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Hello! This is the tenth of the blog posts and I have to say I feel really happy about this English experience. I don’t know that I could express myself in other language! Ok now we have that out of the board I have several comments on the university English studies.

I think the courses are Ok, they are a very important need in today’s world. But, what I regret is that in every course there’s people that know a lot of the language and people that have the very basics (like me) and that make the learning process a little strange, because we advance in a weird rhythm and a lot remain in doubt. At least that’s my experience.

In order to the use of blogs I’ve already say it, I love it! Was a very interesting experience, a little bit stressing but fun. In addition to that was very funny to read my classmates blogs and comment, we all wrote very different and in some way we know each other a little more than usual.

I use English in two moments. To communicate with foreign friends I had and when I watch youtubers or interviews that are in English. In other words, I’m a English receptor, not much an English producer, that’s probably a thing to improve with time. Maybe travel and learn more pronunciation and real talking, who knows!

I would include to this post one of my daydreaming ideas about English: maybe one day be able to read literature in English and performed some Shakespeare’s! (I would love to be Hamlet).

Changes to my study programme

Well I think of all the time this subject. Where do I start? First I would change the length of the career, but not just journalism, all the professional careers. Thereis to much time involved in the study of a discipline and very little of practical training. Means that most people said the same thing: “you go to school, learn a topic and when you arrive to the real job you have to unlearn many things and start to learn the real thing”.

About the curriculum areas, I don’t have much to say, because I love the “useless” classes. For example we have a class in first year called Language and Culture and it help so much to think the very philosophical issues of communication and social reality constitution, but it really doesn’t help me with journalism, because if I apply what I learn there I’ll be kick out of every job today exists. I know it sounds radical, but I found that journalism isn’t very open to discuss there foundation concepts. Is an ethical and political problem. I have contradicted my self, because I want to diminish career time but love “useless” classes.

Now that I write these reflections, I think that they aren’t very sophisticated, but I can say I give them a lot of thought. If I can say a little about technology or infrastructure will be thanks words, in ICEI that’s a very good thing, I wouldn’t change a thing. A positive comment to finish, after that mighty reflection.

My Winter Holidays

My plans for this Winter Holidays are very flexible because really I don’t know if we have many days, but I think that it’s a great opportunity to rest in the middle of stress.

Anyway, I continue my thesis and therefore it’s almost impossible to leave Santiago. All I hope is have a time to sleep maaaaany hours because in the Summer Holidays, I was in my professional practice and I couldn’t rest.

At this time also, I have been learning to embroider and I would like to have some time to continue learning because it’s a truly therapeutic activity and it has helped me to cope this difficult moment of my life.

Unfortunately, this year I lost very important people to me and all that I can do is try to think in other things and gradually accept that life continues. This is why I have also been learning a lot about makeup and I have been watching tutorials on YouTube about it.

                                  

This time has given me the opportunity to practice other activities outside journalism and start planning my life finishing the career. Also a lot of reading and family time. Bout the books I want to read there are two that are waiting for me. There’s Estrella Distante from Roberto Bolaño that talks about a group of poets in Chile in 1973 and the coup. The other one is A pain under observation C.S. Lewis that talks about lost of loving people, I hope it make a difference! 

The best food to cook for myself

Well, today I want to talk about my favorite meal to cook every day. 

Being a vegetarian, food is something I'm often thinking about, especially since I have to cook for myself most days of the week. At one point, lettuce and tomato salads start to get really boring and uninspired, so I started looking for a more filling, shelf-stable and versatile alternative, and tofu was the revelation I was waiting for. This soy-based "cheese" is quite high in protein and has a firm, meaty texture that is great for me and even for my non-vegetarian friends. You can boil it for stews or soups, sautée it for braised dishes, stir fry it with flavoured oils or sauces and even deep-fry it for a tasty appetizer or snack. It is also cheap (about 3000 pesos a 400 gram block) and it has a fridge life of about a week, so I usually freeze it in cubes to use as I need it.

One of my favorite ways to prepare it is by tossing it in a hot wok with some sesame oil and soy sauce, fry it until it's crispy on all sides and then adding some broccoli florets, sliced zucchini and rice noodles. It makes for a healthy, tasty and easy lunch for a busy week, or even when I want to spend some leisure time on the stove.

I hope you enjoy this post and cook tofu some day. 

Bye! 

Postgraduate Studies

This year I finish this career and I am planning a journey for the next year. Therefore, I will be in Buenos Aires for a semester and I hope study something related with the arts, but for now, I am not thinking about postgraduate studies or a master.

