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Postgraduate Studies

 To be honest, I have not thought in depth whether or not I want to do a specialization course, mainly because I see too far the moment to finish my degree.

If I had to talk about specialization there are two currents that I like, on the one hand my plan is to dedicate myself to orchestral music so it would be nice if I could take a course where I could learn to face a contest for example, and on the other hand I love teaching . When I was still studying at school, one of the careers that I considered pursuing was pedagogy. Today I would like to be able to teach violin, or music in general, to young children in an entertaining and effective way; so I would love the opportunity to specialize in this as well.

As for the place to study this, I have no idea, to begin with I do not handle very well in other languages ​​and this is an important barrier, which limits me greatly to the possible place where I can go to specialize, so for now this is a idea that I need to reflect on how to carry it out and of course when to do it, since I am reaching my 30s and it is not my idea to study all my life, I really want to be able to work as soon as possible on what I am passionate about

My future Job

 I remember that a few years ago my dream was to become a renowned violin teacher and be able to travel all over Chile discovering young talents, I also wanted to have the resources to help them follow their dreams since I fully understand how difficult it is to study and live from art in this country. It was this same dream that led me to study musical interpretation with a mention in violin, which is what I continue to study today.

Although I am still studying the same career, my dream has changed over the years. I believe that life in Chile for workers who live off the minimum wage and for all those who did not have the option of studying a career that they liked and ended up working in anything that would allow them to survive is extremely sad, it is a life full of dreams frustrated and unable to perform. This is why my current dream is to work in an orchestra to which anyone has access, I know it is an extremely utopian dream, mainly because the people I want to reach are not interested in the type of music I can deliver, but regardless of that, I look forward to the day when "classical" music is no longer considered elitist and everyone can and wants to access it.

What are you really into?

During the quarantine I think we have all had a pretty bad time, however I cannot complain of boredom since I have found a lot of activities with which to entertain myself, watch series or movies, watch youtube videos, play online games among other things. If I had to choose just one I would definitely stick with online games.

I have a small group of friends with whom we meet at night to play different games that require a team, we have played lol, ultimate chicken horse, age of empires, dead by daylight, fall guys, the last acquisition was phasmophobia and I'm sure that I am forgetting many more that we have played for less time.

On second thought I think that actually my favorite activity today is in any instance where we can simply talk, there will be times when we will get together by discord to simply eat and listen to music while we talk about life and try to fix the world or we will simply complain about having too many homework for college.

I love to talk about different subjects and it also amuses me to listen to subjects that I do not know, for example I have a friend who studies engineering and although I know absolutely nothing about what he studies, except for what little I remember about science from the school Taking into account that I graduated 10 years ago, I still have a lot of fun listening to what he says, especially when he tries to simplify things so that I can understand him.

 

The most embarrassing thing i'm willing to admit.

I can remember when I was little sometimes used mispronounced words and adults laughed because I ended saying nonsense phrases, however, I think my most embarrassing moment was, undoubtedly, a moment that I lived when I was studying at school. It was a catholic school where they tried to teach us to help others, so once a year they took us either to a kindergarten or to a nursing home to create a day of entertaiment for those who attended or lived in those places.

There was a time when we went to a nursing home and decided to do some musical numbers. A group of colleagues would play "Dust in the wind" from Kansas and they asked me to play the violin part, I don't remember why but we couldn't get together to rehearse so it was decided that I would not play with them and a partner would play that melody on guitar, the problem was that I had a mental lapse and forgot it when we were there, it could be not so terrible that we played played the same melody, if it weren't because they decided to change the key of the song without my knowing, so what sounded was a disaster.

My best vacation

 

The truth is that in my family for quite some time we have not been in the habit of going on vacation, my travels are usually related to orchestral tours with the OJP (Pudahuel youth orchestra), with FOJI (Foundation of youth and children's orchestras of Chile) or with some other orchestra in wich I participated; also in recent years I have also traveled to Frutillar for CMMC (International Chamber Music Master Course)

 It is for this reason that it is not difficult to know that for me the best vacation I have had so far was in February 2019, when my mother, my sister, my nephews and I went to stay at my grandmother's house in Cartagena.The plan was to stay at my grandmother's house for the week we went and every day we would either go for a walk and stroll around or we would leave early in the car to see other places, we traveled along the central coast from San Antonio to Viña del Mar.

 The place we liked the most was Isla Negra mainly because it was where my nephews spent the best time and it was very easy to take care of them since the place was not that big, I also remember that the last day before returning we ate  in Viña del Mar and "pastel de choclo" that I ate was delicius.