Post 1: year of changes

This year started with many changes. Life put in my family a difficult situation. The doctors detected cancer pulmonar to my grandmother and she died on March, the same day of my birthday.  Her death make me think in my projects and if the things what I do because she was a great woman.

Return to class was very different and difficult to me, but as we had to do many works with classmates and research, my mind stayed busy and y know it helped to think in others things and don’t feel so sad.

A positive aspect was what whit mi boyfriend decided start a little business to get money. We cooking cakes and kuchen and spell it at the work of his mother. Thanks to this great idea we can went in fall holydays to Valparaíso. We visited the Museo Naval and met interesting people who were very friendly, such as Juan Oneto, a saylor that works in the museum who told us many stories and experiences of his work.

Now we continue with the business and want raise to go a concert in the next months.

The English bloggin experience

I have others blogs but the English blog is a different experience. It was think to we can learn most and better about other language and show our abilities. To me, this is a good exercise because we can talk about many topics and talking about with my classmates. That way, we studied about the topic and, at the same time, find new words to use in our vocabulary and can express opinions and information.

I enjoy because I can learn to use the Blogspot complements and visit other blogs to read. I don’t think that was difficult, but was a real challenge because we have to write on this week to week.  The only problem was the time to write because, in my case, I don’t know many words or have a good English vocabulary. For this I had to use the help of Wordreffence.com or the Office translator, to know how to say some words.

Finally, I think that the “help” wasn’t something essential. I think that the most important is can join ideas and see that many phrases in Spanish can be writing similar.

So, the important is practice the language in different situations as a blog or the social networks to those English words stay more time in our memory.

What is life?

To me ‘the life’ is an incredible opportunity to learn all we can. This is to forget about social boundaries, prejudices and dare to do what we can only live once.

To enjoy all that is necessary for someone to accompany us on these dreams, like friends or family.

Personally, what I like about living is that we can feel so many emotions with just a few details like the smells, landscapes, nature, among other things.

There are people who are deprived of many things especially what others might think or because they feel that age they have no longer allowed taking those tastes. But I think to avoid this is very good to make a mental map of the life we ​​want to have, the things we want to do and what we need for all this to be. Obviously nothing can be perfect but when we do our part, our energy, love and dedication, many of those dreams can be fulfilled.

In this unique experience that is life is essential to be good observers and to communicate with people we know we really want to enjoy the most of every experience.

Alejandra Matus

Alejandra Matus is a Chilean journalist. She studied in Pontificia Universidad Católica and return to Chile two years ago, after study a Master in Harvard. She has work in radio, magazine, news and digital media. Also she was manager of “Pan B” magazine.


She has wrote three books: “Crimen con castigo”, about the murder of Valentin Letelier; “El libro negro de la justicia chilena”, what was censored in Chile; and “Injusticia duradera”, about the status of the freedom expression in Chile.

She has work as teacher in different universities in Chile, United State and Europe. I Admire her work, and specially her book “el libro negro de la justicia chilena”. I had to read in the first year of my career. In this book she talks about some secrets and bad practice of the Chilean justice. Her book was published in 1999 and confiscated the same day. The minister of Corte Suprema, Servando Jordan, acused to Matus of contempt the Security State law. She decides go to exile in United States and return in 2005, when the article of contempt was remove.

I think that Alejandra is an example of ethic and professionalism, because she defended her research and fight for show the injustice and the most turbid secrets about the powerful men in Chile. 

The importance of pets

A few years ago I lost my dear pet. It was a dog named “Balto”, such as the movie. He died after being hit by a car. I understood that day how important it was for me. In my house we don't had many pets.
When I was a girl, some cats came alone and stayed by chance. Over the years, they went and we never saw them more. I think that’s one of the most important characteristics of some animals, their ability to adapt, independent of anyone to care for them.
However, to the people, pets can be an important partner. For example, some blind people use trained dogs to go on. Also, in the houses the pets can give you happiness if you are good with them, if you get them to walk and play at a park. That’s what I miss most now that Balto is not here. He was playful and always slept on my feet or woke me with his little feet. Only bad thing is that you never imagine how much you can love them.

Heroes and villains, my favorite photograph...

Hi, I’m going to write about one of my favorite photograph. 

The last year, when we were mobilized for the Chilean education, many students realized diverse and originals manifestations. One was a flash mob called "Ven a salvar la educación chilena", where we danced dressed and characterized as heroes and villains who wanted to save the education.

This photograph was taken the day of the presentation, on 18th July, 2011 in "Plaza de Armas". It was taken by Marcelo, a friend and ex-classmate of the high school of Yerko, my boyfriend . It shows three persons characterized as "El Acertijo", "Harley Quinn" (me) and "El Guasón" (my boyfriend).I like this photo because we prepare for weeks the presentation but, the most beauty was dress up, go in the subway and walk on the centre of Santiago and that  people could see hundreds of young student trying to change the mind of the persons to support the student's demands. 

Quality of life in the city

Many people say that live in the city is better. But it's not perfect because the development of the transport, streets, buildings, among factors have to cause pollution of the city and stress in the population.
Opportunities
Live in the city mean best access to health services, education and jobs. The last is one of the causes of high migration to the cities, because you can find more vacants and variety of service. Apart from, there are many centers of training and schools where complete the basic education and high school. The connectivity of the city allow to develop a better communication between the persons.
Modern but desagreeable
In the city, many cars transit daily and the industries help to pollute the environment. Also the concentration of the popullation has been provocate unsafe cities. The cultivated land has been disappear and many people have .