My faculty

Today I will talk about my faculty and the infrastructure of it.

First an evaluation of the present conditions:
I think that our faculty has very good classrooms all with data show, board, a lot of space and comfortable seats, but there are some exceptions.
We have too, the most modern library in Chile. It has a lot of interesting material for our careers, it has computers, many tables and places to have excellent concentration when you are studying.
The faculty has a lot of toilets which are well distributed, and food machines in good locations to.
We have a lot of green areas too, so we can go to them and relax for a few minutes.
In relation to sports, we have some problems, like the field of the gym is to small, we don’t have a football field made of grass, the gym has few machines to do exercise etc.
Another problem, is that the parking lot for students is too small, so if you don’t arrive to the faculty at 8:00 am. you won`t find a parking space.

So, I think that we need to improve the gym, and the parking.
For the gym you only need money to buy more exercise machines, and if you want a bigger field you must rebuild the gym, that is too expensive.

For the parking we can use some empty areas near to the present parking, that anyone use for other things, you only need to made a road between the present parking and the new one.

I’m very secure that if the faculty does these improvements, all the students will be happier.

See you!

My hobbies!

Hi friends

Today I will talk about my hobbies! First, I have to say that I leave many hobbies during this year, because with the university I don’t have much time to practice all. But I started new hobbies that I like a lot and I think that it will be the hobbies that I want practice all my life, I am talking about: MAGIC.

Like five or six years ago, I was a beginner card magician, I practiced for two or three months and then I left the magic because I couldn’t find ways to learn more about it. But In March of this year, I rediscovered the magic. In summer holydays I saw a very good magician in the casino of Puerto Varas, seeing him I remembered my times as magician and I decided to come back with this art. When I returned to Santiago, I looked for magic books, videos, magazines or any document to learn new techniques and “spells”.

Now I know a many things about magic, I know a lot of card tricks, because card magic is my specialty, but I am learning other kinds of magic like magic for child, or magic with handkerchiefs and other things.

If I have to say why I choose magic as a hobbie? I would say that few things are compared with the face expression that people do when you show them a trick specially the children. Related to that, I am a member of a group called “Magia por una sonrisa” (MXS). MXS is a student group of my faculty that go to hospitals for visit sick children and do magic for them, showing that nothing is imposible with a little of magic.

Well In this moment I think that magic is my favourite hobbie. But I do other things too, like, play guitar and other instruments, play videogames and practice some sports.

All for today Bye.

My last Holidays and my next holidays

Hi friends,

Today we have to talk about holidays... I want to tell you how were my last holidays and a very interesting place that I visited.

Well last summer I did a lot of things, but in this post I’ll only talk about my trip as backpacker.

The idea started with two of my best friends, we decided to do a trip as backpackers, but where? After some days, we decided go to the south of Chile and Argentina. In one week we buy things like backpacks, sleeping bags and all things that we could need in a backpacker trip. Finally we got together in my home with all things less tickets to start the trip! So we decided go to the bus station and buy tickets for the next bus that would go to Villarrica. With a little of luck we bought tickets immediately, in that moment one of the biggest adventures in our lives was beginning.
Well, we arrived to Villarica the next day; we went to a camping and stayed there four days, enjoying the beach and the traditional things of the town. After that we went to Pucon (a city near Villarica), there we stayed in a camping again.
Our next destination was Bariloche in Argentina, in that city we went to a lot of partys and we stayed in a hostel named Backpackers Hostel, a great place to meet other backpackers from any place of the world, we met three Israeli girls and one Canadian man.
After Bariloche we returned to Chile, and we went to a very interesting place: Tantauco Park.

In Tantauco park we lived a great adventure like Indiana Jones! Tantauco park is a national reserve in the south of Chiloe, you can only arrive there by boat or walking.
You have to go through the park following signs in the trees, and walk miles and miles to arrive to a shelter. In each mini travel between shelters we saw amazing things like native animals, virgins rivers and lakes and many other things that I cant explain by words. We had objectives like arrive to some shelters in the park but we couldn’t for time.

Next summer we want to go again to the park and go through all the park! And arrive to the places that we couldn’t the last summer.

The tennis elbow

Tennis Elbow
What treatments work?

Tennis elbow is a common disease in people. The article proposes that the disease get better by itself, but you can do some things to improve the rehabilitation.

Treatments that are likely to work:

NSAID (Non steroidal anti inflammatory) gels and sprays
NSAID are a type of painkiller, they can improve your symptoms if the don’t help, you may tray with a different NSAID or use a higher dose, but always you have to consult with your doctor.

