2014

I think this year has been very difficult to me or, at least, I have had to make a big effort to endure it. This is because I began this year with a handicap due to a sickness I had. So, at the beginning I didn’t know if I could study, but I decided that the best choice was to do it.  At first, it was very difficult, but I persisted until I recovered a good pace, I have had a nice performance, so I’m calm about the semester’s end.  In another aspect, I have developed myself as a person a lot from this sickness and I have learnt about my interests and wishes. Related to extracurricular activities, I have participate in an EJE group (you have to live it), and I’m in charge of the musical entertainment and animation, I enjoy it a lot, despite I’m not a religious person. In spite of these difficulties, this has been a good year, because I have could demonstrate to me that I can confront hard situations and smile when everything seems against me. I’m becoming a more responsible person (I think), but obviously a have a lot to improve. I hope to still doing things that make me be better person I`m right now, and I’m looking urgently to do something new in my life that force me to live a lot of different situations and experiences. Mainly a want to be surprised, because a consider that things I’m doing and the places that I visit, in this moment, are very usual and common.

My hobbies

If I think about it, I have had the same hobbies for years. One of my oldest hobbies is to play videogames. I have never had a video games console, as Nintendo or PlayStation, but I have always been worry about improve my PC. A desk computer have the benefit of could change its parts for another better or more advanced. It allow to you to get a faster velocity of data processing and to run the latest video games. A lot of times I have to “pimp” my PC because I want to play a particular game that requires a lot of power. Nowadays, I still love to play, but less than a few years ago. I could be maybe because I have more responsibilities in study and social life.  Another hobby is to ride my bike, May besides it is my mean of transport. If I’m stressed, I take my bike and I go cycling in a park or a peaceful place. Another hobby is to be with people, share a good time, drink a beer and meet different kind of persons, especially the odd ones. I think that is very fun to meet a weird person, because you don’t know what to expect of them. This kind of people can surprise you in a good way with their extravagances and freshness. This hobby is the most important for me, because It allows me to have a lot of experiences, and it could be a very important reason about why I choose psychology as my career: to understand the people and his way of understand the world.

How 'green' I am?

I try to be “green” person. I always throw the garbage in the rubbish bin. Sometimes I do the same with garbage that is not mine, of the floor. In my house, we have an especial to put in there the recyclable trash.  Periodically, we left it in recycle point. When, for example, I’m with people sharing in some place (grass), I worry about to leave clean the place we used.  In another way, I’m really making an effort to become a vegetarian. I consider it green because is fetching for animals. But it’s hard, because if you don’t eat meat you reduce a lot of the common food you can buy, especially a cheap one. It is terrible when I’m with “bajón”. Besides, always that I can, I ride my bike to move through the city. It’s is very healthy and help to the physical condition, besides to decontaminate the city.  But, despite of this, I think very hard to be a full ecologic person. If a wanted to do that, I should to buy organic food (very expensive) or to harvest it.  My clothes and all things I use should be not harmful to the environment and recyclable when it becomes useless.

I’m proud to be a conscious about environment, and I always will try to get better in this the most I can. In this moment, I’m trying to get away of the city and to get closer of the nature, looking for peace mainly.

Friday :D

If I wouldn’t have english at Friday I’m pretty sure I would be partying right now.  I’m a very motivated person, so if a see a bit of movement in my campus, I look for people and i buy beer or wine for share with my friends. I like to party early because I don’t like to return late at night to my home; I’m a very lazy person. Most of people I Know at university are “carreteros”, so I always find company or somebody to enjoy a good moment. If my campus is bored, I call my friend of childhood and we met to talk about life and to share a beer. But I have to admit that I don’t enjoy right now  because a think I have partying a lot. This is my second year, the first I didn’t go to a party in the full year, so this year I try to recover the ‘wasted’ time. In this moment I’m tired of that so I decided to become a bit more home-loving and try to be more time with my family, because I think that I don’t do it enough. This day in particular I’m not very motivated, so if I would stay, it would be a short time, then I would go to my house, eat something and try to read for my exams. After, I would be hours watching ‘Game of Thrones’, that I began a week ago.

My future job

When people think about a psychologist, they imagine somebody like Freud, who is psychoanalyzing you meanwhile you’re speaking, lay down on a divan. So, if you study psychology, some people would think that you are analyzing them in every moment. Another prejudice, is that people who is study psychology are a good listener and that can give a good advice. This is a very common opinion, but psychology is more than that analyze people for tell them advices about problems how to revolve its. First of all, it refers at a clinical practice and Psychoanalysis that is one of many perspectives in psychology. Psychology has many branches of knowledge, mainly clinical, organizational, and legal and social/community. Besides that, each one could divide in different perspective and theories. There are Psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitivism, humanism, etc. In my personal case, I’m very interested about social/community psychology that its objective is to understand the subject/persons in relation with his society and social interactions. Psychologist who dedicate to this branch can do investigations mainly, but can do practical interventions in a community to improve its working to achieve different goals. I’m not sure about what I going to do when I finish my career, but I want to do this away of Santiago, in a smaller city or town to can live far of the big cities and constant ‘movement’. 

“terrorist attempt”: bomb in the subway.

I knew about the bomb in the Monday’s evening. It was at midday, so I realize about that very late. I was in a friend’s home, when the news showed what happened. I was surprised of course of the wounded people, but besides because I didn’t think that it could happen; I think that Chilean people are very conservative, at least at our days. Honestly, I think that government is behind this entire situation. Why? Because it is advisable for the government. Maybe this sound like “V for vendetta”, but I think that “fear” is a good way for control people. In fact, is the best way. Government categorized this as a ‘Terrorist attempt’, but I believe that cops have means to identify these kinds of groups. For that reason I think that is very incredible that cops can’t identify the guilty with agility. Besides, more than promote calm and peace, the press spreads uncertainty (which generate fear at people). This in turn produces consumerism, which benefit to… yes, business men and politicians (I hate them). Fear, in my opinion is the unique resource that have the government have in this moment for maintain the society united, because It doesn’t have credibility and proofs to demonstrate that It is necessary. Government need staging to being valid and acceptable for people.

 

Mysteryland  2013

Strictly speaking, it is not a concert, but an electronic music festival. The difference with normal concert is the number of artists, here there are a lot, and the time of the concert; Mysteryland spent three full days. I'm not a big fan of electronic music, but two friends motivated me to go. The ticket was very expensive (approximately $ 65,000), but it was given as a birthday gift, so I could go without regretting. On December 19th , 2013 the first day of the festival, we travelled to Picarquín, where every year it is carried out, and we got there at noon. It was totally crowded, and it took some time to install the tend. It took 20 minutes to get to the Q-dance stage and 20 to get to the main stage (there were 5 different stages of different types of electronic music). These were very large and very colorful; really amazing. On the day, everything was a pool party and at night it was total madness, a lot of drinks, lights, costumes, drugs (not in my case, but it was openly visible), and of course, music and happiness. On the third day, the festival ended with fireworks and then I realized I was totally tired and haggard. I had a terrible hangover and I slept an entire day on the next day.