The university ruined my life (?)

As a provincian guy, coming from La Serena to Santiago to studying the career that i was looking for my future, was a really big step in my life, even more when the people know that i was admitted in the Universidad de Chile. The decision was deffinitive and i have to move to Santiago to start a new chapter in my musical life.
Apparently, that should be nice in every aspect: in the musical aspect, my previous knowledge allow to me skip two years of career. Also, my "friends network" was  gradually increasing, allowing me play in new places, with different degrees of prestige.
That apparently sounds very nice, and it was, but like every thing in the world, it has a "B" face, in where the things didn't work like it was expected.
First of all, the building in which the Arts Faculty is established is very old and many things related to the age of the building aren't working like it should be. In fact, once, one of the elevators fell off with near 7 or 8 people, resulting 2 of them with some injuries. Also, there is no places where breathe fresh air until 1 year ago, where was installed a little garden on the 8º floor
In the burochratic part, thing aren't better, but that is another topic that no deserve to be mentioned haha.

But sometimes you can be happy on that "deppresive cave", sometimes the people and teachers are nice and the spontaneus parties that suddenly appear at the front of the university are very funny sometimes, although weird things could happen.

How improve the faculty? Demolishing it and building it again. Serious.

The concerts in which i've played

As a musician, is more frequent to me to play in the concerts, instead of attend them. In both cases, the emotions and anxiety can be very similar; there are very "dangerous" and stressful situations if you are playing in a large group like a symphonic orchestra or a symphonic band, also if you are playing in a small band like a rock/ska group.

Playing in a concert is, at the same time, in some manner, like attend a concert, because when you are not playing, you can listen to you partners and enjoy the music.
The last concert in which i've played/attend was about 3 weeks ago, in Ñuñoa and Talca. It arrays a lot of emotions and strong feelings, due to the tecnical difficulties of the music, so, the atmosphere (for the players and for the public in the hall) it was a bit tense, because all the present people already know what problems could appear.
Once the concert was finished (in both days), all was happiness and a drastical feeling of relaxing, because of the very noisy ending of the music and the power that goes out from Orchestra.

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And the vacations... Due to music, i have to travel very frequently, and every summer, in Frutillar, on the border of the Llanquihue lake, there is a annual music festival, called "Semanas Musicales de Frutillar", in which many orchestras of the country go to this little village to play on the "Teatro del Lago", a theater that is literally above the lake water. Is considered one of the best hall on Chile, like the Federico Santa Maria's Aula Magna. 
Not all is music! Obviously there are many attractions in frutillar: the lake; the famous kuchen from the german heritage of the place and the Osorno volcano, who is the protagonist of the landscape. Usually the mini-vacations are only for 3 days, in where you have to do the most amount of things in that time. The best things on that little vacations are the food, lake and the posibility to play in a huge hall and also be broadcasted on TV and Youtube.

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