2nd Semester, 1st Blog: The best holiday I’ve ever had

The best holiday I’ve ever had was be on Winter of 2012… I traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I traveled to this city to play on a Classical Guitar concert so I arrived three days before to sightseeing the city. On those days I went to La Boca neighborhood, a really famous place for his tango shows, colorful houses and grills restaurants. I walked for Caminito, Plaza de Mayo, Puerto Madero –A beautiful port with museums ships-, and San Telmo, a bohemian neighborhood.

I have a lot of good memories of those holydays, one of the most funniest are maybe the airport strike… When I was on Santiago’s airport a worker says me “The Buenos Aires airport was on strike so I you will need take other Airbus”. This Airbus arrived at other airport at 32 kilometers of Buenos Aires…

So, when I arrived to there a worker of this airport says me “The highway is blocked by strikers so you will have to wait maybe three of four in order to the policeman liberate the road of the barricades… Oh! What a bad luck! Finally I waited just an hour, I took a bus to the downtown and I came to the Hotel without other problems.

This travel out of Chile was the second on my life and the first to play a solo recital. This was in a quaint museum with a very nice public ¡They congratulate me a lot!. 

The return to Chile was nice but I was a little bit sad… I played a good concert, I met new people, new places, new food, a new big city, a different culture... All the memories are really good so I’m waiting with enthusiasm the opportunity to come back to continue sightseeing the enormous city of Buenos Aires.

Blog 10th: Evaluation of my English Blogging Experience

This isn't my first time writing a blog. In the past I wrote little stories on a blog called "Té de orquesta". All my writings are fiction histories about people who live in Santiago. So, later three or four publications I leave this blog around 2006...

Back to write a blog is a great experience, this blog -Absolutely on English- was be a challenge for me because give form at your thinking in this language isn't a regular practice for me.

Later nine blogs I sense my English is better. Write about my favorite piece of technology or how to be a public administrator are really different topics with a lot of different vocabulary what you need to know and apply it.

I'm sure in the future I will need to write some essay or document completely in English, write -for example- on a new arts research magazine. For this reason -and others- learn to write on English is really important and nesesary... But, English isn't the olny necessary language for me, German (maybe) is than or more important because I'm plannyng to go to study at Switzerland (!) In that country they speak arroung four languages: Genman, French, Italien and Romansch, a traditional subfamily of the Romance languages.
So, I just have 25, maybe on 25 years more I will speak this and others languages! (or not?)

Blog 9: How to be the best public administrator

To be a good public administrator, in my opinion, is basically be a good profesional. In this situation the motivation and caring are fundamental. The skills, hard study, comprimose and love moves you to the profesional sucessfull and then to the social contruction.
This country has been made by us, we need to serve to others to construct the civilization what we want. To this propose, the public administrators have a fundamental rol because the public policies study and apply the strategies to make this country better.
A real problem regarding this point is the corruption, too many presidents, ministers, and governors are faumous for the fraedulent stealing of state's money destroying the social peace and the social confidence to the goverment.

Other problem is the old policies form the dictatorship. The private emprices absorving the (i) ecomony, (ii) the public education and, in some cases, (iii) the justice; Needs a real and radical change to the old policies and, inclusive, the constitution.
In conclusion, a good public administrator needs to combat this (and others) problems, working for his country with dedication, honesty, love and hope to construct the real "Garden of Eden", the country what all of us, the citicents, want.

Blog 8: My favourite wild animal

My favourite wild animal is the Condor.
The condor it's a bird with falcons characteristics: Is a really big animal, lives in high places like mountains, and is a animal in danger of extinction.
The Condor is familiar to all the Chileans because is one of the emblem animals with the Huemúl.
On my past vacations in Osorno I and my friends go to walk at the forest, in there we found a beautifull waterfall (maybe with 50 meters of high) and we climb it. At the top we see all the forest, the Llanquihue Lake and the border of the lake and, fortunately, Condors flying arround. That was a great experience for us and specially for me because travel to the south isn't easy for me and also see this beautiful animal... wow! a really nice adventure!

In Chile we have a famous comic called "Condorito", it's a Condor! and he lives en Pelotillehue, place of his anecdotes. Pepo, his creator, uses this animal because he thinks the Condor is the most representative animal of this country.

Blog 7: Lang Lang

Musical interpretation is a really hard area of the music studies. In particular, piano studies take around fourteen years of studies in a conservatory.

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Lizt are maybe the most important composers for this instrument. They music are not easy to play, you need days, months and years of practice to play just the rhythms and notes…

Lang Lang is a 31 year old pianist. He comes from China and is one of the most famous pianists (living) in the world. His interpretations are full of energy, passion and grace… Lang Lang is the perfect musician with supernatural skills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKILwVH_MdM

When I listen for first time the music of Lang Lang I was not surprised, but, when I see his version of Tchaikovsky’s 1^st piano concerto I understand why he is a really talented music star.

A funny fact is his recent participation with Metallica (yeah! the trash metal band) at the Grammy awards… A friend told me “that was ridiculous”, but I think “It’s great! I hope to play my classical guitar with Metallica!”

Blog 6: My favourite movie

My favourite movie is the Star Wars III: The empire Strikes Back

I see this movie when I was a child, the special effects an the ligth sables fights made me crazy, I just loved this movie! Later to see this movie my mom bought me a video game for nintendo of this movie and in there I can understand better the argument of the movie.

I think this is a one of the most important movies of the Starwars saga because is in this film when LKuke Skywalker beggins is trainning like a Jedi to figth the dark side... It's memorable the moment whrn Darck Vader says to him "I'm your father" ¡It's a classic line of the cinema!

Throgth the time I understand the sense of justice inneded in this movie, the heroism of the diferent characters and the importance of this movie to the history of the cienema... Other think what I like of this movie is the music, John Williams it's an amazing composer! his teacher was be Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, an Italian composer what I know very well because the last year I played a music work of him.

5th blog: The Annual Running of the UChile

This picture was taken on October 27th, 2013. It shows the begining of the annual running of the University of Chile in conmemoration of the 171th anniversary of this institution.
This race was started in Pio Nono, in the front of Laws faculty and the competition has been divided in two categories: 10 Kilometers (people with red number in the shirt) and 5 kilometers (people with green numbers on shirt)... If you look with atention, in the middle of the photo you will see a guy with a white/black cap and number 847 on his shirt... That is me!

The annual running of the university is one of the many activities in celebration of the anniversary: Music shows, concerts with the OSCH (Symphonic Orchestra of the University of Chile), parties, ceremonies with contests and awards to the professors, etc...
I like so much running and sports in general, so, I hope to keep running and practicing sports in different activities of the University like the TIF (Faculty Tournaments), the JOE (Annual student's olimpic games) and others.