NSAID Tablets:
NSAID tablets works good for pain, but is not known if help at long time.
Consult with your doctor anyway, because you may have other problems taking this method.

Steroid Injections:
An injection reduces your pain quickly, but not helps in a long time and may causes problems with your skin.

Treatments that need further study:

Acupunture:
Acupunture may help or not, you have to try.

Exercise:
Exercise help to improve your strengthen in the articulation and help to pain, but you have to consult with a physical therapist the exercise that is the best and how you have to do it.
Work better in a long term.

Arm Braces:
The tendon rests, but don’t help with the pain.

Surgery:
If the disease is severe you can consult to a doctor for a surgery.

Treatments that are unlikely to work

Shockwave therapy
A lot of studies shows that sound waves don’t help with the pain and the strengthen of the articulation.

Interesting things of Santiago

Hi friends

As you know I’m Chilean, I have always lived in Santiago, for that reason I know a lot of places and activities that you can do here.

First, you must be in a good hotel, is very important be comfortable to have energy, because if you have energy toy can go out to every place that you want.

Well, if you want to know the cultural side of Santiago I think that you should go to “Cerro Santa Lucia” because “Cerro Santa Lucia” was the place where Pedro de Valdivia, many years ago, gave the name to the city. In “Cerro Santa Lucia” are a lot of “mini museums” with things related to the origins of the city like ancient robes that people used to wear, ancient weapons that Spanish used to conquer this place and many other things.

Another interesting place to go is Valparaiso. Valparaiso is a city near Santiago, if you travel in car takes two or one hour and a half to arrive to this wonderful place. Valparaiso is the most important dock of Chile and may be the most important of South America. Valparaiso has a lot of history, many things that you can do there, very good restaurants that can offer to you a delicious dish of seafood.

Finally I think that you must visit the center of the city, there you have the most important buildings of the city like “La moneda” that is the government palace, or the Cathedral of Santiago.

I hope that this ideas help you if you lived in Santiago or if you are thinking to visit Santiago, if you want more information you can visit the Tourist Direction of Santiago that is in Providencia.

See you!

Music in my life

Hi

Well, I think that music is very important for the people that do music like singers or composers, and the people that listen to music. For the people that do it, it is important because music gives the opportunity to say, demonstrate and express things that they feel and think. And the other people that listen to music can receive many ideas, feelings, and many other things.

I am the kind of people that consumes music. I listen to it to get out of the world, to forget for a moment all things that I am living, it is very important for this result to listen to music that you like much and really feel the music. But where can you get the music that you like? Today it is very easy to get the music that you like, on internet you have a lot of songs you can download for free. But that isn’t good for the artists or people who make music, anyway I download my music from internet. And what is the music that I like? I listen to all kinds of music, from romantic style to heavy metal music, going trough “cumbia villera”, reggaeton, latin rock, pop, etc. But obviously I have my favorites, it is very difficult for me to choose for example five artist or groups as my top five, in this case I will say that in the place number one is: Sonata Artica (Speed metal style), number two Iron Maiden (Heavy metal style) three Mana (Latin rock), four many artists of reggaeton, and all other in number five.

Another thing that I have in my mind when I want to listen to a song, is what I want to feel in that moment, or what I am feeling in that moment, for example if I am happy frequently I listen to rock, if I want to forget all I listen to is heavy metal etc.

Ok, all for today see you!





Here some links of my top five:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ns-Bzgv21A -> Sonata Artica - Last drop falls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihpxdZFV3Ck -> Iron Maiden - No more liest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qca4cWRhDkU -> Mana - Oye mi amor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDEaO-PhK-M -> Tocarte toda - Calle 13


Ok, all for today see you!

My life and Transantiago!

Hi friends, today I have to talk about the “””“greatest””” system of transport in the World: Transantiago

Some of history, in 10th February of 2007, our “dear” president Michelle Bachelett implements a new system of transport in Santiago, which was design from 2004 until 2007, the name of the system: Transantiago. I remember that day all people was very angry, nobody could take a bus, arrive at home, and many other things. The new system: big mistake. After that, our president said that the ministery of transport will spend more money to improve the system, in fact they spent a lot of money, but the system didnt get better.

Well, of Transantiago I only use the subway, so I cant give an opinion of the system in general, but I hear all days a lot of people says bad things about transantiago, like they have to take three or four buses to arrive at some place, or have to wait hours in a bus stop etc. So I think that general Transantiago isn't a good way of transport.

Fortunately, I have a car, so I don’t use Transantiago like other people that spend hours on a bus. I think that this year when Sebastian Piñera reach to the government, he will change the system for a new one more: efficiently, cheap, and better!