Friends! friends! friends!

Hello! Today I am going to talk to you about a very special topic to me, about my friends!
I don’t think that I have only one closest friend, I wouldn’t like to rank them, I think I have many special friends, some of them I met at school, at university and others at my volunteer. I love them a lot in different ways.
I think I can make friends easily, I like meeting new people I am a very open and friendly person. In relation to it I even have made friends over the internet, actually I still keep them relatively close to me.
A friend should be someone who listens to you when your down or confused, who supports you in hard moments, someone to laugh (out loud!) with. In my opinion a friend must be loyal, cheerful, kind, nice, reliable, someone who wants you well, who are with you in hard moments and respects me. Friends are to make your life in this world a happier journey and to demonstrate you that unconditional generosity exists and it has a shape of a person.
I sincerely consider myself a good friend, I can sacrifice myself for making my friend happy, I’m a good listener, I’m always attentive to their need and for helping them with anything. Despite of my good experiences, I have had bad experiences too, I had friend who let me down, it hurt so much in that moment, but I got over it, it was difficult, but I did it.
I still keep in touch with my childhood and high school friends they are very valuable people, sometimes I miss them a lot when I remember when we were children, when we played and our long talks about many topics.
I think friends should be forever, they are like little angels who guide you and protect you. We must take care of them.

MMR vaccine and autism

There has been concern about a likely link between combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (the MMR vaccine) and autism. A research done in 1998 proves the relation between being vaccinated with the MMR vaccine and bowels problems that might cause a new kind of autism. Anyway, the researchers said that their studies could not prove any such link. The research was not representative, it was done with only 12 children and it was criticized by other experts. But the results were published and many parents decided not to give their children the MMR vaccine.
Actually the scientists involved in the research have retracted about linking MMR vaccine and autism.
It’s hard to say that vaccine is completely safe, many vaccinated people get sick, but we cannot necessary relate vaccine with their sickness. To prove it is necessary to do a type of research called randomized controlled trial, in those kind of research some children would get the vaccine and some would not. Other types of studies have provided reliable evidence about the MMR vaccine and autism those are cohort studies and case-control studies.
There have been a lot of researches on the MMR vaccine and autism and there’s no evidence of a link between both. Unvaccinated children are just as likely as vaccinated children to have autism and the increase in autism did not start at the same time as MMR vaccination started.

Beautiful Pets!!!

Today I will talk about pets! Our dearest animals!
Well, I have a pet, it’s a nice little dog that I love very much, her name is Channel she came to our house in 1998 when she was 2 mouths, actually she’s 11, despite of her age she’s like a puppy, so lovely and tender, something that makes her very special is that she’s sooo polite! In that aspects she’s like a human being! In my home she’s so loved and cared.
So far I have had a lot of pets, between them, one rabbit, one cat, four hamsters, six dogs, four birds, two frogs I think that all I guess.
My life would be surely different without pets, I guess I would always feel that it’s something missing in my life, they’re like loyal friends, they accompany you and they distract you, that’s why I think is important to have a pet too, actually dogs are used for rehabilitation therapy like canotherapy, horses are used in hypotherapy and dolphins are used for the same reason.
I think it’s important for children to take care of pets because it can promove responsibility, it promoves love and respect to animals and nature and they can play with them.
I don’t exclude the possibility of adopting a homeless animal, actually I’ve done it before, his name was Bruno, but he couldn’t get use to live in a house, so he left.
It’s sad thinking about the animals left in Chaiten, I would never do something like it, I can't imagine make a animal suffer!! That was terrible! But their owners may had a powerful reason.

