Life changes

Today I'm going to talk about my life changes since I was a children of 5 years old.
When I was five, I was a very shy boy but with a lot of energy (hyperactive). I used to return home from school at 18 hrs. so the most part of my daily life transcurred in school. There I used to do Artistical skating and hokey, draw and play games like hide-and-seek, "Pinta", looking after bugs, etc. When I was eight, my parents changed me to another school. In this school I couldn't train any more artistical skating nor hokey, so I Just kept drawing and have more time to play in my house, because I returned home earlier than in my ex-school. In my house I used to play a lot (a LOT) with my dogs-partners (I don't like to call the animals for pets). I had 2 dogs: Tatán and Ajax, that year I lost Tatán (he died cause of his age) and it was the death that I most cried in all my life. In the same year (1998) I Started to play the guitar, I spent almost all of my freetime with the guitar (after the Tatán's death), when not, I used to play a lot with my sister Natalia, Ajax and my new dog-friend: Marte.
The years were passing (I don't mind to make a post too extensive) and when I was 14 I started in the secondary. In the Secondary I kept being very shy but not too hyperactive: now I was joker: I Love Jokes! so I didn't pay to much attention in classroom, I was ever talking and joking with my friends, anyway, my marks wasn't too bad, even more, I think I had very good marks and I used to be the "best student" in the secondary. When I was 16 I begun to care about politic matters (even before the "Penguin revolution") and since this moment, I started thinking by my own. I changed my way of life, my philosophy of life, my goals and all these, several times.
I was a very good guitarist, much more than today. I was the "schools guitarist" and I used to play the guitar solo in many events like "Students day", graduations and my own graduation! it was unforgettable!
When I joined the "U", I was a very political person and I turned all my new learnings around the politics and I leaved the guitar a little. I started to be every day less shy but I kept my enjoys for jokes.
Today I'm father, I have an wonderful boy named Lautaro, I share a lot with my loved Girlfriend, Cony and I have too much to do and less answers than in any moment of my life. Ajax and Marte didn't still beside me but I have other animals as friends, I'll remember all of them for the rest of my life.

My Last Field trip

The Last Field trip I did was in "El Cajón del Maipo" for the subject "Land Use Planning" with the teacher Miguel Contreras. It was about different topics in the municipality of "San José de Maipo", such as minery, turism, services, connectivity and so on. The group of mine (integrated by Carlos, Fabián and me) researched the topic of "Settlement, services and commerce" in the commune of San José de Maipo.
Fabián and me carried our bikes to SJM (San josé de Maipo) to ride quickly along the commune. We divided the commune in transepts to research it, my transept was the highest one, near to "Baños Morales". I had to research in the localities of San Gabriel, Romeral and Boyenar. I started in San Gabriel (the bus let me there with my bike), and then I went to Romeral. It was very steep and hard to ride but finally I arrived Romeral. From Romeral I rode down to Boyenar, passing again across San Gabriel. In Boyenar I suggested myself to go to the main locality: San José de Maipo. So, I Rode across the localities of "El Ingenio", "San Alfonso", "Melocotón", "El Toyo", "San José Alto" and finally San José the Maipo. The sun was very hot and I didn't used sun-block, so, I got insolated badly. My friend Carlos was in "El manzano" and again I rode in my bike from SJM to El Manzano, passing "Los Maitenes" and "El Guayacan". At the end of the fieldtrip I felt the Insolation very hard and I felt very, very, very tired: Going down in the mountain range isn't only let down by gravity, you have to climb and pedal a lot.

"People who are rich are happier than poor people"

I think that people that are rich aren't happier than poor people, but to talk about this we need to talk before about happiness.
There are many ways to define happiness, most common are clichés like "Happiness is a grade of Love and interior peace", "Happiness is be optimist", "Is to be in law with your soul" and so on. For this post, I'm gonna talk about happiness understanding it as a "Condition of Satisfaction" and this Satisfaction means a feeling of joy.
If we say that happiness is about satisfaction, then we can relate it to "NEED": we talk of "Satisfied needs". In this Way, happiness is a very, very, VERY cultural subject, because culture give us our needs. There aren't the same needs of a Tibetan than the need of a "Sopaipilla boy", or a Chinese, or a French, or a politic, an economist, one person or another. In the cultural way, we would say "yes, the rich people has a LOT of money to SATISFY their needs" but in contrast they have several kinds of need, and they can (almost) only solve their material needs (Those who requires money). So it's common to see sad rich people because of their greed and ambition (infinite needs) and lifeStyle, shallow of friends, nature, generosity, and kindness and so on. Opposite this, in the same cultural way, we can say that poor people haven’t enough money to solve their material needs, but they are more satisfied because they haven’t the rich's need. Even more, they are happier because they have -many times- family, friends and so on.
Actually, our culture is changing to conceive the happiness only as a material satisfaction, to set our needs and goals only as materials, perturbing our diverse spiritual, emotional and natural needs. If poor people will have (and is having) only material goals and needs, but they doesn't have the money to solve it, I'm sure that the poor people, some day, may be sadder than rich people, but angrier enough to change the things again.

