Post 8: Summer Holidays

Holidays are just around the corner! It’s so exiting. This semester has been so long and I can’t wait for it to end (sorry teacher haha). It hurts when you hear of having classes in January (insert pain face here), but great things come after that. At least we will have a month just for fun.

When it comes to me, summer holidays arrive and I immediately get out of Santiago. Obviously because I am not from here and I want to see my family and spent great days in the countryside. In summer we always eat traditional food “pastel de choclo”, “humitas” and delicious fruits like berries and watermelon. The best is that the corn and watermelon we use is from our own harvest. And you can have lots and lots of it, so for me, a person that loves eating, that is the best thing in the world.

In those days all you can do is relax and enjoy. Most important is that you do not have to study. I love to travel so I also go to La Serena, where I lived for ten years. I like to go out with friends, spend time on the beach and visit the ones I love. I’ve went with my family too, but we always choose different places, so I don’t know where are we going together this year. We enjoy spending the day in Pichilemu, which is close to my house or traveling to the south.

I would like to go again to Pucón, because I went this winter but it was too cold and rainy to swim in the lake or enjoying outside. We will see what happens, but first I need to get out of university!

Post 7: Movies

I do not go to the cinema as often as I would like because of the classes and the university. Also I like to watch TV series a lot, but every time I can I watch a movie. In the television, cinema or my computer. I like different kind of movies, the ones with romantic topics runs first and then I’ve watched (and enjoyed) horror, comedy and drama.

I am not a fan of the sci-fi, but I like films of dystopia, for example The Maze Runner or Divergent. Also I saw a few months ago a movie from Tim Burton, called Alice Through the Looking Glass (which is the second part for Alice in Wonderland) and I found out the second part was so much better. It keeps you excited the 2 entire hours and it is really fun.

There is a film I have watched like a thousand times, even when I know exactly what happens and what they are going to say next. It is an American production called Almost Famous. I think is from the year 2002 and directed by Cameron Crowe (a man who knows what he does). I like the style of this movie, very simple and everything well done though is a day-to-day story. The director also wrote columns for Rolling Stone, in the real life.

It is about a young boy who is in secondary but loves the music and wants to be a journalist. That’s why he starts writing about a band called Stillwater (who actually exists) and it’s hired by Rolling Stone Magazine, so he became the reporter who travels with Stillwater in the American band tour. A lot of drama happens, but music is always present. They sing Tiny Dancer by Elton John in a emotional scene that makes you love them. Also there are references to the rock and pop culture, there’s a great actress called Kate Hudson which performs as Penny Lane as a mention to The Beatles.

This is a fun, interesting and lovely movie that makes you identify with the characters and the story. So I will be happy to see it again and recommend it to everyone who is reading.