The last post

My experience with English was very strange, I started studying English on another university, then I dropped it, and now I'm bring back together with this languaje. It've been a little bit hard this semester, I had to miss many classes because of another classes that are too much demanding, and that's a problem with our career, sometimes we have to quit in order to pass the "important" classes and don't get behind schedule. Probably that's the worst of learning English at university, is not considered a priority so we can't dedicate the time that is required when you are learning another languajes, so you can't practice by talking or writing. And that's why I think that the use of blogs became important in the development of the classes, is a constant exercise, and after a certain time you realize that your English has improved, for example now I think and write faster, so the ideas comes clearly when I have to say something. Also it have been a lot of help for my work, I have to deal with many turist and foreigner people, so when they ask me about a topic, is not that hard formulate a clear  an easy answer for them.  

The things that I leave for the future are work on my pronunciation and try to improve on my vocabulary, probably next semester I will take a XX Century Music class that is give on English, so that's my opportunity to continue with the practice. Meanwhile, I tried to keep using English by reading a lot of blogs and interesting texts, and also listening to music and trying to follow the lyrics... sometimes I try to sing a little bit, but I think that the sound of my voice is not very delightful, so that kind of English practice is set aside for the shower time.

2014: A great year

It's time to think about this year, and I realize that this have been a good year. My last year was awfull, I miss a lot of clases and almost got rid of the career, so this new time was perfect, even if I have to spend another year in the university.

When I started 2014, I decided that I won't let me feel bad or being self-destructive with my work, also I decided to not get stressed and take everything with calm. Probably that last thing wasn't that way, because this year I started a lot of proyects that get me busy the most of the time. First semester was more relaxed, but this second period it's being crazy and full of experiences, for example, on the last month I worked on a play, I've been working with Complejo Conejo on a couple of workshops and interventions and have been worried about the university matters. Sometimes time is not enough for do everything, sometimes I had to lose some classes, sometimes I had to gave up to some grades because I was runing out of time, but to me it doesn't matter because it've been great experiences, with good and bad results.

Also, this was, and still is, a funny year, going to many places that I didn't know (like a place in the south called Gorbea), and going to very good events, as Lollapalooza or the last Queens of the Stone Age concert in Santiago.

When I have to think about bad things on this year, probably the most sad and terrible was my dog death on January, he was 12 years old, and get very sick one day and then he passed away, I still miss him when I arrive at home in the afternoons :(

On drugs

Talk about drugs. Is not easy, specially when you live in a country that allow and deny a lot of things that are completely contradictory. To me, talking about the case of cannabis, it would be fair for all let it use for medical treatment, and if you want it to use for recreational purpose, is your decision, is not a dangerous drug and if you raise it in your home, it would be free for the purpose that you want. 

And I think that is the problem in this case: cannabis is free, pills and medical treatments not. Everything here is about an industry, the pharmacological industry, receiving and giving money to governments and political parties, and in this way make people think that marijuana is bad, so go and buy an expensive medicine, full of synthetic components, and you can get better.

Once a lady from work told me that her aunt was diagnosed with a tumor, and after a very bad time on chemotherapy, she started to drink cannabis tea. After a couple of months, her doctor said that the tumor was smaller than before, and she felt better, everyday drinking her tea. That reminds me about another case on children with epilepsy that are on cannabis oil treatment, and how their parents where so happy about the results, but at the same time they have to fight with another people who think that they where commit a crime. 

To me the real crime is horrify people, make us feel that the only solution is what the principal industries say, instead of teach us to use basic and natural recurses, make people pay for our health, make people live in a constant illness is the crime here.

Green life

I'm not consider myself a green person, I'm not very connected to nature, but still try to make efforts that can change a little bit the situation that we live today in our planet. When I was a child, I lived in a house that had a very large backyard, so we used to made compost with the organic garbage, like tomato peels or leaves, in order to fertilize our plants. Now, on my current house, we don't make compost because is a smaller space, but try to separate our garbage when is necessary.

