2014, a very good year

This year brought me a lot of good things, and no one I can establish as a "bad thing".

First of all, in January I start a relationship with my beautiful, lovely, tender and perfect girlfriend. Has been more of nine beautiful months at her side, and I just can say that I love her more every single day. The only "bad thing" is that she already finished her classes and is now in Rengo, the city where we both live, so we can only be together at the weekends :( .

One of the achievements of the year (at least by now), is that I'm not failing a single one subject! That's just for now, and I wish that keep like this forever.

The things that I want to have and to do again, is having vacations and make a trip to the beach or the south of our country. I really love doing that, but this career just consumes your life. But like a lot of mates tells me, the difficult is x2 or x3 the next year (3rd), so I'm trying to enjoy the little spaces of life that I have sleeping and doings sports with friends and my girlfriend.

Just 2 days ago I went to The Hives+Arctic Monkeys concert (I've been waiting all the year for it), and it was amazing! My body still hurts after that night. All that jumps and screams will be forever in my memory. I must say that the Hives were far better than Arctic Monkeys. What a rock band! Their energy and fast songs mades me sweat like never before.

Born to be a tree-hugger

Since I have memory, my family always teached me about the important of being respectful and friendly with the enviroment.
I think one of the reasons is because we all grew in the countryside, at the side of a lot of hills, mountains and trees.
That's why I have a lot of recycling habits, like divide the garbage (paper, glass, aluminum, cardboard etc.), and dump it into special containers, and also I don't use plastic bags at all.
I always prefer to walk or my bike instead a car or the subway, but unfortunatelly here in Santiago the streets aren't friendly with the bikers.
I think that our society starts to take care of the enviroment, because we all realized that our world's gonna disappear unless we do something about it.
But that's the theoric situation. In fact, at least here in Santiago (and in the way that I can see everyday), the people aren't to interested in helping our world. You can see this in everyday's traffic jam, and in the daily air pollution.
The carbon footprint is one of the newest topics about the contamination and how we can help to reduce it. As I said before, I think that my principal contribution to reduce my carbon footprint is choosing my legs and the bike instead the public sevice of transport or the cars (in the logical distances, of course, because I'm not gonna walk 130 kms. to reach home at the weekends).
But at the end, I understand and don't blame the Santiago citizens, because living here, in a small region with 6 millions of neighbors, it's a difficult situation that (I think) I will never adapt to it.

Abortion

I think abortion should be legal for everyone, but just in cases that the law have to describe and discuss in the future. If the abortion is allowed for every case, I think this will be used as a contraceptive method, increasing the risks of sexual transmission diseases. That's my point.
Now, I also think that every women have the right to chose the things that she does with her body.
Whatever decision that the goverment take, a very important point of the law have to aim to the education about the abortion, about the positive and negative impact of that, for her body and also, for her mind.
I believe that an embryo it's not always a human, but only when he or she developes the brain, and in this situation the foetus is capable to feel. This happens at the third or fourth month, if I remember what I read the last year.
In a secular country like Chile, the religious precepts shouldn't be considered in the moment of the redaction of the law, but it should in the previous steps to create that law, like all the discussions and things like that, with the goal of make an objective and inclusive law.

My future job

Like everyone here, I'm going to be a lawyer in the future. But there's a lot of areas to work in this career.
I've decided to be a penal (or criminal) lawyer, but I'm just in the second year here at the law school, so maybe I can change my mind with the time.
First of all, criminal law is what you imagine (me too) when you think about the law. You don't think about the contracts, philosophy or maths, but all the things related to the crimes and the cirminals, what kind of penalty they gonna apply to the guilty, etc.
This semester's my first course of Penal or Criminal law (1 out of 3), and before I start with this, I know that I'll love this, and it was more than expected.
I think this work is a mix of working outdoor and indoor, because I think that you work in an office, but also you go to different places, like jails and courts like part of your job.
Of course I would like to travel, and if you're part of an important company, sure you do. I hope to get a job as a Judge of an important court one day, but in the meantime, I would love to work as a penal lawyer for every company, but always with the goal of being a judge.
I feel ver confident about that, and I can say that the criminal law is my favorite area in this school.

Music!

Music it's just amazing in any sense. In my life is very important, 'cause I hear it every day, for different things: for the concetration, to study, to jump and scream when I feel sleepy, etc.

