That's Why we Talk it

Here we are, writing and reading English blogs, writing about our life, tastes and opinions, but all in English, if I don’t know how to write a word, I search it and use it, if I don’t know what to say, I just keep reading over and over again waiting for some ideas to grow in my mind, and after that being able to share all of that, write what I think is easy to me, and it’s become easier to me with every post I’ve wrote, and the what and the how have also become easier to me thanks to the learning of this language in the university, it have been long the time learning English here if you ask to me, but I feel very comfortable with the things I’ve learned here.

However, no matter how comfortable I feel, the idea is to keep learning, specially the speaking part, and a little bit of listening, I would like to learn the phonemes and talk with someone in English in serious conditions and have the opportunity to defend myself speaking in English, I’ve done something like that sometimes inside an online videogame, but with unknown people and without a serious situation, but it still being great to practice the writing and speaking.

As I said, I use the English to talk with some other people in online videogames, specially MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Pay Game) or MOBAs (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena), not everyone are from USA, some people are from a lot of other countries, but English is the language we all know, at least the most part of the times, even a few times I’ve spoken in English with people from Spain, Argentina or Mexico, and it’s hilarious when we realise that. But outside videogames and the English class, I have not too many opportunities to use the English language, just by watching movies, but what I do is to watch international movies, from France, Italy or Brazil, and read the subtitles in English, because they have not them in Spanish, sadly, but it’s good for learning, the problem also is the listening part, because I have sometimes a little amount of problems to understand English, specially the British.    

To Change or not to Change

Sometimes we can turn on our TV and watch some news about the educational system, the education minister, the president or a school authority talking about the constant improvement of the education in the country, and some other news about students complaining about all the things that we are missing about the system and the mistakes of the previous mentioned authorities and their methods. But I think that is because we are never satisfied with the opportunities and tools we can receive, and that is good, it’s a way to make a real improve of our general methods and we can search in a lot of different ways to learn with our mistakes and trying to don’t repeat them in the process of create the ''perfect system'' which in my opinion doesn’t exist.

If would have the power right now to make changes in the education system, I would really don’t know what to do, because I don’t feel with the enough information or statistics to make changes and elevate the approval and quality of things that we can learn or how we use the learning, now, what would I like to learn and how to learn it, that is other business, I would really like to have more independence with my own schedule and manipulate my time in my own ways and maybe have more free time to dedicate it to activities or hobbies, make the university activities become only inside the university and the home activities only in your home, extracurricular activities and optional activities should be that, optional and extracurricular.

About the technology, I feel very comfortable with that, I mean, we always have the research in front and behind us ready to keep going with and for us to create new stuff to make the things easier, but currently I have a lot of respect for the technology and if the progress goes very accelerated we can make a world that Martin Heidegger was very afraid to see.

One of my favourite philosopher Martin Heidegger, he was very critic about the progress and the general technologies, and he believe in the world’s end by the technology destroying the humanity.

Summer Holidays

Summer is really near, this year has been very fast like always and now is time to focus in the final activities to the year and be prepared to receive the next one, but there is a time to dedicate to the complete relax and liberation, and it’s the summer holidays, at this time the people gets crazy thinking in Christmas gifts, the new year dinner, the long and short travels to leave the city and after that, even sometimes without realize it, we are in march, right at our works and our studies again, that’s why I think summer is a valuable time and why we must do whatever we want to make every single second count.

The problem in my case is my lazy life that makes me stay on the bed all day long in summer, watching TV or playing videogames, maybe in the worst cases I would practice some classical music just for being bored, I really hate to go outside on summer, except only when came the time for the beach travels, specially to the south of Chile, the nice weather and the beautiful environment gives me some very good memories of lots of funny times. The last problem is on this summer, because I won’t be able to travel the next year for some personal troubles, I have not too much problems with that and I’m not worried about that at all, but I hope someday I could spent a summer holiday in Venice or some other great place outside in the less time possible; C’mon, some days around the world would be great on anytime for anyone isn’t it?

