La Casa del Chef

Eat and drink is a pleasure for any one and there is one of the thing that I love more than anything, but it could be a big problem if I lose control. I eat a lot, my body ask to me, but I have to do exercise otherwise the consequences are disastrous.

 I love to eat Peruvian food. I love the ceviche of Reineta with a cold beer. I always go with my family to eat in a restaurant called “La casa del Chef” is like a “picada” because is not so fancy and isn’t too expensive. There are several restaurants with this name, but the first one it’s in Diagonal Paraguay with Ramon Carnicer, between Ramon carnicer y Vicuña Mackenna, the second one it’s in Irarrazaval with Av. Italia and the third it’s in Vicuña Mackenna with Copiapó. All preserve the flavor and you can eat a lot of delicious typical Peruvian dishes, elaborated for a Peruvian chef and you´re attended by Peruvian waiters.

I knew it because my brother, who works in the UC Hospital, once invited to me to lunch. In other occasion we went with all our family on Sunday, with the typical excuse to no clean dishes.  Since two years ago we visit “la Casa del chef” very often, because is a place where you can eat very good food, you’re good attended and the place is very comfortable.  

La Casa del Chef en Irarrazaval with Av. Italia, Ñuñoa

Sweet twenty-two

Last year I did celebrate my 22 years old. It was a great birthday because I celebrated in a lot of parts. It was on Monday so my family decided to celebrate the previous day, Sunday. We had an exquisite lunch and we drank a lot of wine and after that all of us took an unforgivable snap.

The next day I came to the U, but it wasn’t any day of university, it was the first month and a half of toma, I had a few meetings and I had to resolve some pending works. At night we did a roast with potatoes and it was amazing! Then I bought like a seven boxes of wine, of two liters each other, and we did “navegado” with orange peel, it was so delicious, besides it was a cold day, so it was good to warm up the body. It was a good night because I felt so much love of all the people in the Toma and besides I was starting a relationship with something very special. The next day of my birthday my father brought to me to eat in a fancy restaurant, my father is so funny that I laughed all night; we went with my older brother and his couple.  
Two weeks later a good friend of futbolito FAU invited to me and that special person to drank wine in his house, we ate fried almonds in salt and a lot of nuts, and of course we drank an exquisite wine.
It was a great birthday because I felt really loved for a lot of people.

I love swim!

I have a lot of outdoor activities, i like to climb hills, i like to play football but now my favorite activity is swim. I’m swimming in the pool of university localized in metro Cal y Canto, next to La Vega. I’m training 6 days a week, I don’t go on Sunday because the pool is closed, but if it be opened sure I would go too. On Mondays and Wednesdays I train with a professor of the faculty called Sara, she’s a great teacher, I learnt a lot with her because she has a good technical teaching, besides I swim since I was a little girl, my father taught me in the sea when I was 4 years old, but I never knew the technical of swimming, this is my first time and I learn very fast, I guess I know the principles of hydrodynamic.
I love this activity because I love water, my mom always says: “you’re like a sea dog” because I can pass hour in the water swimming, playing all alone, knowing some places that you never can’t see if you don’t go swimming. Besides when I leave the pool I felt the sportiest in the whole world. In three weeks my body changes considerably and I’m very happy with that. I felt a connection with water, like come back to a natural state, like when we are in the belly of our mom. When I swim, above all in natural places, I felt my soul full.
I swam yesterday at 1 pm and we have a day of competition training and I had a good participation that makes me very happy. Maybe very soon I can compete. Today I’ll go again at 6 o’clock.

Click here to see a swimmers in the university's pool.







An ancient photo of the "Piscina Escolar"

Rachel Carson: the woman of the environment awareness

Rachel Carson was born on May 27th of 1907, in Springdale, Pennsylvania. She grew up on a country environment.
She wanted to be a professional writer, for that she studied English, but she gave up because she thought she hadn’t imagination to write.
Then, she began to study science and in 1929 she graduated with honors. After that she studied a master in zoology and she taught in the University of Maryland. For that years she studied the ocean and its life forms. For long years she worked writing books, the most popular published in 1962 and it’s called “Silent Spring” in which she talk about the harmful effects of the pesticides. Carson questioned the position of the industries to contaminate without consideration with the environment. In 1969 the USA government ruled the use of pesticides. Regrettably she didn’t see her contribution to the environment because she died in 1964 by a breast cancer.  

