Unit 1 - Letter to my father

Dear Daddy,

I was only I child when you passed away, and therefore we never had a conversation as adults. That is why I'm writing you now.

You weren't there during my childhood. Sometimes you did't phone me in my birthday neither. Your absence wasn't easy for me, and I have spent a lot of time thinking about it. Now, I believe that I can't blame you because you have already paid enough for your faults. I can feel you suffering and anguish during your disease, because you knew you wouldn't see your children growing.

After your death, I met some friends of you, and they have talked with me about you and your adventures, but I would have preferred that you had been the one who told me about your history.

It was our destiny, and you are a part of my live, so I forgive you. I love you Dad, where ever you are!

Self Introduction

Hi guys! Welcome to my blog!

As you know I´m from Spain, but after living 8 years in Chile, I just feel as a world citizen. Besides, nowadays my mother lives in Brazil and my only brother lives in Mexico, so we are a globalized family.

A few months ago, my boy friend got a job here in Calgary, so we moved from Chile in November 2014. I enrolled on the ESL program of University of Calgary because I´d like to be integrated in the canadian society as soon as posible, and get a job here as a chemical engineer. However, my plans have changed a little since I knew 3 weeks ago that I am pregnant, and therefore, now I´m not so hurry to get a job.

The song I have chosen is "Hormigón, Mujeres y Alcohol" that means "Concrete, Women and Alcohol". This song was created by my father Fernando Murias in 1981, the year when I was born, and it is very famous in Spain. I couldn´t find a video of the song with my father playing the guitar, but if you watch this video my father appears sometimes on the screen behind the band:




In this other video you can see my father playing the guitar on the right side of the singer (after minute 1:35):



In 1992, My father died with AIDS after several years of heroin addiction. The music was his passion, but also was his way to self-destruction. Actually, is not possible to understand him without music. The lastest times of his live he wasn´t able to have a guitar on his arms, because it was too heavy for him, so I prefer to remember him as this strong and energetic man who played on a rock band.

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