Inivillanueva-Prólogo

La historia de esta casa y sus habitantes se desarrolla en un lugar ubicado al centro interior de Chile, según el mapuche, natural de esta zona del Valle del Cachapoal, este es el pueblo de brujos del cual surge el topónimo Machalí (Machili). El terreno se ubica hacia el final de un pasaje de nombre Sausalito con el número 145.

Luego de algo así como 30 años de abandono, y de brindar refugio a habitantes esporádicos (un intento de toma del terreno y luego la concesión temporal a un club de adultos mayores) el año 2017 la nieta del propietario original  y madre de esta humilde narrador@ decide establecerse en el dominio antes mencionado.

En la casa dado el contexto de pandemia global que afecta a la humanidad actualmente viven 3 personas; una madre y dos hijes, sin embargo cada semana se reciben visitas que se animan a pernoctar en la morada ya sea 1 o mas veces por semana y asímismo , 1 o mas visitas (Abuela u otres hermanes) .




Semana del 29 de Septiembre del 2020 al 02 de Octubre del 2020

OBS:
Comienzo a tomar registro rutinario a partir del 1 de Octubre, al no existir costumbre de llevar registro muchas veces lo olvido y termino por anotar  sólo algunas actividades del día 

Octubre, 1ro

8.16 am Recuerdo no abrir los 👀 , pero haber despertado. Lo que 👂:

-Pisadas de 👢 de mamá sobre la cerámica y sobre piso flotante, se está yendo al trabajo 
-Un camión pasa por la calle, mi ventana enfrenta la calle Sausalito por donde circulan 👥 y motores
-Agustín estornuda, parece que despertó
-🐓🐔 cantan
-Mamá habla con Agustín en el dormitorio de él
-Mamá se va al trabajo, suena la 🚪 y la reja
- En la casa vecina se oye un carro de arrastre, suena como los del supermercado
-Abro los 👀 desbloqueo el celular, comienzo a tomar nota de lo oído y lo por oír
-Ruido de 🔨 sobre metales
-Acarreo de carrito 
-Botellas siendo aplastadas

8.22 am 
-Suena un 🚚 alejarse
8.30 am
-Un 🐩 ladra a lo lejos
-Se oye el microondas en la cocina 
-Un hombre afuera habla, no entiendo lo que dice


9.00 am 
-Ponerse en pie e ir por el desayuno
9.06 am
-Desayuno sentada en la cocina
9.12 am
-La ventana de la cocina colinda con el medianero vecino, se oye un chileno y un haitiano hablar 🔊
de fondo crujen botellas y el sonido de un motor es constante

9.14 am
-Tomo el 📱 y grabo el sonido unos minutos desde la ventana
9.19 am 
-Me voy al comedor y enciendo el computador traje mi ☕
 
9.29 am
-Pongo el programa de 📻 en el computador

14.15 pm
-Voy a la cocina a calentar 🍛🍝 y poner la mesa

14.25 pm
-💬 con Agustín mientras comemos

14.45 pm
-Lavé mi plato y voy a lavarme los 👄

15.00 pm
-Sentada en el comedor en el mismo puesto que durante la mañana retomo la sesión de trabajo online

16.32 pm
-Pienso en que he hablado sólo con el Agustín en lo que va del día

16.35 pm
-Agustín toca la 🎸 en su pieza, parece que está en clase online
-Una ventana del comedor está abierta, suenan botellas siendo aplastadas, entra el sonido de la radio 💗

18.20 pm
-Dejan de oírse botellas crujir, parece que acabó la jornada laboral. Hay más 🔇
 18.28 pm
-Me preparo para ir al supermercado en 🚴, me pongo 😷

19.07 pm 
-Llegué del supermercado, sólo me lavé bien las 👐 al llegar a 🏡

20.15 pm
-La estufa está encendida, tomamos ☕🍞 en el comedor con Mamá y Agu

22.00 pm
-Trabajo en el computador desde mi cama

22.30 pm 
-Llegó mi hermano Joaquín de visita, me 🎁 un pote de sal con ciboulette que trajo, luego va hacia el dormitorio de Mamá


Octubre, 2

1.08 am
-Apago el computador y me voy a dormir, programo la ⏰ se sienten 🐕🐩 a lo lejos 

7.02 am
-Siento las 🐾 de mamá en el pasillo, abro los 👀 y enciendo el computador
8.20 am
-Mamá salió de 🏡

8.27 am 
-Llegan los primeros rayos de 🌞, se sienten crujir las primeras botellas plásticas de la jornada.

