A orillas del río Piedras me senté y lloré by Paulo Coelho

This story is about Pilar. She is a college student who was bored with college life and the routine. Pilar decides to start a journey from Spain to go to the Lourdes' Sanctuary in France. At the beggining of her journey, she is reunited with an old childhood friend.  

He is a seminarian now, and in the moment when they look back to the eyes, a love born, burning in passion. But now, it is in a different way. At the end of the trip, they should take a very important decision: choosing a common path. The story continous when Pilar, sitting on the banks of the rives and in her desperation, tells her life sinse she meets this man. They are known when they were children and really good friends. Later, he leaves town with his parents, wanting to know the world.Pilar instead stay in the city until she finished the high school  and then she travels to another city to being college. Dispite the distance, they keeped in touch by letters. One day, Pilar gets a letter from her friend, which invited her to a conference in Madrid. She was really surprised by the invitation, but she was stunned, because the letters said that he was a seminarian, too. When they are together again, their hidden feelings start to fight to get out. But bouth are very afraid to get them out. He has the gift of healing,  and his feelings for Pilar do doubt his election to the priesthood. Regarding to Pilar, she has suffered so much in her life and fears to being rejected by her friend. Pilar cofesses that she loves his friend and now, she is wating for his answer. But before she knew the answer, she goes into the mountains, Pilar scaped from an answer that probably it wasn’t what she espected. She almost died frozen, but a nun helping her to recover and she advised her to write her sadness on a paper and then thrown it into the river. When Pilar goes to the river to throw her story, her friend comes and tells her that he loves her. Besides, he wants a life with her.

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My Chilean Identity

What is your opinion regarding this?

I think that it is a good idea celebrated this bicentenary, but we must thing in people who are suffering now, too. For instance, earthquake's victims, Mapuches who are in hunger strike and of course, the miners. In spite of Mapuches' situation have a solution, we cannot do more now. It is a waste of time to becoming bitter, because the injustices  that are hapenning.

What do you know about our native people? Did you learn about them at school?

Yes, I learn about them at school, but the basic. I mean, where they lived, how they lived, and this kinds of things. Nowadays, anybody teach you how is their situation, which are their problems or how they confront their troubles.

Do you identify with them in any way?

No. I don't think that I have something similar with them. It's not discrimination is that I find we don't have nothing in common.

What Chilean characteristics do you or don't you have?

I like dancing cueca, when I dance cueca is like a passion.

What things make you proud to be Chilean, and what things make you feel ashamed?

There are a lots of problems, stupid problems would not exist, such as mapuches' problems or miners' problems, there is the solution to both problems, but t6he big problem is a decadent government.

In your opinion, what is the so called "Chilean culture"?

I have learned that the chilean culture is almost extinct, because that "roto chileno", he was that "huaso bruto" who did you enjoy the chilean dance, that chilean tap well-done. That was the chilean culture. Now, I don't know.  

Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban.... By J.K. Rowling

I think that all of us have heard talking about Harry Potter. In the third part of his story, Harry realized about three main issues: Fist, A guy called Sirius Black was who denounced Harry’s parents to Lord Voldemort, causing Harry’s parents dead and killing a lot of people, among them, one of the best friends of his father – called Peter Pettigrew – and now he escaped from the magic jail, Azkaban. Second, Sirius Black was the best friend of his dad, James Potter, and he is Harry’s Godfather. Finally, Peter Pettigrew wasn’t dead, he pretend be dead, because he wanted to blame Sirius of murdered Harry’s parents. First of all, Sirius Black was blaming unjustly. He fell in a trap. Sirius never has killed anybody, Peter did it. Because he was who denounced Harry’s parents, and he was who killing a lot of people. Sirius was there because he wanted to catch to Peter, he was the traitor and he ought to pay for his betrayal. When Harry heard the real story, the only that he want is that Peter will be prisoner in Azkaban as Sirius was. Also, Harry wants to clean his godfather name, and finally go to live with him, with the best friend of his father without his uncle and aunt and cousin. Nevertheless, he couldn’t make his dream came true, because Petter run away, and now Sirius have to be hidden. In the past, there has been the situation in which innocent people were blamed for crimes that they didn’t commit. The main lesson of the third Harry Potter’s book is that everything is not what it seems. You should make sure you have all parts of the story.