Memories...

Maybe could be fine remembering this summer. When my family and I traveled to Ecuador to visit my family. This summer was special because ten years ago we haven't seen our fammily. I could see my cousins grown, my grandfathers and my uncles... I missed them very much!
We went to Guayaquil about a month. Is a beautiful port, where we went to walk for all over the places that I liked when I was a child and I could remember our old life, I had the opportunity of knowing better my natal city. That was a touching experience.
Also, we went to Quito three days. I liked so much Quito! First: because it wasn’t as hot as Guayaquil. In second place: because we visit many places: the government palace, colonial churches, museums, the house and the museum called “Chapel of Man” of Oswaldo Guayasamin (one of my favorites painters).
In this photography appears my family: Dad, Mom, my two sisters and I. We was visiting the monument of Middle of the World, a giant monolith where the equator or equinoctial line is marked. We could be in the northern and southern hemispheres at the same time! In the eastern and western hemispheres too! We spend time playing in this way and taken a lot of photografies.
I think it was a very beautiful experience, with lot of emotions and a great opportunity for known better the place where a I grew-up my infance and I didn’t remember. I hope some day I can return to experienced all these things…

I prefer chocolate and pizza

Eating is necessary. But i think the idea that the human race dependent on the need to eat is terrible. Is impossible to imagine a man without food and be able to fulfill all the functions without problems. However, reality said us we need to feed it so that our body can function.
Maybe the life would be most simple without worries of our hunger, that would make many worlds problems would be solved. Although would be impossible to live without a energy source, it could be food or something else. In the life cycle the animals are chained searching for the vital source.

Surely there is a lot of people who can’t conceive life without eating and who loves eat! In fact, I enjoy delighting many things, especially sweet food, like cake, cookies, ice-cream, pies, natural juices, tea with lot of sugar! [I’m in heaven!]. Maybe one day i will have a diabetic coma. Specially I love chocolate and truffa in all varieties possible: hot chocolate, chocolate bar, chocolate cake, chocolate cookies, milk and chocolate, white chocolate, chocolate souce, chocolate liqueur, etc. If I need something special to feed me, must be chocolate.

I love pizza too… a lot! I think it is because since I remember with my family have eaten pizza always, in all occasion type. We cook Neapolitan pizza, Hawaiana pizza, Greek pizza, Spanish pizza, Italian pizza, etc., we are experts. When my father was jung, he worked cooking pizzas, he knows make a good pizza dough! Anyway, the food I hate: beans, corn, ketchup, mayonnaise, some meats, seafood (except fish), chili peper and pasta… I prefer chocolate and pizza, it is a pleasure, specially when I share it with my family and friends.

Web-sites!

I think there aren’t many web-sites about Theory and History of Art that could be so good to be complete or organized. But on the field I visit some art portals regularly, which always are available for know what is happening in the cultural stage.
“Dibam” is the Governmental Direction of Libraries, Archives and Museums, where are all the information and resources of the official cultural activities. Have many links to official webs and portals, you can see how is the cultural system in the country and it is updated always. It is a good place for take a look the activities, organization and strategies that the government has and plans.
Other web-site is “Estoy.cl” where you have all the cultural agenda and actuality of the month. You can find the artistic activities in dance, theatre, music, expositions, events, etc. It is very clear and precise and entertaining. This web-site have a free magazine with the same information which is distributed every first of the months.
Other kinds of web-sites I like to visit are “Dialnet”, “Escaner Cultural”, “DDOOSS” or “Crítica.cl”, which have many texts about art, esthetics, interesting and fun things.
All this webs can be dangerous. Maybe you can lose inside there and take all your time with all the distraction if you don’t have attention.

I love books...

I love books and I love read. I grew up in a "humanist" family.. with a lot of books in our bookshelves. Stories, biology, encyclopedias, dictionaries, fantasy, education, psychology.. Several topics were available, always within reach of my hand.

Immersed in the pages of a book is one of the most pleasurable experiences there.



Currently, for requirements of the university, I read many books of art, philosophy and history. Among them I discovered a new author: Susan Sontag, that is one of my new favourite.

But in my spare time (the short time I have between many pages of study) I enjoy reading fantasy stories.


The story of Harry Potter was part of my adolescence, and the books of "The Lord of the Rings" written by Tolkien. Recently discovered Cornelia Funke, author of the book "Inkheart". Nor stranger to fashion, I read the Twilight saga that I enjoyed a lot. This kind of book allows us to ignore our reality while we are between the pages. To our minds is a permissive action, where there are no rules, freedom of action and everything is possible.

It is not the same reading online, it is true that you can save money by downloading free books and you can help not spend as much paper by not printing the texts, but finally after some time you get tired, our eyes complain and many choose to print the texts.

For me nothing is better than the experience of touching and smelling the pages of a book, are the necessary interface for the phenomenon of evasion is complete, because after a while to read, let perceive the printed letters, your eyes run down lines of the paper, but your mind is elsewhere, building what you read. Living what the author tells to you.

About my Relationships

I always like to make very close relationships with people. I like to know them well before establishing a good relationship. Besides my family, I have few friends, but I really trust them and they give me the confidence to know that I will always have their company and support when I need it. I thing is good for all us have good company and to know how to choose the people around us, that makes us certainty and tranquility about our ways of beings, the things we do, the tastes we have and to be comfortable. Also, my family and my friends like each other and whenever we can, we share together.
Generally we like to talk so much about many things, and we like to know new things about each other, because we have different tastes and preference. Sometimes I like to tease them debating about something I know they really hate, and when they really don´t understand why I’m being so stubborn or unbearable I said that is all for fun… and they hate me, but then they laugh with me. I like so much share of these ways with the people around me.

[Earthquake]

"Shake, shake, shake Senora, shake it all the time"

The morning of February 27th, I was trying to sleep. I was very tired because i recently had arrived from my vacations with my family. I always have woke up one second before any earthquake, so, in this case i really was some sleepy when i feel the shake. I think -"if it gets stronger i will stand up my bed and will go to look to my little sister"-, and it happened that way. My mother began to scream and went to open the door while my father went for mi sister and me and we went with my mother. We stayed the earthquake together looking the car jump and hearing the things fall.

When the earthquake finished, we fortunately called to my family and we heard notices from the radio all the night with candels and waiting for the water again. The light came back around nine of morning and we could watch the TV and all the things happening in the country.

With my father, we had to went to look for food, water, gasoline for the car and many things, because we didn´t have nothing because we had just arrived to home. We had to find a place to call to Ecuador too, where my family probably had news and would be worried, but when we could talk with they we really could be calm. In Chile and Ecuador our family was fine.
In the house just fell off a wall of the garden, but didn't damage.

For help, i try to donate blood, but i can't did it because my underweight. I know that isn't to much, but really i didn't have time to do any other things.

Now, I'm just happy because i could be with my family in my home in save and calm for all them.

My first Post

Hi, I'm Karla, student of the third year of Theory and History of Arts in the University of Chile. In did, this is the first time that i have a blog in english. I think it is a great opportunity to start to make a best use of the idiom, and learn to write and read better. I have my personal blog where i talk about the things i like (illustration, photography, music, art, design, movies, etc.) and that inspire me. Well, i just want to enjoy this tipe of exercise and the class learning the most i can this time.