martes, 31 de mayo de 2016

CHAPTER VII: A PERSON ON YOUR FIELD THAT YOU ADMIRE
{"My name is TRUMAN CAPOTE"}
Truman Capote was a connoted novelist borned in New Orleans, on 1924. He had a tough chilhood, because of his parents. They split, and his mother married with a very rich business man, whose surname was Capote. He felt really lonely not only because of his parents theme; he always was different. It must was very hard the fact of being gay in the fifty's society, but Truman Capote could made himself a name because of all of his pieces of writing. He started working for New Yorker, but then he left and started to travel around the world, specifically Italy, Greece and Spain. In the middle of that he wrote a lot of interviews for Playboy and one of his most-known novels: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958).

But there's one novel that make the difference between him and his other fellows. This may be In Cold Blood (1966), a non-fiction novel. Capote revolutionized the journalism's world, because he found a new way to see it: To tell a story, and between it show the world the problems inside the context that the story develops, in a poetic and literally way.

martes, 24 de mayo de 2016

 CHAPTER VI: A MEAL YOU LIKE TO COOK FOR YOURSELF

{Mushroom Soup}

Not gonna lie: I'm such a terrible chef. I threw salt into a strawberry juice, boiling water to lettuce (because I believed that bacteria were removed of it in that way), and everytime I cook something like spaghettis or rice it ends up burned. I'm being serious. Even I studied cooking for a couple months to change that (and I learned a lot of cooking theory), but is just I don't have the gift, really.

Maybe that's why I like to make soup. But not any soup: an instant mushroom soup, as known here as Sopa para Uno, and particulary that flavor. It's cheap, and easy. And is very suitable for winter, because is warm and salty, and liquid, so it's easier to eat. If you ever get bored of make tea when the rain falls down behind the window, it's your better option! and no, I'm not making advertising! Well. Maybe. The weird fact here is that I hate lentils, beans, and legumes in general, even the home-made soup, but this, it's just... I can't. And is pretty simple, you just go into a store, ask for one Sopa para Uno, buy one, go back home, boil water in a kettle or a teapot, put the content of the envelope inside a mug, and mix the water and the content, add salt to taste, and voilá.

I like it also because when I'm in a sad mood during a cold day I wrap myself with blankets on the couch of my living room, put Orange is The New Black in Netflix and chill out with a warm mug of mushroom soup. Is not like eating chocolate, but is fine. Also, it works for hangovers, a little bird told me that, I swear. 

martes, 10 de mayo de 2016

CHAPTER V: THE STORY OF A PICTURE

{K-BOOM!}

This is a funny picture, and also has a funny story behind it. It was taken by Camila, a friend of mine, as known as "Doña" because of her strong personality. Date of the picture: October 15, 2013. SO MANY YEARS!

Here we were at Monseñor Sótero Sanz street. On the left side of the picture you can see one of my best friends during the high school, Bárbara. She put "cara de malo", because she liked doing stuffs like that. She was really hilarious. Behind, you can see two of my classmates in that time: Proy and Bea. She was holding a mapuche loom, a really hard art assingment. I know the other girls in the picture, but I didn't speak frequently with them. And finally in the middle was the seventeen years old version of me. I was using brackets and also glasses. I was with my guitar too, then I really loved Ed Sheeran, that's why the little paw on it.

I like it because that was a really awesome moment. We were about to take a final test, and somebody called to the school, warning that there was a bomb and would explode soon. So the principal inspect all the bags and lockers on the school, and then Special Forces with their dogs and their guns arrived. All the girls were taked out including me. So I took out my guitar and started to sing and joking around. A group of classmates invented a coreography with a song called "Bomba", performed by El General. Everything was so funny back then, just laughs and smiles.

Now I can barely see all of my friends. This picture reminds me that I miss Bárbara a lot, actually, all my old school friends. And I miss playing music in that way, spontaneous. I like this picture, because I like the memory under it.