Friday, September 5, 2014

The TV programme I loved the most when I was younger (I love it still, though) was "Slayers!". Slayers! is an anime from the ninety's based on the homonym Japanese novel. The anime starts halfway of the original story from the novel and it's about a very young lass called Rina (or Lina) Inverse. She is a very skilled magician who left home to go on adventures. While being chased through a forest by some thugs she actually robbed to, she happened to encounter a travelling swordsman that shows up to defend who he thinks is a poor and defenseless gal. Rina let this strange, blond, long-haired man deal with the thieves. When he's done she thinks that even though she could have dealt with the ones after her by herself, she should be thankful to the person that intended to save her life. So she does but then she notices that the swordsman looks rather disappointed. The man thought to be saving a beautiful princess, as this was what Rina heard from his mumbling. Rina feels blue and angry to be looked down as a child, though she recovers and thanks the man. The not-so-much gentleman introduces himself as Gourry Gabriev and offers to take Rina to her homeland. Rina endures this humiliation and reconsiders that Gourry didn't seem to have any dark intentions and to be very caring. She makes up her mind and decided to travel alongside him. Thus the anime starts; the story is full of magic, comic scenes, and a deep complex plot involving spells, demons, different worlds, powerful enemies and the main objective cliché (to protect the living).

Friday, August 29, 2014

About Las Palmeras Entrance Closures on Friday

I imagine you happened sometime to be walking happily to university and found yourself unable to go through the entrance in Las Palmeras on Fridays. This phenomenon is known as "I can't let you through, you have to enter by Las Encinas" or more subtly Las Palmeras Entrance Fridays Closure. Perhaps you have also experienced the "Oh, forgot it's closed today" continued to a sudden burst of anger. This other phenomenon is closely attached to the first one and might actually be as disappointing as the first. Probably you have wondered "WHY, GOD, WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO ME!" (Well, I did). So I encouraged myself to investigate and this is what I found.


To know the answer to this question I had to visit the JGM Campus Administrator: María Loreto Urrutia. She works at the Decanato in the Philosophy building (fourth floor, but I highly recommend not to go if you want to avoid what I assure you would be a quite unpleasant time). I asked her for the reason of the closure and she rushed upon her computer, opened some files and showed me pictures taken to the damage done to B building (most of them tags). What happens next takes a long time to describe but long story short, when I asked her the relation between the closure of the entrance and the infrastructure damage, she went on and on giving arguments about not letting UTEM student in the campus, the parties and the drinking on Fridays, not having the resources to deal with the problem any other way, and so on.

As I tried to uncover the deep and obscure connection between one fact and the other in my conversation with her, she begins to flip out. Apparently her arguments were really problems that she'd had to bear for long, rather than arguments to defend her way of dealing the problem about the B building. No UTEM or UCHILE student could be found involved with it, nor the parties and drinking. I suspect that the annoying closure on Frindays is really a way to show she is fulfilling her duties as the person in charge. That's what I could find out about it.

Friday, August 22, 2014

I would like to visit to United Kingdom, because I'd like to know if I could consider it seriously as a place to live my life.

I know little about it really besides the fact that the language spoken there is English. I've learned that the republic of UK is actually composed of 4 countries including England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Little I remember of how their politics works, though. I also know that there are a huge variety of accents. Apart from other well-known facts as that The Beatles were born there or that the Big Ben is, I can't say I know much more about it.

I'd love to go and live there one day and then, forever. Thus, I'd work, study, make a family there. Although I've never been to UK, my biggest dream has always been living there, or somewhere else in Europe. I chose UK because I know their particular language the best. I think living in Europe is quite an opportunity to learn about cultures and different languages.

Well, I've already showed my eager to do all those things there. However I must confess that it looks like a really difficult thing to achieve and it scares me a bit but if my wish comes true someday, I won't waste the chance.