Music :)

Well, firs of all I have to say that music isn´t that important to me as it is for most of teenagers. I mean I can walk without listening to any music or I don´t need to be listening to music everytime I´m on the computer. But anyway, that doesn´t mean I don´t like. I do like it, but I don´t need to be listening to music all day long. It´s kind of a "when I feel like listening to the music I like" relation.
I actually like a little bif of everything, but I´m more of a past times music follower I would say It´s because I grew up listening to the music my parents liked, which means Los Jaivas, Silvio Rodriguez, Schwenke & Nilo, Mercedes Soza, Sol y Lluvia, Quilapayún and many other "protest bands".
But my favorite music band is Soda Stereo, I love the way they lived life and they created so many good songs. I always said I was going to pay whatever it costed to see them once they come back together, and my dream came true when they got together in 2007. Unfortunately by the time they came to Chile I wasn´t here and I liked it or not my dream was gone. I have always felt sad about it.
Well, not everything is from the past though. I do like english rap, even if it´s kind of dirty I like it. It makes me happy and it fills me with energy. My favorite rap singers or groups are Akon, Lil Wayne, Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna and Usher.
When I´m studying I don´t like listening to music unless I´m writing because I can´t get focus. And when I´m happy I listen to everything I have on my computer and so do I when I´m sad, because if I´m sad I don´t like to listen to sad songs. It´s better when you distract yourself.
Most of the music I have I get it for free on the internet (I hope no one related to author´s rights is reading this). I download the songs from Ares and I play them on Itunes.

I think music is an accompanyment to me because it makes me feel good, but it´s not really important.

The EARTHQUAKE

The night of the earthquake I was at my boyfriend´s grandparent´s house in Valdivia. When it started I thought that there was a truck passing by the house, but then it kept trembling so I got up as soon as I could and I realized that the only thing it could be was an earthquake. My first thought was "lucky me, I´m in Valdivia and the 1960´s earthquake was right in here" .It was such a terrible moment because I thought my life was going to end. It´s funny because you always hear that "at the end" you realize how much you love your family and the people who are always with you; and it´s true. In those minutes I felt so sad because I wasn´t going to be able to say bye to my family. And I was also worried because pretty much all my dad´s relatives live in Chillán and we couldn´t get to talk to them easily. But anyways, thank god my whole family was fine and no one got hurt. And even if it sounds a little bit selfish I´m very grateful the earthquake wasn´t before because my family and I had just come back from Pelluhue five days before. I´m pretty sure if we would had been in there the story would had been a different one.
And as many Chileans did after the earthquake I helped with money and food. I have to say though that my younger sister did a better job than mine because she helped as a volunteer at the Hogar de Cristo.
This earthquake made me think that we have to enjoy every moment we have with the people we love because you never know how much time left you have in this world. So now, when I´m talking on the phone with my family or when I´m with my boyfriend and we argue, I like to resolve it right there than going to sleep mad at them.

About myself

My name is Carmen Paz Lara, I´m 20 years old. I come from a beautiful city called Villarrica, which is located in the south of Chile. I´m studying Public Administration at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago. I chose this career because I wanted to study something related to History and the fact of working with people directly.
I really expect to improve my english with this blog and get to practice it with other people. I also expect to get to know most of my classmates and what they think.