This year

This year was great. I don`t know why but to me, all my years are great. This year specifically started with a travel to Peru with some friends for two weeks. Was the first travel in my life that was paid completely for my. All the people who knows me before this travel, knows that I have a biologic impossibility to save money. I just can`t because I`m a  bit consumer. But, this year I get not waste the money in unnecessary things, and I get the money to travel. Was a success in my life.
Another important things that happened this year; was the first university semester in my life that I have a calcification over 5.5. Was another success, because never happened before, on fact, al the years I got a 5.3.

A situation that did not go so well is that I had been taking again statistics III, a subject that I didn’t  get past the last year, so I had to do it now, and I didn’t do well the last test, so… that. I don`t want to do this subject again, because the teacher is a bit crazy.

A thing that I have not done yet is saving monkey to my next travel this summer, to Uruguay. I mean, I have the most part of the money, but not all the money. Anyway, I think I will get the rest in December, working in New Year celebration or something like that, I don`t know, y just know that I will get it.

An important new this year, is that I live alone in Santiago. Months ago I was living with my sister, but right now I live alone and it`s great. I mean, live with my sister was cool, because we are very closer and we never fit, but, live alone is too much better, because I can invite people and listen music without notify to nobody. Anyway, I miss her.

And that`s all. Was a great year. 

The worlds of arts

This post is hard to me because I am not close to the art worlds, so, I don´t really know what to write here. Anyway, I think arts in general (poetry, literature, music, cinema, etc) are important because can beautify the life and are the most liberating way to express the human interiority. Also I think it can be used to make the people reflect about their contexts, as a social criticism, and that’s the way of art that I enjoy, more than the other kinds of arts that just want to garnish a high class wall.

I wasn’t interested in visual arts when I was a kid, and I was very untalented in the subject of “Arts” in the school, on fact, I always be the worst rating in the class, because the teacher thought that my draws were too ugly.

I like to visit art museums, but just when I have a lot of free time and don´t have any better thing to do. I don’t have artistic abilities, so I’d never participated in any art competition, just once, when I was 10 years old and in the school the older people organized an art competition, and I participated and I won, but just because my sister was one of the organizers and convince to his friends to vote for my drawing.

All my life I was jealous of everybody art work.

I don´t know what is exactly the modern art, but I like the Avant-gardes, like surrealism, futurism, etc. And I think the idea of make a manifesto is really powerful. Anyway, my favorite kind of visual art expression is the photography, because is incredible how some people can see the same thing as you, but when you see her/his photography, they could capture a portion of reality that you didn’t see.

                                                                                                                           

I don’t consider graffiti a vandalism, of course is art! If someone don´t see art in graffiti is because is too blinded by the academy and is this kind of people who understand the contemporary art of MAC (freak people, because I think nobody understand it).

Also, I think the art creation made of human flesh, blood or bones is just an a way to call the attention, but is not really interesting or creative to me.

I don´t have any favorite artist or work of art. 

How green are you?

I think the people learn about the environmentally friendly practices principally in the school, her/his houses, and internet. In my house nobody recycle, and me neither, and honestly, even I like the natural world and the animals, I don´t do anything for save and care it. However, I try to buy biodegradable things, not use things that were tested on animals, and not to eat anything that comes from the animal suffering (like cheese, milk, meat, honey, etc).

Also, I like go walking to the university, but when I have to make longer travels, I use the public transport. I don´t like when the people use the car if they just will go aver less than 5km, that is justifiable just if you are too old, you can´t walk, in a emergency or if you are very, very, very tired and you really cannot move yourself (sometimes happen).

I´d never join or supported any eco-organization, and I think is because I had never find one that I really likes me, and where I don´t have to pay to participate.

I don´t have any idea about what is the carbon footprint, so I don´t know if I do something to reduce it.

I think Santiago need get closer the recycling practices to the people, I mean, maybe there should be more places to recycle in all the cities and places, making easy recycle, not something where you have to travel too much time to let your litter. And also, maybe should be an a law that everybody have to separate the litter before take out the garbage. 

Friends

I think of friends are the most awesome thing ever. I don´t know what I value in a friend, I think there is not a specific thing, it´s just an affinity that develops along some funny or interesting conversation and experiences. A requirement to start being friends is that he/she makes me laughs and vice versa, just to know that we enjoy our mutual presence, is not necessary any other special qualities in a friend.

