my sabbatical year

If I took a sabbatical year I think my first option is traveling. First I think we all need some year in life doing nothing, only survive. Traveling is a great way to grow up and find ourselves, and when you start working it is very hurt to stop it and go away. So the best way to do it is then you finish the university because you don’t have responsibilities. In my case I must pay university first because I study with bank loan.
I think firs I would have to work, in the beginning of the year and then y would start traveling. In every city where I stop I can work being waitress. I learned that here in Santiago and I think is a good tool to do everywhere, and it’s a great way to meet people. I want to know all Latin America and I think I need a lot of time to know it very well.
Other thing I would do its staying whit my parents in Chiloé. They live in a beautiful place, and you can do a lot of things there, like feed animal, they have a lot, or plant the land. They always have a lot of work and I love working there.
The last option can be doing courses of dressmaking; I always wanted to do that. I think I will do that not only if I take a sabbatical year, I can do it working too. I love make my own cloth.

How green are you

I consider myself as a green and conscious person. But I think we could always be more conscious because the environment is still dying because of us and nobody seems to do something. In my case, I ride my bike, I recycle the garbage in my house, I only take a shower one day a week because I don’t consider important to take a shower every day and I hope the water will not disappear. When I was at school we planted a lot of trees in my city and I’ve always tried to increase at home the quantity of plants and trees. I also participate in Patagonia sin Represas when we tried to fight against the dam in the south of Chile, and also in the demostration against Pascua lama because I always go there since I was a little girl because I have a piece countryside there in the Huasco valley and I know what the damage they produce there and the most painful thing is people can’t do anything about it because they need to survive and they offer them a lot of money and stupid stuff like plasmas and things like those. Last year, I joined Green Peace but I had to pay every month so I only receive information on my email and sometimes I go to a demonstration or something like that. But I think that’s not enough, because it’s too minimum comparing the contamination that cities and industries make and that it’s the biggest problem. I think we do all that stuff to decrease the guilt because the real problem is the industry and we all know that. So, I think if we want to do something that really matters, we should struggle to change the government legislation and try to end the pollution of big cities such as Santiago.