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 ...

 1. Treasure Planet     Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements. This science-fiction movie released in 2002 is one of my favourite. The story follows the adventure of the younger Jim Hawkins and his looking for the space pirate Captain Flint's treasure, traveling by the space-ship RLS Legacy with its crew. The movie is a free adaptation of the Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island. I love this movie for his beautiful and wonderful animation - specially the combinations of classical and 3d animation-, its good soundtrack and its lovely life development of the main character. 2. Atlantis: The Lost Empire.     This also science fiction movie release in 2001 follows the looking for the lost city of Atlantis by the linguist and cartographer Milo Thatch. Encouraged by an eccentric millonaire Preston B. Whitemore, and old friend of Milo's late grandfather. Milo joined to the expedition fund by Whitemore. But he will fight to save the lost city from the bad intecnti...

Last week brought to me a break for my daily activities, let me relax, enjoy the National Parties celebrations and share more with my family. In other-hands, last week let me do another activities like: 1. Visit family.     Last free week gave me the time to go to visit some aunts and cousins I didn't see long time. Sadly, I can only see a few people because most of them had plans for this past holidays, but I enjoyed see how the younger generation of my mom's family has grown up. Last time I was the highest, how things are going, I'm going to have average height in the family. 2. Listen to music.     With the free time I got the pleasant to listen some albums and playlist that I can't listen to how I have, So I took my smartphone and my speaker and shut myself in my bedroom listening those long-waited songs. Piero Piccioni, a master Italian composer! 3. Pending reading.     There were a lot of books I bought and I haven't read yet, cause study readings or ...

For today activities, I read the post with the cultural highlights from Robert Östlund, a swedish film-maker interviewed by The Guardian last month. In his recomendations, he invites to people to read a book trilogy he has enjoyed by his last life decade, the saga is written by a danish author called Thomas Korsgaard. From him, Östlund praised his "extraordinary way of portraying social situations". While, Triangle of Sadness' (2022) director highliths the presentation of  a theater play performed by Konstad AB in the Royal Dramatic theater in Stockholm and the film Anatomy of Fall, directed by Justine Tried, a Palm d'Or winner film at Cannes. By the other hand, the swedish recomends to visit the Bologna city for its beauty and its nice atmosphere, and recomends to assist to its summer season activities, and also he recomends to go to visit the Fondazione Prada meseum in Milan. His last highligh is dedicated to