English in my life

One of my favourite childhood memories it's me (five or six years old) playing a Super Nintendo in my room. I think I got it borrowed from a friend or cousin. Well, the thing is that in that years, videogames were never translated to spanish, so everytime that I wasn`t understanding what to do in the videogame I asked my mom what to do. She oftens gave me the answer but most of time she just said "Go and get an english dictionary, search for it". So, in my childhood english got importance to understand how to play my videogames.

Later, as a teeneger, english got really important in my life because of music. I started to listen a lot of english bands and I really wanted to know what they were talking about in their music. In my last school years english got even more important because of a book: The catcher in the Rye. I read it in spanish but got me very hard in what poetry means about. I like a lot some english writers, and even if I read their books in spanish, I always like to search for their short tales or poems and read it in english because I know there is something else when you read a english poem not translated.

Now, I finally get how important was for my mom to be sure that I learnt english very well, because she works a lot in international business and she understand how important is to know english in this years. She is really excited about the idea of me leaving home (of course) to go living in a country where people speak in english, like USA, Canada or England. She really cares about it and I understand it and share that dream too.

    

Blur's Gig

It was November 2013, and the day was way too hot because the spring weather. It was the first time that Blur was coming to Chile. Years ago they were supposed to visit the country but it failed in the end. It was in the nineties, the decade that Britpop exploded. And I was so excited because I was going to see one of my favourite bands in their first gig ever in my country.

 Blur is one of the most iconic bands of the english sound of Britpop, a very popular musical movement at the later eighties and early nineties in England. Bands like The Stone Roses, The Smiths, Oasis and Suede came from this sound. Blur and Oasis were something like the most important britpop´s bands in the moment, and had very funny rivalry episodes between the two bands, throwing garbage between both.

They started the concert with one of their most famous hits: "Girls and Boys". I didn't see that coming, I mean they started with one of their most powerful songs, when the riff begun people got crazy and jumped very hard, after the song I was out of voice and it was just the first one! The gig continued all the way like that: Hit after hit with a lot of fans singing, dancing and jumping like crazy, I don't know how I got the voice to keep singing all the concert.

    

    

They returned to Chile again last year and I didn’t have enough money to go. I don’t really care, I went to their very first concert here and that have some kind of “legendary” status. One of the best concerts of my life indeed.

Canada

I would like to go to so many places, but even if I want to know different cultures and other ways to live, I have always been wishing to end living in a country with some special things, you know, about the weather, the people, even the houses, a country that in some way, seems to be perfect to you.

For some reason, Canada seems to be the perfect place for me, because in so many ways it looks like a pretty nice country for a person like me. In first place, the weather: I'm not the kind of guy who loves the sun and the summer, I am n winter fan you know, I love grey days and naked trees. But in some way, I would not like the idea of extreme cold, to be chilling all the time and getting a cold every day. Looks like Canada is a eternal winter country, but not a "extreme winter" country, I mean, a very nice winter, that winter that have very cold days but you don't end dying frozen if you are not using the right clothes. It seems to be that kind of nice cold days that you can get along drinking coffee all the time, and I hate when I can't drink coffee because the heat of summer days, I would really like to have the chance of been always drinking coffee because it's kind of cold.

Second place: The people. I don't know much of Canada but the things that people who had lived there. They say is awesome, that nobody's is extremely poor there, and they have a very different society system that cares a lot about the people. It seems to be that the only worry there is not get killed by a moose while you a driving in the highways, that sounds awesome: to live in such a perfect country that you can't be worried about beeing poor and have no health or school for your children, and the only problem is if a moose kills you, and anyway, it seems to be a very nice way to die, they are very cool animals. People living that way must to be very nice and sweet people.

  

I would like to walk around the streets full covered with snow every night, drinking coffee and with a siberian husky by my side, sounds awesome. I really hope that someday I will travel there and have a very nice years living in Canada, that have (I almost forget it) some of the very best musicians of our time.

    

God bless Canada.