NATIONAL HOLIDAYS 

This year, 18th September was different because it was the first time that we had holidays in the university, so a free week was very useful to rest and enjoy this celebration.

On September 15th I was in the ''Quimifonda'' of the University. I really enjoyed this, despite I had to go to the analytical lab (It was so frustrating to see all the people having fun, drinking, laughing ,and us walking to the laoratory jaja), the rest of the day I spent a very good time with my friends and classmates.

On September 16th I took a plane to Calama and reunited with my parents and my sister's family. My family ate all day empanadas, anticuchos, sopaipillas and meat. This was a big challenge for me, because it was my first national celebration without eating meat. I learned to cook ''empanadas'' stuffed with lentils, mushrooms, and others. It was very interesting.

Since September 17th to 23th, I traveled to different places: San Pedro de Atacama, The desert Hand, Antofagasta, Chuquicamata and La Serena, and when I was bored I recognize that I studied Organic Chemistry jaja.

I really enjoyed this vacations! I hope next year we could have more national holidays.

       One of my hobbies is watching movies. I like movies of all categories, specially drama, fiction and horror. It's difficult to choose one, but I think ''The Motorcycle Diaries'' by Walter Salles was a movie that I liked very much. This is a biographical movie about Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado and their journey through Latin America by motorcycle, a very tiny and old motorcycle. They made this travel on a break before the last semester of medical school.

There are two things that movies draw my attention: scenography and soundtrack. In my opinion, ''The Motorcycle Diaries'' has the perfect mixture of them. In the first place, the movie expose many landscape of Chilean and Argentinian Patagonia, places of Colombia, Venezuela and Peru like Machu Picchu. Also it shows the inequality and poverty in South America at that time. In the second place, I think Gustavo Santoalalla's music mixed with the beautiful landscape created a perfect combination. Despite I wasn't  interest about the plot when I saw this movie (I recognize that I was interested in the principal actor Gael García Bernal, a mexican actor) it really surprised me.

Here's the route travel by Ernesto and Alberto: