Blog 2: The best vacation or concert ever


Hi everyone!

Today I am going to talk about the best vacation ever. In March 2014, I went to Puerto Rico with my mom and brother. We were there for about a week and it was so much fun.

Although, We had travelled to Puerto Rico before, this time it was particularly fun and special. We visited our friend, Oriana, who is Chilean and has a gift shop in old San Juan city. She went to Puerto Rico after Pinochet's coup in 1973. We met her in a trip we did in 2007 when I got my first ear-pierced! We went into her store and my mom saw that she was selling alpargartas and started talking and then she realized that she was Chilean! Oriana gave me two little rings and one said Chile on them. We didn't keep in contact, but when we came back in this trip, we went to her store and there she was and she remembered me! We exchanged Facebook information and are still in contact today :)

Some of the fun things we did were going to the movies, swimming in the ocean, and exploring San Juan city. There is a book store that I really like because in the United States I could never find books in Spanish and in this trip I bought books by Eduardo Galeano and Gioconda Belli. 

I really like going to Puerto Rico because from the United States it is easy and cheap to visit and also I like how they mix Spanish and English together. Hurricane Maria devasted the island and many people died (at first they said 64 and and in the end it was almost 3,000!). Many towns were left without drinking water and electricity. Our friend Oriana was ok, but the situation was terrible. I also think that Puerto Rico deserves to be an independent nation and not a US colony. I hope I can return someday soon!! Oriana has a shop right where all the massive protests were against Roselló (the now ex-governor) Here is a picture of the street Fortaleza where the shop is and where the protests took place

Hope you enjoyed my blog!






Now it's your turn:

You can write about the best concert or the best vacation:

Concert:

- when / where it was
- the artist they saw
- a bit of info about the artist
- describe the atmosphere during the event
- describe how they felt and why they enjoyed it
- any other memories about it

Vacation:

- when it was
- where you went
- how long it was
- people you went with
- things/activities you did
- why it has been the best so far
- any other relevant info

Word count: 170

Comentarios

  1. Matias11 de junio de 2020 a las 1:34 p.m.

    Those vacations sound incredible! I belive that Puerto Rico also deserves to be an independent country, after all, no one deserves for a power to come to believe thet they are the owner of your people.

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  2. MadScientist11 de junio de 2020 a las 1:34 p.m.

    Oriana seems a nice person. It's too cool that you still keep in contact even from distance.

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  3. Maca Ibacache Eguiluz11 de junio de 2020 a las 2:01 p.m.

    Hi! Sound like a nice vacation, I hope you can return.

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  4. Ignacio Lobos11 de junio de 2020 a las 2:03 p.m.


    visiting friends in other countries is the best, without a doubt, surely it was a giant reason why it was such a good vacation

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  5. Jeremy Alvarado11 de junio de 2020 a las 2:18 p.m.

    Owww, I want to travel outside the country too! I loved your blog. I hope you can return to Puerto Rico someday!

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  6. pablo11 de junio de 2020 a las 2:25 p.m.

    Puerto Rico sounds like a fantastic place! I hope someday they can stand up again and repair all the damage that cause the hurricane.

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  7. Marybillosa11 de junio de 2020 a las 2:26 p.m.

    I always want to go to Puerto Rico

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  8. Karina Castillo Navarro11 de junio de 2020 a las 2:46 p.m.

    How beautiful is Puerto Rico
    pd: Gioconda Belli and Eduardo Galeano are really good writters!

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  9. Isidora Ojeda11 de junio de 2020 a las 2:55 p.m.

    I hope to go to Puerto Rico someday with my sister

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  10. Juan Baez11 de junio de 2020 a las 3:01 p.m.

    Oh is so beautiful Puerto Rico, I hope I'll go some day

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  11. Joshua Fernando Redda Astorga11 de junio de 2020 a las 3:29 p.m.

    the caribbean countrys have such rich culture and delightful landscape, hope you could retunr in the future or perphaps another country from the caribbean archipelago!

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  12. Monserrat Javalquinto Labbé11 de junio de 2020 a las 3:30 p.m.

    what a nice experience! hope Oriana is good with the coronavirus :)))

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  13. María José Urra Lepín11 de junio de 2020 a las 4:59 p.m.

    Oh, I can't imagine how afraid she was in that situation :( But hope everything's going fine now. Anyway, it looks like a very beautiful place!

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  14. Ignacio Aguirre11 de junio de 2020 a las 7:07 p.m.

    Wow, Puerto Rico sounds like a very nice place. It's really sad the tragedy about the huracan...

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  15. Kathya Nuñez11 de junio de 2020 a las 7:50 p.m.

    ohh hope that the people are fine now, it is so sad, I hope oriana is fine with the current situation

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  16. franco13 de junio de 2020 a las 10:44 a.m.

    Puerto Rico looks really awesome. Hope some day they are independient.

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