My future job

When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut. Or at least, that's what I used to say.

My dream job is working in an International Organization or an NGO, of any kind but with a good social point of view. That could be any UN department, or Organizations like Amnesty or Greenpeace. That's because I'd like to feel like I'm doing something good for the people or the planet. 

I've always loved traveling. If my job makes me travel, it would be just perfect. I don't mind where, as long as it is for a good reason. I don't discard moving to another country if a good job offer comes. I'm not afraid of changes, I want to be part of them. If a big change with a good reason comes to my life, I'll go for it.  

I'm studying at law school, so anything I do will be related with that. The area I like the most is International Law, that's why working at a IO or a NGO are my dream jobs. I don't like the local laws nor the way they work, so I'm not aspiring to work on that. Although I won't deny any chances, it's not my dream matter.  

When the time comes, the most important thing to me is considering that I'm doing something good for the society and not just working for money. Money is not the only thing that matters, I care about doing something good - or great. 

Time to think green

Internet has been the best alternative-information source in the last years. Since being green became a subject, I think most of the practices we have adopted it's because of the internet. That way, Greenpeace and other NGO's campaigns have reached more people than they ever did before. 

I live in a small apartment, so there's many thing I'd like to do but I can't like having my own vegetable garden. Instead, I do other things that help reducing contamination. We produce so much garbage that it's nearly impossible to recycle and produce the same amount, but in my house we re-use things like tea bags, egg boxes and plastic bags. Also, we try using the less water we can by: using the washing machine full (and not half-full) of clothes, taking short showers, closing the faust while washing the dishes, etc. 

Usually, when I have to go somewhere I walk there. Only when it's not a "walkable" distance I take the subway or the bus. I try minimizing the use of the car to the less possible, and try to never go with just one person. There's so many cars in Santiago that doing that only contributes to our bad life standarts, with tons of traffic jams and contamination. I think it's important for people to learn that, because using a car seems to be a signal of a good status, but it's just harming the planet and making everything worse for all of us. 

I think people should be more aware of the fact that we do not own this planet. We are just passing through. We should think more of the future life that will come, not just our children, but all the livings things that we share this planet with. Making awareness now will help to save - or at least not destroy - the planet in the long run. 

The Devil Wears Prada

I have seen many great movies, probably most of the ones that are considered the greatest movies of all times, but having to choose my favorite one, I chose this one because it's a movie I could watch over and over again. Why? Because it's a fun, relaxed movie with a great teaching: be yourself.

The movie it's about Andy, a young journalist who starts working as an assistant for Mirandy Priestly, the chief editor of Runway Magazine (something like real life Vogue). Andy is a smart girl, and not a big fan of fashion. So the storyline goes along Andy's change from this smart-but-not-fashionable girl to a walking fashion icon willing to do anything to move foward in her career. The movie it's full of funny scenes, but also full of glamour, great looks and an awesome soundtrack. At the end, she learns that she should be faithful to what she always wanted to be, and gets a job at The New Yorker as a journalist. A happy ending for her, and for all the other characters too.

The last movie I saw was Mommy, a canadian independent film about the relationship between an adolescent who just got out of jail, and his single mother. It's a movie made by Xavier Dolan, a young promise for the film industry. I completely recomend it, it has great photography work, and the story is amazing, strong and very clever, you discover things about the characters all along the movie, and they never cease to surprise you. 

My favorite book: The Silmarillion

At a very young age, I read my first Tolkien book. It was The Hobbit. Since that time, JRR Tolkien has been my favorite writer. Along the years I've had the chance to find other books he wrote that are not so easy to find in local libraries, so it's been a long journey across the Middle Earth and it's stories.

My favorite book it's The Silmarillion, a collection of Tolkien stories about (what he called) The First Age of the Sun. It was edited and published by Christopher Tolkien, his son, years after he died. The stories from this book ocurred long time before the stories from the books we all know, like The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. They are much more epic and have a mythological purpose, it's the stories of how everyhting started and the battles and adventures of the heroes that came before. I could read it a hundred times and never get bored, it's simply magic.

Right now, I'm reading the third volume of Song of Fire and Ice, the saga written by George RR Martin - Game of Thrones saga. It's called A Storm of Swords, and it's a really fun book. Once you start reading it, ther'esno way to stop, because the way the stories are written makes you feel very intrigued about what's going to happen next, and it's not always a good thing. The last thing I read was the Red Wedding. Those who have seen the HBO tv series or read the books will understand, it's a big climax in the story.