A special present

For my seventeen birthday I received a beautiful present. It was in a day of school, so in my classroom my six best friends had prepare a surprise for me with baloons, confetti and stuffs like that. But the best part was when they gave me a big handmade cube with all the faces decorated by themselves, each one of my friends dedicated me one face, so everyone had a personal message for me and a personal stamp with the caracteristics of every person who wrote to me.  

The cube is very colorful: has stickers, color papers, drawings, some of them have relief... It's very funny. That's why I like it very much, but also because it's a handmade present (I love the handmade presents), my friends took the time to do it so I appreciate that; and mostly beacause the things they said for wishing to me a happy birthday, where very beautiful. Obviously I still have it, it's in a shelf next to my desk, so you can see it from every point of my room; makes me remember nice memories with all of them.   

Humans Zoo: A debt of Chile with kawésqar and selk'nam people

About two years ago, I saw the film "Calafate, Zoológicos Humanos" in a class. In fact it's a documentary about the history of kawésqar and selk'nam people, two extinct ethnic group of the extrem south of Chile, that in the nineteen century some of them were taken to Europe for been exhibited to the public just like a circus or a zoo. Besides they had been humiliated, they got sick of a different deseases: syphilis and viruela, for example, many of them died in the road to Europe and others died in a short time after.

With the time, their bodies and rests were saved there in different museums and departments of anthropology; especifically the department of Zurich in Switzerland colaborated in 2008 with the last descendents of them and the producers of the documentary, with the process to bring them back to their land, Tierra del Fuego. Finally, only in 2010, after of 125 years since they had been taken by the force and showed as animals in public theatres; their rests came back to the place where they never had to leave. 

It's awful not only the humans zoo in this situation, in that moment the goverment of Chile didn't do anything to avoid the kawésqar and selk'nam people were taken, in fact, they allowed that. And also, in 2008-2010 the goverment didn't colaborate in real terms to bring them back either; that were merit of the anthropologist of Zurich, the production of the documentary and the last family members of their people. The situation didn't have so much visibility and the goverment didn't gave a public importance or a minimun apologizes, besides their people are a very important cultural heritage not only in Chile, for their own kawésqar and selk'nam people too. That it's a debt from the State of Chile with all their people. 

Our sister's travel

Hello! 

Today I'm briefly tell you about my last vacation: it was a travel with my sister to Europe, in fact, we already come back to Chile because we were out since the first week of September. We wished for so long travel together and go there, that after almost a year of planning, we finally had our opportunity.

We visited Rome and Athens, two very incredible cities; but I think that our most interesting destination and the place that we most enjoyed, was Turkey. We saw a lot of beautiful landscapes, mosque, monuments and craftwork; but the people, their culture and history were one of the most amazing things that we knew. It's a very different place, an unic combination between the oriental and occidental culture; besides the recent and complex events in the country, we decided to go anyway and I can say that was the correct decision and was totally worth it. Definitely we learned a lot in many ways and we appreciated all the experience, surely we’ll remember it forever and we hope, one day, can return.