The mighty Patagonia

The life of the every day student can be very stressing a predicible. Fighting to wake up every morning (the eternal battle against the pillow, almost always a defeat), struggling with the every day routine, from the jam on the traffic, the bus rides, the marching street, to the chain of courses one after other all the week, the pile of lectures, bigger and bigger every day,the almighty clockwork machnine the college and society means. But there is a sacred time when the chains are borken and the slav... sorry, student are released from their sisyphean life, to forget fot a while their imprisonment to the stablishment.

 The holy summer vacations. A time where time is broken, an a new era beggins, where there are no traffic, no jam, no task, no nothing, where man get face to face with himself.

For the ocassion, it is common for the youth to embark on a journey to the most diverse region of the country, from the sunny desert north, to the magic south and the patagonia, they travel trough the regions in extreme conditions, hich-hiking rides, joining truck drivers needed of company for cross the lonely higway. They go into the wild to discover the misterys and the beuty of nature, going where few men had going, in a journey to proove themself as men and women able to face nature and find their natural spirit, dormant under layers of routine and society.

One of the most beautyful destination, a common pick betwen the youth is the Patagonia, at tha Austral Highway. A place where nature shows itsefl in indomitable greatness, plenty of forest an mountains crowned by snow and glaciers.
The few remains of human civilization are shy little towns, one every one hundred kilometer of higway, of tough people who can keep up whit the tough lifestyle the patagonia demands to those who dare to walk trough its domains.

Spring and fondas hitting the stage

Spring and fondas hitting the stage.

We proudly give the welcome to all of our readers and  mates in this fresh new exiting adventure on the english course and the chilean jungle.
We are going to review al majors stats and the fresh new tendences and movements hittin' the stage on the campus. All very lolein of course.
For days the spring has been watfing around the corner to finally arrive in all it's majesty, and what better way to celebrate in Chile that the always for all expected National Holidays.
The sounds of folklorical guitars mixing whit the aroma of pipeño & pinapple ice cream comes just in time for all those stressed and poor maintanced college student, to hit the fondas and college parties and release all the tension the strikes and the lack of vacation always leaves.

Every campus start to compete for arrange the better and most hardcore fonda, filling their line-ups whit the most lolein cumbia bands. Villa Cariño, Santa Feria, or La Combo Tortuga are common seen musicians for the ocassion. Also grows strongly the independant market, students need to fundraise their wide spectre of necesities goes from vicius, daily life implements, to summer vacations or even political parties and social projects. So they team whit the music and festive ambient and blow the sales of beer and earthquakes, the sanctum brevage of the modern national party.

So  the music's loud and the moods are setted, it's time for party hard. Masses of young (and not so young) college students fill the fondas, ready to consagrate te season with the holy eartquake and join the hypnotic rythm of cumbia. Many of them won`t survive and will be the affected and matyirs of the 18' national eartquake.