Post 7: Someone I'd like to meet

Even though I really love listening to music, I'm not so interested on any particular artist besides his musical production. Don't get me misunderstood, I think that knowing about the artist life is important to understand their art, but I'm just not enthusiastic about meeting them. The only one that I would really like to meet and have the chance to chat with is Elliott Smith, because his music is extremely personal and touching and I think that it relates a lot with everyone who listens to it, but he died many years ago, so meeting him would be impossible. So, if I have to choose someone to meet  I wouldn't choose an artist.

One of the important things in my life is Judo. It is a martial-art from Japan and a Olympic sport. I have been practicing it for a while and currently I'm competing on my university's team. I think that as a sportsman, professional athletes are a very big inspiration and meeting them would be always a rewarding experience, because they have been competing at the highest levels of the sport, so the experience and everything they know would be a rich learning to other people.

So, someone famous I would like to meet, is Teddy Riner. He is a legendary French Judoka, two times Olympic champion, three times Olympic medalist and ten times world champion. By now, Riner is considered the best competitive Judoka of modern history of Judo, and his career isn't even over yet! He haven't lost a fight since 2010. Also, Riner is always respectful and caring about people, he donates a lot of the money he gets from competition to child-caring institutions, representing the real spirit of Judo and the sportsmanship that comes with it. So you get to understand why I would like to meet him, he is just the best, and I think that as a Judoka I could learn a lot from him, not only in terms of technique and competition, but also as a person.

He has his own Dojo where he teaches Judo to children in Paris, so I hope someday I will have the possibility to travel there and maybe take a class with Teddy, that would be very rewarding to me.

Post 6: Postgraduate Studies

I constantly think about keep studying at university after I finish my first academic degree. I'm not sure if I would do it immediately after graduating from sociology, maybe I would prefer to work some time, save some money and then, after a couple of years, enter to some postgraduate program.

I would like to study a postgraduate on social science, because I really want to learn more about all social science and specifically, I would like to learn things about psychology that could help me in social research.

I think that I would study in Chile, actually, in this same university. Maybe I would study outsides the country after my first postgraduate. I'm not sure whereabouts exactly, because I'm not sure of the subject of it or even if I would want it, but I guess I will know in the future.

I would study part-time, so I can also work and keep doing other activities that are important to me, or if I decide not to work and studying at the same time, I would take a full-time program, to finish it most quickly. I'm not so sure if there are any program of distance learning in the subjects I'm interested.

I think it's a wise choice to study a postgraduate, but there are some reasons that could make it more difficult too, like not having enough money or time. If you have the opportunity to study a postgraduate, I think that you have to take it, unless you don't want to.

Post 5: My Future Job

When it comes to think about job and occupation, I immediately imagine myself doing something calm and practical. There are things that I enjoy a lot, like doing pottery, painting or gardening. Growing plants and selling them would be an amazing job for me. 

Something that I have always wished for is to learn about Bonsai, the Japanese art of growing trees on pots. There is people that have their own Bonsai Shops, planting and selling them to make some profit and survive. One of the most important things about this art is to be outdoors, collecting branches and materials, caring the trees and preparing the garden where trees grow. I don't like the idea of working indoor, like in an office, I found it very stressing and dangerous for your mind and body, so I would always prefer to work outdoors, where you can have more sensitivity about space and nature.

Even thought this is an activity I would really like to do, I'm conscious that it is not so viable, and most of the time is seen as a hobby. In that case, I would have to refer about my down-to-earth option: working on social science investigation. I'm currently studying Sociology, and I like it, even thought I sometimes get overwhelmed by the routine of being a student. I would like to become a professional researcher on the sociology field, involving treating with people, traveling around the city, the country or even the world making research and learning about sociological theory. I have not decided a specialization yet, but sociology haves many fields where you can work so it is not so difficult to found one in which you can adjust. The idea that really gets me enthusiastic about researching is working with participatory methods, analyzing data and of course, getting into the background of social problems to help understand them and eventually solve them.

I think that I could actually put into practice both of my plans, gardening and researching, maybe setting aside the Bonsai to a hobby and working as a professional researcher. In every case, I only hope to have the possibility of having a job that gives me enough profits to survive and live a relatively humble life, but most important, that gives me happiness and a healthy lifestyle.

Post 4: My Best Friend

Talking about my friends is somewhat difficult to me, since I have a lot of persons that I consider as my friends in many different sides of my life, being especially difficult to categorize them in a hierarchy, but it's not impossible I guess, actually, there's someone in my mind that would fit perfectly on the description of a best friend. His name is Carlos, I met him on first year of university and since then we have been friends. He approached to me the very first day of class, when I was alone and confused walking around the campus, with a friendly conversation.

It has been four years now since we first met, and he has being an unconditional company despite my complicated way of be. We have grown emotionally together this years, we talk about feelings, pains and cheers, having a great confidence and always trying to understand each other. Both of us are a complete disaster sometimes, but when that happens, we just try to keep the company and slowly cheer up.

Also we do a lot of simple things together, like listen to music and talk about it, go for walks, eat a lot and even exercise!

I will never forget when we climbed Cerro Chena to the very top of the hill, and then, when we were leaving, a strange man approached us and started talking us about weird and nonsense stories of his life. We were somewhat scared and confused, but nowadays we remember that day with lots of laughs, and that is not the only bizarre story we have together, in fact, we have a lot of bizarre and funny stories.

Post 3: My Favorite TV Show

When it comes to talk about my favorite TV show, there is only one thing that immediately comes to my mind: Game of Thrones. I'm aware of the popularity of this show, so I think almost everyone has at least a clue of what it is about, however, there's a lot of things I would still like to say.

Game of Thrones is a TV series produced by HBO, released for the first time on 2011, April 17. It consists in a world of medieval fiction, with lots of drama, adventure and action. It is inspired on George R.R Martin's book A song of Ice and Fire. The story of the series is set on a continent with different nations that are ruled by lords, members of a ruling lineage, focusing the events on the nobility and the diplomacy –most of the time shady– that characters use for the seek of power and control. Some of them would tend to act with honor and faith, but eventually the cold-blood-cleverness is going to overcome the nice guys.

I could choose a lot of episodes as my favorite, so, making an exceptional effort, I have to choose the first episode as my beloved one. Why first episode? Well, there's a lot of more exhilarating episodes on the series, but what makes the first episode of the show my favorite is the big impact that it had on me when I watched it: the setting of the environment, that dark atmosphere that would tense every nerve of your body, and the sudden death of characters that you never expected is what got me shocked and extremely interested. Then you understand: this is not a common show, anything could happen and you're about to being shockingly surprised over and over again.

So, I already displayed a bit why I like this show so much (Seriously, it does, I've watched it like 5 times). It's production, the coherent fantasy and all the surprising events made this series something like an addiction to me.

If you haven't seen it, you must.