My favorite book ever

Hello! Today I’m going to talk about my favorite book. Without a doubt I can say that my favorite book ever is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I love Jane Austen! She is absolutely my favorite writer. Stories like Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey make me fall in love over and over again with delightful gentlemen like Mr. Tilney, Edmund, Mr. Knightley and the perfect Mr. Darcy.

I really like Pride and Prejudice because I love period novels and this story follows the life of a young woman, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with the issues of manners, morality, education and marriage in the early 19th century. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. 

The story narrative opens with Mr. Bingley's (an aristocratic, charming and social young bachelor) arrival to Netherfield house in the neighborhood of Bennet family with his good friend the “proud and condescending” (but also handsome) Mr. Darcy. Mr. Bingley easily falls in love with Elizabeth elder sister the beautiful Jane. But, by contrast, Mr. Darcy despises Elizabeth, who overhears a joke and about it and she immediately starts to hate him.   

 “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine” Says Elizabeth. 

But what Elizabeth doesn't know yet is that she has completely enchanted Mr. Darcy and he loves her “most hardly”. 

I have to admit that even when all the girls always relate with the heroine’s point of view I absolutely love this book because I identify myself with Mr. Darcy. And this paragraph describes exactly my personality:

“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever” Mr. Darcy.

Year 2013: Good and bad things

During the 2013 I learnt a lot of fun stuff. I had a class call “Production in Television” and we had to do a real television program, that was really hard but a lot of fun! I was the floor manager so I had to say to the public on the studio when they could applause or when the program was on air. I really enjoyed because I figured out that I love the audiovisual format. So now I really want to get an internship on that area or work in that area any time soon.

In my free time I like to tweet all the time and watch TV series, but the first half of this year my favorite program Gossip Girl ended, so that was really sad. The challenge was to find new series to watch and searching over here and over there I ended up watching a lot of Korean Dramas, and I have to say that I’m obsess with them. Besides of watching a thousand of TV series, in my free time I also practiced pilates, yoga and cardio box. I went to the gym tree or four times a week so I also ran a little bit. I tried to live a healthy lifestyle because I have hypothyroidism and insulin resistance, so that means I always have to control my weight which is the real challenge of my life. But I’m super fine in everything so that’s a good thing.

On the other hand, the first half of this year I had one of the most amazing experience I ever have. I traveled to Paraguay as a volunteer to build emergency houses –the ones we know as “mediaguas”– for families who live in camp. I worked for the sweetest and strongest families I had ever met. They treated us with love and kind and really made me feel like home, even when they talk in another language: Guaraní. I have to admit that they teach me a lot of words but I only remember two: Mba’éichapa that means “Hello, how are you?” and rohayhu that means “I love you”.

As much as I miss Paraguay when I was there I couldn’t take a shower in ten days so when a got home, where I live with my mother Olga and my little brother Luis, they send me directly to the bathroom. But if you ask me if I would do it again, I would say “Hell yes!”

I could say that it has been an amazing year so far. 

A journey I would like to make

Hello, today I’m going to talk about a journey I would like to make.

If I think about a place I really would like to visit I immediately would said South Korea. But giving it a second thought I have to admit that a journey I would really love to make is travel all across Chile, from the north to the austral zone.

I always wanted to meet all the natural treasures that our country has. I really know very little of Chile. Well, I know what I learned in my history class back in high school, but I only had visited tree regions of Chile, well not even de whole regions just some cities in it. I know the Metropolitan region because I was born and live my whole life here. I had visited many times the sixth region because that’s where my father is from. And I also have visit the fifth region because I always go to the beach there for my summer vacations.

I would start taking a plane to Iquique and then I would go all across the Great North, the Atacama Desert and the Altiplano, visiting the former offices of Humberstone, San Pedro de Atacama, the salars, the lagoons and the geysers. Then I would go to the Near North to the Elqui Valley where I would eat papayas, I would visit the pisco companies and taste all the piscos I can. I also would go to the astronomical observatory in Mount Tololo and to Vicuña where Gabriela Mistral was born, etcetera.

Then when I’ll arrive to fifth region I would go directly to the Easter Island by plane obviously. My dream is to visit the Easter Island and get to know the moais, the volcanoes, and their culture basically.

And I would continuing traveling to the South enjoying of the nature, eating all the typical plates that every zone has, and making the more memories as I can.

To this journey I would love to go with my high school friends or my university friends. But I think that my high school friends would probably be more exciting about it because we have talk about it many times and we all have the same dream. So I hope to do it one day.