Summer and vacations

Well, I think about summer as vacations so right now it seems a little far away because of all the exams that I have to do, but a lot of people are going through the same thing so I don’t feel all alone.

For summer I always go to Lican Ray with my mom and my godmother because it’s such a nice place to disconnect a little from the city and daily routine and it has a really beautiful beach which is precisely the main attraction. We get a lot of fun swimming all day and at night we play cards until late, it may seem very simplistic but it’s really enjoyable for me. There is also a place that I would like to visit and it’s Laguna San Rafael in the southern part of Chile, I always wanted to visit it since years ago but I have never gotten the chance to do it. I think summer is the best season to travel to that place because it’s always so cold so in winter it must be freezing.

Other things that I plan to do for this summer is going out with my friends because we hardly see each other due to our careers and university, so I’m really looking forward to it. I also want to learn to drive and hopefully getting an driving license, but it seems a bit difficult now because I am gonna so tired after this semester that I don’t know if I can really do it. I’m not going to work nor study for the same reason, I’m waiting until I reach fifth year to start to find a job.

Merry Christmas to everyone!

Christmas is my favorite time of the year because of many reasons. Now that I’m studying far away it’s a bit difficult to do it but I used to decorate all my house with pretty things related to christmas and help my mom to make the christmas tree which was always super entertaining. Most of my relatives often visit my house for these type of occasions, and although it can be tiring because of all the cleaning that must be done after that, I really enjoy the time that we can spend together.

If I were to pick one tradition that my family always do for christmas, I would say that we always have a dinner before 12 o’clock. My dad makes  barbecue and we eat it with salad, potatoes and rice, while watching a movie or another interesting thing on TV. After that we wait until midnight in the living room, talking and eating the cookies that my grandmother does. Christmas is definitely a day to eat a lot in my house at least.

I would say that books are my favorite gift to receive and fortunately my brother specially give me a lot of those. I also love so much the clothes and shoes that my mom often gives me for christmas and the useful gifts from my dad. My grandmother gives me money most of the time which I like too. But gifts aren´t very important, I enjoy christmas either way with or without them, but I do think that a beautiful celebration like christmas gets overshadowed by all the advertising that calls for consumerism, putting in the same level love and “buy the most expensive gift you could think of”, so it’s really sad that many people think in that way, but unfortunately the society that we live in is like that so it’s very difficult to change that.

I wish you all the best in this last month in every aspect of your life, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :D

Favorite series

I started watching it from the very beginning because days before the first episode was released on Fox I watched a spot of it in the same channel and thought the plot was very interesting, not for being the zombies the main topic of the series but because I got curious about the perspective of a man waking up in a totally messed up world, alone and without his family, not knowing about anything related to a zombie apocalypse. To be honest it seemed a very scary situation for me and if I would have to be in a similar situation I think I would totally panic and be incapable of thinking straight.

I loved the first episode so I kept watching it and totally became a fan. It was a torture to wait a year until a new season  but was worth it because it never really dissapointed me or became boring, I completely enjoyed every episode even when they werent very eventful or full of action. My favorite character from the start and up until now is Daryl (I know, so mainstream) and after him is Glenn, fortunately both of them are still alive. I like Maggie a lot too.

So in general I like and enjoy very much TV shows about pychological effects that a event might produce on people and how it is different for each one of them, I like seeing human nature being portrayed on a story, showing the good and the bad side of a person. Other TV shows I enjoy is comedy, specially The Big Bang Theory since its my favorite of that genre.

I really want to watch many TV shows like "How to get away with a murder", so I hope to have time in summer to do this.

Environment Preservation

I think the preservation of environment must be one of the most important topics globally nowadays, but many countries, people and organisations don’t take it seriously and instead of helping by educating common people and commercial companies, they decide to ignore it for “more important topics”. 

