At the moment I’m reading “La guerra y la paz”. The author is León Tolstói, a classical writer of Russia and world.

This book is a novel, which is about the war between France (empire in that epoch) and Russian. This classical book addresses the battles between Napoléon and Alejandro I, both emperors of the respective countries.

How everyone knows, Tolstoi is a classical realistic writer, in where the detailed description and objective is very important in the construction of the books. But this author (in this book) adds features naturalist (in the explication of the historical development, in where the incidents are dependent of the destination) and romantic (in the description if the religion, nationalism and relationships).

Three things I admire in this book. First: Is a colossal historical description, in where circulate many characters and locations. Is a good approximation to the ambition of Napoleon for conquers the world, and the moral and physical resistance of the people of Russia. A second thing is that Tolstói recreate in magnificent form the russian aristocratic world, painting the relationships and the principal features of this class (similar to the french realists). The last thing is the tone, textures and style of Tolstói. He was a magnificent writer, very conscious of his age and the people that would live in his period. Is an extensive book (1100 pages approximately) but is very recommendable.

I have to say that I don´t know many places in Santiago, because I from of other city. But in my four years living here, I have known some places for to relax and spend the time on weekend or in the week.

The first place is the O´Higgins park. I knew this park when I arrived to Santiago (2012). I remember that the first time I went to this park  was for to know it, because was (for me) very popular in the people, but after, I started to go to this place for relax and drink anything. The first years I went with some friends, but I haven´t gone from 2014, because I don´t have time. Although haven´t entered to the park since this data, I go to run around the park two or three days on the week.

The second place is the theatre of the Universidad de Chile. I go for listen classical music that play 

the orchestra of the university. I go to this place since 2014, and I think that is a great chance for take advantage of the opportunities and activities that our university does (for the students exist discount). The majority of the students don´t know this activities, but is the only option for appreciate this, because when we are licensed we will have the same time and discounts for attend this options. Others interesting activities are the movies that exhibit the ICEI, the dance performance that the company of dance of the university makes, etc. Just is have the motivation for to go to this activities. 

I think that the happiness is very relative, but in general the people, when pass the time, start to invent things for create or access to the happiness: drugs, material things, technology, social climbing, meanness, etc. Always the reproduction of this things take to the people to one spiral of conformity and don´t see other things. The travels are for to avoid of the daily tragedy; the identity is an individual support for keep the tranquility of the life; the work is a little dead. For this, I think that the people have forgotten how to be happiness, and the copy of this state is a joke: search little spasm for to re-live (travel, go to concert of the pop-music, etc.) I don´t know what is the happiness, but this isn´t.

For me, the things that make me happy are very simple. The first is be with my family in the meadow, speak with the people that live in this place, see the mountains, rivers and the dusk, the silence. A second thing is play football. Is an activity that I practice from when I was kid. The game is important, but the most important is spend time with the friends. The last things is read. For my life the literature is very important, because it has helped me to know most to the people and me.

Go to the meadow and play football are things that I learned and practiced from when I was a kid, and are a part very important of my life, because always have been with me, and I thing that always will be with me, because the memories are things permanent in the human soul. The literature is a pleasure that starts in my adolescence, and probably I will never leave it.

I think that the happiness is accompanied of simple things, but real, and not artificial things or false. Everyone should learn to search and find these things. 

In general I have a regular performance in the three items. In the first item I have contest six questions correctly and I had one question incorrect. Was the better item that I did. I think that I can related words or answer with some context specifically. The only answer incorrect was because I did not remember a word, and for this I asked incorrectly.

The next items are more difficult for me: vocabulary and listening. In vocabulary I obtained 26 answers corrects and 7 incorrect; in listening I obtained 5 answers corrects and two incorrect. Clearly my two English ambits with more disadvantages are listening and vocabulary. I think that the principal motive is that I do not practice the time necessary for progress in these areas. Especially listening, I never have practiced the time necessary for to have a correct level in this English ambit. The vocabulary, with the time has improved, but even I can to practice more. In general, I think that I have not dedicated the necessary time to English. I am repentant for this, but even I have time for improve this lack.