jueves, 28 de agosto de 2014

My Best Vacations

Really, i didn’t have ONE favorite vacation, because i’ve had many vacations in my life, and very different to, but i remember this because it was very unexpected.  
Four years ago, I went with my best friend to Argentina. We were planning this for a long time, after one year (more and less), we had enought money for the trip.
Our planes were to go to  Buenos Aires for one month, in bus, hitchhiking, with tent, a trip very normal for two young guys. But during the travel we had complications and dissagrements. First, we lost our tent. How?  In a small city when we were hitchhiking with a very nice person, we forgotthe tent in the car. Second, when we came to Córdova my firend was so tired that he wanted to take a hostel. One day passed, two days, and the next days.
I started to think and realize that he only wants to stay in Córdova and live two weeks like a King, totally different to the plan that we had before, and I wanted to keep traveling whitout much money to Buenos Aires. However, we stayed in Córdova because all things were so cheap that we felt like rich people. We drunk the most expensive whiskey and ate the most expensive food, we went to very big electronic partys, very exclusive clubs, and it was very fun, and different from all my past vacations. I really enjoyed it, but differently. We were in all touristics places, we knew  beautiful women but always accommodated. And come back to Santiago after two and half a weeks really like a King, and what can i say? It was interesting, but isn’t something for me. I prefer travelling in a mistical way, but the experience was fun and “what I ate and drank, don’t remove me nobody”.

miércoles, 13 de agosto de 2014

Highs and lows of my neighbourhood

Pollution, accoustic contamination, people, rats, lights, smoke... It's that I feel right now... I'm living in this moment in the center of Santiago. When I came here to Santiago I used to live in Ñuñoa, but I have been living in this place for 3 years.

I never thought that I would really live here, my parents are living in the south, in Angol, a very small city, very quiet and whitout many people, I think that was a very high expectation to come to Santiago, the big city, very fast, with a lot of diverse culture, totally different to the I usually was living, but I'm here... and what I can say... I don't like it. I lost me relaxed life of neighbourhood, the people that live here usually don't greet, I don't know who lives next door, the streets are dirty most of the time, companies are building hight buildings everywhere, the contamination doesn't let me see the beauty of the mountains on the sunny day and the stars at night, I'm stuck! 

But I survive, I take my helmet and I go to the University the fastest that I can in my bike, fortunatelly i don't have to ride a lot, and that is very important point and the best of living here, the proximity to anywhere. I need to eat something and I walk, I need to buy something and I walk again, but i don't know if I really like it or just don't dislike it.
I sound a very negative person, but i'm not, only my neighbourhood isn't like as I dreamed. I'm very happy here in Santiago, because I have the opportunity to made many activities that don't exist in small towns.