Blog!

Vegetables, Juices and Holm

My experience in Holm starts in something like this. It was a difficult morning, I where angry with my boyfriend because we had a little discussion, we both did not have classes that day and also had to go to Providencia to buy some things. So we decided to leave behind the anger and eat something in a restaurant, and I remembered that in  a book about interesting places to visit in Santiago, I read about a salad bar located in Providencia, very close to where we were in that moment, and we decided to go to lunch there. The salad bar Holm is a very interesting place, it owner is a hyperkinetic man who goes to buy to La Vega all the vegetables he uses to prepare the salads he sells at the bar. The salad offer is also very interesting, because so far away of the classic lettuce with lemon juice, you can pick one of the several exotic options in the menu board, or if you want to take the risk yourself can fix your plate with the ready-to-serve salads in the bar. The juices are also a wonderful excuse to visit Holm, because I do not want to do spoiler but my favorite until now is the apple-ginger-celery "Fresh Green Juice", and my boyfriend chose the "Powerful Energizing Juice" of beetroot-carrot-tomato. Holm is a perfect option to eat in a sunny day, or simply to drink a healthy and delicious juice, and the prices are very affordable, that is the best part!

The main entrance

The fresh vegetables are in full view of all the customers

The juices and salads at the bar