Post 8: TRIPS

I never go to another country, so my trips they are always here in Chile.

I can divide my trips in two categories: first are vacations and second work trips. For my vacation trips I usually went to Chiloé, because my godfather lives there, all the times that I went to visit my Godfather (also is my Uncle) I ate a lot, my ant is a very handy cook, so any meal is delicious, I ate crabs, clams, baby mussel, mussel, fish (any kind), cheese, yoghurt, chapalele, milkao and Pulmay, so always I back to my home with a least 3 to 4 kilos more.

My Grandparents, for my father side, are from Talca, but I went to Talca when I was a child so I don’t remember so much of these trips. I went to Villarica when I have 13 years old, was a very funny trip, we share a house with my ant, uncle and cousin, we went to a hot springs in Coñaripe and visit “los ojos del Caburga”.

My grandfather, for my mother side, bought a hill near to Casa Blanca, one time we went to celebrated my grandfather‘s birthday, I remember him so happy because all the people that went to share that moment with him, also he was happy because I just was accepted in the University, he died that year, that was the last time that I was there.

All the times that I went to Viña del Mar was because my uncle and ant invited me, the last time that I went to Viña del Mar was because a work trip, I present a poster in a scientific meeting.

Post 7: About movies

Well, today I'm going to talk about movies... what types of movies I like, I really like all types of movie, more than types I prefer to tell you some names of movies.

I always like animated movies, like Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King (1994), Aladino (1992) and all the Disney's movies. In the recent years Pixar and Gibli are taking some higher relevance, they have beautiful movies, for example Wall-e (2008) and Up (2009) in the case of Pixar Animated studios, I'm just waiting for Toy Story 3 (2010); in the case of the Studio Gibli we have Tonari no Totoro (1988), the picture below is Totoro, and Mononoke-Hime (1997), I can mentioned a lot more but I thinks this is enough. Did you see Hotaru no Aka (1988) or Sen to Chihiro no Kamikasuhi (2001)?

You heard about Rashomon (1950), is a japanese movie that show the relation between observer-event, I really want to see it; also I want to see Metropolis (1927) , The Third Man (1949) and Citizen Kane (1941), these movies are considered as Classic Movies and is necessary to see it for culture. Talking about culture, some movies are part of our culture, and even if you don't see it, you can recognize some cliche from theme, like "I'm your father" from Star Wars. Also some movies make reference from "The Godfather" or "Matrix".

Finally you you need to see "Old Boy" (2003) and "Symphaty for lady vengeance"(2005) from the same director, the Koreans films are very good; and Pi (1998).

POST 6: WEBPAGES

I really like several WebPages, but there is not so much related to my profession, and with the related ones is possible to split them in two categories, the first is for look up information, and the second are for searching jobs.

For the first category I am going to mention only one Webpage: Science Direct, because I currently use it to find scientist works related to renewable resources, environmental modeling, remote sensing and Geographic Information System. It is really awesome the things that someone can find there. Scielo is like Science Direct but is a Webpage dedicated to Chilean journals, but doesn't have the so many scientist works like Science Direct




In the second category I have two pages,one of them I found it when I was searching for a job, this is Sustentable, this is a very simple Webpage, compare with others WebPages that I like; the second Webpage is Fundacion Chile, somebody that studied my same career and actually is working there tell me about the things that Fundacion Chile is doing not only to protect the environment, but also improvement the technology in the Industry and the Agro-Forest management.

POST 5:Les Animaux du Chili

To begin I want to say that I like cats, why?...well because they're mini lions, jajaja... sorry I was joking, I likes cats because they are beautiful animals, also I prefer cats because they're autonomous animals. But this is only talking about pets.

In the other hand, I want to mention that in Chile we have the very beautiful and unique fauna. For example: the Monito del monte and the yaca, the only marsupials in Chile,this is possible because once the Antartic, Africa, Australia an South America were joined. Once I hear that 42% of our frogs are autochthonous, so is only possible to find them here, like the Ranita de Darwin.

Also I can tell you wich animals are native but not autochthonous, like chickens, rabbits, wild boars, ferrets, Salmons, African frogs; the last four have a big impact over the environment, for example wild boar eat the eggs from the birds of the south of Chile, like Chucao. All the animals that I mentioned above came to Chile because economic concern.

I'm sure that I miss a lot of extraordinary animals, but I only have 200 words. Finally, I'm thinking of buy me a Chinchilla for a pet.