Fiestas Patrias

In this opportunity I talk about the “fiestas patrias” In my country we celebrate these traditional date because it´s the celebration of the first Government junta who proclaimed Chile as an independent republic finally separated of the Spanish monarchy. For this reason my country celebrates his national day on 18 September. The people around the country have different ways to celebrate, but in general we´re going to the “ fondas” o “ ramadas” , both are a kind of party who people goes for dancing , and eat typical dishes , for example pasty, meat in sticks, corn cake, and drink the typical liquor the international famous wine, and other types of wine, for example the “chicha “ or the “ pipeño”. In this year I went to the Ines de Suarez park, who had a different stand full of crafts , very different foods and typically outfit for sale, and a stands for typical activities like rayuela , also they had a children’s area, very good for me because I have a child so it’s very great and funny to see our kid happy and having fun. Besides I ate very much pasty and other delicious things. In general I enjoyed this celebration very much because I brought all my family together and the atmosphere was full of joy.

September 11th

This date it´s very important for our country because It´s a day very sad and historically important. Before 42 years ago in Chile armed force attack to the "Unidad Popular" government to the president Salvador Allende , and the military’s take the control to Chile for the force. To many people dead this day and it´s the end of a really good idea of government, who end with this military control. I feel very sad for this thing happened because the civil resistance lost a battle and the country never was the same after this horrible date, before this date the dictator Augusto Pinochet and the military government take the absolute control , and kill a lot of innocent people only for have a different political ideas. He hunt all the people who considerate inappropriate for him so the people live with a lot of afraid and fear, because he and his aliases torture very hard to an innocent citizens and put they in a concentration camps in horrible conditions like a prisioners. The Pinochet government was horrible because he violated all the possible human rights, these act of violence and cruelty never been justified, and all the responsible persons need to pay for this crimes , it´s very fair complain about the awful success happened in the past , some people today are very angry about all this. The state of Chile must deal without any compassion to all the abhorrent people responsible for these crimes, because we need to the killers who still alive pay with life imprisoned in a real awful jail. For me of course than the theme it´s not outdated because the criminals never pay for the crimes, and the people who been affected it´s still angry and of course really hurt, they need and all the society needs justice and peace in our country, and unfortunately if still have a group of persons who defend the dictator and his government we never be a united and peaceful country. This date affect the life of people who lives in the country because the atmospheres turn different, exist a lot of fear in the citizens to the September 11th because the police go out to the streets for repress all the possible manifestations of people and otherwise exist a group or persons who produced act of unjustified violence and disorder in the streets as a protest. In my particular case I live near the University so the landscape sometimes it´s very chaotic, because the streets are all full of police forces and they repress all the students whogo out to protest.

Egypt

Since I was a little girl , I always dreamed with travel to this gorgeous country. My mom when I was a child , she bought me a lot of books , and cd rooms with a lot of information relationed with this place. I love all the pictures who showed these amazings books, I learned about all kind of information about this contry, for example the huge civilization who been in the past , and all the mistique who involved this history it´s too much interesting for be ignored. I need to go in the future, because I need to see with my own eyes the great pyramid of Giza, the Sfinx, The Nile river, and visit other places for exaple the city of the dead in Cairo and I will go to the museums, but especially to the most importantly for my , the egyptian museum in Cairo, because there contains the world's most extensive collection of egyptian antiquities, and the most important thing , in this museum it be the gold mask of Tutankhamun, the popular icon of the ancient Egypt , and we found a lot of others importants antiques , especially pharaonic antiques. I love all this old civilization, I dreamed with go to this country and I hope one day will be visit this place. But only for visit because I think Egypt society today it´s all of violence and inestability, they have a lot of intern conflict, and these things are not safe for the people who lives there for all the instability.