OBS: olvido seguir anotando durante el día o cuando lo recuerdo comienzo a hacer otra actividad

23.59 pm

-Estoy frente al computador finalizando 📑✏⌚
de la semana 1.

How to Go Green

I think that I know a lot of saving our planet , recently I made a test about how to be a person with a green lifestyle ,but I noticed that there's many information that i didn't know about reduce expenditure of energy and water . I believe that is very unfair the situation of the global warming because many of the responsibilities of the actual condition are the big industry and they don't commit with a real change , when they are the most unconscious , in this point I'm talking of meat industry and the countries of the first world. For example the U.S. are one of the countries with the biggest carbon footprint and they decide don't sign in the Paris agreement .They don't going to change many of the behaviors that harm the planet.

When I did the quiz I knew that the best choice when you go to the supermarket is carry reusable bag or if you buy a car maybe this will be electric , other interesting thing is that the excrement of panda can be used for do paper.

I hope that each person change a small aspect of their lives for save our planet , for example use the bicycle , be vegetarian or vegan and maybe don’t be so consumerist because that it’s a characteristic of Chileans and has a direct impact on the production of greenhouse gases in factories and the warming as we talk

English Laguage Challenges

My experience learning English in University has been very well, I've discovered very different and dynamic way for learn a foreign language. You have the opportunity to explain with your own words something that you’re interested or something that happened to you when you have to do post in your blog, I always know better my classmates reading their blogs and  you can do it using a mid-formal language.

The aspects that I have to improve of my English are pronunciation, and dialogue because I often forgot some words so I have to say in Spanish or Spanglish or ask to somebody how to say something in specific. I really need to talk more with anybody in English but in Chile most of the people feel ashamed of talk because in general we have very bad pronunciation , I thought , for example star to see movies in Spanish with subtitles in English or read books of urbanism and architecture in English too.

Out of English class I use English when I have to go to a subject that I took this semester that is named Interventions in public space .We have to talk in English all the time, I have a teacher, Anthony, and he’s Australian, and Beatriz who is my teacher too and she’s Chilean but , talks English too. The other opportunity where I use English is when I sing songs or when I practice with my sister but it doesn’t happen very frequently. Soon I hope to travel to Washington and have the opportunity of develop more my English abilities.

An activity that I like to do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r30tN9E84rU&feature=youtu.be

Personal Opinion

What I think of immigrants:

The immigration always has been a phenomenon with benefits and inconveniences. In Chile the last years we have been seen that a lot of population see in our country the opportunity for work here, have political stability or improve their quality of live. In my case I’m very happy with the idea of share with people of another country because they show other perspectives of life and they are always open to talk with you in a very friendly way.

The legalization of abortion:

If you ask me for example what I think about the legalization of abortion in the 3 cases I will answer that is extremely necessary in not only in 3 must be legal for any reason that's because you don’t imagine the number of women that  aren´t able to bring a new human being to the world because it implies a lot of dedication, economic and emotional. Above all the real feeling of wanting to have a son is the main reason to ensure the wellness of that baby and if you from the beginning don´t want it has no sense bring him to this world.

My opinion of recycling:

I think that is one of the options for taking care of our planet, maybe is the easy way to introduce you to the discussion of the climate change. I have to say that our planet need people committed and with the enthusiasm for change their habits and lifestyle. In our country the actions for make aware the population in this topic are very paltry but if all do a bit effort with small actions we will get a lot of benefits in our immediate environment and in ourselves.