Santiago

Santiago is the capital city of Chile and is the city I live in, it’s a very interesting place to visit I totally recommend it for anyone who wants to know Chile. Within the metropolitan area of Santiago there are about 174 heritage sites between them we can mention: architectural, historical and archaeological monuments and even typical neighborhoods and areas that any foreigner tourist must visit. For example, palaces in areas surrounding República Neighborhood or others 19th century architectural structures as Equestrian Club of Santiago, University of Chile, Catholic University, Central Station and Mapocho Station, Central Market, National Library, Bellas Artes Museum, Paris-London neighborhood, etcétera.
In Santiago there’re lots of green areas where I recommend vistors to go, among those places I con mention the fortifications of Santa Lucia Hill, the Sanctuary of the Virgin Mary at the top of San Cristobal Hill there visitors can take a ride on “teleférico” and watch the city from the sky, it’s beautiful. Santiago General Cemetery, Forest Park, O'Higgins Park where people can take a walk by the “Pueblito” in there, and Quinta Normal Park.
Five of the greatest place in Santiago are: Bellavista neighborhood, here you can fin popular bars, cultural center and internacional gastronomy, I’ve been there, it's a great place specially at night, Quinta Normal Park where tourist can visit the Museum of Contemporary Art, MAC-Espacio Quinta Normal, Chilean Railway Museum, National Museum of Natural History, etc. Beautiful place to spend some quiet time, Moneda Palace seat of president of Chile, the most important place in country, Forestal Park the most traditional park in the city, there’re important cultural and recreational activities, very typical place! And Plaza de Armas the historical center of the capital of Chile, here Santiago was founded, visitors can find the Central Post office, National Historical Museum and the Cathedral of Santiago.

Transantiago

I don’t take buses usually because I drive a car, I either can say how was the system of buses before Transantiago System, because in that time my dad used to take me to the school. I use Transantiago eventualy since its implementation, but my experiencie had been awfu at the first timel! Some background I can give tell about it are that Transantiago is a public transport system born to improve the old yellow buses system in Santiago, it would be a big chance for everybody in the city for best, but despite of the great plan of the creators of this system it was a chaos. In the first day of operation only 1400 buses took to the streets, a 72% than the total of buses, the lack routes generated chaos in various parts of the capital, which continued in the days following, agglomeration, travel delays and widespread discomfort between cityzens, faillure in implementation of recovery rate system. When I was a user of this system I hated, buses was fulled I was always delayed and as secudary effect Underground became a jungle!! It was horrible! Today Transantiago is better than before there’re more routes, the system is more coordinated, there’re more buses, the frecuency is better and the system of recovery rates is working without any major problems.
Some things that I would like to change from this system is frequency of the buses It could be more regular and quality of the machines it could be better adapted for older people and handicapped people and that buses could have their own way on the streets.

Favorite music

Actually I don’t have a specific favorite kind of music, I have a very diverse taste. I like classical music, rock music, dancing music, chill out music, blues, movie soundtracks, brazilian music, etc.

In classical music one of my favorite composer is Tchaikovsky, he is perfect! In relation with that, when I was younger I studied flute at the Conservatory of Universidad de Chile, I dreamt of becoming a good musician, but I quit, because I had to study something else, a traditional career. My favorite flute player was James Galway.

Well I love dancing all night long! So I like dancing music, regeatton, for example and also I like a little bit of electronic music. I love chillout music, New Age, piano instrumental songs played by Jim Brickman or Emile Pandolfi. It’s very relaxing, makes me think and calms me down. I love movie soundtracks too, some composers that I like are most are James Horner and Ennio Morricone, their music are very dramatic. In relation to rock music, I like progressive rock as Dream Theater, sometimes they sound quite heavy, but they are great musicians anyway, they’re very talented. Other singers that I like, I can mention Norah Jones, Eva Cassidy and Sarah MacLachlan.

A country that I would like to visit

One country that I would like to visit is England, specifically the city of London, I’ve never been there I only have seen pictures of it, but I dream to visit that country. I love its history, its architecture, its monuments, the people seem to be quiet nice and the culture is interesting. If I go there I would take a lot of pictures of the greastest places there as the Big Ben, Thames River, Buckingham palace, London Bridge, Westminster Abbey, Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Street and its beautiful parks as Green Park, Victoria’s park, Saint James Park! Of course, I would like to buy souvenir for my friends and family. I’d like to travel with my family and with my boyfriend too. I’d love to eat different kind of foods, I’ve never heard about english food it’s such a mystery to me, I hope I like it.
I think I am a very open person who loves meeting new people, new cultures and doing new things. Another thing that I would really like to do is going to see the London Orchestra. I like classical music.
When I was younger I dreamt of living in London but I changed my mind maybe I'd only study there, because I think there’re good universities and it’s a good place to do a postgraduate course.