Dream job (?)

At the time I really have no idea of what I'd like to do with my life in the future, so I'm gonna be very vague and unspecific with this post.

What I do know are the characteristics of my dream job. I love travelling and I would like my job to be one of those where you travel abroad a lot and get to know many places and historic sites. It has to be a job that has at least a little to do with what I am studying, hopefully one where I can write a lot.

At the moment of choosing my job I would consider how many days of the week and hours I'll have to work, and most importantly I'd pay a lot of attention to the amount of free days I'd have, it would be perfect to have 3 months long vacations! I'm not very demanding about money, so as long as I can survive and eventually buy a house I would be happy about it.


I think my most important strengths are patience (I can wait, and wait, and wait, and wait), tenacity (I try to finish everything I start) and I think I'm am very reliable, with important things I'm not used to disappointing people. My weakness are being a little clingy, sometimes I don't let things go, even when everybody knows it's impossible to keep going on. I'm also very straightforward, and a lot of times people are offended by what I say.

As I said before, I don't really know what to be in the future. i would really like to be a writer, but I also think that working in what I am studying can be fun, sometimes. 

Halloween

Today I'm going to be very predictable and write about that important and revolutionary date called Halloween. To be more precise, I'm going to tell you about Halloween costumes, because I love dressing up. I didn't like this date a lot, I used to stay at my home and yell at the little kids that went ringing my doorbell, but last year I changed my mind and decided to make a different costume every year, one that no one that I know will use.

Last year I grabbed one of my father coats and some fabric, then I started crafting my costume. I dressed up as Adolf Hitler, because I thought: why not? When I exited my house and went to the street, people told me stuff and throwed candy at me, it was pretty awesome.

This year I chose to dress up as a lady, a really pretty lady. I couldn't decide if I wanted to be a stereotypical lesbian or a stereotypical "XXI century society" beautiful woman, so I mixed those ideas and the result was pretty nice. I didn't come out of my house because I was scared of  what people could do to me and Halloween was the day before, so I stayed at home with two friends. Some people told me that I looked like Carolina Tohá, Santiago's recently elected mayor, so I now tell everybody that I dressed up as her.

Here's a comparison of my costumes: 
Nice

So now I'm looking for ideas for next year's costume, I was thinking I could be a priest or Virgin Mary, but there's a whole year to decide so it isn't one of my priorities.

Cheers!

Chávez and Venezuela

If his health allows it, President Hugo Chávez will rule Venezuela for another term, until 2019, said Venezuela's people in the last election.

Although the opposing media kept saying that it would be a risky election for Chávez, and that his defeat was a big possibility, his followers and the majority of Venezuela's population said yes to his socialist project.

The fact that more than half the people vote for Chávez, "we are the majority", as the re-elected President likes to say, <is the pillar of legitimacy that [...] protects it from critics at home and abroad who claim Venezuela is veering towards autocracy and tyranny.>, the author of the article says.

An extraordinary story surrounds Chavéz journey, from a poor boy to a vehement politic, loved by most of his people and hated by a lot, inside and outside of the country. Before Chávez, Venezuela was a "supposedly prosperous democracy", but in reality, corruption, poverty and social exclusion ravaged the country. After a coup attempt, Chávez rose as a politic, and in 1998 he won the presidential election. At the beginning, his policies were even called "conservative" by some, but through the years he has been steering his country towards socialism, amidst internal division and critics of authoritarianism and corruption.
Today, illness and internal problems are the main concerns of the newly elected president, but his victory, in contrast with the opposition's sayings, once more proved that his campaign slogan is true: <"Chávez es el pueblo". Chávez is the people.>

Cats, cats, cats :3

Today's assignment is to write about anything, so I'm going to tell you abut my cats.

The first one is Alicia, I'm her pet, she's almost like my wife and I love her above almost everyone and everything. She is a tuxedo cat, her belly and paws are white and the rest of her body is black, her eyes are yellow on the outside and green on the inside and her second birthday is coming soon. Her personality is very special, on the outside she's very arrogant and solitary, but in the inside she is tender and sweet, every night she asks for cuddling and she sleeps with me every time, she's always looking for my attention. Picture!:


Alicia <3

Then comes Princesa, my mother's cat, she was a stray cat and my mother rescued her and brought her to my house, she's very shy and humble. She ha very bright and beautiful green eyes, her hair has a lot of colours but she is mainly brown and orange, and she was pregnant when my mother took her home, picture!:


Princesa!

