My hobby: Gaming

One of the Hobbies I have and I do the most since I'm a child is playing videogames. I remember that my brothers taught me how to play the old Grand Theft Auto 2 when I was like 5 years old, how to use the mouse and the keyboard and use the computer. Actually, since then I started learning english (but of course, as a child I didnt understood a bit of english, but I knew that pressing the button ''Play Game'' would start it haha). And well, since then I haven't stopped!

I enjoy videogames specially when they have such a deep and awesome story, like the Assassin's Creed 2 that transports the player to the 1500's Florence, in middle of the italian Renaissance and the conflict between the Borgia and the monarchies. Other kind of games I like are global strategy games where you control a whole country, action titles like Battlefield 4 and Medal of Honor, and RPG's (Roleplaying games) like Skyrim and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

I consider myself a casual gamer, even when the idea of professional gaming sounds awesome. Actually, once I joined a chilean guild of the action-strategy game World of Tanks and participated in tournaments agaisnt argentinians, mexicans and northamericans guilds, they were fun times even when we had to train strategies and face defeat many, many times agaisnt really big and professional guilds! But as I said again, now I'm not so involved in gaming communities as before.

One of the Biggest chileans (Or two?)

One of the biggest chileans I think I ever got to know it's a journalist with a really hardcore gambling trouble, he is Juan Carlos Bodoque, who works in the most serious, important and globally widespread news program of the chilean TV, 31 minutos.On his 'green note' he presents a report which normally is about an ecologic problem in Chile, like for example why the Mapocho river is brown.

Ok no, ha! One of the biggest chileans that I can think about is Victor Jara, a songwriter who was born in 1932 in Lonquén, a son of farmers, he became one of the most widely known songwriters in the world with his protest songs and was one of the emblematic characters of the New Chilean Song, together with Violeta Parra, Inti-Illimani, Illapu, between others. His songs are really special and talk about the troubles in the chilean society, like the song 'Luchin' which talks about a little child who plays with the animals and the mud. Another of his most famous songs 'El Derecho de vivir en paz' which talks about the Vietnam War and how everyone has the right to live in peace, away from the disasters and disgrace that war brings to the people, one of the most powerful verses on it is 'The moon is an explosion', which literally represents what the vietnameses lived and saw with the US bombardments. 

For sure, he will keep being considered as one of the biggest representants of the chilean music in the future.

My favourite food since I'm a child are the potatoes, I dont care about the recipe, I just like them in any way they are prepared! I remember when I was a child and I always waited impatiently the day when my mom prepared mashed potatoes with fried egg, it is a really simple recipe, but I love it the most, even above other things that I tried like the Empanadas de Pino. Another dish that I like is the kuchen, specially the one prepared with blueberries, I try it every time I go to the south to see my sister and her family in Puerto Montt.

On the other side I don't like the seafood, its really disgusting for me to try it, hopefully it is not so consumed in my house so I dont have to deal with it. The exception to this is the southern king crab (Centolla), I tried it once prepared as a 'chupe' in the past New Years Eve, it has a really delicious taste and I actually would like to learn to prepare it for another time! The other dish that I dont like are tomatoes, I dont like to feel the texture of its seeds when it is prepared as a salad, the opposite with the taste, that's why I can eat it as a sauce (like in ketchup!).