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I really like how we have been able to express ourselves thanks to this subject. I've discovered some really nice stories and really interesting people through this blog. I've realized that everybody has something to say, but we all have problems describing it. I'm really thankful that I won't have to wake up early for this subject anymore but I'm really sad that I won't be doing this entries from now on... People share a lot of things in the internet that they don't share in real life.

One of the things I would like to have developed more are my talking skills, my pronunciation tries to hard to imitate that of native speakers, but I'm not one! so I should talk with my own accent.

I use english way too much, almost every show I watch online I watch it with english subtitles because they are on the web faster than spanish subtitles, plus there's a lot of content lost in translation. I rather read in english than to translate it in spanish, because there are a lot of sayings or word plays that don't apply in our language. I also use it when I'm playing online games with people internationally, I got really embarrassed once like 7 years ago when I said "god thank you" instead of good, thank you to someone else xDD that day I decided to translate everything I wanted to say before I actually say it. I'm finally able to talk with people through the web but my talking skills are still lack the fluency that it should have.

Grand finale

This year has been the greatest of them all. I've learnt so much, I've had so much fun, and I've discovered so many things about myself. Probably because last year was a year that kept me so busy in things that were wearing me out that this year I've had time to worry about myself-
I haven't been able to create as much music as I did last year though but I've been practicing so much. I want to create a lot now and I intend to do so in my vacations. I also have to work a lot so I can have money to help my parents pay the flat while I'm in my hometown.
I think what I'm most proud of is that the youtube channel I made was really making a progress and that I realized that by working hard I could accomplish things that I didn't know I had in me
My musical language classes had been the craziest classes though. I think it's because of my teacher because she always root for everyone of us in a way that made us feel special. Also because she constantly made us feel that we were improving and we were actually noticing so many results.
The friends I've made also have a special place in my heart now. My birthday was incredible fun and my parents, my brother and a friend gave me a ticket to the concert of The legenf of Zelda in May! Oh I'm so excited! I think I've grown a lot. I think that now I can always be happy

I't really something else y'know

I've never been abroad for the summer, I have only been in Argentina once with my family it was a good experience I had a great time. I remember that the heat was unbearable so I realized that I rather go to a cooler place than those with even higher temperatures than my country during the summer.
I also never thought about a place that I would like to go. I don't have that much of a traveler's spirit. Maybe a place with snow! Iceland sounds terrific. The hills and mountains and volcanoes. It's a gorgeous place and the people seem nice too. A lot of incredible musicians come from Iceland too. I would like to go with my mother and father because I would like them to travel more than I do.
I would go to Reykjavik and experience the northern lights.


I think I would work there to get to experience the culture from first hand. It's music is outstanding so I would be going to a lot of gigs! Maybe work in a bar. Get to know the people and also learn a lot about their ecological interventions. They are way far beyond or reach in that matter and we are also a resourceful country like them!

It's a country that seems so peaceful but so majestic at the same time. I'm a fan of big cities and cars and all of the noises they make but Iceland's cities are surrounded by beauty! Just thinking about the smell combined with the sights, the wind making my hair wave everywhere and having to use comfy and warm clothes while drinking something hot. I love green and cold places like that one.
I didn't know I wanted to go somewhere so badly before I wrote this xD

At the end of the day, we are actually art students.

For me money is all about surviving. I don't really have a lot of ambitions relating money, like traveling, or buying my a nice house or a car. I try, at least, to be very efficient with the way I use money. I think that the reason behind my behavior is that since I was a child my family has always being tight with the budget, but they always tried to making it seem that we were all right. I think we were, because I was the only one that didn't notice it. My brother and sister did though. 

We used to live in a great house in a really good neighborhood until I was like 3 but then we moved on to a house my grandfather had and lend to us. They realized everything was different but I grew up with it.

I'm more than thankful for that now because we are actually Art Students. Although I do think that all careers have those ups and down regarding finding a job in all fields like science or literature-wise.

Even though I don't like spending money for things beyond food or supplies I do spend it in a couple of things. All of them related to my future. I like to spend it in equipment to make music or in plays and concerts. Last month my wallet suffered a lot because of how many concerts I was attending to. I also like games and I'm always saying that when I have enough money I'll repay those games I download through websites. The same goes for music applications.

I don't know if I know how to manage my budget because my answer to my short comes regarding money is always to stop buying food, and I think that's not the reasonable answer xD I know how to save though. I know where to buy, when to buy, what to buy, appealing to an efficient outcome. All thanks to my family.

Buuuut if I were a millionaire I would buy plane tickets to my parents to everywhere in the world. They always talk about traveling. They always said that I'm gonna need money because I will want to travel in the future. Thankfully that's not an ambition I have. I would also buy a grand piano and a nice computer for playing games (and would also buy the games). Also buy a camera and a good recording equipment. Finally I would try to pay studies abroad to complement my studies. Although this last one I still want to do it without having a lot of money with scholarships!

