Best holidays ever.

About three years ago my sister and I spent a week in Valdivia. I had never been in Valdivia before that week, so it was a great opportunity to discover that city... and so did we. 

At our holidays we got to know almost every place in the city: we went out sailing, visited handicraft fairs, big fruits markets, the port, the Casino, the big gardens of Universidad Austral, Entre Lagos chocolate shop (just delicious!), Kunstmann beer factory, the Haussmann coffee shop and many more beautiful and delicious places. The place that I liked the most was the Valdivian temperate rainforest.

Valdivian temperate rainforest.

Valdivian temperate rainforest was a magical place, once you got inside you just could see thousands of wonderful and green trees and bushes, and you could only listen to the many different species of birds and insects that lived there.

Despite all the beautiful places we visited there, this trip was awesome because it made my sister and me even closer than how we were before. To spend a week together, just we two, helped us to have the wonderful siblinghood that we have now.

Sociology: why am I in it?

Last high school year in Chile is pretty strange... at least that's what I think. Last year at  my high school we were all getting crazy about writing the final exams, studying for those big tests called "PSU" if we wanted to get into university, enjoying our last year together and so on. But of all the things we got to do that year, we'd one really important, a decision to make: "do we want to go to university?, which career do we want to attend?, where?, why?" In sum, we were asking ourselves many questions like those day by day, trying to figure out what were we going to do at the next year.

December came and we'd already written PSU-exams, we just needed to know how many points did we get and, the very important question, what did we want to study. For me that last question was an awkward one.... I mean, how could we actually know what we want to study if we didn't got any orientation for it?... But, the main question that was going around in my head was that how could we chose just one career of the more than 100 careers that are taught in Chile if we hadn't been studying them before? I just thought that you cannot say 'no' to a thing that you actually don't know... And that was what we made.

Anyway, I needed to choose some career quickly, because the deadline was coming and I didn't have an idea about what I wanted to study. I started to think about what did I want to do on the future with my life and what did I want to do at that time; the answers where mostly that I liked many things, but that I wasn't sure about any of them... so, I said to myself: Well, if I do not have one thing that I want to do in the future, I should choose a career in which I could do many different things. Right after my thought I met a sociologist who told me that at her career she could work at many places and make investigations of really different topics. And that was all the help I needed. -If I study sociology I could travel to different countries and investigate different things there! - I thought. And I chose it, and I got in here.

Of course after making my decision and getting here I asked myself why sociology? and why at Universidad de Chile?... In fact, I still wondering it, but I think I made a right decision. I do like a lot the university, my classmates and teachers, so thank you intuition! 

A country I'd like to visit: The Netherlands.

The beautiful canals of Amsterdam, in The Netherlands.

I would like to visit the Netherlands and to learn about their culture. I'm very curious about languages, especially those which are really different to Spanish, so to learn Dutch would be an amazing experience. Also, I would like to see by myself the things that I've been told about Dutch culture. 

The Netherlands is an European country located between Belgium and Germany. In Amsterdam, it's capital city, you can find many interesting places, like Anne Frank house, Van Gogh Museum or the beautiful canals of Amsterdam.

University of Amsterdam.

If I could go to the Netherlands, of course I would love to visit all the places that I'd described before, but the mainly thing that I would like to do in the Netherlands, is to live with a Dutch family and to get to know their lifestyle. I think that the main point of visiting some country, is to get used to their culture, language, lifestyle and everything that define them as a particular culture. In that way, I would love to go there to study at some Dutch University, to live with a Dutch family, to learn their language and lifestyle and to get a common Dutch life.