Amaro in English

One of my favorites movies is Green Book . A drama-comedy film of 2018 directed by Peter Farrelly that won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor.  The movie is inspired by the 1962 true story of the relationship between African American classical and jazz pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and Italian American Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) during Shirley's musical tour to the Deep South when Vallelonga worked as his driver and bodyguard. The name of the movie is a reference to "The Negro Motorist Green Book", a guidebook for African-American travelers in the US. In the movie, Tony and Shirley use this guide to travel safe in the racist South. I like this movie because of its cinematic discourse about race, social status and homophobia. It's interesting the development of the inicial gap between the two characters, Shirley being a recognized musician of high status, and Vallelonga an unemploye...

I have been in quarantine since March 16th, so tomorrow me and my family turn 3 months of confinement. Despite that, one week ago we move from an apartment in Ñuñoa to a house in Macul so my quarantine shook a little bit.  My daily routine was very different before we had classes to how is right now. Nowadays I'm waking up early so I can have a little time before classes to have breakfast and catch-up the class contents. Then I connect to class. Later on, me and my family eat lunch and spend time talking and drinking a cup of tea with some cookies. After that, I usually give time to university asignments.  I'm trying to spend my free time in "screen-free" activities. I usually play piano, it's a great way to disconect from the digital world. Nevertheless, I also spend my free time in playing Call of Duty in my cellphone with my friends and my elder brother, this way I connect with them. Also chatting on WhatsApp and Instagram are ways I keep in touch. Besides,...

I think my best vacation ever was last summer. I travelled during almost all february to the south of Chile with my two best friends. The first week we stayed in Osorno in the house of the family of one of my friends. One day we travelled to Cascadas (a village next to Lago Llanquihue) to do trekking and get to know the sorroundings. Also, as my friends and I are musicians, we were invited to play music in a "cafe concert", it was very surprising and funny for us because we didin´t expected it at all. The second week we went camping next to Lago Ranco and spent the time talking, swimming, singing by the campfire and playing cards. Our penultimate day there my brother and his girlfriend arrived and we spent that last night there together singing by the campfire. The third week we went to Coñaripe where my family (my parents, my sibilings, and my cousin) were staying and we stayed with them, and enjoy playing cards at night and laugh while talking. I chose this as the be...

I think it's a hard decision to choose one country but I will choose Cuba. A fun fact about this is that my mom had the opportunity to travel to Cuba when she was pregnant with me. Maybe Cuba chose me more than I chose Cuba. In general I would like to visit a country of the caribbean islands because I think that its history is very interesting, but also because most of them live in this duality between tourism and reality, trying to subsist of tourism but facing a poor reality. In specific I have an interest in Cuba because of its revolution history and I would like to learn from a personal experience about their political present and how is life there. Also (and very important) because of their music. I grew up listening to "Buena Vista Social Club", a record of son cubano, bolero, guajira and salsa, and that sound fascinates me. I think Cuban music influences to the whole world with its sound and musicians, and is a fundamental part of the history of music. I re...