Hi Classmates!
One of my favorites family meals that I remember was a Christmas celebration (I think that was 2008's Christmas). Dinner was organizated by mi aunt by law Lola (a very crazy spanish woman) at my uncle's home. There were my parents (Sergio and Roxana), my brother Álvaro, my uncle Atilio (but we call him Poncho), my aunt Lola and my cousin Francisco.. I don't remember why my sister Camila wasn't there.
As a family, we enjoy a lot Christmas eve. Everybody have to help, it doesn't matter what do you do, nobody can be sit at the couch until the first bottle of wine or champagne is open. Obviously with the drinks comes the food (or is it the other way?).
Food and drinks were passing by all night, before opnening the presents and after, but in this particularly year I think that drinks were priority.
As the hours were passing by, the chating were louder and louder, the laughs were more repetitive and my little cousin thought that was the right time for videotape how our parents were getting drunk.
My aunt were sending kisses to the camera while my mother, with a non-understandable pronunciation, was discussing with my uncle because he wanted to vote for Sebastián Piñera. More than her horrible pronunciation, what made us laugh to death were her words: your father must be twisting in his grave now!!!After that, my dad was feeling sick.. 'Til today he says that was the roasted peppers he ate, not the half bottle of Orujo that he drank.
For me is a good memory. My brother, cousin and me saw how relaxed were our parents. How happy of not been worried about us because we were adults. They enjoyed that night as young people and I think that it is a lovely gift.
I can't show the videos.. sorry! It's a family treasure.
viernes, 29 de agosto de 2014
viernes, 22 de agosto de 2014
About ANTICS OF DRUNKEN TOURISTS IN BARCELONA - THE GUARDIAN
Barcelona is known as a students' city, indeed, is one of the favorite destinations for european students (Spain is the head of the list for Erasmus scolarship), and it's a fact that these kind of cities (or neighbourhoods) usually brings a party atmosphere.
After reading the article, I agree with locals of La Barceloneta to demand authorities to control antisocial behaviour, since they are paying the costs of the overpopulation of tourists, but this isn't the heart's problem in my opinion. What drunk people (or more in general, antisocials) do is a problem all over the world, and the police solution is only "beating" people 'til they'll stop (and then do it again and again), the problem in here is the crowd.
As the article said, only 72 lodges were legal at La Barceloneta, but actually, there are 600 operating. I think that locals must focus on this point. They should request to authorities to monitor the ilegal accommodations and close them down or force them to regularize their situation for the community, this way -in my opinion- the day-to-day of see antisocial behaviour will be decreased.
After reading the article, I agree with locals of La Barceloneta to demand authorities to control antisocial behaviour, since they are paying the costs of the overpopulation of tourists, but this isn't the heart's problem in my opinion. What drunk people (or more in general, antisocials) do is a problem all over the world, and the police solution is only "beating" people 'til they'll stop (and then do it again and again), the problem in here is the crowd.
As the article said, only 72 lodges were legal at La Barceloneta, but actually, there are 600 operating. I think that locals must focus on this point. They should request to authorities to monitor the ilegal accommodations and close them down or force them to regularize their situation for the community, this way -in my opinion- the day-to-day of see antisocial behaviour will be decreased.
Eat Your Heart Out
Hello classmates!
Some of you may not know but I'm a Food Engineer student, so, in this opportunity I would like to write of a shocking book about food industry that I've been reading: Eat Your Heart Out ("Quién decide lo que comemos"), by Felicity Lawrence.
Felicity Lawrence is an english journalist who works for the newspaper The Guardian. For twenty years, she have been writing about irregularities in food industry: from misuse of ingredients to labor exploitation.
In Eat Your Heart Out, the author concentrates on three points: how food industry damages our healthy, the environment and the economy.
You may have asking "HOW?".
The major point of this is that food companies play with our ignorance and feelings by using the powerful weapon of marketing.
Today, as you can see when you go to the supermarket, there's a lot of choices of differents kinds of food. You can buy rice cereal, corn cereal, with sugar, with fruit flavor, with our favorite cartoon printed on the box, etc. And that make us feel like we are choosing something.. but are we really choosing?
If you go to the label, the same ingredients are in everything that goes to our mouth (even in pets food). But, how does is affect to us?
Well, the thing is that companies plays their cards convincing us that is healthy for us, even they put a doctor on TV telling us that we must consume that product.
