I want to talk about a special day, I was 8 years old and I still believed on Santa Claus. That afternoon I was so excited because Christmas, and a friend from school told me that Santa didn’t exist. That made me feel confused and sad, I had to do something to know the truth.

I planned something to do; I wanted to get an autograph from him. I prepared a piece of paper and a pencil. The paper had written in: “Dear Santa, sign if you exist”, that was perfect to finally know the truth.

At midnight I was nervous, I was losing my hope, I was believing that Santa didn’t exist. I opened my gifts and I forgot the paper. I was playing with my new toys in the street with my neighbours when I remembered my plan. I entered to my house quickly and under the Christmas tree was my paper, I took that whit my eyes closed and when I finally watched the little paper I was shocked. ¡That was the Santa’s sign! I really believed that the sign was him.

When I grew up I realized that my mother signed the paper that I kept by the next years. That was a good night, I’ll never forget that.

Salvador Allende

The person on the picture is Salvador Allende, he was a doctor and a politician, and a socialist activist. He was born on June 26th,1908 on Santiago, Chile. He studied at the "Universidad de Chile".

In 1970, Salvador became the President of the Republic of Chile by popular vote. He pretended to establish a socialist state by the institutional way. His government was very obstructed, the Chilean right didn't want that the communism stayed on Chile and the international forces again the Russian communism planned to bring down the wishes of Salvador Allende. This period of the Chilean history is very dark, the most damaged was the people, there were scarcity and a lot of problems with the implementation of public politics guided to socialism. Finally on September 11th of 1973 the public forces attacked the actual order with an offensive using violence, tanks, weapons, bombs, airplanes, and a detailed strategy to kill to Salvador Allende and eliminate the communism "threat", that was a horrible day, the president and a lot of activist was murdered and that was the beginning of 27 year of dictatorship, torture and violations to the human rights. 

I admire Salvador Allende for a lot of reasons, at first, because his love to people, he believed on the Chileans, he trusted that with his victory the proletariat finally was to live in justice. I admire him for his wishes and his solidarity with people. Maybe I'm not a socialist, but his dedication and sacrifice to make of Chile a better place to live makes me admire him. Is hard to find a person who be able to fight until the last consequences to get his objective, and that he wanted to get that by the institutional way, something so hard to get, that implicate a lot of work, is remarkable. He gave his live for the objective.

The first concert that I remember when somebody ask me about one is the "Maquinaria Festival" on December of 2011. The mother of my boyfriend gave him two tickets to this festival because of his birthday on September of this year, so we was expecting to go during a long time. He likes the band "Sonic Youth" since he was a child, I'm not a fan, but a like them anyway. I was working so much during this time and that day was my free day, I was exhausted but I didn't care.

The festival was on the "Club Hípico", on Santiago of Chile. This day the weather was so warm and sunny, we was so hungry and tired for the journey from my house to that place, but when the band came to the stage we was happy and excited. Thurston Moore seemed taller from my position, and all the band seemed older than the first picture that I looked at on a magazine when I was younger. 

The dust started to spread on the air and after a few minutes the show ended. We went to take some water and air. That day was special, that was the first time that my boyfriend and me went to a concert. At the night was the turn of "Primus" to play, so we moved closer to the stage, they were awesome. 

The Festival ended and my dad was waiting for me outside, we went to my house.

My name is Nayareth Calfulaf and I'm 20 years old, I was born on Santiago on February 24, 1993. 

On mi childhood I lived in la Pintana, at first I went to an opus dei school. Later my parents wanted to live on Santiago downtown, so we moved when I was 6 years old and I went to the Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna school. 

When I was 13 years old I had to go to high school, so I went to "Liceo 7 de Santiago".

When I was 17 years old I went to "Universidad de Chile", where I actually am.

My parents are Paola Barrueto and Pedro Calfulaf, she's 40 yeras old and he's 42 years old. I have 2 brothers, when I was 5 years old, my sister Camila was born on 1998, and my brother Jose was born on 2011, he's actually 2 years old and she's 14 years old.

I don't have many hobbies, when I was 13 years old I liked to play guitar, but I left that. Actually I like to learn about music, I have a lot of albums on my computer.