The best day of my life

The best day of my life actually was a week. My friends of university, my boyfriend and me travelled for five days to Colbún. This place is located in south of our country in the Región del Maule and we went the last summer a day after the last exam of the university. 

Before arriving at Colbún we travelled to Talca to Daniela’s house and there we played wii while other friends went to buy food for a week. When we arrived at Colbún, we used a boat to go around the lake and we paddled in canoe, but I didn’t go into the water because I don’t know how to swim but I hope learn to swim someday.

I remember that the other days we made barbecues or we made a campfire for eat marshmallows and drank playing truth or dare. At night we watched two terror movies, I must admit that I found it funny I see the reaction of my friends that watched the movies.  This same night watched Sherlock with my boyfriend. Also I remember that at night we played a board game called “Cranium” until the 5:00 A.M. because 10 players and we woke up between 2:00 – 4:00 P.M. for go to boat ride again. 

For me this travel was the best day of my life because it was the first journey only with friends and also the first journey with my boyfriend. 

Into the Wild

I can not choose one movie as my favorite, but I think that between my favorite movies is "Into The Wild". The director of this movie was Sean Penn and was released in 21th September, 2007. This movie is based on the book also called Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer in 1996.

The book and therefore the movie, is based on the real story of Christopher Johnson McCandless (starring Emile Hirsch), a youth of 24 years that in 1992 after graduating in Anthropology and History decide to donate all  his savings ($24,000) and he becomes separated from his family and friends to live alone like a nomad at Alaska. In this travel he changed his name by "Alexander Supertramp".

He survives with help of people that know him in Arizona, California or South Dakota, but always he left. He wants to live only with that natures provides for example hunting animals for to eat. Alexander related all his adventure in a diary of life (used  to write the book) that was found with his body. It is said that Christopher died by eat a poisonous plant and malnutrition.

In my opinion, it is a of my favorite films and I totally recommend it because it is interesting to see how a person prefers to abandon his well- off life to try survive without material resources endangering his life. 

My future job

If I graduate as a psychologist, I would like that my future job be in a laboratory, either of cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, ethology or a scientific area of psychology because yet I don't imagine seeing patients at least as a clinical psychologist.

I think that not only a psychologist can help by a therapy, but also a psychologist can better the quality life of the people in emotional field and other fields for example by the progress of the science.

To devote myself to one these jobs, first  I should study a postgraduate, so that if I don´t feel trained to work in one of these jobs still, I imagine working in other area of psychology, but independently for example working as an industrial psychologist consulting enterprises or doing  vocational guidance to students in some high school or at a pre-university.

If I could to finish of study the postgraduate, I imagine doing research with a team for publish in a recognized journal for example Nature for then travel to present our study and listen to important conferences. In this laboratory, I don’t imagine an office only for me, but also one large room in where work with the other team, not only psychologist.

This idea about of my future is very ambitious dream, but if I try hard enough I can achieve this goal.

Las Meninas

My favorite piece  of art is the painting “Las Meninas”. This painting is of the century 19 and was painted by painter Spanish Diego Velázquez. 

At first sight, looks a painter, doing a portrait of the princess Margarita de Austria with her Meninas (maids) that they had visited of the workshop of the artist. I like this painting because has various details interesting and therefore, various interpretations.

One of these interpretations is that the painter that appears in this painting is Velázquez, creator of this painting, so that there is a self Portrait and portrait, but this portrait, that is, what appears on the canvas are Margarita’s parents: the king Felipe V and the queen Margarita de Austria, this can be observed looking the mirror of the wall. This detail is very interesting because for drawing to the king and the queen so small, this shows that they had him a great confidence to Velázquez. Finally, it is know that this mirror is not a painting because in the wall of the workshop appears paintings that actually exist.

My favorite concert

My favorite concert was on 28th November 2004, the day of my 11th birthday. This concert was two blocks from my house specifically in the patio of my school of primary, because it was organized by the municipality for the day of music. The band present was Sexual Democracia.

Sexual Democracia is a chilean band of rock popular that is known by songs like “Los chicos Buenos” Sudamérica Suda, Los pitutos, Profanador de cuna, and others. Last year this band fulfilled twenty-five years.

I remember that I went with my sister; my mom couldn’t go because my little brother was born the day before.  This was sad because I know Sexual Democracia from her listening to it all the time. 

For the majority the concert was unexpected. The people believed that in the patio of the school were only putting their music very strong besides of start late at night. In general the place didn’t have more than thirty people. It felt like a private concert for the day of my birthday. It is fun remembering that my sister and I were the only girls.

 My favorite music

I have no favorite music, but recently I listened to many songs of classical music. While these songs do not have lyrics, you can have different interpretations of their composers, this is one of the reasons why I like this type of music. Another reason very related to before is that I can be reading calmly some texts for the university and at the same time I can listen to classical music because it is not distracting. Also the songs of classical music are long enough but the rhythm is not the same during the song because they are not monotonic so for me are not boring.

In places like the Teatro Municipal, Centro cultural GAM and even in the faculties of my university they do concerts of classical music for an accessible price or free.

I mainly listen to songs of Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Beethoven but I think that my favorite composer is Tchaikovsky with his Violin Concerto in D Major song but he is famous for his songs Swan Lake and The nutcracker. 

Brazil

A country that I would like visit  is Brazil because I like the culture of this place. For example, the carnivals that they do in the streets are very fun. The samba and the Brazilian songs in general are lively, ideal for these celebrations. I think that in part because the Portuguese is beautiful.

Beside of  music of this country, I would like to visit the Cataratas de Iguazu, the Cristo Redentor and also go to a beach like Copacabana. I imagine that to be in this place is very relaxing. I most admit that I know some of these tourist places because they appear in Brazilian soap operas that I like very much.

Brazil is in South America, near to Chile because it an accessible place for people of our country. I do not doubt I will go someday.