A lot of those products aren't what they say, even the box is more nutritious for us than the food that contains. And not only is bad for us.
Food companies are not interested in our health, they measure their power by money, so they make us a loyal client with all their "cientific" studies (and sometimes morals) persuading us to consume in ridiculous amounts, while they cut costs damaging environment and involving in social and economics politics.
I hope that this little introduction makes you want to read this book, I really think that is an "eye opener".
Some of you may not know but I'm a Food Engineer student, so, in this opportunity I would like to write of a shocking book about food industry that I've been reading: Eat Your Heart Out ("Quién decide lo que comemos"), by Felicity Lawrence.
Felicity Lawrence is an english journalist who works for the newspaper The Guardian. For twenty years, she have been writing about irregularities in food industry: from misuse of ingredients to labor exploitation.
In Eat Your Heart Out, the author concentrates on three points: how food industry damages our healthy, the environment and the economy.
You may have asking "HOW?".
The major point of this is that food companies play with our ignorance and feelings by using the powerful weapon of marketing.
Today, as you can see when you go to the supermarket, there's a lot of choices of differents kinds of food. You can buy rice cereal, corn cereal, with sugar, with fruit flavor, with our favorite cartoon printed on the box, etc. And that make us feel like we are choosing something.. but are we really choosing?
If you go to the label, the same ingredients are in everything that goes to our mouth (even in pets food). But, how does is affect to us?
Well, the thing is that companies plays their cards convincing us that is healthy for us, even they put a doctor on TV telling us that we must consume that product.
A lot of those products aren't what they say, even the box is more nutritious for us than the food that contains. And not only is bad for us.
Food companies are not interested in our health, they measure their power by money, so they make us a loyal client with all their "cientific" studies (and sometimes morals) persuading us to consume in ridiculous amounts, while they cut costs damaging environment and involving in social and economics politics.
I hope that this little introduction makes you want to read this book, I really think that is an "eye opener".
viernes, 1 de agosto de 2014
Winter Break
Hi Classmates,
I hope you enjoyed your winter vacations!
I had a really relaxing and lazy break so I didn't too much, at least not exciting things, but I discovered, in this break, a new scenary for a place that I love.
As a hobby, trekking is a really necessary activity in my life, so I'm often searching in the internet new places to go near Santiago.
Obviously, because of the weather, is easily to do trekking in summer than winter, but because of that I was getting bored because landscapes were always the same: dust and too much sun! So with my boyfriend and two friends, we decided to go to Yerba Loca park (near to Farellones ski centre) to have a barbecue, some wine and beers.
I always go to Yerba Loca in summer, and it was a very good experience, but in winter.. WHAT CAN I SAY!
At the beginning of the trekking road, there is a place called Villa Paulina, it's a camp and picnic site, which was the place where we made our barbecue, and as we go after a raining day, Villa Paulina was covered by snow.
It was a sunny day, so the barbecue was perfect. We enjoyed the sun rays and snow too (a very good natural refrigerator for beers). There was a small water channel too, which bring us a calm sensation because of the sound of running water.
After we finished the lunch, we went to a viewer called Mirador del Águila, where you can see the mountains and part of the park, and if you have lucky, you can see condors flying
Hope you enjoyed the reading!
I hope you enjoyed your winter vacations!
I had a really relaxing and lazy break so I didn't too much, at least not exciting things, but I discovered, in this break, a new scenary for a place that I love.
As a hobby, trekking is a really necessary activity in my life, so I'm often searching in the internet new places to go near Santiago.
Obviously, because of the weather, is easily to do trekking in summer than winter, but because of that I was getting bored because landscapes were always the same: dust and too much sun! So with my boyfriend and two friends, we decided to go to Yerba Loca park (near to Farellones ski centre) to have a barbecue, some wine and beers.
I always go to Yerba Loca in summer, and it was a very good experience, but in winter.. WHAT CAN I SAY!
At the beginning of the trekking road, there is a place called Villa Paulina, it's a camp and picnic site, which was the place where we made our barbecue, and as we go after a raining day, Villa Paulina was covered by snow.
It was a sunny day, so the barbecue was perfect. We enjoyed the sun rays and snow too (a very good natural refrigerator for beers). There was a small water channel too, which bring us a calm sensation because of the sound of running water.
After we finished the lunch, we went to a viewer called Mirador del Águila, where you can see the mountains and part of the park, and if you have lucky, you can see condors flying
Hope you enjoyed the reading!
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