viernes, 26 de octubre de 2018

Things i hate and like about university, career

There are many things i hate about the university, in first place the very depressing space we have in arts with no grass and no playground. Every year the elevator breaks down and i have to climb to the 10th floor on stairs. Other thing i hate about the university is how the arts faculty is neglected and how poor is the infrastructure here, we have very ancient and in very bad condition musical instruments, we have the worst classrooms in Universidad de Chile (worst than in Las Encinas), some of the people who works there are inefficient and we have to wait for a lot of days to get a response to the requests we make. The internet platform doesn't works as well and always we have problems to enroll our classes. In arts actually we have no university cafeteria so we can't buy food in the university we and must go to the Espacio M mall and become a consumerist.

 The last year i needed some documents from the university and in study secretary they told me that if i want those documents, i must go to Torre 15 and buy some stamps, then go to study secretary again and make a request that should be replied in a week, but it delayed almost two weeks. I love U de Chile.

 We have a few good things in arts like the beers after class in the alleyway out of the school, we have the next taca taca national champion Valentín Maldonado and a lot characters in the faculty.

viernes, 19 de octubre de 2018

The best concert i've had

The best concert i've ever had was in the year 2009 in movistar arena, that time was the first time that Sonic Youth performed in Chile and was a very good experience. That time i was 18 years old and Sonic Youth was the band that i never thought i could see in a concert. Sonic Youth i an american band who was formed in the 80's and their music is a mix between post-punk, garage rock, noise and experimental music, i listened to them since i was a child and when i knew that they where coming to Santiago i started to save money to buy a ticket.

 When the day has come i arrived early to the event and the opening bands were very bad, one was called Energúmeno and the other Betty Boy. I remember that day there was a soccer match between Chile and Perú, and most of the people preferred to see it in the giant TVs of the arena in place of the opening bands. The atmosphere was very great and when Sonic Youth entered to the stage everything went better. They played a lot of songs of their disc Daydream Nation, because this concert was in the celebration tour of the 20th anniversary of the disc. I enjoyed it because that concert can resume all the musical taste of my adolescence.

 Regrettably, the band doesn't exists anymore and i will no be able to see them again, but i feel good to having seen them that time.


viernes, 12 de octubre de 2018

A country i'd like to visit

The country i'd like to visit is Japan, because i love all the japanese culture, specially their rural culture, but also i'd like to visit tokyo and his neon lights. Also, i'd like to visit Japan because one of my favourite composers is Toru Takemitsu, one of the best composers of the 20th century.

 I know that japanese people are very gentle and smart, most of the people are buddhist and they have a high respect for the life of all the beings. They have a very good musical education and that explains that there are many good japanese musicians around the world.

 I'd like to do many things here, in first place, visit the tomb of Toru Takemitsu, go to a concert of Tatsuro Yamashita, the best City Pop composer and performer. I'd like to learn traditional music of Japan with their traditional musical instruments like the Shakuhachi, a bamboo flute used by the zen monks in their ritual practices. After that, i'd like to go to the Inawashiro rice paddy and stay a lot of days here. Then, i'd go to know all the zen gardens i can and take a lot of pictures.