Listening to my little piece of technology

Because I've never live near my education establishment and since a lot of time I've to travel more than an hour on a bus or subway, I anxiously needed some kind of entertainment during the long trip.
I used to use a little radio with earphones but half of the trip I was undergrounded so the radio signal couldn't got caught. So it didn't cover all the function that was assigned to.
But that was until I received a mail from an uncle who lives in France where he told me that he wanted to gave me a present for this Christmas (last one). He made me the complex question "what would you like?" so I had to think deeply and then I realized that this was the perfect opportunity to change my old and big radio.
I answer him if he could give me a MP4 or something like that (anything but a heavy radio with earphones). Then he said "OK, wait until your grandmother travel to Chile and you'll see".
Well she brought me the long waited present. It was a 4 GB Sony MP4.
My life changed from that moment when I could listening to my music everywhere (on the subway, on a bus going out from Santiago, etc., watch videos, see pictures and even listening to the radio station in a high quality.
Now I go on the bus and the subway with more happiness, I even noticed that the trip is shorter and I can focus more in what I read on my way to Uni.
What more can I say... the battery last like 5 days and the MP4 fits everywhere I want to put it.
I love it!
And all thanks to my French uncle and his good intentions.
I think if you have to travel a lot, you'll understand the importance of this kind of hearing aid.

Waterfalls and Caipirinha!

Clear sea, hot beaches and my high school classmates, what a nice combination.

In 2008 January my class and I had our study trip in high school. We went to Brazil for 10 days and we were like 30 people. We worked trough all 2007 collecting money to pay the cost of the trip.
Of course we didn't collect enough money to pay everyone's ticket, so we shared out what we have with our classmates who had the biggest economic problems.
In Brazil we went to Camboriú, a seaside city with amazing beaches and a humid weather. We had parties every night and we knew there the famous "Caipirinha", obviously I didn't drink a drop. During the day we visited some historic and some entertainment places of the city.
After a few days we went to another fantastic place: Foz do Iguaçu. There we visited the rainforest (actually almost everywhere in that city is a tropical rainforest) and the Iguazú waterfalls (an amazing experience, just look at the picture and you'll nearly understand).
This falls was truly the best of the trip. You look at them and you start to fell a mix of respect, fear, love and a lot of other feelings. Something wonderful.
There we stayed for two more days and we get back to Santiago. I remember on that day I slept like 24 hours on a row. The trip let me really tired, but it was worthy.
One of the better trips that I've had.