Xenón

Three years ago, a friend called me asking me if I could adopt a little abandoned cat she found near her house. I immediately told her I wanted the cat. I was accustomed to have cats in my house, but after moving to my actual apartment, I'd stopped having pets, so this phone call made me want more than ever to have a cat again. My father wasn't happy at first, because we live at an apartment, but finally I convinced him and we adopted Xenón.

At first we called him Ofelia. We thought for a long time he was a female cat, but we were wrong. So we named him Xenón. He's a very common type of cat with black and white fur.

He's very sweet with me and my family, but otherwise he's quite aggressive with strangers and other cats. He's castrated but he keeps fighting, it's just part of his nature. Despite this, we love him and everyday he brings us much joy and affection.

Now, my family and I are a bit sad, because a few weeks ago we found out he has AIDS, but it isn't as severe as it looks. And on the other hand, we can conclude that he surely had a great time before the surgery.

What does it mean for me to learn english?

Being able to speak english is, for me, an essential learning not just for an educational matter, but for developing an open way to understand, structure and face the world. As we know, language constructs our way to interpret what surrounds us.

When I was little, I used to think that english class was a waste of time. But when I started to grow up, I realized that learning english (and learning other languages in general) is necessary for being able to interact culturally in our daily lives. Of course, speaking English is a benefit for travelling, looking for a job, etc, but it also works for me for expand my worldview and my way to relate with society. I think it also works to ourselves, to complex our identities turning them more hybrid.

For example, last summer, my best friend invited an australian friend to Chile and the three of us went out a few times. At first, I found it hard to establish a real conversation more complex than saying my name and my age, but when I left the nerves behind, I realized how we were being able to truly communicate and we spend the time discussing and comparing our cultures. I didn’t really liked him at first because he didn’t wanted to learn Spanish, so I found him a closed minded person obsessed with his hegemonic culture, but finally we learned a lot about our languages, customs and our different ways to comprehend the world.

My best concert

I can't decide which vacation trip has been the better one, because I've liked them all a lot. So I'm going to talk about my best experience at a concert. Honestly, I haven't been at a lot of concerts because they are very expensive. But I think that my best one, by far, is the last concert that I went to. It was an "Onda Vaga" gig last year in Bellavista. I went to that gig with 2 friends and we had a great time. And it was cheap, just how I like it.

Onda Vaga is an uruguayan-argentinian band, formed in Cabo Polonio in 2007. Their melodies vary between rumba, cumbia, reggae, folk rock and tango.

The event wasn't only a gig, it was a huge party and we danced like monkeys all night long. I liked a lot that the integrants of the band were dancing and having fun too. They were so amusing to watch. And they sang an Antonio Ríos song, "Nunca me faltes"... Great plot twist.

China

I've always wanted to travel around the world. Europe, South America, Southeast Asia, etc, but I'd never considered China, until last year... One day I found a documentary about a small village in China in the middle of the forest that wasn’t an ordinary town… The population was made by GIANT DOLLS! This immediately called my attention, and after some searching I realized I’d love to travel to China. I also watched a film called "Kaili Blues" (which I liked a lot), located in two villages in that huge country, and they were so beautiful, that my desire to travel there increased a plenty.

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"Kaili Blues"

China is the most populous country in the world! But I’d like to visit China’s rural zones, not the big cities, with a camera, for a long time, looking for different kind of stories like this one. I’d love to learn about the ancient culture and tales from the past, mixed with the current condition of China, from the point of view of small families away from the cities.

My father once travelled to China, and since I was little he has told me a bunch of surreal anecdotes he experienced when he was there. That culture is so different from ours, that I'd love to go there, understand absolutely nothing, and live weird and untypical adventures, taste rare types of food, explore the great diversity of beautiful landscapes and get to know the different traditions, stories, and the flora and fauna of the most hidden parts of the country.