Some Big Drugs in a Little World

In this modern society, a lot of people talk about drugs and other addictive substances. I’ve not lived in the ancient times, when the opium, coca leaves and ceremonial drugs…To make contact with the spirits and the famous pink elephants, but I don’t need to live there to understand the need of some fantasy and relax with drugs, centuries ago, before the arrival of Colon, Cortez, Pizarro, the natives (and slaves) of south America were used to consume coca leaves to keep them wake and always working hard, the Chinese people consumed opium as an hallucinogen, many years later, in the world crisis of the ’29, the dry law made a huge increase of violence and illegal issues, just to sell some alcohol to the people, and people just wanted to buy it, and currently, we have a lot of different kinds of chemical or natural drugs available in the streets to consume, and the society don’t reject it. Because at worse is the reality, we want more the fantasy.

Al Capone, he was in the ''most wanted'' list of the FBI and the 

number one ''Public Enemy'', for alcohol smuggling .

In a personal way, alcohol and cigarettes are my way to get near to the fantasy, but inside my neighborhood, there are some people who abuse a lot of different kind of drugs, not only alcohol, also cocaine and cannabis, that kind of things bring to the neighborhood a couple of troubles, but the last years all have been quiet, my neighbors have never touched again any kind of drugs, except for some occasional beer or wine. But inside my family or friends I’ve never had a problem with drugs of abuse, not even for excessive coffee (I don’t like coffee, so don’t hate me please).

Paracelsus thought that the human body is chemistry, and he was right, we are all chemistry and we can change our chemistry.

Post Graduate Studies

Currently I am a student of chemistry in an undergraduate school, this is my first year, but I would like very much to finish a Professional degree, and after that go further and try to get a Master Degree, and on that way my next step is to have the enough knowledge to get a job adequate to my personal interest, and feeling good with my own achievements and comfortable with my life.

More specifically, if I start to study a Master Degree, I would like to do it right here, in my currently university, and focus my path on the metallurgy subject, because I think is very interesting the productive activities of Chile, besides, this is a miner country, so the job is right here, and the minerals too, the cooper, iron, lithium, they’re crying for us . What are we waiting for? The economy would increase a lot if we all focus our resources in the mineral process and the manufacture of products made of these minerals, then, the exports would increase the profit of many industries nationals and internationals.

But there is a challenge to make true this ‘’wonderful’’ economical stage, because we need people very prepared to the jobs, and that’s why I want to improve myself with a graduate school to create a better future for me and all around, my reason is to contribute with my grain of sand in this economy and get paid for that, that sounds good to me.

Some kind of job.

The entire world is filled with opportunities to have a good job, even if you don’t have the resources or the enough educational level to get a dreamed job, you can start from the bottom and try to keep going further, get promoted, and finally acquire the experience to improve your opportunities, and the better part is that you never are going to waste your time, because you are trying to get paid, satisfy your needs and if you know save the enough money, you can even enjoy some good days of drinks, beach, rest and wasting money.

Once I finish my career, I’m going to be a chemist, and in this country are a lot of vacancies on many kinds of jobs, all of them related with chemistry, it could be a pharmaceutical, environmental, industrial, etc. But my interest are currently focused in an industrial chemist, that’s because I like very much the productive area of Chile, also, this country is in my opinion very focused on the primary economy, but it have not the enough work in the secondary economy, manufacture industries, and many of them are closely related to the chemistry, so I would really like to be inside a factory, and it would be great if that factory is related to metallurgical activities.       

Old and New Hobbies...

Hobbies for me are my own way to escape the reality not for vanity or being selfish, but the most part of the day I don’t feel comfortable with myself and I try to become something else every time, that’s why videogames are my main hobby, to have the opportunity to travel among other wonderful new worlds and experiment a new kind of emotions and sensations, while you are sit in your world controlling other different characters all of them with their own stories to tell.

But even with videogames as a hobby they’re all sometimes frustrating and a little bit stressful (Dark Souls), so when that happens, my new escape is the music. As a child my dream were to become a great pianist, it was an amazing hobby, every single day going to piano classes and practicing even without warming up, but now for medical issues I can’t play piano anymore, but trying to keep on with the music and practicing other instruments, without problems to play, like cello and some keyboard, as I written some months ago in some older posts the last semester; music and videogames are my main hobbies, I’m not really good at sports, and I don’t like too much reading, but except all of that, I try to make any other activity available to improve myself, for example, I would like to learn other kind of instruments to play and maybe become good at it, the theater is also a very interesting idea for me, but I have not enough time to dedicate myself to that. But someday I will.

       Old photo from old posts (And old times)