The Final Blog

Well, this is like autoevaluation mark in the elementary school, or something like that. 

About the experience, I think it was entertained. I mean, writing about different things, shared opinions with the partners and the teacher, and debating about it, brings a little bit of colour in this grey school of bitter people. Besides, I can say anything, and no one will re-take me for it. 

About writing skills, I think I get better. I've never writing so much in the school, besides short phrases and answers, and here, I wrote a lot. Even this short blogs were more than I wrote in school. Let's be honest, english at elementary and high school sucks. But at university, it was more difficult and self-taught; teacher doesn't need to be behind me telling me what to do, and how to do it. 

In the future, I'd like topics will be more entertained, not something boring like "an expert in your field". It was so boring, I don't even have anything to say about it. 

I'd like to write something more creative, like stories, fictions, or fairytales. Or say some item, a person, a character, a thing, a place, and to invent a story with those elements, I think it would be fun... At least, I think it's fun. It's puts your imagination to work, in this place full of memory, sorrounded with codes and laws.

And that's all. 

See you at next semester (?)!

Favorite TV Show

Ok, today there's no doubt: my favorite show is Digimon Adventure 01!

I'd choose Pokemon too, because I was so crazy about the show when I was a kid, but I think Digimon is more significative in my recent life.

I don't remember where I used to watch the show, it could be Fox Kids or "El Club de los Tigritos" in Chilevisión channel, but I remember I was in second year of elementary school, my older cousin watched the show too (and because of him I started to watch the show), and that I had a friend who watched Digimon, and we played together, pretending to be "chosen kids" like the main characters.

The story is about seven children (in the end, eight) who were in a summer camp, and suddenly, they were caught in another dimension, another world, with their tiny (at the beginning) partners, the digimons. Each boy and girl had one digimon partner. So, children and digimons had the mission to save the Digiworld, and after, their own world, that were threatened by evil digimons.

I like this show because there's a couple of chapters so weird, when the children went back to the real world (Odaiba, Japan) with their digimons, and I thought that their lifestyle it's seems like lifestyle we have here. I mean, they go at the school with uniforms, no with colors clothes like USA children; they live in departments, in a city surrounded by buildings, in some way like Santiago. Today I know our lifestyles are totally different, with no compares like USA lifestyle, but that's the thought I have with 7 years old.

In these chapters, things seemed to calm down a little bit, but deeply, the menace started to become dangerous. And I like this tension.-

Favorite movie

Like songs, I don't have a favorite movie (neither a book), I just like it. For today, I choose "A Clockwork Orange".

A Clockwork Orange is a british movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, in 1971, with Malcolm McDowell as the main character, Alex. The movie based in Anthony Burgess's novel, in 1962. 

A Clockwork Orange is about Alex's story, a fifteen years old's charming and irreverent boy, who makes a lot of riot with his gang, his "droogies", every night. He received many warnings from police and social worker about changing his behavior, until one night, after raped a writer's wife and stolen his house, he went to an old woman's house, and killed her by accident. He was arrested and sentenced to jail. The plot of the story starts here; Alex is used like a guinea pig for an innovator method: Ludovico Tecnique. This a new rehabilitation method which consist, basically, in a brainwashing, and every time Alex has a thought that stimulate him for doing something "wrong", against moral society, he feels physical pain. His will is destroyed, and he's forced to have a right behavior. He isn't a criminal anymore, but he can't decide about his life, his thoughts, and his actions. He became some kind a machine, without will, like a clockwork orange.

I like this movie because Alex is a charming boy, he has particular tastes in music, he speaks nadsat language, and he has a snake like pet. Also, because it shows how far society can go in it's intention to control itself, destroying people's autonomy if it's necessary.

"But what I do I do because I like to do."- Little Alex.

