Hi!! So today I’m going talk about Malala Yousafzai " a person I admire" 

The first time I heard about her was when my bigger sister brought her book (autobiography) home and the cover of the book immediately capture my attention, because there was a picture of this girl, and she have a special look…

I read the book and it really touched my soul, I was delighted, then I couldn’t stop thinking about her and looking for more information… And I will tell you why

She is a typical girl from Pakistan, from a valley called Swat, and she used to have a normal life, going to the school, having friends, getting love from her family, and actually being really happy.

     

 Her life started changing when the Taliban’s got to the power, and started forbidden a lot of things, and one of those things was letting girls go to school… so she started to write on a blog for the BBC ( anonymously) and actually tell what was happening daily, all the horrors and bad stuff. Of course the Taliban movement hated her because of the things she was writing, so they started a search, to find who she was… And they did, the October 9th of 2012 at the afternoon when she was on the school bus going back home she got headshot, three times, but she didn’t die.

She stayed on a very critical situation for long time, and the BBC helped to move her from Pakistan to England, because the Taliban movement wanted her dead, so she got recovered and all her family moved to England.

Then she turned famous when she won the peace Nobel Prize in 2014 at the short age of 17, but there is still so many things I’m not saying about her!! So please if you like to read, please read these book, it’s amazing how she describes everything, and all the things it makes you think about… or you can see the movie “ He named my Malala” ( I haven’t seen it but it supposed to be good)

Summer holidays  

Well as we all know these summer will be specially short because of the “ Paro “ we had back in Winter, so for that reason, when I knew that we will be ending classes the 27th of JANUARY  (yes I know, it’s terrible) I decided to make a master plan for my short summer. 

Before that I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I had some money saved so I was kind a prepared for anything. I knew my friends wanted to go to Torres del Paine and they were waiting for the lowest prices and promotions to buy the tickets cheaper.

So one day they call me at 2 AM and told me that I have to buy the tickets right now because they were so cheap! . I did buy the tickets but then I realized I have nothing of the basic trekking equipment! So now I only have the tickets to Punta Arenas, but I’m missing shoes, special clothes, a good jacket, a bagpack… everything!

I have to say that I’m super excited about the trip because even if I have already been there with my family, I know it will be completely different with my friends! And also making the circuits by walking (not in car), and that I would see other things ( I was only 13 when I went there). The truth is that I’m very excited about the experience, I mean felling the fresh air, looking the amazing nature, knowing new people, just having a good time! 

My special talent: running

I don’t really know if it counts as an special talent, but I have to say I do it a lot, and actually I’m pretty good on it… It all started when my older sister went to USA for one year (as an exchange student) and here we received a girl also from the US. She became mi sister and my best  friend!, by the time I was 13 years old… and she liked to run a lot and I started to do it with her… and I never stopped. Then she went back to her country and I keep running, like alone on the streets! I think its funny because I was pretty young and I didn’t do it because I wanted to look good or something like that, it was just because I liked it, and I had a lot of fun running with my Mp3 ( with only 10 songs on it) and looking the city ( or most of the times the beach ) in a different way… after almost one year of doing that by my own and with any special propose, my mom found a track  academy and ask my to go there…I started participating in competitions but actually I was pretty bad haha. I just wanted to have fun and then I stopped going to that academy… but I never stop running.

Later in Santiago I entered  the track team of Universidad Catolica and it was a very nice year… but as I set before, I don’t love competitions so I stay there just for one year, and I never stopped running…

And I have to say I used also for knowing better this city, because sometimes I don’t plan exactly where  to go, and then I get lost… I took it as a new experience, every place its different…and the more you run the farthest you can get! And more places you get to know…  

Nowadays, I don’t have as much time as I had before, but I tried to do it anytime I can because, today it works like a treatment for myself… whenever I’m stressed, when I´m sad, when I have to think about something I run. After doing it I feel so good! Its just like a drug for me, everything seems to get better when Im finished!  so I  recommended to everybody !!!

Well I think that could be my special talent :D 

Postgraduate course

Well I’m still not sure about what I would like to study next but I think it should be something related with thermal isolation of different materials, I don’t know if there is a course about that but I´m pretty interested in that since I lived in Denmark, because it was very surprising to me that home was never cold, and not only my house, all of them where perfectly heated, always… and I started to ask about their heating system. I thought, “Well they must have such a modern system, probably the best in the world “ and I was more surprised when I figured out that in most of the houses they just had a traditional chimney.

 I was shocked, so I started a mini investigation, and I found that they have an entire law system for buildings that actually defined everything. For example you were not allowed to build windows with only one glass, there must be minimum two (like a double one), and in some places they should be even three!, the buildings must be elevated at least 50 cm (far away from the cold of the ground), and the minimum width of a wall should be 40 cm (made with special isolating materials in between). So for that reason, when  I came back to Chile I was so used to enter to a place and take of my shoes and my jacket because it was warm enough, but here every place is colder or warmer (in summer) than the other! And I think I would never have noticed that if I haven’t lived in DK. 

 So that’s why I’m interested on that, and I would love to know more about that and then maybe I could help to create a special building law for every area of Chile. I think I would definitely have to study in another country, I don’t know if Dk would be the right one…

I would like to study in the traditional way with classes and maybe do a sort of investigation later... Maybe it would be good to have a part time job at the same time, then I would have money for traveling around!