Movies

The first movie that I really enjoyed as a child was "Looney Tunes back in action!". In that movie the cartoons were living with real people and had to prevent the ACME corporation for getting the "Blue Ape", a small statue with the power to turn humans in apes and viceversa.

I haven´t seen any movie recently, because of the homework, but I certainly prefer to saw movies in the cinema. In my house I do not have good pop corn (for some reason, the home-made pop corn is never as good as the cinema´s pop corn) or a giant screen. I think that this two things are enought to worth the lack of the ability of pause the movie.

I think the last film that I saw was "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug". The main actor was Ian Holm, who played as Bilbo Baggins. The movie was about the adventures of Bilbo and 13 dwarves, who seek to reconquer the Solitary Mountain and kill Smaug, the dragon who attacked it a lot of years before and stole all its treasure. Bilbo has to obtain a jewel from the dragon´s lair and to bring it back to Thorin the dwarf. Once with this precious ítem in his power, Thorin will have the authority to call a hugue army of dwarves to face Smaug. I would definitely recomend this movie beacuse all its amazing action and stuff. But in orden to enjoy it more, PLEASE READ THE BOOK BEFORE SEEING THE MOVIE!

Eager to visit the homeland of imperialistic states

Despite my hate against everything related to autocracy, i can not help having a lot of interest in the possibility of visiting Peru. The Huari and the Inca empires had their capitals there, and interacted with a lot of people (thought by annexing territories and murdering people).

I know a lot of things about Peru. I have studied its wars, its political conflicts, etc... However i am much more interested in the native cultures that lived (and still living) there.

If i visit Peru i would like to stay for a year or two if possible. I should not have many monetary problems if i save enough cash, and the money exchange favours me! I would visit as many museums and ancient places as i could. I would specially travel by the roads of the Inca, imaging of should be the life as a citizen of the empire. The different peoples not only had to deal with the incas, but also with other people as well. I think being conquered by the Inca empire should have let the previous conflict in Status Quo. I wonder if the incas know that they used to be under Huari empire´s rule!

I would like to study there, and if i can, i also would like to work for a museum as an archaeologist. There a lots of thing that i want to learn here. However, i am not thinking in to live more time there. Maybe i could change my opinion, but for know i do not want to live too much time in a country with such levels of violence, insecurity, and with a lot of dangeours bugs. I am not used to live in that conditions.

My blogging experience 

Until this year I had just posted one blog in my whole life! It is interesting to write your opinion without fell that you are in a test. This activity  has helped me to practise and improve my writing abilities. I still have to practise more, but this activities are a good help. However, I feel satisfied with my progress.

If I could suggest something it would be to read articles of other people and then to write a post about my personal opinion about them. Also, I would suggest to be able to use some words that are part of the daily life of most common English-speaker adult. Sometimes the "bad words" help to express better your truly feelings.

I would love to write more about fictional creatures (vampires, werewolfs, goblins, orcs, etc), alternative time lines (what could have happened if...?), native cultures (this is why my blog is called like that), empires (how they rise, decay and fall), wars (causes, stages and consequences of the war), economy (theories and the real effect of it´s application), conflicts (for example inter-cultural conflicts), etc.


Well, as a conclusion I have to say that to blogging is a comfortable activity, because I do not feel pressed and help me feel that I am doing something worthy, instead of just to put in the right place some words in an activity.

Zombies: the most wanted apocalypse of all!

Zombies (also named zed, ziips, undead, walkers and infected) are living corpses that have been reanimated because of magic, a virus or a radioactive exposure. The commonly wander trough the world, trying to consume living humans (for some unknown reason they never attack other zombies) using their number advantage to corner they enemies. The first time I hear about zombies was when I was seven. It is difficult to say what is better and worst about zombies. If you are eager to test they hunting abilities the better thing about them is that they never give up. They never get tired. The worst about them is they lack of intelligence and the fact that they are so slow that even walking fast is enough to evade them. However, if you are a human pursued by zombies then the "better" and "worst" facts about them are the opposite.

I don´t think that zombies exist yet. Maybe more that a company would be eager to develop a virus that attack your brain, so they can sell it as a biological weapon. I neither think that someone believe in zombies, but i know that some people want zombies to exist because they want to smash, burn, shoot and cut some zombies for fun. However, I have never heard about a zombie cult.

When I was a child I was afraid of zombies, but now I will like to survive a zombie apocalypse just for the adventure. Each time I ask people if they are afraid of zombies either they say that they do not believe in zombies or they do but they are not afraid of them.

Michael Jackson reminds me of a zombies in some of his videos, like The Thriller.

An expert I admire

Well, I would like to mention Lévi-Strauss. He was a French anthropologist who was born on 1908 and was deceased in 2009 (he lived more than a century!). He has made lots of essays about native americans and made a lots of theories that improved the anthropology. The main reason I "admire him" (I don't really believe that there is a reason why a human being should "admire" another human being, because we are all equal) is because reading what he has write I was able to solve the paradox between "be relativistic and because of that do not judge anything, neither in my society nor in another" and "be ethnocentric and be able to ask for changes in your own society". The answer is "to moderate the opinion". This solution is crucial if you ant to be a good anthropologist, because it let you to speak, think and theorise without fall in a contradiction. Also, Lévi-Strauss make me regain the good path to be a good professional, because i was becoming a bit altercentrist, and he explained in one text how to be neutral again.

Books... Just books...

My relationship with books is not very active lately. When i was a child i use to read a lot, but since i started the University i just read some chapters of different books (however, these "short" lectures appears to be a kind of "swarm" specifically designed to overwhelm me and my classmates; and that swarm is becoming a complete success).

I like fictional books of almost any kind. Since adventure books like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, to books of social criticism like "Cien Años de Soledad", satirist novels like "Rebelión en la Granja", distopian futures like "Un Mundo Feliz" or apocalyptic stories like World War Z.

I am reading World War Z. It is difficult to read daily because all the papers and articles that we have to read to the University, but i started it a month ago, and i think it will take another to finish it. It is about a zombie apocalypse which started in China and spread almost all over the world. The book tells in interviews the story of the infection, since the first cases, trough the Great Panic (when people realised the true nature of the "African rabies" and that the supposed cure was in fact useless) and the human counter attack. I enjoyed how all was so consistent, although i could detect some nationalism (the author is from USA), because in the book the Zionist were the "good guys" who were trying to protect Palestine from the infection, the USA´s soldiers were in other countries "fighting the drug trafficking" instead of occupying the country for USA´s interests, the infection begin in an enemy of USA and the refugees were praying to be able to enter Europe or USA to be safe, the interviewed people often says how USA is more democratic than his own country and how the CIA were trying to protect the people and democracy (that was very disgusting for me, knowing how the CIA help to replace Latin american democracies with dictatorships). I would recommend this book to any person who likes books about apocalypse (my friends like video games about zombies, but they are too lazy to read this book).

One of my most special photos

In this photo i am with some of my ex classmates and with my main teacher. It was taken by one of my ex classmate's mom, in the Saint Mary Joseph School in March 2014. That was the first class day of the year and we were visiting our ex school for the first time since we graduated. This photo is important to me because every year y saw how every generation came back to greet the new students and i never tough that one day i was going to be the one who greets.

I remember how jeaolus i was every time that the ex students came in the first day. I wanted to have already finished the secondary school. Now that i did it i miss the people of my ex school. Well, maybe not everybody, but most of them.

That photo shows one of the key moments of my life, and i will never forget that special experience.