Between Christie and Poe

When we talk about books, we can say that there are a huge variety of them. We can find about every topic in the world, kitchen, science, children’s, cars, fairy tales, etc. Each of them is written with an intention for the reader and beginning this, each author decides how to form its production with images, acknowledges, the body of the main story or topic, etc. That is the way these two famous authors worked their entire lives: Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe. These two authors, known because of many productions that made them famous a parted from each other, made their careers based in fictitious stories that liked readers from every age around the world.

On one hand Agatha Christie, an English writer wrote around 79 novels and hundreds of short stories transformed into movies and plays on theatres. She wrote books like “Black Coffee”, “Love from a stranger”, “Cards on the table”, etc. On the other hand Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer, poet and romantic journalist, was known because of his short stories and his horror tales. He wrote stories like “The oval portrait”, “A dream within a dream”, “The masque of the red death”, etc. In all these productions we can see the differences between these two ways of writing that they have.

Let’s analyze two of the most famous books to compare how they usually describe and tell their stories. Firstly we will take “The million dollars bonds robbery” by Agatha Christie, which tells a short story about a theft of money that belongs to “The London and Scottish bank”. Secondly, we will choose “The gold bug” written by Edgar Allan Poe that tells another short story about a man who find a strange kind of insect on the shore which it will take him to a tremendous treasure. From the first time we listen the titles of each story, we can imagine that the topic of each story are very different between them. We can infer that they are destined to different people according to the age, and this first sight it’s not so far from the general vision.

The story written by Agatha Christie is about relations among people, but not any people, people from a bank so that relations are full of speech, treatments, lies, treachery, etc. while Poe’s story is about adventures, creatures, magic, etc., something more interesting for children. Besides, in the first one, the author is very descriptive. Christie gives the whole description with little details to make the reader imagine her same vision; meanwhile the second one gives the chance to imagine in any other way. Why this happens? Her intention giving the details is because the mystery plays with these details, focused in the environment because of its importance for the development of the story, unlike “the gold bug” in which Poe focus his writings in the facts of the story, the situation is the important thing no matter the details.

The vocabulary that Agatha uses in her book, is more complex than Allan’s one. She includes words in French and concepts like “Mal de mer” that the meaning requires some knowledge of culture to understand it well, otherwise you can’t it’s difficult to understand because it’s not possible to look for that in dictionaries. With these features, we can infer that these books haven’t been posted to the same rank of age as I said before. That’s something that we can check with the fact that the author of one of these books, of the gold bug to be more specific, uses pictures with the texts. That is a characteristic way to create books for children. Hence with all of these, we can see Christie wrote her book for people older than the readers of Poe’s one.

Therefore, with all of this stuff, we can see how authors of books choose different ways to form their books depending of the rank of age. You can’t create a book for children with no pictures, because pictures are what they see at first! They love draws and it is a way to help them, imagine the monsters and heroes whose the writer, is talking about. Even there are some little kids that when they are starting with readings, they only look the draws understanding the main fact of the story or unless the characters in some situations. Nevertheless, there are books to adults that have small lyrics in each paper, with the intention to have more information compressed to make the reader a fast reading.

Hence we can see that each author catches the attention of the public in many ways. With or without images or the weight of books, the important thing is the content, and that’s what people love, getting involved with the characters and the world the author presents us.

In my opinion, I think these two kinds of books are good options for entertainment with fast readings. In my case, I used to read with my mom many types of books since I was a child and the things was that, with an adult, all kinds of readings can be very good. Of course, the books of Edgar Allan Poe are more recommended to children because of all what I said but the books of Agatha Christie, with some help, can make kids be interested in different and advanced type of reading. With these activities, we can increase children’s reading, and this can be very useful for their future.

The two famous writers gave the world a different way to tell stories and the mystery and magic of all their productions can make people believe that there is a fantastic world in which everything can happens: your head. The imagination is very important in the development of people, and this is a way to believe that nothing is so urgent, so serious, only for adults. With the imagination, we can play, and let the kid that we have inside our hearts, being alive.