My opinion about Chilean politicians:

Is very difficult vote for someone with great ideas for the citizens  but with little support  of the other sides of the politics , for example the right side . There's two politician that are very important for me and coincidentially are very young . One is deputy Gabriel Boric, he participated in the movilization for the free education in 2011 and very young start to be a relevant figure in the autonomist movement . I'm very satisfied with the projects proposal that he process in the congress , reduction of parliamentary diet , fight centralism  and for other way he make constantly citizen consultations.The other politician that I admire is Jorge Sharp , the current mayor of Valparaiso its management and work has been so good that people chooses him again  .This two figures it is worth to mentioning because we know all about corrupt politicians but what we have to do is talk about the good ones and motivate people to vote for ploticians with a real commitment with the society

Have I had a good year so far ?

This year one of the best things that I have learned is to be more well-being, that helps me to accept that sometimes things are going bad but all the people that loves you always going to be there for you , even if you made mistakes.

The goodest thing that have happened to me this year was approached more deeply to my friend Sebastián and has been really interesting know each other , spent time together and travel to Valparaiso  , he’s amazing .

This year has been specially hard for me, largely because we spent around of 2 months in stroke, so when we back to class the semester turns a huge avalanche of tasks. I remember that I was really stressed. Fortunately I didn't reproached any subject . This year I have learn to develop skills to work in groups ,at the begining everything was discussions and bad grades but slowly I have been learning how to say things when I don’t agree and now I think that work in groups is really good because two minds thinks better than one.

I didn´t  save money this year and that was very bad because maybe I will not be able to go out for holidays , but there’s still some time to do it and have fun in the beach.Finally I want to highlight that I’m very happy of be healthy and have all the people that I love  supporting me , I’m very thankfull with all .

A job that i Would like to do in the future

https://youtu.be/U46hFHyaWSA

Postgraduate Studies

The main reason to continue studying something related with architecture is the possibility to do it abroad. I really want to live and study in another continent, I've never been out of Chile and maybe this will be the opportunity to do it.

I always saw myself studying in France, how my classmates will be, I know that France it´s a place with a very rich culture and many architectural icons.

 Other place that I would like to study is the UK because I think that is a very nice country , many people said to me that are many activities to do there .All the architecture is very old even more old than Chile (discovered in the age of 1500approximately) , think for example in the first university that was founded in UK , you can compare the both facts , they had similar age  .

I'm interested in Sustainable projects and ecology landscape.These are very important topics for me .In order to develop projects now and forward them .We need to reconcile with our planet earth and make the architecture a discipline aware.

Architects need change the unsustainable way what people are living today .I think study this in a blended system , including technology and activities  out of the classroom .

During the time that my postgraduate program  lasts I want to know the main sustainable cities in Europe and make all this trips across the countries in bycicle . 

My holidays in Puerto Octay , Osorno , Chile

My very best holidays was in the summer of 2007 , I was 8 years old and I went there in January with my brothers Bárbara and Joaquin , and my father. We went there to a location named Centinela , this is near to Llanquihue's lake . The great part of this story is that we went to camping , and that was my first experience , it happened all! I have to say it . First , if you don't know in the south of Chile rains almost 300 days at year so when we were there in the 3rd day more or less started to rain , it doesn´t stop until the 5th day , in those days we stayed in the tent telling stories , jokes , singing , and how all the brothers sometimes we fought hahaha  . Other things that we do staying there were fishing , sometimes in the nights go to see the sky near to the lake and contemplate a lot of stars , one of that days we saw a comet . We took a lot of pictures and we got to home a copihue for plant in our house . I always talk of these holidays because I really enjoyed them and have been on Llanquihue's Lake was an amazing  experience that I've never going to forget , I hope someday go back there and see how much has changed that beautiful place... 

My favorite subject

https://youtu.be/sYuPVa4udYM

I would like travel to...

