A special term

The last term was a very intense time for me… I lived some experiences that changed all the perspective that I had about my life. I think I’m not the same person that started the year 2010.

As I said, in the last term I lived very special and intense moments. In the beginning of the year I worked in a important telecommunication company to pay a holydays with my girlfriend (oh… now she is my ex-girlfriend, but about that I will write in other moment). After two stressfull months –that I met wonderful people– she and me could arrive to Buenos Aires, just the day of earthquake… but this is other story. That was the first time that I was out side of my country. It was a beautiful experience. That city is a great place to know. I loved it.

But this isn’t all. Well, this year my brother Cristian get married, too… We lost him, forever! That was at finally of February. It was a nice moment, emotive, with a great party after. I enjoyed it.

Anyway, in the university, the last term was something “weird”. As time goes by and the final of the career it’s close, the uncertainties come up. I had reflect very much about this… will I have a job? Am I good in this? How will be MY future? I think constantly in these ideas, and I get scared…

Well, 200 words aren’t enough to write about the last term… sometime in the future I will write about my other experiences about that time.

My blog experience

Write a blog was very fun for me, especially because the topics chosen were very interesting. I don’t talk about these commonly, and it was nice treat at this time.

I think that a blog is a good chance to improve our way of writing in english, but it’s necessary to take it more seriously, with a greater commitment, and try to make it without the help of online translators jajaja! Like any form of generating knowledge, it can be good if people put all their effort and commitment to practice them. I assume that I lacked a bit of effort in this.

But, in general, write a blog was a good experience. I had fun thinking about each subjects and reading what my classmates wrote. Considering my fellow students and career, I realized that there are many things that I didn't know about them, simple things that we never talked. On the other hand, considering my colleagues from other courses and careers, I met new points of view on things, very interesting opinions to share. I think that is the great strength of this experience: sharing, show our points of view and listen the point of views of others.

Anyway, I think that I will not continue writing, either on this or any blog. I like be a little anonymous, that only the people closest to me know what I do, feel and think. I'm not saying that those who have a blog are few discrete
and need to scream to the world their private lives. No. It just isn’t something appropriate with my personality (this may be because I didn’t grow up with computer and internet). Anyway, it was nice writing here.

Now, I just hope that come holidays. I will sleep a lot the first days, and then I find a part-time job to save money and visit my niece in Valparaiso. There are only three weeks.

Good luck everybodyl!

Across the sea

This is something that I think permanently. It doesn’t mean that I don’t like my career, but I always wonder if this is truly my passion, the activity to which I'll devote all my life. Sociology is a beautiful discipline, but it raises me questions, sometimes I find little serious as a science, too abstract. It's something that makes me dizzy very often.

I have other interests, some even a bit irrationals. Apart from the desire to be guitarist of a rock mega band (as Gun’s N 'Roses) or Manchester United's striker, I think I would love to work on a boat.

Since childhood I have had the dream of traveling across the Atlantic in a fishing boat, work cleaning the floor or washing dishes, or cooking, but knowing hundreds of ports in different countries. I think I have this dream due reading tales of pirates. I'm very curious to travel, to know the world, but I don’t like it's something "off", for pleasure. I like the idea of traveling with little money, sleeping on the streets, with odd jobs, meeting different people, improvising the language, communicating with gestures and signs. So, I think that if I didn't study sociology, as well as working on a boat, I would devote myself to something related to tourism. The only problem is I'm bad with foreign languages, especially with the english jajaja!

Yes, I think it may be something related to tourism management, promotion of tourist centers in my country: to travel, tours, camps, entertainment, events, parties, etc. Displaying the culture and customs of my country and its most beautiful places. Chile is a beautiful place for tourism. We have thousands of miles of coastline, the majestic Cordillera de Los Andes, the wine valleys, forests of the south, Pascua Island, the old neighborhoods of Santiago, and so on.

But this is not entirely incompatible with sociology. I can use the knowledge of sociology to help generate tourist centers of economic development for the community, and involving people in the processes of economic growth in the country. I would one day realize these aspirations.

My niece in a picture ;)

This photo is very important to me. Really I don’t know if this can be considered truly a photo; it’s a 3D image, an ultrasound which show a very special person for me. I present you her: she is my niece, called Violeta, and in this picture she was 6 months old. Now, she is just a few weeks before of birth.

She will be my first niece, the smallest “little person” of my family. I’m very excited about her birth, but I'm also a little sad because I'm not sure if I can be with her on this important day, as she will be born in Valparaiso, 120 miles away. Anyway, I hope visit her very often, even though it will be expensive.

I love this image. The photographer was the doctor jajaja! She looks like her mother Evelyn, especially in his chin and mouth. Also, I hope she will be so nice and funny like her, and that she inherits the intelligence of my brother Cristian.

