An Exhibition

Hi bloggers!

Today I'm going to talk about an exhibition I went in August 30th. It was a medieval encounter in the Cousiño Palace that last the entire weekend. The entrance was free for everyone, so me and my boyfriend decided to go with two other friends who like that kind of medieval things.

In the exhibition we saw some beatiful paintings, jewelry and medieval accesories like swords and armours. In fact, we saw people with different kind of medieval costumes and even some performances of the different groups and medieval associations. Once they had finish the show, they invited everybody to join their group, so the main goal was to recruit  people. It was very entertaining.

We also saw some medieval games. It attracts our attention a sort of chess some guys was playing, so we asked them to explain us how it worked but I don't remember much right now.

In general, the people that came to the exhibition they all love the medieval world and knew a lot of it. Every guy we asked for something answered our questions with pasion, so I felt like I was in a history class for a while.

We also saw music instruments, like guitars, bagpipes and flutes. Finally there was a concert at the end. We spent a great time together.

Current Reading

Hello bloggers!

I would like to tell you I'm reading a very interesting book or novel at the moment, but I actually don't. I have just finished some manga and I'm in process of looking for something new to read.

Is not that I don't like to read, but I have to read a lot of scientific documents and papers, so I prefer to "view" things insted of "read" them when I have some free time. I usually  watch an anime and then read the corresponding manga, in order to compare the difference between the versions of the story.

Well, in fact there're some mangas that "I'm reading". I don't mention them before because I started to read them years ago and I still don't finish. I have re-started Reading 2 of them this year, but then I left them again about two month ago because I didn't have much time.

One of them is called "Chihayafuru", and as always, I begin reading it after I watched the anime. It is about a group of 3 friends that play "karuta", a traditional japanese card game. They met at the primary school and joined a "karuta society" where they can practice with other people and participate in competitions. Then they grew up and took different ways. Chihaya, the protagonist girl, decided to create a school group of karuta and started to recruit people. Finally she met their old friends again when they were teenagers and re-started playing.

I like this manga because it have an interesting and different story. I could learnt a lot of the japanese culture with it. I didn't know about the karuta game and I think it's fun. It requires a lot of concentration and good physical state. It isn't a simple card game. You have to memorize all 100 poems, which are written in part in the cards, in order to play!!. It's very competitive.

Special Talents

Hi, bloggers!

Today I'm going to talk about what I think is a special talent I've got. By my understanding, it is called "good hearing" or "musical ear". I don't have any musical studies, and I wish someday I could do, but despite that, I'm very good recognizing specific tones and then playing them. It was easy for me -since I was a child - to listen to a song for the first time and then inmediately reproduce it in my piano or flute. Unfortunately, this is like a waste of talent because I didn't developed it right and I never use it :/

Another ability I have is my "visual memory". It works like a photograph book in which I save detailed information. I can remember something I read or saw in a book's page just like if I had a photo of it in my mind, and I can tell you if this page were in my right or left side, if the thing I saw was in the upper position or lower, and what color it was.

I think this is a useful ability, specially in the university, where I have learnt how to take advantage of it. When I study for a test, I rather do it from an only one source and use lots of colors, otherwise I can get confused.

Scouting

Good morning everyone!

Today I'm going to talk about a group activity I enjoyed a lot when I was a school girl. I joined the scouts when I was 10 years old. It was an activity that my mum used to do, so she took me there and she joined too, as a leader. First we participated of a group for about 1 year, but then it dissolved and we joined a group called "Genesis" and we stayed there 6 years until we moved out to Punta Arenas.
Genesis means begginning or origin, and this was literally a "Brand new scout group". So we came just in time for the foundation. I remember helping in the insignia design and creating the group's hymn.
We met every saturday's afternoon, since 3 pm to 6 pm. In this time we did different activities, such as learning about scout movement and history, playing team's games and dancing too. I joined the "compañía" directly, because I was too tall for my age, and soon I became the girl's leader, a tittle called "Guía de Guías". The "Compañía's name" was Millaray, and the patrol I first lead was called "Squirrel". We modify the Compañia's call and designed our patrol's insignia and banner.

The most important event was the summer camp, and we worked all year collecting money and supplies for that. Once in the camp, we had to work together as a team, in patrols. We assigned rols each other in order to divide the labors, such as cleaning, cooking, and picking up some firewood. These camps last about 15 days and we usually went in January, somewhere in the south of Chile.

Scouting was an important part of my life that I really enjoyed because I met beautiful people and I learnt very important things, in addition to trained my personality and leadership. I remember this time with love.