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propiedad intelectual

La tecnología avanza cada día más con el objeto de facilitar nuestras actividades cotidianas. Es así como además de aportar en el área de las ciencias, aporta en todas las áreas que el hombre ha estudiado durante estos últimos siglos y una de las beneficiadas es el área de las letras. Contar con programas que faciliten la escritura, ortografía, orden y formalidad ha permitido al hombre crear textos que contengan idas, historias, estudios y un sinfín de información escrita que se puede conservar y dar uso de manera física. Así, la educación cuenta con información escrita y a lo largo de la historia de la educación estos textos han servido para la enseñanza de la mayoría de los alumnos quienes han adquirido la mayoría de sus conocimientos leyendo la información contenida en los libros. Sin embargo, estos textos si bien tienen la patente y la seguridad de ser propiedades privadas de sus autores, hoy en día la información que hay en internet también tiene propietarios, pero con el afán de facilitar la información que hay en la red, éstas tienen el peligro de ser copiadas y plagiadas por visitantes de los sitios donde se encuentran los escritos. La propiedad intelectual se define como “el reconocimiento de un derecho en particular a favor de un autor u otros titulares de derechos, sobre las obras del intelecto humano” lo que señala el hecho de la apropiación de información por parte de sus creadores. Es esto lo que hoy se cumple pero no en su totalidad, y por ello se debiese crear una forma más estricta para no correr el riesgo de sufrir robos intelectuales. Claro está que si esto ocurriera habría un cambio enorme de manejo de información a nivel mundial. Se supone que el avance que ha habido con la disponibilidad de información es un hecho que ha facilitado mucho a las nuevas generaciones, por lo tanto la dependencia que se ha creado con esta situación provocaría un gran descontento general. Los más perjudicados serían los estudiantes que se han criado en una Era donde todos los escritos se encuentran online y tienen el privilegio de poder ser copiados y pegados. Requeriría de un cambio de ship general que probablemente no les sea muy fácil y en definitiva, como son las nuevas generaciones, no se permitiría. Pero con todo esto, ¿es en realidad un avance?. Lamentablemente si lo miramos a nivel macro, no lo es puesto que pudiendo copiar tan fácilmente la información que se necesita desde internet, los navegadores alrededor del mundo no desarrollan un escrito propio, solo se repite la misma información para todos y no se logra desarrollar la habilidad de creación y eso es indispensable para el futuro de nuestros actuales estudiantes ya que serán ellos los que desarrollen y lleven a cabo las próximas investigaciones en distintas áreas de la humanidad. Es así como una vez más podemos ver que la tecnología actúa como facilitador en nuestras vidas, sin embargo en este caso la tecnología está facilitando de tal modo que la gente disponga de escritos y los utilice como información propia, algo que no significa un avance para la humanidad en el ámbito de estudios, sino una imposibilidad y un estancamiento intelectual a nivel mundial.

Las TIC en la educación chilena

A lo largo de la historia educacional en nuestro país, hemos sufrido grandes cambios lógicamente en pos de mejorar cada vez más las técnicas de enseñanza y esto ha traído consigo una actualización general de acuerdo con las tecnologías que nos ha presentado el mundo debido a la globalización. Más allá de los beneficios que esta actualización nos entregue, es necesario detenerse a pensar si las técnicas que Chile ha logrado adaptar gracias a influencias extranjeras, son o no las adecuadas para un progreso efectivo. Chile como todos los países del mundo, se caracteriza por presentar muchas y variadas realidades aun cuando pertenezcamos todos a la misma nación. No podemos comparar, claro está, la educación que se lleva a cabo al sur de nuestro país en islas muy lejanas con cualquier ciudad moderna como lo son Santiago o Concepción, y esto se muestra de manera notoria. Esto ocurre debido a razones geográficas y demográficas así como también por razones económicas. Es así como las realidades presentes en todo el territorio chileno ameritan distintos tipos de técnicas con las que realizar un proceso de aprendizaje. Con esto, queda más que claro que la manera de educar en un contexto, aun cuando sea efectivo en un lugar, en otro puede ser un total desastre. Con el tiempo pareciera ser que esto no ha sido tomado en cuenta y se ha vuelto muy común ver escuelas rurales con equipamientos computacionales totalmente destrozados o abandonados debido a su inutilización. ¿Es problema de los alumnos?, ¿de los profesores?, ¿de los encargados de estos “laboratorios computacionales”? la respuesta es clara, enviar equipamiento computacional sin tener en cuenta el contexto al cual se debe adaptar es un gran error y eso está a cargo de las grandes autoridades de nuestro país. Las tecnologías hoy en día son muy importantes, sin embargo no son la única y más efectiva forma de enseñar para los profesores. Las TIC (tecnologías de la información y comunicación) son un método que el ministerio de educación ha querido integrar en la educación debido a la Era del Internet que vive nuestra actual generación y busca la integración de todos los alumnos a un mundo globalizado y de información fácil de conseguir. ¿Es efectivo contar hoy en día con ellas en nuestro país? Sí, lo son, ya que como se dijo anteriormente son muy útiles para conseguir información y brinda accesibilidad a todos para trabajar con equidad. Pero, si no se tiene conocimiento suficiente para su utilización, ¿resulta factible integrarlas de igual forma? Chile debería invertir en TIC pero teniendo en cuenta de antemano, el contexto en el que se pondrán a disposición estos equipamientos. Así, por ejemplo, en ciudades capacitadas para esta tecnología debiesen tener a disposición todo tipo de equipos computacionales, y en lugares más lejanos a lo que es “ciudad”, deberían tener también a disposición estos equipos y con esto a alguien encargado que sepa manejar y enseñar a manejarlos. Es un hecho que a medida que pase el tiempo, será cada vez más necesario tener conocimiento de las nuevas tecnologías y finalmente serán imprescindibles para nuestras vidas, pero no podemos centrarnos sólo en una manera de educar. Hay tantas formas de llevar a cabo un aprendizaje como docentes para hacerlos y eso debemos respetarlo, puesto que la creatividad es una habilidad que se agradece y lamentablemente se pierde cada vez más debido a la facilidad de copiar que existe hoy en Internet.

