What a wonderful job...

Hello everybody. The task is to think in jobs I would like to work. In general, young people think that the job is something that we do to get money, but you have to do what is your vocation, if is possible. Others, might a little older, think that the job is only to get by on what you earn, maintain your family and pay for life. I think that is a mix of both, and the path you take depends of how much possibilities you have in the decision’s moment.
When you don’t have possibilities to choose what you want to do, for example, finished college, if you want to study something before get a job, and you can’t because of the money, so you have to get a job before study what you like, and there your desires and your time have to invest for need. Many people have to do a sacrifice in these cases and others similar, and after this, they’re not happy with what they are doing, and the jobs obtain the worst part, all the carry of boredom, unhappily and frustration. It is really dangerous because the people in this situation can fall in a deeply sadness.
A job that all of us would like, I think is to be a rock star, because the people think that is a job of fun and pleasure, like KISS. Obviously, if I could choose one job, I would choose it. I will enjoy it because I would have free pass to go to any concert, I would have fun, I would doing something really creative, and without any annoying boss. Also, go around the world, know every country, city, stadiums and theatres, I would see the museums and arts of every place, etc.
I know some guys who have a life of these characteristics, like a rock star, but they aren’t very famous or rich, they are Chilean musicians, so the reality here and today is very different. Many musicians that I still can call them rocks star, can be founded during the day working in a store and at night, in a gig with the band, because we all know that music in Chile isn’t profitable.
I’m sorry if my post isn’t very serious, but I think that dreaming is funnier than think about what really I would finish doing in my life. I hope you like it.

Regards!

Pd: "God gave rock and roll to you, gave rock and roll to you! Put it in the soul of everyone"

- KISS

Sing!

Hello dear classmates and teacher. Today I will tell you about a famous person that I would like to meet in the present. After look at a large list, I have chosen an important woman musician. Her name is Anneke Van Giersbergen, she is the singer of Agua de Annique and ex The Gathering. I would like to meet her because I’m admirer of her for too long ago, because her voice and creativity are unique and wonderful to me. I have seen her in a gig with Agua de Annique in 2009, and I love it, but now I would like to have a conversation with her and ask her for her life, for the things that she had to work and pass to be in the place she is. I think that her life weren’t easy, because she start her musician career very young, maybe she had to leave her family or boyfriend to get her goal.

I would like to tell her that she is so talent, well, she has to know it yet, but the thing is that I found in her an inspiration to go on in the music and band’s things. Also, that to my eyes, she is different from the rest of singers of her genre, there are many very talented women but she is the one that, for example, emphasize in the music, in the singing, and not in the image, she never want to be a sexy icon or a beautiful model to the audience, and I value it very much.

I think that meet her would be interesting because I listen her music, and I believe that it has very much of her within. Somehow I feel that maybe I am like her, because we both are singers and we both try to sing and play guitar or keyboards, but on instruments we aren’t very virtuous in a theoretical sight, we like the interpretation, our strong is the voice and what we can say, I think. She is very humble, so I would like to meet her someday and ask her for advice.

A perfect Day

Hello my dear reader. The task is really creative this time. I have to devise a perfect day, think in what I would do, with who I would spend it, where, etc. Before this, we had to hear a song that says ideas about this topic. “Perfect day”: what amazing song by Lou Reed, holy lord! My imagination turns on with the first verses and chords. I have the feeling that a perfect day wouldn't be made by the place where you be, even not by with who you be with, but for what and how you feel at the day. Like the song says, a perfect day could be in the park, at the zoo with the animals, etc. but the perfect day have to “keep me hanging on“, I mean, the day have to make sense inside of me, or take away the sense of maintain routine, and make me feel like there’s nothing else to do tomorrow that make me concern, like song said: “problems are left alone“.

The thing that give sense in my imaginary perfect day, could be a person, for example, one guy I would like to stay and spend time, and maybe fall in love, because I think the first approaches to a person you like, are the best of love, when you're knowing someone. Other thing that would make me happy would be a concert of a band I really like, but it would be absolutely perfect if we could buy the VIP ticket and hear the concert in a very comfort place, instead of being crushed against other sweaty backs... jaaaaa.

Well, the perfect day is not so utopian, I think I've had perfect days. For example, my last no-birthday, I was with people that I really love, family and friends, they made me a celebration and they gave me a gift, something really tender to me, and they made me really happy.

This is my devise of a perfect day. I hope you like it.

In the picture, my dear friend Coke and me. He is a special friend of mine, he make me laugh a lot.

TIME STAND STILL! Now!

Hello everybody, I hope you had a awesome weekend. I had it, I had recovering much sleep, lost in the last two weeks because of the university. But, well I’m here for the task.

