Changes

Even when our carreer are so diferent of many other; we work to reconect us with our own body, healing bad patrons acquired during the scholar stage, we are study in a traditional institution, with many problem of distribution and bureaucracy.
Particulary our program have many good ideas, but te principal dificult to make this real, is the space to do it.
Our building are in so bad conditions, even some things that put us in danger like the bad condition of the elevators; in  the last years the elevators fell many times with people inside. Furthermore, we star our academic year with almost three months of delay because the dance department don't had enough classrooms for all the students. Finally the department recover two rooms that were ocupied for the BANCH (National Ballet of Chile)

In respect of the the program specifically, I would like to change the order of the time that some signatures appear during the carrer, specially those that concern about self care. Me and many of my classmate had diferent injuries for physical stress, bad patrons of movement and other causes that have to do with the self care. I think that if the deepeningof the self-care knowledge were maked from the beginning of the carrer, many of this injuries could be avoid.
Other thing that I would like to improve are the options to choose diferents seminars and electivs courses, bad this have to do a lot with the problem of space.

Finally

About my experience learning eanglish I can say that in this last time that tourn difficult to me because I'm not having more practice. In the past I haved more time to saw series or movies in english, but now I don't have many time and my free time I prefer spend it see anime. But I like could read more things in eanglish, because many interesting articles are writed on english. Some times I do the effort and are many things that I can understand and the words that I don't know, I consult a dictionary. thus I increase my vocabulary and my english can improve.

If I decide go to other country to study something, maby I'll need continue deepeen on my learning. For now I'm not very interesting.

In respect of my previous process with the english, I remember enjoy a lot the subjet on the school. In that time I listended a lot of music in english, then I past some time searching the lyrics of some songs to undertand and can sing it.


That are my only experience learning english before now.

Fly!

I enjoy thinking that our energy is part of a infinte energy flow in the universe, in this ecosystem called Planet Eart. We are a mix of many tipes of lifes; I am made of a piece of three, water, mountain, birds, isects and fire.
Then I like believe that when I dance, I fly.

In the backyard of my home are some old and big threes, a Pino and a Olivo, also many other more litle trees and bushes. For that reason always we can listen and see diferents birds around there.
One of my favorites are the Chincol, a litle and tubby bird, whose sing said something similar to "¿a visto a mi tío agustín?" jaja.

Its a bird that you can see troughout almost all South and Central América, in many diferents environment. A common friend.



Other bird that I want to write about is the Quetzal.

Quetzal ( Pharomachrus mocino) or Quetzal Guatemalteco, are the sacred bird of the Maya and Azteca culture, whose feathers was used to decorate the King and priests costumes, they captured the birds to take some feathers and after that put them on free.

The word Quetzal have his root in the nahualt quetzalli  that mean "long tail of bright feathers" or " tail over of quetzal".

Their habitad are in the rainforests of the Central América and the South of México.

It is well known for its colorful plumage and his very long tail that can measure  65 cm, even more.

Some stories said that the quetzal sang before the European invation. After that, their fell silent until the freedom come back to his lands.

The firts time that I knew about Quetzal, was washing a National Geographic magazine. A very sad news; like many other animal, they are in danger of extintion. How can the human destroy such beauty? The ambition is our worse invention.

Live in a new place

Since some time ago now I am needing to live in another place
out of Santiago. I grew in a old neighborhood in Conchalí, a very tender place, where my grandmother built her house when the place was mostly countryside. Now that place is still a good one, but urbanized. Soon the subway will open a few satations near my house and that, even when it's a very good option to easy traffic, is also a danger to the comunoty's calm way of living.

When I think in another place to live, I imagine a beautiful wood house near a forest and a beach or some river. I know some places in the south of chile and in the central litoral, like El Tabo.

I believe that the dance can find a space wherever, as a creative and pedagogical tool, futhermore it's necceary that the art in general becomes more scattered, not all concentrated in the MR.
For this reason, I beleave than wherever I go and live, can be a good place to job.

Maybe a house in the cove Los Molinos, Valdivia. Wake up with a difrent sky every morning, seen the sea and breading fresh air. Work in some school or in cultural centers making workshop and leaning about teaching. Travel always to diferent places to share my-our dance, learn about diferents dances of latinoamérica and wherever my feet take me.

Or a house in Curarehue or Neltume, or some mountain town. Be near of the clouds.

I want to be a nomade.

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See something

Hunter X Hunter is probably my favorite series ever. Is like one of my books of filosophy whit wich I was learning a lot about the importance of the honesty, the instinct and the ability to really look the things and learn of their. Also to understand that everything have a context and a story, don't exist the extremes without their shades.

I remeber when I was a child and saw this serie in a tv program called "El club de los tigritos", I really enjoyed my time saw their adventures and that make me feel that I could be and do everything I want if I figth for them without fear.

Well, about the serie: this are maked based on the manga published in march 1998, for the writer and illustrator Yoshihiro Togashi. The story was adapted in a anime serie, produced for Nippon Animation, with 62 chapters transmitted between october 1999 and march 2001. A second adaptation was produced for Madhouse and was transmited since october 2nd , 2011 until september 23th, 2014.

On my opinion, the first adaptation is much better than the second, because are more thoughtful about the characters cosntrucción on the beggining, the color palette are more rich, and the music create the feeling of you being watching a old culture. The second adaptation also are a very good one and develop more parts of the manga.

The manga still produced, but with many interruptions. The last publication was in june, 2016 .

I hope that the anime production continue, but for now I will start reading the original manga.

I totally recommend this serie; you will travel for many emotions and reflections.

Summer Holidays

The summer is here and we still on class...buuuu
Well, but in february all will be diferent. I'll travel with my mom, my brother Joao and my aunt Lila to the south.
Probable we will go to Valdivia and visit some litle and beautiful beachs and islands.
After or before, we will go to some mountain towns, like Curacautín and Lonquimay to cross the Andes range to Argentina. Travel for some places of the trans-Andean country near of the frontier and return to Chile for the border crossing in the Pirihueco lake, from San Martín to Puerto Fuy.

(Valdivian jungle)







(Pirihueico lake)

( Lonquimay volcano)



We don't have a complete route, but we have an idea about how we want to travel; to know that litle and beautyful places with their calm, be into the forest, rivers and look the sky. A time to reconec, heal and strengthen our spirit. I know that will be a very good time for us.


The rest of the summer, I want to continue make short travels with diferentes partners, to visit friends and catch up with their histories.

I never think a lot about the food, even sometimes is dificult to me, because I'm vegetarian. But now increasingly are more options without meat.

I want to sleep a lot a be quiet.

Learning never stop

In this last time I haved some ideas about something that I want to cotinue study like a postgraduate course, but I'm not shure about it and I don't  reserached a lot.
Even now are more interested in the learning out of the universitary institutions, in Chile at least. I am looking other forms of pedagogy, and with other times that maby are not agree with the capitalist time.

Well, but If I have to share now with you my options, this could be some of their:

1- I can continue my dance formation in the Universidad de Chile, opting for the degree of  'Profesor especializado'. A big reason to make this is that I have the "gratuidad", that only is available if I do this the next year after finish my career.

2- Go to Brasil to study in the Centro de teatro do oprimido, a theatrical methodology developed for Augusto Boal.

3- Make a year in the Laban Institute in New York city.

4- Much more

It's difucult to me now think in a posgraduate course, because I'm so tired to be study almost all my life. I want to travel, know about diferents dances of every place that a I could visit, especialy in Latinoamerica (or fisrtly).