Tag: Life

Mis novedades

Todas las personas (ambas) que leen mi blog deben saber que ya no escribo muy frecuentemente de las novedades de mi vida, lo que hago en mi vida cotidiana. Pues ahora tengo ganas a escribir tal algo que no creo que haya hecho desde hace mucho tiempo.

Una de las razones que escribo en español para este post es que en algo menos de 2 semanas tendré mis examenes en el Instituto Cervantes para el diploma B2. Durante todos los vacaciones del Pascua estudiaba por hacer examenes del instituto antiguas o hacer de nuevo las examenes que ya había hecho. Además, ahora veo el Juego de Tronos desde la primera temporada con sutítulos españoles para hacer práctico (qué mucho me encanta esta series — al mismo tiempo veo todos los episodes nuevos, es una ceremonia semanal).Cuando estaba junto con mi preciosa Dafni en Lutrá, mi casa de vacaciones a cerca de la ciudad de Córintos, jugaba en mi Wii que había jaqueado (jajaja) juegos en español como Pokemon Gold, Beyond Good and Evil y Metroid Prime Trilogy (eso en alemán puesto que las exámenes por él están acercando también…) Debo decir que es increíble que la consola sea más útil ahora que la he jaqueado. Puede jugar todos los juegos antiguos de los ’90 incluso juegos de GameCube y PSX. Por supuesto es también posible jugar títulos propios de Wii que has descargado. Mi Wii que me quedaba inútil durante mucho tiempo ahora está listo para todo! Es muy fácil hacerlo y lo recomendaría a todos. Simplemente busque por Google “how to hack my Wii“. Sigan el metodo de Letterbombing. Es pana comida, les sorprenderán. Y creo que todos nosotros sabemos como bueno y útil es aprender un idioma nuevo a través de los videojuegos y las películas.

Teníamos otras experiencias importantes allí pero no voy hablar de ellas. Todavía no. Quizás un día pueda explicar todo lo que viví.

Otra novedad es nuestras preparaciones para las representaciones teatrales del mes próximo. Tenemos hasta cuatro pruebas cada semana y se ha llevado ser bastante cansado. Sin embargo, estoy muy ilusionado con nuestras esfuerzas y lo que vamos a presentar a nuestros espectadores. Aquí tienen una cadena para nuesta página de facebook.

Bueno, esto es todo por el momento. ¡Pronto escribiré más cositas de todo lo que está sucediendo en mi vida!

We Will Most Likely Regret Not Travelling More

This is the message you’ll most likey take from video and blog post below. But please, let it not be just that. Make it be the motivation I got from it, the call to be fearless in front of the unknown, for it is only that that you are afraid of — all of the rest is just in your pretty little head.

I, for one, am leaving for the Netherlands for a few days. Take care and heed those words. Don’t be the one who regrets.

Learn to Travel (Matador Post)

Words for the New Year (don’t let the title mislead you — it really is about travel, yes it is.)

 

Another Blue Moon

Remember the last blue moon? Woo boy, wasn’t that a special period?

Well, this time the blue moon just happened to be in August. Everyone started going bananas over how that one was going to be this August’s large moon, nevermind all the talk over whether it would actually be blue or not.

Just to make things clear at this point: August full moons aren’t larger than the rest of the year’s full moons, contrary to the widely believed fact (no less by yours truly until fairly recently) — the proximity cycle doesn’t coincide with the luminosity/phase cycle. In fact, it was only this May that the full moon happened to be the same day as that month’s perigee. Anyway, I digress.

Museums and archaeological sites were open for the night, couples everywhere were enjoying their romantic night out, people were outside cherishing their last days of summer wondering what was so special about this moon in particular.

In another realm, a digital one, the Scythian discovered the five sylvan sprites, fought with the Bright Moon Trigon, jammed along with Jim Guthrie, all the while feeling a hand guiding her actions. A hand belonging to a person who hadn’t had a gaming experience so moving and intense in quite some time.

If you ask me years from now what I was doing on this day of the blue moon, I’ll probably remember the Scythian’s adventures in the world of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP under the bright moon of ambiguous actuality.

I find that this experience speaks tons about how much and how quickly our digital and our physical lives have already blended… and beyond a shadow of doubt will continue to do so to spectacular, terrible, unimaginable levels.

Spoilers ahead:

Jamming with Jim Guthrie, the game’s composer:

Battling the unimaginable geometry of the Bright Moon Trigon:

Danish Diaries #15: Finale (?) and some thoughts on blogging in general

More than a month has passed since I came back from Denmark. I’ve been thinking: “I’ll write a nice big post that sums it all up! I’ll say what I loved and hated about Denmark and its people, what new experiences that place gifted me with” and so on and so forth.

So far, I have had no motivation to write that post whatsoever. I just don’t feel like doing it. My experience from Denmark, as time passes, becomes more and more confused in my head. Details are slipping away. My skills in Danish, after months of understandable, no, welcome unuse, are leaving me like the alcohol leaves a boiling pot of rakomelo. I get more and more tired of talking about Denmark when people ask for the simple reason that I feel as if I have not many interesting things to say. I mean, what: “Yeah, it was kind of boring and mundane most of the time, Denmark and the Danes were a disappointment for the most part, but the Erasmus experience was nice, I met new people and made great friends” blah blah blah. I’m just feeling kind of indifferent towards the past few months of my life abroad. It was generally an uninspiring experience. The most inspiration came from the people I met that became my new international friends, the ones that gave me the great motivation that made me want to learn new languages — I’m hyped to say I’m studying German and Spanish and feeling great about it. But other than that…

A good thing it left me with, no question, is even more of a sense of being a good friend of myself, just doing my own thing and having fun. This kind of independence, welcome as it is, also has left me a little bit scared. Lots of times I prefer staying alone and doing whatever it is I like doing each day than meeting friends or going out. Aarhus had me sharpen my introvert side to a bleeding sheen, made me just accept who I am including probable and improbable manifestations of myself depending on the circumstances and people and all that. But right now, I feel… not exactly not sociable, no. I want to get to know new people, sure. It’s just that I’m in the phase of “but where are all the nice people at? They must not exist at all”. Which is of course a delusion of extraordinary magnitude and unfortunately a very common one among our generation.

Another thing that’s happening the past few weeks is that I don’t really feel like writing or talking about what I’m doing. I’m conscious that, right now, I prefer just living, honing my skills and spending my free time in various ways and just not talking about it at all. Who knows? Maybe it’s because I feel as if I have no-one to talk to? I mean, even my blog. Even if I write here, what’s the point? This, the point: I’m trying to figure it out. Why not just go out and live rather than sit here, essentially boasting? I started off this blog with the idea to “write things worth reading or do things worth writing”. I certainly have done so in the past: myself from four years ago would look at me and beam with satisfaction, proud of the things I have done and maybe written. But, right now, I feel as if what I write is not worth reading and what I do is not worth writing either. That is not to say that I’m not doing things worth doing. No, no! I think I’m now doing very worthwhile things but of questionable narrative worth. With experience comes maturity and now I have greater expectations from what a thing worth writing about might be. I want to write something inspiring; not for you, dear reader, but for me. I hope this day comes soon.