English challenges

I think that the subject is important, because learn another lenguage is always important... What I like of this subject is that I could talk about others things, they were not always related with music. I could distract me... But very honestly, I don't like English xD not the classes, but I don't like the  I don't like that the society and the capitalism oblige to learn English, obligatory (why not Spanish or French, or German?) ... Only for this reason I don't like the lenguage, but I find very necesary and important to know...
Using the blog was very good for me, because I could "relax me" with the lenguage, I mean, I could dare to write what I think in another lenguage without scary or embarrassment. I think that I could get more trust for when I should talk in English. So, I need more talking, because I never or unusually I do that (only in the class), and I need know more words, because always when I talk, come the words in German xD I confuse both lenguages when I talk xd I must learn to separate or differentiate both... To reinforce the grammar and learn new words, I see movies in English, and I try to understand without read the subtitles... So, I could learn many words in German...
Even so, I must talk outside the Englishclass, because I never do that xD I promise that I will do that! My brothers can speak very good English, because they were at exchange student in USA (I was in Germany xd), and I will talk more in English to practice with them :)

Reflections

I think, this year was ok. I don't want say good or bad, because I had good and bad moments.
This year was special, because in my faculty have been a "toma", and for this reason I could do things that maybe I didn't can do because of the time... One thing, that I could do was composing. I had very much time to compose a work for a composition's competition (Luis Advis), and with this work I won the second prize in this competition. It was one of the good moments of this year for me, because it was a beautiful experience and very exciting for me. I could hear my music in another city (in La Serena), with profesional musicians... It was perfect :)
Another good thing was that I could get a job (teaching cello and readind music). In this year I needed more money than the past years, and this job was coming in the perfect moment. I love my job because I like teaching, and it's very satifactory for me see that the youngs going learn more and more, and in the lastest clases I saw how much the youngs have learnt this year...
And a thing bad (but good xd) was that I had a operation in a finger. I couldn't play cello and piano for four months... It was terrible for me because I love playing music and I couldn't do that!!! u.u but I couldn't play with the right hand, and waht was happen with the left? xD I found works for only the left hand! I learned a few works, one of them was "Nocturne" by Scriabin, a very very beautiful piece! Now, I can play piano very comfortable, because before I had problems to play: I couldn't stretch my finger very well...
That was my year! Now, I'm waiting for the last exams! I hope that I could approve all subjects...

Summer!

Normally, I work in summer. For this reason, I'm not accustomed to planing vacations for the summer. But this summer I will not work because I want do something different than working and I want have a moment to relax.
I don't know really what I want to do, maybe travel to Argentina or make a trip through Valle del Elqui. I was one time in Valle del Elqui, but I didn't know the vineyards and the "pisqueras" because I was for a one day there. I would like to be in this place at least a one week.  Maybe I would make this trip with a friend, because we spoke about know the Valle del Elqui, specially the "pisqueras", but the problem is that he doesn't know if he would have time to do that, because he should work in the summer... well, if he couldn't make a trip, I would make that alone...
And, how I said, I would travel to Argentina with my girlfriend. That is a travel, it we would want to make the last summer, but we didn't have enough money to stay there. I mean, we had only money to pay the tickets xD... Now, I have money to make this travel. We would like stay in Argentina (in Buenos Aires) for one week. We have only one reason why we would want to travel to Argentina: buy books, because the notes and the psychology's books are not very expensive than in Chile. Besides, I have tow very good friends in Argentina. One of them comes from Chile and studies in Argentina, and the other friend is from Argentina, she's name is Anahi. I have know Anahi for a six years I think, when we were in Germany. In the same year we maked a exchange year in the same country and the same city xD. I would like to visit her...
Well, I'm not sure if I could make this two things in summer, because I want compose and I need time for that, because I have a few "orders", they I want do as soon as possible! Maybe, I would make only one... I don't know which...  

Money

The money isn't important for me. If the money would be important for me, I didn't chose studying music... maybe I would study engineering to get more money... I don't need money to do the things what I like (composing, playing a instrument, walking), and maybe for this reason the monet haven't a important place in my life.
Well, I have a job now to do something with my friends, buy somethings for my cello (for example strings)... I will spend my money on what I really need and not on what the advertising say that I need . I'm not materialist. I don't need buy all. I buy only what I need... Also, I save part of my money to travel to Germany (that is the biggest reason why I have a job xd). Even so, I don't get much money at the end of the month. I must very organized with my budget, but because I wouldn't suvirve in the month. Always I save a little bit of money for emergency cases (you don't know when it could happen something). Luckily, I never had to pawn something, but if I feel me obliged to do that sometime, I don't know what I could pawn, because I don't have value belongings, except my cello and my notes haha But I would prefer playing cello outside the metro to get a little bit of money xd...
If I would be millonaire, I would buy a few buildings or houses to rent, then I would live with the money of the rents. And the rest of money, that I would have (because I would millonaire), I would hide it, like a "seach of the treasure". I would make maps for the people, then they could seach my fortune and who had reached find the treasure, could keep for himself.

