Making the herbarium

The making of the hermarium was an unexpected good experience for me. In the beginning I was unwilling to the idea of "wasting" my time collecting and drying up samples of branches and leaves, but with the pass of the time I realized that I could learn a lot from that.
I met several places like the Quebrada de Macul, some coastal hills and valleys on the V region "de Valparaíso", and woodlands on various parts of the V and VI region "del Libertador Bernardo O'higgins".
Also I knew some other areas deeper, like the Parque Forestal, Parque Quinta Normal, Cerro Santa Lucia, Cerro San Cristóbal, and a large etc.
I usually went on my own to these places to be focus on the work, have time to see and enjoy the landscape and the loneliness. Nevertheless, I went accompanied with my brothers Omar and Simon once, twice with my cousin Sebastian, and twice with a friend.
Honestly I spent a lot of time collecting and drying up the samples, but once I got them on the press, I forgot of them at all. That took me like 3 or 4 months. The make of label and stitch phase was the harder part and was the phase that I dedicated less time, nice logic. I had to make that on like 1 week or less, and was a really fun and traumatic challenge, although I got a red mark :(
I enjoyed it a lot, because I learnt many things about the Region Metropolitana in general, and of Santiago, Maipú, and the 68 route in particular. Sincerely I did not learn much about plant names but I was able to acquire other kind of knowledge as I spoke a lot with the people that I was meeting on the course of my night and day walks and travels.