Rio Bueno

I love to travel, is one of the things I love more in the whole world and I hate santiago, so this contradictory feelings have taken me to meet a lot of places and I can define what I like more, I love the coast, but I love lakes more. I have three favorites lakes-beaches, playa blanca in Caburga Lake, Rio Bueno in Ranco lake and Llifen-Futrono in Ranco lake too. But I’m going to talk about  Rio bueno.
Rio bueno beach is in the rivers region in the south of chile. Is in the source of the Bueno River, so you can enjoy a lake beach and a river. I went with my mom in a holiday that we visit to my aunt in la Union in 2009 just after the journey I told you before, that one with my friends of scout.  We spent like an hour driving but the landscape it was so beautiful that the trip was very short.
When we arrived I put my towel on the black sand and I went to swim, I swam like one hour and half. I love swim.  
I like it because is a great landscape, their water is warm and so clean, you can see the bottom covered with rocks, actually I lost my orange hairgrip and I can found it. Besides it’s a quiet place, there aren’t so much people and also motorboat that makes so much noise. Is a good place to rest, to sleep and read.      

A guilty pleasure

I’m not a big friend of internet, I told you before, but there are some web sites I like, one of them are.. it was..  cuevana, you can see a lot of movies without moving of your house, every Sunday I used to saw movies or a chapter of my favorites series  after lunch. But now is so bad, when megaupload died, cuevana died too.
other web site I like is taringa… if you need a antivirus you find it… if you need some album of your favourite band you ca find it… if you need some crack, you find it… it’s amazing! But now is more difficult find some things, because megaupload died.
but I have to recognize I like so much facebook, I discovered in 2008 when I came in to my first year of university, a classmate told me about this site. At the beginning I used it just for fun, the surveys were so funny, like “what Barbie are you?” I was Barbara, the copy of Barbie.
I visit every day but now the use changed in the last year, now is a powerful tool to be communicated with the world, my world. I coordinate the bigger part of my activities. I think the greatest thing of facebook is the capacity of meet all your friends in the same place at the same time. Other thing I like is you can upload photos, I love see photos of my friends on their trip fields or their parties, generally people upload happy photos or of relevant things, like beautiful landscapes or the photo of the last protest, that is a good thing.  

Click here to see my profile ... just see!! :B

Cartoon movies

When I was a child I lived in La Serena and in that small city there aren’t cinemas. But once in the municipal theater set up a big screen and showed Toy Story. I went with my grandmother and my cousins Pablo, Andrea and Alexandra who lived in Santiago and they went to La Serena on every holiday that they can. I don’t remember very well about the film, but I remember the experience, it was my first time of that kind and I was very happy.
I have to say I didn’t see a lot of movies when I was a child, because I don’t know I preferred play in the street with my friends or went to the beach. But when I grew up I started to enjoy more movies. At 13 years old I saw my favorite cartoon movie, “Finding Nemo” I guffawed for hours and every time I see I laugh in the same way.  When Dory speaks whale I died XD
Other cartoon movie I love is “Rio” maybe I like it so much because I love Brazil, is an amazing country. I love the colors in that movie and the story is very funny.

Click here to see Dory speaking whale 

When I was 13 years I came in on scout, in the group of the Instituto Nacional, the oldest group in Chile. In 2009 I had my best camp,I went with three friends and teammates and two guides also good friend. We went to a Mapuche community in the sector of Melipeuco, near to Llaima volcano. We spent 4 days in that place, it was amazing! Very beautiful, very magical, the sky at night it was unbelievable, you can see a shooting star at every moment. After that, we went to Villarica and we camped in the shore of the lake. When we arrived to the camping it was full and in the night a storm started and it was getting worse at every minute, we armed our tent very well, because every scout knows that a tent well-armed it never won’t leak, and we decided go to sleep. The next day we woke up and all people have left the camping, we were the only.

After Villarica we went to Valdivia and we visited the Saval Park when it was celebrating the beerfest of Kunstmann a typical beer of Valdivia… it’s so delicious!  The Saval Park are very special, there’re a lot of endemic vegetation called “Bosque Relicto” very slender in the world.
When we arrived to Valdivia we found the “Valdivian Week” and that night was playing “la Noche”, the “cumbia” group.
After that we went to Paillaco to a place that I can’t remember how we arrived, in the middle of the forest, that experience was amazing, but we were scare for the pumas and the river was very cold.  We stayed 4 days there and we came back to Santiago.

One of the part I don’t like of the trips are have to come back to Santiago, because I don’t like this city… it’s the sad part of the journeys.