"Sad Days"

I don't have a "favorite song". I like songs for a while, but they become boring after listening so much times. So, that's why I'm always listening different songs. But this song is really significative for me. It's "Les Jours Tristes", from composers Yann Tiersen and Neil Hannon, the soundtrack album of french movie "Amélie", released in 2001.
The topic of this song is about keep fighting and not giving up. Talks about how hard life is; how life treats you like shit time to time, day to day; when everything become unfair, when everything you believed become a lie, until you want to hide and forget everything and everyone. But you must keep moving forward. The song says it doesn't matter what everyone else believe, what they say, what they do; you must "stay strong"and reach happiness.
My boyfriend send me this song when I was in my first period of exams, and one night, studying for an exam the day next, I knew I reproved one signature. Today it doesn't mean the big deal, I reproved two more signatures the following years, and I'm still alive. But in that time, it seems the world falls down (I suspect this intolerance of failure it comes from culture of success, and if you don't make everything right at first time, you're terrible wrong, lost and miserable).
I know this reason is stupid, but when I'm feel lost, and I want to send everything to hell (not only for academic troubles, I must say), I listen to this song. With this one, I remember "it's worth the fight".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xgQ3qPKF58

I photograph I like

This is one of the pictures I really like and estimate. This picture was taken by an old and good friend (I know exactly who was, but for personal reasons I won't tell her name), in Parque Mallinco, Peñaflor, at January 14th, 2012.
Sitting on the lawn, we were one of my best friends, Binimelis (his name is Bastián, but I always call him by his last name. A custom) and me. It was a meeting between parents and children who were expelled, like I said before in the blog. Yes, Binimelis was expelled too.
That saturday was nice. And strange, in some way. That weekend was just days before we'll know about our future. It was just one day before I'll know I was accepted in Universidad de Chile, in Derecho. It was days before Binimelis was accepted in Universidad de Valparaíso, and he had to go to Valparaíso to study Sociología.
On the other hand, I like this picture because it shows us with funny faces. With half-closed eyes, each of us looking for different sides. And totally spontaneous. I think it reflects our positions before life, always with a little bit of skepticism.

And, overcoat, I like it because Binimelis has the same look that has the evil dog in the Simpsons' chapter when appeared Mel Gibson.

Christianity

I don't know if I ever been a truly catholic person. I was baptized, and I did the first communion, because I was a child and my parents forced me to do it. When I was in the first communion classes, we used a book which talked about Jesus and that stuff, and by the end of the lesson, you had to compromise yourself to do one good thing, swering before God that you'll must do that thing all a week. And I thought I was a bad person, with 8 years old, because I'll never fulfill that promise. I thought I didn't deserve to do the first communion, because I was a bad girl who doesn't fulfill her promises before God.

When I was a little older, fifteen or something, one day I discover by myself that "life is just one", and I was living so quiet and calm, believing that shit about life beyond death and all that crap religion makes you think, even unconsciously. But life ends with death, and there's nothing more. That was an horrifying revelation.

 I think religion acts like some kind of limit for human beings. It don't let them be the way they really, truly deep inside want to be. It's says to them how to act, how to live, how to love, work, think… It's says to them they need to be good, otherwise, they'll suffer forever in hell; they'll be punished by God himself when they'll die by all their sins.

I believe people must be good and nice and kind because they want to be, not because they're afraid of divine punishment. And if they don't want to be good… well, that's part of nature humanizes; choosing. 

My favorite piece of technology

My dad works with Apple products, he creates and designs computational systems, only for Mac computers. So, he always worked with computers. The first time I used a computer was at age of 4, a big, heavy and square old computer, a Macintosh, of course (as a matter of fact, we two hate Microsoft computers and systems, they suck and work wrong). We have only used Mac computers, never a new one, because they're too expensive, and I don't care about it, because new or older ones, they work just fine.

But, everything changed when I came to university. My bag was too heavy with so many books and copybooks, and for Christmas, my family gave me an iPad. New and just for me. I was so excited and happy, because my back never would suffer again. And the thing is great, awesome, fabulous. I can take notes, read, to watch videos and movies, write, draw and play. I can take wonderful notes day to day (it's reflects in my marks), and I can take the iPad everywhere, because it's so light.

Living without the iPad it would be back to first year, with a heavy bag, a lot of papers around, and a hurt back (that was the principal reason because they gave it to me).

That's my story with the iPad.