An ICEI Party

Well, I don't like to go to parties. OK NOT.

We have a lot of parties in the ICEI in a year. We do it in a place called "El hoyo" (the hole). There we put HI FI speakers to play music loudly all night. In those parties there are a lot kinds of music like reggaeton, pop, rock, salsa, tropical, etc. People love dancing inside "the hole", to feel any kind of body beside of you, to feel the heat in a cold night.

However, people get drunk in parties all the time. There are a lot of drinks like beer, ron, pisco, terremotos, etc. People drink to much. It's a cool situation. All people inside "the hole" are friends in that night. There are not fights or problems.

I like these parties because I can share time with my classmates. I talk with them about life and love, the most important things in the world. We laugh a lot.

When you come to our parties in ICEI to avoid problems the only thing you can do is NOT COME TO THE PARTY :)

Camila meets a transvestite

Well, I met Camila Alexis Rivera Moyano in a freezing classroom on a raining day in the Campus Juan Gómez Millas. She wore a black montgomery and a violet scarf. She looked very nice. I started to talk with her about her hobbies and what she did in her freetime. She was polite.

She started to talk me about her skill to cook in her house. She told me that she cook a lot of sweet things like pies, sopaipillas pasadas, cakes and tarts. I felt very hungry. She just smiled.

After a black coffee she told me that she loved photography. I felt very surprised about that because I like to take photos too. She had a camera that she uses to take photos to her family, friends and some stuff.

Then a very weird anecdote came from her: "Yesterdey I met a transvestite" she told.

We laugh a lot. I've never heard that. Then she told me that she went to record with friends a transvestite person. She did a video with the material from her camera.

"I felt very good. She/He was very nice" said Camila. They talked about what happens in a normal street night.

I thought that my interview finished, but the most weird thing came:

"The transvestite studies Social Work in the Academia de Humanismo Cristiano" she told.

Maybe the Church will want to get a meeting with that guy/girl.

Future Shorts

[click on the image on the top to get to the website]

Well, today I'm writing on the blog about my favorite cinema website.
This is Future Shorts website. Future Shorts is a new kind of Cinema Film Festival. This is a planetary event with locations in Australia, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Japan, Romania, Russia and Sweden.

The special thing about this festival is that the platform of distribution is online (by internet). That creates a big audience with people who like short films but not any kind of films, just the good ones. The Future Shorts Agency is working with experimental films and videoclips too at this moment. Sometimes It does Future Shorts parties around the world to celebrate with the global audience and to show some new short films.

Well, the webpage has a very nice interface. On the left has all the sections about the Festival with locations, dates, prices, contacts, "about us" information, awards, the festival blog, etc. At the bottom are all the links to know Future Shorts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

I don't visit this website very often because I really like the Future Shorts YouTube Channel. There are a lot of short films and videoclips. There are Future Short parties videos too. I visit all the time that channel. It inspires me to do a good work when I'm filming.

451

Well, one of my favorite books is "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. I read this book when I was in highschool. I read a lot of books with fantastic stories and I liked it. Now I like Julio Cortázar short stories (an argentinian writer).

The Ray Bradbury's book was edited on 1953 and it original language is english.

I like this book because the subject of it is a dystopian future where books were burnt by firefighters. It reminds me the history of some nations and it makes my imagination fly. This book was edited in a complex moment in the human history. In United States of America there was a lot of censorship, in the Nazi Germany books being burned and the nuclear bombs being launched in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Here is my favorite quote of this book:

"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane."

This extract is from the conversation between Clarisse and Guy Montag who have a very friendly relationship in the story of Fahrenheit 451.

Amazon Review

Wonderful, and still relevant, novel
January 2, 2000

By: A Customer

Format:Mass Market Paperback

This book is absolutely amazing. It describes a time in the future where censorship prevails and minds are caged. Nobody has original thoughts; with the abolishing of books creativity was lost as well. Guy Montag, the protagonist, is a fireman (firemen burn books in this story) who has to fight to pull himself from the grip of an overpowering government and tradition, only to see that it is all useless (why teach to people who can't understand?). The novel shows what censorship can do to a society, and why individuals must not accept the norm without questioning its integrity and implications. Overall, read this book immediately and apply what you learn from it into everyday life.

I agree with all the points of this review. YOU HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK AND APPLY WHAT YOU LEARN FROM IT INTO EVERDAY OF YOUR EMPTY LIFE.

Good friends, Good photos

Well, I have a friend and his name is Matías Gálvez Atenas. I'm two years older than him, but we have a good friendship. I knew him on highschool on my last year there.

He took me a photo when I was acting like Don Quijote de la Mancha for a highschool's week presentation. I saw it on Facebook someday and I added Matías to my friends list. I started to talk with him. I knew his hobby in that moment.

The photo of the top was taken for him. He likes photography and take photos (yes, they are not the same thing). This photo is taken in a Montego street on Jamaica. He took it on his summer holidays.

I like this photo because... To be honest, I don't know why. I just like it. It's well composed, etc. I love it because is out of focus. I think that makes it special. That provokes on me weird feelings. I feel uncomfortable and attracted at the same time.

However, the photo represents a traffic signal. This says to you that you have to cross the street or you don't. In this case, it says "walk now and cross the street. DO IT FAST".

My friend has a lot, A LOT of good pictures. If you want to see more check it on: MATIKUKI PHOTOGRAPHY.

[My friend is studying gastronomy...]

University Tips / Location: Juan Gómez Millas Campus

1.- Keep walking If you want to move to any place of the campus, you have to walk. Inside the campus there are a lot of paths to get to any faculty or any place to get rest, to think, to talk with friends, to sleep in grass, etc. Maybe It could be confusing sometimes, but If you use them everyday you will be OK to get everywhere in the campus. Also you can help to other people who is lost in campus and get a new friend perhaps. But the campus is not small. You will have to walk a lot. BUY A CAR. Inside the campus there are car tracks too.

Buying Movies

Outside of Faculty of Philosophy you can find a great stock of different movies to a low cost. If they don’t have the film that you want, you can ask the seller if he can search and bring you the movie.

Tear Gas at Lunch

Sometimes the police get inside of the Campus looking for the hooded classmates. They throw small stones and hide in the Campus. To fight them, the police reply with tear gas. If you are eating, your food is going to taste more salted. When this happens, you dream with one of the few rooms with air conditioning. If you are lucky, you could be under arrest by a sweet police man.

Love and hate with FRIENDS

In a beginning I heard about a TV serie called FRIENDS. I didn't know anything about that. People and friends talked a lot about it, but in that moment I didn't have cable to watch it. I felt very sad when my friends were laughing meanwhile they talked about the TV serie. All this stuff made that I felt a lot of hate against FRIENDS.

However, my parents put cable the last year. So, when I am in home in the afternoon I watch TV and I do channel-surf (zapping). I watched FRIENDS someday with a lot of patience. I tried to forget all the hate what I felt. It was a good move. I started to watch FRIENDS always, all the situations they showed in there, the characters, the dialogs, etc. All this stuff was very cool. I loved it so much. I started to thinking what I missed when I was a child, when I was in the highschool.

FRIENDS had ten seasons and a lot of awards. A lot of audience too. I recommend to you to wach it, because the story it's simple: six friends, living in a department and a lot, a lot, a lot of funny situations.