One story, two formats

Throughout the years, we have witnessed how authors of best novels and written stories have transformed their stories to movies or into great films telling them in a similar or a different way. Books usually tell the stories in a “describing way” because of the possibility that words gives us to explain and capture features of places, stuff, environment, smells, frangances, people features etc. And in movies, the image of a scene is important, but no more than the story itself.

The story of “The million Dollar Bond Robbery” by Agatha Christie is about a theft of Scotland and London bank’s money in a liner while is crossing the sea to come to New York to increase the credits in that country. The case is investigated by Mr. Poirot who must to find the person that planned this huge robbery. Everything starts with a conversation between a woman and an important investigator: Mr. Poirot. She goes to visit him with the intention to ask him for help because of her fiancé’s troubles. Her fiance was in charge of the money that was stolen from its package in a trip aboard “The Olympia” so at that time, he was the only one guilty. Nevertheless, the lady was pretty sure that his future husband wasn’t the guilty so she wanted Mr. Poirot to discover the real guilty in this case. Mr. Poirot heard her version and then her fiance’s version to start the investigation. Then he goes to visit every single person involve in this case, any character to talk to him and corroborate his still uncertain theories. To summarize, Mr. Vavasour, the director of “London and Scottish Bank”, as I said before, wanted to increase credits outside the country to reach more area to make business. He and his associate Mr. Shaw put a million dollar bond in a locked package to transport it by a liner: “The Olympia” making responsible to the assistant general manager Mr. Ridgeway (lady’s fiancé) who was the only one that had to carry on the bonds, having the special key to open the package. So in that trip the package was opened and the bonds were stolen. The story ends when Mr. Poirot corroborates the whole story making the pieces complete the puzzle. He discovers that one of the characters within the people in charge of the money was contacted with a guy outside to steal the money before it aboard “The Olympia”. This character was Mr. Shaw who was really close to the director of “London and Scottish Bank” Mr. Vavasour, who contacted a person to receive the money and sell the bonds in New York before “The Olympia” arrived to that country.

There are many differences between the movie and the book, starting with the way it was told. The story in the book is told by Hastings while in the movie is told from outside the story. Besides, the story in the movie suffered some changes with the times within the story. Let me explain myself. The story in the book it is told in past, telling the facts of the theft days ago, and with this, the case must be found out by Mr. Poirot time after. In the movie, the story is in the present and Mr. Poirot must look for the guilty during the stolen is happening. In the video, Mr. Vavasour, the general director of the bank, with his associate Mr. Shaw, calls to Mr. Poirot to avoid the possible robbery they could suffer. They both are in charge to make this trip in the liner called “The Queen Mary” unlike in the written format called “The Olympia” and if one of them has any problem, it would be replaced by Mr. Ridgeway who always show how interested was to make this trip because of his necessity of the money because of his gambling. During the development of the story in the video format, characters like Mr. Ridgeway, give many clues to make the receptor doubt of everybody in the case. But finally everything make sense and the links are evident.

