Interview with @martutuni 22.03.2025
Gracias very much Martina @martutuni that i can interview you!!! 🥰🥰 I can only ask 20 questions so that is a bit difficult!! 😛 For Part I there are these questions and I hope that you like them!! And if you dont want to answer a question that is not a problem of course. 🌈🌞✨
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1: How long have you been a member on PPG and what are your nicest moments here? Like on the forum or chatting or meeting a person? Or something else?
I think it's been almost 4 years! PPG calls me a Veteran hahahah 🫡
It all started when I was learning French online and the site suggested making a forum here to exercise what we learned! “Vivre in France A1”. It was super fun! But although I love learning languages by myself (I have tried to learn Norwegian, Danish, Gàidhlig, Gaeilge, Japanese…) I found it’s easier for me to do it with a professor.
In 2021 I started learning Italian with the hopes of doing an exchange with the University of Salerno in Italy.
I met amazing people here from everywhere in the world, but my favorite moment here is definitely when in July of 2022 I met *someone* with whom I had instant chemistry and is now my handsomeee boyfriend 🥰❤️❤️ (I'll ask him if he wants to come forward hahaha)
I also really love making new memories and participating in the forums, a very lovely community has formed through interacting with very interesting topics and discussions!
2: What is your hometown like? Did you always live in that place and where do you want to live in the future?
Córdoba is the second biggest city in Argentina and yet, it feels like somehow everyone knows each other! it’s the capital of the province with the same name.
I love my hometown, it is very difficult to describe it with few words (and without getting into the historical/architectonic topic!) and I’ve learned to appreciate it much more when I started studying architecture.
I can tell you a few of its characteristics:
• If you see a map, you will see a big circle surrounding it.
• The city center is formed by a lot of interesting neighborhoods where you can find shopping malls, a lot of museums, parks and meeting points, amazing architecture and there’s even a neighborhood dedicated to all kinds of bars and pubs! That also has one of the nicest artisan fairs of all 🩷
• If you drive 30 mins in any direction from the center you can find that big circle which is a ring road that will quickly take you to beautiful towns surrounded of nature and a lot of activities, we informally call them “las sierras” because we usually spend time visiting the west part of the province where there are mountain ranges and lakes, rivers, dams… and beautiful picturesque towns.
• We have one of the oldest and high-level universities of Latin America and the world, having been founded in the 1600s by the Jesuits, and are pioneers in getting education to be public and accessible with the Universitary Reform taking place in 1918. The Universidad Nacional de Córdoba!
• Because of this our city welcomes people from all over our province, Argentina and the world! I’ve met amazing people from everywhere thanks to that.
• It was, in fact, founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera who named it after his wife’s hometown: Córdoba de la Nueva Andalucía in Spain. So in its conformation it is very similar to other colonial cities.
• We have our own music genre called “Cuarteto” that is very upbeat and blasted in every home!
• We are very kind and fun people, super passionate! Because there are many students living in the center you can find we are very heterogenous, but the cordobeses always stand out 😋
• We have a very particular accent (that later in life I learned it’s very similar to the accent of the people in Yucatán, México and I find it very similar to the accent of people in Veneto, Italia). It’s a melodic accent that can be traced directly to the indigenous people inhabiting this land called Comechingones, who talked the kamichingon language.
I’m sorry im such a nerd about this but I love fun facts about my city! hahaha
I'd honestly love to experience living in: Salerno, Rome, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, Barcelona or Córdoba in Spain 🤭
3: Can you cook really well? If you have guests what is the nicest things that you would like to make? And what is YOUR favourite dish to eat?
I'm not the best at cooking but I do it with a lot of love if I cook for other people!
If the PPG members would be at my home I would cook them all traditional argentinian meals: asado, empanadas, humita, locro… and share mate 🧉 with everyone!
My favorite dish is definitely milanesas with mashed potatoes, a classic!
4: Who is your idol and why? And did you have other idols in the past?
As of right now I don’t have any idols, but I look up to architects Anna Heringer and Diébedo Francis Kéré!
They create thoughtful, significant architecture filled with the local culture and history, mixed with avant-garde design. Meaning it’s a kind of architecture that doesn't ignore its context/history and gives back to the community it’s implanted into. I would love to follow their footsteps in my own practice!
In the past, I was a hugeeeee fan of One Direction and Ariana Grande! 🤭 From ages 9 to 16 I was a hardcore directioner. And of course I was very saddened Liam Payne passed, and it happened in my country! 😞 But I keep the memories of the beautiful emotions I felt thanks to them 🩷
5: If you can decide 3 things for your country to change. What do you choose?
Well this question touches deeply into me because I have a lot of thoughts to share but I will keep it superficial for now!
• I would like to make better cities so they combine nature and urbanization equally, although I really like how our cities display our culture right now 🙂
• I would love if we could have our traditions brought to the front! Use our traditional clothing everyday in the cities (because in the countryside, gauchos dress like they did from the start!), blast folklore music more often, give more importance to our national lore and not only when we play football!
• Enhace the rest of the cities! The majority of people that visits Argentina only visits Buenos Aires. It’s an amazing place to go to and I am happy it is our presentation card to the world, but we have kilometers and kilometers more to show! Very different to a metropolitan city! Our environment changes every step you take from North to South and East to West: we have deserts, jungles, woods, wetlands, sea beaches, mountain ranges, salt flats, and don’t get me started on the Patagonia!
• One extra change, and I really do not intend this to be a political discussion! I would like the world to change the vision of my country and consider the Malvinas islands as ours 🤍✨
These 4 super nice paintings show what Martina mentioned in 5 about the traditional clothing!! More pictures will also be posted later and we hope that you like them. 😊😇
Thank you very much for the first part of this interview @martutuni!! If anybody wants to ask a question or post a comment you can do that below ⬇️⬇️ or write Martina @martutuni with a message!! 🙂 More interviews of PPG members are on this page: overview of interviews. 🌸🌼🌻
