Technology, a complex paradox

Hello everybody!

My personal opinion about technology is not favorable at all. Nevertheless technology can make life easier in many aspects (for example facilitating communication with relatives that live in other countries), I think that it generates a power so big that the human can’t manage it, so many times people become slaves of their own creations.

However, I can’t refuse my condition as a social actor, and for not become a hermit-like person, I use some technology equipment to maintain the contact that my social circle demands. For this reason, my favorite piece of technology is my computer, which was a present from my father for my 16^th birthday, three years ago. I try to use my computer the less time as possible, but all the same I use it every day, mainly for studying and making homework. However, I admit that sometimes I use it as an escape for anxiety or tedium, by logging on Facebook or listening music. Indeed, the thing I most like of my computer is the enormous amount of music that I can find in internet, considering that for me, listening music is a no-price activity.

After this contradictory reflection, I can ask to myself: “How would be my life without my computer?” By one side it would be better, because I would stimulate more my creativity in order to develop different ways for avoiding anxiety or tedium, which would let me spend more time with my family. But on the other side my life would be worst, because I would have difficulties for getting access to curtain information related to the studies and friends, being in some way, excluded of social life.

In conclusion, technology is and will be ever a complex paradox in my life!                  

A special picture

This picture was taken by one of my classmates in the study trip that we had with my school in May of the year 2012. It shows my best’s school friends and me, after a costume party that took place in the last night of the trip.

I like a lot this picture because it is special to me in different ways. First, every time I see it I remember the study trip, which was a great experience, mainly because all the classmates got close one to another and the whole class year joined together. Also, because I appear with my three best friends, which are the same senses I was four years old, and with these costumes –apart of wining the costume competition of the party- we lived an important life process together: the last night of the study trip, that condense the essence of trip, which is having fun and sharing with you friends.

In conclusion, this picture remembers to me people who play a very special role in my life: my best friend! 

My trip to Cucao: a great experience!

Hello everybody!

Today I will tell about the place that I have most liked in my life: Cucao, a National park situated in the central-west side of Chiloe Island. I ‘am being lucky of visiting a lot of different parts, even in different continents, but the context and the place itself delighted me.      

I went in December of the year 2012, and as a funny fact, the Christmas present for my parents that year was to saw me alive after the trip, because of all the unexpected events that happened to me and my friends (intoxication and subsequent hospitalization in a little island called Achao). I went with two of my bests school`s friend, which have a great sense of humor so the context was perfect for having an amazing experience.

We arrived to Cucao after visiting other places of the zone, and immediately after getting there, we set our tent and the rest of the camping stuff. We camp four nights in the official camp of the National Park, and every day we made walks to the different attractions and views that can be found there. The walk that I liked the most was to the beach, which includes three types of landscapes in one single view: the huge forest, a shiny lagoon and the beach; with the sea that makes you feel that is no horizon.   

I recommend Cucao no matter what! You can experiment a great connection with nature, and if you want to make the most of the trip, remember to go with your friends!