The final post

The blog I liked writing the most was about “My semester so far”, this semester has been very difficult and with many changes, writing it freed me a little bit, and I noticed the little things I do to take care of myself and feel better.

The one I liked the least to write was “5 favorites”, usually I don't have my favorite of something, I like a lot of things and I don't know which one to choose. It was hard to think of a song, technological object, movie, book and thing, it took me a long time just thinking about which were my favorites, I think I decided for the last things I saw and listened to. Except for the favorite thing, I liked to write about an object that belonged to a person I love very much and passed away, it reminded me how much I appreciate having it. 

The life of teachers is something we see so far away as students, I really enjoyed reading Prof. Simon's blog, it feels closer as we know each other's lives, and he has a great life, it's amazing how far he has traveled. I think that the smartest people are the ones who know the world the most, for me that is the success I want in my life, to be able to know and tell the experiences lived in other places, to learn about other cultures, flora and fauna. I also love that besides being a teacher, he has a passion for music that clearly shows.

By writing in the blogs I was able to become more familiar with reading in English, and improve my writing, in general I like the methodology of writing and talking about us, it brings us closer to English in a more personal way. 

City You Would like to live in

•  My dream is to live in Sao Paulo, Brasil. 
• I remember when I saw a movie about blue birds in "Río de Janeito", called "Río". 
• I really a like the music, the colors, the festivity and the nature is it beatiful, it is very hot but humid.
• Thanks to the climate it has beatiful and varied the flora and fauna.
• The typical cocktail Brasil is one of my favorite drink, the caipirinha, I would like to try it made in it country of origin. 
• I would also like to go to the night events they do in the streets and of course to the carnival, my goal is to dance there, not just watch is.
• And mainly, to see museums and they value arte, desing and architecture. I like visit the museum "Galeria de Arte do estado", for sculptures and paintings.
• I imagine my self happy with the energy o the muic and the movement in the streets, I want to learn Portuguese to learn better about the culture and seeing so much nature inside the city would give me a lot of peace. 

2 Photos of moments in life

In this picture I think I was 7 years old, I am holding my brother, and next to me is my cousin holding her brother, they are the children of my mother's twin sister. My cousin and I were raised as twin sisters and my brother and cousin too, but for a few years, because after that summer, with my family we went to live in Calama.

My family is from the countryside, we had gone to visit a sister of my grandfather, as her land was beautiful, they took some pictures to remember the moment, I do not remember who took the picture and who were on the ride. It was a summer of much love and very happy, now I remember it with melancholy because of how happy I was growing up in the company of my cousins and family.

In the second photo I am already older, it was in the summer of 2022, I was 18 years old and I went to work as a waitress, cook and bartender in a restaurant in Mehuín, Región de los Ríos. I met a girl, we hit it off and she offered me a job where she was going with a friend, I accepted for the adventure and we traveled together. There we put together a group with Nati my new friend, her best friend Nico, and Javi and Carlos who were a couple and were raising money for their daughter.

 After a bad administration of the place by Covid-19, we all quit and decided to “backpack”, we went through Licanray, Pucara, Conaripe, Llancahue and ended up camping at Lake Pellaifa a few days, then we went to Villarica to return to Temuco, in the photo we were in Licanray, in rafts that worked with plastic buckets with air fitted together, it was night and we could not be in the lake.

To this day we meet with the group, we created a very nice friendship and we went through many things traveling and working together, the first days without a tent, we had to sleep hugging each other because of the cold of the night, taking care of each other in those situations created a nice relationship.