Huemules (Free post)

Hello everybody 

A topic very interesting that sprang to my mind is about South Andean deer or huemules. Their scientific name is Hippocamelus bisulcus due they belong to the Cervidae family, i.e., they are members of deer like caribou, moose, taruca or red deer. They are located in the south west side of South America covered by both Argentina and Chile (specifically in the Southern Andes and its surroundings), even the Coat of arms of the second country appears this little giant animal in one of its sides opposite the condor. Therefore, huemules are the world's most southern deer. 

Thanks for their location and their ancestry as herbivorous animals, their diet is made up of shrubs, grass, tree shoots and lichens. Besides, their fur is thick, dense (for surviving the snowy weather in winter) and beige to dark brown coloured with the purpose of camouflaging as in large forests as in high mountain scrubs. 

In spite of being an animal very emblematic for Chile and Argentina, its habitat was reduced by the growth of human settlements, the construction of motorways, the insertion of foreign species and its unjustifiable hunting. Even the number of huemules is so intense that they are considered as an endangered species. However, in both countries has established many national parks and nature reserves for leading their protection of such causes. In my personal opinion, I wish they (as every animal in the world) could be protected by all of us for giving them their right to live freely in their habitat. 

Learning a language with a blog

Hello friends,

Today I'm concerned to talk about my experience of using a blog in English. Thinking about all blogs that I've posted in the last months, I found some patterns that highlight my way to become thoughts in words in this language. Though I usually think in Spanish and write words in English, I try to think with English words before of writing many posts as a little target to manage better this language.
Another pattern that I find in the world of blogs is that I usually comment on my classmates and teacher's posts. I realized that it's a good way to express onself's thoughts to others' ones making a virtual peaceful coexistence.
The blog that I enjoyed most in reading was my teacher's posts, because I've learnt new words and phrases that they willl very helpful for my development at this language.
My favourite post was undoubtedly about "the country I like to visit" because here lies ideas and arguments as basis for knowing nations which have got quite different cultures that we live daily. Therefore, I think that post I had more freedom to express ideas due I've got a better management on this topic such as future goals.

I think blogs are a good way to learn languages because you can assimilate features as in writing, grammar, vocabulary, listening and reading. 

What I did today (10th of December) 

A strange Thursday was a moment which a Field Trip began, which it consisted about to apply what we learnt on glaciology with the class about this subject. The destination was the Juncal Norte glacier located at the Andean side of the Valparaiso region, close to the border with Argentina. In spite of it’s an out-of-the-way place, it’s much better because I once else it’s possible to have a contact with nature.

First, when we were travelling by bus I started to see the imposing, outstanding and giant mountains of the Andes very close to us, which they make me thing that I’m smaller than an ant beside of those natural walls. Then, after of getting off the bus we started to walk with our outdoor equipment many kilometres to the place where we were going to camp. The walking was a little exhausting because the heat of the sunny day was intense and some ravines have got steep slopes that I always held on to my trekking stick and some rocks for not falling down. However, all the effort done during the walking was worth it because the landscape is dreamy (with snow on huge mountains and a fossil of a rock glacier in one of their mountainsides), besides of we could see foxes, guanacos, hares. At night was even more magical because it’s the starriest sky I've seen in this year, with some shooting stars that appear little by little.

Hello bloggheads:

Today is the moment to talk about a celebration which I participated before. Although I'm a not big fan of current parties themselves at present, an event which I can remember very well is an old friend's birthday called Benedicto.
This friend was a classmate from the elementary school, so I went to his birthday celebration in 2001, precisely in July, when I was 6 years old. Thus, it was a remarkable moment from my childhood because I remember the meeting of many classmates that I haven't had knowing during the scholar year.
When I hear about this kind of event it springs to my mind that came many friends and classmates of my primary school (the class was made up of only 15 pupils including me).
When we got his house for celebrating his little party, the birthday boy allowed us to play with his toy cars and planes and after to organize a hide and seek (it was the ideal place because there was a dye factory next to the house) in his neighbourhood just before he blew out the candles.
I enjoyed that because it's the first birthday celebration I have ever gone in my short life and I remember that after it we were more united as a grade. Furthermore, I recall that he lent me an atlas very up-to-date which it contained many maps of Chile with its regions.