Ok in this point I accept that is no easy to find a decent job without postgraduate studies, but let’s remain simple, we have a lot of possibilities to do different things. No all is about traditional success, there’s also personal satisfactions and less traditional projects that I want to explore. It doesn’t count as a postgraduate study, but I would love to learn about shoe making. Is one of my paths and I imagine that in Buenos Aires I will found a lot of people that still make their own shoes and will be happy to share their knowledge, because less and less is a profession recognized by our society.

When I finish that learning in the shoe world, then I’ll be thinking about arts and masters. I can only imagine my self studding that kinds of thing’s to became a teacher. And also I wanted to say that I don’t believe in non-presential studies, I’m a face to face kind of people and that’s the only way I learn. Hi to the shoe lovers people!

My future job

I would love to have a job that changes every day. Is strange now, cause I done a little of journalism and is not what I imagine, but work in a daily paper is near that dream. I could do some thinking in this post of how I imagine my ideal job, but now I’m in a frame of mind that search the possibilities in the existent conditions. I’m quite near the end of my studies and in a year from now I will be journalist with all the letters. Would I travel? Would I be learning the things I’m interest in? I don’t know! But, is very important to me to be in a discipline that had no limitations of topics and journalism allows me to research about a lot (infinite) of different things. Now, let’s think the specifics, What did I want to (really) know? I love fashion world and I’ve seen a bunch of documentaries about it, some of them talk about the exploitation of human capital in fashion industry, some talk about exploitation of the environment, and some of them just talk about fashion and no explotation. I would love to learn all about fashion, even if it took me to saddest realities and serious issues.

My pet

Ok, I suppose is complicated to write about my pet because I don’t have one right now. I had one some years ago, was a dog named Kalem and was a Weimaraner. It never matter to me if it was a royal breed, but the couple of my mum did and he bought him. I love him anyway, was the best companion and it look sophisticated. Somehow I miss him (my mom broke up with the guy), but there are other dogs in my life now. My boyfriend has two dogs and they are beautiful, all of them very unique and different. Facundo, the little and white one, and Tibet, a medium size and black dog. They have very different personalities, Facundo is grumpy and very jealous, but his so sweet and dance a lot and enter the house whenever he wants. Tibet, in the other side, is shy and very respectful. Tibet had a very strange characteristic, when he look at you is as if he communicates and thinks. I know it sound quite strange my perception, but is true, that dog can be scary. The three of them as a family are very lovely, they came at me to welcome every time I get to my boyfriend’s house.

Learning English

For me, learn other language is complicate because means changing the vision of the world. Each language has its own history.

In that sense, learn English for me always was to open my vision of things around me. However when I was in the school, especially where I studied, meant frustration because never I could learn enough to speak with someone.

Also, in my class we were almost forty classmates and for this reason it was impossible learn all things that we need.

When I left school, I started to live in a Christian community and there lived people from different places of the world. In that moment I could understand that was important to me know other languages to communicate and have new friends.

In this moment, my family ask me all days to say words and sentences to them in English. I hate them for that. Never mind, my family values that I’m learning other language because they know I’m a traveler and it would help me. I feel good about writing in English, but I also know that speak is a completely different challenge and that’s what I really want.

The Best Holidays

Although the trip was not a holidays and it was actually a mission of Christian community where I lived, I can say that it was the best trip of my life. I was 18 years old when with a little group I decided go to Rio de Janeiro for two months.

The idea was go to a favela that was far from the city center, for this reason I spent many weeks before I knew the beaches and tourist attractions but instead I met a part of Rio that very few tourists can really meet.

The opportunity to understand how people live there, their traditions and to be part of everyday life in other country completely different that from everything you’ve known, it’s awesome.

Its difficult describe how I felt when I walked for those streets and how is live in Brazil. The culture for the Chileans can be strange because the people there is mucho more cheerful and effusive, but finally you get used to that and then you do not want to go there

Spain

All my life I dreamed with travel long distances. Sometimes is an issue, generally

Well, one of these places is Spain. However, we have several influences in language and in culture that remain from there, so I don’t think is very different from what I’ve seen here. Also let’s not be bigoted and talk about the country.

Spain has an interesting history. It first start with the North African migrations to the peninsula, mostly cartaginesian people. Then the Roman Empire arrived and started to occupy the Tarthesian zone. The interesting thing about it is that the north was more popular than the south (more Patrician people) and that’s what origin Castilla, the region that finally triumph politically and the culture that came to America. As you may see, I love Spain history and I think is because my grandmother is descendent from there and always talk about it. I can’t wait to go there and see the things I’ve read about!