Elections

Hello, today I'm going to talk about a very important issue, elections. As citizens, we have the right and the responsibility to vote in order to contribute with the decisions that are made for our country. I think voting is something that every person should do, but more importantly everybody should be informed about the candidates and their history and ideas. Personally, I've only had the opportunity to vote once, because I am only 20 years old and in my country you must be 18 years old to have the right to vote. I think the next presidential elections are in 2017, I hope that it will be a candidate that represents my thoughts, or at least some of them, but I am definitely going to vote. 

Something that I don't like a lot about elections is the way that some candidates do their electoral campaigns in our country, I think that there is completely unnecessary to put big posters with their faces on EVERY corner on the street, it's very expensive and they could do a lot of more informative things with the money they spend on that number of posters. I enjoy more when all the candidates are in situations of debate, discussion, speeches, or things like that because you can know them better and make an informed choice. 

Unfortunately, in Chile there is not much civic education and also there is a lot of mistrust on the politicians and the way they act, so there is a lot of citizens that stop believing that voting was the opportunity to make a change, therefore the amount of votes that are received doesn't represent the majority. I think that it is important to vote even if you annul your vote as sign of protest, but if you don't vote it's like you didn't care at all. 

A day to remember

Hi everybody! Today I’m going to write about one of the best days of my entire life! It was summer of 2013 and my older sister, Darinka, invited me to join her and some friends on a trip to Patagonia, a place I wanted to visit since I was a little girl. She bought me the tickets to the plane from Santiago to Punta Arenas and I worked 3 months to get the rest of the money I needed. We went to do the Torres del Paine complete circuit, popularly known as the O circuit. 

 I remember I was very nervous because that circuit includes the most difficult trekking in the whole park and I had heard lots of histories about the bad weather that it takes place on that zone of the park. It was the John Gardner path, the highest point (in altitude) of the circuit. 
That day we got up very early, we left camping “Los Perros” at 9 am and we started to walk with 14 kg in our backpacks and with a little rain. At first, the path goes through a forest and the soil was very muddy, so it was very easy to fall. Then we arrive to a zone of  rocks, it was beautiful! You could see many glaciers from there, and it was getting very cold.After 3 hours of walking we finally got to the hardest part of the trekking, but I found it very fun! It was like a game, there was a lot of mist and rain therefore we couldn't see anything that was farther than one meter.

Luckily, there were some rocks painted in orange that showed the way to cross the John Gardner zone, so we stopped in every orange rock and started to look for the other one, sometimes it took us more than five minutes to discover where was the next orange rock, but I was very happy despite the cold air and the mist. Once we got to the final part of that path it was suppose that we were going to see the Grey glacier, but because of the mist we couldn’t see it, so we follow the path into a forest of Nothofagus, it was amazing, it looked like a haunted forest. I knew that once we were out of the forest, we would see the glacier, so I started to run downhill because I was very excited (I fell down like three times, but never mind!)… And suddenly it was there: the entire Grey glacier and it was breath-taking. We have lunch with that view, it was very peaceful. 

     The Grey glacier 

In the park there’s no electricity, so I had no idea of the day of the week or month at that moment, but as soon as I could see a calendar I looked  for the date of that day, it was February 26th, the best day of my life.

Best concert I've ever seen

Hi everybody! today I'm going to talk about  concerts.
Actually, I'm not a big concert person, I can't think about spending lots of money only for seeing an artist or making long lines to get a ticket, fortunatelly the artists I like doesn't make very expensive concerts :)
I remember one concert I went 3 years ago with my sisters and my brother, it was the launch of the first album of Perota Chingó and the invited artis was Pascuala Ilabaca, two artist we enjoy together. The concert took place at Matucana 100 cultural centre.

I always remember that day because it was the first time me and my siblings went out all together and we had a great time! The atmosphere of the concert was very friendly and warm because these artists are very close to their public, I remember that they were all without shoes and told us lots of stories about their trips and concerts. But the funniest thing about it was that to the end of the concert Perota Chingo actually threw an album to the public, it came very far from us, but still!


And from that day me and siblings always get together to see artists we enjoy together :)
How about you? Do you get together with someone to go to concerts?
Leave a comment :) !