Someone you would like to meet

It was kind of hard to just pick one person that I'd love to meet, I thought of Kurt Cobain, Freddie Mercury among others, but then i decided to pick someone that's still alive.
So i chose Jared Leto, he is an actor, singer, songwriter, front man of a band called "30 seconds to mars" where he also plays guitar, bass, piano, and he has directed and produced some of the band's videos under the name of "Bartholomew Cubbins". So as you can see, he would be a really interesting person to meet, leaving the handsome part aside.

He is a very dedicated (a little bit obsessive) professional, he has been in movies like Urban Legend, Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, Lord of War, etc, and he has no problem with changing the way he looks for a role, for example, he gained more than 30 k. to play John Lennon's killer in "Chapter 27" and recently he lost weight to play the role of a HIV-positive transsexual woman in a movie called "the Dallas Buyers Club" as you can see in these pictures taken by photographer Terry Richardson.


He has won many awards, as an actor, a musician, director, and also for being the "Sexiest Men", but in between all of this, he and his band have helped many organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and J/P Haitian Relief Organization, being Haiti a real concern for them, specially after the earthquake, also he has supported causes to stop animal cruelty and they released a website called http://www.abeautifullie.org/ were you can find information and ways to participate in environmental activities or donate to the Natural Resources Defense Council.

I'll leave you a video directed by Jared, and as pretty much all of their videos, it is like a short film, this is the first one he directed, and the first one i saw, it´s based on "The Shining" movie.

A place to eat

Hi everyone! I'm going to talk about this place, it's not exactly a restaurant, but my friends and I became addicted to it nearly two weeks ago. It's called "Cinnabon" and they sell mainly cinnamon rolls. This one specifically it's inside Costanera Center, on the top floor and as i was looking for it's website i found out it hasn't been in our country for long (last year or so), but it's very famous all over the globe.
What you see in the picture are "Pecanbon" and the drinks are called "Chillattas", frozen beverages, juice with a lot of ice, and cream, etc. Really good i must add, and coming from me, that's saying a lot, cause i don't like eating many things (don't know if there is a word for that in English, in Spanish would be "mañosa").

Anyway, they are basically a warm dough filled with cinnamon topped with cream cheese frosting, and there are others with walnut, caramel and chocolate. As for the price, they are not expensive at all, about $2000 CLP the one in the picture, and it's the biggest one. 

So if you are looking for something different to eat, at a reasonable price, this is definitely a good option.

BBC learning english

Today, as you all know, we had to review the BBC's website for learning english. And what i loved the most about it was the quizzes section, i've always liked crosswords and that kind of stuff and i got caught up in that section for nearly half the class, i think challenging myself is a good way to improve my skills, i´ve done it since i was a child, and in fact, today answering some of them i learned that i really lack vocabulary, so i think i'll be visiting the site often in order to improve it. About the rest of the sections i was only able to see some kind of "comic" story? i don't know if that's the most accurate way to describe it, but the point is that i found it very useful, it describes common situations and it explains you popular expresions that you won't find in a regular dictionary.

The place i chose from the list is Madame Tussauds wax museum. It opens every day, except for Christmas Day. It is placed in Marylebone Road, London, and you can get there by subway, it is just a two minutes walk away from Baker Street station. I liked this museum over the others because of many reasons, first, i like movies and seeing some characters in real size and with so many details must be pretty awesome, and that gets me to the second reason. I was looking on the website a little bit of the process that takes making these sculptures, and considering how accurate they are to the real person, i think it´s worth paying the ticket that honestly i found a little expensive, specially if you change it to chilean money (it costs £30.00 an adult one, or something near to $24.000 CLP if i'm not mistaken) 

A Concert or Exhibition

If i have to choose a concert i want to write about, i think it would definitely be "Lollapalooza 2011" even though it's not actually just one.
Why?, well, because it was the first one ever made outside the USA, because i loved a lot of the artists that performed in it, and because if memory serves, it was the first two-days concert i ever went to. 
It was on April 02 and 03, inside Parque O'higgins, i went with two of my friends, and it was exhausting but a really awesome experience.
Some of the artists i remember the most were 30 seconds to mars, The Killers, Los Bunkers, Chico Trujillo, Deftones, and Jane's addiction with the band and some people hanging from the stage. 
I even got a not so little tree as a gift, it was kind of difficult to take it home, and i'm pretty sure i punched several people on the face with it, i can´t say for sure 'cause no one yelled at me but i noticed some guys laughing anyway.

I'll leave you a video i took from Lollapalooza's youtube channel, i hope you will enjoy it.

A Beach

There's a beach I used to go every summer with my family when i was a child, it's called Pelluhue and it is on the seventh region. My grandpa has a house there, so when i say my family, i mean a lot of people 'cause my mom has 10 siblings, and it was a bit chaotic specially at night, when we had to make beds all over the floor, which i think was the best part, it was like camping inside the house and we used to throw pillows at each other and make fun until one of our parents got pissed and we had to go to sleep. 
I remember going to the river, because in the beach the water was so cold, and the waves so strong it was safer for us, little kids, not to bathe in it. Now of course, this is different, big waves call for surfers and there's even an anual contest.

A lot has changed in Pelluhue the past few years, the last time I went was before the Tsunami, so i think i wouldn't recognize much of it now, luckily for us, our grandpa's house wasn't destroyed by it, which is a real miracle considering it is about two blocks away from the ocean.

A photograph

Hi everyone!

I'd like to talk to you about this photo, and what it means to me, it's kind of hard doing it, but as i'm being extremely sentimental these days (or depressed, whatever) i'm taking this as my therapy. I hope you won't mind.

So this picture was taken on my birthday on 2008, and even though my brother is making a funny face, and he'll probably be pissed if he founds out i'm posting this for you to see, it is a very important moment for me, you see this was the last birthday i spent with my father, he passed away in August of 2009 and this is one of the last photos i have with him, or actually it's the last one we have as a family.

I know i said i was being sentimental, but it's in a good way, i know he's better now, and we are too, i mean, he's not suffering from cancer anymore and he's somehow free.  

Well i don't know if i'm making any sense now, so all i have to say is that it was a really good birthday, a day i'll always remember, and that i hope we'll be toghether again one day.