This was one of the best parties that I have attended.

A subject from the career

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Now I'm concerned to show you about a subject from the career I've studied. The subject I'm going to talk about is the Local Climatology and it was taught by the teacher Mauro.
Some important legacies in knowledge that let me the subject was for example the Palaeoclimate which it describes the different atmospherical stages since the creation of this air layer (approximately 4 billion of years ago) until conditions similar to nowadays (after the last Ice age) with their evidences as in pollen as in ice cores. Besides the Palaeoclimatology makes attempts to find the causes of the big climates changes throughout the Earth history by the movements of this planet respect to the Sun or the volcanic activity. Of course, it had impacts in the distribution of living beings (which it's probable they had similar patterns that the current ones but at a different scale, all depending of whiat kind of animal or plant was the dominant one in the world) as in the continents as in specific zones for example the both sides of a mountain or a valley. Additionally, it had impacts in the topography during the Ice ages. For example, when glaciers were bigger and they had a major distribution in the world they were able to change the shape of valleys intensely. Some of the evidences are the Norwegian fjords, Southern Chilean fjords or many valleys in the Andes and the Alps.
What I liked most about the course was about the topics themselves which they were completely interesting to answer many questions about the nature.
Undoubtedly, what I disliked a little about the course is sometimes I was sleepy during the class.
Thanks to this course at last I could understand about the rhythm of growing of plants according to climatic conditions and calculate the day of their germination.

The mysterious place in Santiago.

Hi friends.

Thinking about a special place in Santiago I'd like to go, it springs to my mind several landmarks such as La Moneda palace, the Lastarria neighbourhood or the Plaza de Armas. However my favourite and special place all over Santiago is undoubtedly the San Cristóbal hill. This "prominent" icon is located among the municipalities of Recoleta, Providencia, Vitacura and Huechuraba. Additionally, when I always see a satellital picture of the capital of Chile, it is outlined as a green patch to the North East of Santiago, which it's forms a greenbelt.
I hardly ever go there due I've got a tiny spare time during these last months. Nevertheless, I still remember there were times when I went to the San Cristóbal hill very often as with my family as with my friends, mainly in my childhood.
During the last years, I usually go there with my friends from the secondary on Fridays night, first the meetings were instances to have a chance to talk freely about things that happened at school in the working week. However, the last two years we meet there only to talk about our daily lives.
When we are there, we climb the hill only by secret paths hidden by thick forests at night and we usually make a stop in some abandoned places to talk topics about (I remember the last time) topical issues that happened in the country. After the discussion we carry on walking in the gloomy paths until to come to a lookout point. Finally we go down the hill in order to find the way out in the Pedro de Valdivia street.
The last time I was there with my friends was approximately in four months ago.


I specially like this place in Santiago because it's possible to see the city at night.

A thing I'd like to own 

Hello Bloggers: 

Now I'm concerned to talk about a special thing I always have been wishing to own during this short life. Thinking about many things that spring to my mind, undoubtedly appears a musical instrument that I need to enhance my skill indeed: a grand piano. 

At the beginning, I mean approximately four centuries ago, a grand piano was made in order to compete with the clavichord because it had (and currently it's having) a more pleasant sound. Here lies the reason which "piano" means "soft" in Italian and at the "musician dialect".

However, now it's used to make harmonic sounds in many kinds of music, from classical to rock and I'm actually astonished how the grand piano has been remaining as a very popular musician instrument for centuries, so it's a privilege to say it's still alive facing up the advance of technology.  

I would like to own it because I want to practise everyday playing music at home and with a quiet environment. Besides I'd like to own a grand piano because it's an amazing musician instrument, its sound is unequalled and the mix between black and white colour on its design is mysterious to see. 

My favourite grand pianos that I have ever played are in my secondary school, the FAU, music shops and when pianos were in many streets of Santiago.