I don't like sand :(

Unlike most of people, summer is not my favourite season because of many reasons. The first and most important is the fact that I really hate heat. When you are in winter, if you feel really cold you just can wear more clothes in order to warm yourself, but in summer you can be naked and still wanting to kill yourself because of the heat.

The second reason why I don’t like summer is because of the break. I like to be here in Santiago. I love this city, my university and be with people like me. But in summer It’s time to go back home with my family in Iquique. Although I love them I don’t like my city at all: It’s small, boring and there’s no wildlife. It may have a very beautiful beach, but I’m not the kind of person that like sand nor agglomerations.  And, as my family do not see me during the rest of the years except for a few days on holidays, I can’t go anywhere else, which is very sad for me.

For me, summer is nothing else than sleep all the morning and waking up at 1:00 P.M., eating a lot of junk food with my family, watching movies, reading books and playing video games.

I don’t have free time the rest of the year, so working during summer is not an option at all, although the money would be very useful for me. Still, my mom insists in making me take a driving course during summer…I would like that it means she would buy me a car, but I know it isn’t. 

Semester take your time, please!

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I love cinema, and so it would be very difficult to me to pick only one movie because there’s a huge difference between American film industry, which is the most popular, and the European film industry, for example. With that in mind, I think that it would be more appropriate to pick one English-spoken film and one in “foreign language”.

I tend to appreciate a movie depending on how it delivers a message to myself, in other words, “how touching it is”. Said that, my favourite English-spoken movie would be definitely Steven Spielberg’s “The Schindler’s List”, a real-life based story about a German business-man who saved the life of 1200 Polish Jews during WWII, and I consider it a very beautiful movie as it makes you think about the cruelty and evilness of war, and how it can change a man for good. To be honest, it was only this year I saw it for the first time, but now is my favourite movie.

On the other hand, my favourite foreign language film is the French film “Amélie”. A film about a French girl that dedicates her life to make other people happy. The thing I love about this movie is the fact that sometimes it makes you feel that real life can be “a bit more magic” and not so “boringly real”. Curiously, the first time I saw it was a few years ago with a girl I was dating back then and I found it boring and childish. I guess you have to grow up in order to appreciate it.

The last movie I saw was a month ago when I watch the Blair Witch reboot with my father back home in Iquique. I have never liked horror movies that are based in fantastic creatures like witches and werewolves as I cannot put myself in the protagonist shoes and think “this could happen to me” because the antagonists don’t exist in real-life. That’s why if I had to choose a horror movie that I like it would be something like Texas’ Chainsaw Massacre or Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.

-Daniel

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My favourite author is the Colombian Nobel prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez. The father of the literary genre known as Magical Realism.

Although Gabriel García Márquez is my favourite writer and he wrote my favourite book, which is Love in times of cholera, my favourite genre is the dystopian novel. I love to read novels like George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, about unwished alternative futures, which make us think about our own life and be thankful of it.

Due to the fact that studying law involves not having a lot of free time, I haven’t read a Book of something no related with law in a long time. With that in mind, I think that the last “Non-law” book that I reed was The Time of the Hero (Original Spanish tittle: La ciudad y los perros) of the Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa. This is a book that I recommend very much, as it was one of the first world-known books of a Latin-American, and the book itself records wonderfully the Latin-American society of the middle twentieth century.

And if I had more time for reading I would definitely give a try to Game of Thrones’ series, which I bought in a bargain some time ago and I haven’t had the time to read them yet.

Long Live Paul!

Since I have memory my favourite band was The Beatles. My mother tells me stories about my grandfather making me listen to Beatles' songs when I was only a baby. So, when I heard the news of Paul McCartney coming to Chile on 2014 I knew immediately that I had to go.

For me, sir Paul McCartney is a quarter of the best band that have ever existed. There's no people in the world that don't know The Beatles. All of what they did back then is still studied today, and modern musicians take them as their model to be.

The date was April 22, 2014 at the Movistar Arena. That day was very epic. All people were yelling, some was even crying, they couldn't realise that they were accomplishing one the wishes of a lifetime. What more called my attention was the fact that were a lot of people of my age. That was the prove that they music was just immortal.

After the concert I was in such a state of shock that I almost got lost in the middle of the night with my mobile phone’s battery dead and without any idea of how return to the place I was staying. But still it was one of the best days of life (so far…)