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 Hi everyone! Hope you're doing well. Today I'll be remembering the great times I have had in a tiny bit of our country (since I haven't travelled to a lot of places). The one place I constantly went for holidays was Zapallar lake, literally, my family went there when I wasn't even born and my mother was carrying me.      Obviously, Zapallar was the place that watched me grow up along with my family and my brother. We used to ride bikes all day, eat empanadas and in the afternoon we went to the fair. The place were we usually went was a house we rented that was some blocks away from the lake itself but near the main street that went straight to the beach, so we were in a pretty good and peaceful location.      The house had a terrace a little bit higher that the street level and was surrounded by many colorful flowers and trees. Inside we only used the first floor that had two large rooms in the end of the house, they had many beds so everyone could sleep; a corridor th

 Hello everyone :)  Today I will talk about my brother Diego. He's my little brother (although his 18th birthday is in december), just making us the only two brothers along a family of mostly women. I'm older than him by a year and half, so we always had the issue of sharing or those fights little kids have. Yeah, we used to fight a lot actually because of toys or about the TV channel, but when we were getting older those childish fight started to cease. But he's a great kid, I love him.      As he was getting older and started to discover more about the world we got to talk more and more about college, music, clothes, movies or sports. He used to be a football player in an U. Católica club for kids, and he was very good. Eventually he left because of some low grades in school, but nowadays he likes to skateboard and I try to show him videos or tell him some technics because I also did a little skateboarding.     Now his big drama is choosing an university career, as he is

 Hi everyone! I'm going to talk of one of my favorite book and author: Artur Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell". I read this book when I was passing through a hard time discovering what I wanted to do with my life, maybe when I was 16 or 17 (although I've read it multiple times after the first time ever, that's the magic about poetry books).      Before reading Rimbaud, I read "Kids" by Patti Smith, where she writes about the times she and her soulmate, Robert Mapplethorpe, lived in NYC and started their paths as artist. There, the punk poet made the very important point on how Rimbaud's work inspired her to achieve whatever she wanted to achieve. When I finally read it, I was amazed by the beautifulness of the grotesque because of the fragility Rimbaud can show in his writting. I began to see beauty in everything and inspired me to keep writing, thinking and do something with all that knowledge. 

 Hello everyone! Hope you doing fine. Living in this crazy world, a job it's a very important thing for everyone. Not only having it but also to aspire one is a north in this madness called life. I don't feel good saying I've never had a job, but at least I've made some gigs that got paid, but they're mainly from things I've done helping someone in my family or playing guitar in a coffee shop.      But I guess that is my dream job: being a musician full-time, writing and playing and achieving a connection between the listeners and my music. Being an artist is something I've been looking at since I was little but never really paying attention to all of those signals. In the beginning, tha action to create was very hard for me because I thought that to be original someone must not listen to anything, resulting in an unique and "honest" creation. Later I discovered the fragility in that argument: it's almost impossible to make something without a

These are some of the things I have stucked in my head lately: Film: Recently I made the effort and watched "Before Sunrise", the first movie of the "Before" trilogy starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, directed by Richard Linklater. It is a really beautiful movie and it demonstrates more of that "normal" love, a more natural and sincere form of knowing a person that you connect with. I recommend it to cry or laugh about life or the movie itself. Music: I've been listening to a lot of music lately, but returned to one of my favorites albums of all time: "Bring It Back Home" by Bob Dylan. I just love the frenetic stories, rythms and lyrics of Bob, being "Subterranean Homesick Blues" one of my favorites songs. Sadly I don't have this album of his, but I hope to buy it soon because it's simply great.  Book: For my birthday an aunt of mine gifted me a book that was entertaining in all the forms that I like when something or som