New lifestyle.

Recently, I have become vegetarian.(oficially, at least)
It's a big step for me, I've been trying to do it for a while, so it's exciting, but also difficult to do it in our society.
The main reasons why I'm vegetarian are:
-Animal abuse: Cows, chickens, porks, turkeys, etc, are all brutaly mutilated or abused while waiting for their death. They take off Cow's horns without anesthesia. Chicken's beaks are cutted without anesthesia, porks are castrated without anesthesia. It's horrible to watch how these animals are mistreated so we can eat.
-I don't find pleaseant to eat corpses: Meat is... dead bodys. No, that's not nice. It's just blood, muscles and tendons, all from a dead animal.
-Health: Meat is not good for my body. Yeah, I know, my mom says I HAVE to eat meat, so my grandma says, and my entire family thinks the same. But the truth is that I do not need meat to survive. I've been told that I need protein to live, but let me tell you that meat isn't the only source. You can replace it for much healthier foods.  Non-meateaters are healthier, and have less probabilities to suffer heart diseases, cancer, osteoporosis and high-blood-pressure, among others.
-Enviroment: You think that cars are responsable of polution? Or chimneys are responsable of global warming?. Well, the truth is that meat factory is one of the greatest contrubutors to global warming. It produces almost 20% of world's polution. TWENTY PERCENT. 1/5. That's A LOT. More than cars, more that any other factory. Also, in this world, we spend more food on animals (that will be murdered) than in people. So yes. Eating meet is not "green".

In conclusion: I'm not trying to convince anyone to go vegetarian, I know that some people don't believe in everything that I've said. I'm just explaining one of the most shocking things that I've seen. I thing animals deserve better. I think that we can do better.
I hope that someday humans don't have to annihilate or destroy other species to "eat".

It's been hard. I've been called crazy, stupid, naive. In my own family were extremely unhappy with my decision, they don't understand what I'm fighting for. But everyday I feel better and better, and I don't longer feel self-concious about what I'm eating.
I can say that I'm cruelty- free.


Ps. This is the speach that changed everything for me. It helped me take the decision.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZzvK5uLu7F0

Today I'm going to talk about a movie that I saw recently:" The rise of planet of the apes." (In spanish: Planeta de los simios: (R)evolución)
I was waiting to see this movie so bad, I'm a big fan of the book, and the 60's production, so when it was premiered on Chile, I was exited to see it.
I went last saturday to see it on screen, and it was AWESOME.
It has amazing special effects and a good story, it didn't dissapoint me at all (sequels,or presequels are often really BAD).
I found this movie interesting because it also showed animal abuse (when the apes were caged and tested on, treated like objects, and then KILLED.) It's something that happens everyday in our society. And it's what indirectly leads to the revolution of the apes, to finally get some freedom and to stop being victims of our cruelty.
Overall, it's a nice movie, worth watching.

Fantasilandia... Total fun?

Today I went with Martin Loyola, Fernanda Andrewartha and Fabiola Avila to Fantasilandia, because they gave us some discounts, and I hadn't went in a LONG time.
We got there and it was really crowded, but it was ok. Even tough, when we got in, we noticed that there were hundreds and hundreds of "flaites", they appeared from everywhere, like, you lifted a rock, and one of them appeared.
Fabiola had never been there before, so she was kinda nervous, so we got in the chilled atractions first, actually the first one was "Wild Mouse" wich is a kids rollercoaster, but she screamed a lot! My ears kinda hurt, but I laughed so much about it! Then we went to every atraction that we could, and it was ok, but at some point, the "flaites" really got to my nerves, they were so ANNOYING! They cut the line, and started insulting everybody for no reason. Actually, my friend Martin stood up to a girl who was cutting the line and she started screaming and pushing us, but Martin was really brave and he didn't give in, she yelled at us and screamed all kinds of bad words.
Besides all the crappy things, we had a pretty good time!
We got out, because the park was closing, and I really felt pity and shame for our youth, I mean, they really suck!. What are we going to do when people like that, who are disrespectful and stupid are in charge of our country? I hope that all of those people change for better and start caring about others, because the way that things are right now, the future seems awful.

