The road so far...

So far, I think 2014 has been my favorite year in a long time because I'd been good at getting what I want

In the University context my grades have improved a lot and in September I had the chance to meet the Chilean defense before the International Court of Justice in the Seminar that I organized along Victoria and other friends, right after we organized a Seminar about the difference between contract a fiduciary relations in which the guest lecturer was a professor of Yale Law School (we had a really nice dinner with him and the other organizers).  Some people think I’m really good at organizing stuff, haha.

 

But it's not always rainbows and butterflies in the University world! I think my last exam of Commercial Law have been the worse oral exam in wich I have ever been into because the teacher asked me a lot of things that deep inside my head I knew that I knew, but I couldn’t remember them in that moment and everything went black. It was a really awful experience, but a few hours after that I moved on and now I know that nothing could be worse than that (in the University world, of course!, 'cause I thing death, killing people and the sexual abuses are the real bad things in the world).

I still have to do a lot of thing this year: next week I’m going to my first internship interview (wish me luck!) and in the coming days I will back running again in the park next to my apartment (but it's a thing I should have never stopped doing in the first place) because the classes will be over for this year, but instead, it would be great to go to a lake or to the beach to practice kayak (my future me would thank me a lot for it!) or do nothing but breath the fresh smell of the Summer, but 2014 is not over yet…

«Dr. Brown, I brought this note back from the future and now it's erased»

Today, there are lots of possibilities for those of us who study Law in a School like ours. We can dedicate our careers to Antitrust and Unfair Competition, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Criminal, Civil and Commercial Litigation, International Trade and Economic Integration Services, and so on.
 

At first, when I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer, I thought about Environment and Natural Resources, but nowadays I'm in love with the International Arbitration and with the International Law, so I would like to work in the office of a remarkable firm, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or in the International Court of Justice (I will apply for an internship in 2016)... There's no expense in dreaming!

I’m also considering of working a few years as Head of the Diffusion Department of our Faculty of Law because I really think we are being left behind in this point and there is a lot of work that should be done in better way in there (just give a look at the "news" that show up in the web of our School!).

I imagine that if I dedicate my career to the International Law I would travel a lot around the world and I'd have the opportunity to learn from other cultures and other lawyers, so maybe, I wouldn't care a lot about holidays.

Now I'm studying Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law, and International Private Law (a.k.a. “Conflicts of Laws”), and the next year I'm thinking of taking Human Rights, International Contracts and International Criminal Law, because they would help me to improve my knowledge in International Law and in Criminal International Law and at the same time they will allow me to do a major in one of these areas.

They should be able to make decisions about their own body

First of all, I would not say that abortion is a right (at least not in Chile nowadays) and I don't think we should restrict the discussion to “pro-life” or “pro-choice”, because it would mean that “pro-choice” people, somehow, are “pro-death” people and that is further from reality.

Further than thinking if the embryo and the fetus are living independent beings, I think that Chilean parliamentarians should take over about what it's really happening (yes, in this very moment) in our country: there are hundreds of illegal abortions happening right now just because our parliamentarians are blind and don't want to face the facts (and, I'm sure that if we have more women in the Congress involved in that policies -that affects mostly women lives- we would not be talking about this).

I think abortion should be legal in Chile, but not in every case because I think we should have certain requirements. I mean, we should think about women as independent human beings (without thinking about parental consent or religious precepts) and at the same time we should ensure that we respect their consent or their will (abortion should be legal when pregnancy is the result of a crime and when it endangers the mother's life), but I think before that we should steer the discussion to the sanitary conditions in what abortions are being performed nowadays.

About the «nasciturus» I think we should respect his rights from the moment he has a nervous system, but always preferring the health of the mother.

«Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum»

The Oxford Dictionary says that music is “Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion”, but besides of that, I think music is the art that an artist makes when he or she achieves our feelings by using sounds. So, when we found a good musician we let him or her get to our thoughts and we give them the power to alter our behavior for good or for band according to the song.

I like a lot of different music styles (I usually hear them in my smartphone because I can carry it with me to everywhere) and my favorites musicians at the time are: Claude Debussy, Funeral Suits, Aerosmith, Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder, James Blake, Mozart, The Beatles, Max Richter, Kansas, Perotá Chingó (somehow, their music is light!), AC/DC, Coldplay, Calle 13 and Seu Jorge. The only styles of music that I dislike are heavy metal (I really ignore how in the world some people are able to love that) and cumbia.

As Friedrich Nietzsche said: «without music, life would be a mistake». Whatever style of music you like (ok… even heavy metal), music is important because it has the power to change your emotions and your life so (at least you have a total inability to hear) you should never stop listening music and looking for new sounds.

The best holidays I've ever been too

Back in the Summer of 2012 I went for 2 weeks with my parents, my brother, my uncle and my aunt to Icalma, a little town located in the mountainous area of the Araucanía Region in the south of Chile. To get there you have to cross Las Raíces Tunnel, the second longest tunnel of South America.
 

Icalma is the perfect small town to relax, breathe fresh air, connect your soul with the nature (I also think it's the cleanest city in which I have ever been) and find the peace we all are looking for.

On one side of the town there is a lake that reflects the mountains that surround Icalma (in fact Icalma means something like "water mirror") and you can do kayak and sail in small boats while falling in love with the fantastic landscape of the town.

  Given that Icalma is placed near the border with Argentina, you can drive your car to Villa Pehuenia, a village in southwestern side of Argentina, where you can eat a delicious roast beef, swim in their own crystal waters, make some Argentinian friends (the people who lives in the south of our countries are really nicer than you expect) and (although I don't really like soda so much) taste the best lemonade Sprite you will ever drink in your whole life.
 

«Please let me keep this memory, just this one»

When I think about my chilhood, the first thing that appears right away into my mind is my favorite memory (although I'm not sure if it's the first one that I have). When I first moved on to my current home in Rancagua, the first thing I saw was a "wild" orange cat playing in the garden. Given that I was only 3 years old, I was (of course) very curious, so I ran to play with the cat and I lifted him up to the sky by holding him through his tale! (don't hate me, I was only 3 years old). This is my favorite memory because the cat didn't scratch me and because he survived using the power of his 9 lives.

 

One year after "that incident" I learned to swim in a river near Campanario (a small town located in the south of Chile) and to ride a bycicle in Rancagua (in the backyard of my grandma).

 

A few years after that, when I started going to the school, my favorites activities outside of school were swimming, riding my bycicle with my dad, reading fantasy literature and watching TV series such as Pokémon and Knights of the Zodiac.

The Northern Lights

I would really love to go to the Kingdom of Norway («Kongeriket Norge» in Norwegian), a beautiful and cold country located in the western part of Europe where you can go to fjords and glaciers, but most fascinating: it’s a perfect country to watch the midnight sun or «midnattssol» (during summer there are places in Norway where the sun never sets!) and the Northern Lights (a.k.a. aurora borealis).

I know that the lights are part of a scientific phenomenon that involves solar explosions and the Earth's magnetic shield, but it also have something magical and peaceful in itself (just give a look at the picture above!). Besides the fabulous Norwegian landscapes, I want to visit Norway because my cousins have lived there since they were born (they usually come to Chile once every three years). I like the way they speak Norwegian (it’s such a rich, ancient and cool language) and I’d love to learn it while spending time traveling with friends through Norway in the future.

I don’t know if I would like to work or live there (because I haven’t been there before), but I would be happy if I could see the Northern Lights once.