Hello!! This is my first entry of the second term. I'm very excited about writing again in my blog and with the english class, even tough it is soooo late.

And well, now I have to write about my first term. In the university, I really didn't learn a lot. Some of my classes were pretty fun, but others were a piece of crap. For example, I didn't learn anything on Chonicles and Interview. I hate doing interviews. It is the worst thing ever! And the teacher was a stupid... Everything was going wrong. In the other hand, I loved Interpersonal Communication. It was so interesting! I love knowing how human mind function.

All this thing about the classes made me pass through a vocational crisis. Anyway, I still have doubts about my career but I really don't care a lot about that. I'm going to finish studying journalism and then I will see what I will do.

I did some interesting things on my free time, I watched a lot of movies, I read a lot, I went out with my boyfriend and my friends, I learned how to cook some things and I made some delicious dinners for my family. And one of the best things of the first term was that I became friend of group of girls that make me smile all day! I'm so happy for that. They're lovely.

I had some ugly troubles with a friend. We argued a lot. The biggest challenge of the first term was to make the decision of finishing that friendship. Now we say hello to each other and we talk sometimes. But the relationship is absolutly different. :)

And I didn't have any trouble with my family. I love them and they love me. When a thing is not working between us we talk about it and we find a solution. I have already talked about my friends. I'm still in touch with my friends from the school. I love being with them. They're so funny! And I love my friends from the university. They're making me have some real good time.

I passed a lot of time with my boyfriend. Our schedules in the university were so different, but we could be together anyway. We passed some real good time together. And the last thing: he bought a puppy called Beto. It is the best dog ever! :DD

Well, that was my term! I hope you keep reading my entries!
Bye! =)

Oh my god! I can't believe this is the last entry. The term is finally ending and I'm so happy for that. This semester has passed pretty quickly but I'm really needing vacations. I just want to have fun.
I have to say that one of the things that has made me feel tired this term is the english class. It's so late! Someone has to change the schedule. Please!
But, one of the good parts of the english class were the blogging tasks. Most of the tasks were pretty fun. I really enjoyed them. It's obvious that writing in a computer is funnier than being in a class. However, I think that we learn more by writing and not by completing things or looking at the book.
I think that it helped me to improve my english. Not all that I wanted to, but practising is always a good way to improve something. But really, I'm always practising english by listening to music, talking with my friends or watching television.
I think that it's good that we have the opportunity of having someone that tell us our mistakes. That is really important.
I see a lot of adventages of blogging in the english class. First, we improve our english, as I have said before. Second, we have the opportunity of telling what we think or what we feel. Third, we can know the feelings and the thoughts of our classmates. I mean, I'm not a gossip boy, but it's nice to read your classmate's dreams. The blogging experience also helped me to know better my partners.
And I really think that there's no disadventages. I think this is a nice idea. And a good way of making funnier the english class.
I'm finishing this blog with this entry! Thank you for reading me! I have passed a nice time reading you =)
Xoxo!
R

As this is almost my last entry in this blog, I will write it in a different form. The task is to talk about my ideal job. So, this is moment for dreaming.
So, Nacho, what do you need?
1. I would love to work in a magazine. If it's MY magazine, better. It may be launched once a month. So, me and my co-workers don't have to work quickly writing stupid things. In my magazine we have to write about serious, smart and funny topics.
2. I want to write about arts in general (music, teather, movies, photography, design, plastic arts, etc). I also want to write about "tendencies": psychological studies that help us to understand ourselves; new things that are being done in the cities, restaurants, trips, events in other countries. I think that we need to know other cultures. We need to increase our cultural life.
3. I would like to work with nice people that doesn't like the conflicts but they have to be ready to receive critics and suggestions. And they have to love what they do. That's the only way to do good things.
4. I would like to have a good salary, too. Not a tremendous salary, but I want enough money to have a confortable life.
5. For this job I have to be creative and well informed about all the new tendencies. I have to be a good writer and have sense of esthetics. These are things that I think that I already have. But I have to improve them.
6. I would be good at this job because that is what I love! And loving what you do is the only way of do a good work.
7. And now is time to face the truth... It's going to be very difficult to find a job like this. But, anyway. I'm going to try until I find it.

