The best present ever!

I remember when I was a child for my 10th birthday, that my family was in a bad situation - economically speaking- and I knew that my parents can’t made me the present that I was hoping, so when my mother said to me that we have to stop in the mall before we go to home I was thinking that maybe she would buy me the doll that I wanted, but no, we only stop to buy a soda at the supermarket. So, when we arrived at home and saw some of my friends in my house I remember that I think “what is happening? Did I forget a book or something like that in the school?” And the answer was inside; between my parents and my sisters they made me a surprise birthday party, it was a little one, but however the most important thing was the intention, I steel have part of the present that my father gave to me, it was a chocolate bar, only for me! (with my sister we always have to share everything) and now I use the wrapper like a bookmark. Maybe sounds silly, but for me was the biggest present that in those moment I received, and this don’t mean that I don’t like or care about the others presents, it´s just that my father never was a man that shows his emotion, and I remember that he cried because he wants to give me the birthday party that I never had.

Education in our days

Since a few years ago is more common to see, listen even talk about the problematic about education that we live in our country, however, this is not something that happen only in our country, it´s more like a change of way of thinking in the most of the people in the society. I think that there are some different reason that bring us to this point, and this reason could be political, economical, historical, etc., but the only thing that I think that have to matter to improve the education is in fact the educational reasons. I hear every day people talking about we have to fight to get a better education, or what the people in charge of education policy are doing wrong, and several of comments like that. So, I think that in the most of the cases they are right, but, what we can do about it? I think that this happen because we are good to criticize the system but the most of the time we do a little effort and when the people do something big, they are punished for that, and later they don’t want to do it again, and we resign with it, because at the end we think that this is better than nothing, and the circle started again. Maybe is a negative way to see it, but I think that how is our society, is so difficult to make a real change, and the possibilities that we have is resign with a poor solution or remain firm in what we believe that is possible, an quality education for every one and a good and fair payment for the people that do this hard work, teachers.

My addiction

      Hi every one, this time we have can write about anything that we want, so, I choose a something that I really like: Reading.

Since I was a child I have always liked to read, and this is common on my family, because my mother is that kind of people that wherever she goes, she always had a book in her hand (in the dentist waiting room, for a long trip on bus, etc.). So, you can imagine that one of the first present that I had memory is -yeah!- a book, and this don´t was any book, was "Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone" (I have to say that I only was nine years old). Until that day I'm always looking for different books, the last year I read without stopping in all weekend the trilogy Millennium by Stieg Larson, and always when I really like a book, I can't stop until is finish, sometimes even I don't sleep and I telling to myself that it's just one more page and then I go to sleep, but deep inside of me I know that this don't going to happen. In the last few years I made the habits to read at least one book at week, sometimes I found that I already read a book, and if really like me the first time, I can read again, in others cases I'm reading two, three or even four books  at the same time, and then is when my mother take those away from me because I spend all the time reading and don´t do anything of my homework from the university. She in a few times said that my thing with reading is more like an addiction, and somehow I think that she´s rigth.

"Fiestas Patrias"

Trying to be green

At this moment in our planet, people have more interest in worthless things, like how much you spend to buying a car or the last cellphone in the market, however is not common listen to your neighbor or a friend or even yourself saying that you are worried for the environment or what can we do to make a difference and do environmentally friendly practices.

In the last years is more usual to hear about this issues, but sincerely I think that in some cases people use this ideas more for set a trend and the idea of take care for the environment it’s left behind.

In my personal opinion, this is something to worry about, I think that there is many ways to contribute to contaminate less or just don't contaminate that we can learn, but sometimes takes time that we prefer spend in other things. Sometimes I think that I can do more – yes, I’m not like the most “green” person- like divide the garbage on plastic, paper, glass, etc., because this is a simple action that don’t take a long time, and really I do it every time that I can, but not as often as I would like to. Also, since I can remember I want to have a bike, because I’d feel that it’s a great way to contaminate less and make exercise at the same time, maybe in the near future I can do this a reality.

In 2006 with a friend we signed to support a campaign of Greenpeace, but that was the only time that I do something similar. Sometimes I get an e-mail from eco-organizations but in general I don´t have the time to participate.

With my kids I try to incorporated recycling habits and take care of the environment, and every Sunday we go to the supermarket to recycle bottles, and in little things like don’t throw out trash in the street or don't waste the water, I hope that this habits remain in their life.