Blog

So, this is the last blog post. I never had a blog before, and I din't read blogs very often either, so when I first heard about posting in a blog, I hadn't any idea about what to do. I was a bit scared, wondering if it was really necessary, but now I can say I'm glad about all this. It was very interesting, and I had a lot of fun. I think the post I most enjoyed writing was the one about a walk I'd like to do again. It reminded me my childhood experiences and the time spent with my family, which was very nice. The post that I didn't like at all was that one about Victory City. I'm not sure why, but I think it's cause I didn't like the project itself. I don't think is that simple as say, let's do a nice city and let's be happy. It's hard to grow as a society 'cause we need everyone's help. It's a very utopian project, and I don't think things like that can actually exist, at least not in this time. As you want people to act perfectly, you limit their actions. To me, it seems more distopian that utopian.

At the begining, I didn't think it'd be that useful posting every week, but now I can say it's a great way to improve your english skills. Writing about all sorts of things makes you think about all the ways you can explain them. It improves your vocabulary as you search for new words and improves your redaction ability. I think is a lot better than more traditional ways like answering tests. It's interesting to read my classmates posts too. I really enjoyed Ailyn posts, and I think that's due to her redaction style, though her themes were very nice too.

And that's it, Simon. I wasn't sure about if it was a good idea to take english classes. I thought it was too soon, that  I was going to get stressed. I was wrong. I had a lot of fun here, not stressed at all (not due to english at least), so I'm very happy.

2016

Hi there

The year is at last finishing. I can't say it was a bad year, but a tiring one. As a first year student at university, there are lot of new things in my life, so it was very interesting. I met new people in a new city, and haven't seen my old classmates in a while, though we chat sometimes. Actually I'm already a bit used to it, since I studied in about 5 different schools, but the high school mates have more impact I think. The great change, and the best, was obviously studying the career that I wanted. I think it was better than what I expected. At the same time it was the worst change, since I spend a lot of time on it and get very tired, but it's worth it.

About music, it was  a great year. There was blink 182's California and Calvin Harris' "This is what you came for" and "My way", though it wasn't that surprising for me, 'cause I started listening to them just this year lol. Anyway, it was nice.

I don't watch TV very often, actually it is turned on only when my parents come. I haven't gone to a cinema about one and a half year ago, so there's nothing to say about that neither. I think the most interesting were the series (I watch them online, not on TV), but they were not new. Da Vinci's Demons was really interesting, and I continued watching The walking dead ( but I'm just at the fifth season haha). About anime series, there weren't a lot of great new ones, maybe just Drifters, but is just the half part, so I'm reading the manga ( it's literally the same, from start to end).

I haven't travelled anywhere but to my town in the south, at the student strike and at September 18th week. Since I'm still in classes I can't go on summer vacations, but is okay, 'cause there's only 1 month left hahah

A one-on-one conversation

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I think I have already said that I like manga in another post, so it´s not a surprise that I'll write about my favourite manga author, Ishida Sui, the mangaka that drew Tokyo Ghoul. I think it became very popular when it got an anime adaptation. I first heard about it from a friend that likes all this stuff, just like me, I think, about 3 or 4 years ago. I like drawing, so I admire a lot of mangakas. Every one has their own style that makes their work unique.

Ishida's drawing skills, are very impressive, but I think that wasn't what I liked about his manga: it was the story. It talks about a world where are creatures that look just like humans, called ghouls, that eat humans (they can´t eat anything else, 'cause they can't digest them) and live among the people. The main charachter, Kaneki Ken, is a human adolescent that gets involved in an accident and ends taking part in an experiment wich turns him into a ghoul. Then he has to face the dilemma about eating human flesh or starve to madness. I would like to ask Ishida about what made him write this story. People often kill, directly or indirectly, other animals and live beings. We do it in order to survive, so sometimes we say it's okay to kill. What if we were the food of another species? We don't want another humans to be murdered, yet we murder other species. What does make humans different from other animals? Almost nothing. It's true that we developed more consciousness and are more intelligent, but we are basically the same. We say we have souls and other animals don't, but it's all about our ego. I wonder if Ishida's intentions were that deep or not, but I think they were. I would like to discuss with him about this topic, 'cause there a lot of other things to consider. I eat meat. but I don't think being vegan is wrong, 'cause everyone has the right to think different from the others.