In my opinion, I have always enjoyed both ways of format to tell stories, I mean in movies or in books. But it’s different and in this case it was very well shown. For example my favorite book is called “A place called Here” which is full of description, something that you do not realize when you watch a movie. This fact happens because you focus your attention in the story instead the details of the presentation (environment). Even though sometimes the director or the producer of the movie tries to create a complete image, we need to see the scene repeated times to find details that we usually do not watch at the first time, that’s the reason why people like me likes watching the same movie many times. So in the books you enjoy when you uses words and phrases to create your own image to imagine what is happening with the story and among the characters in there. With the written story of “The million Dollar Bond Robbery” happens the same. The book plays with vocabulary including words in French, and writing dialogues mixed with description, enough to make the story more fun and interesting. But these were not enough in a video so we could see that the story has to be changed. Anyway when I have the option to read or watch a movie with the same story, I have to decide very well because it always happens to me that if I read a book, then the movie is awful for me, but when I only watch the movie, I enjoy it so much anyway. In Agatha Cristie’s story, I liked both ways but if I have to decide which I preferred, I could say that I preferred the video, because I like this kind of acting, it reminds me when I watch movies with my dad any Sunday afternoon and he starts to guess everything. Stories like this one helps me to increase my vocabulary in a funny way, and when it’s about books and stories, I enjoy very much reading them over again.

My special friend forever

I was in high school when I saw him. He was so handsome, there was a close resemblance between him and my platonic love, so I fell in love quickly with Zac. As time passed, at first I met his friends, who were skaters and friends of some friends of mine. However, it was difficult to me to meet him, because he was really shy and he didn’t use to meet people by himself. So in that situation, I had to find a way to get there. But in that period, something happened. A friend of him started to talk to me so we started a very good relationship, something that with the time, it turned to a romance. Yes, it was beautiful, but I walked away from Zac increasingly. Anyway, time passed and all of that finished, so I realized that Zac was still in my heart. With the time, Zac’s friends were still friends of mine so I decided to get close to him, anyway, he knew I does existed… I wasn’t invisible. So one day, I was in my city’s park when he arrived (of course I knew perfectly he will come), and I said hello to him to start a conversation. It was awful! Because of my nerves, but… it was the start of something new. Then we start talking often, he used to go riding bicycle to take me to a restaurant with the idea of chatting and eat chocolate cakes, unforgettable. With this, we became friends, and it was amazing the way we used to find opportunities to chat and laugh. Nevertheless, we didn’t have the courage to say anything so; we didn’t do anything until somebody appeared in his life. I lost my chance and I fell in sadness. I had to forget him, to don’t suffer more later. Then years passed and we didn’t have communication, but one day we joined in the downtown, and started talking again. We remembered past times and we laughed again. Now Zac is beside me, as my boyfriend, talking and laughing as friends, but with deeper feelings than time ago.

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A love story

Do you remember Mr. Boggis? Yes the man who used to wear a disguise to cheat people with the objective to make business related to pieces of furniture. Well, time after his failed story with “The Chippendale Commode” in which he had to see his future fortune broken in huge pieces of the commode he anxiously wanted, he had to returned to the reality and follow to devise to cheat people around London getting what he wanted. Well this success changed everything, I will tell you why. Mr Boggis was a smart kid, his parents knew from the beginning he will be really intelligent in his entire life to take good decisions to be the best in whatever he wanted and so he does. Boggis grew up and he was the best in his studies in London and his parents and whole family where very proud of him. But something happened when he was teenager. He met a girl, a beautiful girl as smart as him. They met while they were making charity activities with father McKenzie, the priest of the nearest church in London, England. He saw her and immediately fell in love.They started to chat everyday and every moment they could be together. She fell in love too. They lived the best summer together ever and they became a couple and also friends. Until she had to come back to her country. Yes, she came from Ireland to visit her relatives in London and he didn’t know that, until that moment. When he realized about their reality, he was the saddest boy in the world. She wouldn’t come back ever. She should have to help her father with the company of furniture. Girl’s father has this company far away from Dublin, in a town called Cork where they live too. So they had to come back as soon as possible to Ireland because of the company’s clients. The couple was quite sad but they had to go away anyway because their lives where distant. He was unhappy, very unhappy, and the time passed and his sadness didn’t stop. He started to think lots of ways to travel and be with her, but he couldn’t because he had a future in London, according to what his parents wanted. But his interests changed and he didn’t want to be that kind of professional anymore. He wanted to make up something. Something related to her, something her family would accept and love. That will be… the most beautiful piece of furniture that anybody had seen ever. That would capture the attention of the world, and most important, the irish girl’s attention. But he should start seeing if he could be able to do that kind of talented creations working with specifically wood. So the time passed and he started to work with wood to continue with oak and other kinds of strong materials. He wanted then to demonstrate to his parents that he didn’t want to continue his studies at the university, instead that, he would be an artist. However they hated the idea. Boggis had to take a decision and had to leave the house as soon as possible. He had to organize himself and had to think about some issues that in his past life were his parents’ issues. How could he get enough money for living? With which money he could eat every day? Where he will live? These ones were questions that he wondered for a long time, but well, his love for her were bigger than everything. But his interests changed once again. Time passed and Boggis became the man you knew at Preacher’s Delight story. Actually his job became to be his life! His pieces of furniture were his passion nowadays and all his life was related to his business. His love for the Irish girl disappeared for him… well… that was what he thought and felt. So after the episode of the commode, he realized his job turned a lie because he suddenly started to cheat people and he turned his job only to business and win money instead what was deeply in his heart: creation. So time after the story of the commode that you know, in fact, he decided to return to what he really used to enjoy. He ment his workshop to start with the creation because he knew he developed a special talent. Many months later, he had enough different pieces of furniture to buy or make an exposition. Which would be the best option?
One day he saw on the newspaper about an exhibition of wood pieces of furniture. He received this as a sign and of course and decided to go, because something tells him he had to be there. So the day of the exhibition came and he went with his best pieces of furniture, beautiful pieces made with the best oak and the best details. Being there he realized his work was really different than the others. His were original and made with natural materials with a stamp and not like the others that were simple and commercial. He was free of clients who were asking and buying his work since he came, when suddenly a wonderful woman arrived to his place. He saw her and discovered immediately who was. How do not remember her spectacular blue eyes? Whose shy expression in her face used to drive him crazy the warm days during that summer… it wasn’t any doubt and nothing had changed in their hearts… they were still in love with each other and life wouldn’t get apart again…

