My first term: academic life

The first term of 2010 was exhausting in the University. But I learned many things. First, I’ve learnt to work for television. I’ve had to do news, to speak in front to the camera (with many people disturbing me), and I’ve had to do a TV program with my classmates. That was a talk show with week’s news. It was a big work, because we had to do the news, make the set, lights and decoration design, and we had to operate the cameras and switch control too. Personally, I was the producer, so I had to keep everything was ok, in the time we have been estimated. Fortunately, the TV program was realized, and we had a good mark and comments.

I had to take classes of multimedia journalism, of communication in organizations, investigation methodology, Communication theory, and English classes too.

It was not easily, because I had to work making news for a radio station, and many times I had to make it in 45 minutes! It means call and takes at least two comments of politicians, academicians or NGO’s people; write the text, record it, make a mix of my phrase and the words of my interviewers, and send It to my producer by email. It’s like a marathon, but I like it so much.

I have new classes and things to do this term, but I hope everything will be ok. I had no time to make sports, but now i'm recovering the time i've lost.

My future...uhm

In the future i want to be a good Jounalist. This is the reason why i'm studying this degree and i'm giving my best.

I want to work in Bio Bio Radio Station. I allways want to do it, because i think its a good place to make news, in a critical way. But before, i want to do many things. One of this is travel. I want to move to different places, countries, working in many things that lend me enjoy the travel.

I would like visit Canada, Italy and Spain. I could work as waiter, pizza deliverer, or shop assistant.

Later, i want to come back to Chile, to share my experiences with family and friends, and try to get a job as journalist. Then, i will hardworking to get my objetive. I would like to take a master in Cultural Studies too.

It's obviously, but i want a love partner who loves me. Just this. I don't need a supermodel, or the smartest person in the world, i need a person who makes me company, understands me, and loves me.

I don't know if i wants to have a family. I'm sure i won't have it now, but i don't know what i will think about it in the future. If i have childens, i would don't like to have more than two. I have no some patience.

I would like live in Valparaíso, or in a city near the sea. I don't like the cities as Santiago, over popupated, with contamination and no some green areas. I like to enjoy the city i live.

I would like to have a good life, with good health, job and the company of the people i love. I think i have it in the pressent, but i want to keep it in the future.

My favourite photograph

“La Chilindrina y el Chapulín Colorado” is the name of this photograph. My mother took it, and wrote the name on this back side.

It was taken about in 1990, when I was 2 years old. It shows me and my sister, wearing as the “Chapulin Colorado” and Chilindrina, respectively. They was characters of a tv program called “El show de Chespirito” (Chespirito’s show). The Chapulin Colorado was a clumsy superheroe, who helps people in problems. He was wearing a yellow bokers over his red pants, red t-shirt, and red hat too. He had a something like a radar dish on the hat. It makes him hear the people who needed him. In the photograph I appeared wearing like him, but I have no hat, no bokers and I had the radar dish in my hands.

My sister looking like the Chilindrina, a character of another Chespirito’s program called “El Chavo del ocho” (Something like “The boy of the eighth house”. I don’t know if it has a official translation). Chilindrina was a friend of the Chavo del ocho, and she was a crybaby children.

I like this photograph because it shows us as we are. Me, pretentious, and she, very cheeky. My mother told me this is a casual photograph. We were just playing; we are not preparing to go to a fancy dress party.

I got the original photo in my Santiago’s room (I have another in Rengo, in the house of my parents), it’s on my wall with another photos of my family and friends. I make a copy of this to share with my sister, family and friends. This is the photograph you can see on this post.

Is the Capital Punishment is a good solution to reduce criminality?

No way. I don't think Capital Punishment is a good solution to reduce criminality because it just punishes people, but it is not a way to prevent it.

I think it is an easy and fast way to reduce the criminal population, this could be the pros. But it is not the solution. I think the crimes could be reduced if the goverment makes serious programs of rehabilitation and education to the people who commit crimes. Another way to do it, I think, it must to be make a change of mind: build a society collaborative and friendlier than ours, with more justice and equality of opportunities.