An interesting subject

Hi guys
Today I'm going to write about a subject that I enjoy: physics. I've been carrying this liking for physics and maths since high school, but I only hear people complaining about it. I think when you give it a chance and make some effort, you realize how great it is (though it sounds a little weird for me to say it, since I hate chemistry. I'm glad that I won't be studying that anymore lol). I take classes every monday, from 8:30 to 1:30. It's very tiring to have classes 5 hours in a row, but the teacher, Raimundo Fernandez, is very nice to hear to, and the last 1 and a half hour we just solve some exercises, so it's okay. I think the best part of the subject is the way you learn it. You don't just read a book and memorize, so it's all about practising. Electrostatics and hydrostatics are my favourite themes, though the ones that are more hard to me. Now that I think about it, I don't really spend time studying physics, and maybe it's because workshop projects require a lot of time. At least for me, it's not really hard,  'cause I have already learned all the stuff at high school, but I'm not sure if everything is in the common program or there are things that I learned in the maths and physics program. Anyway, since Architecture physics are very basic, it's just about remembering. Some architects hire people to make the structure and resistance calculation for their projects, but I think it's better to make it by myself, cause no one knows it as the person who designed it, and it's even better in my case, 'cause I enjoy doing it.

A Hobby

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Altough I haven't been always fond of listening to music, now, everytime I can do it, well, I do it. I think it was an influence from my best friend, who I met at high school. He always was with his headphones on, so you couldn't imagine him without them. Maybe it was listening to new music genres that interested me. I'm very selective about wich songs I listen to; in fact, I like just a few songs per author, so, in order to get a good playlist, I need to search a lot. You could say that rather listening to music, my hobby is look for new music to listen to. I think everyone does it, but in my case I like music genres for periods of time, until I get a little tired after listening to it a lot of times. Often, when I hear a song that I don't know, I search about it, the artist, the genre, and that's how everything starts. Some time ago it was dubstep and electro house (I had a friend that listened to Fox Stevenson); then, I got interested in alternative rock 'cause it reminded me my childhood listening to Linkin Park (my brother liked it). After that, pop rock and pop. Actually, Imagine Dragons and One Republic got me for a very long time. I'm not sure abot the the next "steps", since I jumped from softer pop to hard rock. Right now, I'm very interested in electro and dance (though I don´t dance a lot lol). It's not like I stop listening to the "old" genres. In fact, they are still in my playlist. It's just that I get more interested in the new ones. I like to think about it like selecting the best songs from every genre and artist (at least the ones that I like most) in order to get a, mmhh, you know, a super playlist. Here I let Calvin Harris' Blame, sang by John Newman

A Famous Chilean

Sorry to dissapoint you guys, but I don't really know a lot of famous people from chile, and the few ones, I don't admire them. I mean, there's a lot of chilean people that have achieved big goals and are known world wide, so you could say I respect them, but I don't admire them, and I'm not really interested in their work. Maybe the person that's closest to that is Diego Portales. He was a businessman who was granted the monopoly of tobacco. But this business did't work out, since there was a lot of trafficking. So he started to think that the governing people, the "pipiolos" that were liberals, weren´t competent enough to lead the nation, because they couldn´t even guarantee what they promised to Portales. Here comes the thinking that people cannot be responsibles for theirselves and until they are, there must be an authoritarian government. I know it's a bit radical, and I don't totally agree with that, but sometimes I think society needs to mature. A lot of stupid things have happened and I'm sure a lot more are going to happen for a really long time. The thing is, if they are not allowed to think by theirselves in this period, how are they supossed to mature? It's a trial and error process, so they need to make mistakes, I think. You could say that now I'm going against what Portales said, but I rather like all the toughts and dilemma that this thinking brings. Anyway, like I said, people need to grow up psychologically (including me).