The book The Jack Randa Hotel made me think about what I want to my future. Ok I would like to be a professional with a lot of tittles to get a good job. I like the idea about teaching in a University because I could treat with people who will be interested in the language of English no like in a school where the students are there by obligation. So I would like that after my many trips around the world to improve my skills. But the thing is that is not the only aspect that I want in my life. I have been living my life with a wonderful family and they are my support whenever and wherever I am so is also something that I want to have… a family. But how could I have these BIG things good together? Could I? it’s really difficult I mean a good professional getting a lot of job needs a lot of time to do the things. For example a good doctor is working in a hospital full time and he doesn’t have the time for other things out of his work! So that disgusting! But the person that is working part time can take care the house, children, etc. So which will be my choice? That’s a really difficult decision and sometimes we can’t choose too. What about the big mistakes that people do?. So that makes you stop with your plans to the future. I can see that in my parents. My mother was pregnant when she was at university so she had to pause her career. Then she never came back because she wanted to be with her first daughter, also then I arrived so the family was complete. But she couldn’t continue with her studies so she had to wait time later to do it to be the teacher that she is. I think is what she did but I don’t want that. The thing is that I need to find a husband, a great husband to be with me in my family and the things that I want to my future… a husband like my dad. But I think nowadays doesn’t exist…

my future?

The book The Jack Randa Hotel made me think about what I want to my future. Ok I would like to be a professional with a lot of tittles to get a good job. I like the idea about teaching in a University because I could treat with people who will be interested in the language of English no like in a school where the students are there by obligation. So I would like that after my many trips around the world to improve my skills. But the thing is that is not the only aspect that I want in my life. I have been living my life with a wonderful family and they are my support whenever and wherever I am so is also something that I want to have… a family. But how could I have these BIG things good together? Could I? it’s really difficult I mean a good professional getting a lot of job needs a lot of time to do the things. For example a good doctor is working in a hospital full time and he doesn’t have the time for other things out of his work! So that disgusting! But the person that is working part time can take care the house, children, etc. So which will be my choice? That’s a really difficult decision and sometimes we can’t choose too. What about the big mistakes that people do?. So that makes you stop with your plans to the future. I can see that in my parents. My mother was pregnant when she was at university so she had to pause her career. Then she never came back because she wanted to be with her first daughter, also then I arrived so the family was complete. But she couldn’t continue with her studies so she had to wait time later to do it to be the teacher that she is. I think is what she did but I don’t want that. The thing is that I need to find a husband, a great husband to be with me in my family and the things that I want to my future… a husband like my dad. But I think nowadays doesn’t exist…

if i were a singer ...