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I really can't thing about anything to write about. So, yeah, I'll tell you a little bit about myself.
My name is Valentina, I don't really like it because it's so common, and I think that I'm not common at all.
I'm really into movies. My dream is going to Hollywood or any place where movies are shot, and you can actually SEE movie stars and realize that they're real and not perfect.
 I'm shy with people that I don't know, but I'm really outgoing with my friends. Even tough, I like meeting new people. I get stage panic too, sometimes it's hard for me to talk in front of a croud, wich is weird, because when I was like 9, I sang in Municipal Theather of Santiago in a choir competition. Yeah, I'm weird.
I have no idea of what I'm going to do when school is over, I just like to think that I'll have infinite money to travel everywhere.
I'm picky about food, I don't eat red meat(I'm planning on going veggie, but for now, I'm just semi-vegetarian), and I barely eat the other tipes of meat, I hate kepchup, mayo and that kind of things.
I try to be nice, but when I'm tired/hungry/stressed, I'm the worst person ever.
I love going to concerts, the movies, going out with my friends and do nothing.
And, what I hate is not knowing what to write about in a blog.
And the best thing about my life, is that even tough that I haven't done anything that I've planned to, I'm happy.
Bye.

A l l A l o n e ~

When she left her house, she thought that it would just be another day, one of those irrelevant days, when it doesn’t matter if you get up or stay in bed.

 She opened the door, and looked to the sky, and the sun hit her in the face, even though it was freezing.

She walked to the bus stop. The floor was still wet because of last night’s rain, so she walked carefully looking to the floor.  She kept walking and waited for the bus, while listening to some band that her boyfriend recommended her, but she didn’t like at all.

She kept waiting, and started getting impatient. Twenty minutes passed, then thirty, and an hour, but there weren’t signals of the bus, or a car, there wasn’t any movement, and she couldn’t see anyone.

She started to worry, it was 7 am on a Tuesday, and there wasn’t a single person. She wondered, “Where is everybody?” She looked every way; there weren’t cars, persons or animals. She closed her eyes, took off her headphones and listened. The only sound that she could hear was her breathing and her heart beat.

She shouted “Where is everybody? HELLO!” until she couldn’t speak anymore. She ran, and kept shouting and screaming, but no one answered. The streets were desert.

 The sun was hidden by black clouds, and a droplet of rain fell on her face. She started to cry, and kept walking, hoping that any human or living bean came to her. But still, no one came.

She started wondering, “What happened to everybody?”, and she felt like she was in one of those movies where the world ends after some kind of cataclysm, but NOTHING had happened, this was unexplainable.

She started to run again, but the floor was wet, and she fell.

She opened her eyes. It was still dark. She looked at her cell phone; it was 4: 20 am. She turned away, and fell asleep again. 

First entry

Well, this is my first entry.
The first thing that I'm going to talk about is Hidroaysén.
Hidroaysén is a really polemic Hidroelectric proyect, that will be built in Patagonia. The centrals will be built in Baker river and also Pascua river.
This proyect was aproved on may 9th by government authorities. Since that day, hundreds of people had been manifesting their rejection to this proyect, by going to several parades against Hidroaysén.
Last friday, I went to one of this parades with Martín Loyola to express our rejection to the proyect, we marched from Plaza Italia to La moneda. The parade began around 7 and it ended around 9. It was pacific, we shouted and jumped and had a good time, but we also reflectioned about this proyect and how it will affect our country. After all of this, some people started throwing rocks at the police, so the disturbs began. The police started to chase people and throwing water and tear-bombs. We had to run because they didn't care for the people that weren't making disturbs, they repressed everybody, even people that wasn't on the parade.
After running for a while, we stopped by a Mcdonald's so we could catch our breath and drink a soda, but the disturbs keep going, and when we got out, the police throwed a bomb right outside of where we were. Yeah, it hurts. My eyes were bloodshot and I teared. It was hard to breath.
Then we walked a lot to get in the subway, because a lot of the stations were closed.
Though we had to ran and everything, it was a very nice experience, it was the first time that I went to this kind of parade and I'm proud of being there.
Hidroaysén is just unnecesary, it will destroy so many nature, and damage so many people, besides, the mayority is against it.