my favourite movie

I don't really know which my favorite movie is, because I always like watching a lot of movies, and I have a really bad memory, so I forget a lot ot the things I watch or read, but I think one that I really like is the science of sleep (La Science des rêves in French, and La Ciencia del sueño en español). The principal characters Stéphane (Gael García) and Stéphanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg). Stéphane is a really shy boy with amazing creative abilities, who has a job that doesn’t allow him to develop them, so with his great imagination and creativity he creates a world in the middle of dreams and reality. Here he will start creating a relationship with his neighbour Stéphanie, who will be part of this dream/reality mix. The story happens in France, when Stéphane come back to his mother’s house from Mexico, where he was living. My favrite part of the movie is when Stéphane start dreaming, because the places and situations he creates are incredibly nice, and also when he starts dreaming in the reality because it’s eccentric and bizarre. Sometimes for example he changes the reality, the people appearances and put them giant hands or strange clothes or things like that. The principal reason of why I like it’s because of how it shows the importance of imagination, and the possibility of creating new things from it. I also loved that it create so many amazing things with the mind and simple things that we always have, because it made me remember how much I liked creating things and expressing myself through the art.

About Santiago...

I think Santiago has a lot of things to see and do. I think the first thing anyone has to see in Santiago is the center of the city, all the historic buildings and important places like the ones near Plaza de Armas, to appreciate the architecture and the beauty of these places. In second place, to know about our gastronomy and enjoy the flavors and products of our land, is important to visit the Mercado Central, where you can eat fish and other sea products, and a lot of typical Chilean plates. In third place, a beautiful natural place to know in Santiago is the Mahuida Park, where you can enjoy the nature, make picnics, walk up the hill, and do more adrenaline activities, like bungee and things like that. Also, if you are interested in arts you should visit the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, and then walk around, knowing the Parque Forestal, and Barrio Lastarria. In the art aspect I think an important place to visit is Matucana 100, because there you can see not only the traditional or more museum-kind art that is in Bellas Artes. Here you can know more about different artists, some of them younger and with creative art concepts. Finally, if you want to go party, you can always go to a place in Bellavista, for example, if you like salsa you can go to Maestra Vida, or if you just want a beer and talk with your friends there are also a lot of places where you can go in the same area.
It’s important to remember that Santiago has great places to have real good times, and knowing more the place where we live.

A hidden new

I haven't really heard a lot about this new, or at least never accidentally, because it has been kind of hidden for the media. Since I knew about the mapuches on hunger strike, I started looking for more information, because the radio, tv and newspapers weren’t saying anything about it, but in some internet websites I found the information I was looking for. They are around 31 people, from different parts of the country, but principally from the IX and VII regions. They have been not eating for more than 50 days, because they are asking to be judge for the civil law and not for the antiterrorist law that is being applied to them, without considering that that law was created in dictatorship. Also, big problems with that law, is that you are not “innocent until proven otherwise” like in the regular cases, and also, that the witness is anonymous so you can’t know who is blaming you. To all the problems already mentioned we can add the discrimination problem, because with the prejudge that actually exists against the mapuches, just for being accused of burning a house, (with an anonymous witness which you can’t argue with or at least knowing if you know this people, if he or she lives in your town, or whatever) you are immediately guilty… so it’s really unfair, and a violation to the human rights. I think it’s really impressive, because of many things. In first place because I noted how much can the Medias control our life and our knowledge of the world, second, because I understand how this government can speak and refer a lot of other country problem (like the man in hunger strike in Cuba for example) and be totally quiet about our problems, third because I wonder when this country is going to be really a just place if our authorities can’t even talk about our problems, and even less taking the responsibility and working for this people and all the repressed ant not listened ones.