My favorite kind of music is the rock in almost all their specific genres (like indie rock,punk rock, and alternative rock, for example), and off course the classic music.

I respect every kind of music, but personally, I don't like (and scares me) that groups of death metal, which music and lyrics are just based in hate, war, destruction, etc.

I don't really have a favorite band, but the last month I've been stucked with The Hives (I have the ticket for their concert in November!), a Swedish "punk rock" amazing band, that makes me jump with every song that their have, I love The Hives because of their style to make music, always with good electric guitar chords, and in general, with vibrating songs.

Other groups of music that I love, are Muse (maybe this one could be my favorite if they come to Chile soon), Oasis (such a band! Why did they split up?!), and the Arctic Monkeys (going to see them with The Hives in november).

I think that after all, music is one of the best creations of mankind, and all of us would be more unhappy without it,

Best holidays ever

I think my best holidays (or one of the best) it was in 2012, in Puerto Varas, the most beautiful chilean city beside Valdivia.

It was in december, and I made the trip with a bunch of friends (we were like 15, it was crazy!)and we spent like 2 weeks there, in 3 differents cottages near the beach.

We did a lot of thing, like having fun in the beach and in the pubs at the night, and in the day we just sleep a lot getting recovered of the previous night.

A funny fact was that one drunked friend wanted to go to the beach, and we don't know what was the reason of that. The simple reason was that he needed to pee, and almost get drowned in there trying to do it.

We travel by bus, and if you think, 15 friends in a bus wasn't very pleasant for the driver, because we didn't sleep, and because of that, the rest of the passengers hates us with passion :( .

That was of my best vacations not only for the destiny, but the good company of my friends.

Memories

I think my childhood was awesome, and I love to talk about it with everyone.
The only smell that makes me jump to the past, it's the smell to wet soil; I think it's because where my grandma lives (in the countryside, at the side of a hill), there's a lot of dirt, and I remember when she cames out and she damp the street (no cement in there, just soil and dirt).
My first childhood memory was at the age of 4, and the reason was my first time riding a bike. It was amazing!.
My favorites memories of the childhood was me and my cousins doing everything to get some fun in my grandma's house. We played football, tennis, and everything you can imagine in a big room of that house. We really thought that we was in a stadium! Ride our bikes, go to the hills for an "expedition" and getting wet everyday in the summer, are memories that will live forever in me.
TV series? no way man, I was just too busy playing outside for watch TV, but Spongebob still my favorite cartoon.
Outside the school, I loved to play football and "hide and seek" (what a game!) everyday at the afternoon with my friends.
That's all, thanks.

England

A country that I really like, and I'm sure that one day I'm going to visit, is England.

The thing that I most love of England is all the history that they have, and how (until today) their traditions still strong as always (you can see it in their constitutional monarchy and the parlamentary system, for example).

This country was the promoter of the modern world as we know it right now, starting with the Industrial Revolution in the XVIII century, who changed the way to produce.

Once I reach to this country, the first thing that I'll do is go to a football match between Liverpool and Manchester United or another popular team.

England has a strong sporting heritage, and during the 19th century created many sports that are now played around the world, like the football, tennis, rugby, cricket, boxing, billiards, bowls and hockey.

I would love to live there one day, because I think England it's like a country from outer space, and I spend every day touring the whole country, trying to visit every museum, every building, every piece of history and every stadium.Only remains to say that I love England, but Chile still my favorite.

My favorite tv show

Again, like the two past blogs, it's difficult to pick just one tv show, but I'm gonna choose the one that I love since I have memory. This animated tv show it's called SpongeBob SquarePants.

This program was created by Stephen Hillenburg, a marine biologist who have artistic features and he always wanted to do something different with his job, so he mix his knowledge in marine biology and in the artistic field, and in 1999 he presented to Nickelodeon the idea of a children animated comedy, based in characters of the sea enviroment, and the directors loved the idea inmediatly, so 2 month later they launched a pilor who was a big success.

With characters like a sea sponge (SpongeBob, the principal character, who works as a cooker in the Krusty Krab), a starfish called Patrick, the pink best friend of SpongeBob who is characterized for being a little bit stupid, and for living in a rock, and a octupus called Squidward, this show conquered a lot of achievements, like being the Nickelodeon series with more episodies (It have more of 200, and counting), and is considerated for a lot of magazines and polls, one of the best cartoon of all time. Another curious fact is that SpongeBob is the first fictional character with a sculpture in the Madam Tussauds wax museum in New York.

