One trip to the rainforest

Hi all,
This publication is about a rainforest in Australia called the O' Reily’s. This rainforest is located in Lamington National Park, approximately two hours by road from Brisbane. In this place I could see a large variety of flora, including one kind of Araucaria from Chile, the liquen, etc. Something that was very interesting to me was a rare species of climbing plant that wrapped up the trees and killed them. After the trees rotted, all that was left was the hollow climbing plant (photo number 1).
I walked in the canopy with my friend Tim (photo 2 and 3), and his father and his cousin. The canopy is very similar than the Nahuelbuta Park in my region in Chile. In fact, both have a similar altitude of around 1000 meters above the level of the sea and have fresh air from the mountain allowing us to relax and enjoy nature.
Thanks Tim for inviting me there...I had a very nice time.

Above, some photos of the trip ;)

Bye.
Gerson.

2006: 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth

I chose to write about the life and work of Wolfgang A. Mozart for this entry because he is one of my favorite musicians and his music has had a great significance for me. I consider that he is without doubt, a great legend of the world music.
Mozart was born on 27th January, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria. His family was made up of Leopold (his father), Anna (his mother) and his sister Maria. Mozart's family was living the music in the air of their house due to his father was a composer, violinist and concertmaster and motivated his family to live and feel the music in the atmosphere, and this style of life grew more and more in the soul of the little Wolfgang. At the age of three years, Wolfgang started to play the keyboard, and at the age of five years old, started composing minuets.

His music can be classified: early (1761-1761), middle (1772-1781), late (1781-1791). Mozart composed over 6oo works, including 21 stage and opera works, 15 masses, over 50 symphonies, 25 piano concertos,12 violin concertos and many other pieces.

Mozart married in Vienna in 1782 with Constanze Weber, who he knew from teaching of music in Vienna. They had six children, but only two survived.

Mozart entered to the Masonry in 1784, in which he found his philosophic ideal, and he worked with enthusiasm there and created important works in relation to many significances of this society.

He died on fifth of December, 1791, in a difficult last time of his life. He was physically weak, and died in confused circumstances, supposedly poisoned. He was buried in a grave without a headstone.

His music is a legacy for the world and we can see in it many musical elements and styles from different countries and a completely different way of his time. He was and is real genius of music.

By Gerson.

Hi, welcome to my English Version of the "el Mirador de NoSrEg"

Hello,

Welcome to all the people that are visiting my English version of the "El Mirador de NoSrEg. In this first entry I want to greet my relatives, my nice girlfriend and close friends. I hope don't write with many mistakes in English, jiji, but I am learning this second language with enthusiasm.

Let me talk to you about my stay in Australia. I arrived on the 22nd of August to Sydney and then I caught another plane to Brisbane. When I walked on Australian soil for first time I felt strange and nervous, and a little scared to something that was unknown. In that time I met a very good person, Horacio, who helped me a lot with good advice and great company. He is an Argentinian man, but he has lived for approximately 20 or more years in Australia. One amazing experience were the english courses at the St. Lucia Campus of the University of Queensland, courses that I'll take in February of 2007 again.

In these courses I met very good class mates and a very good teacher, Darren. With my class mates and Darren we partied and we spend very nice moments, both in the classes and in the meetings. Now is very different the situation for me and I feel so good. And obviously that my better level of English has an influence in this. In my job I have worked in a wonderful environment, with cool people. The Aussies are very pleasant and are good people.

One good aussie mate is Tim, who I went with to visit the Gold Coast and a Rainforest. Other very good friend is a chilean guy, Raul, who help me a lot with his learned words and was friendly company with his wife Kathy and little daughter, Barbara. There are more very good people that have been part of my daily work and that help to me to feel like in home, namely, Carlos, Italo, Simon, David, Can, Mike, my supervisors:Elaine and Cathy, the Pilot Plant staff, the boss: Emmy, and all the researchers whom show willing when I require something.


So, thanks to all the people here and I hope to do a good work and enjoy it.
See you in a next publication.
Cheers!
Gerson.