FAU - Cris Barra

Since I born the Beach of Duao, located at the Maule Coast, is the preffered place to have my holiday, not only for me, for all my family!!. If you can see, the landscape is amazing! I don't remember very well my holidays there at my early years, I had a standby of visits from since my 10 years until I had 14 :( The best year in Duao was when I was 15 in 2009, before that my visit to these beach was close to be cancelled for some family conflics that made a shork breakdown between some parts of my family, but we close the gaps and we made the trip to Duao, normally these town don't have so many activities to do, but these year we had a lot of activities, normally the beach bear around two thousand people in summer season but these year Duao beared almost 5.000 tourists, it was interesting but not whitout problems. We was there almost one month between January and Febrary, at the activities we met our friends from there (our families are friends for over 50 years), we ...

Since I was a child, I had a great fanatism for the Olympic Games, specially at the part of the Ceremonies (Parade of Athletes and Olympic Cauldron Lighting), and obviosly I've followed some of the Chilean athletes who've participated at the Games and became very happy with the Football and Tennis Medals (Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004). After the Games of Athens I've get the determination to someday go to see the Olympics whatever the city are hosting it, for Beijing 2008, I was very young and I hadn't any chance to accomplish my dream for these Games, in that moment I've never imagined that I have to wait eight years more after these games. After Beijing I've started to fight for these dream with a more realistic chance to reach my goal, one of my dreams was enter to practice Archery as competitor, but I've never have the chance for economy issues, but I was very lucky and the Archery Chilean Federation opened a free school to find the athletes for the ne...

I have a very close relationship with the family branch from my mom, specially my cousins, in 2007 we had a lot of though moments with the death of several of my great uncles and  my mom had the idea of a great family reunion one month later after that, the reunion was a big success and made our family more closer, so then I had a idea but in another way, create a Family Olympic Games in the next year at our national holidays (September 18th and 19th) in the terrains of my family at Paine, following the Beijing Olympic Games. At first these idea didn't have a good reception but normally I don't give up easily and I've convinced all my family to try and they're support the idea, at September 18th we opened a new family tradition, those games had only three competitions, doesn't had a flame and medals yet but was a success and my family enjoyed it. Originally the plan was make the games each year but in 2009 we had a lot of problems with logistics and we didn...

Normally I like to walk across the mountain, the countryside or the beach, but these activities are not quite amazing as the walk that I've made two years ago at the Iguazu Falls in the Brazilian Side. This visit wasn't a normal occasion like a family holiday, the reason to being there was to carry the Olympic Flame at the city of Foz de Iguazu, for these trip I must travel with a relative or a friend, at first my sister was going with me, but she had some problems in her workplace and finally I went with my mom. My "D-Day" for my moment at the Rio 2016 Olympic Torch Relay was at June 30th, so when I was buying the plane tickets to Foz, my mom had an idea, she said me that why not we going one day earlier to seize the moment and meet the Iguazu Falls, I agreed with her and we went there. I was amazed when I've seen the falls for the first time with my own eyes, I've never seen such wonder of the nature, I still not has the chance to meet the Chilean Natu...