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One thing that I like to do very much in my life is travel to any places for enjoying, knowing and other activities, but this started many years ago. My first trip was when I was just born, with only nine days. How I was born in other country, because my mom is Argentinian, I moved to Chile young, for the reason that my father is Chilean and is easier live here. Since then I have traveled to many places thank to my parents.

First, I like to know other cultures (some different from us or similar). With my mother we have the custom of go to the supermarket and see what products we found distinct to bring. The same happen with the food, we like prove (depending to where we are) typical dishes. Traveling also helps to disconnect from the routine, of course to rest (if it is a vacation trip) and to live new adventures that sometimes where you live you can´t do or don´t exist. For example, when we went to Easter Island casually in that month the celebration of the "Tapati" occurs or in Guatemala participate in a religious ritual of the deity "Maximón".

I am very grateful for the opportunities that I have had and I hope to continue traveling alone or accompanied to have new experiences, because there is a lot of world to know and explore.

With my mom in Guatemala 

With my parents in southern Chile

Like many people, I also thought about studying other careers, such as gastronomy or psychology, but I decided to study what I really want, so I won't regret it later.

I started studying lyric singing when I was 14 years old at the Academy of Veronica Villarroel and there I prepared to enter the university of Chile. I always thought of that university because it´s the best in Chile to study this career. It´s a problem that in our country there aren´t too many institutions prepared for musical careers and also concentrate on the capital.

But everything isn´t bad, I have learned many things over these years: musical theory (of course, very necessary in this career), phonetics of several languages, acting skills, teamwork and the most important thing is the discipline created by the years of work.  Also, from my own experience, I have learned that development is unique in each person, because the instrument is our body and we must always take care of it, that is why they are years and years of study, one never finishes perfecting.

In short, through good and bad, it allows us to meet new people, work with them and create ties, in Chile or abroad.

In the summer of 2008 (when I was 10 years old) with my parents we went on vacation to two different places, but for me it was the best to know Easter Island or Rapa Nui, which is an island located in Polynesia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and 5 hours and a half flying from Santiago.

We were there for a week, enough to tour the island well because it is not very big. It only has one town and unlike other Polynesian islands; it has few beaches, but it does not take away how pretty it is.

We did many activities, of course we went to a beach (Anakena beach), but we also saw the famous moais (you can find them everywhere on their altars), we went to two quarries, where they made the pukao (moai hats) and where they made the moais. Furthermore, our travel coincided with the Tapati celebration.

This trip is especial because I knew another part of Chile and another culture with my family, now we hardly travel together, I usually just do it with my mom. In addition to this, my favorite activity was watching the sunrise through the Ahu Tongariki.

I have gone to Japan for many years, since I was a child and I hope that my dreams come true someday.  My love to this country started when I began to watch anime (maybe is the most common cause), but over time I discovered other aspects of their culture that it is very different from ours.

If I go to Japan I like to do many activities, for that I will stay in the country a long time, a month or two, because I do not only want to visit the capital, Tokyo, but also other cities for the purpose of knowing as well as possible.  I wish taste their characteristic dishes like ramen, okonomiyaki and the typical sushi, on traditional restaurants, not the touristic. Anyway, eat as they eat. Besides, I would love to know the temples, walk through Shibuya (it is an iconic place), go to the Nara park (where you can see a lot of deer and you can give them food) and perhaps use a kimono.

If possible, I want to travel during the Japanese spring, because hanami happens (when cherry blossoms bloom).

My favorite place

If I had to choose a place where I enjoy being in it I would have to say that it is the cinema. I don´t remember when was the first time that I went, but since 5 years ago approximately I watch a movie at the cinema every 2 or 3 month, sometimes every month, depending on the cinema billboard.

I like it because it's something very simple to do and you can go with whoever you want, for example your family, friends or couple. Besides that, it´s always variable due to the constant premieres and the film production, so you never get bored of going, but the most important thing is that I like movies, otherwise it wouldn´t be a fun place for me.  

In general, I like to watch movies with original language and subtitled, but when they are animation movies they are always in Spanish and I usually watch a variety of movie types, because I don´t have many preferences, I really like the movies based on real events. ("Woman in Gold" or "The Danish Girl”).

By habit and comfort, I go to cinemas that are close and accessible from where I live if I go by subway, my favorite is the one inside the mall "costanera center" (cineplanet) and I also have discounts and promotions in that place because I´am a member of that movie theater chain since I was a child.

Cineplanet. Mall Costanera Center

My blogging experience

This is the last blog and it makes me think about my experience writing, especifically in English.

I have a love and hate relationship with the English because in my firt school the classes were bad and when I changed to another school the classes were more difficult, but the theacher  never helped me to level off with my classmates, so I surrended.  As the years go, I returned to change the school and I begun to be interested but I had  too much kwonledge holes, even I have.

Whith this blogs I found a difficulty, because although I like read and write, is not the same that writing in English, I feel restricted for my grammar knowledge. In generally I think a lot and it´s complicate to me find the right words added put my thought in order in addition to put my thought in order.  It also happens to me that some phrases in Spanish or certain words I can´t find a way to translate them and in the end, writing a blog is a long task, but these evaluations helped me to improve that ability, to modify my mind in a certain way, because English grammar is different from our grammar.

Speaking / writing about topics related to one was very useful to approach and start developing the drafting ability, but I would like to touch musical issues because there are specific words in our major that are necessary in the future when we decide to travel to other countries to study or work.

In my major, depending on the year that one is studing, there are different subjets like musical theory or phonetic but at the present time my favorite subject is "Ópera", of course, I also like my principal subjetc (canto) because I can experiment in divers types of repertoire and that is what motivates me. 

Ópera is a subjet where basically we learn about how to sing and act at the same time to tell a story and the name comes from the musical genre.  I liked it for many reasons, the proffesor is very good (I love him), the last year he taught us how to express emotions through the vocal inflexions and he is meticulous too, besides, is a subject ensemble and there is a lot a work to do in conections with others, the ópera doesn´t work alone, but it can be bad because if a person doesn´t go to rehearsals or  doesn´t study the part, our work is delayed. 

At the end nevertheless, it´s very fun be a character in an opera, be a different person with different clothes, it´s an experience and I am more freely when I sing acting.

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