Blog 4: A darker shade of magic

Hi everyone! Today's topic is a book that I recommend. I always recommend Shades of magic, written by Victoria Elizabeth (V. E.) Schwab. This saga is from the fantasy genre, and the first book is A darker shade of magic.

(I really love the cover)

The books are set in London, but in a universe where exist four dimensions, so there are four London's: the grey, the white, the red and the black.  The black London is almost a myth, there's no connection with them.

The main character is Kell, who is an Antari, this means that he can travel between the dimensions. He is importante because not everyone can do this. Kell is from red London, where he works for the royal family being a messenger for them, and also smuggling objects to other dimensions. On a trip to grey London, he mets Lila Bard. She dreams with a good adventure, so she forces to take her with him.

I like this saga because the characters are very human, they can get corrupted by the power of the magic. They aren't perfect heroes. Also I like it because the idea of a world with magic is awesome.

Blog 3: Recommended movie

Hi everyone! today I'll write about a movie that I recommend (that is also one of my favorites movies): V for Vendetta. It's an adaptation of the comic books with the same name. The director of it is James McTeigue, and this was his debut movie, although he was assistant director of Matrix and collaborated in Sense 8.

The movie is set in a dystopic future in a totalitarian Britain, with a dark past that we get to know during the history progresses. The main characters are Evey (Natalie Portman) and V (Hugo Weaving). V is a masked man, who uses the mask of Guy Fawkes. This mask is world-renowned as a symbol since the comic came out (in protests and as Anonymous face).

V and Evey meet during the curfew and there is where history begins. With Evey, we accompany V in his plan, which is to motivate a revolution to free the people of his fascist government. I think I like this movie because of it, that V is so committed to his idea.

I think that everyone should see it, not only for the political discourse but also because it's a great movie in every way, like photography and performances. I have chills whenever I see it haha.

Blog 2: The best holidays ever

Today we talk about the best holidays ever. It was a trip of fourteen days with my mom to Perú and Bolivia in 2018. It's funny because, in the first place, we said "let's go to Arica" to visit the graveyard where my great-grandma was, and to visit the family. Then, we figured out that it was so close to Tacna, that we said: "why don't we go to Perú?" because my mom was never out of the country. Short story, we saved money for some months, planned the trip and then take a plane to Lima. Then we take buses and met different places, specifically Cuzco, Puno, Tacna, and Arica. We were so stressed running to get to know everything, because we knew that it would be a lot of time before we could took a journey like that again.

It was the best holiday because I had a lot of time with my mom, visited a lot of beautiful places and ruins, I met the family that I didn't know and after this journey, and I felt a deeper connection with Latinoamerica. And, for a plus, I met a llama.

PS: Sad story. I had a lot of photos of the trip, but they were on my old computer and it broke, so I only have the photos that my mom took:(

Blog 1: A country I'd like to visit

Hi everybody! Today I will tell you about what country I would like to go to. And it will be Italy, since I have distant relatives there, and I would love to meet them and also know the cities. In addition to this, I am interested in architecture and food (obviously). About Italy I know some things, like that it has more than 50 World Heritage Sites, and that the oldest university in the world is located there.

If I was in Italy the first thing I would like to do is eat jeje. Gelato (that is not the same as ice cream, by the way), pizza, and pasta would be things at the top of my list. Another thing I like to do is, besides meeting my relatives, would be to know all the cities that I can. I would love to live there because of the culture and to know more about the country, all of it is so interesting, the landscapes, the history. I love to know all of the world heritage sites and take pictures of everything.

Thanks for reading, I hope all of you are well <3

Blog 5: The story of a photograph

Today I want to tell you the story behind this photograph.

My dad never liked the cats, but for some reason, he adopted one like five years ago. The cat in the picture was a male cat named Miguel, I loved that cat and the weekends I sleep with him. I took this picture like four years ago before the wife of my dad gets pregnant, and there decided that the cat had to go. I was so sad because never seeing again. But then my grandma offers her to keep the cat until someone can take care of him. She doesn't like the cats too, but she and Miguel made great friends, until a friend of my dad take her word and tell us he could take care of the cat, and my grandma is so proud that she left the cat goes with him.

I like this picture because I loved Miguel, and he was a crazy cat that always bites me and everything, but he was nice.

Blog 4: Books

Hello!

I wanted to talk today about books.

When I was little I save money to buy books. Classical, dystopia, trilogy, the books that then become a movie. I read a lot of romance histories, of the future and war. Not everything was just youth literature, but I have to admit I read it a lot.

This was when I have like fifteen years old, then I grow up and I started to refuse this kind of books because they were entertaining, but only that. I started looking at other genres, and the poetry and the science fiction (the old, like Verne or Bradbury) satisfied my need for reading.

Now that I'm here in the university, I can tell that having the habit of reading, made me the things easier. Even I lost a bit of practice because of the last two years I didn't have plenty of time, but I'm grateful that I never let my stop reading.

Blog 3: My favorite piece of technology

Hi!

My favorite piece of technology is my camera. It was my gift for my birthday when I get the age of sixteen. It’s a pink semiprofessional camera, and at first I didn't like it because I was having trouble with the pink, but it takes very good pictures. Now that I'm older I'm not ashamed to say that I think it's cute.

Before joining the university, I had a little time free (but even in that moment I haven't had too much time with the school and the pre-university) and I spend it taking pictures of nature and my family. Sometimes I was going to protests and my favorite pictures are from those moments.

My life without it would be different, because it is my favorite way of taking moments and make it last, and it’s a way of artistic expression that I like so much, you can show to the world what are you watching.

Blog 2: Why did I choose this career?

My dream, when I was a child, was to be a painter. I wanted to become an artist, but then my view of the world changed, I wanted to not only see the people, I wanted to understand and sometimes, change that world. That's why I'm studying Social work now, to see from another point of view and do something about it.

Other careers that I have as an option were Law (now I know that I make a good choice for not be stubborn, I can say that I wouldn't be happy there) and Sociology, but I'm satisfied with what I choose. I didn't know what was exactly Social work, but I made a bet and win because is what I wanted to do.

The experience of being in the university is something great, is better than I was expected. The people are so nice and the lessons are so interesting.

The kind of work I would like to do is something where I can do the things that I feel are right, not to be someone at the order of the interests of someone else that doesn't care about the other people.

Blog 1: My autobiography: Who am I?

I was born in Santiago of Chile and lived in there my whole life. I have lived in four different districts of Santiago, but the first one was Conchalí. I lived there my childhood with my parents, then they broke up and I lived with my dad and grandmother for a couple of years, then lived with my mom. 

I don't complete my elementary in only one school, I go to five different schools: Language school San Vicente de Paul, Colegio Cristobal Colón, Liceo Manuel de Salas, and then go back to Cristobal Colón. I ended up the high school there the past year. 

I have three brothers, one is the son of my mom and two of them are of my dad. They are my little brothers, I'm the oldest and I take care of them every time I can. But with the university, I don't have the time that I have before so it's a little more difficult to be with them.

This year I  Social work because I always liked social science, the idea of helping to make the world a little better for the people who don't have anything. 

My hobbies are read books of politics, paint in different techniques, take photos in the street to people or in manifestations, eat but not cooking, because I don't know how (one day I will learn).