There's a lot of places that I want to visit before I die, one of that is Washington D.C. .The principipal reason is because my brother Vicente lives there and I really want to visit him .This city has a lot of historical and iconic places , the white house for example and there's a super fabulous thing that I want to know is the arts district and the Washington memorial too , this place in special because a scene from the movie Forrest Gump shows it  and since I saw I always thing and be there someday seeing this huge obelisk and that beautiful water mirror .

I feel that Washington D.C. has been so important for all the decissions of the world and even for the occidental culture.
I imagine that in the streets I would learn a lot of architecture and even more going to all the museums and historical places right there , hope better soon share with my brother and travel for other places near too for example New York .

My future Job

What I want to do...


I want to have a job in wich I can spend most of the time out of the office ,for example  talking to people.There’s one idea that could be really interesting for me to develop , in architecture workshops for people interested in this area , similar to participatory  design that integrate communities which need spacial solutions , things like the design of his house even the design of the green areas neir to his neighborhood .

Obviously that I see me in the future traveling a lot for my work mostly in Chile from Arica to Magallanes , living for a short time in all kind of places small towns  near to forest or huge cities , I always said “I will work wherever they need me” that’s the reason ( in part) why I don’t usually think in how much money I will won with my job , while I don’t have kids or big expenses I only want to have a salary which let me live without worries .

Actually I’m studying Architecture , and one of the interesting things that have this major is that let you know other topics , I’m sure that I want continue specialize studies in the posible out of Chile but at this moment I haven´t been thinking much about what area I want to study more deeply , I feel that I have to know much more of the design , arts , humanity and how people living in cities for know better …

       

The complexity of the situation we find in Santiago

When we talk about urban enviroment (more if you´re related in someway with architecture) , we usually think in urbanism , and how through this we can solve most of the problems characteristics in cities.Today more than a half of the humankind lives in cities and maybe in 30 years in future most of the planet will live in urban area, for this reason and even since 60´s early 70´s the urban planning has been a topic very frequent in the study of the cities.

Peter Calthorpe an urbanist talks about 7 principles for building better cities,specifically livable , one of the facts that he metion is that the problems that he experiment day after day , are produce by us , our behavior.The sprawl and the low-rise buildings in the periphery of the metropolitan city is making that many people going to be segregated in a physical and economic way just like what we see today in Santiago with the respective problems that involves like long times of travel to go form one point to another in the city , the segregation begins to be more agresive when all the people who lives in the city don´t have the same opportunities for live in the cities , many people dont have public transportation near to home , or services or green areas .

I'm agree with the fact of assume the commitment and the challenge to make the city a place for live better and colaborate to make of it a place with the same opportunities for all , that is to say democratic.

My Career

                                                 Why I decide study architecture


Some years ago i heard that the father of a friend was architect , but honestly I didn’t know anything about what it means .I knew that architecture was a career where is very important study art history , draw and make buildings but not much more than that.

Later when I was in the high school i had to do a presentation of the government of the popular unit and that was the moment when I meet to Miguel Lawner , I read an article in the newspaper “The Clinic” and was very exciting for me learn about the motivations of Miguel with the society and more specifically with the most vulnerable people . I realized that architects can do a lot for the society and for make the cities more equitable places.


 I choose the University of Chile because was the first school of architecture in Chile , has a long trajectory in this specific area and in my opinion the education here is more pluralistic , without religious dogmas and a state University , something very important for me , i’m very happy to be here.

Experience using Blog

I think that have been using the blog in the English class has a lot of benefits for our grammar and for our way to express what we think in the different topics of we talk. In the beginning I used to spend a lot of time thinking in what write and a lot more typing the letters in the keyboard, but now it’s really easier for me think quickly in English and then transcribe.

If I think in how much my writing skills have developed, I can say that constantly I'm learning new things and new ways to express one idea in a little few of words, the better part is when we review some sentences misspelled and there we have the opportunity of see our own mistakes, the most part of the time I think that the sentences doesn't have mistakes! So I learn much about it. In the future I would like to add other resources like videos or audios for show more about our daily life in an interactive way. Thinking in what else I would like to write about I would like write about books, because all the people have a favorite one and that can be interesting.

Remembering Hobbies

About my Hobby...

