Blog English IV

In the length of the four years that I have been studying in the "Faculty of Arts" of Universidad de Chile, I have noticed quite a lot of conditions that I would change, both in the Career and in the University itself.  Interestingly, almost all of these problems don´t have anything to do with the quality of the classes nor the teachers, but with the administration and the organization of the University as an institutional body. I have always said that Universidad de Chile is a small representation of Chile, and as funny as it is, that´s true. The faculty of Arts is one of the most careless departments in the university, and its development seems to be disconnected from the richest faculties like Economy or Law. This causes a lack of administration clarity and a lack of resources for keeping up with the projects of the Faculty or even mainainting itself. In that sense, one of the infrastructural things that I find really critical problem, and a especially unacceptable ...

One of my favorites things to do when I'm about to finish the last semester of a year, is count my savings and plan my summer holdidays. Almost every summer in the past seven years, I have made one or two trips to the north or south of Chile, to relax and discover new places while spending some time with my loved ones. This year, although, I will propably stay in the central regions, because I need to save a lot of money to buy a plane ticket to India, in the eventuality of being selected as a volunteer program in which I'm applying. Nevertheless, I would love to scape of my town a par of weeks with my girlfriend, and travel to the countryside, I don't really care where, as long as it have river or a lake, so we could swim all day long and stay fresh (specially in the hot sunny days)! We don't have yet any concrete plan for our Holidays, but we where talking about going to "Las Siete Tazas", a beautiful natural park with waterfalls and astonishing landscape...

My Favorite Book I know that for some people, choose a favorite book is a hard task, due to the almost infinity amount of great books avaible, but for me, it is kind a simple a choice. "Der Steppenwolf" (in german), is an existentialist work written in 1927 by Herman Hesse, a german philosopher and writer winner of a nobel prize. The plot talks about Harry Haller a lonely, intellectual bourgeois in the middle of his adulthood, who lives a quite yet boring and monotonous life, passing almost all his day locked in his rented flat, reading classic literature and trying to find a meaning to his existence, away of the noise of the modern city. The story takes a spin when Haller find a extrange manuscript that lead him to Hermine, a misterious woman who will show him the night side of the city with his Jazz and frenzy events. After that, Haller is driven to the "Magic Theater", where he will experience his whole life in a for of five doors, choosing after this wheth...

Leaving my studies and my love for the Art history aside, Through my life I have always tried to learn new practical skills in order to help developing my sculptures and paintings, as well as to help more in my dad's business (Construction and carpentry). I really believe that there is a big difference between someone who knows only the theory of some matter and someone who actually can put it in practice. therefore, after I finish my career I would like to star collecting the practical habilities of the Arts that I love and more over, the skills that I will probably use to make a living. I found Carpentry to be one of my favorites jobs and hobbies, because wood is a material that release my creativity and the act of sculpting it step by step, relax me and gives me a lot of fun. That's why if I had the posibilty to study again, I would choose some traditional and known school in Europe like Accademia Riaci in Florence, Italy, Where the teachers are not only masters in Carpentr...

A fter I'm done with my career and my thesis.( hopefully around the next year) I would like to join a volunteering program in a museum in India called "Matho", and stay there, working as an museology helper, for about four months.  I don't really know what I'm going to do for living after this, but I can say that I will never want to work, locked in a office or in a job where I can't express myself, therefore,  I would probably search for a job in a Museum or in a cultural center in my home region, as a curator or as a cultural assistant in the municipality of my city. Traveling is an important matter in my life, but I wouldn't search for an specific job to do it, because I prefer to travel as a hobby, just for pleasure. I'm currently studying Arts, and I think that say a lot about what I want to do with my life. Hence, I will happily do my Job if its gives me enough to live well and pay a good par of vacations every year.   Anyway, If I had to...

My favorite TV Show: Although I consider Breaking Bad my favorite and most perfect TV drama, I won't choose it for this blog because probably there's a lot of people talking already of it, and since I am a proud Hipster, I will talk about Peep Show, another amazing Tv show that makes my ass laugh off. Peep show is a famous british sitcom written by Jesse Armstrong, that tells the adventures of two, barely middle-aged, mans in the city of London and his dysfunctional efforts to get sex, money or simply to get out of their mediocre way of life. Mark, acted by David Mitchell and his partner Jeremy, who is played by Robert Webb, suffer the crisis of a society in where they are asked to "grow up" and star accomplishing the task of the working life. While Mark plays the responsible and embittered character, Jeremy is his lazy friend trying to live his teen dream of being a rockstar why staying in Mark's flat.  One thing that I love from this Tv show is the fact t...