"What's my life in these days?

It’s complex to describe the life of ourselves and even more is describing a life in “categories” such as “academic life”, “personal life”, “free time activities” and “perspectives for next year”. Life is a very changing “thing” that we can’t even explain. We try to drive it like a material thing: life planning with goals, strategies, and ideals and so on. Maybe I’m generalizing the life attitude of people. I thought I was a free mind man, living the live with careless. Although I planned my life unconscious –a libertarian life-, but I didn’t understood one thing of life: life is change.
The last year I met a nice woman, Cony, and we had one of each. In the summer Cony became pregnant, waiting a son of mine. Since the day we decided to take our son, my life has changed tremendously. All of my plans have changed in many ways, and so I still changing a lot. From the day that my son Lautaro arrived into the world, I feel like I’m broken in many pieces, trying to find a new order: new order of ideas, times, emotions, etc. I feel like I born again when my son born. In one face I’m very happy for Lautaro to come to the world, I love him more than any other person in the world. But in other face I try to find myself between all my “spiritual disorders”.
I have to divide myself into my many phases: The man who is lover; the man who is a son; the man who is a father; the man who is friend; the man who is politic; the man who is student; the man who is himself and tries to learn and growth what he likes most (like play guitar, studies of other subjects, making “trades”, etc.). And by all this, I have to rest.
Academic Life: pretty tight because the “condensed semester”, it’s stressing. Anyway, I love to learn and this keeps me in road.
Personal life: I’ve already mentioned it.
Free time activities: I don’t have too much free time, but when I do, I go to swim, play the guitar, write all kind of things, stroll with Cony, share with my family and friends, read many books, and, how not, rest.
Perspectives for next year: I see myself in the next year taking practice and career in CEPAL, MINVU, MOP or institutions like these. I think I will be working part-time, maybe I can be assistant in a social subject in university. These is a common perspective and can be “normal” or even desirable for many people, but I do really like to be a writer (in subjects of geography and literature), teacher, songwriter, trade maker and live in Valparaiso or far to the south of Chile.

My neighborhood

I have to say that i dont know too much about my neighborhood, and in my mind it’s basically the Street where i live –a small dead-end street called Manuel Sanchez, in Macul-. So, my street was a quiet place, with leafy trees, few cars, big houses and a small square at the end of the street –with many trees, bushes and grass-. Between my neighbors we used to say hello in the street and to be kind. I had like 5 friends in my street: Nicolás, Damián, Andrés, Francisco and Francisco –another one-. We used to play a lot in the street: soccer, tennis, water war, “25”, skate and so on. But one day, in 2007, a proprietary developer saw in my street the perfect place to maximize his benefits, the mayor (Puyol) saw the opportunity of increase the town people density and by this, increase other kind of capital inversions (Market rules) and also he saw in this the opportunity to bring to the people a “best service”, because the municipality is not more an organization statement: is a service provider and we are not neighbors anymore, now we are “USERS”. They called it progress. So, the building started its construction phase and my friends “across the street” went to other places in the city (the 2 Francisco, Andrés and Nicolás). Their parents sold their overprized houses, so, now they can live in Ñuñoa and “high” Peñalolén, because, as the municipality, their parents looked after progress. Today in my street, there is a 22 floors building with dozens of families. Today we don’t salute in the streets and there isn’t respect –because we are many person, many faces in the little street and some mother fuckers feel moral un-punishment in the anonymity-. My father lost his car –robbed from the pavement of my house), his laptop –Robbed from the house- and other items. So, we’ve progressed and we hope that with this, Manuel Sanchez will be a better place, like the other streets in which happened the same, lots of streets in Macul and Ñuñoa.
The propriety developer and the emprise says “Hey, the only law is the market law! The natural law of every man is to act and look after maximize his benefits! Jungle law!” And so… we are acting according to that. Some people thinks that this law will make progress, but it’s the progress of ones against others.
Ah, in other way, I live almost beside (but isolated) from a huge Hypermarket Lider® and some other surviving markets: Bazar, Hardware store, butcher’s and so on.

