Why do you write?

In general there are so many thoughts and feelings going through my mind and heart when I write, it's hard to explain why. Many times I feel the need to write some important event of the day or just some little detail that was important for me to see the end of the day better.

On this occasion I will write a bit about how important it is to take every day to the fullest as if tomorrow would not have another chance. My weekend was great, I was with people that I love and with whom I shared great moments, but more significant was something that taught me a friend. The people usually live a hectic life full of activities, but how much we value every time? The last time things have happened to me, which helped me to enjoy in one way or another my day to day. I think it is time to fight for my dreams, live hard, think less and act more; enjoying all things that life gives me.

There is a song called "My last day" who says that we should not wait until tomorrow if the day is today, we make each day the best that we can live. I could be talking about this a long time, but if you listen to this track, analyze it, you try to dream and make it a reality, maybe you can understand I am talking about.

Finally, in my opinion it is not necessary to write a thousand words, because if your heart and mind are open with few words you can understand the whole universe of thought and feeling close to you.

"Million Dollar Bond Robbery"

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The Million Dollar Bond Robbery is a short story by Agatha Christie. Christie tells us how is the theft of Liberty Bonds of the London and Scottish Bank on the Olympia, and that is where it seems the famous detective Hercule Poirot with his partner Captain Hastings, who solved the case without problems.

It begins when Miss Farquhar Esmée went to visit to Poirot to discuss the issue of theft of Liberty Bonds, because she is engaged to Mr. Philip Ridgeway, and he was the one who was in charge of the bonds in the trip to New York, because his uncle, Mr. Vavasour,  suffered a severe bronchitis so he could not go there.

Poirot takes the case and he begins his investigation. First he went to speak directly with the person most involved, Mr. Ridgeway. He explained the same version that his fiancee, also he added that the box (which was sent to transport especially the bonds) he had been forced to open it, but curiously the end it was open with the correct key.

Finally, Poirot and Hasting talked with Miss Esmée F. to tell the outcome of the investigation. Poirot believed that Mr. Ridgeway could not be guilty because the case would have been very clear and simple. Therefore he had two options, the first one is that the bonds had been hidden in the boat and the second option is unlikely that the bonds had been thrown overboard. Logically if the second option were true, the bonds would not have been sold in New York, then that option is removed. Poirot took the option that the bonds were never in the Olympia and they were sent in the Gigantic the same day, but this boat is faster, so in New York the bonds arrived before with instructions that they were sold just arrived Olympia there.

However, at the Olympia had to travel for someone to plan the possible robbery , so there was a man in the booth next to Mr. Ridgeway, and he had to pretend to pick the lock so it would look like a real steal. Of course, the man was hiding behind his clothes to avoid being caught or recognized by Mr. Ridgeway. The guilty of the theft, the man who never had a severe bronchitis was Mr. Shaw.

The case settled and blameless leaving Mr. Ridgeway is how the story of Agatha Christie ends.

From the summarize of the story above and based on the video seen in the class, I present a number of similarities and differences:

-       Although the characters are almost the same, their roles and relationships are totally different. A clear example is that Mr. Ridgeway in the video works at the bank and he is an outstanding employee, but the book says that he is the nephew of Mr. Vavasour.

-       In the book the ship was called Olympia, but in the video the ship was called Queen Mary.

-       Another contrast is that the keys were given to different people: (video) Mr. Shaw, Mr. Ridgeway and Mr. Vavasour had a copy of a key; (book) Mr. Shaw, Mr. McNeil, Mr. Ridgeway and Mr. Vavasour had a copy of a key.

-       There is an important contradiction about the problem that Mr. Shaw suffered, because in the book he has been severely ill with bronchitis at his home in the country and the video showed to us that he was poisoned by someone.

-       Also we can find that Hercule Poirot do not travel on the Olympia, but Hasting and Poirot was invited to travel with Mr. Ridgeway on the Queen Mary, and in this travel Hasting meet a beautiful woman who was in the cabin next to Mr. Ridgeway because she is the person who helped to Mr. Shaw with his evil plan.

-          However, I found some similarities. For example, Miss Esmée F. was engaged with Mr. Ridgeway; the main idea of the story is the same, I mean that the million dollar bonds was stolen; another important similarity is the guilty is the same person, in both cases is Mr. Shaw but using different ways, and Mr. Ridgeway was always blamed by the people of the bank.

In the other hand, I believe that it is a good detective story because when you read you can imagine every situation, every character and all the places where the story is happened. Also I like the guilty was Mr. Shaw because I never imagine he could be a thief. It is fantastic when Agatha C. give to readers some clue but at the end these are not relevant because it is for mislead.

Nevertheless, it is difficult imagine everything if you has been reading the book after that you watch the video because in my case I can not forget the movie when I read, so the situations are different.

I dislike when directors of movies change the real story that the authors write with a great imagination. Sometimes the movies are really different and it is uncomfortable for the readers. I think that a good example that you do not need to change the real story is a movie and a book called Pride and Prejudice.  In this case when you read a book and after you watch a movie, or vice versa, you can understand every situation with the correct character doing the same things that you read or watch.

However, there are some movies which change the original story but in a better way. Some variances help to understand the main idea. In most of the cases kids received the benefits when they watch a movie with full colors, beautiful images, and interesting characters with funny and colorful clothes.

