My favourite food.

                Well I’m really picky about food; I have a habit that most of the people think is weird, I don’t like to mix different foods, the only one that I enjoy mixed is the traditional ‘Completo’ (The Italian hot-dog that we make here in Chile), but in general is like one side rice, one side meat, one side spaghetti etc.

  

                I have some favourite foods but, if there is something that I enjoy a lot, and I mean it, A LOT, those are potatoes.

                Obviously, my favourite form for them is fries/french fries, thin and crispy, they are kind of a guilty pleasure for me, because I supposed to be on a diet so, I shouldn’t be eating them, at least daily (Just joking, I haven’t ate them in more than a month).

                My second most loved form for them is mashed potatoes; I specially enjoy a good ‘Purée’ with a lot of milk, cream (My mother does it like that) or butter; nice, creamy and soft, with a side of pork or some kind of tasty meat.

                With the mashed potatoes, come the boiled ones. I love them, most of the time I eat them without a side food like meat or sausages etc, only with a little oil and salt, the ones from Carahue (A city near Temuco) are awesome.

                I love as well them with mayonnaise, those are called here ‘Ensalada Rusa’ (Russian salad), they have some other ingredients like carrots or coriander, but I enjoy them just with mayonnaise (The problem with mixing food).

                There is some other options like ‘Papas duquesas’ (Duchess(e) potatoes), I have some good memories attached to those but I don’t enjoy them as much as the others, or you could use the potatoes in other dishes. At the end of the day the thing is… that I love potatoes :D they are awesome!

Videogames

I actually like videogames a lot, since I was little I have loved to play them with my cousins, father, or my little brother. We used to have a Super Nintendo and at that time, Mario world was the best thing ever that could happen to me, Omar, one of my cousins and me used to play almost every week that game, those are pretty lovely memories. I used to have a Playstation as well, but is not as dear as my Nintendo.

Now, I’m more into online games, from the really basic ones on my phone like Candy crush (This one has become an obsession), ‘Preguntados’ (That I play with my mother, or more like… she forces me and my brother to play with her) to my favourite, World of Warcraft, a game that I have been playing since 6 or 7 years ago (I don’t actually remember how much, could be less, could be even more). 

WOW is a mmorpg, a multiplayer game, you can be from two different factions that are in conflict in this fantasy world, the good thing is, that even with both factions having pretty complex history on both sides, none of the two can be catalogued as the ‘Good’ or the ‘Bad’ faction.

I play Horde, most of the times a Blood Elf or a Undead, I play with some friends that live here in Santiago but that I got to know online when I was still living in Temuco.

I like playing games, I don’t have the time that I used to have, but I still play them. 

How green are you?

                I think that the environment is important, and that we actually need to be immersed actively in protecting it for future generations because we are not getting another one to replace it (Yet) , but the true is, that I’m not as eco-friendly as I would like to be.

                Here in the university, I try to separate the garbage between: Glass, paper and cans, because we have trash cans for all that different types of garbage, but at home, we only have one trash can so, all the things that I do OK here I’m not actually doing them as good in my apartment.

                The place that I live now, does not has solar panels, and that is kind of a shame. All the things in my apartment use electricity to function (Even the kitchen). At home, I try not to leave the electrical appliances connected because even when they are not on, they use energy.  

                At home (The one in Temuco), my father has some eco-friendly devices in our bathroom that save water (Like a second charge of water, a smaller one, in the toilet or a shower that distributes better the water that you use), I like that, but still not as good as I would like it to be.

                I think that there is little things that you can actually do to be more eco-friendly, like saving energy and water and that if all of us do them, then we could do a mayor improvement in the conservation of our planet.

My future job.

Public administration is a multidisciplinary career, and because of that I don’t have an absolute idea of what I would exactly do in the future.

If there is something that I don’t like, is having a job where you only work in a little office doing the same thing day by day, seeing the same people, a routine. I know that a lot of the people that get into public affairs end like that, I could easily be the same, having the job that I hate, but the true is that I don’t really want that as a future.

