Is it a curse??

Introduction

To celebrate the bicentennial it could be possibly one of the most important celebrations for a country. It supposes to be a year with a lot of reconciliation and peace that will unify the people. You could feel the happiness in the air and also you could see everyone preparing the way that they are going to celebrate the independence of their respective country.

In the case of our country, Chile, it was a totally different bicentennial. No one ever thought that in this year a series of tragedies would hit our country.

The story of the 2010 in Chile starts on February 27th with a big earthquake in the central zone. The epicentre was near Cobquecura and Curanipe. But that wasn’t all. This tragedy came with a Tsunami that made things worse. A lot of people became homeless and their relatives died on this tragic event. The final count says that we have 521 dead and 2 millions homeless.

There was no time to recover from the earthquake when 33 Chileans were trapped deep underground in northern Chile. They were miners working in San Jose mine located in Copiapo. The accident happened on 5th of August in 2010. All around the world people were discussing this incident. After two months six rescuers sent down to assist the miners. The rescued miners have been taken to hospital. All have severe dental infections, and some have eye problems. This accident touched the heart of all Chilean people, but on August 22th everybody could say “Mission completed”.

After this happy ending a new accident affected us. This time the protagonist was

Tur-bus agency. The bus was going to Santiago from San Antonio. The terrible accident left 20 dead and about 10 injuries.

Could anything else happen to Chilean people? The answer is yes. Everybody cold watch on the television the main story “Big fire on San Miguel prison”. This time the victims were 83 dead and 14 injuries affected by the big fire on December 10^th.

This last accident made controversy, that’s why it was different from the other tragedies. There are persons who think they deserved it, of course, they are criminals but it isn’t relevant, is it? They are persons and they have family and there are moms and wives crying for them.

Conclusion

Naturally you could see this isn’t a good year at all. It was exactly the opposite. Instead of happiness, a lot of tears were around us. But if you put it in a balance you will see the positive side of this. Everyone Chilean could see the precarious conditions in every place of work. These tragedies happened because they lived and work in the worst conditions. People lost their houses on February 27^th because they weren’t strong enough. In San Miguel jail there were a lot of prisoners and about 4 police men and they couldn’t save all of them. So, we have to make a reflection, especially the government because they have the tools to make this country a better place for all of us.

There are persons who say that all these tragic events have one guilty, Sebastian Piñera, our president. But there is a little story related with this. People say that

 Every century we will have problems like these, it’s like a curse. When the president lets the badge fall down he will have a difficult presidency. It could be. It’s maybe the only explication for to many accidents. But I think we only have to wait to see what about the next year.

Thesis?? Confusion!

 Hi  everyone!

I have to tell you about my thesis. Of course I haven’t started yet! I didn’t even know the topic  that I’m going to choose, But I would like to do it about something related to ecology or conservation of our native forest.I will love to mix forest and animals  and do something new about it. I would like to do something to help the environment in someway or maybe a new discover ! and where?? Well, wherever  but not in an office! I want to look, to observe, to learn in the middle of the forest and nature! The time that I will spend on it  It doesn’t really matter to me!.

 It’s really difficult to talk about my thesis because I’m only on my second year in this career, so I think I have so much to learn about forestry! And maybe I will change my mind because I’m going to keep on learning new things and new areas that I don’t now yet! But what I do know and what I’ll never get out of my mind it’s that I don’t want to cut a tree if it depends on me.

Take care dear friends!

Bye bye J

Our people! :)

Hello people!

The issue for today is very interesting, but not just for me. I think everybody must be interested in conflicts like the one we have nowadays, I’m talking about “The Mapuche conflict”. Maybe they don’t have the best ways to claim for their rights but I think is the only one, because nobody really listens to them. Perhaps they act like that because they feel that Chilean people don’t care about them and somehow it’s true. I feel really bad about them,  I think we own them so much!! They are our people! They gave everything to protect this land, our country, and now there are persons that hardly talk to them! I think that can’t happen, we are something like a country without memories! We only remember the best moments but not the bad ones. We need to give them the place they deserved .Nowadays if you are lucky you can find a kid who could tell about the mapuches. That’s exactly the place where we have to start to change this conflict.

Maybe in schools they could teach the mapuche language., a specially subject for our people, about one hour once a week. Mapuche people will appreciate it. I remember when I was a kid, in school  my teacher in history taught me some words that I still remember. We all have to put  a grain to change this situation.

See you next week!

Bye J