Finally, I want to give you a recommendation because it is important for me that you know an important fact, when you read a book and you know that exist a movie about this book you should read a book and then watch a movie, because in my opinion is the better way in which you will be not disappointed.  

Peter and the wolf

When we are children, our parents always tell us stories or accounts to teach us something.
It is very common that when we grow up we tell the same stories to our children and continue through the years.
A very old story, but very good one is the Peter and the Wolf. My mom told us this story to my sisters and me, when I was 5 years old.

One day a boy named Peter was working in the garden of his father where he had planted lettuce. Suddenly he began to cry "wolf, wolf, help me please!" and many people came running to help him, but it was only a lie of the child. People were very angry and they went home. Peter laughed for the joke that he  had done to his neighbors and his parents.

Another day while everyone was working on their farms, Pedrito began to scream again that the wolf came, screaming and screaming, many people quickly ran to help him but it was another lie. The angry neighbors returned to their work and the child's parents punished him for the joke he had made. Parents warned that continued to scream and lie, in the end nobody would believe him.

A week later, Peter was playing on the farm and suddenly appeared a huge, ferocious wolf who wanted to steal all the vegetables from her father. The child screamed and screamed but no one helped. Finally the wolf stole lettuce, carrots, potatoes, corn, etc. Peter ran home and began to mourn.
When he saw his parents, he told them what had happened and they gave him a big hug. His father told him that he had warned that there was to make jokes because if it were true nobody would come to help, and that was it. Pedrito learned his lesson, he apologized to the people of the village and never lied.

The moral of this story leaves us is that we should never lie, we must always tell the truth because, so people will believe what we say and they always help us.
Moreover, we must trust on our parents and we should accept what they tell us because they always will protect us.

CHILE

Chile is a long and narrow country. It has many customs and one of the most important for the Chilean people is food. Our cuisine has been influenced by ancient indigenous people and the Spanish conquered them. However, the traditional Chilean food is empanada, asado or pastel de choclo, but for the large geographic area of the country, the recipes are very different from each other.

I divide the meals according to the north, center and south of the country.

In the north of Chile the people continue to use Aymara and Atacameñas traditional foods such as maize, quinoa, squash, potatoes, etc. and used the llama or Alpaca meat for cooking, this delicious achieved.

In the central zone of Chile the people working the land thus to get a lot of food that gives us vegetables and fruits. Besides the VII region is noted for the wine production and winemaking  with the best “sepas” of the area such as "Cabernet Sauvignon", "Merlot", "Chardonnay", etc.

In the south of the country, the Mapuche and Chilotes base their meals on potatoes, merquén, pans and curantos. This area is known for shellfish that people pull from the sea every day. It is also important to mention the influence of German pastries brought many delicious recipes sweets.

On the other hand, the Chilean people do not care much for your health. We put aside our physical and psychological health. For example few people are given the time to put creams on the body, face and hands, not using sunscreen for protecting our skin from UV rays because we do not realize that every day they kill our skin, the only exercise that most people do is walk, but that's not enough for a healthy body, we did not eat healthy with nutritious meals, do not care for our cholesterol. Diabetes, etc. It is necessary that we begin to love and care for our body because in the future we will suffer the consequences and we cannot blame anyone.

Chile Bicentennial

In Chile the people celebrated “Bicentennial” because we have been independent for two hundred years. On September 18th , 1810 the Chilean made a meeting called “Primera Junta Nacional de Gobierno”; Mr. Mateo de Toro y Zambrano was the President at this meeting, and since day we celebrated own independence.

Another important day is on September 19th because in Santiago at Parque O`Higgins the Chilean people they celebrate “Dia de las Glorias del Ejercito” and for this reason we performed the military parade, here the soldiers of the Army parade according to each military school.

In those days the people did many activities with their families or friends. Also Children played Trompo, kite flying, playing greasy pole and catch the pig.

I celebrated “Fiestas Patrias” first with my friends and after with my family.

On Friday 17th at night I went to the “Fonda” called “Donde Mea la Negra”, here my friends and I bought some things to drink like Terremotos, Chichas, Jotes, Navegados, etc. We also ate foods such as Anticuchos, Empanadas, Choripan, Mote con Huesillos, etc. These are all typical Chilean food and drink and people eat them very often. They are delicious. If you have the ability to eat and drink it, do it! It was so good the party that ended at 6:00 am on Saturday 18th. The same day was the parade of children and institutions in the main square of the town of Molina. I went to Molina with my mom and my sisters, whose names are Fernanda and Kattia. We went to see my dad because he was singing in the Choir Radal de Molina", they are a group of adults who meet every week to rehearse songs and the choir are presented on different occasions in the community, and on this occasion they sang the National Anthem and Anthem of Chile with a group of High School Students. When the parade ended we went to Curico, and ate lunch, Empanadas made by my mom. In the afternoon the same day, my dad cooked meat for the barbeque for the family where we had a nice moment.

September 19th, my dad work, but my sisters and I got up very late. We had lunch again empanadas. After this we rested and at 3:00 pm started the parade of this year, so we saw all the presentations before the official parade. For example, 200 people marched with 200 flags of Chile, some young people and children dancing "Cueca" our national dance, and finally soldiers paraded.

The last one day of activities,on 20th September, the Navy and Air Force of Chile made an activity called "Revista Aerea y Naval", here they showed aircraft, submarines, ships, etc. that Chile has in this moment.

That was my celebration of the bicentennial of Chile. I hope you have enjoyed our great and beautiful celebration.