Fishing

In some parts of my life  I have the oportunity to learn how to do fishing, that I think is a sport that needs a lot of skills and patience. Since  I was a kid, living on rapel lake, my family start to teach me how to catch pejerreyes that is a little fish that is very tasty if you fried, so in the summer nights, me,my cousins and uncles went to a dock and start to fishing until we get tired, was very fun and exciting to cath them!

But my real experience on this sport was a few years ago, went my father invite me to go to the south, where he and some friends (who are use to fishing a lot) went to the Tolten river to try to catch salmons, so we rent the services of a fisherman who was row for us,  meanwhile we where trying to get them. In that oportunity I learned a lot of the skills and techniques; where you have to do fishing. the different fish hooks, what you have to do in the case to cath one, etc.  The different fishing hooks are almost like between lucky and thechnique, because depends what the fish wants, the color of the hook, the size, the movement, everything could make a difference in your experience, but finally  the most important thing is to have fun, enjoy the moment, and share with people in a disconected place, but if you catch one, good for you!. Actually one of my father's friend cath one salmon of 24 Kg, you can imagine what a thopy brought to the house. For my lucky I catch one of 5kg, I was very lucky.

So on the next year we repeat the experience but on  llanquihue lake, where some things as the hooks, techniques change so the experiences changes too, so to conclude, fishing is a very complete sport where in my opinion you never get bored, and the variables changes each time, so every time could be different and the most important think, having a disconected time where you can apreciate the wild where you are involved.

A subject that I've enjoyed this semester

I have been interested about this subject since I was a kid, mountaineering, all about to wild landscapes, discover new places and where you are quiet and just enjoying nature, and this semester I could take it as a CFG!

So we are having two types of classes, one on thursdays, where we are learning the teorical part of mountaineering; equipment as a sleeping bags, the appropiate clothe, etc), types of knots and their uses, dangers on the mountain, etc, that I think is really usefull even if you are not a mountaineer.

And the second part that is on sundays where we are going to a mountain called Pochoco that is besides to the beggining on the way to Farellones. So every sunday we climb that mountain to the top,  meanwhile the teacher teach some tips about ways of afront the mountain, some important values as a order, dicipline, etc, and histories about his live, about the teacher, his name is Jorge Quinteros M. that is a 85 years old man, and he has been doing mountaineering around 50 years (you can imagine the number of histories that he has and all the knowledge that he should know), as your knowledge he was the first man to cross the southern ice fields, on the south of Chile.  and is actually really amazing whatch him climbing at his age and with that love for his profession.

I think mountaineering contains a lot of sport, diciplines and knowledge that is quite amazing, I thing you will never stop to learn about new tecniches,ways to survive, and   enjoying what nature give to us.

Someone I admire in my field

Someone who I admire in my field is Jane Jacobs. She was an American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist best known for her influence on urban studies.  Her most influential book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" (1961) argued that urban renewal did not respect the needs of most city-dwellers. The book also introduced sociological concepts such as "eyes on the street" and "social capital". On her book she explains the richness of a multifuntional city, a compact and dense city, where the street, the neighborhoods and the comunity  are vital in the urban culture.

Jane Jacobs was born on 4 May 1916 in a small town in Pennsylvania in the Us and in his youth she emigrated to New York, attracted by the vibrant and noisy city life of this mega city.
There she became interested in urban issues, without having any degree or specific studies she became editor of the magazine Architectural Forum. From her articles she criticize the urban tendens in the 1950s, that promoted the growth of suburbs extended with individual houses, the cult of private cars and highways, along with the devaluation of the traditional urban centers, the preference fot the towers and the systematic demolition of old buildings and neighborhoods in the name of progress and modernization.

This year on her born century , Jane Jacobs remains an unavoidable reference to think but mainly to make better cities.

"If the street ends privileging the car above the people, the street dies and then starts the end of the city"

My Profession is special

I want to tell you about what I'm studying and why. So, I'm an architecture student and this is my second year at Chile's University.  I think this vocation born in my firsts years of life, as a kid I always loved to build things, sand castles (I still doing), lego things, bionicles, play sims or sand box games, in conclusion whatever thing that have relation with build.

 But architecture wasn't always my fauvorite profession, I liked engineering, or business but the time and the experience make me change my opinion. I always loved thigs that have relation with architecture, also I'm from the country and I love nature, go to the hills, do trekking and contemplate landscapes. Sometimes my city was part of the landscape and I ask myself, why my city is like that, why we have terrify plannification in our cities, what things makes San Vicente so special for me and what we can do for make it better, so here I'm with a lot of questions and motivation for makes our world a better place to live. And how  Mies Van Der Rohe said "architecture starts when you put two bricks together".

My best holidays

The recently year I had one of my best holidays, On february we took a plane to the north of Chile with my girlfriend, and we decide to do autostop for move all the way to Santiago. So there we were, just us, our bags and full motivation for know and learn much as we can.

we visited a lot of places, San Pedro, Pan de Azucar, Copiapo, La Serena,  Elqui Valley, etc. But I'm going to write about our first stop, and one of my favorites, San Pedro de Atacama, such a amazing place, the beautiful salt mountains, the void of the salty flats and a little green oasis that was the city around the driest desert of the world, so many places to go arround it in a short time, but we made it, we visited the Valley of the Moon, Tatio geysers, the Atacama salty flats and their lagoons and more, was incredible, every one of these places.



 Also we met a lot of people, Chileans, Argentinians, Bolivians, French, etc, people from Chile and all over the world who were very nice with us.
I think was one of the best holidays that I did because every people who I met and every place where I was gave me a lot of experiences that were very enriching for me

My Autobiography

Hi, I'm Piero Magnasco and I was born in Santiago, Chile, but grew up in Rapel, 6th Region, where I lived with my parents and my grandparents. Then when I was six years, I moved to San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, 6th Region for studying and working reasons(my parents).

 I went to school at the Colegio el Salvador, but in my last year I got involved in a exchange student program, that gave me the oportunity to go to Canada for a year more or less.  In Canada I lived in Brampton, Ontario, where I repeated my last year of secondary at the Cardinal Leger School. Also I went to a lot of facinating places like New York, Niagara, Quebec, Toronto and more.

My favourite sport is rugby, actually in my school time I usually played for the city team, also I like others sports like football, trekking and physical condicion that I practice sometimes. Computation and innovation things are part of my hobbies too, that includes architecture, that is what I'm studying right now.