When is the best time to visit the Salar de Uyuni

Every November, Salar de Uyuni is also the breeding grounds for three species of South American flamingos: the Chilean, James's and Andean flamingos. It is also a significant tourist destination; highlights include a salt hotel and several so-called islands. Also, Salar de Uyuni holds half of the world's reserves of lithium, a metal which is used in high energy density batteries.
The best time to travel is the season from July to November, when the salt bed is very dry. The major attraction of this area is its landscape, the Salt Hotel, and Fish Island (Isla de Pescado). The activities that you can do it there are landscapes, wildlife observation, and ecotourism. Travelers can soak in hot springs, watch flocks of flamingos feeding in the lakes and observe the simple but hard life of Andean villagers. Isla Del Pescado (Fish Island) is located at the centre of the Salar de Uyuni this fish-shaped island is the largest in the group of oasis-type ecosystems. Its landscape of rock and huge cacti in contrast with a pure white sea of salt is very photogenic.
The wet, and warmer season, is between November and March when flood waters turn the Salar into a giant mirror. However rain can also make roads impassable. The dry season, April to October, is much colder (temperatures can be as low as -20C) but a more popular time to travel. While the flamingos are always there, they are more numerous in September.

What is the Salar de Uyuni?

In my project I am doing story about Salar de Uyuni. You can read here part of my project and I decided to include it in my blogger because I think it is very interesting story. Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat at 4,085 square miles. The largest Salar in the world, Salar de Uyuni, is located within the Altiplano of Bolivia in South America. The Salar de Uyuni covers approximately 3,100 square miles, and it is a major transport route across the Bolivian Altiplano due to its flatness. In the wet season flood waters produce a surreal mirror effect. On this vast white plain there is only one building, the Salt Hotel. The Salar de Uyuni, a salt desert, was once an inland sea, or giant salt water lake, but the water vanished into the thin dry air of Andean altitude. All that remains is the salt, tens of meters thick, lying stark beneath bright sky: a sun-bleached skeleton of a dead sea. Some 40,000 years ago, the area was part of Lake Minchin, a giant prehistoric lake. When the lake dried, it left behind two modern lakes, Poopó Lake and Uru Uru Lake, and two major salt deserts, Salar de Coipasa and the larger Uyuni. Uyuni is roughly 25 times the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats in the United States. Salar de Uyuni is estimated to contain 10 billion tons of salt, of which less than 25,000 tons is extracted annually.

Summer vacation

This summer break I am planning to take some vacations with my husband. We are planning to go to Florida. My husband has some friends and relatives there too. First, we want to go to Fort Lauderdale. His friend Daniel lives there. He has a house close to the downtown and the beach. He also plays in a band and we want to go to see him in the bar where he plays. We are planning to stay there for 4 days after that we are going to Disneyworld in Orlando. I have been there once and for me was fantastic and I want to share that experience with my husband. When I was there I went to watch the “Cirque du Soleil” in downtown Disney. It was a great show. It is not a conventional circus with animals and all that stuff. The name of the show is “La Nouba” and is entirely with acrobats. It is one of the most wonderful shows I have ever seen. We will go there in our first night in Orlando. We will spend the next three day in the parks. The first day we want to go to Magic Kingdom, the second in Epcot Center and the last in Animal Kingdom. I am more exited to go to Epcot because its fireworks. Magic Kingdom has own fireworks, but I think that Epcot’s are the best. I am also excited to go to Magic Kingdom because I have always liked the characters from Disney.

History class- Incas

In Peru in sixteenth century Spanish people killed Incas. In November, 1526, Francisco Pizarro had headed an expedition from the south of Panama and explored the Santa River in Peru. Pizarro found out about the wealth of the Inca’s Empire and came back to Spain to collect money and recruit people for the conquest. In 1530 he arrived in the coastal zone of the Ecuador and began his march towards land in. In November, 1532 he reached the city of Cajamarca, where the Inca Atahualpa was residing in that moment. Pizarro and his men captured Atahualpa being useful of the advantage of the armor that his men were dressing and especially of the horses that were not known in America, what made to the Spanish in advantage with regard to height and protection. After that the men of Pizarro captured Atahualpa, Pizarro imprisoned Atahualpa and asked for a rescue in pieces of gold, enough to fill the room where they enclosed Atahualpa. With the excuse that the Atahualpa’s people delayed the rescue and fearful that the Atahualpa’s people were planning a rescue, Pizarro arranged Atahualpa's execution immediately. After this nothing stopped the Spanish to conquer and destroy all the Inca’s Empire killing and almost eliminating the whole Inca race.

