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.