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Hello guys

My name is Felipe Orellana, but I prefer to use my second last name: Roa. I was born on February 4th, 1995. I'm nineteen years old and as you must know, I'm stuying Forestry at the Universidad de Chile.

I live in the beautiful town named San José de Maipo with my grandma and my two uncles, because my mother died when I was seven. I don't have any siblings and my family is a very little one.

I really enjoy practicing basketball, voleyball, tennis or ping-pong with my friends. I don't have much time now to hang out with my best friends or go to parties (Although I am not really the kind of guy that goes to parties jajaja) Some of my hobbies are: listening to music, cycling, skiing (I love skiing so much!!), read books and play videogames, but to be with my family and friends is priceless to me and those are the things I enjoy the most.

Well, I think It's enough information about me, What about you?

Semester 2 Lever 4

The Blog o.O

Hello hello, I think this is going to be my last post.

Today I will write about: THE BLOG!!

Well, to me, to write it  is not so simple, because It’s hard to me to express the ideas that are in my mind, what I think about me, the music, my feelings about Forestry, and all the things I had wrote about. But writing things in English is much more difficult. In general, I think that my writing skills have improved through this term. I liked mostly of the topic chosen to write about, specially the one with the favorite music and movie. Other topics I would like to write about in the future, could be books, sports, funny anecdotes, vacations.

Going back to my writing skills, I would like to add a lot more of words to my vocabulary, because sometimes I have to use the same words more than once. But in my opinion, my grammar is very good. It has been an interesting experience to write each week in this blog, and share different opinions with my classmates. The blog has been useful to know them better too.

Well, With nothing else to write, I say Goodbye J

My favourite subject

Welcome to my blog, partners.

My post for today is about my favourite subject.

Actually, I had never thought about having a favourite subject,b ut I would say that is “CICBAE”, Its complete name is: “Characterization and Interaction of biotic and abiotic components of the ecosystem” A very long name, don’t you think?

Althought it’s a very difficult subject to me, I think it is my favourite, because we do a lot of experiments in the laboratory, as observe microscopically plants, to know, why they are green, or what are the origin of the plants or things like that. Every Thursday its the lab day.

Another thing I like about CICBAE, Is that we study all the components of the ecosystem, nt just the tres and plants. We have to study, the great landscapes of the Earth, like the Cordillera de los Andes or the salt flats.

We also will have the possibility, to go to places like Frutillar, Pantanillos, to aplicate what we are learning on terrain.

The main contents we had seen, is the origins of vascular plants, fungi, rocks, the weather and many others.

Well, thats it, see youu J

My future

Hello Guys! This is my first post in almost two months, can you believe it?

Today I´m gonna write about my future.

Well, this is my first year studying Forestry, and I don´t even know if i`ll keep studying this. But, I hope that my will and my brain help me to continue. I don`t know exactly what kind of things does a forester, but obviously, in the future I would like to take a major. Because, being a student of the Universidad de Chile, isn’t enough to get a job. With a major, I would have the possibility to study abroad and i would have more chances of get a job.

First of all, I would like to work as a forester, or something related to what i am studying, I would like to work outdoors and do fieldwork, maybe travelling in Chile and abroad, but without losing contact.

At the moment of choosing a job, I would consider many aspects, like how much am I gonna earn, I never worry about the money, but without it you can`t live, so you have to consider that. I would consider too, how many days I would work in a week, I don`t know, things like that. The important thing is to work in something i love to do.

If today, I would have a job interview, I would say that my strenghts are: If I like what Ido, I will dedicate a lot of time to do it, and I will put a lot of endeavor to do. My weaknesses would be, that I am a little slack and distracted.

Well, this is all I wanted to share right now, so Bye c:

Photo!!

Hello you!

My post for today it’s about a photograph that I like very much!

Here is the photo: 

This is a photograph taken by my uncle Marco, who works as a ski instructor in the winter. It was taken in the winter of 2009, at the Center of Ski Lagunillas. I like this photo very much, because it shows a very beautiful landscape of a sunset. The color of the sky at that time of the day it’s amazing and the contrast with the white of the snow makes this photo magical. Since I was 7 years old, every winter, I like to go to ski in Lagunillas. As you must be imagine, my favourite season of the year is the winter, jajajaja. I don’t know, but every time I look this photo, it makes me feel happy or quite.

Environmental Issues

Hello again guys!

Today, I will write about a very interesting topic nowadays. The Alto Maipo project, by the AES Gener enterprise.

This project is carry out in Cajon del Maipo, near to Santiago. It consists in the build of two hidroelectrics, Alfalfal II and Las Lajas, at the riverside of the river Maipo. These two hidroelectrics will contribute to the Central Interconnected System a maximum power of 531 MW.

In my opinion, all the benefits of this project are only for Santiago, there is no contributions for the people who live in Cajon del Maipo, like reduce taxes of light and water. There is only one thing, they do to say they help, they give a scholarship to the students that enter to College. Another factor of concern about this project, is the watercourse decrease of the estuaries El Volcán, Yeso and Colorado, causing the watercourse decrease of the river Maipo. Therefore, this will cause the desertification of more than a hundred thousand hectares of vegetation. The tourism will be affected too, because many sports are carry out in the river Maipo, like rafting or kayak, will disappear, because the watercurse will not be enough to perform these activities.

Well this is one side of the project, but it also has advantages. It will give to the community many jobs.

I think this project could be executing respecting the environment, getting benefits of nature too and helping to the comunity, but without cause any damage to the only thing that keep us alive.