But the most particular fact is the report that of the 50 million who watch it every month, the 45% are adults! (just like me, but I think I'm a kid yet).

Anyways, for me this is the best cartoon ever and I still keep seeing it, and I'll do forever! HAIL TO THE SPONGE!

Regards.

                 

One of my favorites movies

This week I have to write about my favorite movie. It's so difficult pick just one, but i'm gonna choose one of this year that I love so much!
This movie won the Oscar for "best movie", I'm talking about "12 years a slave".
The film is an adaptation of a memoir of the slave Salomon Northup, relased in 1853. This man was a free New York Afican-American citizen, who worked as a violinist for the "high classes" of the United States. Then, Salomon was kidnapped in Washington D.C for a pair of cheaters who offered him a two-week job in a kind of "circus" in 1841, but they just wanted to sold him to slavery.

This story take place during the twelve years that Salomon worked in the plantations of Louisina, the state where he was sold, and how he discover that if he is a "educated slave", he's gonna have more chances to escape.
After all the abuses that he had to suffer, a local sheriff, who asks Northup a lot of questions to confirm that he was really a free man who lived in New York. Confirmed this, Salomon was restored to freedom and he returned to his family, and they work together to find the mans who enslaved him.
This is one of the best movies that I've seen in my life. I really enjoyed the whole 134 minutes of the film.
I love the historic movies!
That's all, regards!

Eduardo J. Couture

 This man was an Uruguayan jurist, teacher and writer whose works are fundamental to the teaching of procedural law in Latin América. He was born in Montevideo in 1904 and died in 1954, at the age of 51.

He is considerated one of the greatest Latin American lawyer of all times, and one of his books called "Basis of the procedural civil law", is essential in the introduction courses of this subject, because it have a lot of basic concepts clearly explained, and the entire book is really friendly with the students, inasmuch as try to have a simple language to explain every single thing.
Such was his fame, that a lot of countries wants him to teach classes, courses and conferences in their universities, so he traveled the world teaching in cities like París, New York, New Orleans,Vienna, Rome, Lima, Sao Paulo, and in our country, in the city of Valparaíso.
In the year 1951 was named "Knight of the Legion of Honour" by France, for his contribution to the legal culture.
But the first thing I read from him, was his famous "Decalogue of the lawyer", a kind of compass or treasure map, which shows you the way to be a good lawyer. I'm gonna put the link (the purple thing in the bottom) of this anyway, but as a summary, Eduardo said that you have to study, think, work, fight, be loyal, tolerate, be patient, have faith, be able to forget and love the profession (the most important thing), to improve every day as a lawyer.
Regards!
Lawyer Decalogue

My favorite song (?)

So many songs that I love! It's too difficult to pick one, but I'm gonna try to do it.
One of my favorites songs is New Born, performed by Muse, a British alternative rock band. This song was relased in 2001, in the second studio album of the band, called "Origin of Symmetry" (their best album for me, by the way).
Q Magazine positioned this album in the #76, in their list of the 100 best albums in history. A funny fact from this album was that this album don't saw the light in the USA until 2005, because the brand in charge of promote the band in this country thought that the vocal style of Matt Bellamy (the vocalist of Muse) wasn't "friendly" for the radio. This brands ask to Muse to change some songs, but the band refused.
I love this song because it have everything! A beautiful piano intro, good riffs and a stunning guitar solo.
The topic of the song is very disperse, but in a few words, it's about getting a new born and try to find the happiness after a soulless past life.
Maybe this is not my favorite song, but it gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
That's all. Regards and don't forget that MUSE ROCKS!

Hi everyone! This picture was taken by my friend Emil while we were taking a bike ride in a lonely part of Rengo, called Chanqueahue, the little town where Vital water (yes, the brand) is extracted.
What you can see in this picture? First of all, a beautiful summer sky in a country-side sector of this city, and a lot of trees in both sides of the path.
Also you can see 2 guys riding at the right of the way. That's me (the one with the sky-blue shirt) and Nicolás (another friend).
And maybe the most beautiful thing, is that there was no cars! It's absolutely different to Santiago, where no matter where you look, there's a car or a big building.
It was taken in the summer of this year, and a I love it because shows how pretty is my city (or at least, a part of it), and because that day we reach to a river near the Vital factory (like 30 minutes later of the photo), and we swam there. It was a beautiful day.
Regards!.