The last summer I used to do slackline ,because I had a lot of free time in my holidays  I started to do it because one day I went to a Sports Center with the purpose to do some sport . So I meet Juan Pablo that was my teacher of slackline , slackline is about balance you need to keep always a good posture and your view on the horizon while you are walking or balancing along a suspended length of flat webbing that is tensioned between two anchors. In this hobby you need to be really focus because when you are a beginner you lose the balance easily.

What I really enjoyed doing slackline was that it has a lot of benefits for your body and for your mind, for example helps you to

get a better straightening the spine and you could do it literally anywhere , preferably outdoor . I hope return in my winter holidays or in summer to do this hobby I remember that in something like two weeks I achieved advance very much indeed.

Favourite Subject

Every Tuesday at 8:30 am I go to my History, culture and habitat class.

 The course talks about what means architecture and how it has been develop along the history of the humanity, the class is ,in my case , in a normal classroom and the most part of the time teachers make you talk , to share what do you think or how you can make architecture in some little acts at day like I did the last May 28^th where I have to be architectural guide of “Palacio de los Tribunales de Justicia “ so that day I have been explaining to the people that this palace was built in the century of our country and has a particular design inspired in the old Greek culture , where the main buildings use columns Doric –Ionic . Other topics that we see in architecture are the different ways that architects use to project , like for example with Andrea Palladio born a new way of built based in values like , firmness (firmitas), utility (utilitas) , and beauty (venustas) he explains that in her book “I quattro libri dell'architettura “ ( the four books of architecture). I think that is a complete subject because all that we learn we can apply later in our workshop 

Let's talk about a person that I admire

Miguel Lawner Steiman is a chilean architect , he studied in University of Chile , was executive director of the Corporation of Urban Improvement during the government of the Popular Unit of Salvador Allende , until 1973 , then during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet he was detained and imprisioned in Isla Dawson until their liberation and exile in Denmark.One of the most important projects that i know about Miguel is the development of social housing in differents parts of Chile
in special one of them located in Las Condes and is named Villa San Luis . When i began to investigate about that i saw the architecture like a powerfull social tool and change agent , in special Villa San Luis represent that we have to work together and share with the different social classes , the poor persons don't should be displaced to the periphery of our cities only for don't count with money necessary for a good living place , we have to include them even live near because we need each other , Miguel in their construtions search that , make us all part of the same city so in the future i pretend to work with that ideas too and make of the city a place with more comunities in their living ways.

Absence...

This blog will begin with the explanation of why I don`t went to my English class the last 25^th of May. Well how all the students of my faculty knows we have a very big social conscience so the Wednesday 24^th  of May there was a kind of vote to decide if we will go to the strike, so at the final of that day the decision of go to stroke was the most voted. As we all know when there’s a stroke nobody can be in class but in my case I had to present a big model of the area of Mercado Central  and Cal y Canto station  , so that day I was working on my project for get a good mark , I started to work with my group the Wednesday  , some of us don’t sleep , we spend more than one and a half day in the classroom B26 , at the final of the revision the teacher give us just a 3,5 so we were very sad for that .

I uploaded a picture of my model , don't was too bad... what do you think?

Llanquihue Lake

I choose this picture of internet because reminds me a picture that my old sister took at the same place some years ago in 2007. This peninsula is named Centinela and it´s near to Llanquihue Lake a big lake in the south of Chile in the X region of Osorno . The picture shows the lake and a wonderful background in wich appears the Osorno Volcano. We went there for holidays with my father , my sister Bárbara and my brother Joaquín . Was a very special moment for me beacuse was raining a lot those days and we were in a camping so we have some problems with the water but that doesn't prevent us to enjoy a great experience , the better part of my travel was when the rain stopped and we went out to walk aroun the peninsula , so we see many beautiful landscapes with a lot of nuances of violet , light blue , and even pink in the sky . Since 2007 i don't go back to Centinela so my dream is some summer get back and see how has changed the penisula and explore seeing a lot of vegetation and swimming in the crystalline water of that Lake.