When the game is not fun

One of the most prevalent social issues in Chile every weekend is violence in football stadiums. In TV news, newspapers and the Internet can see that game after game thousands of fans are involved in fights between rival team opposite or same equipment, theft, damage to public and private property, drug abuse, etc. Football left the game spirit and happy activity, and went on to become a space for crime.

 

Because of these problems, many families had left the stadium, allowing the entry of criminals. Although the government, politicians, teams, fans and society at large perceive chaos, violence continues in an endless spiral. Whenever these problems different actors talk about the need to confront the situation occur. For example, increasing the control of the police around the stadiums, deny access to people with a history of violence, increase prison sentences for violators, creating a new law. But all the talk comes to nothing, and things remain the same.

 

In my opinion, I think the problem is being addressed in the leaves but not the roots. The stadium violence comes mainly from lack of education. Everyone who will watch their teams deserve the security, in addition to having the best conditions to see the show. Many people today believe in Chile to go to the stadium stands to do what they want, especially excesses.

That is why I consider that the measures taken should seek to prevent rather than persecution. As a society we must give our children the value of sharing public activities, the importance of tolerating another person, regardless of their preferences, and especially teach that sport is a space for joy, friendship and family, and not by the violence, fighting or hatred.

I hope someday to go to the stadium is an activity safely.

 

 

"The best holiday I've ever had"

The best holiday I’ve ever had was in La Serena, in a summer 10 years ago. With my family and family’s best friend. In a start, we travel from Santiago on the highway with our van, 450 kilometres, to the north, passing for villages like Los Vilos, Guanaqueros, Tongoy, Totoralillo, among other. We rent a house in the city of Coquimbo, capital of the fourth region of Chile. In the house were seven people, my mom, my dad, my Little brother, I, my friend, his mom and his sister. Which made it very entertaining.

 

During the day, we went to the beach all together, played cards, “beach tenis”, swam in the sea and walked around the coast. It was wonderful because we ate all days a special beach meal called “Empanadas de Camaron con Queso”, which traslated is like, "Empanada with shrimp with cheese". In the afternoon we returned to the house and prepared a barbeque or a nice other meal. 

 

One of the beauties of north’s Chile is the blue sky full of shiny stars. So, we went to a astronomy observatory with everybody. First we climb the hills and arrived to a very old village called Andacollo. In the observatory, with a giant telescope an instructor told us we put the eye in the lens and told everybody if we could watch something. When was my turn, I saw like a picture from a planet; it was Jupiter!!! My first time I saw a planet with a telescope and was the greatest planet of our galaxy, I was so excited.

 

In the other days we went to the truck races, we galloped on horseback on the beach and went to buy a pretty things from the city. I loved La Serena, it´s a really wonderful place to summering.