Wednesday, 25 September 2019

A Family Member


Well today, I was talk about my father because I think is the most interesting person in my family. Maybe I have an Electra problem XD
His name is Jorge Steinbrügge Claussen, he was born in Osorno, Chile in 9 of November of 1951 in a family with German past so he learn to speak Spanish and German and he study in a German school.
He has a many histories one of them it happened when he was a child, only 9 years. His parents (my grandmother Filomena and my grandfather Hans) traveled to Europe and they left my dad with his uncles in Valdivia and, I think everybody knows, in 1960 it was a biggest earthquake in the history of this society and my dad lived it in Valdivia. He was at the cinema and all the people ran when the earthquake started, but her glasses fell and when he picked them up the people walked over him, so he had to move along on his hand and knees to a safe place to survive.
His family was a really oldfashioned so when he finish the school and he said he want to be a math teacher his parents didn't let him and told him "You must be a doctor, lawyer or engineer. If you like numbers, you must be an engineer." And the only way that my dad could study teach was studying engineer at the same time, and he did it. My father never worked like engineer.
Maybe because of his history with his father he never told us (to me and my sisters) and me what we should do. He was a very compressive person, and he was really intelligent, I think because he enjoyed reading my sisters and I grew up thinking the reading is good and fun.
I really admire him, I feel we had a close relationship despite a his introvert personality.
Unfornatly he die in 2016, the funeral was a massive, a lot of people asist because my dad was a teacher who marked many students adn they were grateful. The most beautifull words y read in the condolences book was "thanks theacher for believing in me because now i also believe in me".
 I really miss him.


A one-on-one Conversation



When I try to think of an interesting person with whom I would like to speak to ask questions, my mind jumps between many people, a lot of them ancient Greeks and, as I cannot write of all, I will write of the most interesting of them, Hesiodo.
Hesiod is a thinker, philosopher, Greek writer, he wrote about the myths of his gods but because he really believed that they existed and created the world I like to see him as a historian.
One of the reasons I love it and I find it very interesting is that it was one of the first to write the myths that were transmitted by speech, when stories were told from parents to children, also not only wrote the theogony, he also wrote works and days, a text that explains how his society worked, it seems to me that he had a vision that the future would want to know about them, I think he should be the father of history and not Herodoto, although Herodoto also thought like that and has value, but Hesiod lived at least 200 years before.
One of the weird things in my life is that I was always more interested in history than in fiction tales, and in history, the older the more interesting and mysterious I find it, the understanding of the civilizations of that time is very interesting and how his cosmovision affected the way of life and the way of living in his social structure, his technological advances and with that the structures that they generated to habit, so from a very young age I read the Greek myths and imagined where they came from and how magical they were, so when I hear about Hesiodo I was really young and I don't remember precisely when. My dad was a math teacher but he still liked history and he had a small collection of books about it, especially the GREDOS collection and recommended them to me I think that the first book of those that I read was Esotopo fables, and I don't know when I got to Hesiodo and his theogony, I have read it many times but as I also read other myths they mix them so I need to read it again.
I think that if I could see him I would ask him about his life, how he sees the world, I would like to fill the incomplete text of him.

Tuesday, 10 September 2019

Free Topic


Well, today I was talk about my sci-fi book (without spoilers).
Trying to choose a book I am debating in my mind between two: 1984 of George Orwell and Fahrenheit 451 of Ray Bradbury.
Both are really good books. Classic books.
Both have more than 65 years (70 and 66 years respectively).
Both authors write about dystopic worlds.
Both are valid since they were written, actually before.
Both are books that leave you thinking.
Both were on my list of books to read so when I could read them, I read them. 1984 quite a while ago and Fahrenheit 451 in last summer.
I think both are books that everyone should read, because the world they present seems so distant and at the same time so actual. Maybe because narrates about a dystopic world when you read them you feel anguish, at least that's what happened to me… but, don´t give up to reading it!
Actually I don´t know what write without spoilers and I really think it's important to say nothing that could ruin the future reading.
I'm just going to say, emphasize, they are very good books from very good authors.
If you have read this book I hope you have appreciated and treasured it like me.