Have you had a good year?

This year was very surprising for me because of many things I have done, things I had learnt and many goals in which I am working right now.

Why? That's what I'm going to tell you in this instance. 

I feel good in my career, but also I have been studying many things from Physics and Calculus, which are very interesting for me, even studying a social science, which is a bit far from mathematics (when this does not implies statistics and probabilities, basis of most of the scientific knowledge in social sciences) or physics.

But this year wasn’t only about good things, because there are also things that did not go as expected. As example, this year I proposed myself a few goals like not missing more classes at university or spend more time studying than playing videogames or doing anything else instead of studying, but I have failed doing that last semester. This way, I spent a lot of time on internet reading anything else and I missed many classes. However, I started doing thing correctly this semester and I am better than ever. Good thing this year were also working on my goals and achieve things like a good attendance at university or get good marks in my tests and research works.

I can say that I had a good year, but the year has not ended yet! There are two months left and I will have to do my best to give a great end to this year: going back to my home in Puerto Montt, being with my family and feel the cold breeze at the shore in Puerto Montt...

I need it!

Childhood series

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    At this moment I am at university, studying a career, trying to plan what I am going to do with my life in a few years, but could be convenient to take a break and look at your past, especially those moments you enjoyed the most or even just things you used to do when you was a child and you, right now, don't do as often as during your childhood. 

This time I was remembering about the series I used to see during those years and a few series came to my mind because of their importance for me. I followed one of these series from the first chapter; the other one was, in my opinion, one of those series that you must have seen at least once during your life:

The first one is, in my opinion, my favourite cartoon when I was entering adolescence: Avatar, the legend of Aang. I saw all its seasons (called books in the cartoon) on Nickelodeon, excepting for the last one, the Book of Fire, whose chapters were in English because they weren’t dubbed to Spanish yet, so I had to watch it in english on internet. I liked this cartoon because of its world, where people could control the four elements: fire, earth, water and air. I used to wish to control fire and air when I was watching the new chapters transmitted every Thursday’s after school.


Dragon Ball Z was an anime about fights and fights and more fights, some stories of people, and then… more fights. The plot of the whole anime was about a group of protagonist fighting enemies that were stronger every time. Even if the plot was about fights and more fights, these fights were amazing and lasted for entire chapters, especially the most important fights that could last for three or five complete episodes. The other series I was talking about at the beginning was an anime I liked a lot when I was even younger, even I still watching some movies about this anime when I remember it and have free time: Dragon Ball Z. 

There are, of course, many other series that I remember and I liked a lot, but this time I wanted to tell you about these because I am even thinking about download these series and watch it again from the first episode to the last one.

The scariest monsters

Even when during my childhood I hadn't many fears about monsters or something else, I can remember a lot of creatures from the chilean mythology that even now I would not be able to refuse their existence completely.

When I was a child many family told me many stories about their own experiences with some mythical creatures, as the Basilisk or the Tue-Tue. The basilisk was a creature with snake body and chicken head that slipped through the houses seeking for its food: the breath of the people living in the house.

Also I have heard stories about the Tue-Tue or Chon-Chon, that is a head with claws and big ears that use to fly. The Tue-Tue was a wizard that used a cream to separate his head from his body and fly to the houses of ill people looking for their blood, finally killing them. My mom told me once that if someday I hear a Tue-Tue, I must take a bunch of salt and throw it at the fire of the woodburning stove, because that makes the Tue-Tue to fall directly to the ground, being unable to stand up again.

Even when I was not afraid of many monsters or creatures during my childhood, maybe because I was quite though, I don't know, I still listening seriously when someone tells me an story about mythical creatures, especially if I am in Chiloé, a very mystic and full of secrets place.

How green are you?

I must say that I am not really an entirely ecologic person, but I have been becoming more and more conscious about taking care of our environment. Not at the point of having four or five different trash cans for each kind of recyclable garbage on my room or in my home in Puerto Montt, but I take more care of our planet than I used to do a few years ago.

In my home there are not many recycling habits, but at least we take care about how we dispose our wastes, as not to dispose used oil in the W.C. or in the sink, or not to dispose used batteries with the rest of the garbage.

I think that all we learn in school is not enough, since there are not many opportunities to learn about ecological habits or even to spend some time in separating garbage or reusing some bottles or packing. In my home we try to take care about a few things, but I think we are far away from being completely green.

But being green is not all about recycling. I also try to not to use electric energy if I do not need it, like using stairs instead of elevators or saving gas or water in shorter showers. However sometimes I feel that even when I am taking care of these things, there are many people that collapses the escalators or drive their cars with nobody else, polluting the already polluted Santiago.