Since I was a little kid I wanted to be a singer. It was my dream during my whole childhood and I still imagine sometimes my life if I were a singer. Well with my 19 years old there are a lot of singers starting with their careers but I don’t know, I love to do it but I think I couldn’t be one of them, I don’t have enough personality to be a singer , I can’t sing in front of public because I get nervous and that’s really unpleasant. So for me to sing it’s a kind of hobby and I really love to do it when I’m alone or in front of some friends because of the confidence. Besides there are some friends that play the guitar so it’s great when we become a band when we sing and prepare songs to record them. But that’s something that I can do in real life, no more than that, the other things related to be a famous superstar are just in my mind. So let’s start to play… if I were a singer I think it would be amazing because I could travel around the world visiting beautiful places and fancy hotels in which I could enjoy everything that I want! BUT there is something important to mention… I wouldn’t like to be alone singing in a stage, I would like to be in a girlband! With other girls… two more would be great. So I could enjoy everything that I want with them, I think in group things are better, being with friends the moments are unforgettable! So if I were a singer of a girlband I would like to buy a lot of new clothes and a Volkswagen beetle car that I love! And I would like to go to tv shows presenting our new singles and discs everywhere singing with our fans. Also if I were a famous person I would like to influence in a good way in my fans because I think the kind of our music will be to teenagers so they sometimes need help with their “teen troubles” so I could do something through the lyrics to them . But besides these superficial things that I would like to get and do I think if I were a popular singer I would care with people who hasn’t the possibility to get basic things, maybe if I were a singer I would like to help a charity foundation giving part of the money that we should win on concerts and tours. I think that would be things in general that I would do if I were a singer… then I think I would like to grow old with another singer being married with children and I don’t know maybe in a beautiful house with a very quiet life out of paparazzi because I really love the way to live of my family so I would like to have the same but being famous. And well apart of the fancy things I would be a singer only because of my love for the music .

my view of magic things

honestly when i was a kid i didn't believe in anything related to monsters or bad things in general. I used to see the world with a pink color believing in fairies, princess, castles and traditional characters . And i think that was my world until i realized Viejito Pascuero didn't exist. No joking that was something really strange for me... not bad but was something that changed my view of the world and bad and good things and i think that notice wasn't so cruel for me because i was older hahaha i was 9 years old more or less and i think i was the only one among my friends that still believed. But well everybody changed for me... i continued watching kids movies while my friends were watching their first horros movies. They all were talking about the deep scared that they felt when they saw X movie and when they couldn't sleep well because of that, etc. But i was still watching Tarzan and other films with my dad in our favorite couch. But when i was with my friends in a pajama party i saw my first horror movie, and it was HORRIBLE. we were watching the movie in my freinds house where the sounds were everywhere because of the home theatre that we were using to watch the movie. It was really late and we were in a dark room . The movie was "the exorcism of Emily Rose" and it was an amazing story because it had things related to the hell and that's not a topic for me beacuse i have been catholic my whole life and for me God have been present everytime so the hell for me wasn't in my mind as a character. It was there when i started to think about "bad things" and spirits and things like that. Was strange for me because i started to ask everybody about that things and my mom was complicated about it because she knew that i was scared so she used to tell me hey there is a God taking care of you from the heaven so please pray and think about beautiful things like you used to do it. But it wasn't easy. Anyway in that time i started also to imagine spirits and talk about that things with my classmates and friends. But the time passed and that wasn't really important for me. Now that we are talking about monsters and house monsters in this item i realized that i was in a bubble with no bad things and that's wonderful because that's something that i have to be greatful with my family beacuse they made me feel free of scare a lot of time believing only in good things that made me keep the ilussion of magic in our world (:

