Felipe is walking around

In the last year of the undergraduate program of Psychology, the university gives us the possibility to take some courses (here we call them ‘diplomado’), in wich we can deepen about some aspect of our interest. I have a lot of options, for example, qualitative and quantitative methodology of investigation; community intervention; systemic therapy; organization’s innovation; and humanistic-existentialist psychology, among other things. However, I intend to take the psychoanalytic one. In that program, I have to decide between adult therapy or child and youth therapy. Both are really similar, in fact, each one has four courses and they share three of them; the fourth is different, because the subjec matter about child and teenagers I can't find it in the adult therapy 'diplomado'. Although I'll work with adults in the future, I think it's very important to study the childhood and the adolescence , so I think I will choose the one related to child and youth therapy. T...

When I finished secondary school, I started to study Law in this university.   In those years, I thought that undergraduate program was great for me, because it would let me be part of an important change of the society, in fact, I was quite sure that I was going to work at the Social Development Ministry or something like that. Nevertheless, it started to bore me a lot. It was too logical and too restricting. Besides, I’m not the kind of person that enjoys confronting another person, for example, on a trial. So I quit Law and, a few years later, I decided to study Psychology, because I think that it could be a better option. When I get the university degree, I intend to work in public health care services, like ‘Cosam’, ‘Cesfam’ or a hospital. I can’t imagine myself working in the private system. There are many job options in Psychology. I could work in a school, in the court, in a company’s human resources department or making investigation. But I will be a clinical psychologis...

I remember that my mother always took me and my sister to plays for children, like “El Principito”, “El Patito Feo” or “El Gigante Egoísta”. When I was at school, the teachers usually took us to the theater to watch plays, opera and ballet dance. It was absolutly boring, so me and my friends needed to think a way to have fun in there. We were making trouble not only in the bus, but also at the theater. When the lights turned off and the play started, we threw peanuts to the assistants in front of us or we called to the cell phone of our classmates, so they rang loudly in the middle of silence. Later, I realize that many times we were in a very important place: Teatro Municipal of Santiago. When I finished school, the theater started to be a serious matter for me. I discovered the theaters of Barrio Bellavista and others from Santiago, and it was very different compared with the plays that I had seen until that moment. I always went there alone, so it converted in a kind of hobby for ...

The soccer started to be my favorite sport since I was around 10 years old. Before that, when I was 5 years old, I have memories of being in kidergartner, it was saturday and my father, a cousin and an uncle went to my school because I had to attend a soccer match, but I think that, in that time, I didn’t like much soccer, indeed, I remember I was only running everywhere and chasing the players of my team and our rival’s. When I was in 6th grade, the guys of my course needed a player, because they signed in a very important tournament in wich several schools from Maipú were going to participate. I decided to accept the invitation and, since that moment, I started to feel a genuine passion, I played every break at school and I loved going to the stadium. I have a numerous family and each one of the members likes Colo-Colo, but my father, my sister, a few -really few- cousins and me like Universidad de Chile, so it’s always fun to see the classic matches with them.

The greatest holiday that I’ve ever had was a trip to Cuba, a few years ago. I travelled with my mother and my sister, and we choose that country for our vacations because we thought that the spanish language could make easier our visiting. They were interested in the caribbean weather, the amenities of the hotels and their typical drinks (as mojitos). In my case, despite I don’t believe anymore that a political system could be the key to build a fairer world, I felt that I needed to know the country in South-America were the socialist revolution had “reached the victory” -I emphasize the quotation marks-. Besides, I listened Silvio Rodríguez and other cuban artists, and I read some poetry too. We could toured a lot of cities, but La Habana was our favorite. It was like the time had stopped, because the buildings and the cars were very old, probably before 1959. When we were in Cuba, Fidel Castro was still alive, but I could perceive that the utopia was slowly falling down.

If I had the possibility to visit a country, I’m quite sure that I would choose Spain. I could mention the soccer as a reason, dreaming about a spectacular match between Real Madrid and Barcelona. On the other hand, I have always felt intrigued about the arabic past of a part from Spain, specially how the centuries influenced either the arquitecture or the music, for example. Besides, I pretend to live for a few years out of my country, so Spain could be a good option to stay and maybe keep studing. Another reason would be that Chile and Spain suffered the goverment of a dictator, with a few years of diference, but in any case we share the ideological and political conflicts, a horrible peace of History of the last century that keeps hitting in the present. Those are the things that I’d do in Spain and I hope I can visit it soon.