English Course FAU blog

Hi everyone, in this week's post I would like to talk about my hobby: Drawing anime style. When I was kid in my first school, I was introduced to Japanese animation, but I do not remember if it was someone who showed it to me or I discover it out of curiosity. Either way I started practicing it almost everywhere but it lead me to be obsessed by pencils, of almost every type. I would really like to have more Copic markers but for now I will settle with cheaper ones, I have them in a special shelf behind my desk. Due to my hobby, many times I was chosen to participate in school activities that required drawing and painting skill, because I was the only one in my class, except for one year, when I first meet my best friend, which also draw anime style. Ultimately my interest has lead me to choose my career Design and to start creating my own comic.

  Since I was little, I had always gone with my grandparents to Loncura, Valparaíso, where they have their own house, during January and February. During the early 2010's most of my family members would make in my grandparent's house what we called a "Horror story night"; where we sat at a campfire and tell horror stories and occasionally my granddad would had set some pranks to terrify me and my cousins. I remember maybe in 2012 or 2013, I was particularly interested in tarot and I had recently bought Egyptian themed cards, and my grandparents had recently adopted a German shepherd pup, Oso. I gave my mom the cards in the "Horror story night" and she left them where we sat, the next morning I asked her where the cards were and went to find them but Oso thought it was a good idea to use them as a chewing toy. Anyway, apart from that, we also made barbeques, empanadas, pastel de choclo, humitas and other delicious foods for everyone.

  Hello everyone. Welcome to my first post where today I want to talk about Iceland, the Nordic island country that I would like to visit in the future, because of its landscape.  It is a country with a similar landscape as the south of Chile, with volcanoes, mountains and glaciers and the part that I like the most is its cold climate, which causes cold summers without mosquitoes. If I have the opportunity, I would like to live there for some time learning about their culture and arts, their Icelandic language, and their Norse and Gaelic roots, which began to settle in Iceland in 874 AD when the Norwegian chieftain Ingólfr Arnarson became the first permanent settler on the island. In addition, to enjoy their awesome landscape and their inexpensive hot water and heating without having to see any mosquitoes in summer. I hope that one day I will have the possibility to know Iceland and culture at its fullest.