Christianity 2.0

I'm like the new type of Christhian, that one who believes in God, but isn't a fanatic. Let me explain it.
All my family (that includes me) belongs to this religion, but we never practice very often the things that the real Christians are supposed to do, like going to the church at the weekends, as an example.
I think there is a God, who have to be somewhere (?). I'm just baptized, and I always wanted to do my first communion and my confirmation, but now I don't have time for nothing :( .
My grandmother is the most unconditional Christian that I never knew. She and my grandpa, with the economic help of all the neighbors (like fifty jajaaj)  built a little chapel crossing the street of their home, for everyone who wants to go there and pray or do something Christian. She thought that the chapel could be a good idea, because where she lives (at the countryside, surrounded by hills) there was no one.
My grandmother and that little chapel, are two of the most importants Christian symbols that I have.
God bless you, and God bless the United States of America! (just kidding) ajjajajaja.
Cheers!

Not a great fan of technology

Honestly, I'm not a great fan of technology, because I learned and grew up without it. When I was a child, I have no idea how to use a phone or a laptop, because I loved going out to play with my cousins and friends, and what a soccer matches we played!
With the years, learn to use different tech devices becomes necessary for daily life, and now I have a phone and a laptop, which I use to write in all the classes, because it's more easy and fast to take note of everything the teachers say.
But the piece of technology that I always loved, is the PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo or everything that serves to play. I got a Playstation 1, when I was 10, but just played a few times with that. In 2008, my cousin bought a Playstation 3, and we loved it! This device allows you to play numberless kinds of games, and you can play it alone, with more friends, or online, with people all around the world.
I don't like to play alone, so I always use it with my cousins, and our favorite game is PES (Soccer game), and all the Need For Speed saga.
How often I use it? mmmm, I think that a couple of times per month, because I go to visit my grandmother (my cousin lives with her) just that number of times (she lives in the countryside, and just play PS3 a few times before we go to play soccer for real jajaja).
I like it because we've got a lot of fun playing PES, especially when you score and you mock of your cousin, that's the best part.
My life without it wouldn't change at all, because (how I said at the start) I'm not a great fan of this things. I think maybe I would have more time to do another kind of thing, like sleep more jajajaja.
Regards.

This is my third semester here at the University, and I´ve 4 forced or obligatory subjects: Constitutional law II, Procesal law I, Internacional Public law with Arnello (a 90 years old grandfather, sooooooooo boooored) and finally Civil law II (this is the best subject by far!). As a elective subjects, I pick Law and Literature, and English level III.
Another activities that I do with 2 friends, it's to go to the gym like 2 or 3 times at the week, in the same building that we live in. The activity that most time takes me in the week, but also is the most that I love, it´s go everywhere and do anything with my girlfriend, Andrea (I'm sure she´s the love of my life <3 )
In this second year, I really hope, in first place, approve each one of the subjects that I take, and off course, learn all I can about this beautiful but boring career. Everyday I'm more sure that this is the right place for me, and I hope that this just gets better with the years (not so many by the way, I don't want to stay here forever jajaja).
Thanks for reading :) see you in the next one.

I was born in Rengo, in the sixth region, the 27th of september of 1994. I arrived to Santiago two weeks ago, because I´ve lived the past 18 years in my little city.
I studied in a school called "Colegio La Paz" for 8 years (yes, this was my elementary school). For the next 4 years, still in Rengo (what a little, but beautiful city!), my highschool was "San Antonio del Baluarte", what is a very big school, with 2 football fields and a lot of huges trees.
My family is composed by Miguel (my father), Olga (my mother), Lukas and Anastasia (my two loved little brothers, of 7 and 5 years old). Now, here in Santiago, I live with two friends in a flat near Universidad de Santiago subway.
My favourites hobbies are hanging out with my friends or with my girlfriend (I love her!) at the weekends or when I can, and of course, play soccer all the year in a team that we have in Rengo with my friends, "Forever Pajeros". My favourite bands are Oasis (what a band dude!), The Strokes, Muse, Arctic Monkeys, etc.