Bye bye bye

Hi everyone! today I'm sad but happy at the same time. Happy, because this is the final post of the english blog. And don't get me wrong, I liked this course but the only bad thing was the "getting up early" part. Besides that, I think it was a good course and we had a good time (At least I enjoyed it).

And sad because this means one step closer to get my journalism degree. And I don't want my college life to end. I dont'want to jump into the "adult's world". But life goes on and I have to stay positive about this.

The use of blogs (and videoblogs) during the course has taught me that I really need to practice my english a lot. I read, listen and understand english very well. I can watch a movie without subtitles and undertsand the most part of it. But when it comes to my writing and talking, I have a hard time.

I plan to travel abroad or doing some course in an english-speaking country to improve my english, because it's the only way you can talk enlgish like an expert.

Nowadays, I use english when it comes to watch videos on internet, series or movies. Also, I read some articles that I find interesting, but it is very hard if you don't understand some of the hard words. Thank god for online dictionaries!

So, this is it! I hope you had a good time reading my blog. I put a lot of effort into it and I am very proud.

See you soon!

two thousand fifteen

Well, I would say this wasn’t my best year but neither it’s the worst one. It has been a plain year, without major milestones for me, but I think the birth of my nephew it’s one of the big moments of my 2015.

My sister had him in February and since then my whole family had been closer than ever. My parents are divorced and this baby has helped a lot for their reconciliation.

Also, my brother left Santiago to live in Castro, Chiloé, with his girlfriend. They have been very happy together there and every time they visit, my family gets together and has a really good time.

I’m very happy for my two older brothers. I realize that we are all growing up and making our own lives. And that scares me a little, but I’m curious at the same time.

Another of my big moments in 2015 was definitely my trip to New York. I went there with my dad and his girlfriend and daughters. I thought we couldn’t be able to get along well but we did and it was amazing.  

We stayed there for two weeks and we also visited Toronto. Toronto was beautiful but we stayed there just for 3 days. Nevertheless, we had more time to go all over the big city. There is so much to see that we missed some things. That’s why I will come back one day.

I hope for the rest of the year to be as fun as possible. I want to wait for 2016 with the best vibes.

My plans for summer

Hi everyone! Today I’m going to write about my plans for the summer. I’m really excited this summer because I have so many plans and hope it all works out. First of all, this semester ends in January so in December I plan to pass all my classes and hope not to get exams.

When December ends, I’m going to Rancagua for a few weeks and maybe in the end of the month I will go to Puerto Varas with my high school friends. A friend of us has an apartment there, so we only have to spend on the tickets and food. I love southern Chile so much, it reminds me of my childhood holidays. I have gone to Puerto Varas many times, but never with friends, so it’s going to be very fun.

Puerto Varas, Chile

When that trip ends, I plan to return to Santiago and do my internship. I hope I can do it in some producer or in television. I have to do it that month because I only got until the end of the first semester to finish it. Many of my classmates are done with that and I am one of the few people who haven’t done it yet, so the pressure is real.

I want to enjoy this summer because it’s maybe my last long holiday, so I want to make the most of it and not waste it by staying at home doing nothing

My green habits

How green am I? Well, I can’t say I’m a green person but I’m not the opposite of that either. I have green light bulbs at my house which is kind of annoying because they tend to turn on very slowly, but at least I’m doing something for the environment.

When I was little I was a girl scout and I learned to keep my environment clean and all that stuff. I also learned to make trash bins with tree branches, so now throwing away the garbage in the appropriate disposals it’s a habit. I always pick up trash that I see laying on the floor and look for a trash can to put it there, or keep my garbage (candy wrappers, napkins, tissues, etc.) in my purse and later find a trash bin to throw them away.

The next step I want to take is separate my garbage, recycle. In May I went to New York and stayed in other people’s apartments. Everyone recycled there because it was mandatory (by law) and I was forced to do so, and it wasn’t very difficult. You just have to separate your organic waste from your everyday trash and that’s it.

When I got back from USA I didn’t keep recycling my trash and I hope to start now. I want to be good with the environment and it’s never too late to start 

Food it's what makes us human

Maybe one of my other passions is definitely food. I love food so much that it makes me angry when I eat something that I don’t like. For example, when I was a little kid and my mom had spinach stew for lunch, I got so angry (well, not that angry), that I kept bummed out all day, until tea time when my grandma fed me with cookies and other stuff.

It doesn't look very good, but I swear it's the best!

I think most of my favorite meals were made by my grandma when I was a little kid. One of the meals that I like it’s definitely spätzle, a german (or swiss, I don’t know for sure) dish that you can serve with anything you like. They are like noodles if we can describe it. My grandma makes them in all our birthdays. The spätzles my grandma cooks are covered in a bacon and cucumber sauce. Very delicious!

My one true love <3

In other side, I can’t finish this post without talking about potato. I love it in its many forms: mashed, fries, boiled, in a stew, baked, sautéed, you name it! but french fries are my infatuation. They are my soul food. I don’t cook them very much because of the process that implicates, but I eat them anytime I can. If I keep going like these I would die by a heart attack very soon.

My only true passion: MOVIES!

Great movie

Since I was a little kid, I've always loved watching movies and TV series. And not only the kids stuff that my parents let me watch. My brother showed me a lot of movies when I was like 9 or 10 years old, because he was in the AV club (audiovisual club) in high school. I remember one in specific, called "The triplets of Belleville" that marked me, because it was an animated movie nothing like the others I've watched. 

Remember this?

Five years later, my sister started working at Blockbuster, and she was allowed to borrow any kind of movie (even first releases) so we watched together many, many movies for less than a year.

In high school I joined the AV club. We watched and analyze a lot of movies there. We also filmed short films, but not very professionally, because we didn't have enough resources.

I don't know why I didn't study Film or Audiovisual Communication, it didn't occur to me. But I joined journalism in ICEI and realize that I didn't have to study that to work in something related to movies. I have had audiovisual courses and I liked them very much.

I hope my future will be related to this, because I don't see me doing anything else.

My future...

Since I started college I've always wondered what am I going to do when I graduate. It's something that I can't stop thinking about and haven't came with an answer jet.  The only thing I know for sure is that I don't want to be a journalist per se. I don't like reporting news because it's too demanding and you don't know when you are going to be needed if you work for a newspaper or TV and radio.

But I like to do other things. I would like to work for a magazine, doing reports and articles or maybe for a radio station, in a music or talk program. Also, I would like to work in production, like for movies, TV series or documentaries.

Before I do all that, I would like to have a year for myself, travelling if possible. I would like to get a masters degree in audiovisual communication or do a course in the same area but in another country, like USA or in Europe. But I think after I do that I want a sabbatical year, maybe doing the "Work and Travel" experience. I don't know, anything could happen in my last 2 years.