My Favorite Book

     The last book I read (although I still don’t finish it) is my favorite book, it’s called TODA MAFALDA, that was wrote (drew) by Joaquín Salvador Lavado (also known as QUINO), an argentinian comic book artist. I have chosen this book, because it’s really special to me: I worked a lot to buy it! And I bought it with my girlfriend in a great day we had. We bought it in Feria del Libro J

     It’s about Mafalda’s life. Mafalda is a five years old argentinian little girl that grows during the 60s, and that doesn’t know how the world works. She wants to understand everything that happens around the world, so she makes ‘strange’ questions to her parents and friends: about Cold War, social inequalities, latin american political tensions, consumerism, sex, music, modern life… or whatever you can imagine… she really wants to know EVERYTHING!

     Mafalda has a group of different friends: Manolito, Felipe, Susanita, Miguelito, Libertad and her little brother Guille.

     I'm still reading this book, so I don't know how does it end, but the only thing I know is that I enjoy each and every page I read...

     I admire the way Mafalda links diferent elements, and then she mixes up everything in a very intrincate question, making her parents or friends feel uncomfortable.

     She loves to listen to The Beatles (me too), she thinks they would be presidents!

     She really hates to eat soup, she even thinks it’s a bad word. Always she’s angry she says ‘SOUP!’. Once she said that this world is a soup, meaning that this is a bad world.

     She has some quotes I like a lot, my favorite one is Start your day with a smile in your face and you’ll see how fun is to walk across the world clashing with everyone!

     I recommend you to read this book, or any other about Mafalda (there’s a lot of Mafalda’s books), I’m sure you’ll enjoy it! J

One Photograph I Like

This one is a photograph I like, it’s called “Heaven”, and it was taken by a girl called Sarah (I know nothing about this girl, or when did she really took the photo.  I don’t know where does she live, or how old is she. I only know that she uploaded the foto this year to a web site called “Deviantart” under the name of “Dark-and-Dreamless”).  I usually don’t upload photos to facebook, so I had nothing personal to upload here. But, when I want to find amazing photos, I always look for them in
www.deviantart.com (if you want to have a nice time watching beautiful pictures and photos, I recommend to you this site).

I like this photo, because it shows a special moment I really love: Sunset.  It shows the moment when day ends, and the sky turns pink and orange and purple, moreover clouds seem to be made of fire. It’s like a flaming sky, burning day worries over the horizon to recieve the night with arms wide open. This moment means Feedom to me, because it coincides with the end of university classes, so I can go home and rest for a little while.

I like the colors of this photo, and the fire-shaped clouds. It makes me feel relaxed.  Sometimes I’d like that all the day were a sunset, because of the colors in the sky and the smell in the air. Have you ever noticed the sunset smell? (Normally, the air turns fresh, I think it’s nice).

The Little Prince liked to watch sundowns just when he was sad, however, I like sunsets when I’m sad or when I’m happy, it doesn’t really matter.

The Best Day Of My Life

I think the best day of my life was between april 29th and 30th of this year.

It was between Friday’s afternoon and Saturday’s evening.

First, my girlfriend invited me to her cousin’s birthday party.

The story started when history classes at university ended and I went to my girlfriend’s house  (although, I must admit that each day I spend with her is a great day).

Well, the first interesting thing is that we didn’t know where would the party be, so, finding the apartment was an adventure! We had some instructions to find the place, but we didn’t know exactly where it was.

When we found it, we noticed that there was a lot of noisy people we didn’t know. That made me feel uncomfortable. In the middle of the night we had some troubles with apartment’s neighbors because of noises, so each and everyone of us had to go out of the building AT 4 AM!

We were scared. Santiago is not the same city late at night. I had a lot of money in my pockets (all I saved selling alfajores and handcrafted wallets), and I thought somebody could have stolen it.

We took a taxi and we went to an apartment we didn’t know (that belongs to a person I met in the party). It was a kind of office, so it didn’t have beds inside. We slept three hours on the floor, but we were together. :B

Saturday's morning, we woke up early and we didn’t find food, so we went out to have breakfast.  We bought a box of milk and some cookies in a supermarket, and then we came to the university VERY TIRED to learn some things about the Rengalentun vegetable garden, and we spent all the morning there (we painted our hands green to make some signs).

In the afternoon, we went to the center of the city (again) an we bought Toda Mafalda, a giant book I was looking for...

Finally, we went back to her house… It was a very long day, but we enjoyed it.
It's special to me because we were together a long time, and we did a lot of things together, it was a kind of adventure...J

My Cellphone

My favorite piece of technology is my cellphone.

I got it to my eighteenth birthday (it was a gift, obviously) one year ago.

I use it as an alarm clock by the mornings, and I usually use it to call my girlfriend and my parents. Sometimes I take pictures with my cellphone, and rarely I use it to listen to music. It’s not common for me to receive calls from my friends.

I use it everyday, and I must admit that I feel a little desperate when its battery is dead.

I like my cellphone, although it’s a basic one, because without it I couldn’t coordinate some  activities with my girlfriend, and most of the times it would be impossible for me to call my parents when I’m late at street and I won’t go home early.

But I’m not obsessed with my mobile phone, I’m sure I could live without it (because I’ve alredy done it), but it would be a little bit slow to do the things I do very fast right now (for example, to call my parents when I’m late I would need to find a public phone).

Maybe, life would be better without cellphones, and doing everything slowly. My grandparents were happy, and they didn’t even dreamed with a cellphone.  

Maybe, if I didn’t have to come to the university, I wouldn’t need a cellphone. I hope one day I can live without electricity, as the Himalayan sages . J