Blog - My Autobiography

 Hi,

My name is Alejandra Lermanda and I was born in Santiago de Chile. I grew up in my early childhood in San Miguel, but when I was 5 years old I moved to Peñalolén.

I grew up with my maternal grandmother, since my parents separated in 1998, and there are 5 people in my family: my mom, my grandmother, and my uncle. My grandfather passed away on april 14 of the last year, after two years bedridden. I am the youngest member. On my mother's side I am french and mapuche descendant, and on my father's side I am a Basque Country descendant. Indeed, my surname is a Basque Country's location. I studied the elementary school at the "Colegio Santo Cura de Ars" and the secondary school at the "Liceo nº7 de niñas de Providencia".

Since I was a child I liked to learn languages, and when I was 12 I started to understand Japanese more easily than French, the language I was studying at the time. So when I was 14, I studied Japanese with a native teacher formally for a year. After graduating from high school, I took a level evaluation test and I was skipped to second year at "Instituto Cultural Chileno-Japonés", from which I graduated in 2014. Until today I'm studying for the Japanese language proficiency test (JLPT), an international exam in which I have managed to certify myself from N5 (the most basic level) to N3. This year I'm pursuing the N2 level.

So, I can speak Japanese and Spanish (sometimes I think in Japanese more than my mother tongue), and I have a part time job at an art supplies store in the weekends.

Also, I have studied Industrial Engineering at the University Diego Portales for three years but I gave up in 2018; then, in 2019 I entered in the basic cycle of the Bachelor in Arts with mention in Visual Arts at the University of Chile.

My hobbies are to go to the theater, listen to music (I LOVE classical music and J-rock), to learn languages (currently I'm learning Korean and Euskera) and wear Harajuku Fashion's clothes, since I was a member of the old chilean urban tribes. Also, sometimes I do cosplay. My comfort food is japanese salmon rice (also known as gohan), I LOVE TO EAT IT SOOOOOO MUCH.   

                               

                         These photos are of me and a friend of Valdivia in the "Harajuku Fashion Walk" (2021).

I love cats too, I live with Yurio, a siamese cat, he is like my son. :)

                                       

This photos are of Yurio (model and meme version)

Yurio with my boyfriend.

That's all! (I guess...) 

Have a nice day! =)