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Today July 7th, Chocolate lovers celebrate World Chocolate Day. This food desired by many people, it’s made from dried and fermented cocoa seeds. The word chocolate It comes from the Nahuatl (official language of the Aztecs): “Xocolátl”. The international day of chocolate it’s celebrated since July 7th of 2010 after the agreement between the French acemia of chocolate and confectionery with the international organization of cocoa producers. The first chocolate factories were born in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe and the United States. It’s said that in the year 1550 of this date, cocoa was introduced from America to Europe. Europe is the largest consumer in the world followed by the United States. Currently there are many types of chocolates, including dark chocolate, bedding, white, with nuts and the recently discovered pink chocolate. Francisca Flores.

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28th, May 2018 The Memorial Day The war day or memorial day is a federal commemorative date that takes place on the last Monday of May of each year in USA, in order to remember the American soldiers who died in combat. Initially it was established to commemorate the fallen of the American Union that participed in American civil war, but after of the first world war it was extended to pay homage to all american soldiers who died in the wars that USA participates. Many people visit cemeteries and memorials, particularly to honor those who have died in military service. Many volunteers place an American flag on each grave in national cemeteries. Memorial Day is NOT to be confused Whit Veterans Day. Francisca Flores.

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ARMED FORCES DAY What is it? It is a day to pay tribute to men and women who serve the United States Armed Forces, it is a holiday to honor their military service in support of the U.S.A But.... Is it correct to celebrate this? You know that the access Program is in Chile and the U.S is the basis of our program, everything we do is because of U.S but again, Is it correct to celebrate guns? As a person who loves this country I would say NO! I Know that guns are part of their lives I Don’t Agree with that... I mean, to celebrate the military service is completely Ok, but Wha happen when this holiday starts to make people make choices that we don’t know if that is alright... What Do I Try To Say? Celebrate the Day isn’t the problem but then you see there’s another face to this day, U.S Celebrating the right to have guns, right to have weapons and stuff like that, but do they know what happen when all this things are free to buy? I think they don’t cause if they would know the causes to have a gun, I don’t know if they would let the country (anyone) to have a gun Like I Said, I Don’t Agree With That but here’s the Reason... Just One Thing, The Shooting, How That Can Be Possible? Are they Insane? Do they know the risk to have a gun? Or they just were born with that in their minds? Do they think on the people who is dying in the wrong way because of this? Do they think on the Kids? Do they even think on something when they do this? That’s The Problem, they don’t know nothing , they just do what they want and don’t think about anyone else when this things happen, so what can I Say, Are you agree if you were one of them? Would you celebrate the Day?

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FREE HUGS / TALKS

We are Access Program. We study at the Instituto Chileno Norteamericano from La Serena and this is our last year in which we made a “Service Learning” that consisted in two parts. One of them and the first was “Free Hugs” and how did we do this? Well... we did surveys to know what subjects are the most important in our community and the results were Depression but focused on teenagers. We thought that we wouldn’t have successful results because our society has been losing the closeness between people, that was our first thought but certainly it was the opposite. 

Also we did Talks in Gabriel González Videla School and Gregorio Córdovez School; in both of them, part of our classmates had a conversation with representatives of each grade to inform about depression in teenagers and that they can request help for those people who knew other people with depression. 

obviously we had unconditional support from our four teachers and the institute, it was a great experience that we’d do once and a thousand times more. 

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Una experiencia inolvidable, nuestro Segundo y ultimo ‘community service’ dentro del programa / An unforgettable experience, our second and last community service with Access program.

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We want to become aware of depression because many people have it and everybody’s worried about it. We’re going to do a really fun activity, that’s “free hugs”! We’ll be giving chocolates with cheery messages and also a little group is going to be giving talks in two different schools!

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As we are in the Pride month (yay!) we wanted to remember that the LGBTTTI is not the only one celebrated. The main topic of this month is actually EQUALITY, and that basically means that no matter our race, beliefs, color, sexual orientation, etc we shouldn't be discriminated because of our differences. So, as part of the Access program we invite you to spread the love in this beautiful month!

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Do you are empathic? More people in the world don't think in the other. The society will be better with our help, now is the moment for think and change our attitude. It educates the society with your example, you first star.

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EQUALITY

We are not just people. We are humans and as humans we are completely different. We have different thoughts, nacionalities, tastes and also we speak different languages. But does that matter? I don’t think so. Because it doesn’t matter if I speak Chinese, English or Spanish. It doesn’t matter if I am tall, short or even if I have green or brown eyes. We all have dreams, we all have the capacity to respect to others. 

So, be proud of being you. Love yourself and follow your own path. 

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Ambassador Visit

it was so cool, we felt so proud about it, we could talk with her about what Access means for us. We’re so lucky for have meet both embassadors

The activity resulted so good. First, my classmates made a presentation, talking about 2016, our projects and what we do in here. Later, we had some questions for the ambassador; she answered everything so kindly, we loved it. To finish the activity, we had a coffee break and we had the chance to talk to her and her workmates.

It was a good experience, we hope to do it again; we were so glad, proud and thankfull for everything.

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Access Garden

The Access garden is the biggest project of us, it has taken a lot of time, lot of work and has a lot of love. Since January, all of us have worked hard to complete our project.

Here we have some opinions of our classmates about our beautiful garden:

- “It´s so good, shows the creativity and motivation of access”. Lorenzo.

- “So beautiful, our hearts are in the garden”. Coti.

- “It´s a good way to help the planet, and leave a mark for the next access”. Shelsy.

- “Is something that make us so proud because we´re doing for the Institute”. Abby.

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People in access

First, we want to say that access is not just a program, we are a family, who have diferents personalities and we love each other. We don’t know how we´re going to survive without these people, because they’re all so important for us <3. 

We are pieces of a little world so everybody here has a different point of view and we love sharing it with everyone. Here we have no one to lead access, we all can be leaders.

The teachers are a fundamental part, because they help us and they want us to be better people and they work really hard for it.

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Our expectations...

As a group and a family we have many expectations for this year, one of them is speak in English when we leave Access Program because that may  give us new opportunities outside. 

That our values keep on continuing  in our development and keep in contact, all of us 💕 

Improve in the first test that we made in 2016 

End the program well 

This experience will be good for everyone. 

We hope that everything that we live in 2016 and what will be the 2017,  leave a footprint in our learning and our hearts. ❣🌠 

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Our Holidays!!!

Hey, hey! i’m Cony, and now i´m going to talk you about my holidays without Access. I went to the Elqui Valley many times in the summer, and also i stayed in my house reading, and watching Netflix. My holidays weren’t interesting without Access. ;;u;;

Hello! I’m Santi and in my holidays I went to a camping in the Elqui valley, to the Curuninas and i stayed in my house playing the guitar, my holidays weren’t funny without Access. 7n7

Hey! My name is Lorenzo and in my holidays as my other friends have said I went to Elqui Valley and also Copiapo. I read a lot and pretty much procrastinate all the time. My holidays weren’t awesome without Access. ;-;

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friends? or A Family?

this start a normal day of class, nobody knew each other, but in one minute we clicked and from that moment to now, we know it´s never goin to be the same,

so many crazy things, so many delicious food, so many good moments, are totally unforgetables,

this is access, but, this is our access and we love them...

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Now, we are talking about arts, especially about music and films.

The music and the cinematografhy, are two arts very importants for our. We have a lot of reasons for write this, but the most important is the union of two arts for add emotions and versatility for understand the movie or video. Isn´t an objective point, but is the principal reason for search this.

Since our search we conclude this: “the importance of the music in the movies it’s based on the emotions of the scene and the risks taken in the film”

by: Eduartín.