Clipperton

I like read, so I have many books that I like. But I prefer to talk about a book of my area, the journalism. Exist a genre that is a mixture between literature and journalism and is from America, and their name is “New journalism”.

We can find authors such as Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, and Ryszard Kapuściński, among others.

But I will to talk about the book called “La Isla de la Pasión”, writing by Laura Restrepo, a colombian journalist that write books of New Journalism, that narrate a true story with elements of fiction.

I bought this book like a photocopy in my University, to the class called “Redaction”, where I knew the “new journalism” that I like very much.

This book is about the island Clipperton that is a French possession localized near Mexico. The plot of this book is about a little group of French settlers that was sent at Clipperton for the authority of France to claim dominion over the island, at the start to the last century.

With the time, the island and the people settlers that live there was forgotten for every people, for the French and their enemies Americans. The French settlers began dying for diseases, for hanger and murdered for a man who had gone mad. The couple of man that gives protection to the women of the island, died for hallucinates with a boat of recue.

Of the hundred people that lived in Clipperton almost all died, and contradictory the survivors (eleven people) were recuing for the U. S. Marines.

The interesting of this book is the investigation that is back this story, because before of this book the island was forgotten, and the information that appears in “La isla de la pasion” is the result of a depth journalism research, between letters and documents. Highly recommended.

Monkey girls

 

I think that I like many photographs and choice just one is very complicated, for that I chose this photo, because it is very representative of the frienship that I have with the people pictured.

This photograph was taken by Andrés, the boyfriend of my friend Tatiana, in the vacation of this year, in February specifically. In this you can see from left to right: Magdalena, me, Loreto and Tatiana. We appear like monkey girls, when we climbed the hill “Concepción”, from Valparaiso.

I like this photograph because it represents a moment very happy, me and the girls of the photograph are very good friends, and always that we can, we met… but recently we had rerely met because we are studying.

We are always taking photographs with some crazy poses… and this is not the exception. I have many photographs like this, and all are very representative to me, because they represent special moments.

I met the people of the photograph many years ago, in 2004, and from then we have been good friends. I remember that when we took us this photograph, we also took many other photos, in one of them, we are imitating the typical photo of The Beatles in the zebra crossing, and other like the “the Last Supper”… those are very funny.

Onother thing that I love in this picture is the location because I love Valparaiso; I think that is a place very beautiful.

This picture has many technical errors like the shadow, but I don’t care xD

I love this photograph and I love my friends =) and I hope that with time, we can have many more photographs.

Greetings!

The best day of my life

I think that the best day of my life was the first time that I went to Chiloé. I am not sure, but I think that it was on the summer of the 2000. I was ten years old, and also was the first time that I traveled without my parents because my father was working (but I met with them a few days after). I went to Chiloé with my sister and the rest of my mother’s family: my grandfather, my uncles, aunts, and cousins. 

My mother’s family arrived from Chiloé in the early twentieth century, from Chaulinec specifically, my grandmother wanted to return to the island in the 80s, but weather conditions were bad, and she never could go. In December 1999 she died, and as a tribute we gather as family in a place special for everyone.

My only concern was be having fun enough, because when you're a child the world is much more simple. I remember laughing with my southern cousins, when we was collecting corals from shore, and capturing crabs (pancoras) from the beach.

I remember the strong wind and rain hitting the roof. For the night our parents made bonfires and they told us stories of fear, and legends from Chiloé. I remember we all laughed and enjoyed.

In years later we continue travelling to Chiloé to their different islands, but we never returned to Chaulinec. Now we are more separate, and the children of this time now are adults. But always that we met we remember that wonderful and special summer. My first encounter with Chiloé, a place that I love.

My mobile phone =)

My favorite piece of technology is the mobile phone. I have a mobile phone since I was fourteen years old. I’ve had many mobile phones, cause with the time I change my old mobile for a new, and sometimes a thief has stolen my phone (and other pieces of technology). I bought my last mobile phone a year ago.

I like the mobile phone because it goes with me to everywhere. With it I can be communicated with the people from anywhere whenever there is signal, also my mobile phone has Internet, so I can be connected when I haven’t a notebook near.

When I travel, I always go with my mobile phone, because it permits me be communicated with people that don’t be with me.

I always use my mobile phone, everyday, because it has game very entertaining, is very comfortable, easy and small to carry around, it fit in my pocket. I think that the mobile phone also allows the sensation of be in company.

My life without it probably would be different because the mobile phone permits me be more independent. I think that I will continue using my mobile cell for much longer… because I really think that it’s very useful.