Pets: my cats and dog

Hi everyone!

Today we choose to talk about pets. Yes!! I think animals are a essential part of my life, I used to live with a lot of animals in Queule, and I loved it, but now I have no pets in my house in Santiago, is sad for me. But I will talk about the more important pets in my life, the majority are cats, I love felines.

Romina

The first was Monin, I have no pictures about this cat, but he lived with me for five years around. He came to my life when I was six, I don't remember how he arrived, but he was loving, playful, and a wonderful cat. I shared my food with him xD I used to give him my yogurt, my bread, my lollipop, etc. He used to go with me partway to the school (I had to walk kilometers to go to the school), and when I returned to the house, he used to wait for me in the gate. One day, he went with me to the school, and when I returned, he was no waiting for me. He had gone, and never go back. I don't know what happens with he, but I suppose he was persue by a dog. That was a sad day.

Kitten

The second is Romina. My grandfather gave me Romina one day... that I don't remember, but was almost six years ago. She was a crazy cat, she used to sleep over my stomach, and I couldn't move. We used to play with a lot of things, sometimes she gave me some gifts (birds or mouse). Then she became pregnant and I played with all of them. Romina died last year.

The last was Chiquitín, it was a dog, a little dog. My dog's aunt had five puppies, and I wanted one to take care of the house. When I saw the puppies, I look the smallest, he looked sick and helpless, and I chose him, that's the reason why I called him: Chiquitín. The best choice. That happened when I was 9. He was cheerful, happy, loving and playful. He used to go always with me to the beach, to run, to play, to walk, to sing, etc. He was a faithful friend, he was with my when I was sad, when I was angry, he never let my, I loved him. But when I came to Santiago, he became sick, until he died. I don't know if it was by sadness, but I miss him, every time I go to Queule, I remember when we used to run, and we felt free.

With this last picture I remember Chiquitín, we used to see the grow dark, together. 

Frutillar and Chiloé!

Hi folks!

 Last semester I wrote about a band that I like (Arkona), and I described how was the concert in 2015 (I think it was the best concert, if you want to know more about this band, you can visit my post http://hillaryz.blogspot.cl/2016/06/a-band-i-like-apkoha.html ), so today I'm going to talk about the best holiday I've ever had: the travel to Chiloé. 

'Teatro de los Lagos'

It was in February 2010, when I was thirteen. We were four in the car: my dad, my mom, my half-sister and I. We wanted to go to Chiloé for two weeks, but we turn to Frutillar many hours because my mom wanted to meet this place, and it was amazing. Frutillar has wonderful places with incredible sceneries, like the theatre, the lake, the volcano, the trees, etc. It was the first time that I went to Frutillar, and I would like to go back. I took some pictures, here are many of them.

Transbordador

Then we continued our travel, and after many hours, we arrived to Puerto Montt. We cross the ''Canal de Chacao'' in a ferry or ''transbordador''.

We continued in our travel and finally, we arrived in Quellón, where we saw beautiful scenery. We went to craft fairs, and the ''Hito Cero'', where the Carretera Panamericana ends, and another places that at now I don't remember, but I think all was amazing.

Hito Cero

My half-sister and I

Craft fair

Incopulli

 It was an unforgettable experience. I would like to go to Chiloé again.
I hope you have a nice weekend!!

A cold country: Norway

Hi bloggers!

It had been a long time since I don't write here. It's my fourth semester, and the Lever 4 of English. This time I will talk about another place that I would like to know. Last semester, I wrote about  Switzerland, but now I chose: Norway!!

 Why I chose this country? Ohh! First, is a cold country and I love cold weather, in winter you can see beautiful landscapes with aurora polaris like this picture.

 

Second, I like the nordic history, I know a bit of its mythology (norse mythology) and I think is very interesting study its components, like writing in runes, belive in the Valhala, Odin, Ragnarok,valkyries, etc; including trolls (I love this supernatural being). 

Third, there are some places or monuments that I would like to visit in this country, for example the Sverd i fjell, the monument of ''Three swords'', it commemorates the history if the Battle of Hafrsfjord in 872 that took place here.  The swords are made of bronze, and they measure around 10 metres.Also, I would like to visit the Preikestolen, is a cliff which rises around 600 metres

Finally, because here lives a beautiful breed of domestic cat, the Norwegian Forest cat, is lovely and I would like to have one of them. 

That's all, folks. 

I hope you'll be ok, and have a nice weekend.

What is your carbon footprint?

 Hi guys!

This time the topic is: Environment and Carbon footprint.

Carbon Footprint is the '' (...) total of greenhouse gas emission directly and indirectly by an individual, organisation, event or product'' (www.met-net.org.uk/greenhouse-gas-reporting
.html). Today we had to calculate our carbon footprint in the page www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx It was an interesting experience, because I realized what is my impact in the environment. 

According to the website to calculate my carbon footprint, it is around 1,7 tonnes of CO2e, less than Chilean average (3,87 tonnes), and less than worldwide target to combat climate change (2 tonnes).
 I'm surprised by the results, I have to admit that I'm not the best environmentally friendly person, I would like to do more things for the planet, but I think it too depends on the place where we live, for example, when I'm in Queule (my origin place), I recycle more the waste because in there doesn't exist waste collection vehicle or dumping site where the community throw their garbage, so we have to be clever and give different uses to the things. For example: the cardboard we use like doormat in the porch, or we make smaller box to contain little things, like nails, screws, etc., usually to contain tools, and do the same with tin bottles; with organic matter, we collect in pails and once a week we bury somewhere my grandparents want to plant; with fabrics, we make handkerchief, table decorator, or cloth to clean the table; we take care the water, etc.  Here in Santiago I can't do exactly the same things, but with my parents, we go once every two weeks to the nearest recycling point and let everything that can be used, and in the house we unplug the things we are not using, we turn off the light, try as little as possible to open the refrigerator door (I read that the Freon is harmful to the ozone layer), and when I have time, I make crafts of recycled material. 

  I think making this actions we contribute to reduce the consume of energy, and reduce the ecological impact. I would like to sow and plant to obtain my own food, but is difficult because I don't have enough space to plant, and the soil in my house is not good enough to plant the things that I want. I hope someday do this, and other ideas that I think could be interesting to do. 
Give me some ideas to make this a better world C:

Have a nice weekend.

 

Planning a fictitious trip to London

Hi again!

The last work in the class was make a planning of a group trip to London.  Of course it was fiction, I have no money for this :C  but I would like to go to London.

In the activity, we had to choose one or two destinations to visit every day for a week. For this, I considered elements such proximity and opening times of the places to visit. I think this activity wasn't so difficult to me because I am very structured and I like have a plan of things to do or places to visit when I go somewhere, and I always use maps (in pictures or drawn in a piece of paper). I must admit that I used to argue with my boyfriend when I went out with him to some place and he didn't know how to get to the destination xD Now, together we search the directions before leaving home.

In my opinion, the activity was an excellent tool because it teaches us to use the internet for something very quotidian as the search for an address or plan a trip to somewhere, so this is important for the useful in daily life. 

Picture of the Natural History Museum, London

 

I read a little about every place to visit, and the place that caught my attention and now I am hopeful to go someday, is the Natural History Museum... why? because its architecture (is a wonderful building),  by its collection: it has specimens collected by Charles Darwin!!, and because it is known as the great centre of natural history and investigation. It also has a ''Crime Scene Live'' where you can be an investigator and solve a crime of a murder mystery. I would like to do this activity, I think I'd enjoy it.

About a place I wouldn't like to visit... mmm.. I think the Madame Tussaud, because it is a wax museum, it has mainly famous people, and I don't care famous people, I wouldn't pay for entry and take a picture with a wax figure, not with the real people.

 

There are other place I would like to go in 

London: The Sherlock Holmes Museum, in Baker Street. I've read all the stories of this fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and I would like to go and see how this writer thought the house of Sherlock and Watson, see some objects that are mentioned in all the short stories, and try to recreate this character.

I let you one video of this museum:

I hope you are fine and have a nice weekend.

A musical-fantasy movie: 'Imaginaerum' (2012)

Hi blogger:
This time I must talk about movies. yeyy!! I like see movies, series and short films of different genres, from adventure, science fiction, drama, and crime to surreal fiction, historical, etc. The only genres I don't like (they tired me) are romantic and actual horror films (I prefer  the classics: Frankenstein, Dracula, Nosferatu, etc)
The last movie I enjoyed watching was Imaginaerum. I saw it one month ago in my house, alone. I was sick and rested in my bed, listen music and watching a documentary of Nightwish called: “Please Learn The Setlist In 48 Hours”, when they talk about a film that they made where Tuomas (the leader of the band) was the co-writer of the history and the composer of the music, so it caught my attention and I decided to search and see it.

It is a Finnish-Canadian production of musical fantasy made in 2012 by director Stobe Harju, and written by him and Tuomas Holopainen. The history is very sad, is about an old man who was a great musician but now is in coma, and he has fantasies of his childhood where he fight with phantoms of his past, and with Alzheimer/dementia, trying to remember his daughter :'C
About the actors, I really don't know anything about them, I only know that Tuomas acts like adult Tom (the principal character), and the rest of the band appear in the musician scenes where they play.
The film was based in the Nightwish's album with the same name: Imaginaerum, published in 2011.

I enjoyed the movie by the music and the history, I like the way the film capture the fantasies of a demential minds, and how the family and friends (in real life) suffer with this condition. 
I hope you search  the movie and enjoy it as I did. I put the trailer.
Have a nice day!

  

A band I like: Apkoha

Hi guys,

Today I would like to speak about a band I like. Is really difficult to choose one, because I like many bands of diverse styles and type of music, so in this case, I’m going to choose: Arkona

Arkona (Apkoha) is a Russian band of folk-pagan metal. They are five members: Masha, in voice; Sergei in the guitar; Ruslan in bass; Vladimir ‘’volk’’ in wind and ethnic instrument; and Andrey in drums. The leader is a woman: Masha Scream (Maria Arkhipova), who sing in the growl style. She founded the band in 2002, and she is the singer and the composer of the lyrics related to the Russian folklore, their history and some characters of the mythology. I like this band because the theme of the lyrics (I must admit that I have to search the translation because I only know some words of this language), they use some traditional Russian instruments, and especially I like the variation in rhythm, times and combination of sounds in the music (I love the bagpipes sound), this can be eared in the song ‘’Yarilo’’ from the album: Goi, Rode Goi!, maybe this could be called my ‘favorite’ song, but I think the majority of the songs are really good.

This band came twice to Chile, in 2013 and 2015, and I went to see them in both concerts. The last year I have the opportunity to get a VIP ticket and I met them, they are very nice people, thankful to the fans and very cheerful. In the meet & great, I gave a gift to Masha: one ‘Kultrun’, an ethnic instrument from mapuche culture, very similar to a russian instrument that she plays in the show, and in the middle of the concert (in the song: Славься, Русь!), she played the kultrun!! That was amazing, I felt realized! Jajaja the people said: wow, how she obtain that? Who get it to her? And I said in my mind: I was :3 I felt so happy.

So, that’s my experience with Arkona (people joke with ‘Arjona’).  I’ve enjoyed their shows, and I’m trying to learn the language to communicate better.
Have a nice weekend, and tell: happy father’s day

Pd: in the moment I wrote this post, I hadn't a good connection to internet, so now I'm going to show a video of the song  Славься, Русь!, or ''Slavsia, Rus'', where you can see Masha playing the russian instrument in her official video clip.

  

The other video is the song: Yarilo