Victory City

It seems like human kind has always wanted an utopian world. And here it is:

http://fishmech.info/www.victorycities.com/

The plan is bring people a better life standard, environment conditions and avoid traffic congestion. How? With a fully regulated city. So I read the residential apartments and resident guidelines section. The system isn't really that different if you compare it with te actual one. They will have residencial buildings with flats and all the stuff. They are just improved: they can be cleaned really fast after the person living there leaves, so the new users can get them sooner.The trash dispossal changes a bit too and it will be eliminated "before ever it gets started". Sounds fine, huh. The great difference about the residential plan is the distribution. There will be two areas: the quiet and the regular ones. At the quiet areas, TV's, stereos and musical instruments are banned. There is a central tv and musci system, so everyone can listen to it from home. About transportation, there will be used elevators and mini electric cars, and traffic congestion will be avoided. 
Maybe it sounds nice or utopian, but I'm sure it wouldn't be really great. Since everything is controlled, there is no real freedom, and that's how i turns to a distopian city, something like Orwell's 1984, Huxley's A Brave New world or Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Although people wouldn't complain when they are already in this city, if you told them before, they'll refuse, because free will is very important to human beings, and a perfect world should be reached by everyone collaboration and responsability, in a process that would take centuries or even more, with the people maturity.

Something you did last weekend

Well, I can´t say it was a productive weekend, but it wasn't so bad. On Friday, after classes, I stayed at the university talking with friends and having some drinks. Sounds normal but actually that's a little strange for me, I mean, I'm not a very sociable person. I rather like to be alone at my house, rest or do anything, in a quiet ambient. I get a little bothered and start to lose tolerance when there are lots of people, and I hate loud noises and that stuff, so I don´t go to parties very often. Anyway, sometimes I go out and have a lot of fun too, but I think that's once a month. As I'm not used to drink a lot of alcohol, I got a bit dizzy very soon haha, but it was funny anyway. I wanted to travel and visit my parents, but I was very busy with my project for workshop. The plan was to take advantage of the two free days and finish it soon, so I could rest then, but it wasn' like that at all. As always, I finished it on wednesday (lol), so I could have travelled (....). Though I didn't work on Monday and Tuesday, I had a lot of time to sleep, so I recovered some energy for the rest of the month (or the week at least). I think I could spend more time with friends and other people, 'cause in the end I enjoy it (though I'm not very fond of it).

A Walk You Would Like To Do Again

I'm from a catholic family. We used to go to church every sunday and take part at every ceremony. Actually, my mom is still part of the church choir. So at special events, we went in procession to a grotto near the town. It's located next to the highway that connect Lastarria and Loncoche (known as La Cuesta de Lastarria, there had been a lot of car accidents), in the 9th region. I never knew how far it was from Lastarria to the grotto, but since the way is very steep and I don't have that much stamina, I always got tired. Going with the people from the town was fine (it´s a very small town, so we weren't a lot anyways), but I rather liked to go just with my family. We used to talk and sometimes I played in the way (then i got really exhausted). At both sides of the highway there are a lot of trees and sometimes some houses. The air used to be covered with the smell of the eucaliptus, and there were seeds everywhere. At the top, in the grotto, we used to put candles, pray a while, and then go down returning home. It's kind of funny, as the way is easy but your legs are still tired. A few years ago I stopped going to church regullarly, and I think I haven´t prayed since then, though sometimes I accompany my family at anyversaries and Christmass. More than a matter of religion, I remember those times for spending time with my brother and parents, specially now that I moved away due to studying, so I think I'm going to invite them this summer. Didn't find a picture of the highway itself, but here is one watching to the town.

