Hobbies

One of my favorites hobbies, as you’ve probably noticed, is to draw.  I started to draw when I was four or five years old. Although the first drawings weren’t great, I enjoyed making them, I loved to take any picture from a book or a magazine to try to copy it. When I was a child I used to draw animals I saw on TV programs or in educative albums, and obviously, I didn’t know it would  become one of my favorite hobbies. Today I still draw, but, because of the university, I don’t spend enough time in that activity. Today all my free time is dedicated to sleep.

Now I don’t have enough time as I wished, so I don’t make drawings everyday. But there`s something I didn’t do when I was younger, and that I enjoy now I’m a Little older: Buy comic books! So I can read another’s people stories, told through drawings. Once I got a new comic book, I lamínate it, and if I can, I try to get the author’s signing.

That’s how the hobby has been evolving: From simple animal drawings made by myself, to complex stories from different authors.

Everytime I buy a new comic book, I try to learn new techniques to make drawings and to tell stories. I’d really love to make my own comic book. Maybe one day I’ll do it, who knows?

To do that, I must learn a lot of things about facial expressions and body movements, because without those skills I would never be able to make a decent comic.

Maybe if one day I have enough time to do it, I’ll publish my own cartoons J

How Green I'm I?

I think I’m green enough, I mean, I try to save energy, I don’t buy new clothes, I don’t throw garbage anywhere, most of the time I divide plastics from glass and aluminum and organic leftovers (such as fruits skins).

I usually move by bus, but every time I can I try to go pedaling. Although it’s not to save the world, it’s just to feel free, exercise myself and save money.

When I started last year here in JGM, The first ‘extra programmatic’ things I did was to work with ‘Huerto Orgánico Rengalentün’ guys and other people in ‘JGM Recicla’, because I wanted to do something interesting besides just come to study obligatory subjects. This experience could be useful someday, who knows.

People learn about environmental cares at their homes (from their families) or at school or university, or even in TV and internet. They could even learn by themselves, trying new ways to re-use and recycle what they could throw as simple trash.

I haven’t done anything to reduce my carbon footprint, ‘cause before I knew it existed, I was careful about it. Once I calculated my footprint, and it was below what’s recommended, so I don’t need to reduce it more. That’s why I wouldn’t like to do anything else to help environment, I actually do enough, and I don´t think I could do much more. And common people can’t do much more about it. Most of the responsibility belongs to industries and factories.

Here in Santiago we could have more, better and connected cycle paths, so we wouldn’t need to use Transantiago, that would be wonderful, but that will never happen.

Plastic Arts

I think that if I had chosen another carrer, it would have been something related to plastic arts, something as paint or drawing, or even sculpture, or maybe all of that together.

 I don’t really know how artistic carrers are, but it wolud have been funny to try to study something more expressive and creative tan psychology, where I can only learn and repeat what other people said a hundred years ago.

If I had studied plastic arts or something like that, I would have liked to study here, in this campus, ‘cause this year I fell in love with this beautiful place! If I didn’t know ‘Gomez Millas’, I wouldn’t know where else I could study arts.

The reasons why I’m not studying something related to arts are two: support and instability. If I studied arts, my parents wouldn’t support me, so I wouldn’t have enough money to pay the university tariff. And even if I had support from someone else, when I graduate I wouldn’t have a sure job, maybe I would work in anything else but what I studied, and my parents won’t maintain me until I die, so there’s no chance I can study arts right now.

If I were studying arts right now, my life wouldn’t be radically different, maybe I would have another kind of subjects and classmates and teachers, bus the daily routine would be almost the same. The difference would appear once I finish the carrer and start to work.

Anyway, I’ll try to survive this years and finish this carrer soon J

Memory

Check the link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/13/our-memories-tell-our-story

This piece of news talked about memories and our ability to remember, and the way they both make the bases of who we are.

It said that memory is ‘our coherence, our reason, our feeling and even aour action’, and that it makes us know who we are as a person.

It also says that there’s a distinction between “semantic memory” and “autobiographical memory”: The first one is simply the events memory, it’s about actions, places and dates, it’s just a memory for facts. The second one includes sensory details, and it allows us to make a narrative about the happenings of our own lives.