Luckily for me in my faculty there are a couple of pianos and computers for me to use, if I ever had to pawn something in order to pay what's really necessary it would be my digital piano and my laptop. Those two are a necessary thing for me to work but well I still can study in my faculty!

A difficult journey

In Talcahuano my hometown there was a recycling center by my school but I didn't knew it was there untill I was in my final year! That's where I just started to learn about recycling.
In the faculty I was on in University of Concepción there was a recycling project that my career was directing. I raised my hand and joined the group. I learned a lot about how to recycle. I started recycling my house things there. I'm really happy I joined that eco-spot. I learned that worrying about the environment is not an easy thing to do and it's not something that can be forced on anybody.

Geophysics eco-spot

In Santiago recycling is much easier I recycle everything all the time! probably because my flat has an eco-spot too e.e

I would like to have a bike to ride to college everyday. I always walk because I live nearby but sometimes I take the public transport when I think I'll be kind of late.


Santiago worries a lot about the environment but there's still a lot of pollution every year. I think it's the way our society works here. People doesn't have that kind of education in their lives. Maybe a generational change can make things go better, but there still must be an educational plan, that way the new generations will generate the conciousness of taking care of the environment.

I love videogames because of its music or the other way around ╮(─▽─)╭

I think my first memory of my childhood is me trying to learn how to read thanks to a game. After that my record of videogames and my bond to them only grew stronger.

I wanted to be a videogame creator when I was 12. I started looking for schools and such here in Chile and outside of it, but I soon realize that the concept of videogames where more "my thing" (╥_╥) that the process to make one. So much time I passed playing them that I ended up knowing more about its music than popular music in the radio. I was (and still do) always looking for versions of videogames themes, orchestrated versions, jazz versions and such and they grew  within me (sometimes even surprising the story of it).

                                                                   Now I do the same.ヽ(๏∀๏ )ﾉ

It wasn't until recently that I found out that I wanted to create music for videogames (≧◡≦). I mean I never had high hopes of myself. I'm currently studying to get an Arts degree with a mention in Music's theory. I don't know how much will help me towards my goal, there's no really a single road to walk through. I've learnt so much here and this place gave me hope. It made me think "Oh then I really wasn't wasting my time, there's a use to what I know! o(≧o≦)o"

I like to study a lot (I don't know if almost as much as playing though ╮(─▽─)╭) so I don't mind where music is going to take me or not. If staying in Chile is the best way or any other country is, then I'll do my best to follow the righteous path for me. I really wouldn't mind working in an office if it would meant to do what I want. Basically playing games is staying in a place for a long time. Plus to compose or study I would have to seclude myself a lot. At least that's the way I like to do things (it doesn't sound like a very orthodox  method now that I think about it (~￣▽￣)~).

It's been new to me that recently music is almost as close to my heart than games though (n˘v˘•)¬, but is still a long relationship in progress.

Sometimes I walk through the street and think to myself "Myself how lucky are you to be surrounded with such cool and kind people"  When ever I think about it I wonder what change in me (or in the rest of the world) that made me encounter these people because, there was a time in my life when these people weren't in my life. I've just decided to start anew in a school closer to my home, it was the beginning of my high school education. I had a "close" group of friends in my former school, the only school I was a student of until that moment, I thought it would be easy to make new friends in my new school, but it wasn't!

So many years without having to make new friend and there I was every day for a year and a half, only speaking to myself and to my classmate next to my chair, just little things to avoid an awkward silence that could last hours in bad days.

I missed my friends everyday and I thought I would never talk with them again, but facebook was just becoming a "thing" here and that wasn't the case. At least for one of all my friends in the other school.

Alison has been a part of my life since I was in my early basic education. She has always been kind to me and be there for me when I basically had no one (not exactly truth but it felt that way at that mment). My main teacher at that time sat us together, and realized  we both watched anime on "El club de los tigritos". Now that I think about it we've been friends for more than 10 years now! unbelievable!.

That's us she also draws!

Returning to my teenager situation I talked with her every day, and was always telling her what I've been doing in school. In my previous posts I always talk about how I was playing piano and playing games most of the time. She was the girl I played online games with. Now she plays even more than me and is awesome in all of them! She's really cool.

We weren't the kind of kids at that time who did silly things, we really just talked. A lot. Although (and it's funny to remember) we once in second grade of basic school sang the opening of an anime (don't remember which one, but she wanted to sing the one in Inuyasha and I didn't like it. People started mocking at us and I didn't realize. I think of it as the first moment (don't know if the best) that we did a friend-like thing.

I remember talking to her about pretty personal and intimate things, I think of her as my best friend because she's always been there, even though we don't talk to each other every day, because I've grown able to meet so much new and cool people, but it's always cool to realize how much one's changed, or not changed on the course of time with her.

