- Where do people learn about enviromentally friendly practices?


About this question I think that people are learning these friendly practices essentially on internet, from a few years ago many organizations had started using the social networks looking for attention and they're getting it, so people are reading about these things and eventually are doing these things too.


- Have you incorported recycling into your habits? Describe

I haven't incorporated recycling in my habits, even when I'm conscious about the needing of this, I haven't made time to put the trash together and make something with that.

- Do you use a bike or your legs instead of a car?


I don't like traveling by bike 'cause it's so dangerous in a city which all the people don't respect each other. I think that bikers, pedestrian and drivers are so unwise on the road. I try to walk when I'm going to a place where is possible going by feet, but I think that public transport is so bad that it doesn't help in the needing of clean the city.


- Have you joined or supported any eco-organisations? Why/Why not?

No, I haven't because I think that these things require time and dedication, and I'm more interested in other things which requires a lot of time and dedication too.

- What else have you done /would you like to do?


I'm always trying to put the trash on trash cans and not throwing it on the ground, I don't have much information of what can I do from where I stand, or what can I do every day for this cause. I think I'd like to do as much as I can, but I really don't know how.


- What have you done to reduce your carbon footprint?


Being sincere, I haven't done nothing to reduce my carbon footprint.


- What's missing in our society/Santiago regarding this issue?

I think that our society can't be conscious about the environment if they're not conscious about themselves and other people. Everybody is living their life like they were alone on this world, no one cares about the others, so obviously, no one cares about how they can help on making this world a better place. Also, I think that the government doesn't help too much aproving cases like "HidroAysén" for example...

I have so many hobbies, one of these is collecting original cd's of different bands, I collect officially unreleased material, box sets and singles and obviously, the officialy released material. I have bought them on internet or walking around Persa Bío Bío. There are many albums that are discontinued on official music stores and you only can buy them as used stuff.

Another hobbie is going to concerts. I have spent much money paying for my tickets,'cause here in Chile they are so expensive. I have seen many artists like Pearl Jam, The Kooks, Incubus, U2, Candlebox, Blind Melon, Alice In Chains, Velvet Revolver, Guns N' Roses, and many others that I could be writing for a long time.

Also, I love to play PlayStation or Wii games. Everytime that I'm free, I try to turn on the console and start to play. I like soccer games, war and shooting games, and games like "Heavy Rain" but I don't really know how can I classify that one in an specific category.

I'm still doing all of these things and I don't think that I'll stop doing them at least on the next few years, 'cause I have grown doing these things. But now I'm thinking that maybe playing PlayStation or Wii games will not be a priority when I start to work, not at least as going to concerts or collecting cd's.

Another one of my hobbies is playing the guitar, I have spent a lot of money on this too, buying different pedals that help in the searching of especific sounds for the music I'm playing and paying for all the things you have to do to maintain your guitar without problems sometime have led me to ruins.

sounds

If I wouldn't be studying psychology, I would have liked to study some career related to music, but I think that more than studying music or music's theory, I would have liked to study a career like sound's technician, or sound's engineering because it's a great option for all those who are trying to do a career as musicians. These careers can give you so much knowledge that could be useful when you're trying to improve your sound's quality, and that's a huge reason for me to study one of these careers 'cause when you want to record in a professional studio you have to spend so much money on it, and you're always working against the clock, so having your own studio could be a great help for you.

I don't know where I would have liked to study any of these careers, here in Chile I think that INACAP is one of the most important institutes which teach two of them, so I think I would have liked to study there.

I didn't study these careers because even when I always loved music, I think that working only as a musician or anything related to that, is not an easy thing to do here in Chile because so much people think that music is just a hobby and don't take it seriously. Also, I think that WORKING on something related to music take apart from it some aspects related to the freedom you can achieve when your doing music.

Obviously, my life would be so different if I had decided to study one of these careers, I think that probably I would have recorded an album and I would be working on some studio, but I don't think if I would be happy, because like I told you before, I don't think that working on music is an easy thing to do here in Chile.

the story of the self

The article I have read talks about the memory and how it is related with the identity's formation and how reliable memories can be. First, the writer says that much people think about their memories as though they were material posessions, which could be statics and totally related to the specific events that can be remembered, but it seems that memories are not so reliable as we think they are.

The author says that memories relate the emotions which took part in the moment we're remembering, with the things we're thinking and feeling now, and will not be related only to the real things that happened. Talking about this, there are studies which explain how easy is putting a memory of something that didn't happen on a person. In one of the cases, the researchers shared some photos of children's and convinced some students that these photos were of their childhood. After this, a lot of students "started to remember" these situations that never happened.

But even emotional memories can be distorted, and there's evidence about that. Some people was asked about how they had noticed about the 9/11 terrorist attack. From one year to other, some people changed the story in several points, even when they were talking about a situation strongly related with especific emotions.

For the author, that can happen because when we're remembering, we're not doing else than "re-remembering", and that "re-remembering" could be influenced by others things that can be happening now, so the event we're remembering could "change" depending on what emotions and things are on our mind today.

Finally the author explains that even when the memories are not so reliable as we want it, they're OUR memories, and are very important because when we start to remember, we start writing what's our self, and this  give us coherence and simplifies the relation with the world and the survival.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/13/our-memories-tell-our-story

I started listening to music when I was 8 and my father bought the "MTV Unplugged" of "Los Tres", I  listened to it every day, I learned every lyric and I still remember until today. After that, I became a fan of many pop bands like "Backstreet Boys", "N' Sync", and "Five", also I remember been listening to bands like "Modern Talking", "Los Prisioneros", "Los Enanitos Verdes", and "Maná". 


When I was 11 I started listening nu-metal bands like "Limp Bizkit", "Slipknot" and "Korn", but the crucial moment when I became a melomaniac was when I discovered in my dad's albums, the "Nevermind" of Nirvana. After that I started to listen other bands like "Alice In Chains", "Pearl Jam", "Temple of the Dog", "Soundgarden", "Stone Temple Pilots", "Blind Melon" and many others bands not just from 90's like the already mentioned ones. These bands were the starting point to open my mind and meet bands that I hadn't listened at that time.

I don't know if I can explain what I feel when I'm listening to music, but every time I'm doin' it, I just like it, I think there is always a song for an especific moment or an especific feeling, I think you can find comfort when you're listening songs which are telling stories you feel like yours.

My favourite band is Pearl Jam, I have been listening to them since I'm 13 and from that time to now, I have been bought many albums (originally released and bootlegs) and downloaded (and shared) unreleased material from different eras of their career. Also, I have been gone to their three concerts here in Chile, and believe me, it were the happiest days in my life. I have known them by my father, who is one of the most important people in my "music life". I can say that because he showed to me almost all the bands who I like the most.

Here is one of the great moments of their last concert in Chile, when they played "I got ID" which is one of the songs I like the most and is not played frecquently by Pearl Jam.

                        Pearl Jam - I got ID (Live @ Estadio Monumental, November 16, 2011)

My first impression when I came here it was "wow, this is a warm place to study", I thought that just after seeing the building and after watching all the decorative murals on it. I was really proud to be here, since I was 15 I only wanted to study psychology in this university. 


I don't know if I have some favourite or most hated place here in FACSo, I think it's so difficult to reduce my preferences only to FACSo when JGM has too much places to be and spend some time. Maybe the bridge in front of the hall could be one of my favourite places, or may be one of the places where usually I can stay. It's like a meeting spot where everybody (or at least, everybody who I know) goes after classes. I used to love the grass right next to "ceniceros chicos", it was a place where I spent so much time in my first years and it was where we had parties every friday back in those years, but now, that place was destroyed because of a project that considers the building of lecture halls that will take place there.


I don't know if you can HATE a place in JGM, maybe I don't like the Filosofía's Faculty, I think that the building looks very old and it seems to be a cold place, I don't feel the same "warm feeling" that I feel on the rest of the campus.


Good things about FACSo?, the place where is located is relatively near to my home, so I don't spend much time on the way coming here or going there. Also, there are many places where you can have a nice time and many things you can do right here. 


Talking about bad things about FACSo, I could consider that the presence of oriental plane is such a disgrace for allergic people like me. Other thing that I don't like about FACSo (but I don't know if there's a place where this doesn't happen) it's the excessive heat on the classrooms, it's really difficult paying attention when your brain is melting.

In this post I'm going to talk about Seattle, which is the place I'd like to go to. I'd like to go to Seattle 'cause it's city where "grunge" and Starbucks were born and where I can visit the "Seattle's Rock and Roll History Museum", also my godfather lives there so I already have a house where I can stay. I'd like to travel around the city; visit some music stores and buy some stuff that I can't find here in Chile; visit the R'n'R history museum and see all the memorabilia around it. I don't really know much things about Seattle aside from those related to music, so it will be a good chance to visit new places and see things that I haven't seen yet. 

If someday I go to Seattle it would be awesome if I can go with my band and play some gigs around the city, I think it would be great to play and share our music in the same places where my favorite bands started their careers. I don't think that I want to study or work there, I love my family and friends so I'm not thinking of leaving them, so when I think about going to Seattle, I'm always considering coming back from there.


In case you don't know where Seattle is located, Seattle is in Washington, Usa.