Sofía Martinich's English blog

Since we are kids we always think about what we are going to be when we grow up. I´ve thinking about it many years, and today I can say that I want to work in everything related with arts and crafts. I doesn´t matter if it is outdoors or indoors. I enjoy both alternatives as long as I have my space, but I really imagine myself travelling around the world and knowing more cultures. I don´t care if I won´t have enough money, I just want the necessary to live and travel, because I´m not sure if I want to have kids.   Now I´m studying design and I want as major Industrial Design. I feel that this option opens to me more work areas, and if I want to travel and investigate about cultures and folklore, I think that being an industrial designer is perfect if I have to work with clothes, instruments, jewels, because I will know very well how to use and work with materials and where I can found that kind of things. I don´t imagine myself doing something boring to me. I couldn´t be we

Nowadays, we are growing and growing as population, technology and a lot of other things that have advantages and disadvantages for us. One of the last named is about enviroment. Global Warming and pollution are our big problems today. Many people think that it isn´t real, and is false that someday we will have consequences from it. But it´s true, and everyday we are closer to that consequences. That´s because architects, designers, companies and scientifics are so worried about it and trying to give us better alternatives or solutions to this situation. The big problem is that while we are growing, we are moving away as the same time from everything, and we still have to work, study, have social life, etc. That means that we have less time, more distances and less connections.and therefore we use fast alternatives for all, and it isn´t too healthy most of times. Re-planning cities, build bikeways and anothers alternatives to get closer are the solutions acording to the experts

 Travelling, is one of the most funny ways to learn about life and society: cultures, languages, architecture, colors, people and more. There´re too many interesting places around the world that we need to visit someday.  We have the  classic ones , like Europe, USA, the Caribbean, etc; but their culture is still not too strange to us, and that´s an history thing. But there are places where we really don´t have nothing in common, even the alphabet!  One of that places is the Southeast Asia. It is composed of eleven countries, and between them is Thailand. Thailand is a kingdom, and is the number 20 in the list of the most populated countries in the world. The 75% of the ethnic people is thai, and that means that their culture didn´t change too much like us. Bangkok is Thailand´s capital city and you can find there a lot of weird things to eat, buy and see. You also have in this country the most beautifuls beaches and places where you can meditate. It´s like you were in a paradis