This is an unfair world. It's obvious that if you're good at maths, all the world would be clapping on you. But if you're good in arts or music, nobody will be interested. And that's exactly what schools do. They fill up the student's minds of things that need to be memorized. But nobody cares about kids's creativity.
Ken Robinson talks about the opposition between schools and creativity. I think he's pretty right. I just can talk about what I lived. And I think that someone shot me in the creative part of my brain. Truth is that I passed about 6 years of my life memorizing a lot of things that I surely don't remember now.
That's because the best thing that you can do is being right. There's no a lot of space for discussion or for creating things. (I say it again: this is my experience). So, we all grow up frighten of being wrong, as Robinson says.
I would really love teaching. Maybe I will do it some day.

We have had four subjects this semester. So, there's not so many options. One of them is an absolute foolishness, I hate the teacher of one of the others, and the other two are pretty nice.

If I have to choose one, I would choose Comunicación Interpersonal. It is teached by Claudio Salinas. He is smart and easygoing, so going to class is very nice.

In that subject, we have learned about the dialy life. As its name says, we talk about the interpesonal communication. It's very interesting because we talk a lot about psychology, wich is a very important topic for me. I mean, as a journalism, I'm going to work with people and to the people. They're are going to read what I write. So, I have to know the way that our mind fuctions. In order to make better messages.

We have also talked about stereotypes, the way they're built and their components. One of the reasons because I decided to study journalism was my will to break stereotypes. I think they're pretty unfair. And well, if I want to break them, I have to know the way they function.

And well, I have learnt a lot of other things in the semester. Especially in Comunicación Interpersonal and in another wonderful subject called Análisis de la Imagen Fija. I don't want to talk about the other two subjects because I feel that I haven't learned a lot in them. That makes me feel angry and frustrated and today I'm too happy to fill my heart with these ugly feelings.

I'm 19 years old. I'm in the second year of my career. So, in 5 years I'm going to be 24 years old and hopefuly, I'm going to be working. The question is... ¿in what? and the answer is: I really don't know.

Thanks to this task, I've come to realize that I haven't got any references in journalism. I mean, I love the work of some journalist but they're not my references. Anyway, I'm going to talk about a great writer, journalism and film director. He is chilean and his name is Alberto Fuget.

I didn't know a lot about his work until I bought a book written by him called 'Mala Onda'. I read it in the past vacation while I was sitting in the sand in Viña del Mar. I was passing through a strange moment in my life and I may say that this book helped me to understand some things about life. Well, it was a point to Fuguet, but it wasn't enough to become a fan of his.

And then, some months ago I bought another book. The book is called 'El mejor periodismo chileno de 2009'. In the book, there are a lot of cronicles, interviews and reportages. One of the cronicles is 'No es ciudad para débiles'. It's a gret story about Mexico City and it was written by, guess who? Alberto Fuguet. In that book, I found that Fuguet studied journalism in Universidad de Chile. That is a big point to him.

And another day, reading a magazine I found another cronicle written by Fuguet. It was amazing! I just loved it. And it wasn't just a stupid story about something that happened some day. He took a story about a suicide and wrote a reflection about the non-places. A fantastic theory made by Marc Augé, Michael de Certeau and some others anthropologists. That cronicle made me see some things of live in another way, too. The name of the cronicle is 'Ir de picnic a no-lugares'.


The last thing that I have known about Fuguet is that he launched a website called 'Cinepata'. In Cinepata you cand find long movies and shorts. The good point is that all is for free. You can download the movies without being illegal. I downloaded a short directed by Fuguet called '2 horas'. And it was really good. It has a great photography.

So, all those things that I have said makes him one of the best. I love his work because it's deep. It's not another new that you read in the newspaper. He writes things that makes you think. And I believe that his Cinepata idea is just amazing.