A Chilean Building

Hello today, in this blog, I would like to talk of a Building here in Chile, It's called "Centro de innovación Anacleto Angelini" , A building placed on Campus San Joaquin of Catholic university of Chile, It was Projected by Alejandro Aravena, a famous Chilean architect, winner of a Pritzker on Two thousand and sixteen.

I have visited this building in a pair of times, but I just entered once. In the past semester, one of the works we received was go to Campus San Joaquin to make croquis of certain buildings there, and the "Centro de Innovacion" was there, I remember that I went there like six times In two weeks to complete the croquis, and the last day, when we had to show our work; in the morning of that day, I entered to that building, It was really different of the inside that I imagine, The building wasn't really big inside, but was nice anyway. An extra fact of this building is that, for his ubication it could be seen from the Metro between the San Joaquin station to Camino Agricola station.

I like this building for certain things , first of all, the form of the building is interesting, the material for his construction, the process to build, the idea for the construction, although the idea was really quite simple (cut, move and replace parts of a big cube) , it was  a great idea and make the build very nice to see, In addition to that , the building has a minimal waste of energy, Is one of the most efficient buildings in Chile.

Something that passionate me.

Today, I will write about something really important for me, something that goes with me to anywhere, the music.

It could sound like something that anyone would say, music is company for too much people, but i feel it like something (for me at least) is more important.

Everything start when I was a kid, my parents get divorced when I was four years old, and that made that the relationship Father-Son with my dad were limited to could see him on the weekend and vacations, anyway, in the time when I could be with him, we listen to different types of music, like, rock, or metal, or different styles, We used to sing and play guitar, but, when I was a child I only could sing and my dad played the guitar, that was something really important for me in that time.

When I grow up, like twelve years old, I started to learn about some instruments and how to play it, first of all I learnt to play guitar, then bass and then more instruments, and with that knowledge, me and my dad could play together and sing together too. Then I started to participate in some music workshops in my school, where I learnt more, and that was a time that i will never forget.

Music makes me fell complete, is with me when I work for the university, when I’m going to FAU, even when I’m writing this, and I think is something that never going to leave me.

A great holiday.

Today I'm going to write about one of my favorite place ever, where I had a very good holiday. It was two or three years ago I guess (I don't remember it exactly), my dad told me about a trip that one of my uncles was preparing to Coquimbo, a beautiful city with nice weather that I like too much. He told me to go there, and I accepted, that moment was too exciting for me because I had nice memories of a past trip to Coquimbo, and make a trip there again made me feel happy in that moment.Me, my dad, his wife and my uncle went to Coquimbo some days later, I remember that we went there in a very tiny car, so we have to made very stops on the road to move our legs ( eight or nine hours without moving inside a car are not too much enjoyable ), anyways, after nine hours of traveling we arrived to Coquimbo, my uncle before the trip rented a department closer to the beach for a week , with a nice pool and a room only for myself. after we installed we went to buy food for the week on a nearly supermarket to get prepared for our stay.

In Coquimbo you can make too much things, there’s a city called La Serena, it seems like both cities were only one , and that cities has very different activities, like visit La Serena's light house, or the third millennium cross on Coquimbo, or even visit all the different beach that the city has, that kind of activities we made in that trip.

I enjoyed that holidays because I could spend great moments with my dad, and visit too much places of one of the beautiful cities that i ever knew. I think that a trip to Coquimbo it's very close.

A Family Photograph

Hello everyone, today I'm going to write about a photograph of my family, a photo of my last vacation, this photo was taken like 3 weeks ago, me and my family were in Salto del Petrohué in Puerto Montt, that day was the last day of our vacations there, I think that we could meet more places, but we didn’t make the most of our time there, I really want to go again.

The people that appears in the photograph are a certain part of my family, me (left-hand side), my mom at my side, my aunt (her sister) at her side, and my uncle my mom’s brother, at right hand side), In Puerto Montt the weather is too cold, that makes that all of us worn too much clothes to keep warm.

I like this photograph because makes me remind that days in Puerto Montt, in addition, the background of the photo, with Osorno’s Volcano, the rocks, the Petrohué river and all the vegetation of that place, makes a good looking photograph, that trip was too relaxing and I could meet very places that I've never seen before, places that I want to see again soon in a next trip to the south part of my country.

My Hobbies

Today I'm going to talk about two of my favorite hobbies, Music and Magic.

I started to play music when I was twelve years old, In that time, in my school the Music teacher made a group of children that wanted to learn to play instruments, there I started to learn to play guitar, and with time, dedication and practice I have improved my skills, and with the time I have learned to play another instruments like Bass, Ukulele, and a little bit of drums and piano. About Magic. I just started like nine months ago, and i have learned different tricks in this time, but there's too much to improve with practice.

I Started to Play music because my dad and my uncles play different instruments, and I wanted to be part of them playing music too. And I started with magic because a partner of my class was playing with a deck of cards doing some shuffles and some tricks. I see it and I thought "I want to learn that" and then I bought my first deck of cards and I started to learn.

For music, obviously you need equipment, because you can’t play if you don't have the instrument, but if you play beatbox you only need your mouth, you can do it in your house, on the street, everywhere and you can do it with other people, that’s a nice thing in this hobbies. For magic, you need some more specific things like the deck of cards and something more that I can't say

I like music because I can express myself playing it, I can express that I’m happy or that I’m sad, I can do beautiful sounds that makes me feel better and it's something that I know I can't lose and always going to be there. And I like magic because is an activity that makes people believe in impossible things, that makes me happy and  makes people happy too, that’s what I like of this hobbies.

Feedback

In this blog I will write about my experience doing blogs in English level 3. I will refer to the next point, writing a comment for each one.

-What you think about the experience in general?

About the experience on this class, I think that it was gratifying, because the blog's exercise it's a very good way to improve our skills, and the topics of each blog were too different, that made that the blogs were funny to read and comment with my class partners.

-How much you feel your writing skills have developed?

I feel that my writing skills have improved too much since the beginning of this class, i feel that my vocabulary improved too. In certain blogs i tried to add some new words that i didn´t know before, and that makes improve my English vocabulary.

-What you would like to include in the future?

Something that I would like to include in the future could be some activities out of a simply blog on a computer, I mean, a blog, but, outside of a pc. Something like, an actuation of a blog, someone tells the story of the blog during another person’s act the thing that happen in the story. I think it could be funny.

-What else you would like to write about?

For a next blog I would like to write about something related with architecture, about someone important in this topic, or something related with magic, or music, or comics,


That it's all that I want to say about this class, I think that Ronda is a good teacher and my partners are very nice, and I’m happy to know them here.

Plataforma arquitectura

A career-related website that I enjoy visiting

Plataforma Arquitectura is a translated version of the English website called Archdaily, on this website you can find everything about projects, news, events and the most important things related to the architecture of these days. if you want to know about some project or anything related with architecture, some architect or some company or architect’s studio, everything translated to Spanish, this website is for you,

Link of the page: www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/

This website has a lot of sections, about the projects, news, articles, products, interviews, events and more, every section has an own page on the site, that makes an intuitive and easy way to explore the site. I visit this website not more often, but usually when I need to investigate for some project or if I simply want to read about some interesting new project or another topic related with architecture. I like this site because always has the most actual news about my career and it has always something interesting to read.