My close and supportive family

In this opportunity I’m going to talk about my family. I from Osorno, a little city in the south of Chile, and all my family live here. Well, not all but the most because I have family in La Unión and since April in Arica. My family of Osorno is very big, there are a lot of people and they are very close. My grandfather’s name is Maximiliano and my grandmother’s name is Leontina, but we called them “papi maqui” and “mami leo”. My uncles are Iván and José, and my aunts are Sonia and Oriana. My mom is the last one and her name is Sandra. And we are eleven cousins, most of us are twenty or thirty. I also have three nephews; all of them are three or four and are boys. It’s very funny and cool to have a very big family, because in the holidays, like birthdays, Christmas or New Year we come together to the grandparent’s house and celebrate.

We always make a barbecue, even in New Year we make one at night and another one at lunch of the first of January. this place is so quiet because it is in the field and it’s next to a river. In the summer all of us go swimming, rest and eat all the fruits of the trees like apples, cherries and peaches.  

And all are so close and supportive. For example, in April my cousin Andrea and her family went to Arica for the job of her husband and they missed so much the city, the field, the friends and the family. In the holidays of summer they wanted to travel, but they don’t have money. And my family decided to help them and raise money with events to benefit. They sell “empanadas”, barbecues, cakes, even clothes. Now they are about to collect the money and I’m sure they will succeed. I’m very proud of having this family.

2013, a busy year.

I think that the best success in the last years is the coming of my nephew, called Martín. Now, he is 3 and is a very curious and happy child. When I knew the news of his date of born, because it was a little unexpected, I traveled to Osorno for waiting his coming. That day was very exciting and is one of the most important days of my life.

This year has been weird because a lot of things have happened. This 2013 is my fourth year of journalism and the penultimate in my career, and for that is a little complicate with all the obligations and classes that I have. Also I have two jobs, I packing in a supermarket and I’m a tutor of the Universidad de Chile. I think that the second job is more like help to my partners. This consists of teaching some specific area; explaining the functioning of the university and the university life. This is a comprehensive support and these tutorials are for students of first year of the ICEI.

In the university I have other activities, like I am delegate of my course and I participate in the Formación Básica commission. When all of things come together I end the days very exhaust and a little stressful. But all of these activities make my life nice and complete. And my family specially this year has been a very important support in my life.  

In the two months remaining I have a lot of responsibilities and classes. I think that I’m a little backward with some courses, but I’m sure that I make it. Also in the vacations I will have the “práctica” in an important newspaper called La Tercera. In the last days that was a news really important in my life, because it is a little difficult to have this work. I hope that all comes up very well and I hope to have the energy for ending this year excellently. 

I love food

I’m going to talk about one thing that I love: food. When I arrived in Santiago I didn’t know how to cook and life here was very difficult for me. The first year in the university I ate all the time fast food and it was really bad. My body suffered the consequences and I was sick all the year. I had two pneumonias and every month I had stomachache. It was really bad and for that the nutritionist recommended me to eat more healthily.

Since that moment I started to learn to cook with recipes that I took from internet and every time that I cooked I called my mom to help me. I learned in a short time and now I cook everything. I can prepare lasagna, different soups, vegetable omelet, baked fish and all that I can see in a recipe.

Also I love making cookies and muffins, and things with a lot of sugar. It is not healthy but I cook that only once a month. Sometimes I’m bored to cook every day for bring food to the university and for that I cook like three times a week and keep it in pots for keep it in good condition. Other times I make salads of different varieties and I love this because it is light and very tasty.