My Best Holiday

My best holiday in the life was the one that i mentioned in "My favourite field trip" post. But now i will not mention the first part of the holiday - when i was in LafkenMapu- (even it's part of my best holiday, i don't mention it because it could be too reiterative). It was in the last January to half February of 2010.
Fabian and me triped from Lafken Mapu to Puerto Montt making car ride and taking local bus. In the road we saw wonderfull landscapes of the coast: Mehuín, Queule, Tolten, and so on. In Puerto Montt we met Carlos "el furby" and Christian "el cabro loco". The next day we go to Puerto Varas, in Lago Llanquihue. Then to Saltos del Petrohué with a venezuelan family who take us to there. The next day we go to the town of Puelo (we walked beside the Reloncaví) , we stayed the night in a lonely parcel and a huge bull frightened us and throwed us out from there at midnight. So we had to sleep beside the road. The next day we went to tagua tagua lake, there was raining hard and by miracle we found a deserted house to camp in. The next days we saw and made lots of things: Go to Llanada Grande, go to traditional fests, to the Blue Lake... go back to Puerto Montt and then go to Chiloé: a semi-friend of Carlos helped us in there to be "under roof". We was in Ancud, Castro fest, Ahui beach and so on.
I did lots of things with my friends, so this holiday is unforgettable, i learned lots of things and i wait and hope to do it again!!

The stereotypes in LA

Each one of us has a mental perception that is generalizing the reality and its parts: When we talk about a territory, a comune, a region, a gender (male or female), an age (old, young...), politics (Right, Left, other groups), and so on. One of this way of generalize the reality is the stereotype, but I think that a stereotype is build by the massive communication net and all kind of publicitation in the society.
Today I'm gonna talk about the massive Idea about LatinAmerican stereotypes for the main known countries, and then mention what is my own vision about these countries:
Mexicans: They are dirty and lazy people, that is very friendly and kind. They are good at parties and loves to drink a lot of tequila. Also they are very loud and cheerful. I personally think that they are the most like a chilean: gray sad people plunged in their jobs, working a lot and being very submissive to the boss.
Cubans: They are comunists that dances very well, with a rythmical nature. They are very charming and dirty. I personally think they are very diverse, so it’s hard to stereotype them, anyway i think they are joy people with a lot of sensitive for society.
Brazilians: They are good to soccer and well dancers. They are also good lovers and charming. They haven’t many negative aspects but I can mention that they are violent and mean. I personally thinks that they are very polarized: poors and riches. The Rich are these that we found in the Elite World making tourism, taking photos, always happy. We don’t know much about poor brazilian people, maybe they are a little violent, but humble and charming.
Peruvians and bolivians: They are dirty, lazy, uglies, inferiors and all this kind of things that the Chilean Elite tell to us after the Saltpeter War . I personally think that they are a incredible rich people that has an awesome diversity of natural landscapes and cultures, and this is their richness (i think more Bolivia than Peru). I think too that they are very humble and faithful.
Argentinians: They are very charming and womaniers, unorganized and charlatans. I personally have to add that they are incredible arrogant and snobby, but very creatives, social and culturally compromised.
Chileans: The “Jaguars” from LatinAmerica, polite people. International robbers and charlatans. I think we are a nation of coward-sad people that sucks the penis of the boss; we love the owners of our nation and our lifes; we admire our conquerors and we want to be like them. Our youth is full of idiots that copy the modes from the youth of Empire Nations (G-20) and we aspire in our lifes to have a nice car, a nice house, a nice wife and a shiny job; So we use to sell our culture, our environment and all this kind of things.

Again I remind that this Post is a stupid generalization of the people.
Anyway I think like the Capitalist Global World will become the nations and the people more like the description I wrote for the chileans: I think we are the the LatinAmerican Vanguard of the capitalist society model: the non-thinking consumer machine.

Inside Chile I know-see the next Stereotypes:
North: dark-skinned people, with completely black hair, small and almost don't talk.
Center: An idiot that think he is better than others.
South: Kind people that speaks like singing and is a little fat. Descendants from germans or mapuche. They are like Huasos, a little rude too.

Urban: Snobby sad people, flytes that pick pockets to everyone, racist-fascist-stupid cuicos and so on...