Organic food

In the rush to produce more and more crops to satisfy growing demand, producers have had to resort to using lethal pesticides to control diseases and insect attacks. The quality of food has definitely gone down since the Second World War. Organic food is known to contain fifty percent more nutrients, minerals and vitamins than produce that has been intensively farmed. The word "organic" refers to the way farmers grow and process agricultural products, such as fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy products and meat. Organic farming practices are designed to support soil and water conservation and reduce the pollution of the land. Farmers who grow organic produce and meat do not use conventional methods to fertilize, control weeds or prevent livestock disease. For example, rather than using chemical or pesticides, organic farmers may recur to the use of natural fertilizers. This is one of the best ways to avoid the exposure to the chemicals in food. However, there are some cases where this organic crops have been contaminated by near crops that use chemical or crops that have been genetically modified. Other great disadvantage of this is that not all the people have access to this kind of food because of the price of it. Since this product demand more dedication from the farmers and also the high cost of the products to grow up the crops the price of the Organic products are more expensive and in that way less accessible to the regular consumer.

Bilingual

Being bilingual can bring us better opportunities to find better jobs. Speaking more than one language can make easier to communicate with people. Nowadays, companies find more valuable the employees who speak more than one language. It can help to the company to work better, for example if the company has business in other countries a bilingual employee can be very useful. Even bilingual workers earn more money than monolingual. The New York Times recently reported how much money earns monolingual and bilingual employees. People who speak only Spanish earn $3000 per month; people who speak only English earn $5000, and people who speak both earn $7000 per month. With this example we can see also how being bilingual can help us to have better future and help us to survive in this economical crises.

There are number advantages that bilingual children have over monolingual children. Learning a second language can help them in education development. At young age they have opportunity to learn a second language which will help them in the later education. Recently, I read on Web site how the bilingual children are smarter than monolingual (www.multilingualchildren.org). They show better results in mathematics and science. Children who are bilingual also have an increased capacity for learning languages as adults. However, in my opinion they will have better chance to enroll in one of the best colleges.

Waiting in Line at the Drugstore II

His journey to the drugstore was the most challenging part of his day, as he was faced with racial discrimination as he was forced to wait in line until every white customer had been served first. He felt terrible every time he had to go to the drugstore. Waiting in the line while white people stared at him, made him to feel humiliated as a human, and he knew he could not change this. However, he won at this game of waiting; he found the successful way against all these prejudices and against the painful wait in the line in the drugstore. He found his own refuge in the books, he noticed one day in the store’s “lending library”, and in this way he overcame some of his feelings to feel less important in this world and lost himself in the wonderful world of literature and knowledge. He discovered that these books were a window into the culture and wisdom of great writers. Sometimes, we should take as an example what this boy did. He defeated all the existing prejudices against the blacks in that time and he moved forward, becoming a better person, with a better education and culture ultimately, he became a writer and a well educated man.

Waiting in line at the Dragstore

“Waiting in Line at the Drugstore” written by James Thomas Jackson, is the story about a poor young black boy who lived in the Southwest part of the country, during the ‘40s. This young boy lived in a time when the black people were discriminated from the white people. Reading this article, I started to think how some situation can affect us, like this boy who was waiting on the line of a drugstore and discovered his passion for books. He was thirteen years old when he had to drop out of school, and started to work to help support his family. He decided to buy a bicycle and looked for a job, finding one as a messenger at a photography studio called, “The Owl Foto Studio”. It was an interesting job for him, but one, part that he did not like was when he had to go to the drugstore to buy breakfast each morning for the white employees in the photography studio.

Salar de Uyuni

I have decided to choose Salar de Uyuni as a topic for my lab project. It was very difficult to decide what to do. I changed my mind three times. First time I wanted to make a video about Disneyworld, but the teacher said that is not good choice and to try to find something else. After that I decided to make a video about my country, but first thought was that I am not going to be interesting enough to finish it. However, after that I asked teacher if I could make a video about Amazon rainforest, but I realized that Hugo has the same topic, and I did not want to do the same. Finally, I chose Salar de Uyuni and I hope that I am going to be the only I am doing this topic. Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 km² (4,085 square miles). It is located in the Potosi and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes, 3,650 meters high. The largest salar (salt flat) in the world, Salar de Uyuni, is located within the Altiplano of Bolivia in South America. When I saw pictures of Salar de Uyuni I was impressed. It is so beautiful.

The public informations II

Last year, I read and watched on the television about Ms Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency. The press talked and wrote about her personal life, her family, and about personal conflicts in her family, issues that should stay in her personal life and not be published by all the means of communication. The stories and pictures were in newspaper, television, online and every time when I turned on television or stated to read newspapers I would find something about Ms Palin. I was thinking, how this lady could leave with all this public pressure, it must be hard. It is my opinion that, if one is a public person it does not means that everybody has to know about their personal life.

