FAU - Cris Barra

When I was a Child, around four years old, I've started to see one brand new TV Game-Show called "Si se la puede, Gana!!", literally translated as "If you can, You win!!", these show was broadcasted by the Televisión Corporation of the Catholic University of Chile (known as Channel 13), the format of this TV Show was inspired by the Japanese TV Show called "Happy Family Plan", this program was broadcasted from 1998 until 2004. This program consisted about of the selection of some families across our country that they've sent a letter to apply for the program, and after that one of the heads of the selected families had to pass a skill test where you had sometimes to prove your balance, your focus, your memory, your precision and specially the capacity of control your nerves, if the test is passed the family wins a brand new car, and if not, the family have a second chance at the last program of the season. Every friday at 10 p.m. with my family...

One of my main hobbies are learning languages, at this moment I'm learning Japanese, it's a little difficult because these language have a lot of symbols, divided in three groups, two syllabaries called Hiragana and Katakana (These are the easiest) and the Kanji group, they're over 5000 characters, each of those can have various meanings and it be too hard to learn it. The international certification test for the Japanese Language it's called "Japanese Language Proficiency Test", this test have five levels, from N5 (Basic Level, must learn 103 Kanjis) to the N1(High Level, must learn over 2400 kanjis), this test is taken twice in a year (July and December). I've started to study Japanese at March of 2016, at first it wasn't very difficult because I've used my summer holidays to learn Hiragana, Katakana and some Kanjis to advance in the learning process, at those class we used one one the best know books to learn Japanese, its called "Minna...

As you've seen in my previous blogs, my lifetime is very close with the world of sports, one of my lifetime dreams was going to the Olympic Games, so I've tried to start a sport, and try to qualify for these big sport event. Since I was 5 years old my dream was to practice Archery, but in that moment with my family we had a very complicated situation that lasted almost five years, after that years when I was 11 I've fell in love with the Olympics and I've made the promise to be there someday, at first I've tried with Swimming, Football, Basketball and Athletics, in all of these sports I've failed, but by miracle the Chilean Archery Federation have opened a free Archery school for the students of my High School, at these moment I was 15. The first two years was very slow and difficult, my results was very poor and smetime I've losed the motivation, but everything changed in 2011, I've decided to take by a more serious this this sport and I've star...