After all, I have to say that I hate to name some music piece like a favourite, because in my case, it change all the time. I have songs in a list, but it is something like my own Golden List, were I put songs that really touch me, forever and ever. At the moment, I have a song blowing my mind far far away. I don’t know when I heard it for the first time, but I remember what struck me out, and this is definately the lyrics. The song is called Time Stand Still and it is by RUSH, of their album Hold your Fire. The special thing of this song, is that it is an amazing description of when we all feel that the time is passing too fast, and we don’t even notice that we are living. Life is full of meaning, that we make from the impressions and and sensations that we take of it. But sometimes time flies, and we ignoring all this feelings, having a life without sense. The song said that the little moments of living and feel, like feel the wind, the light, the sun on you back, stop and “see all the people and places that sorrounds me now”, all the things that the most part of the time we let fade away from our memory, because we focus in other thing, like job, university, we focus on the comply, beyond the enjoy the minute of life. When finally realize this, we wish to freeze time for some minutes, and we would feel the really taste of living. The final task that this lyric said to us, is to live every feeling as the last. I like it very much, apart from music, the message is strong and true. In this moment, in this minute, in this freeze sensation, Time Stand Still is my favourite song. And next Sunday, I will hear it live in the concert of RUSH in Chile! I’m so happy!

Regards!

Which country would I like to go to?

Hello! Today the task is to write about a country I would like to go. Well, obviously this place is unknown to me, so the job today is to my imagination mainly. The country I would like to visit, apart from the entire European continent, is England. Why? This country has a plus over the rest of the continent, because I would like to live and work there. I don’t have any concrete information about on what can I work there, but I imagine that the labor situation wouldn’t be so bad to me. I would get a job in something with my career related, but nothing that consume all my time, attention and patience, because if I think about what I would do there, springs to my mind an image of me travelling along the country, and also other nearby countries, so to do this, I would need a lot of free time. I would like to go to the Wembley Stadium, and wish Freddy Mercury was alive to hear him there with QUEEN, but this is dream too much now… but I resign to the reality, and I would be satisfy with be there in a music festival, it would be great! Then, at the afternoon, I would take a boat around the Palace of Westminster, and see the beautiful lights that the pictures shows us in the Internet. I would enjoy even taking those of the red Routemaster double-decker buses.

After a time in London, I would like to move to Germany, specifically to Dresden. I would like to the same of what I would like to do in London, live and work, but mainly, to knowing places. I saw pictures of Dresden, and I believe is beautiful, it have the Elbe Valley, such a wonderful green paradise, that had a place in the World Heritage Committee during five years, but then the construction of an expressway made the valley lose it. Dresden has a grandiose architecture, which is combined with the nature perfectly. Also it has a very important classical music tradition and history, and this is very interesting to me.

hAAPPY hOLIDAYS

Hello everybody, today I want to tell you about an important national topic of the present, it is the Mapuche conflict, and how I see it related with the last national holidays. This thing made an important pressure on what suppose to would be the perfect celebrations of 200 years of independence of our country. Beyond what I think, I want to tell you what I notice of this in my daily life, I mean, on the ordinary things from celebrate with my family, go out with my friends, till watching television and news. I made this decision because in my opinion it isn’t lower that the media still manipulating all the information of this case, and this is affecting to us all. They are lying us, and we started to care less and less about the Mapuche conflict, misplaced for the stupid news of showbiz. The media is hiding important information and just there is it’s lies. I don’t know what are they hiding with accuracy, but I’m really sure that I don’t care about if Malene Olivarí is a lesbian, or drug addict, I’m waiting to know something that really care to the Chilean people. If my opinion sounds a little exaggerated, I attribute this to the same myth that the media created arround the facts, and it have the consequence of also a nocive group created to itself.

Well, I haven’t answered all the questions of the present task, because I consider very important to talk about the media work, I believe is so important to discuss more of it. But I’m writting for a mark, so I want to answer some of them. I believe if the Mapuche people are judged without the transparency that they and the nation need, they are being judged absolutely unfairly. But this unfairly judgement has been doing above all the goverments, no matter the wing, always the conflict has been dilated through the years, without gain any real solution. I can't say if Piñera did or not a good job, I only can say that things haven't changed till today, is the same as always. I am only waiting for something... something good.

Flower strike

Hello everybody, today I want to tell you about many things related to our university. Well, for what I have to start? First, the topic of this time is not very clearly-defined for me, so I will write some things that maybe could be useful to comment. So, I believe one of the most important things that happened during the last month in the university was the student organization and their strike to improve the education in the country. In our career, I think the directing ones have managed to make theirselves heard, and get succesfully a way to organize the force the movement. We still have the problem of an insufficient participation of all the student body, but already there are much path covered.

That's because we had a assembly many times, and discuss what we want of the education in Chile, what we wait of this, and what we specifically could be real, I mean, what of all those year of dreaming would come true finally.

Ok, the part of the student organization is there and at work. Many ideas result of the gatherings, and then, we make an unconscious slogan of fighting, a protest to get the promise of a top-quality education on Chile. Now, I wonder how we are protesting? How do the strike goes? I think is terrible. In our career is so much difficult to make people go to the strike in the streets, is quite a miracle if a few students go there. This is one problem, and the other is that some students think that violence is necessary to get changes. I think this is true, but there are many ways of violence, I believe that burn things on the streets and a chemistry fight between the students and policemen are definitely unecessary.

We have to find out another new way to make ourselves be heard. We could think in protest with art, maybe...

Love, Mary.