Summer Plans

Summer

Hi everyone! Today I'm going to talk you about my summer plans. I really don't have much plans yet, usually summer for me means traveling to the south in Chile with my family and going around national parks in the Andes hiking. My favorite parks are la china muerta and the surroundings of Icalma, just at the border with Argentina. I also like a lot the argentine pampa, it's close to those places and very calm and silent. outstanding beauty. I suspect these year I will stay in Santiago until February. During December (my birthday) and January I will attempt to relax, read a lot and watch many films! Me and my friends want to do a shortfilm or something and experiment with celluloid film. 

Then I will go to Puerto Saavedra in the south coast and going around those places. My family wanted to go to Isla Mocha, I will have to seek for that opportunity to go. I usually go to those places one week, the rest of the month I'm with my family in Victoria, just relaxing and spending time together. 

I also have a friend who lives in the surroundings of Calafquen Lake, It's a very quiet and calm place and she has a house in a mountain where you can see the whole valley and the lake for one side and then turn around and see the native forest valley to the other side, with Villarica volcano at the end of the valley. She always invite me every year and I usually stay the last week of February, then I comeback alone to Santiago to start the semester. I expect her to invite me again lol We usually go hiking around since there's not like 'private' zones and there is a widely open access to many places, like tiny falls, small caves and rainforest. We also like to swim a lot and tanning (one of my favourite summer activities, don't know why thought). 
And you? I will read you! 

Food

SUSHI

Hey everyone! Today I'm going to talk you about my favorite food(s). I'm a pseudo-vegetarian (because I eat sea food) and always have been. I've never really liked to eat meat, specially chicken, I don't like the taste and it's kinda disgusting for me. However there are a lot of foods that I enjoy a lot! There's a place in Vitacura that it's called Tanaka and it's a Peruvian-Japanese fusion sushi restaurant. It is expensive, not gonna lie. But I promise you that they DO have the best sushi in the world so far. They are so unique and have many flavors that you don't typically expect on a sushi bite. Sadly, I don't enjoy eating regular sushi that much, because Tanaka's is so wonderful that It's disappointing to me eating regular sushi. I go at least once every six months (that means 2 times per year lol), but It is a worthy experience!

I've never have cooked sushi myself, and probably never will, specially compared to Tanaka's level, I would have to learn a lot of Peruvian flavors and mix them with the sushi regular base (the protein plus rice), maybe I could try it sometime in my life, but that sushi has become such a religious rite for me that I can't imagine me cooking it hahahah lol. 

Nevertheless, I have tried other classical sushi food in Santiago that are really good. In providencia (I don'r remember the name) there's a vegan sushi restaurant that has a very tasty sushi (the same flavor as the fishy ones). It is not expensive and they have a lot of varieties. I would like to travel to Japan just to taste their sushi, to check how good or not it is and how different is from the concept we have of Sushi. 

Postgrade studies

Hi everyone! today I'm going to talk about my future postgraduate studies which, till the moment are inexistent in my future projections lol. Not because I don't want to, but because I haven't thought about it yet. I know a few people who have done postgraduate studies having studied filmmaking or so, mainly aesthetics and philosophy studies however, they're always more correlated to teaching instead of filmmaking so I don't know nothing about that yet. The only postgraduate studies that I know well off and eventually could do is the masters degree in documentary film that University of Chile does. I've been told that is the only documentary film postgraduate program in all Latin America and because of that the most important one. I had teachers who always said it was a really cool experience to not only dig deeply onto documentary filmmaking but also creating a network between many international and Latin American filmmakers, since It's the only university that offers this program in this part of the world. I also know some art production design masters that interest me in places like Barcelona or Madrid but I don't think of that these days. 

If I eventually do some postgraduate studies I believe I would prefer having part-time courses so I can have time to work or either make projects that are important to me. I'm not so sure. I would like to do studies abroad so I can connect to other people and cultures as well. I believe I could widen my visions and understanding of filmmaking studying abroad.