Our last cat is Julieta, she's Princesa's daughter. She has 2 sisters and 1 brother, but we gave them away and she's the one that stayed with us. She's very pretty, almost entirely grey and white with shades of brown and orange, she's very hairy and her eyes are a very bright shade of gold, she's still a little kitty so she likes to play a lot and bother my other cats, she loves her mother and behaves like a dog, when you throw something she goes looking for it and then she brings it back! Picture:


Julieta :)

So, these are my cats, I love playing with them even though they cause some trouble in my house, but I love them anyway :)

Brazil & me

I don't like remembering the past, so I can't say that I have a "favourite holiday", so I'll talk about my last holidays instead.

I went to Brazil, specifically Búzios and Río.

Yes, I'm a lucky guy.

This holidays were this year on January's first week, the week where the government gave us the results of our PSU test. Brazil is a very special country, and I really loved Río, it's an awesome city. I know there are a lot of poor people in Río, and I thought it was very interesting that the really expensive houses were so close to the favelas, that way rich people can't ignore the country's inequalities. I went there with my father, his wife, Angélica and my two brothers. I spent 4 days in Búzios and 2 days on Río, we went to different beaches (the ones on Búzios and the famous ones on Río, Copacabana and Ipanema) and obviously to the great landmarks, Corcovado hill and Maracaná stadium. We spent some pretty good time walking across the city and talking to people, one of the things I liked the most was that people there are very friendly and nice, and they can understand almost everything you tell them in Spanish, although I couldn't understand a lot of thing about Portuguese. 

I heavily recommend going to Brazil, it's impossible having a hard time!

This is Búzios

And this is some of Río.

North Korea ☆

Today's assignment is very difficult for me because there are so many interesting countries: the UK, Norway, Iceland, Australia, Austria, Germany, India, France, the Netherlands, etc. If we were living 40 years ago, I would have chose the USSR, but, as it doesn't exist anymore, I'm going to choose North Korea.

I'm not choosing this country because I like it's political system, in fact I don't agree with it at all, but I think it makes the country a very interesting place to visit. It is the most secretive country in the world, with every aspect of life controlled by the government. Not much is known about human rights inside the country, but many people who fled from there told horrible stories about prison camps and stuff like that. People there believe anything the State tells them, they're told to hate the North Americans since they're children. Its system's style is a deformed soviet socialism, everything is State owned and personal liberties are nonexistent. I don't think State owned property is bad (in fact I think it's a good idea if it's well managed), my problem with the system is its lack of liberty, because I don't think socialism can be built by oppressing the people.

I can't really say that there are "nice" things about North Korea, because everything that can be seen as good according to our standards has some really bad characteristics. For example, housing is free, but quality varies a lot. Education is also free, but people do not control what they are teached, the State chooses what to teach and what to not. It has the world's biggest stadium, Rungrado May Day Stadium, where they organize massive yearly competitions, and people from every part of the world can go to see them. It is a very nice and artistic presentation, and apart from seeing everyday life and investigate about the society I would like to go to see those games. 

I would not like to stay and live there, because of obvious reasons (also I don't think they'd let me). I think it's a very interesting place to explore, and I would like to learn the truth about it, because the government says something and the capitalist countries say other things and I can't really believe any of them.

Cheers!

(Korean Peninsula at night)

Some stuff about my first term

Last class we had to write about ourselves, and I told you that I'm currently studying Sociology at Universidad de Chile. Today I'm supposed to write about my first semester, so...

Sociology... It's very difficult to describe what this is all about, I can't even explain it clearly to my friends so I'm not going to write and essay about it, I'll only talk about my experience. I usually say that I didn't learn a lot about the different subjects we had (Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, History and Methodology), but last Saturday, at I party with my friends I realized that in fact I did learn a little bit about some stuff. We were talking about politics and the social consequences of the dictatorship that ruled our country with an iron fist -Pinochet was friends with Margaret Thatcher... just saying-, so later I remembered some of the things I said and I was really happy with some of the things I said, because it meant I truly learned something. 

Apart from the compulsory classes I took an artistic subject, Creative Writing, where we had to write (obviously) some stuff according to the contents we were studying (poetry, figures of speech, etc.). I really liked that class, but I failed it because I didn't have enough attendance (it wasn't mainly because I was irresponsible, it was because I miscalculated the amount of classes I was allowed to not attend). I also was in the Sociology Student Center (I'm still there), and I had a lot to do, so at the end of the semester I was very tired.

I didn't have a lot of problems with university, I had more personal issues and I'm still not over them, but I try not to pay attention to them. About my life outside the university, I'd like to tell you about my cats, because my mother took home a very pretty estranged female kitty, Princesa. She was very shy at first but now she is a lot more happy and extroverted. Well, she came with a little surprise. At my house, she had 4 kittens, and one of them stayed with us, her name is Julieta. Watching them grow up was a very beautiful and fun experience, and they brought happiness and troubles to my home. 

I think all of this is a little bit too long, so now I'm going to close this window and hope you read the thing I wrote, cheers!

PS: Here, have a happy picture! :D