INGLES IV ICEI 2020

    I’m really bad at choosing things, like “the best thing”, but I’m going to talk about an experience that I consider special in some way. Los Prisioneros were my favorite band (maybe still are). When I was a child I already knew and sang constantly their songs. I remember not going to their reunion concert in Estadio Nacional (2001) because my parents thought that I was too young to take me there with them and their friends. I was really sad, but I understood the reasons that they gave to me. Anyway, four years later, one day my dad told me that my grandma got a pair of courtesy tickets to a show in Maipú and Los Prisioneros were going to be playing there. I could barely believe it. I remember being in the school waiting excited all the day the time to go home. I was ready to go like two hours before the beginning of the show and Los Prisioneros weren’t even the first band playing. When they came out to the stage I was shocked. They started to play and I forgot every...

  I don’t really have a particular interest in travel to another country. I like to travel, but it isn’t like an obsession, or my childhood dream or whatever. It’s more like “If you have the chance would you travel to --random country name--?”   and my answer will be almost in any case “Yes, I would.” Maybe it’s related to the fact that I have never left Chile, I don’t know. So anyway, I began to think (to write this post) in what country I could have a great time, and the answer came to my mind shaped like anime, weird films and ramen. Yes. The controversial Japan. Japan is an island country located in East Asia. Besides the rich history of the country, full of traditions, nowadays it’s well known worldwide for his anime culture and technological development. Here in Latin America the anime has a big fan base. Influencing different generations of people. I would love to visit any city or town of the country. Traditional or modern, a rural village or the biggest metropol...