Thursday, 29 October 2015

Someone I'd like to meet. 
Hello friends:

Now it's the instance to talk about a person I'd like to meet. If I lived in the XIXth century I'd liked to meet with Ludwig Van Beethoven, I have been listening to his music since I was 12 years old because every song is relaxing and inspiring to do my homeworks or simply to think about life.
Beethoven si well-known by his songs in the piano such as Moonligh, Für Elise or some orchesta concerts for example The Fifth Symphony or The Ninth Symphony (which it contains the Ode to Joy) and then he is one of the main mentors of the Classical Music all over the times. It's worth to say that  with Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, he was one of the main exponents of the German Romanticism.
I'm interested to know to this person from the past because I'd like to know what did he inspired in to gather the enough assurance to express a story without words, only by the sounds. Additionally, Beethoven shows how was the life like in two centuries ago and the way of thinking by the people during that far-off time.
The two main topics I'd like to talk with Beethoven are concerned about his music and his life that it was a basis for his incredible creativity that let him be ahead of the moment he lived. Therefore, I would ask him how his thoughts became in sounds which all the musician instruments within an orchesta were the protagonists and some pieces of advice to play better the piano. However, about the second topic the questions are oriented to the daily life, how he got ahead against obstacles to create his music.
Things I most admire about him are his piano songs which (for me) they overcome a little in quality to Mozart because his quality in harmony is high.

My favourite song about his music is undoubtedly Moonlight Sonata, mainly the first movement (which it's slowly and relaxing) and the third one (which it's very hard to play).


Thursday, 22 October 2015

My favourite restaurant. 

Hello friends!
Today I would like to write about my favourite restaurant throughout the city that I always feel glad to go. The restaurant it's called "La Piccola Italia" (The little Italia) and fortunately it's spread in many sectors within Santiago. However, The only branch of this restaurant I've gone to is located on Amunategui (inside the downtown). I specially like this restaurant because it's able to give my favourite international food: the Italian one. The quality of spaghetti with Bolognese sauce (tomato sauce with meat) and Parmesan chesse is incredible high, this dish has been overcoming my taste about food for a long time. In addition, the restaurant offers many kinds of dishes from the boot-shaped country such as Gnocchi, many kinds of pasta and lasagna.
The restaurant is a replica of a big house located in the Tuscan countryside, because the walls have round archs made up of bricks. Upstairs it seems lightbulbs that send out light not so shine but neither so faint, so the lighting is very particular.
Additionally, there're many paitings of Italian landscapes located in all the walls of this restaurant, it's amazing to eat my favourite plate while I can see a picture of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italia is discernible.
It was a long time that I went to "La Piccola Italia", exactly many months ago when I was with my relatives and I learnt how to use the spoon while I roll the spaghetti to avoid it falls down. Sometimes I'm very predictable that I ate my favourite dish.

Now I'm hungry and I wish to go there to eat gnocchi with tomato sauce. :)




Friday, 9 October 2015

An exhibition. 

Hello friends!
Now it's the moment to talk about an exhibition that I have been liking for a long time, precisely this kind of event consisted about "languages" and it's called the "the party of languages".  This unusual exhibition is organized by the different language institutes in Santiago and the Municipality council of Providencia. The exhibition is done once per year, but I only attended coincidently once in October 2012 and it was made in the Balmaceda Park (if I attend it this year, I wish it could carry out at the same place). Apropos the languages taught at the exhibition were English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Hebrew and Russian. I saw there were many stands which each one represent one country with a institute language in Santiago, while on the grass there were teachers of those institutes teaching to the people who had interest to learn a little about a foreign language. Besides there were stands which show the gastronomical variety made by all countries composed by the languages taught and a scenario where artists (dancers or many kinds of musicians) made a performance one or two hours by each country. I went alone to the exhibition thought very late due I didn't know at what time does it start. However, fortunately I could take two "mini" courses before the event finished. The first mini course I went was the French lesson, during the little course I could learn at the first time some phrases concerning the daily life such as"ça va?" (how are you?, what's up?), comment tu t'appelles?" (What's your name?) and the numbers. The second lesson was Japanese, I could learn some little expressions for example "arigato" (thank you) or "ohayou gozaimas" (Good morning) and I could get a sheet to see how to write its different three alphabets.
Though I couldn't go to more mini lessons I enjoyed the little time I was during the exhibition because it was the perfect instance to know the different languages and cultures without any cost. In addition at the scenario sang a "The Beatles" tribute band (one of my favourite bands) with the song "A hard days night", which I liked very much.



Thursday, 1 October 2015

The best field trip I have ever had.
The field trip I liked most throughout my career was the journey to the Cajón del Maipo valley, it was usefull in function to know empirically some topics given in geology lessons.
I just could remember that I went to that kind of field trip with my classmates, the teacher and the assistants, to let us to have a good way to learning.
At first, the field trip lied in many stops concerned to see the different processes that set up terraces, mountains, colours of those mountains, forests, stratums, snows and perharps (maybe it's only within my imagination) some little glaciers. I have never expected that during the field trip we were going to see and feel the snow very close to us, the last time I have touched the snow was seven years ago until that decisive moment. Subsecuently some stops, we had approximately one or one and half an hour free, so we decided to have lunch on some rocks and to talk about our daily life. However, the most amazing moment which lies the reason I like this field work is when we went to a little terrace where there was a lot of snow, so we decided to play throwing snowballs to, thus was the perfect moment to build little snow pyramids (I have done some pyramids with wet sands in strands but the I wanted to test with this kind of frozen water). After the wonderful break we were going uphilll until to arrive to the last stop called "Lo Valdés", I remeber the mountains looked so amazing (the stratums are so bend that they seemed waves) and the fog gave an enviroment of mystery in spite of I couldn't see the San José Volcano, I didn't realize it was so close of us until I saw that by Google Earth. Besides we started to feel a little snowstorm very cold that our teacher was compeled to order us to get on the bus.
I really enjoyed the field trip because I knew a new place that was unknown for me, I knew better to my friends and classmates and I could learn many geology pieces of information watching the result of the proceses with my own eyes.

I'd liked to find some fossils though it was impossible with the snow hahaha