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Since I'm doing a postgraduate degree, I already have a job. At the moment, I'm seeing patients, teaching a class and also working as an "errand person" for an elder woman, as well as selling some of my crochet creations. I have a lot on my plate, and honestly, I'm far from loving it. The amount of responsibility is almost unbearable, I don't know how I've managed to stay alive. This year's experience has helped me realize that I REALLY don't want to live like this for the rest of my life. I dislike oh so much the feeling of responsibility and urgency, and to always be running or late to everything. The stress is really not worth it.  I'm starting to fantasize about living a life outside of the grid, and what's most unsetteling of this is that I'm in the perfect moment in my life to choose one way or the other, ending each one in a very different outcome than the other. So... No pressure or anything. Knowing this, I wouldn...

So... I've seen that a lot of us are studying psychology. I find it interesting, but hey, at least there's a lot more weirdos here than I thought ;) This year I started studying here at FACSO to get a master's degree on child and adolescent clinical psychology. I graduated top of my class when I was getting my undergraduate degree, I did everything I had to do to be the best and excell at this, but just as I got accepted here, I started doubting. Perfect timing, huh? I'm starting to give more thought to the role of the clinical psychologist in society, and the fact of being a tool for normalization and imposing of power gives me the chills. I wanted to try to make it easier on the children and adolescents, who are very misunderstood and mistreated, but I'm not so sure of having a career made out of affirming people's sense of being wrong and bringing them to "the right way" of being... Like, who said what was right and wrong, and most importa...

Whenever it comes to me trying to choose a favorite movie, I always get stuck. I think I'm not able to choose just one that tops all the rest, so this time I'll review one movie that always leaves me with a good sensation, not that it's a typical happy movie or anything, maybe I'm just weird like that. The movie is "American Beauty" from 1999. It was directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. This film is fearly known although many years has passed since its release, and the amount of awards it won reafirm this. The movie won several of these awards, specially at the 72nd Academy Awards, where the film won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (for Kevin Spacey), Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography. It shows the life of Lester Burnham (played by Kevin Spacey) who goes trough what is commonly refered to as a midlife crisis, but I think that that term usually takes away the seriousness and relevance...

I usually don´t remember this as often as I should, but given this topic I come to remember one of the greatest experiences I've had, in general and music-related. I'm talking about being able to go to Beyoncé's first ever concert in Chile that was a part of the "I am..." World Tour. Since I was a kid, I had always been a fan of hers, but I mean... Just look at her. Who in their right mind isn't. With her being the talented being that she is. My family knew about this, and when my father heard that she was coming to our country, he wanted to buy me a ticket and he gave it to me as a present for Christmas, and I'm actually not ashamed to say that I cried. It was on Valentine's Day (2010) at the Movistar Arena, and I went on my own. Best. Decision. Ever. I felt so free. Free to scream those lyrics as if my life depended on it. It took me some time to realize that it was really her, in the flesh, that my eyes were seeing. I guess that fe...

Earlier this year I started wanting to learn a new language, and randomly enough, I chose Swedish. Why? Who knows. I guess that the fact that it was so out there, so complicated, so foreign to me and so musical sounding made me go for it... and I stuck with it. Months passed and I still had interest and was getting good at it, so, naturally, I started thinking about going to Sweden someday and checking out all its "otherness". I don't really know that much about the swedish culture and customs, but I'll take a chance and assume that most latinamericans know next to nothing about them -or they do, but aren't aware of it- , so maybe anything I tell you might be informative.  Sweden is a scandinavian country located in northern Europe and has Stockholm as its capital city. Its considered a first world country, as it has the world's eighth highest per capita income and is renowned for ranking highly in quality of life, health, educatio...