Knowing the bad guys!

My favorite movie is “Reservoir Dogs”, the first movie that Quentin Tarantino directed and wrote.

I saw it the first time in 2007, when I came to live to Santiago with my cousin, since then I can´t remember how many times I watched it.

"Reservoir Dogs" it´s a crime movie, but the policemen are not the main characters. This is a movie that turns around criminals: the planification of a bank robbery, their ironic discussions and their fights over who was the snitch, their joking and laughing, the guns and the shots.

What I most love of it is their cruel humor and the violence that involves. I must say that my favorite scene is the one when one of the bad guys cut the heir of a policeman while he is dancing "Stuck in the middle with you" by Stealers Wheel. He obviously was crazy, but I love to watch his madness.

So the ones that haven´t seen it have lost the half of your lifes...

Travelling to Cuba!

The most meaningful trip of my life was to Cuba, this travel was in the summer of 2008. I went there with my mother and my younger brother for 24 days. We enjoy meeting “La Habana”, “Guanabo” and “Baracoa”.

Going to Cuba on vacation was very significant to me for two reasons: Firstly; because I always wanted to meet such a different and particular social system, Cuba it is an exception as political regimen in the world. Secondly, and most important, my older brother live in Cuba because of the fact that he study medicine in the ELAM.

The ex Cuban president, Fidel Castro, conceived the creation of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), to train doctors free of charge, which after a lapse of six years, must return to their communities to contribute to the sustainability of their health systems. My brother study there since four years ago with students from 24 different countries

I was surprise with the city of “La Habana”, because it was full with old cars from the 50s and earlier as well as Russian Ladas everywhere. Old sidecar motorcycles are also a popular way to get around; I personally travelled in one of them.

I also visited “Habana Vieja”, which is a fascinating colonial city, the age and beauty of the buildings is astounding. Of course I saw the Capitolio, several of the big museums, the Hotel England and some of the bars that Hemingway frequented.

My favorite career-related website!

(http://www.cendachile.cl/ National center of studies for alternative development)

Definitely the career-related website that I visit the most is the CENDA's website. CENDA is a center that meets studies from different investigators, especially from economists and recently from sociologists too.


Their objective is that through research, teaching and extension they could make and promote ideas of social importance on a national level.

Their topics are preferentially income distribution and poverty, the effects of globalization and international trade for our country, the concentration and transnationalization of the Chilean economy and the region, the sustainable development, social protection funds and pension, education, etc.

They got now a special emphasis on the crisis's matters, in which I´m very interest.

They publish on his website their new courses, publications, investigations, findings, activities, news, projects, among other things.

You should visit the CENDA's website, it's very cool!

¿Do I have a hobbie?

I´m not that sure if I really have a hobbie.
There´s nothing I´m particulary crazy about...

I suppose that there´s just some things that I like to do more than other things.

For example, I love doing Pilates, listening to music on my own, reading to novels on my free time, dancing, going to parties, sharing moments with my friends, eating with my family, going to see a movie, surfing the web, etc.

This is not something new. When I was younger I used to practiced a lot of diferent things like contemporary dancing, ballet, artistic gimnastics, flamenco dancing, handball, among other activities. But the thing is that I never continued one of them.

But what I do know, it´s that I would really like to have a hobbie to enjoy,
something to set asside from my free time.

What happens with earthquake stays in the earthquake?

Almost one month and half ago the earth started to move like anyone of my generation has never seen it before.

That day I was in my natal city (Los Andes) with a friend and relatives watching the "Festival de Viña", we really enjoyed singing Ricardo Arjona´songs like in the old times.

We were just starting to sleep when the earth tremor started. When the movement started to increase I got panic and it was my younger brother the one who had to calm me down.

In conclusion nothing happened to my family or my house, but watching TV was upsetting.

The next days me and my friends went to a school where people was colecting clothes and food to send it to the most afectted areas, and we packed those things there.

Lore! first session

My name is Loreto Quiroga and I´am twenty-one years old. I´m from Los Andes, but since 2007 I live in Santiago. I´m studyng sociology in the University of Chile, and this is my fourth year. I am interest in economic sociology particulary, and I would love to study abroad in the future.