When I was 10 years old I bought a guitar, actually my mom bought it, it was like when Lilo ask to her sister money to buy Stich in the dog pound, but I always tell that I bought it. So, I started to practice and play a lot, I learnt alone, sometimes my brother helped to me.  When I grew the guitar began to be in the background and at 16 I forgot the guitar. Today I really regret and I want to learn well. I love music, the sounds, make sounds, make some music, rhythms even clapping. This summer I took mi guitar again but I realize that I’m stagnant, so I decided that when I have more money I’ll pay for  a professor who teach me the strum and new chords. I think a well-played guitar does the big part of the songs, a alone guitar does magic, classic guitar is something amazing that makes you feel in other world. I used go to classic guitar concerts, but now my time is limited. I think I got talent, but I’m too old to learn as I really want. May be I could learn well in other life.

Internet for dummies :(

I’m a foolish computer user. Sometimes the technology overcomes to me, but I like and I try so hard to do the things right. 

My favourite explorer in the whole world

My favourite explorer is google chrome, in there is everything! And is so easy to use! I think that was created for dummies like me. Someday, here in the university, a classmate told me about this wonderful explorer, so I arrived to home and downloaded it and I discovered a useful tool that makes my life easier.

Other tool that I used often is facebook. I opened in 2008 and it was just for fun but now it’s an important work tool. One month ago I tried to closed it, but I was very disconnected of the world I lost important meetings, parties, friend’s birthdays, so I decided to open it again. If I’m honest I don’t like because I think it’s very psycho and intrusive, I think facebook is a tool to get all our information and all of that is managed by the “gringos”, that scares me. So I prefer take care about the things that I upload.  

Other tool that I use like a work tool is gmail, is very complete and easy to use it, it have a great capacity to store information, it’s as reliable as a pendrive and you can get to your data in every place that have    internet. 

Three awesome moments in my life

Daft Punk in SUE 2006

I love music, it's my companion everyday at every moment, I've got a lot of music in my external hard drive, a lot! but I haven't gone to many concerts, because are expensive and hate the colective hysteria. However are 3 of them that deserve to be mentioned.

My first awesome (!) concert was of Daft Punk in the SUE (Santiago Urbano Electrónico) 2006, I was 17 years old and I wnet with a classmate of school, her nickname is Sheko, but her name is Constanza. When I remembered that show I get excited. It was so perfect, the lights, the staging and music playing very strong. They're a great band and I'm waiting for their since that time, but they've never came back :(

The other great concert was of Depeche mode on 2010, it was in the equestrian club so the place wasn't good, but it was amazing. I went with two friends, Amancai and Lorena, my best scout boss and very good friend. We arrived very early and we was waiting for hours, but when they began to play I was very excited and when they played "Enjoy the silence" I almost cried.

The 3rd very special concert was the last year and I went with a very special person to me. It was of Jorge Drexler and it was special because we was so well together and I was so in love that the music was like the most sublime thing in the world. Today is a memory of better days :(

Zodiac

I was born in 1989 therefore I'm a Snake in chinese zodiac.

The web site says that the snakes are intelligent, graceful and materialistic persons. We're very analytical and we don't take risks whe we need make decisions, for that we hace our chart to do the things right. I think that it's so true, is completely applicable to me. I'm a very rational person and it´s really hard for me listen my heart and take its advice.

Regarding the other stuffs it seems very nearly to my personality, I work very hard for the thing that I want, but I get bore easily. I'm very diligente and yes, I admit, I'm jealous and posesive.

In the star zodiac I'm leo, because I was born at july 25th  and often say about of my sign that we're very passionate with our couples and jobs, we heat everything around us. We're bossy and innate leaders, but also say that we always do the mandates of the heart, that's a contradiction to me.

I think that astrology shows to us general characteristics than often seems true and yes, it's like a very general photography about our personality, but I think that the horoscopo is a joke or maybe I've never read one serious, I believe that is a way to make believe us something to leave our lifes consitionally, if you believe in that words.

Flash Christmas

This Christmas was very special. I don’t like too much Christmas because I’m not Christian and it’s so commercial, the principal idea vanishes. But this one it was really beautiful because I shared with my family and friends of. Moreover my nephew, Renato,  arrived from Paris recently and he’s the sun of my life!

We spent Christmas in the house of the girlfriend of my brother, Renato’s dad. It’s in Peñalolen at the foot of the hill, so Santiago looked very beautiful at night.

That night we ate a delicious starter with shrimps with lemon, then we had a buffet of meat, chicken a lot of salads, rice and mashed. For the desert we had tiramisu, fruit salads and a strange desert of maracuyá, like a pudding.  We drank beer, wine and a drink with tequila and strawberries or pineapple. That one it was really delicious and helps you to get drunk quickly.

This year the vijieto pascuero was very austere, it must be my age,       but he gave me beautiful things and very useful, like a subwoofer, clothes, facial creams (at 22 years old is necessary use that things), towels and like every year a big box of chocolates ¡ñam!