In Santiago is possible reduce crimes, but we don’t need capital punishment, prisons, hide cameras and thousands of police man on the streets. The government has to give good jobs, an excellent public education, and build parks. It means, improve the quality of the citizen’s life. The happy people don’t commit crimes.

The increasing of criminality in Chile is not absolutely real. Of course there are crimes, but Chile is not a dangerous country. “La Guerra y la Paz Ciudadana” is a investigation of the journalist Marcela Ramos and Juan Guzmán de Luigi that describes how the mass communication media, the political and the businessman has been work to shape the delinquency as the most important problem to the population.

Consequences of this construction are the Chilean people are the most victimize of Latin America, but, paradoxically, Chile is the safest country of the continent according research.

The Christmas

May favourite festivity is Christmas. I like it because it’s a time to join with all my family.

Every year it’s the same. We arrive to my granmother’s house with fruits, vegetables, fish, chiken, to make a big, big dinner. We start to prepare the food at 5 o clock, then, we can ready to sit and enjoy the food at half past nine.

Later, we do a long alter-dinner, and we got time to speak and tell jokes. My younger cousins are very ansiuss, waiting the arrival of the “Viejito pascuero” (he is not Santa Claus). In a quarter to 12, the midnight, the cousins go my grunny’s room. There, we turn off the lights and start to sings christmas carols, like “Noche de paz” and “Pobre Rodolfo el Reno”. But, the favourites is a adaptation of a popular and picaresque Hiroito’s song called “Viejito Lolero”, that we rename “Viejito, viejo Pascuero”.

When december 25th arrive, the Viejito Pascuero pass near the window and says “JO-JO-JO”. My younger cousins cry and feel they are in the paradise. The olders, just laugh.

Finally, they go to see the prices he gift. Sometimos the Viejito Pascuero gets they the right present. Sometimos, he’s wrong and my cousins cries. The olders not receive some gifts: we know the christmas is more than this.

The best piece of technology!

Obviously, my favorite piece of technology is the cell phone. Nothing can be compared with it. It’s simple to use: you open it (it’s a clamshell model), dial the number of the person you want to connect, and press the green key. That’s it!

I use it everyday, every time I can.

I got my first mobile when i was 15 years old. My parents were given me as a Christmas gift. It was bigger and heavier, it has a green screen, and sounds like a xylophone, but i loved it. I had it during two years, until two boys robed it to me.

I have had different kinds of cell phones. There was simple, no much expensive, but so much useful. Now I have a Samsumg model, with camera, voice recorder and mp3 player. Oh, I forget it: i have many minutes to speak too. Everything that a journalist could to need. That’s why i like it.

It’s difficult thinking my life without it, but I think I can do it. I could use the Public Phone, or go directly my friend’s house, and I could use my CD player. But I really prefer to have all in one piece, and this is my cell phone.

My dear friend

I have two best friends, Afro y Salva. I meeted they in the same place: the school. I love they. But this time, i tell you about Salvador because the last time i have to described a friend, i do it with Afrodita (Yes, this is her name).

I meeted him ten years ago. It was in march, in the first day of class. I was the new classmate, and he receive me.

He was wearing glasses, school clothes and he had a book of Jesus on his hands. He looked like a good boy, pacient, smart. But i was absolutely confused. On the contrary of the appearances, he was one of the worst students of the class: he liked to play jokes, he never peaked atention to the teacher, and he said bad words. His talent was the actuation, and he used to looked like an angel to the rest of the people.

I want to act too, so, we became friends easily. If we have to comapare to someone, i said we are like Pinky & Brain. He was always wrong, he comited thousands of mistakes, like Pinky, and i'm reflexive, sometimes machiavellian, like Brain. We are so diferent, and this is really funny. We like the same things, the same music, places, drinks, but we enyoy in different ways.

In this years we visited many places as Pichilemu, Las Docas, Puerto Savedra, Puerto Varas, Puerto Montt, and more. This winter we want to go to the Valle del Elqui, in the fourth region.

Now, we are not in the same place. I'm in Santiago studying journalism and he is in Valparaíso, studying actuation. When he can, he visited me, and when i can, i go to Valparaíso. But we preffer to join when we go to Rengo, our city, the place we have growing together.