Just a photo, many beautiful moments!

Today I'm going to talk about a photo that I like. This photo was taken by one of my best friends from school: Constanza Wilson. It was taken after a long day, where we climbed a mountain  on bike and cook lemon pie and coconut candies, to sell to neighbors.

The photo shows two black silhouettes in the air contrasting with a sky full sunset. Unfortunately, the photo doesn't capture the true colors that had the sky at the time. The figure on the right is other of my best friends from school called Margarita Echenique and left, I.

I don't remember exactly the day when this photo was taken, but I think it was in December 2009. I like this photo because it represents many weekends at the Margarita field House. Despite doing trivial things, I remember that afternoon as one of the happiest days of school.

I remember fondly those thousands of afternoons we spent together and how close we were. Even at school they told us "girls Super powerful" hahaha. Today we are maintaining contact despite being so different, Constance studied dentistry and Margarita studied design.

Technology is not my thing!

When I try to think about my favorite piece of technology I have trouble choosing, because I consider myself a low-tech. But if I am obliged to answer, I will say that my favorite piece of technology is the ipod. An ipod is a type of portable music player. It is known to be easy to use and understand. You navigate the iPod with a "touch wheel" designed to be used with one hand.

I don't remember exactly the date that I got my ipod. It was Christmas, for more or less three years, so I guess it was the December 25, 2010. I use my iPod to listen to music that I've downloaded, especially for long trips or day-to-day on the Transantiago. I use it less often than I would like, because I leave the ipod in Machalí when I go to see my family. But when I bring it to Santiago I use it a lot, even for fun while doing sport.

I like my iPod or any music player because it is an easy and handy way to carry with me the music that I like. I think life would be similar like today, I'm mean it is not as important as a computer, but probably would be boring and less special.

It costs nothing to dream!

For science dreams are mental manifestations of images, sounds, thoughts and feelings in an   individual sleeper, and usually related to reality. For me, dreams are like a parallel world, where we flow our thoughts and deepest desires: a reflection of our unconscious. 

Unfortunately I do not usually remember my dreams, but when I woke up I let the feeling of having experienced something, sometimes good, sometimes bad. This feeling often lasts me all day, so that dreams often influence my mood. I usually remember better nightmares than pleasant dreams, because nightmares are most intense. The colors are very strong and everything seems very real, so I never realize I'm dreaming :( 

On the other hand there are the dreams, but in the sense of goals or desires in real life. I consider myself quite dreamy and idealistic, I like to imagine things in a better way and contribute to change. I consider it essential to have dreams in life and fight for them. I think that's what much of happiness and a part of the meaning of life.

If I had political power to realize a dream, start by making a tax reform in Chile to fund free education and try to reduce inequality in our country that is really shameful.                           

I leave a beautiful song about just daydreaming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhopAK7eCcY

"How nice it is to dream, dream costs nothing. Dreaming and around, wide-eyed. How nice it is to dream, it costs you nothing but time" 

"Qué lindo que es soñar, soñar no cuesta nada. Soñar y nada más, con los ojos abiertos. Qué lindo que es soñar, que no te cuesta nada más que tiempo"                                                             

Abraham Maslow and self-realization

Abraham Maslow born on April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, United States and was the oldest of 7 children. His family was of Jewish origin, so he had an unhappy childhood in the wake of the discrimination suffered by their origin. Because of this, it was a lonely child who found refuge in books.

Later, he went to study psychology at the University of Wisconsin where he stood out as a brilliant student. After doing his doctorate created the theory, called today, "Maslow's hierarchy of needs," a theory of human motivation. This theory proposes that humans have needs that can be ordered hierarchically and that as we meet the most basic, they develop more complex.

That's how Maslow became the leader of the humanistic school of psychology that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, which he referred to as the "third force" in contrast to Freudian theory and behaviorism.

I admire the contributions of Maslow as they were innovative in their time and gave a new approach to psychology. This gives more power to the patient and focuses on the positive aspects, which I think is an improvement over other currents that put emphasis on negative aspects or just behavioral.

Music is the most direct art, enters the ear and to the heart.

Today, I'm going to talk about music. I think music is a combination of art, lenguage and emotions. This strange but beautiful mixture represents a lot of in my life. Because different type of music, makes me feel different emotions, and that is one of the singularities of this art. For example, folk music like Victor Jara, reminds me the critique of power and social injustice; but I also like to ear dance music of my childhood like Spice Girls and sing out loud "if you wanna be my lover". As you see I like very different music, almost opposite, so I would say that any kind of music I dislike.

About how I listen music, the answer is very easy: Youtube! The times that I try to download music files from the internet have never end well; I finished downloading other music, viruses, and so on. For that reason I prefer search on Youtube or listen a CD in my radio.

And what about my music skills? I can play the guitar, but only basic chords and melodies. Probably I sing better than I play guitar. Music teacher at school always wanted to be part of the choir, but sing on public really ashamed me, so I prefer sing on the shower :)

World without music will be less interesting and more boring. Because we not only listen music, also use music to dance!

The self-taught and always unsatisfied: André Kertész

I'm going to talk about André Kertész, my favorite photographer. I met their works in a exhibition at the "Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes", on October 15, 2011. The name of the exhibition was "El doble de una vida" and had a lot of pictures divided in 4 groups, related to the places wich he lived: Hungary (1894-1925), France (1925-1936), the United States (1936-1962), the international period (1963-1985) the Color.

I really enjoyed the exhibition because the pictures that he took combined a great composition of daily things. He was always true to what he believed: "What I feel, I do" and his pictures reflect that. The most of the pictures were in black&withe, that made his work was intimate, even if the photo represents a public space or a stray dog. The photo that I like the most in that exhibition was "La Danza del Fauno". I put the image here, to see if you like :)

Even if he won a lot of awards in life, he died with the feeling that the world never understood his art.

The story of my life!

I was born in Santiago, in 1993. I'm the first girl in the family so I was a long awaited baby.  When I was three, my family and I went to Spain for three years. I started kindergarten there, so I learn to speak as a spanish, and actually, thought was spanish long time. When I was six I come back to Chile, specifically Machalí. There is a country side, so I grew up between clumps of corn and chickens in my grandmother's house. I went to Colegio Coya all my life and always exceled in acts of dance or theater, and also as a good humanist.

My life change in 180 degree last year when I went to Santiago to high school, without my family and in a different city.  I studied one year sociology at Universidad de Chile, but I switched to psychology. The best of that was that I meeting new people and also keep my old friends.

And what about my tastes? I like read everything: from poems, to microstories and also, theories of society or thought. My favorite color is yellow since I remember, and is almost and obsession. I love cats and I have three in Machalí, there names are Damasquita, Saltavientos and Ratito. But what I like the most is talk with all the people that I love.