My favourite music

I have listened many types of music throughout my life. When I was a child, I didn't lunch if my mother doesn't insert MTV channel, and I didn't sleep if she doesn't sangs me.

I'll organize my musical preferences in accordance with my growth. As all babys and young children, I listened children's music, but I also listened the music that listened my family: 70's, 80's , 90's and 2000's music, cumbia, classical music, movies music, among other styles, in fact, when I was 5 or 6 years old, I loved Madonna, Michael Jackson, Beethoven, 31 Minutes, The Fliying Cat, and some cartoon songs. Then, when I was 12 - 14 years old, my musical preferences suffred a radical change: I listened anime openings and endings (especially Naruto), Green Day, My Chemical Romance, AC/DC, Metallica and romantic music (yes, when I was 13 years old, I'm falled in love). During highschool, my musical preferences remained relatively equal, however I listened medieval and baroque music. When I was 16 - 18 years old, I rejoined to my musical repertoire my childhood's musical preferences: 70's, 80's and 90's music: A-ha, Queen, Metallica, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Roxette, Guns n Roses, Bon Jovi, among other bands or singers.

All these styles -except cumbia- likes me because they use REAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, the singer voices are very good, and, lf you ever noticed that, musical styles are all different from each other, I like listen to different sounds and musical scales.

Now, my musical repertoire remain the same -but with some variations-, but my favourite band is Bon Jovi. This is a 80's band formed in New Jersy in 1983 with the actual vocalist Jon Bon Jovi, the actually members are Jon Bon Jovi, Tico Torres, David Bryan, Hugh McDonalld and Pill-X, and their music genders are pop rock, hard rock, melodic rock and glam metal. I started to listen this band since my mother told me about their when we watched a chapter of My Name Is, when I was about 15-16 years old. I really love this band because they play the instruments with much feel and excellent, and Jon Bon jovi sings very very good, in the vídeos and in live envents. In fact, I went to one of their concerts the last September 14th, it was my first concert!! Wow, I loved this experience!

A subject I've enjoyed studying this semester

This semester has been confuse for me because the strike had a negative effect in my mind. 

So, back to the topic, my favorite subject has been Classic Architecture's Culture. In this class, we hear a exposition and read books that speak about way of doing architecture in the past. The teacher speaks us about the life in Greece and Rome: culture, religion, political organization and how these topics are interrelated with Architecture and Urbanism. Then, he speak us how the renaissance intellectuals -especially artists-, in Architecture,  recover the teaching of the Classic world through constructions and Architecture conventions that reinterpret mainly the Ten Books of Architecture by Vitruvio. In the period of the Protestant Reformation, Catholic Counter-Reformation creating a religious movement called Baroque, this movement is the opposite idea of the Renaissance because, in Architecture, is characterized by indoor and outdoor overdecorate, optical illusion, scenographic character, among other qualities. Actually, we have studying Neoclassic period, where the french monarchy financed Architecture's Academies that systematized Classical teachings in manuals of construction and other book types.

I like this subject because I feel that I'm really learning about the past of the architecture, the contents has helped me to know great architects, and the teacher explain very well, but he's a little slow when he state in the class.

An expert on your field

One of the architects I most admire is Andrea Palladio. He was born in November 30th, 1508 in Padua, Italy. His real name was Andrea Di Pietro della Gondola. His work started when he was a teenager: he became a rock cutter apprendice, then, he joined to the builders guild and he became an assistant in the Giacomo da Porlezza's workshop in Vicenza. This learning was a strategic opportunity that took his work to Gian Giorgio Trissino's attention. Palladio worked with Trissino in Villa Trissino's renovation in Cricoli. In 1531 to 1538, the young man of Padua learned the principles of Clasic Architecture when he worked in new additions from the villa.

In 1545, Trissino took Palladio to Rome with him, where Andrea studied symmetry and proportions of roman architecture. Giving back his knowledge to Vicenza, Palladio won a great commission to rebuilt Palazzo della Regione. Andrea died in August 19th, 1580 in Vicenza, Italy.

Palladio focused in design and build villas for rich people in north of Italy. Villas are country houses, His builds was designed to be in harmony and balanced with man and nature. His architectonic style was based in calm and order, ideas that read in De Architettura by Vitruvio, and their builds are characterized for has symmetric plans and elevations (facades). Some of these most famous builds are Capra Villa, Emo Villa and Godi Malinverdi Villa. 

I like his work because he gives an atmosphere of calm with relatively simple forms in their projects; their villas, although being tall and solids, interacted with nature, generate an comfortable appearance; their proportions are so beautiful and the best of his projects is that majority of them are seated in the countryside.

Bibliography:
https://www.anticuable.com/blogs/news/12142117-villas-palladianas
https://www.arquitecturapura.com/biografia-andrea-palladio-arquitecto/

Video games / Board games

I'll sart this post telling you that I love games: video games, online games, board games, phisycal games, all game types! I love play games because it's funny, their becoming interesting challenges, and you can develop your creative's ability.

I starterd to play computer games when I was 5-6 years old. Before I start, my sister and I watched my dad and my uncle while they played Doom, this is a single shooter game where you stay in a space station in Mars, you have to kill different type of monsters (zombies, spiders, skeletons, skulls, among other), discover secret accesses and pass levels; it's my favourite computer game. Then, my uncle brought a CD with 600 computer games, I played machine games but in my computer, some of these games are Tetris, Pinball, Banc Panic and BomJack. But when I was a child, I used to play with my animals and dinossaurs toys recreating animal migrations that I watched in Natgeo.

At school, my friends and me played the common physical games: hide and seek, ice and sun, rock, papper or scissors, stop here, hand games, play tag, the blind chicken, among others. In summer vacations in the countryside, my cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents and me played chess, checkers, domino, cards games (solitaire, twenty one, Carioca, Raming, dirty butt, nervous, the thief, etc.), physical games in the river, Taca taca and The Sims. In my old house in Santiago, my couisns, my sister and me played physical games, pillows battle, and a game that my grandma invented: the arañón, in this game, my grandma was pursuing us around house to tickled us with here spider hand. In my actual house, my cousins and me played video games in my sister's birthday party or in my bithday party, we played Naruto Ultimate Ninja 3 or 4, and Mortal Kombat, this is my favourite video game. My neighbours, my sister and me run with the towers led by Galut, a naughty boy that taught me an my sister to play Rin Rin raja; we are a lot of childrens run with stairs while adults walked to open this doors. As a point of information, my sister and me taked the neighbour's rugs and changed to the next door.

Actually, I still play with my friends and cousins some of these games: hangman, bachillerato, card games, chess, charades, online games (Guitar Flash, Audition, Splix.io), never never (with water), The Sims and Slenderman Live, this is a cellphone game where you search clues of Slenderman leave in your world; when Slenderman find you, you have to run in real world, it's funny. 

Since I start to study architecture, I haven't time to play games, but, when I can, I play online games (dressup games, Facebook games, Solitaire, minesweeper, mahjong) and board games with my friends in Santiago and my cousins in summer vacations. I must confess that I would like return to play physical games with my friends, although we are old, hahaha, and repare my Play Station 2 to play Mortal Kombat again.