And I'm still on the run!

I have never been so reluctant to talk to people as in my first grade of high school. I have always been the kind of person that likes to be doing a lot of things, but there I was with out a clue of what to do.
It was my first time in a new school.

I wasn't really a shy person, but I convinced myself that I was fine with how the situation was. Whenever I got home I was playing games or playing the keyboard. I got so used to do that, that I ended up increasing my piano skills.

At the end of the year the situation didn't seem to change but one day the kid who used to play the keyboard in our school presentations couldn't actually play at the last day of school's ceremony. I was just walking a group of classmates with the music teacher (that was actually our class main teacher) and a girl said "but Daniel can play the piano". Anxiety started filling me up to my core but my answer was "Yeah... I mean, I have been practicing a bit". Luckily he wanted me to play!

I practiced the song "Hijo de la Luna" a lot, like everyday.

There I was on "THE" day and was freaking out along my music member classmates and the moment they said our names my teachers brought us to the stage and gave us the opening.

When the last note was played and the audience's hands started to clap my heart was racing like crazy. It was such a enormous feeling, I felt that I was part of something way bigger than  me. I knew that I had somewhere to be not only in that school but now also in my life. The day I played that song I knew that I wanted to be part of this amazing and huge experience called music. I didn't stop from there I was part of so many presentations in that building, then outside of it. I met so many amazing people that are now my friends, some other that are reminiscent beings that are stuck in my memory. I think one of the reasons I love doing music is because music helped me love myself!

There's always something new to learn!

When I was 16 my music teacher said "Hey Daniel that sounds a lot like Erik Satie's Gymnopedie" I didn't knew that person so I run to my computer that evening and started looking for his famous works. I fell in love with his music in the first measure.
My brother was always choosing which music was played in the house so I just listened to whatever he played in his computer and from time to time a familiar melody of Debussy could be listened. While watching The Simpsons, an orchestrated version of the theme was inserted in some episodes. When I learned that it was Clair de lune I was fascinated by some of his works.

But it wasn't until watching an anime about a pianist and a director called "Nodame Cantabile" that I found this last person, Maurice Ravel. Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major was so fascinating that I dreamed about watching it live. 

The thing is that past July I was going back home to Concepción to visit my family and a friend told me "Daniel! UdeC's orchestra is going to play Ravel's Piano Concerto in its theatre the weekend that you'll be there" I was in shock and told my mom to come with me so she could hear it too. I bought the tickets and said to her "Is at 8 o'clock pm" I didn't know that much about the protocol of those concerts at the time. When arriving at the theatre we were slightly late but thought it was nothing. At the door the guard said "You are a little late" and "I said but it started five minutes ago" and he said it was at 7 pm and he was right! The thing is that before Ravel there was another theme from Enrique Soro and just when I got in the chairs they started playing Ravel's Concerto. I was so happy!

The thing is that now I know that Ravel, Satie and Debussy were friends and were the fathers of the impressionism so I think is not that I like their particular music but that that music's period is more enticing to me. The way the notes and how they care more about the sound experience than showing off. They are awesome and I learned a lot about how a concert works. Now I go to one at least once a week. There's always something new to learn!

Education first though...

There are so many reasons why I would want to go abroad to so many places. At the end though is not really in my (or my family's) financial budget and isn't actually that big of a dream. Although concerning my education I would actually go anywhere in the world. 

Japan, United States or Austria ar countries where I would love to go mainly because of my education. 

Japan's got a very rich culture. I love the way they express themselves in such a politeful way. It also has a lot of temples because of their religous believes, some of them like the one in Shibuya are Beautiful.

Also Japanesse people are always in rows, they are very organized. Although no everything about them it feels goo, I hate how sexist they are. Their society is so inmersed in that way of working that they don't even question their behaviour, or what a sexist person is. 

Shopping would be in my list, I love al about anime and videogames so I would probably be in Akihabara qute a lot, is a whole city full of shopping streets about electronic things, anime, manga and videogames.

The main reason why I would go to Japan though is because I would want to improve my compositions skills around a culture that approves the way I want to drive my education, that is acording to vidogame's aspects. I could learn more about being a better composer in the other countries that I mentioned but there I would be actually in the meca of Videogame's culture. Maybe with a scholarship I could affoard it so it's not an imposible dream. My dreams or the place where I want to fulfill it may change though. I know there's no a single right path. The world is endless!

I'm not really a smooth talker.

Even though I've been writing or reading in english since years ago, I've never actually practice my skill while talking to people. I realize I tend to studder and it's hard to make a smooth conversation.
A couple of months ago I tried to speak english with a girl from the United States and it was really hard to pronounce the words in a sentence, specially because I use to speak really fast and my tounge struggles to keep up with my pace. I hope I can get better at talking with people here e.e