A Country I Like to Visit

One of the things I remember the most of my childhood is Gardel's voice singing while my grandmother was teaching me hoy to drink yerba mate. Then, during my adolscence, I loved Relatos Salvajes, Plan B and Pizza, Birra, Faso, and I used to rewatch those films over and over again.One of my favourite books is El Beso de la Mujer Araña. Songs of Cerati, Los Enanitos Verdes and Spinetta, were sweetening one of the most tender part of my life that I remember with nostalgy. That should explain why I am willing to go to Argentina.

Its History is really exciting. It's like chilean History in certains things. It's about a fight that people fought against poverty, inequality, and for the acquisition of rights.

If I was in Argentina, I wouldn't like to go to high neighborhoods or touristic places, such as museums or monuments. I'd like to go walking across the streets of the popular neighborhoods. Some people call it the "poor" places of Argentina. But I don't think so. I think that, those "poor" places, are the

most beautiful places, the real popular culture, and the real life, the daily routine of most of the people. I wouldn't be going to a Tango ballroom. I´d like to be walking while listening the sound of a tango song escaping from a kitchen in which a family is taking breakfast a saturday in the morning, and seeing how that melody flies away and vanishes in the air. People walking around with a cigarette in their mouths. That's what i would do if I go to Argentina.

I wouldn't like to stay in Argentina. It's a beautiful country with a beautiful culture. But I have an issue with lonliness. Sometimes I like to be alone, thinking about anything, but then times goes by and I start feeling bad, I feel alone in a bad way. And the nostalgic view of Argentina and the fact that I don't know a person in that country would make me feel sad and depressed. And I love my friends and the relationships I have here in Chile. And going away from them would hurt me so bad.

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