Memories are mental reconstructions, nifty multimedia collages of how things were, but both kinds of memories are susceptible to distortion. Even, if conditions are set up correctly, we could remember something that never happened. It makes memories unreliable, even if they seem to be vivids. It’s because memories are influenced by the needs of the self, as the coherence and ego.

There are two forces that influence the memory creation, and while the ‘force of correspondence’ makes us want to stick to the facts, the ‘force of coherence’ wants to tell a good story.

Emotions can twist our memories too: If our emotions change, so do our memories.

It also says that when we are able to encode our experience in words, it becomes much easier to put it together into a memory, and we should value memory as a means for endlessly rewriting the self.

Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzkhOmKVW08
(Something, by The Beatles)

Well, music makes something as a stage where  my feelings find a way to say what I can’t say with common words. Maybe, music is a feeling translator . I don’t know.

Music means a lot to me! I think I couldn’t live without it, I really love it!!!

I’ve been collecting lots of disks since I was twelve years old. I started listening to Queen and Pink Floyd, ‘cause my dad liked them, and then I met The Beatles, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Doors, Led Zeppelin and all those classic ones. That was the first step.

I started listening that music, maybe because of my family’s influece. Even the firt memories I have are full of music, it’s as a soundtrack of my life. My parents were the first ones who introduced me my favorite bands.

I like a lot of kinds of music, from Beethoven to The Strokes, going through lots of genres, bands, musicians, singers, albums and songs, and they all make me feel different things.

That’s why I like to listen to music , ‘cause it makes me enjoy my emotions. It’s up to how do I feel the kind of music I listen to. Or viceversa? Maybe I feel the way I feel because of the music I listen to, I’ll never know, but I don’t care. It’s just about enjoy all my feelings.

It was difficult to choose a band or a song as my favourite, but here they are: The Beatles.

Facso

Facso is more than a simple building...

Facso (and all the other places in the campus) is very special for me, ‘cause it has some kind of magic I coludn’t  explain, but I’ll try anyway J… I don’t know, maybe it’s just the JGM air that makes a change on everything, I mean, it’s such as if real world out there couldn’t make this places work with common laws of nature and society. When I got here the first time I thought I was coming inside Narnia!

People call this faculty ‘Macondo’, and there are some reasons to do it: As the real Macondo (the Marquez imaginary town), inside this place happen some strange things, things you wouldn’t see out there, as the collection of freak characters that you can find hanging around over here (as the ‘silver sword’ guys, who look as if they had been extracted from a ‘Lord of the Rings’ battle… beginner jugglers everywhere, or things like that). Anytime you can find an unexpected party, people drinking or smoking things you’ll never know where did they take them from, or a group of dogs playing a game of chess in the middle of the grass, moais talking with zombie-eating plants, psychodelic musicians on the walls, and lots of things I still don’t discover!

Places I love in Facso, are the edges of the windows (I use to sit down there to breathe deeply) and the gardens around the faculty. I’d like to work here, around Facso, to make grass grow in all the dry places, it would be wonderful! Although I don’t really like the front part of Facso, the one that face Ignacio Carrera Pinto Avenue.

A good thing about this place, is people that make it live: from caretakers and cooks, to teachers and students. Bad thing: I miss the sofa-beds that we had here in Winter, they never should have take them away!!!

I think I really love the faculty, an all the campus. Gomez Millas is the best place to be J

Canada

If there’s a country I’d really like to know, it’s Canada. Why? I don’t really know the reasons why :B Maybe because people there speak both languages I like the most: English and French. I don’t speak French, but I’d love to.

Well, I know almost nothing about Canada, there’s just one Canadian rock band I’ve listened to (The Arcade Fire), and I know just one person that has lived there. I know that Canadian climate is cold, and that people there use to be relaxed. That’s why Canada seems interesting: If I were living there, I could live a quiet life, that’s my daydream. I know it could sound stupid, ‘cause there’s a lot of places where I could have a quiet life.

Once there, I’d just like to have a simple job, woodcutter maybe, or any other job where I could have a close contact with nature. It’s just a fantasy, I know it won’t happen.

If I could live a couple of years there, I would like to learn to speak both languages. That’s all J