Sport !!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey there,

Hobbies are a great thing to have. It is funny that we have to write about a hobby we have or had, because since I entered to study architecture my free time has become almost none. I have great friends and I try to see them as much as I can, but maybe that cannot be considered like a hobby. When I was at school I also did not have much time, but that was because my hobby were sports. I never played basketball before entering to high school, but because it was a new school I could enter to the school basketball selection. It was great, sports are great. I began just with basketball, but I finished being in two selections of the school: football and basketball.

Four of the five days of school I had training after classes, but the schedule was terrible. Every day my normal classes finished at four o’clock. I had to wait one and a half hour for the training and train for another one and a half hour. So I was back home not before eight. Now that I am at the university sound normal hahaha. The point is that I really enjoyed (and still enjoy) doing sports. Actually I tried to play as many sports as I could at the gymnastic classes and before entering to high school I had tennis classes. So in conclusion I love sports and this term is the first time since I have memory that I am not doing a sport like a regular action. That will not happen the next term ;)             

Kamaleon

Hey there,

There are two Chileans that I really like: Pablo Neruda and Stefan Kramer. I have been like 5 times to Neruda´s house in “Isla Negra” and I always discover new thing, new explanation about his collections and I love that place. But to admire someone I think that is Stefan Kramer.

Stefan Kramer is a guy that it cannot be more incredible. For the ones who do not know who he is; he is an imitator, actor who plays and exaggerates the famous people that are Chileans or related to Chile. He became so famous and so good that he made two movies where he is 17 characters of the first movie.

In my high school he had a big influence to me and my friends group, we began to imitate the imitations he did and it was sometimes the way we talked to each other, like imitating Arturo Vidal and his funny voice, to el Negro Piñera, Alexis Sanchez with his fast and horrible talk and even the ex-president from Chile Sebastian Piñera. His biggest and maybe best act was in Viña Del Mar´s festival in 2008. In that show he was simple perfect imitating the future president Piñera. 

In the first movie he made he talks about his personal life, his wife and two children, and about how he began to imitate, so I recommend to everyone that movie, called Stefan vs Kramer.

I would love to meet him, but I think I would be in shock. I guess I would try to talk like one of his imitations and just hope he does the same. La familia los niños ahh?.... Fantastico.

    

Victroy City

Victory city says that is the city of the future. They say that they are going to deal with the biggest problems of  the now days big cities such as growth of slums, traffic congestion, air pollution, noise and much others. Well, actually they say it is going to be perfect.

The food will be grow up in the surrounding by the farms also owned by Victory City and the food is always going to be fresh and naturally raised. There is also a big plan for recreational activities and many areas for all kind of sports.

It is interesting a project that can deal with all the human necessities and I like that the food is going to be natural and that they think about sports. But actually I do not like this project, I feel that  ignors the earth problems and making something so “utopic” that have been planned in movies and always goes something wrong and people get brainwashed and controlled by the city, and i feel here it goes to that. We have to see how is this going to be developed. For sure this is an interesting project and opportunity for architects and even I am in the mood to try to help planning something in Victory City.     

North Dakota Oil Pipeline Battle: Who’s Fighting and Why

Not far from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, North Dakota; there is a conflict about the oil pipelines. The people form there do not want the big companies to make the pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois  because it is dangerous for the environment and those are ancestral lines. So there are protests and a lot of violence between them, but who knows that is going to happen.    

Halloween without a mask

Hey there,

A four day weekend is like to be in heaven. You have time for life! I enjoyed my super weekend because I could do a little bit of everything, and even better, my weekend began on Friday. After class I went with my family to a Greek evening. 28^th of October  is the “No” day of Greeks, so we went to a kind of Greek house to have dinner, listen to their music and dance with them. Everything began wrong, we entered to the event room one hour late and it was everything so disorganized and awkward. There was not much food and not all that was written on the menu was on the plate and when we asked why, they said that the person that had to cook it did not come. Big part of the waiters were women older than 50 and surely they were part of the family hahaha. But then we got relaxed because even that nothing worked well they were all happy and relaxed. Everything changed when the live music began, the people there were an easy public and the music made them all dance. But the best part was when four guys began to dance a Greek choreography, it was so harmonic and beautiful to see, they seemed so light and the dance looked so simple but later when I joined the dance circles it was not easy at all.

Saturday was half a work day half party. I went after an early lunch to the city to write a chronic then I continued to research about the place we are going to make a new project and finally I went to talk to a painter in “Plaza de Armas” for more than an hour. And after that I was invited to a party outside the city so I went to pick up my friends and drove us to a place that was like a farm. But well, that is another story what happened thereJ.

The rest of the weekend I worked and relaxed, more relaxed than work but it was cool. When is going to be another long weekend?