Martín_Inglés IV

     Since I was a kid, I always heard my parent's childhood stories and their good memories from their youth. My dad is Santiaguino, so I can often visit the places and neighborhoods where he grew up, but the situtation is different with my mom. She is Valdiviana and it was difficult to me to imagine the places where her stories are on. I always heard her stories about how she and her sibling went to the countryside to pick apples or castañas and eating moras from the zarzamoras on the sides of the roads. As a city boy as I'm, this stories seems strange and out of the ordinary to me. It was not until 2014 or 2015 -my memory is horrible- when I had the chance to visit for first and only time the city where my mom's family come from.

Today, I would like to talk about one of my closest familiar, my second cousin Benjamín. As usual in a big family, some members of different generation were born in the same period of time, and that is the case of me and Benjamín. We both were born in 2001, but he is older than me for about 7 months. He is the only grandson of my aunt Teresa and the only kid of my cousin Carlos. For him, my late grandpa is his great grandfather. In few words, we have a generational difference, but we have the same age. As kids from the same family, we know each other since I have memories and we did everything together. I remember how every Sunday afternoons after visiting my grandparent's grave I visited him to spend all the evenings playing footbal at his yard or in the street outside his house; later when we grew up, playing PES (a.k.a. Winning Eleven) or WWE Smackdown videogame on his PS2; and when we get adolescence we played CoD Black Ops I and II on his PS3. Mostly of summer vacations both f

Hello, Reader! How I was born in Chile, and old territory from Spanish Empire, my native language is Spanish, but Chilean dialect. This mean that I do not speak my first language as well as I should. As a good Chilean as I am, I "eat" some letters and syllables from words, what make me sound very peculiar between Spanish speakers. But I'm not going to talk about only Spanish, today I'm going to talk about my experiece with languages. Since I have entered to educational system, I have been instructed to learn English as a subject along my studies. But, sadly, after 12 years studying I haven't learned to speak English as my second language. Although I can read and communicate my ideas, my vocabulary is very short and I can't understand well an English speaker cause of my few experiences speaking the language. I must highlight my latest English teacher at highschool, Claudia Torres, who really gave me a good instruction and helps me to improve my pronunciation an

 Hi, reading! How was your week? I'll hope that it was great. Today I´m going to talk about a book to recommend you. In my wide and long collection of books I have a few that are my favorite readings. One of them is "El Caballero de la Armadura Oxidada" (in English, The Knight in Rusty Armor) written by Robert Fisher. Its a fiction novel set in medieval age and follows the story of "the Knight" on his search to find out himself and take of his rusty armor after his wife demanded him to take it off to see his face again because she forgot it after he never stop wearing the armor for a long time, the reason why the armor is rusty. Even his son can't remember his face. Before this situation, the main charachter began a travel to take off his armor with help from Merlín, a squirrel and a bird called Rebeca -beside anothers second characters- for recover his family and discover who he is behind the armor. Actually, the book belongs to self-help genre, but when I