Environment!

I remember when I was at the school, we had more speech about the environment )how the world safe, about recycle, the global warming), but we didn't never something related with that... But when I was in Germany, at the school, the concern about environment is bigger that in Chile, in this moment I think. For example, I remember that every week one class had clean the school (I mean, clean up the papers, etc.), and in the school you have trashes with different colors for different things (one for paper, other for tins for all plastic and metallic, and other for organic things). I think that the concern about recycling you can learn since the school, because in this country the all people separate the things before take out the trash.. you can find different trashes in all places (in stadiums, in the airport, in the railway stations). The school have a important role in the society to have concern about safe the environment.
When I came back, I tried to recycle in my home, but it was useless, because the concern about recycle must start from the government, or the mayor of the city, and then the people can be more concerned to recycle. In my city, since three or two year, started with a "political of recycling", that means that all people must separate the papers and the other things.
Well, other thing is the compost. In my city are not much buildings. For this reason, the people lives in houses, with bigger yards in some houses, then more people concerns to keep very beautiful the yards, and some people have a little farm too. In those cases, the compost is very important because you use it as fertilizer. and you don't spend much money for a fertilizer because you use the organic matters to do that.
In Santiago, I don't do that because I live in a building xd. For this reason my way to contribute whit the environment is using a bike. I don't use often the public transport or cars, I prefer walking or using a bike. Other way to contribute wiht the environment maybe is participated in a organisation like Greenpace... I don't like that and I don't have time to participate in some things xd...

My future job

Well, It's very difficult for me talking about my "working future", because I don't know if I really would have a job as composer...I would say that no composer lives from the composition. You should find other possibilities "to finance" the composition's projects. For example, you can conduct a orchestra, working at school or at the university as teacher, if you play some instruments you can teaching too, or get a place in a orchestra or music group... I find that a little comical, because even though studying composition (a looooong major) you should study other things related with music, if you want to do something with music...

The biggest concern for my parents about that, is if I could get a stable job. Well, that is very difficult to explain because when I decided studying composition, I didn't think in the working field, but I thought in what I wanted do in my life. I think when you do something only because you want to do that (without thinking in the future), the chances came alone. In my case it's so. I do the things only because I want do that, and I have had lucky maybe, because now I have gotten a job as teacher not because I looked for that, but for what I did and accomplished as musician.

In this moment I'm not sure what I would do in the future, but I would like do two things: teaching composition (or another subject) at the university, and conducting a orchestra. First, I would like to study a master in another country (master in composition), because when you have a master (or better a doctorate) is more easy to get a job in a university. And after that, maybe studying orchestra conducting...
Well, I don't have clear my future... xD

Best Friends

I don`t have many friends, but the friends that I have are very good. I can say I have three good friends. One of they I met in the school. He' Alonso. We were in the same class since 1º basico until 4º medio, and now we meet us often, because he and I are studying in Santiago. When we meet us, we talk about the things the "stupid" things what we did when we were young. Maybe because we enjoyed do that... He isn't very crazy, but when we were together, we do somethings a little crazy xD.
For four years ago, I think, I knew Eduardo. We met us in a party. Something that caught my attention was that we didn't talk about interests or alcohol, but we told about books, music and psychology. That was very unusual for me, because until this moment I didn't know someone that is not artist or musician and have common interests with me. After that, we had more contact by facebook, and while we told I noticed that we were very similar in owns personalities. I have good memories with him! Once that we went to a party together, we were not in a "good alcoholic status", and I had the best idea that I would be german for this night. It was very funny because all in the party didn't know me and believed that I was german... Well, we did many things, but I cannot talk about that. It's a promise that we maked. Now we are very good friends and always when I have a problem or something else, I talk with him.
And Pablo. I met Pablo in the university.We started to go to concerts together because we have the same music taste, and after the concerts we went to drink a beer, and then we told about music and about own works (I mean own compositions). Since this moment, we always told about own things, and when we had more trust, we told about other things those were not related with music. We always did the things for the university together and we studied harmony or counterpoint. Now he don't study more music, but he study psychology. I miss him in the university, but we meet us very often and we talk hours and hours about owns things...