The last weekend I visited them. It was nice, I had fun. Evelyn is very fat jajaja! ... obviously due the baby. She moves very slow and gets tired quickly. She said that she gets bored much because she spend all day at home watching national television, without going to walk or work. (It's assumed that on monday she was going to hire cable television). She showed me all the clothes of the baby, and it's very pretty. My niece will be seen beautiful with all those clothes.

My brother Cristian appears to be quiet, but I think that he is a bit anxious (there is little time for the great day!) Anyway, he looks very happy for his first child. He is a great person, taught me important things that I hope Violetita will learn too... Nobody teaches you to be parent. That can only be learned in the practice. But I think that the most important thing is to put love in every day and every moment of the family life. The house of Evelyn and my brother is full of love... I'm sure that they will be excellent parents.

Vamos Chile MIERDA!

I’m very excited because the World Cup will come soon! I love football, I breathe football, I eat football, I feel football every day in every moment of my life. So, I'm very happy because the World Cup will come soon.

The first World Cup that I remember was in U.S. 1994. I remember that my older brother was watching the final game, Brazil against Italy, while my mother ironed clothes. That day, Brazil was crowned champion.

Also, I remember fondly the World Cup of France in 1998, with the goals of "Coto" Sierra and the great "Matador” José Marcelo Salas. At the time that television spent most of the matches, I was in school. On then I was 10 years old, and I was just a young child as nice as I’m now jajaja!

For the 2010 World Cup, I think that Italy will win the trophy. The "azzurri" are a spectacular team: Buffon, Chiellini, Pirlo, Gattuso, Rossi, they are great players. Moreover, I believe that Brazil, Spain and Argentina also will be stars of this important event.

But undoubtedly the biggest surprise of this World Cup will be my beloved Chile. Hand in hand with Marcelo Bielsa, the selection of my country will show a great display of football thanks to players like Bravo, Medel, Vidal, Isla, Beausejour, the talented Alexis Sanchez and Jorge Valdivia, and striker "Chupete" Suazo. Matias Fernandez is a "wimp colocolino" and should not be a starter. So, I think that Chile will pass 8th-final without problems.

I can only say Vamos Chile MIERDA!

Arctic Monkeys

I didn’t want to write about this topic because for me it’s very difficult to decide which is my favorite band. Whatever ... My favorite band is "Arctic Monkeys."

The band it consists of Alex Turner (vocals, guitar), Jamie Cook (rhythm guitar), Matt Helders (drums and vocals) and Nick O'Malley (bass), this latter joined the band in June 2006 following the abandonment of Andy Nicholson. They are british, specifically from the city of Sheffield, at north of London. Their music style is indie rock. Their first two singles "I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor" and "When The Sun Goes Down", went straight to number 1 on the list of UK singles. Their albúm debut, “Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not”, holds the record as the biggest selling debut album in his first weeks in the UK, beating to “Definitely Maybe”, the debut album of the legendary Oasis. The band won the "Best New Act" in the "Brit Awards" 2006, and maked history in NME Awards 2006 by becoming the first band to win the award for "Best New Band and Best Band British "in the same year.

I love this band because their sound is varied and novel. Their music is unlike anything I've ever heard before, is very special: sometimes distorted, sometimes melodic. I really like the sounds of guitar and drums.

As I don´t know english, I don’t understand the 100% of lyrics of their songs. What make me crazy is overcoat the sound. Anyway, my favorite song of “Arctic Monkeys” is "Mardy Bum". This song is about a boy who remembers the good times with a ex-girlfriend who has now become a bitter.

"Remember cuddles in the kitchen

yeah, to get things off the ground and it was up, up and away

oh, but its right hard to remember that

on a day like today when you’re all argumentative

and you’ve got the face on"

"Mardy Bum" is a great song. Go over it at this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T0Yb7jkuME
I love it.

Pendrive mp3: the best invention of the world

My favorite piece of technology is the pendrive mp3 ... An pendrive mp3 is a small device that play music and stores all types of computer files. It’s very useful because it helps bring your favorite music everywhere you want! It was created in the late 90's by a group of experts called Moving Pictures Experts Groups or MPEG.
I love my pendrive mp3. It holds 2 GB. I have it a few months ago and, although it is not very expensive, I'm still paying it jajaja! My pendrive mp3 is black and it fit in the pockets of my pants. Moreover, it also can play FM radio. I use it mostly when I travel by bus or metro, to listen news, football games and my favorite records. My pendrive mp3 also can record voices, and this is very useful when I do interviews for the university.
I think that the pendrive mp3 is the best invention of the world! If the mp3 pendrive couldn’t exist, life would be very sad, although people would be more talkative. When I use it I don’t need to talk to people jajaja! With the pendrive mp3 people can move their computer files safely and easily. Pendrive mp3 is the best, like me XD