my class :D

cheating for me has a lot of ways of view... why? well it started in high school. But first in primary i was a really good student, i used to study everyday and get really good califications because of my mom and i don't mean that she was always helping me with my homework or forcing me to study and read everyday like a sargent, no! she is a teacher so she taught me to study alone since i was a little kid, of course when i need help she was there either my dad. But i used to do it alone and i had some techniques also, to study well. But when i started with high school everything changed. I was older and i started to have another kinds of troubles in my mind... i was 14 years old more or less and i fell in love, i satrted to go to parties with my friends, fashion things started to be important for me and so on. Everything changed because i started to "teen things" and studying wasn't the most importante thing ever for me so that happened with all of my friends and classmates too. What happened later? well, as a class, we had to help each other and of course start to cheating... no everytbody but most of us. We were in a very good school but it wasn't a limit to cheat in tests. And that was during 4 years... yeas 4 years cheating with no regrets. Personally i admit that i did it a lot of times but my conscience where really dirty so i stopped to do it and my friends stopped too. But my classmates carried on until the final tests. Nowadays they are studying at university... well... some of them. the onces who used to cheat had to change the way to act in front of tests and start to study because we started to depend of their own knowledges. So when i talk to them they said to me they realized that they where wrong and they wasted a lot of time and knowledge from our teachers and well, they were stealing information from others. Now they know that at university we can't cheat and the comsequences about it are maybe the worst so they don't even try. But now we see the past and we just laugh about it because there weren't more comsequences and we know that we were just kids trying to save ourselves. But also there were ones some of my classmates that lost his way to study so they lost the training and it was really hard to them return to do it and get good and succesful results. And that obvious because we waste time doing another things and we just think that we will be safe with other classmates so it was hard but they wanted to be better and professionals so they had to do something acordding to their regrets. But that was part of my story in high school and now i can't cheat and no because of the comsequences, because of my conscience and i will be a professional and the knowledge that now i'm receiving are tools with which i'll work in some years more so i have to develop my own skills creating by myself whatever that i have to do at university.

healthy life

sincerelly i'm not a healthy person and that's my fault. Well my parents usually try to force me to eat vegetables and healthyly BUT i'm always trying to avoid them hahaha and i know it's not good but i still do it. Anyway in my house my mom tries to cook vegetables and good food ( i mean with a lot of vitamins and low-calories food ) and it's an habbit to eat vegetables... unless a dish with lettuce hahaha but that's ok i like it. So everyone in my house eat very healthyly ... but me as an exception. I know of course that i have to change this... i'm working with that but i don't know ... for me vegetables and low-calories food are food for birds! really ! i used to eating a lot! and i'm not talking about good food... in fact i used to eating sandwiches everyday unless 3 by day and sodas , and i love eating french fries :D and well ... i'm not fat so i don't care... now :P! anyway i'll change it i swear! ... ok also what i really do not eat are fruits, they are not in my diet and my parents have been trying to force me to eat it my whole life! but i hate it! i don't like its taste and i think i haven't eaten an apple for years! but there are some fruits that i eat in summer for example watermelon or grapes. But not during the year so fruits for me are not really important... well it should be, another point to change in my life . But food it's not everything in our lives... it seems like ! for me haha but it's not. About the excercise well i'm better in this point... not at all but much better than in food. My dad is a very sportman and he usually goes to job riding bycicle having got car and moto ... but he prefers the bycicle because of the traffic and he says that he loves moving his legs hahaha. Also he is always going to climb everywhere alone or... with me! yeah most of the time in summer but it starts in spring, it's so good i really have fun with him because we talk a lot and we enjoy the nature together. But nowadays i'm not doing anything about excercise because i'm not with him... ok well it's not an excuse but for me it is! in San Fernando i've got my bycicle and my partner (: him! and here well Talca is a city unknown for me yet so i can't ride a bike here alone! and i don't have any partner to do excercise so i don't do anything... but anyway i thought this last week so i talked to my dad and we told me that we would go out every weekend in bycicle together again ! last sunday we did it ! but with my best friend too and it was amazing we three laugh all the time and we rode 2 kilometres and we had our tongues out of our mouths hahahhaa and my dad far away from us ! like a bird and with camila like two beautiful elephants hahaha but it was incredible and i think it will repeat it :D

her & him

Paula
impatient, so lady
loving, waiting, supporting
hope, faith, affection, confidence
studying, having fun, loving
patient, so gentle
Paul