The public informations

Nowadays you can read in newspaper, books, and online different stories about people, events and even different opinions. Sometimes they can support government, and sometimes simply give their personal opinion about any subject. People have the right to have a personal opinion about politics or social movement, etc, and they can express it in the newspapers, television, and radio or by others means like the Internet that in the present time has become a massive tool of communication. In my opinion, I think that people need limits when they try to explain or describe somebody or something. Sometimes the press can be very “nasty” and can create a problem for a person. I have read a lot of times when the press insulted somebody and sometimes they did it without any proof or control. I know that that is part of the “freedom” of the press, but sometimes people abuse that privilege and libel or slander is not a “right”.

how I changed my mind - III

My mother had taught me to be patient with my sister, and that she was going to be the best friend in my life, so I talked to the girls and tried to explain that to them. They are still babies, but in one year they are going to understand better and to realize how important they are to each other and how they need to be a “team”. Every day was a great new experience and discovery for us. Even today, when I have spare time, I like to visit them just to see their honest smiles and feel their warm hugs. Always after that I feel completely filled.After that great experience this summer with the twins, I realized that I wanted to be a teacher of little kids. The day I went to school to complete my registration, I chose Early Childhood Education as my major. In those moments, I thought “There’s nothing better that can happen to me”. I am going to be one of the most important persons in their life, even if they are not going to know that. They are going to be with me when they learn a new word, or the meaning of some word. That feeling makes me so happy, and I am going to enjoy every moment that I am going to spend with all those kids.

How i changed my mind - II

However, teaching them how to recognize colors left me with special memories. For example, one rainy day, I decided to stay in the house with them. A few days before that day, their mother had bought them a new game, but we did not have the opportunity to open it. It was a bowling game where each pin has a different color, and they have to arrange the pins on a board where each of the colors of the pins is indicated. Whenever they place the pin in the corresponding color, the board “congratulates” them and indicates to them that they were correct. Only a few minutes after we started playing, they had already been the difference in the colors, and they were placing pins in the correct spot on the board. I was so proud of them and myself. I was very patient and relaxed and I surprised myself at how patient I was explaining to them every time they made mistakes.

How i changed my mind

The last summer was very different from others and I change a lot of things in my life. First of all, a friend asked me if I can help her to take care about her kids, during the time her Au Pair was on vacations. I accepted even I did not know how I am going to do it, because before that I did not have opportunity to do something like that. Those two weeks were amazing. I took care of two years old twins girl. Experience was incredible. I was so proud of them and myself. We learned a lot of new word, games, and numbers. Every day was new experience for us. After that time I realize that I wanted to be teacher for little kids. The day when I went to school to make registration I choose Early Childhood Education like my major. In those moments I thought “that’s nothing better can happen to me”. I am going to be one of the important persons in their life, even if they are not going to know that. That make me so happy and I enjoy every moment that I spend with all those kids.

Women in 21st century

Even today in the 21st century we still confront with discrimination, for example women are not yet accepted in some part of our society, though they have managed to occupy high positions in the government, the society does not believe that a woman could play a good role in the president's position. In my opinion, many people still believe, and cannot accept or trust enough in what women can do. They are good at different works and even better than the men. One clear example of this is Mrs. Hillary Clinton, she ran for president, and in my opinion, she is the better qualified than the other candidates but a great part of the population gave to her the back for just for the reason of being woman.

Tuition

For me as a foreign student one of the obstacles is the tuition. Since I am not an American Citizen, I am considered as an “Out of State” student which means that I have to pay the highest tuition. I can deny that for me sometimes it is very difficult to pay the tuition, but my personal commitment makes me keep on going. I have planned to graduate from College and if it is possible to obtain a Bachelor Degree from a University. In these times when the economy is not strong as it is just to be, I am struggling with my payments. But I know that in the future all this situation will improve, and better times will come. Meanwhile, the next semester I am planning to apply for a scholarship at the college. My grades and my GPA make me eligible for a scholarship, and that could help me to achieve my goal of finishing my major, without worrying about the payments to the school it is going to give me more time to study without worries.

Taxes for Bonuses

In recent days the government gave bailout money to several companies, money that has been spent paying bonuses to their C.E.O’S or managers. This situation called the attention of the senate of the United States of America and now they are trying to fix this situation by applying taxes to that money, 90% in federal taxes and 10 % in State taxes, leaving this people without money. In my opinion this measure is trying to fix the mistake that the government did when they gave the money to these companies without a plan that shows how this money should be distributed and how this companies will use that money.
The government created this bailout to save some companies from the bankruptcy. Saving these companies from the bankruptcy the jobs of thousands of American should not be at risk. Instead of that these companies have been using this money to pay to their executives enormous amount of money as bonuses. This caused great discomfort to the public opinion because in one way or other these money belongs to the tax payers and they are going to pay for many years the debt of the country.