Benedetti the great

Mario Benedetti is one of the most important writers of Latin America. He was born in Uruguay in 1920 and worked at newspapers and magazines for a long time until he was exiled in the 70’s from his country be cause of his political position. Then he lived in Buenos Aires, Lima and Spain where he kept writing. In his career he has wrote more than 80 novel s, short stories and poetry books. Sadly, he died two years ago after a long disease.

Some of his best books are “La Tregua”, “Gracias por el fuego”, “La borra del café”, “Despistes y Franquezas”, and my favourite one “Buzón de tiempo”.

Benedetti is one of my favourites writers be cause he creates characters who seem to have very normal lifes when they’re actually don’t, and he can transform any atmosphere in a beautiful experience.

When I read that he died I felt really sad for two reasons. The first one was that I lost my opportunity to meet a great human been and the second reason was that I lost someone who I could really understand, someone who I really appreciate. The truth is that I lost his company. That day I lost a friend.

My favourite vacations place

Last winter, I went with some friends to a very small town in south of Chile called Niebla. It is thirty minutes away from Valdivia by car and one of the most important Niebla's turistic attractions is the Niebla’s Fort built in 1671, and the Cruces river.

We stayed there for ten days for free, because one of us had friends who rented the house before we came and they were on vacations. Before we traveled, we bought a lot of food because in Niebla there are no supermarkets, and the few stores there are very expensive.

This place is quiet and cold. It could be a very boring town if you don't go there with some friends because the only entertaiment there is the beach. When we got bored of staring at each other faces all the time, we walked to the street market where the local people sell traditional chilean food like empanadas, chicha and local beer or took a bus to Valdivia where there were more things to do.

However, Niebla wouldn't be a more entertaining place if it had more places to go like restaurants or stores because it's a place to relax. I had a wonderfull time there. This was my best vacation ever.

My first earthquake

It was a beautiful night. I was at my boyfriend’s house and we just have went to bed. I was falling sleep when I heard a very sutil vibration from the window. Suddenly, the vibration became stronger. We realize that it was a tremor and we went down stairs to open the door before we couldn’t.

The floor started to move so violently that we scared. But it became worst. The street lights moved to both sides very fast, and when we looked to the sky we saw this very bright sparks that iluminated all. I didn't know what was happening, I thought it was the apocalypse.

My boyfriend held me tight and I cryed when I realize that my mom wasn't with me in that moment. I imagened my house collapsing with all my family inside. I wanted to see how my dad was, I wanted it to stop.

Finally, it did. I calmed down and I felt shame for my desperate cry. Then I went up stairs to get dress, but the tremor started again and my boyfriend thought that the house was damaged, so he didn't let me go.

I put my fahter in law's sweat shirt on and we went to see how the neighbors were. Then we took the car and drive to my boyfriend's uncles. They were fine, and I felt sad be cause I couldn't even talk with my family .

This is me...

My name is Fanny Ng. At present, I'm writing this blog for my english class. I don't know what to say be cause I feel a little bit forced to write about my self hahaha. So I'm going to start talking about things that I like.

I like to travel to unknown cities, spend time with my lovely boyfriend, hang out with my friends, read, watch weird movies, listen to british rock music and sleep. But the thing that I like the most is eat. One of my favorites foods are sushi and italian food. I also like to cook, but I don't have too much time so I only do it at weekends.

My life is not too interesting. Weekdays I go to university where I'm studying journalism (my cousin Jason who lives in San Francisco makes fun of me be cause he can`t belive that this carreer lasts 5 years. That makes me feel so embarrassed!). Monday to friday I wake up early in the morning and I come back home late at night. It's pretty sad, be cause I can't find the time to relax. Weekends are different. I stay at my boyfriend's house where we date and eat a lot.

I live in Santiago, I'm 20, and I have a gorgeous sausage dog called Oliver. Also I have a mom, a dad, 3 sisters, one step father, one step mother and 2 step brothers.