sunlight spring

spring, one of my favourites seasons and maybe my favourite part of the year... that's because we passed the first part of the year and in spring we are almost in december and celebrating christmas the beeeeeeeeeest part of the year for me and my family... but i'll talk about christmas in other blog maybe hahaha now i will talk about what is spring for me. First of all spring is the time of light, flowers, green trees and areas, pleasant wind, sunshine and a lot of beautiful things. When september arrives, arrives too the celebrations i mean my friends, almost everybody! has their day, happy birthdays everywhere! and that's amazing because i start to write letters and look for the perfect prizes to them. So i start 4th and it never stop! then we celebrate the independence day so we continue celebrating! and that's only the beggining ! the first parte of the season... then everthing calm down and return to be normal... but the days are longer because of the light of the day and the day are not so cold as before so we try to enjoy every each minute ... or at least, me. October is a really quiet month , i try to make more activities than months before so i feel really alive! and happier tan ever! so i try to ask my dad to ride a bike and go to different but natural places to see green views, something that my dad loves and me too of course, also i try to get dress better with pretty colors and clothes with sunglasses and things like that.When i was younger and i was at school i used to go out with my friends averyday after school to take an ice cream or just walk, i remember that always! because at the end of the year we were like huge cows hahaha yeah we used to eat a lot so we became fat hahaha but we were really careful because of our bodies on summer so we started to go to the gym to be thiner or better to go to the beach without problems, yeah, spring is the moment to try to prepare our phisics to go to the beach or just be wonderful to wear wonderful clothes too and try to keep all the male attention of course hahaha. That days were so great! i mean, my girls were the best! and the moments too so i've got a beautiful remember of that school spring days. Talking about this, that's an important point, spring is before summer and summer is MY FAVORITE SEASON until the temperature drive me crazy , but in spring we prepare mind and phisic to be good on summer. I try to eat less but that a false try because i can't having the grandmother that i have and the mother that i have hahaha yeah they are veeeery good cookers so it's impossible tell the NO with one of their delicious dishes. But i have the privilege of be thin and do not get fat so i'm happy with that and i don't regret then. but i hace another privilege and that is that i'm alive, and i've got my whole body to enjoy everything that nature and life itself brings me, like the light in my face and all my senses discovering one new thing time after time (:

Chile's Bicentenary

This year has been really hard to our country because we started with the biggest earthquake that we have ever heard. The thing is that we had to support to all of our people here helping them with a lot of ways, we made a telethon to collect money to some food, clothes, bed-clothes, mattresses, and money to build new houses to the people that need it. But that shock was awful because we lost a lot of material things and also we were really scared before and after the movement. And that event was one of the most important events, months later we had to support to our football team because of the world cup ! we didn’t win but we enjoyed it very much because we won 2 of 3 games and we really dreamed with that cup, that was great ! Another breaking new that shocked to our people was the accident that 33 miners had in a mine, they have been there waiting for rescue during around 1 month… at first we thought that they were died but they weren’t! they survived with stronger and faith and we were so proud about the strength of our compatriots! But all of this is about our hard year and now in September we have to celebrate our country birthday! We usually meet with our families and enjoy meal with salads or different kind of foods too. But eating is not everything to us of course, we try to go to places called “fondas” they are a kind of place where people goes to eat something or drink something and play typical games. But the wrong part of this date is that many people drives crazy with all of that I mean they drink more than they should do it, or drink more and they get fat and everything turnaround in a bad way. On september 18 accidents are a lot and many people die because of the drink. That’s one of the bad things in this month but by the way we try to enjoy it with family and friends and this bicentenary will not the exception!

My winter vacation

Well, they started before everybody hahaha... and i'm not kidding. It was a tuesday when i decided to come back to my home. I was missing my family and friends and i had to wait 3 days to review my final marks... but i couldn't and i came back with no information about my final evaluation!... but i didn't care because i could see it by internet . Nothing of that happened so i saw my marks online and i felt happy about my first term. So i came back on tuesday and i said that i will arrive on friday even saturday! it was an amazing surprise to everybody and i felt so so happy! ^^ was incredible so that day i stayed at home with my family. On wednesday i started to be with my friends because they were on vacation and those days were the last to them so i had to be with them only that days. I was with my two best friends Camila and Karla , but also i was with an important friend, Pablo who was a very important person in high school until today... why? because he was my first guitarist! and the only one ever so i could sing with him a lot of songs and that was amazing because as you know, i love singing and it's one of my favourite things to do in my free time... not only in free time of course... every minute! :) ...and with him the conection is amazing to make me feel comfortable to sing :), by the way that was the first week. The second one was better , i went to Santiago with my dad and my sister to my aunt's apartment to stay there and make different kind of activities. First day we went shopping and we went to "biblioteca nacional" and "cerro Santa Lucia" because i really wanted to go there; next day we went to mercado central and that was amazing i really enjoyed when i was there with part of my family ! ... and then we decided to go to the cinema to see "karate kid" very good movie indeed. But then my dad has to come back to San Fernando because he was missing so much my mom so he traveled to San Fernando... alone, because with my sister decided to stay there hahaha. With that decision we could buy clothes and boots but more important than that was that i was with pablo again! :D hahaha yes with my friend, we could were together there visitting different places and singing and recording what we prepared , was... the best thing i think. But i had to come back :( so i traveled to San Fernando on friday to be with my parents and to have a rest. The next weeks was only friends <3 and family and was really good to be my winter vacation :D i didn't want to come back but well i had to do it because is what i have to do... and now i have to study ...to have my summer vacatioooooooooooon :D