My Christmas

It is strange. This is the most quiet christmas in all my life. It was very ease, maybe because my family and i had a terrible 2011. It was very hard. We don't have any cheer to do something in Christmas Eve..

Well, we do something, but it was like a normal dinner, nothing special. Just like a piece of cake, a bit of "Cola de Mono", and that's all. I don't know how to write 200 words in this blog. But, well, i spent that with part of my grandma and my parents. My grandpa, i don't know why, he didn't ate with us, and he got to sleep. It was only 23:00 o'clock.

¿Santa Claus?, ¿who is?. No one in my family received gifts, even me, the only child, the first grandson, and all that. In general, we gave gifts each other all the year. Really, we don't need a special date to give gifts, but this year, specially this year, we didn't do anything.

That's because my grandpa got sick. While many students in Chile fought for a better education, all in my family fought for my grandpa could live the best that we can do it. There was 5 horrific months. Thtas's the reason that this short Christmas (classes cooperates too, i had to study for a test) was the most boring of my life. We were very tired.

But i hope that the next Christmas will be better. And we will have a little revenge in New Year, when we are gonig to do something anyway to forget a bad year.

Playa Chigualoco, My Favourite Beach

Is located in kilometer 247 of Route 5 (also known as "Carretera Panamericana" in Chile), in the Fourth Region of Coquimbo, where the highway almost reaches the beach. It's a lonely one, there lives less than 10 people. And is a large one too.

These are the reasons that i like it. Besides, it's no so popular, that means you have all the beach by yourself. It is a challenging beach. The waves are not so big, but comes one after another very quickly, so you never must be quiet there. There are many ocean currents too, very short and fast, so you can easily end in a place that you never imagine. As if that weren't enough, the soil is very uneven.

In fact, i went to that beach only once in my life (2011 summer). But it's more than enough to make it my favorite beach. Because you can do anything there. I improvise, for example, bodyboarding. I know there are many other places much better than Chigualoco to do this, but, like i'm an amateur in that, i like to enjoy any beach with my body board. Swim is an obvious thing that i do too, but, as I said above, I must be fast because the waves cross each other. At that time, i went there with my parents and the same cousin of ever (What, He again?????)

It is simple to get there. If you start to travel from Santiago, you must get to Route 5 (there are many ways to arrive there, but if you come from FAU, take "Alameda", until you get to Manuel Rodriguez street, that leads to the route), and travel to kilometer 247 going to north. It will take you like 3 hours 30 minutes or 4 hours to get there, but always take more time, because in kilometer 204, you will see a large filling station, that has a great but expensive shop, that works as the halfway point if you travel to La Serena.

Thta's my favourite beach, i hope that you like to read about it. See you later.

Tennis

As you can see in my Roger Federer post, I show you that I am a tennis fan. I can't play this sport usually , but, when i do it, I enjoyed it a lot.

Tennis is like my unreachable dream. I would like to be an ATP tennis player, it is a life goal that i set up when i was a child (6 or 7 years old). I love to play, beacuse when you are in a court, you must forget everything, and, even while i don't do many outdoor activities and always had low marks in physical education, the only thing that I want to do is run like crazy to hit the ball before its second rebound. I fell off to many times when I played, but it doesn't matter, I just got up and started to run again. Even the pain is thrown away when I do it. So tennis is like a remedy to me. I forget all troubles, bad thoughts, it's like my yoga. But, I haven't the chance to parctice it as a professional. I think, if i had had the enough money neccesary to travel around the world in ATP tour, i have never think in geography as my profession

I remember a few matches that I have played. For example, in my 2011 holidays (the lucky summer), a cousin (the same of casino) and me have played 2 days in a yatch club of La Herradura. I saw 2 another guys playing in the court next to us and i said, "I'm really bad, they play very well and i cannot do a single backhand". So i started to focus on the match, and i began to do one of my best performances in my short tennis story, even using my old Teloon Junior racket, a gift from an aunt when i was 10 years old. Yeah, it's very old, and it's too small from me, but i know it very well. So well, that i did an spectacular drop-shot. My cousin doesn't run, it was a Federer kind shot.

Tennis is my far, and almost, my only outdoor activity, but i am planning to open my mind to other activities. Meanwhile, i inivte you to play tennis with me when you want. I hope I can play better than my last match.

El Carretero

Buena Vista Social Club knows how to make poetry with simple life, the things that we saw and don't consider at that right time, but always get back to our mind when we start to anlalyze our life. The song called "El Carretero", shows this to us. The singer tells the story about a simple man. His job is very humble, he only wants to marry with his loved woman, and he said "I would be a proud man if i get married". And besides, he doesn't to leave the countryside; he doesn't know another life. To explicite it, in Spanish: "Porque el campo es el Edén más lindo del mundo entero".


So when I heard this song, 4 years ago, because my grandma loves "Salsa" and cuban rythms, it makes me think: I have all the advantages of city, near to hospitals, services, technology, and sometimes, I was dissapointed with this city, this life, the way that we are living. But there are so many people, that maybe lives far away from main cities, with some troubles of health, or they must travel many kilometers to arrive to work or school, and maybe they don't have basic services, but they are happy at the same time, living in peace and enjoying the country life, plenty of nature and silence - and fresh air too -, not as the fast-food lifestyle of capital cities.

After that, i started to listen rock and i forgot to include it in my cell phone or another musical devices, but, i get bored to rock or heavy metal, and i began to explore another musical styles. And then, i remembered this song, and i don't think to delete it or forgot it again, because i love the way that this gropu play the musical instruments, and the simpleness of the lyrics, as well as its wiseness.

PS: "A caballo vamos pal monte"