Another thing that I started to do time ago is dump the kitchen oil in plastic bottles after we make fried food, because dump it to the water is bad and very complicated to process. In some places you can sell that oil and then it is used as green fuel.Also, when we have things that we don't use anymore, but are still in good condition, we gave it to another people, so they see if can fix it or sell it.

Probably the biggest contribution that I can do is recycle. Before I enter to the career, I didn't have much conscience that everything have a second life, but then working in theater projects I realized that nothing is disposable when you have to build an scenography or a costume! So you can save the planet and your pocket recycling materials of an old model, like paper or cartons.

The Night of Id

Thinking about extreme/weird/awkard experiences, I remember once I went to a party with my friends in USACH, called "La noche del Ello" (Night of Id), it was organized by the psychology students. My friend Gabriel studied there, so he invited us to party and have a nice time...but things became something more than "nice": the Id was released!

I remember that me and my friend Vero arrive, and the first thing that we did was buy some beers and a choripan, then we start dancing with Gabriel and their Friends from university, then another friend arrive with her friend and in that point I started to lose the number of people that were there. The place was crowded, the DJ was really bad and the music sounds awful but everybody was dancing, probably because the alcohol was very cheap, so I could see Gabriel doing his famous dance steps(that are actually terrible), Vero flirting with an Argentinian guy, and me drinking beer and dancing some cumbia villera. 

The thing is that in some point of the party, I started to feel really bad and sick in the same moment that Vero disappeared with the guy, and Gabriel, that was very drunk, didn't know what to do, so he decided to lay down me on a bench. I was so wasted that I couldn't stand or talk, I remember a boy who started to drink wine from a box near to me, and a girl that started to argue him that the wine was mine(???) so he could not drink it, that he was a bad man that not deserve to drink wine from other people. A couple of minutes passed and we decided to go home...and don't remember much about what happened after that, but there is a picture of the moment:

Kodak moment

Hungry in Santiago

Everytime I go outside to eat something with my family or friends, I tried to go to places that offer different types of food, like exotic food, or new restaurants. The good thing is that in the last years, lots of restaurants had opened in Santiago, and many of them have international food.

The first place that comes to my mind is "Speed Sushi", a japanese restaurant with nice people and perfect food, and the most important, perfect prices! Before I went there, I tried japanese food but it wasn't a good experiences, so when I got introduced to Speed Sushi, I was very surprised and delighted. The rolls are so big, and tempura rolls, my favourites, are perfect. And one of the best part of all is that is near the city center, on Angamos Street #304 (near FAU)

Another place that becomes in one of my favourite is an arabian restaurant specialized on shawarmas. I went there last week, and on the first bite I was completely in love with the food, big portions and good price. I didn't know it, because is a new place near the university (on Rosas Street, between Teatinos and San Martin Streets), some friends went there before and also think that the shawarmas are delicious! I tried one filled with falafel and vegetables, but the next time I will try one with meat.

Besides of this new places, I always visit whit my mom a chinese restaurant on San Antonio Street, around the corner of Santo Domingo Street. Is our tradition go there when we have something to celebrate, or if we want to eat outside, so is a place that I really enjoy and reminds me nice moments.

Dream Jobs

Thinking in future job's is very stressfull for me, what I'm going to do is a complete mystery, especially being a Theater Designer. Our career is open to many posibilities, but the field is too small even with the amount of Theater's Festivals that exist nowadays in Chile. Something that I am really aware is that I wouln't work in an office, stuck 7 hours doing the same thing everyday, that's why I'm studying a non-conventional career, eventhough is not easy to find a good job.

Something that I would love to do is work in something related to music (as I said in previous post), the other day my boyfriend show me some videos of the backstage of NIN's concerts, and how they make the lights effects and the concepts of their shows, and I was very excited because I thought that someday I could make something like that!

Another thing that I found very nice and funny to do is shop window design. On my current work I always try to organize the merchandisings and suvenirs in the way that look more atractive for the customers and turist, is a fun and stimulating work, and today more and more stores design their shop windows carefully and more professional. For example, film director Sofia Coppola designed the windows of some Louis Vuitton stores, and the results were beautiful! So I think that's a good option if I want to create different things.