My Hobby



The collection of rocks is my hobby; I practice this hobby for 20 years. I pick up rocks in all places where go. The condition for pick up these rocks is that I like their colors, their shapes, the place where they are, historic issues or that they call my attention.


If you visit my house, you can see a lot of rocks. When I made a patio inside in my house, in the site was incorporated all the rose quartz and white quartz rocks that I had. I bought a special basket, it was woven with natural fiber that the artisan picks up of swampy land; I bought this basket to put my small rocks. My husband gets angry with me because I take a lot weight in my bag and sometimes walk many kilometers with them and he takes them, finally.


I have a lot of rocks that I forget, finally, where they were picked up, but I know that I have a bit place and land inside of my house, there’s a bit of world in every corner of my house, It’s amazing for me and when I clean my rocks beautiful memories arrive in my mind.


I remember when I went with my family to Estrecho de Magallanes, I turn crazy, and there were a lot of rocks and inside the water too. I spend too much time picking up rocks and I had to choose which rocks takes with me because I can’t take all of them.


Finally, I say that my hobby to the rocks was transferred to my children too, because they like pick up rocks as well. My little son, which is 5 years old, picks up the rocks regarding to their shapes, he imagine that the rocks are ships, space ship, cakes, guns, etc and my daughter, she is 13 years old, collect rocks too. She picks up rocks for a lot of reasons and she would like to study geology, for the relation with the rocks formation.

How green are you?

Today, there are many ways to learn green practices. I think the main one is the oral transfer, one person talk to other about her or his practices and this one talk to other and so on. Other way is how children can learn watching some children’s programs on TV, from internet, from advertising in newspapers, on TV, in radios, even more in some products packaging.

I’ve incorporated recycling habits to my life, in this way I’m teaching to my daughter and son showing them my practices. I´m recycling paperboard, and I give it to the people who collect it in the street; I’m disposing the glass bottles and containers in a COANIQUEM container; I put in a plastic bottle bags and others plastic to create a green-brick which are collected in the GAM; aluminum cans are collected by my daughter to sale them later; organic wastes are left in a container in order to make compost.

My family does not use the bicycle or walking, because we live far from our jobs, school or university, but still trying to reduce the car pollution with many other little green practices.
Regarding to environmental organizations, I have not join any of them, because I believe the activities in this king of organizations require spending a lot of time and I could never do it.
What I do to reduce my carbon footprint is to plant many trees, we plant a new tree every time possible, and up to date we already planted more than 50 trees, of which about 42 survived. Also we are reducing our domestic waste as much as possible. Among other things, we don’t drop burned oil directly into the drain but we put it in a glass container to dispose it into the trash, we don’t dump the batteries in the trash but we leave them in a special container to collect the batteries to recycle them later.

We are always awake to implement any practice to preserve our environment and keep clean our planet and give it to our children the best environment possible.

Our society is still lack of awareness about the damage that we are doing to the planet with each of our small actions and lack the desire to spend a little time in trying to reduce the harm.

Career Opprtunities

When I was 16 years old I finished school, then I took the PAA and the result was a good end. I applied to theater career in the Universidad de Chile (this career opened its postulation for the first time, after of the military strike of 1973), I was initially selected. In those times, all short-list had to give a special test. The short-list was 150, approximately and the place only was 24. After that I took several tests, my possibility was nearer and nearer, because I was still in the short-list.

When I was selected in the last test, I conversed with my parents. My father ran down about the theater career, but he allowed that I study this career. However, my mother said that she would help me economically, but I would have that to leave my parent’s house.

In front of these events, I got very scared and I didn`t believe capable of getting out of my house, only I was 16 years old. Finally, I registered in Commercial Engineering in the Universidad de Santiago and I left my dream to a side the way.

I believe that my career like actress will be excellent, I consider that I have characteristics for acting and my fighter spirit, maybe I will have my theater like many actors today.

Fortunately, what I have lived brought me to this point of my life where I feel very happy and a fulfilled woman.

Memory loss can begin from age 45, scientists say

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/06/memory-loss-begins-at-45-says-study

The scientists says that if you have a healthy heart, your brain cell activity is better.

Before of this study the scientists thought that the brain began to lose memory from 60 years old, but today they think that this age is from as 45 years old.

Their evidence comes from study of 5,000 men and 2,000 women between 45 and 70 years old. Are given test called the Whitehall II study that contents verbal and written tests, over a 10-year period.

Deterioration in the memory and thinking powers, show this study, was a 3, 6% in men and woman aged 45 to 49. Then this process is accelerated in the older age groups.

It matters, say the scientists, because dementia in later life can be detected and treated at an early stage, before Alzheimer's or another form of dementia becomes apparent.

The scientists’ conclusion is that deterioration of the brain sets in earlier than most of us would have hoped, but there are things that can be done about it. Take measures is very important.

Those can be less risk of o high blood pressure, obesity and high cholesterol because those persons have high risk of heart problems, are also at higher risk of dementia. This risk of mental health can persuade people to have a healthy life y take measures from the infancy.

The music in my life



Music is present all the time in my life, but since my adolescence. When I was a little girl,in my house we did not have a radio that’s why I didn’t know the music until I was 17 years old. However when I knew the music, I never left the music in my life.
My classmates taught me to listen rock music. My favourite band is AC/DC and The Cure. I listen to pop music too, but much less. I would like to go to England so I can see a concert of The Cure, It’s my dream. I hope that I can travel to London in 2013 and I can see The Cure in a concert. I went to concert that AC/DC give in Monumental de River, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
My favourite AC/DC album is Back in Black and my favourite The Cure album is Bloodflowers.
I like listening to music loud. This makes me feel free from my problems, sad stories and sad memories. The rock makes me feel energized, happy and it makes me active.
Some kinds of music make me sad, but I prefer no listening to them. I prefer listening to rock music, and a little heavy metal but my favourite is the hard rock.