Blog Session 8. How green are you?

The Environment should be protected but I’m afraid that we still doing things against it. There’re a lot of initiatives and educational programs who talk about how we can use better our energy or to save the environment, but they aren’t very effective and the costumes of people don’t change very much.

I can’t say neither that I do very much for the environment. Certainly, I know about the environmental problems that has the world and our country but in my day-to-day I don’t do special things to help to solve that problems.

I recycle in my house, principally newspapers, plastic and glass bottles and I tried to do the same when I am not in my house and I have to throw out garbage. I don’t use cars, but I don’t use bicycle neither. To go to the university or other places, I use the public transport that still polluting.

I agree the environmental cause, but I’m not part of any organization. These years I have gone to some demonstrations against energy projects like HidroAysen or thermoelectric plants, but I haven’t had major commitment.

I think that we have very important challenges to the future about this matter. In the first place, we have to do more daily thing about reducing our carbon footprint, and secondly, we have to be more active to denounce polluting practices and to call for more strict environmental policies in Chile, one of the most affected countries in the world by the global warming

Blog session 7. Free post 3

Today, I am going to talk about one of my favorite hobbies. To play chess.

I started to play chess since I was child, when my father taught me. I was five or six years old when I learnt the basic rules of this game and I tried to learn fast to overcome my dad, but I never could do that until I was in high school.

I am not a great chess player but I like to play that game and to learn about different strategies of this game. I have a great book of Capablanca (one of the best chess player ever) with different strategies of chess. I have not never played a tournament or things like this but sometimes I play with friends (and I usually win because my friend are worse players than me).

One of my personal treasures, is my chessboard. My chessboard has more than 50 or 60 years old (I really do not know how old is it), and belonged to and uncle that gave to me. Also, I have a few of old books about chess and sometimes I used my chessboard to practice the games referred in the books.

Today, I play chess when I have time and usually I play online. On internet or with a smartphone I could play when I am going on the bus or in the subway.

Blog session 5. Free post 2

On this free post, I’m going to talk about how I lived this year one of my favorite sports: soccer. In one of my videos (I don’t remembered if I did it too on this blog) I talked about soccer as a hobby, but today I’m going to talk about soccer as a sport fan.

In general, this wasn’t a great year for me, because my club (I’m member of Colo Colo Social and Sport Club) didn’t play very well, didn’t win any championship and stayed in an institutional crisis. As a solace, I can say that Colo Colo won the last “superclásico” against Universidad de Chile, eliminating them for the second-semester championship fight.

In terms of the national team, there are good and bad news. Good news because we qualified in very good position to the Brazil 2014 World Cup, but bad news too, because in the world cup draw, we stayed in a very difficult group (with Spain, the actual world champion and Holland, finalist in the last edition) and if we pass to the next round, we would have to play against Brazil, the local.