From north to south

I have traveled a lot and I have met many people on my trips. But the best was my last holiday. I went backpacking with two friends. I decided  to do this trip  to collect photographs for my thesis and my friends helped me. 

We took a plane to Arica on January 6. Our trip along Chile started  here. Our mission was to go to Punta Arenas in two months. I really enjoyed the road trips in trucks and  family cars that picked us up in the middle of nowhere.

I visited many places, I met many people and I had many experiences. The people were very nice, they  invited us to their homes and gave us a lot of delicious food. 

What I liked the most was when we camped in the desert. The sky!!! Ohhh I loved it! No one was nearby, we were alone in the middle of nowhere, 130km away from the nearest town, with 4 L of water and without phone signal. We climbed a hill and took beautiful photos of the full moon. We listened to Pink Floyd and smoked weed haha. It was a perfect moment.  

Next day we went down the hill and hitchhiked thinking that we would wait for many hours, but the first truck picked us up and we went to the next pont in the map. :) 

My friends always told me that I was crazy for asking the driver to leave us in the middle of nowhere, but I wanted to take landscape photographs, so I wanted to stay in beautufull and dangerous places hahaha It is more exciting that way, right?  

Japan!! the sunrise country

I really want to go to Japan in the future. In fact I hope to go soon, because now I'm applying for an exchange. I want go to study arts at Tsukuba University. If I go, I will take four courses, japanese style painting (Nihonga), carving and modeling, Sho-calligraphy art (how write kanji beautifully) and western stile painting. I am really nervous for the trip :SSS

Also I want to go to learn japanese language. The language is not so difficult but kanji is the worst hahahaha. Japanese has three ways of writing, kanji, hiragana and katakana. I started to learn hiragana and katakana alphabet last year with a game called "Learn Japanese to survive". This game was very fun to play. It's an rpg game where the characters fight with the hiragana warriors hahaha. 

I started to like Japan when I was a child. Since I have memory, I liked anime series and movies. For this reason I began watching anime series while I paint and in some strange way I began to understand more and more japanese hahaha, because of this I really want to go next year and visit the country that I like so much.