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A City You Would Like To Visit - Moscow

One of the cities I certainly want to get to know is Moscow. Even when I’m highly eager to get to travel to Japan and live there for a couple months, I’m not interested to live in Russia, so if would go, I'll just go to know the places and the architecture. One thing that I learned after my scholarship abroad in Spain was to get lost in the city and prove all the meals you can, because, if you’re not gonna return soon to the city, or you’re planning to visit the city just once in your life, you have to live all the experiences you can while you’re there; that’s why most of the trips are really exhausting, but at the same time fulfilling to the soul. Of course, that means I have to earn a lot of money to get there and prove/taste all the things I can haha. But also, I like to draw some special scenarios I see. I’m practicing my watercolors skills to improve and actually it could take less time than I can right now to do a drawing of a building, an open space, a sunset that it

A special meal

When I turned 15, my grandmother decided to make a surprise celebration and invite my school friends and neighborhood friends to celebrate. I was taken by two of my neighbors, with whom I used to play a lot at their house, to take a walk and buy an ice cream. My family “stayed home”, but actually went after me to the local to place everything in order for the moment I arrive. My neighbors were really nervous because, when we were turning around the street, we almost met with my mother and grandmother, but gladly for them I was so distracted that I didn’t notice they were in front of us; but sure I noticed something was weird with my friends. So, when we arrive to the local, my neighbors leaded me to a dark room where all my friends and family where there. Before I entered the room I hear loud laughs from familiar voices, but of course knowing that my friends lived in other city and probably were not able to travel, I never expected or take seriously the possibility that they actual

A friend

To talk about lasting friendship at our age is kind of hard to think for me right now. We are young, and most of my life I’ve lived far away from my friend’s houses, so it was hard to spend meaningful time with them out of high school. Now that I moved to the capital, it’s the inverse; I spend more time with friends, but less time with family. Ah, a never ending dilemma. So, if I’m going to talk about a friend I would like to talk about Vania. We’ve known each other since we were 14 years old (that’s about 8 years of friendship) and we have stayed in each other houses in different situations. For me, someone whose house has always been in other location, having someone who went to visit me and my family was very touching. We became friends, if I’m not wrong, because we used to take the bus together and we sit next to each other the first day of school, and she was new in the classroom. Our tastes vary a lot from back then, but we’ve managed to spend time watching each other

A chilean building or landmark - La Cruz del tercer Milenio

I’m sure I wrote about this building a few entries earlier, but I guess now I can focus on the building a bit more. “La cruz del Tercer Milenio” is a building Located in the VI region, Coquimbo, 157 meters above sea level and it has 93 meters high. This is important, because even when 157 meters is the highest point of this port city, Santiago is located 527 meters above sea level, and the building of Costanera Center counts with 300 meters high; the cross is obviously smaller than Costanera, but the influence in the city is greater and richer that the one we percibe of Costanera (even though we may be able to see the building from a lot of open fields in the city). Both of them are landmark in the cities, but if there’s something that makes The Cross special to the city is the relation to the house buildings to the scale of the Cross. Coquimbo is a small port city where the scale of the buildings doesn’t overcome 3-5 floors; they don’t have 25-30-floors towers like in Santiag

Free Post - Something you feel passionate about: Playing an instrument

I have always talk about drawing and how I would spend a whole day on it if an interesting idea comes to my mind, but as I am a drawer and aspire to draw comics some day, I also play the clarinet at saxophone, and it has been my second or third love since my teen years. I started when I was fifteen seven years ago, after the earthquake of February 27 in 2010. I remember, because the School of Musicians collapsed and they moved to a temporal place (that is still the headquarters of the school, sadly). I have to say that, by that time, I just dreamed to design the new building for the School of musicians, because I was just thinking about to join architecture, but under the current circumstances, maybe I will able to properly design the new building and give back something more than all the lessons my professors have given to me this seven years. I was “old” to learn to play violin or any string instrument back then, so my teacher offered me to learn clarinet instead. I said ye

A Holiday - La Tirana

Last week my grandmother went on a trip to Chillán hot springs with an elderly group, but weather didn’t actually accompany them and the signal was so bad we were not able to talk that much those days. One day we connected, and she remembered a travel we did together with my grandfather a couple years ago. I don’t have a photo right now but I guess I can upload it later. It was the beginning of winter holidays, July 2002, I was only 7 and I came back from school. My grandmother went to see me and told me “C’mon, Bárbara, go to change clothes! We’re leaving for a trip!” So I did, and like two hours after I came back from school the day holidays started, we left in a trip to the North of Chile. It lasted a whole week, we travel through a bus, and it took us like four days to get to Arica because we stopped in various towns in Chilean Coast. Right now I remember we visited the Elqui Valley and some vineyards; La Serena and the 3rd Millennial Cross (not sure if the translation is wel