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