Things to do

 The truth is that  from some time I make a list  of things to do per day or week,  to be more organizated due the mix of social life, the university & part-time Jobs. So technically I have a list for all the days and the one for the next 10-15 years that I made in 2016, I will focus in the first  half of the last  one.

-Finish the university: From the examples of friends and family I learned that the percentage of dropouts in the first years of the university skyrocketed cuz most tof the young adults  weren’t sure of what to do, picked something and after one or two semester   they had the realization that they had no vocation or it wasn’t  like what they though, and there is the  mental health factor. But I’m currently one year  and some months apart from the graduation.

-Learn how to swim: I almost drown at 7 years old , till this day I don’t  know how to swim properly , I know how stay afloat for like 8 minutes and barely swim in a  “dog- frog style”. In this sumer I would like take a course.

-Learn how to drive: I don’t like cars, even when 6 of my close family members worked with cars, but to work  and in case of an emergency its important to know how to drive. I would like to get a license before the next summer , and twice per month a cousin is teaching me how to drive in a square, 3 days and 0 crashes (:D)

-The fear of dentist : After find out that I had tolerance for anesthesia  while being in a procedure, I got a trauma in the dentist. The smell of fluor or the sound of that drill-like tool scares me . While in the covid quarantine  a psicologist friend helped me to confront the fear , the only step that is left is to talk with other dentist to understand that they are humans and no evil butchers.

Scary or Funny

 My oldest memory of a cartoon in the TV is  the “Looney Tunes”& “Tom & Jerry” , yes there were countless other kid shows  at that time , but I’m more fonded of the comedy cartoons  along with the scary ones like “Scooby-Doo” or  “Courage the Cowardly Dog”, yes we had cable until 2003. As I grew up , the free time was less and also the signal was bad where I lived (this was around  2003-2006 ),  there where only 2 Tv Chanels : The 4 &13. The 13 had cartoons in the evening (The simpsons and Futurama), the 4 had cartoons only in the morning while I was in school. Time pased and we moved to Santiago(the cable returned) and I start watching some series like “ Supernatural & How I met your mother”(the first one ended after 15  years  not so long ago its currently in HBO MAX). Just recently I started “re-watching” old series that I didn’t like that much when I was more young, like “31 minutes”  or “Samurai Jack” , this time I could apreciate it better and I felt ashamed  for that, a good friend tought me how value old shows and series : the trick is to be aware of the production context and the limitations they had at the time, that’s how  I meet “The Office” & “Scrubs” I love those shows (this without considering that they are goldmines of memes )

Philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka

Back in the day, during the first week here in the university, the professor of “practice 1” give us a list of “The books that every graduated should know”, some of them told the history of the agriculture in Chile and the world, “The green revolution” and “The One-straw revolution”. I didn’t know the last one so I started reading about it, and the author: Masanobu Fukuoka. Sadly, he died in 2008; his deeds and teaching had advocacy for a conservationist and ecological type of agriculture, this also was part of his philosophy “the ultimate goal of farming is not growing of crops but the cultivation and perfection of human beings” .

One of his most remarkable works was the perfection of the “seed bomb”, this an old technique used till this day to regenerate desertic & eroded lands, it consists of a mud ball filled with different kinds of seeds which provides suitable conditions for the growth of the future plants.

 

Someday, if possible, I would like to pay respect in his grave.