Departure

As this being my only year experience the English course, I have to say that I found very interesting the use of blogs. I have to admit I was a little reticent with the idea at first, but later I really like it. Writing blogs during this semester was relaxing for me, in a way. A very different method of learning aside from my other subjects; just writing down my thoughts. Besides I like to read comments from the social media, specially YouTube, even though I never write on them. About the classes I really liked the dynamics and the little games we had, like the improvised plays or the time when we decode a messages. I like puzzles, but I was expecting more challenging exercises in terms of listening or reading, it would have been more fun I think. One aspect I'm lacking is the pronunciation and intonation, but that's my fault because I don't really like English that much, besides I don't get to use it in this part of the world. I have anyone to speak with in English and sometimes, just sometimes, was useful in the streets. Nonetheless, everyday I use it every time I go into the Internet since the good stuff is always written in this language and sometimes it's more easy to find what you're looking for if you search for English keywords.

There's something strange that happens to me all the time and I think I'm not alone in this: when I think about anything, unconsciously I start to think in English. 

Spirit deficiency

This is my first year as a university student and simply I don't know very much about my choice. The only thing I know is that I hate it, as far as I know. The first thing I'd change is the disposition of the teachers when it's comes to the action of teaching. From most of them I don't feel a good mood when they transmit their knowledge. I don't feel motivated to learn in this environment of weariness, in general this is the same mood my classmates has. Maybe, in part, this could be from the place where the classes taking place: all white from the classroom and gray from the concrete, no vibrant colors, no other stimulation than the sweet voice of your teacher. A great project for the ambient of the faculty could be that the visual artists students appropriates such place and convert it in an itinerant museum, so to speak. A place that renovates it self. Even more, repair all the place and make a new layout, a better and more efficient one. I'll do it.

As I mentioned before, I think the classrooms are not an ideal place for learning and a good money support from the headquarters are urgently needed, mostly for basic reparations or for build new facilities.  

About the curriculum, there is one subject that is extremely useless or is just bad imparted. Taller de escritura. Almost three hours of just sitting and hearing two teachers debating about writing methods while you're trying not to fall sleep. Overrated teachers should be banned from everywhere. I really had good expectations on the only practical subject we have. Not practical enough, I say.

In the sand

Well, I'm not a fan of taking pictures to other people or to myself. I get really scared when someone takes out the camera and shoots at me or want a selfie and I don't like my photos. I've never liked cameras. So what I'll show to you is not a picture, but a video recording, not because I'm tricky or a shameless person. It's because that time mean a lot to me and was one of the best nights I had. It was last summer in Horcón. My friend invited me to spend some weeks in his beach house in a community of teachers, a rural and very peaceful place. The idea was to play a gig in the community near the dunes to collect some money for one of the neighbors who was sick I think. We managed, somehow, to connect our little amplification equipment, we had many
electric troubles, but all of us were enjoying ourselves before playing. We played chicha covers with touches of afro rhythms close to the midnight, when everybody is drunk and overcoming the walls of reality and perception. It was a mystical night: everyone was jumping around like feeling every note and hit of the drums. It's funny how people react due to our improvisations, is like a chamanic ritual. I felt like we had summon old roots of latin music.   

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Scholarship hope

             

Since I was a child, I've had the impulse, maybe the curiosity, of constantly learning new things or read about different stuff and one way of opening my possibilities of doing so is studying idioms. If at any circumstances of my life I get the chance to study any language, besides English, I would take it without hesitate. I think I've mentioned this before. I'm very interested in Asian cultures, specifically in japanese culture and their language. It's very interesting for me how they have different alphabets for expressing ideas or feelings, even their own names. It could be a cool challenge. Also I could read from the original source without missing anything from the translations. 

A good way to start is learning it right here in Chile in CEIJA, and then, maybe, get a scholarship to study in Japan any other subject, like in what I'm interested: music. It's a long plan, I know. But if I work hard and with a bit of luck, it could work just fine. The ministry of education of Japan every year offers the Monbukagakusho scholarship to study a full career at any university in the country, all paid for undergraduates or postgraduates students, but you must have a basic level of japanese. Nonetheless, there's always other fields where your abilities can be tested.

A life job

Today I'm going to talk about what I want to be my future job. In my first year as a university student I chose theory and history of art, but I'm not happy. This could be one of my major mistakes I've done. Originally, I wanted to study music in this university but my scores were not high enough so I thought I could change to that career by studying in the same department, but it turned out it's not that easy. I don't want to be all day talking, debating and reading about arts, writing books that only get to see your colegues and a few number of people, making nothing but a minor impact in no one's mind, cause, let's be honest, not many people is interested in arts. It might sound harsh but I don't see a real utility in this career. The only interesting thing it's the theory and even that could be useless if we keep it for ourselves. I think I have the skills to create. So, I want to be a musician. Since this job is a little independent from a boss, you can build it up by yourself with your own ideas. Plus I'm very anxious around people almost all the time and this helps me.

My device

Well, today is my turn to talk, strangely, about my favorite technological device. Besides my computer, I think there is another device that's happen to be very useful in a very specific situation and place: the bathroom. I often charged it before I take a shower and every time I'm a little worried about it because of the moist. It can be full of fungus and it may be damaged because of them, I've to admit that I haven't clean it since I got it. Plus it vibrates very violently and if I'm not careful it would break into a thousand pieces; goodbye to the joy of shower and my artifact. In fact one time it dropped from the shelf and the start button got dented into the artifact and turned off. I was worried about it due to the hit, and buying another one was not at my reach because it's a little expensive, but I find a way to turn it on with a pair of tweezers right on the correct spot and it resurrected like a wet phoenix. Very strong cilindric device.

I would never change my speaker for anything in the world, not even for a bigger one.

Nujabes

For this post, I choose to talk about one of my favorite hip hop producers, Seba Jun, better known as Nujabes. His work during the late 90' and throughout the whole decade of the 2000 was very popular in the underground scene of the hip hop movement in USA, collaborating with many rappers at that time such as Substantial, Pase Rock, Cise Star, japanese Shing02 and the list goes on. He also is the author of the OST of the acclaimed anime Samurai Champloo.

Until his departure due to a car accident in 2010, he never stopped working on his music. Short after, a posthumous album was released by his friends with the music that was found in his cell phone.

I found out about Nujabes around 5 years ago from a friend that told me there was this low-key japanese producer who made very jazzy and melodic backbeats. From the very first track it got my complete attention. His sound is so nostalgic, like if you were looking back to a place that you've never been but you're going to miss. That's Nujabes.