Robotech (or how you can build a tv series from three different ones)

My favorite TV show in my chilhood was Robotech. Always, when the TV Station trasmitted this show, I invited my friends to my house and we saw toghetrer the space battle, those strange planes whom was trasnformed in robots, and another things, like the love history between Lisa Hays, Rick Hunter and Minmei, who was our "platonic love".

But with the time of internet, all the fans of Robotech could see that the serie Robotech, was just a "collagge" from three differenet series development in Japan, the place of birth of the "anime" cartoons. With the adulhood, all the fans could explain the mistakes and inconsistencies of the serie and its differents "generations" from these different origins, like the change of color's hair of Dana Sterling (firts with green hair, and then, in his teen years, she was blonde). It was a deception , I have to admit it

But now, This is It a big deal for me? As I said before, obviosly, when I grew up it was so disappointed for the mistakes and contradiction of the three separate series, in comparasion with Robotech However, I decide to keep to good memories of my childhood, the time that I shared with my friends seeing the serie, and more, the dream that one day I will pilot a plane only can born thanks to this magnificient serie.

Machu Picchu, or "A place too far".

Machu Pichu is one of the most important, atractive and best-know archeological place in South America and the entire world. But is one of the most important tourist sites in Perú and the continent, too. This place was building in the XV century, and the scholars agree that this complex was designed like a ceremonial site. Nevertheless, in Machu Pichu there are building designed like administrative and military buildings, and a palace for the incaican empire's ruler class.

Hidden in the mountains for many centuries before the spanish colonization, and the destruction of the incaican empire,  just some shepherds and farmers knew the existent of this complex.  Only in the 20th century, an expedition led by the american scholar Hiram Bingham, and funded by National Geographic Society and Yale Univertsity, allowed to him to explore the complex deeply, and finally, showing this center to the entire world.

Given this facts, in my last summer vacations I decided to travel through Bolivia and Perú, included Machu Pichu. But now I think that it was a very ambitious project: I got sick in Boliva and I had to come back to Chile, just in the moment that I was made the big step to Peru, and Machu Picchu.

My history is like the history of the invasion of the allied soldiers of Holland, called "Operation Market-Garden" where the objetctive was to seize the bridge betwen Eindhoven and Arhem (in the low Rhin) an then, launch a quick invasión of Germany before 1944's Christmas. The allied take all the bridge but no the last one before the heart of Germany, in Arhem. 

Like the british scholar and writers said that this operation have the goal to take"a bridge too far", I think that my vacation had a "place too far". Maybe another chance in the future can appear for a travelling to Machu Pichu, but at this time I wil take it without doubts...and with a good health!!!

The "greatest" National Holydays ever....

First to all, I have to recognize that I am not a "patriotic" person. I think that the nationalism an chovinism had made a great damage to many peoples in the entire world. That conviction have been strenghtened after reading the book "Armageddon: the downfall of Germany 1944-1945", in which it is shown the horrors of the final stage of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany, the last days of August.

Nevertheless, and with except of the militarism of the "parade" and the nationalism that I mentioned in the previous paragraph, there are many things and reasons that I like regard this holidays. First, they are like our "carnaval" and/or a "spring break", all in a unique celebration, and that is important, given the many hours that the chileans dedicated to work, and to transportation (specially in Santiago),and the high rates of depression an axiety disorders diagnosed in chilean population. Second, this holidays are a chance to enjoy many cultural events that you cannot see in the rest of the year, like the cueca's dancers (and other national dances from all the country), and above all, the popular gastronomy, that everybody can enjoy in this month (like barbacues, "empanadas" and "anticuchos") . And third, I can travel to Rancagua, my home city and gather with my family and friends.  

But all my plans to this holidays were interrupted by the inexpected appearance of a little "countryman": the flu virus, which send literally to the bed for 7 days. Presicely, the holiday's week.

The good news is that I can rest and sleep, but when I saw throw the window the childrens with their "volantines", I have to recognize that a feel of sadness involved my mind...

And now, I hope that my ugly "countryman" don't walk along me again at the new year's celebrations!!!