Schools are places where you can learn to protect the environment but sadly not all schools have an enough level of resources to teach properly about preservations to its students but I definitely think family and school are the best places to learn about this because people have to take the habit since they are kids. For me, since I live in a house that isn’t mine I can’t do all the things that I do in my home in another city, but here I try to always get my electronic devices unconnected to energy and not waste it innecessarily when I’m not using them. Also, in my city Puerto Varas people can’t use any type of plastic bag to buy in any supermarket and small shops because they were prohibited, so all the people must use bags of a material that don’t affect environment and it’s really good. I love to bike but I can’t do it in Santiago because I am afraid of the streets full of cars so I don’t want to take the risk, and I can’t walk to university because I would have to wake up extremely early to get in time to classes. 

I have never been in an eco organisations mostly because I don’t have the time to really dedicate myself for that, but I really would like if time was not a problem. 

It’s really difficult to implement in Santiago serious measures about protecting the environment because being a really large city the pollution just increments day by day with all the cars and garbage that people produce, but obviously one must do all that can be done at least to minimize the pollution, and I think government and early education have a big role in this.

           

Future job

It’s always difficult to think about what you want to do in your future and many people don’t decide until they are practically adults, which I find very common these days because sometimes you don’t know what you like o what you are best in. In my case I wasn’t sure about studying law until my very last year of school and many times I thought about not doing it because I had insecurity and a little bit of fear at the prospect, but finally I fixed my mind and decided to just do it, besides I wasn’t really comfortable with any other career aparts from laws so I realized that it was fine.

Like I said, it’s already very difficult to just decide which career you want to study  (I fortunately chose well because I really like what I do) so it’s really another challenge to pick which area do you want to work in. For me personally I haven’t decided that yet, not for sure at least, but the subject I like the most is Civil Law and certainly don’t know why, when I first started this career I thought I was going to hate it but resulted the other way around. I also like Criminal Law and International Law but in reality I don’t see me myself working on that, so although it’s not a final decision I think I’d work in the private side of laws so I guess I would have to work in offices.

Toy Story

Hi class, today I'm going to write in this blog about my favorite movie which I'm sure you already can tell by the image in this. 

I'm big fan of all Toy Story movies but the first one holds a special place in my heart because it's one of the first movies I remember seeing when I was very young. In my home many years ago my older brother and I had a whole collection of disney and animated movies in VHS and I still remember that Toy Story was my favorite of all those movies and my brother loved it as well. I can't point out exactly what age I was because these type of movies were there since I hace memory so I really don't remember a specific year or date.

In Toy Story what I liked the most is its characters, when I was younger I always thought that all of them were very funny and esential in a way despite just being toys. I also love the plot and this movies really made me take care of my toys and even now I still have my barbies in my room and many toys that I didn't want to just throw away. All reminds me of good days when all of I wanted was to play all day and didn't have to study so much.

The last movie I saw recently was "Inside Out"and completely loved it because in general I like Disney and animation although I can't say it's my favorite genre. I don't really have a favorite genre concerning movies because I like movies that are very different from each other, but I can say the one the romantic ones are my last preference (but there are exceptions).

Hope you enjoy your weekend and have a beautiful day :)

Favorite Books

Hi to everyone, this week's topic is about favorite books and authors, so I'm going to start saying about the first book I read, or at least the first one that I remember reading, and it's Hernan del Solar's "La Porota" when I was about 7 or 8 years old but I ceratinly don't remember the exact time. I was an avid fan of that book for very long time.
But the book that really made me love reading was Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone, I was 10 years old when my dad bought it for my brother but I was the one that endep up reading and I became a total fan of the whole series and I am still one. I have read that book like eleven times since then.
If I would have to choose a specific gender that I prefer reading in books it would be definitely mystery, horror and thriller but I have enjoyed books of all kinds. Although fantasy is not of my favorite genders, I could say the Harry Potter series are muy favorite books because I kind of have an emotional connection to them, like I said the first one motivated me to read more and it have been present in almost the enterity of my life so I could say that I grew through the years reading those.
Because I prefer mystery and thriller one of my favorite authors, if not my favorite, is Stephen King. I simply love his books because they make me feel like I am the one experiencing all the fear and uncertainty of the characters, his stories really get me scared sometimes.
At this moment unfortunately I'm not reading anything because I need to focus on university and reading another thing that is not for my career can really distract me.
That was all for this week. Have a nice day!