Post 3: My favourite Movie - Tricky question

Pinpoint my favourite movie is a really difficult task for me. I don't really know if it’s at all possible. Everyone changes, and have different tastes and experiences that shape what we like. I am sure is difficult to everyone to make a choice, but I would be dishonest if I picked one just to write this blog. So, I will explain what kind of movies I like, and name out a few of them. Maybe some of you like them too, and even if I we can't choose one, maybe we end up having similar motives? I don't know, but something has to be similar, be it in the movies we like, or between them.

I am really tempted by movies of suspense, history, dramas, and psychological thrillers, and my favourite movies tend to fall into those categories. If I had to list some of them, I would start with "Taxi Driver" and "The Godfather". But that is because I have seen them a long time ago, and have had time to think and talk about them. I also like a lot "Dead Poets Society", "Pulp Fiction", "The Clockwork Orange", "Donnie Darko", "Memento", and "Whiplash". Some of them seem a little far-fetched, and even I am not really sure why they interest me so much, but there are at least some gut feelings.

Something about all of them is that they are based in human experience, and not always “happy”. They tend to portrait human relationships in not only contingent but extreme circumstances. How and why do we act as we do? Is it always like that?. Why do we feel as we do, and the context presented has to resonate with what is important to me. Not only as an abstract idea, but also as historical subjects -that is why I like them- and the meaning we carry. Emotion and compromise in our passions and skills, as in "Whiplash", but at the same time what we learn and why we do -as in education and schools-, and how that either reproduces our decadent world, or sparks the flames of the future.

Post 2: The best concert I have ever gone - Tour “El Gusto es Nuestro”

The best concert I have ever experienced is actually fairly recent. I could say that it was the last one I went to, the month before, in September. It was the tour called “El gusto es Nuestro”. A series of concerts through countries of Western Europe and Latin America this year, performed by four Spanish composers: Joan Manuel Serrat; Ana Belen; Victor Manuel; and Miguel Ríos. This was a very significant concert to me. Part of it is because of this tour took place also 20 years before, and my father and uncles assisted at that time the performance in the national stadium. I and my siblings grew up listening and singing their songs, and this year 2017, the artists came back to tour in commemoration of these 20 years, and, for us, everything that had happened in between.

It was an specially emotive concert. An spectacle with high sound quality, and a good stage. Through the three hours that the show lasted, they wander through songs of their personal repertoire; from the old concert; and from songs of two Chilean artists: Violeta Parra and Víctor Jara. As I have already said, it was a concert of very deep feelings. A experience to revisit and live again one and a thousand times. A concert that more than just evoke memories in the assistants, made feelings come out of every word, and music out of our collective experiences, like we came back in time to live what it was 20 years before: to become and re-encounter with our past and all the time that had passed -and experienced.

Post 1: A country I would like to visit

A country I would like to visit...

Well, there are so many countries that I would like to visit, and picking just one is a decision that results so difficult for me, but if I choose just one, it would be Spain, specifically the city of Barcelona. Spain is a country that I always wanted to go to, for its history, culture, the museums, and its particular architecture which results so interesting for me and another thing that will make Spain, and specifically Barcelona, my favorite city that I would like to visit.

Spain has been a country that has formed part of our history, and we can see it in our language, our culture and the influences since the period of the history known as the colonialism. I study Social Anthropology and the culture, the society and the history has been always themes that make me interested to study and to know more.

Since that I was a child, always the language Catalan was the one that my parents used to talk to me and they influenced to me, so I could listen to and to learn more about this language and this culture. My father has a favorite singer named Joan Manuel serrat, who is a popular singer in Spain and South America. He is a good singer and musician and his songs talk about culture content, which every time that I listen to his songs I learn a little more about this country.

I would like to study there, specifically at the university of Barcelona, which is one of the most famous university in this country and is an important study house of my field of study “the social science” and I would like to study one of the Program of Magister that the university is offering in my specialty of the Medical Anthropologist.