Something about public space

Although Santiago is a city that has diverse services, it lacks public space, today we see that the priority is the construction of apartments, there is even a shortage of houses, for the number of people we are and there is no longer extensive land to be built horizontally. And the new way you have is to build vertically in height, but that need also leaves aside other essential elements in a city, such as public space, this is an important element, since the natural encounter of the same people and the interaction between them, is being lost. The city is not only heading to work, but the public space serves us for a social integration, to have a sense of belonging to the city, to feel part of it.

The city is also the space for meeting and exchanging, which enriches urban practices and encourages the participation of citizens and their interest in community issues.

                                                                                       

Something I liked a lot was that they took out the fences of the citizenship square in front of the Palacio de la Moneda, for me it was ridiculous that a square that was named "of the citizenship" had fences and nobody could use it of this, it looked like an insipid space, but now people took ownership of that space and took on another character, now there is a much more lively space and where anyone can go and sit in front of the most important building in Chile.

Social Networks and some problems

my favorite network now is Instagram because it is much more instantaneous with respect to important events, because not only do I follow ordinary persons, but also to news profiles related to my tastes, such as profiles on mountain bike or architecture, among several others that I follow.

I think I like  graphic designs more, to be able to see news or events portrayed, in a photograph is much better for me than reading an extensive post on Facebook, I also believe that on Facebook there is nothing new, apart from the “memes”, but one sees always the same types of comments and post, for my Instagram is a little more diverse than that. But I'm not an Instagram fan, on average a day I enter 3 times and more or less for 10 minutes.

Something that to say with regard to the social networks in general is that these problems can cause you with other persons that you love and that for some motive it is possible interpret badly something that dresses or to read and believe me it is possible to ruin a friendship for something silly as a comment or post.

also is making us change, since we believe blind (sometimes) in some comment or news in Facebook and really there are too many things that are not trustworthy, clear there are some of them that are very credible, but after a moment you realize that they are false or tricked.

Los Jaivas / The High and Bass (old name)

I am not much of attending concerts or rather paying for them, but yes, I have attended festivals, where they invite great and renowned Chilean artists. Of those festivals there is one of them that set a precedent in terms of musical taste and style of one of their groups to my short 13 years. This was in the commune of Talagante and the group Los Jaivas, known to all, appeared on the final night. The group's style is rather psychedelic rock and progressive rock with the fusion of Latin American folk instruments.

I had heard them before and mainly influenced by the taste of my cousin who lent me their records to listen to them in my house. But that day of the festival for me was great, mainly attracted by its characteristic sounds, I was astonished at the execution of his songs, because it is one thing to listen to it on a CD, but another is the staging and the energy that they deliver in their concerts. He was hallucinating with Juanita Parra's drums or Claudio Parra's keyboard or the psychedelic sounds of their guitars.

During the concert, the people were euphoric listen to every song, the people sang very loudly all their songs and they danced the ones that could be danced, in the style of each one of them. 

In this concert I felt like one of those adults who sang non-stop, almost to the point of shouting some emblematic themes, like for example and my favorite song: Mambo of Machaguay, it was very exciting for me to be there and every time I have the opportunity to go see them, I go.

Canada / Whistler

Since I am a mountainbike lover, the paradise for riders is called Whistler!

Whistler is located in Canada, in the high mountains and has a great high level bikepark where competitions are held throughout the year and at the highest level, in particular there is a date of the mountain bike festival called Crankworx, which lasts approximately one month and everyone who wants to can go to compete, but also taking into account the level of tracks that you have, because although there are tracks for all levels, they are very different in the level of difficulty of the tracks in terms of national tracks .

The trip to go for a month with all the expenses covered, such as, for example, lodging, food, registration for races, mechanics for the bicycle, costs 4,300.00 USD. The amount is relatively high, since, if one pays this amount, it goes with 3 Chilean guides who already know all the tracks and possible problems that may occur.

During the development of the Crankworx festival, we can see and also participate in several disciplines of mountain biking, such as:

Red bull JoyRide

Canadian Open DH

Dual Slalom

Pumptrack Challenge

Garbanzo DH

It is really fascinating when one of your friends has gone and arrives counting the level of hallucination that the tracks have.

It's a trip that I have to do without a doubt, but for the moment the University takes a lot of time to go on the dates of the Crankworx festival.