A day I will always remember

There are many important days for me that I will always remember.

I think that childhood is difficult, even if it sounds repetitive; the transition to adolescence is very relevant to our early life and some of those important days is this one.

I think I was fifteen years old, maybe more. I was in my house and a classmate called, telling me that my "boyfriend" was on TV, in a very ridiculous program called "La jueza", supposedly in an argument with his best friend. I knew nothing, but that was not the most ridiculous, they started talking about me, about me on TV!

It was not a big deal for anybody, because hardly anyone in my family watch that tv show. But the next day at school, it was fun, all my classmates had seen and asked me if it was true all that haha clearly no, I had no idea that they would be on television. 

All this was not a important thing, but the TV show is still on air and the two friends who appears in that show are still my friends, so occasionally that story comes to mind.

Why do not study arts?

My family always showed me interesting things related to art, not necessarily paintings, but different musical styles, poets and great writers. So since I was younger I was very interested to know more about art, although at school I leaned more music, art has always been part of what I wanted to do in the future.

I remember that I liked making videos with my classmates, act, edit, even we did a stop-motion once. But history also was instrumental in my education, chiefly comes from my home, but the teachers I had in high school, motivated me to choose this university career.

Despite all that, everything I've been studying in recent years, it becomes a tool for knowledge in my life, shaping my thoughts. It doesn’t define my future job, although I hope that art is always involved in my working life, I wonder what I'll do in the future, but I do not have the answer yet.

Second Semester Reflections

I think that I didn't have a second semester in College, I mean,  it was reduced, because we finish the first one in september. It's always like that since I came in here, so I got used to it.  But it's not all that bad. I learnt from a teacher that I really admire and I take advantage of my “free” time to go see some movies and do silly things that I'm interested.

I believe that I'm a little bit lost with my time and responsabilities, I need to be more concentrate in College, finish my subjects to finally be relax in January.

Others responsabilities for me are dogs, I think that this semester was really tough if I look back. A few dogs from College past away and others get sick. The people that care about dogs in campus are a small group, so is a challenge collect money for the spend in vet and food. Maybe the real challenge for the future of this dogs and our organization, is make us more visible, create a compaign to be responsable with your pet and be more sensitive with the others animals, because they are living with us, we share the same environment. We need to learn that we are not superior to anything, even with baby steps, but make it anyway.

How green are you?

We're recently become familiar with the idea of recycle. I think it's a influence of Europe or United States, because Chile doesn't have a recycle plan for his own nation and that is a essential thing to do for a government. All the people have to contribute for a better country, not just putting things separately in the trash bin. The abuse of Industries and cars is really harmful for us and the environment.

I can say that ecology is big issue to me, not only because I care for my health, also I want a better place for all of us, may be is a difficult thing to do, but the earth is only one. All the amazing movies of natural disaster and food shortage some day could be a real thing.

But I must to say that I don't help much to the environment, I only recycle glasses from bottles and once in a while a can of beer. On the other hand my family never have a car and all of us have our own bycicle, my father go to work in it for example. Also we take short showers. But that is not enough, I need to take more in serious this matter.

A movie that I love and a movie that I hate

A movie that I love and a movie that I hate

I love a lot of movies, I'm the kind of person who feels identify with films and if the movie is sad, even if it sucks, I cry a lot. I remember when I saw “Hachiko”, I cry for almost three hours and the morning after haha. But going back to a movie that I really love, that one could be “Cable guy”, I just love it, I think that is the perfect comedy that no one comprehend, it had many bizarre situations, starting with the appear of Jim Carrey who is a psycho guy looking a friend in the world. I know that not everyone likes that actor, but give it a chance with this movie.



I said that I love a lot of movies, but I think that I hate so much more. I can't understad how can anybody enjoy seeing a movie that it call “The fast and the furious”. But the worst of all, is that it had a sequel, eight of them!!! It's only about cars, races, hot women and fights. It's such a boring thing to see.

A song that has a special meaning

A song that has a special meaning

I have many special songs, but one, particularly is the most special, called “Our love is here to stay” performed by the american singer Dinah Washington. The song is include in the album “In the land of Hi-Fi” from 1956.

Obviously the song is about love and I like love songs, but not all of them one of my favourite musical genre is blues, that way I like this song so much. 

 

The thing that make so special this song to me is the instense voice that Dinah Washington has and also is special from a musical point of view, because the sound of the trumped or the violin make me feel very calm and happy.

She describes in a beautifil way, how his love is so strong and the things that appear to be stable or firm can be destroyed, but the love that she is talking about is here to stay, with simple things she tell us how love can be so unbreakable. It's just two paragraph that repeat in the whole song, despite that it sound like a foolish song, it's the most delicated songs that I hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VU9IFhL-_Y

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An Artist that I Admire

An Artist that I Admire

I think that admire is not the word that describe what I feel for this artist, but I really like the work of  Antonio Becerro, he is an artist who experiment with taxidermy, not all of his work it's related to do that, but a big part it is.

He is the founder of an art center called “La Perrera”, in the 80' the government used that place to sacrifice dogs from the street. Years later, Becerro establish the art center honoured all the dogs who died in there.

In 2013, one of his last work was present at the National Museum of Fine Art, the name of the exposition was “Encontraron Cielo”. I really loved go there and see all of the scultures of dogs, because the idea of the exposition makes an allusion to all the dogs who was killed or died on the street. He charactherize the chilean dog, the “quiltro” and I am crazy about dogs and animals in general, so, make art with those deads is the intersting thing of the work of Antonio Becerro.

For me, the contemorany art need to take more attention of this situation, because you can express your art in many ways, and make visible this problem is one of them.