My hobby

One of my favorite hobbies is drink beer, because for me it is very nice to taste new styles, especially if it came from craft breweries. Drink beer also provides you the possibility of have a meeting with family or friends: you can buy beer and have a good moment in your house with good company, or go to a bar for drink fresh beer. That is why I usually drink beer during the weekend with my friends.

For example, I like go to craft breweries for taste new beers, that can be experimental or imported ones. I think this activity has been transformed in my hobby because now is almost a tradition that every weekend I go with one friend to drink a beer. But it is important to say that the reason for do this is not just to get drunk. I drink beer for discover all their flavors, according to every style, and also because I like to enjoy with a drink that could provides you more pleasures than the simply alcohol.

However, there are some problems associated with drinking craft beer. You need to distribute very well your money, because some beers are more expensive than the average. But there are also benefits. For example, you could learn a lot about the history or the elaboration process reading about every new style of beer that you taste.  

My pet

I have just one pet, and it is Princesa, a fox terrier toy. She is also the pet of my sister and lives with my family in Frutillar. Princesa is the daughter of a couple of fox terrier toys of our aunt Magaly, who gave us it as a gift in 2011. Princesa is six years old and has white hair with black patches. She is very playful and loves run around us when we play with her.

When Princesa was one year old I tried to teach her some tricks but it was useless because she was very disordered. The reason was that my sister and I played to the circus and Princesa was part of the show, but finally her act was a failure. She prefers to sleep next to the fireplace and eat a lot.

However, Princesa is not the only one pet that my sister and I had had. Before Princesa we had to Diana, an American cocker. She was a gift of our uncle Álvaro in 2009. Diana was like Princesa, but she died in 2010, with just one year old because she had an accident. In that moment we were very sad, but then came Princesa and now Diana lives with her.

(I don't have pictures of Princesa and Diana, but they are very similar to the dogs in this pictures).

My best concert

The truth is that I don’t have a “favorite concert”, but I liked the concert of André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra on past August 28^th in the Movistar Arena. André Rieu is a Dutch violinist and orchestra director of 67 years old that plays waltzes, opera arias, ballads, etc. with his Stradivarius violin of 1667. He is also considering as the “King of Waltz”. The concert started at 8:00 p.m. and finished at 11:00 p.m., with a brake of 30 minutes approximately.

The audience, me included, enjoyed all the songs he plays, from “La Habanera” to “Brindisi”. Rieu also played the “Blue Danube Waltz”, moment in which people started to dance in waltz couples. However, when the Orchestra played “Somewhere over the Rainbow” many people were sad. All the audience always felt different emotions with every new song.  

But I must recognise that one of the songs that I enjoyed the most was “Radetzky”, because with this song the director, the orchestra and the audience interact clapping according to the music rhythm. And it is a tradition when the concert finishes!  

A country I'd like to visit

I would like to visit Spain. The reason is that I feel an attraction with the culture and the history of this country. Maybe the main reason is that I like history, and as our country was a colony of Spain, it is inevitably that when you study the Chilean history you must also study something about the Spanish history.

                      

Spain is a European country with a population of 46.468.102 inhabitants, according to the last census. The political regime of Spain is the Constitutional Monarchy. It means that the State is represented by a King, who is Felipe VI, and the Government is presided by a Prime Minister, who is Mariano Rajoy.

     

If one day I travel to Spain, I would like to visit the Sagrada Familia Cathedral, the Del Prado Museum, the Altamira Cave, the Alhambra of Granada, etc. My school friend Constanza lived during her childhood at Spain, and she told me that all of these places are amazing. I also would like to study in Spain, because there are many institutions of excellence, like the Complutense University of Madrid or the Autónoma University of Barcelona.