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.