A Book

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I never really liked reading, maybe because I hadn't find something that I was interested in. The last year I started reading books because a friend recomended it to me. I read The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, both from Dan Brown (actually I read them in the wrong order lol). They were fine, but not really THAT fine. But a few months ago, I saw an image about Cthulhu. I had heard the name and things about it, but never found something clear ( I remember that my grandparents had a dog called Cthulhu haha). So I searched and found that the origin was in the books of  Howard Phillips Lovecraft, starting by The Call of Cthulhu. Obviously I started reading it, and then other novels and short novels from the same author related to this fictional mythology. Cthulhu is a deity from a race from space called the Great Old Ones. They lived long ago and were very huge. The remnants of this culture are supposedly sank in the ocean. The descriptions of lovecraft are really awesome and shocking. He talks about green stone structures, putrefactive smells and people going crazy and hearing voices in unknown languages that talk about the great Cthulhu and the city of R'lyeh, something like "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". The interesting fact is that Lovecraft wrote more than fiction. He said that there are things in this world (and in the universe) that we don´t know, and someday, when we find it, all the truth will be revealed, giving a "chance" to connect this fiction to reality. In the beggining, I wasn´t really sure about reading books written more than 70 years ago, but now I can say they are a lot better than many other books written in this century.

Something I Would Like to Learn

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When I was young I wasn´t really fond of music, but I now that I growed up I love it. I like to hear it, but I would rather like to play it. It's a pitty that I hadn't this interest before, since I don't really have time (neither money to buy an instrument). Although, I'm planning to buy a violin when I end studying ( wish I'll have more time, but I'm not really sure), since I think it's really cool. People say is better to learn how to play an instrument when you are a child, but I think it´s okay if it's just a hobby. A violinist that I really admire it's Lindsey Stirling. Her songs mix dubstep and electro music with violin, wich is really nice. She also dance very good while playimg the violin ( I'm a really bad dancer so I admire her twice). Here is a video of a song that I like the most


By the other side, I always liked drawing. I'm good at drawing from pictures, but I don´t have enough imagination to draw original things. Since I love Manga I started practising time ago, and I learned the basics, though I need to improve. But it's been a while since that ( I think, about 4 months ago). Again, a matter of time. I love Ishida Sui's work, Tokyo Ghoul. I think is the best that I have read.

A Holiday

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This time I'm going to talk about the time that I went to Caburgua, in the 9th Region. I remember that my uncle and my aunt got a cottage for a week, near the lake, so they invited my parents, my brother and me to go. There were my cousins too. We stayed just 3 days, but I had a lot of fun. Right outside the cottage there was a tree that I liked to climb on, and in the afternoon we used to play cards, so I never got bored.

I remember a day that we went walking. We walked through the whole beach, and got to an area with a lot of rocks. I misstepped and hurted my leg, that got all bloody. We returned so my aunt could treat the wound. I think that the day I most enjoyed was the last one. In the morning it was cloudy, but we decided to go to the beach anyways. While we were swimming and playing, it started to rain. It was a little weird since there was water up and down and was a little cold, but still I had a lot of fun. We had to return then because my cousin was getting a cold, so I was a little upset, but had to obey. My family and I travelled the next day, due to my father's job. We had some setbacks, but that were the holidays that I most enjoyed.

A Website

Hi guys,

Today I'll write about my favourite website, Facebook. When I was younger I wasn´t really fond of the Internet and websites, so I hadn´t a Facebook account. But at some summer vacations, my friends said: hey, why don´t you create a Facebook? That way we will be able to talk even if you don´t come (I lived in another city, 60 kilometres away from my school). So I created it, and I´m glad I did, since i moved to Santiago to Study in the University and I can´t see my friends often. I visit Facebook everyday, and I have a lot of fun, because my friends like to post jokes and memes.

There are people that say that Facebook is a waste of time, but I don't really think so. Is true that is just for entertainment and it´s not really productive, and if you don´t have self control you are going to spend a lot of time. But if you know how much time do you have and cand spend, it's quite nice. I talk almost everyday with my best friend, share thoughts about new experiences in University and things like that. When I´m bored I can also see page posts about anything and laugh a little.