Environment

Every day, the citizens of Santiago produce 1,4 kg each of trash and the condition to eliminate that trash are not ecological at all. The dumpsters in the city have no recycling area and this make that trash accumulate and accumulate generating a lot of environmental damage.

That’s why people should be responsible with the things that they throw away, making smart choices when they have the trash in their hands. For example, it’s very simple separate the recyclable things from the things that are not. In my home, my sister start to separate the organic trash from the rest of the trash and with that organic wastes she make fertilizer and have her own organic orchard in my grandmother’s house. Now, every person in my house has to do that and with that we help to the environment. It’s a little thing that everyone can do, especially if you had a backyard.

We also, start to collect tetrapack cartons (of milk, juice, wine, etc.) and we take them to the recycling point that is in the Jumbo supermarket. I also make wallets with the big milk cartons and I sell it. That last one is a practical way to recycle trash because I transform an empty carton in something useful and pretty.

I walk every time I can, but I don’t have a car and the buses that I can take make their route with or without me, so I don’t really reduce pollution.

The people must change their mind about this topic and the authorities must implement programs that help to do more easily the recycling process. But, if we want a real change we have to stop companies that produce disposable things like plastic bags and plastic bottles that end up in the dumpsters and take between 100 and 1000 years to discompose.

So, we have a alternative for recycling and we have to use it, before it’s too late.

Books

I love books. It's maybe one of the things that I enjoy the most in the world. I think that literature open your mind and free your imagination, it take you to new worlds, it make you know things and places that you didn't know without moving your home. It's really magic ! Literature also makes people change things about themselves, the histories that books tell makes sense in our world and make us think about our lives.

I try to read a lot, I like to read in the bus when I travel for the city to get to the University of wherever I have to go. When I was a little girl I read a lot too, maybe more than now because I have more free time. I remember that when I like a book, I read it and read, and even learn parts of the book of memory. I don't know how many books I read avery year but it has to be between 7 and 9 books. But this year I couldn´t read as much as I want because of the university.

I like fiction books because the author tells histories with more freedom and without limits. I don't have a favourite writer but I like latinoamerican writers a lot: Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Benedetti and Diamela Eltit. One of books that I like the most about one of this writers is "La Tregua" of Mario Benedetti, I like it because this book tell the most beautiful love story that I ever read and when I read it, it make feel many emotions. Now, I don´t remember one character that I like the most because every character has one special thing that makes him/her unique.

Now, I'm reading a book that my boyfriend give me to my birthday this year. It is philosophical book about a tv show called House MD. Because of the character of the tv show is so interesting and curious, some philosophers analyze him with the theories of Philosophy. I like this book but not like I think I would because it compare dr. House forcibly and I don't like that. I haven't finish it yet.

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