I think friends are to share moments of life, dreams, reflections, adventures, plans, laughter, and long moments of nothing. Also, must be people who have the intention to help you when you´ve got a problem and they can fix it or makes you feel better. I try to be a good friend, and I think I am.  

I don´t know if I make friends easily or not. Usually, I enjoy with all the people, it´s really, really hard someone dislike me. But for to be friends it´s necessary the long conversations, and if I can´t have this with someone, probably we won´t be friends although I enjoy his/her presence. Anyway, in general terms, I think is easy to me make friends.

I remember that I had an internet friend when I was like 12 years old, her name was Dominique and we talked too much about books, music and anime. I don´t remember too much about her, and I´d never meeting any other friend by internet.

My closest friend´s name is Isabel, and she is really funny. She always say things that I don´t dare to say and we can stay hours and hours talking and laughing to mourn. We met in the school, but we made closer friends when we left the school. I keep seeing like 6 school friends, and they are all great. 

My future Job

I don´t like think about what I will work in the future, because is too uncertain. I´m studying sociology, but I don´t know if I will work in something related to that or maybe I will do something completely different. Anyway, I feel great not knowing what I will do, because that´s what life is about.

I´m not sure about what kind of job would I like to have, and I can´t imagine it. I would like to work in outdoors, but as a sociology, I guess I will be more time working in an office. Of course I would like to travel to a lot of places as part of my job, but that´s like a dream, because I doubt really happens.

At any rate, usually when I think in my future, I imagine myself working of freelance transcribing interviews, while I’m traveling through Southeast Asia. I guess I would like start to work in something serious and formal when I´m older, and have a job in a university or something like that.

I would like to take a major in Sociology of communications, because this year I discovered its existence in a elective subject, and I think it´s great, because they do analysis of mass media (as television, papers, radio, etc.) and study the discourses they create. 

VideoGames

I’ll start saying that I don’t play video games, and I wouldn´t say I like it. Of course I played once, specifically when I was 11 years old, because my older brother showed to me Age of Empires, and I remember that I stayed all weekend playing it, just stopping to go to the bathroom and eat. Really bad idea. After one month I even  started to dream with the game, and with Juana de Arco saying “we must rescue William Wallace” but in Spanish (I didn´t and I don’t dream in English, of course). One day I stopped playing it, because I realised that in two months I hadn't done anything productive.

Since that moment I can´t remember myself playing any video game. I don´t say that it´s a waste of time, because someone could really enjoy it and find an utility in them, like learning English, or maybe all his/her friends do it so it´s fun talking  about video games with them, I don´t know. I don´t think there’s anything bad about the people who play video games, at least not until they become  obsessed with it to the point they can´t talk of anything else. If they just play it because it´s  their hobbie, that’s fine, everybody has different ways to use their time.

But, I prefer to do other things when i´m using the computer. I like to watch films, read books, watch music videos, search for new music, and specially, I use the social networks to talk with people that I can´t see everyday.

Franz Ferdinand!!

The best concert I were was on 2010, in Movistar Arena. The artist was Franz Ferdinand, it´s suppose that is an indie rock band, but honestly I think they are a pop band, from Glasgow, Scotland.  It was created in 2001, and the name of the band is in honor to the archduke Franz Ferdinand. The members of the band are Alex Kapranos, Bob Hardy, Nick McCarthy and Paul Thompson.

The concert was 8 days after the earthquake, so as a frivolous person, I was worry about an eventual cancellation of the concert. Finally, it wasn´t canceled, and I arrived to the Movistar Arena 3 hours previous to the concert. In those times, Franz Ferdinand was my favourite band so I was really exciting about it.

Was the first concert that I was located in “cancha general”, where all the people are together, without sit, jumping, and fighting to advance and be near to the band. I was very crushed by the people, and when the band appears in the stage it was worst, I really thought I would die because I couldn´t breathe. Finally, I could breathe and all was better, never in my life I shouted as I did in that moment.

The best moment was when they played a song call "This fire". Now, when i listen this song i feel euphoric again.

At the end of the concert, I get the “uñeta"! Was great J