Hobbie time...

I'll change a little bit the order of topics in order to do a more structured post, so I hope it works out this "innovation".

Among the forbidden things I like to do is download movies, videogames, comics and books from the internet, I always do, but in fact it’s not prohibited because I didn’t market to them, it is only for personal use, sometimes I give copies to my friends so it would be a kind of piracy. Another forbidden thing I always do it’s to see two and sometimes three movies for the price of one, I always stay until movie credits finish and just then I go out, when the guards are no longer so I go to another room and see another movie, if I'm interested, of course. At the moment I can’t think other things, well that would be enough about forbidden things.

One of the things I hate to do it’s read for exams, because the readings for some exams are too long and tedious, which consumes much of my time, especially on weekends. Another thing I don’t like it at all it’s to travel every day to Santiago, as they are about six hours per day spent on travel, besides I hate Santiago, but in reality the trip is bad only when I go to Santiago but for the journey back I really enjoy it, I know that it’s the same distance and time is the same as well but the sense of where you’ll arrive is what causes you to enjoy the trip. Finally another thing I don’t like it’s doing written work, it takes too much time thinking of ideas, literature search, print and in general a waste of time, it would be far better oral exams or oral presentations.

I’m among those who attached great importance to free time, therefore I have many hobbies, so I really don’t know where to start, I suppose I should list the things I like to do in order of priority, so that's what I’ll do, see how it goes. What I like to do is play videogames, mostly console, also on PC, so when I just have some free time, I play. At the moment I have no console because I haven’t much time to play, so I do it only on weekends at a friend's house, at least 2 weekends a month, I dedicate a whole afternoon to play on Xbox 360.

I like video games since I can remember I've played videogames, since I was 5 years old with an atari 2600, perhaps in the beginning was the interactivity of a joystick what attracted me at first, I don’t remember exactly but now I can say that my passion for videogames is the graphics power and the stories that in some cases exceeds the films, which it’s incredible, there is work behind every new game that is also above the film industry. Within this fascination I can also say that there is some desire for competition with myself and against my friends, it’s great.

Another thing I love is movies, I have no preference for the style of movies, but the directors, and I always know what to expect when I see a new film, but it’s always fun meeting new directors, however I really enjoy seeing my favorite films, one and again, it may seems psychotic, but I really like.

Through the film you can learn about history, indeed, from a particular point of view of history, however, we can enjoy atmospheres and lifestyles of an era that is gone. Also we can access to entirely imaginary worlds where the only thing that guides us is our expectation for things to come, that is amazing because for example, in Avatar, the last film of James Cameron, the only thing one can see is a trailer about how the film and the world could be, that contains the movie and only generates expectation to see it, amazing.

I could stay until next week listing all my hobbies, so this time I’ll talk about 3 of them, so third one is reading, I love to read fantasy and science fiction as novels or short stories but also I so fascinated with comics, so in this hobby I can unite two hobbies into one. The fantasy and science fiction, in addition to comics, I like because imagination has no limits, no limits of technology in special effects, no limits of budget to meet a certain standard of quality in literature the author can write he pleases, go to any kind of possible worlds, that's what fascinates me about the literature and it’s the same that sometimes makes me disappointed when I see adaptations of these works in film, because in literature there are no limits and sometimes the film falls short trying to match the literature.

Actually, now that I think the three hobbies that I have just named are connected with the idea of disconnecting and escaping from this world and meet new worlds, worlds better than this in many ways and give us the possibility to imagine to be part of those worlds, besides it's possible to learn from these worlds because it’s not just about battles and endless journeys but are also values, values that are much needed in this world today.