Free Topic

Ok, free topic? It's difficult, you know. I feel like I have nothing to say right now. But I'm gonna talk about contingency. Hmm, September 18th it's getting closer and I'm seeing how people are preparing for that happy and loud time of the year. Supermarkets are full, people buying pounds of meat and veggies to prepare barbecues and salads. Fondas and ramadas are getting ready, also some families are hanging flags and all kind of things to make their houses look pretty and really really chilean. 

And I have to confess, that I feel kind of envy, of seeing all the people motivated and happy. I'm not a boring person (I think), I like going out, dancing and drink terremotos and all that kind of things, but when the time comes, September 18th by itself, I never get motivated and I totally prefer staying in my house, eating something, maybe watching movies or whatever. Of course my family forces me to go out with them, to some place out of Santiago and I don’t use to get bored, but I would prefer to stay home, cook a little barbecue with family, listen to Victor Jara or Violeta Parra, while we drink terremotos. Also, I don’t use to go out with friends, not because I don’t want to, but with my family we use to go out, to places like Rancagua, Los Andes, El Monte and we come back to Santiago really late, like 1 or 2 am.

Whatever, I don’t use to cheer up on this time of the year, but at the end of the day, I do everything my family wants me to do. Never mind.

My rainy holidays

I remember my 2009 winter holidays so clearly. Those days were perfect. I went with my family to a cabin on El Tabo, on the central coast of Chile. The cabin was so simple, not to big, not even fancy, but it was so cozy, and warm, it has a huge hearth built with stones. The entire house was built of wood. It has a beautiful shape, like the little houses from fairytales. Everything was so rustic and simple. I remember that even the scent of the house was relaxing, it smelled like firewood and a rainy day. 

We didn't want to go out, but we knew that we were on holidays so we had to made the days worth. We were there for one entire week, and when I say we, I mean my mom, my grandma, my closest cousin, my sister and I, we were just women on that holidays. Yeah girl power! 

We decided to go to the beach, it was like the second day I think, and the day was really rainy, we walk like five hundred meters to the beach and it was windy and cold, and the raindrops were hitting our cheeks, that was a great sensation and we couldn't stop laughing. We walked through the wet sand, and then, when we felt really really cold we went back to the house looking for a hot shower and hot cocoa too. 

The next day there was a huge storm, with thunders and lightnings, so we stayed at home all day playing cards, Twister, watching movies and heating marshmallows on the fire. 

I remember that almost all the days that we spent there were cold and rainy but we didn't feel cold at all, and  I enjoyed every single minute there. That house was the place where I started to read Harry Potter too, so it was really significant for me.

My first entry on English IV :)

Hi, this is my first entry of the semester, sorry if I’m a little out of training, but let’s start.

Well, I have never love journalism and I’ve been saying it since the first year, I’m not in love with my career and I don’t feel any anxious for working as a journalist, but there are some topics that I do like. Some teachers taught me a lot of things and made me grow in different ways.

One of those topics is non-sexist communication. An optional subject on ICEI where you can learn how to communicate using an inclusive and feminist language, how to show stories and news in a different way, being careful on how we talk about gender, bodies, violence and diversity.

The teacher, Cristian Cabello, taught us how to problematize and find sexist symbols on television, movies, newspaper and even in our lives, with our families and friends. We read a lot of books, analyzed different news and television shows. I think that subject is important in our career, because as journalists we need to be able to communicate in an inclusive way, avoiding to reproduce the sexist patterns installed in our society.

This is why I think this subject needs to be obligatory, because every journalist and movie maker needs to be aware of the sexism in this society and needs to be able too, to fight against it. 

                         One of the books that we read on the course, written by Fabi Tron and Valeria Flores

My blogging experience

I liked a lot the experience of writing blogs with you this semester, I would like to continue with this kind of classes next semester on English IV. I like this because I think it is a good way of learning to use the “best words” to express our ideas, we could learn to make texts and understand the texts written by my classmates. And I like that we could choose the topics like twice. When I wrote my first entry I was nervous because I didn’t know what to write and how to make the words make sense, now I think that I can make a coherent text (just a little haha). I liked writing in english because for me it is a nice language, very simple and not that hard as I thought. For the future, I would like to include maybe longer texts, or texts that we can continue from one week to another, like a long story or something like that. And that’s why I would like to write about a story, fictional or not, I don’t care about the topic but I hope that would be a little larger, with chapters or even reviews about books that we read. 

Hope I see you next semester :) 

Skateboarding <3

With my nephew we go to the skatepark that is two blocks from our home. I think if he rides his skateboard for an hour or two he may get home relaxed and tired, so my sister doesn’t have to get stressed with the mess that he always does. Besides, he is really good, I mean, he is just 5 years old and he is capable of make ollies and different kind of tricks.

This is a picture of him riding his skateboard. I took it like three weeks ago, the last weekend that I could went out with him. Now I can’t because I work all weekends. I love this picture because he is so concentrated and he is putting his lips together, he just looks lovely for me. He uses to do that when he gets concentrated. It also makes me remember the times that we have spent together. Besides it is his favorite picture of himself (: 

I blame the winter

My memories of my best drunk story are a little confusing. I think I remember half of all the things that happened to me in just one night. I don’t use to drink much alcohol, and when I start drinking, I get immediately dizzy, so I prefer to stop. That day I didn’t realize when I needed to stop. I blame the winter and cold weather.

I went to a friend’s birthday on July, last year I think. I drank piscola, a mix of pisco and coke. With just one glass I felt so happy, so I started dancing, laughing and even hugging a dog. I continued drinking, because the weather was so cold that I thought I needed alcohol to feel warm. After an hour, (I think, I don’t trust myself), I started feeling so warm and really dizzy. I drank the whole bottle of pisco without even realizing.

I immediately regretted. I just wanted to be in my bed, sober, and conscious of what I was doing, I mean, my body was doing. I think the worst part was that I wanted to feel okay, I wanted to walk on a straight line, and talk clearly, but I couldn’t. When I got home, I lied down on my bed and I didn’t know about the world until the next day, when I threw up eight times, seriously EIGHT times.