                My dream job (a job that the people who get into this career can have), would be in the area of International relations, maybe in an embassy, or an International organization, but mostly somewhere out of Chile. I have always wanted to get into a position that allows me to travel around the world, get in contact with different cultures, situations and people, and get to know things that I never knew in person, things that I wouldn’t knew first hand if I stay here in Chile.

                I want to be able to cooperate to the public service of the international community in a lot of aspects more that I want to only do in a small place, I wonder if that is selfish…

Favourite Movie or Series.

I like a lot of shows right now, and all of them are pretty awesome, good plots, actors, even their budgets are good, shows like Game of Thrones, Sherlock, Doctor Who, Criminal Minds etc.

But the one that has a little place in my heart was probably Roswell, not because it was an especially good show, or had the best plot or actors, is it simply because I watched it when I was little and I’m still nostalgic about it.

Roswell was released around 1999-2000, and I watched it on Fox. It’s based on a book series called "Roswell High” by Melinda Metz.

Aliens, apparently.

If you ask me now, is a pretty weird plot, Aliens and High school in Roswell New México? Pretty weird, and if you add to that the problems with the government, clones and the power to resurrect people and animals, you have science fiction plot like no other.

Roswell had around six principal characters:

Max, Isabel and Michael are the tree enigmatic characters of the series, they kind of try to get unnoticed by the people, two of them are the perfect little sister and brother (Max and Isabel) and they are all adopted, they were found just wandering around in the dessert... little kids in the dessert near Roswell, yeah, so common. Their counterparts are other 3 kids called Liz, Maria and Alex, three normal kids that have lived all their life in Roswell.

The plot starts when Liz get shoot in a disagreement between two customers and will eventually die if not treated and Max, well, he kind of gets her back to life; that is the beginning of the whole plot of the series. People die, more characters get added into it and ‘aliens’ (Do I need to say more?).  Roswell is a nice series to watch if you are bored. It has only 3 seasons.

The song of the opening is ‘Here with me’ by Dido, I always loved this song.

A country that I'd LOVE to visit.

There are a lot of countries that I would love to visit: Norway, South Korea, Japan, USA, Iceland, but if I have to choose only one that would be England without a doubt. Since I was a Child, England has being one of my favourite’s countries in the world, if not the ‘Favourite’.

There is just ‘something’ about England and Great Britain in general. I like the accent, the places, the shows on tv, some of the food, but specially… the music.

Leeds.

The thing is… I have always wanted to go to a Music Festival, a big one… Soooo, why not Lollapalooza in Chicago? Why not the ones here in Chile? Why not Rock in Rio? The answer to that question is quite simple: I just want to have the whole experience, you know? Bands that you go to see only ‘because’ and most of the people there don’t even know, camping, friends and a place nowhere where I can actually disappear for a couple of days, be free, feel like I’m still in that magical age where you can just forget the world for a little time, even if is not real.

Glastonbury.

My dream job.

I like my career, I really do, but the true is that it was not always my dream job, especially when I was little. Before I got into this university I was in one in Temuco called ‘La Frontera’ and studding something in the medical area, that something doesn’t really have a simile in most of the countries but it has a lot to do with medical exams and blood, you could call it ‘medical technology’, quite a literal way to translate it from Spanish to English, so, the thing is that when I was little I used to dream about going to other countries and help people in need of medical assistance, help them in their illness, cure their diseases, that used to make me really happy, I was a kid, war, hunger, guns and lots of things that I know now where not the same for me at that moment in time, but the true is that when you get into the university that changes a lot. I’m not longer in that university, but I still want to help.

Now, with a lot of ‘new’ things in my life, new career, new city, new university, etc, my dream job is most likely to be a different one, a ‘new one’. In the future, I want to work in diplomacy, I would love for it to be in the field of international affairs and politics, because I like them more than the national ones, I dream about traveling around the world learning different things, helping people to improve their lives and solve their problems, that is the future that I want, that is kind of my ‘Dream Job’ right now. 

In the end, is still a big dream about helping people around the world…