Finishing the semester...

We’re so close to finish this semester and is good to do an evaluation about what we learned and what things we should still practicing.

In the beginning of this semester I had passed a lot of time without practicing my English, so I was a little insecure with the class. However, when the classes started I could realize that it wouldn’t be that difficult because the activities were kind of funny and relax.

The first time when I heard about write blogs I was afraid because for me, writing is hardest part of English and the thing that I haven’t practiced that much. So that’s why I think the activity was a great opportunity to learn. Also, the topics were very interesting, and It wasn’t boring because were things that we liked and they’re a known for us, therefore I had fun sharing my stories, opinions and tastes.

Besides, I really liked the part about commenting the blogs of the classmates and teacher, because maybe was an instance to know each other more and have a closer experience in the class, we had the opportunity to share a lot of things and opinions about current topics, creating a nice environment.

I would like to continue with this form of learning in the future because was helpful and an interesting way.  I hope I will be able to practice more and more about writing and that we could take it to another level!

Education with a new point of view

First of all, I think education is the base of everything, so a good education that does not discriminate and understand the current needs of our society, could be the change to make a best and fair world. It’s well known that we live in patriarchal society, where the gender gap is huge. Therefore, the feminist movements of this year have opened a space to think about these problems, change minds and make a real change. The new generations could have the opportunity to grow up in a society where women are empowered and respected, because the way to educate is changing from these movements. Students who are continuously learning, can change the way to see women, avoiding the wrong stereotypes that sexist education has imposed.

I think the female movements and petitions are really necessary to evidence the violence against women. Women from all over the world are exposing the things which have to stop. The demonstrations pro-abortion in Argentina, the Hollywood denunciations for harassment and feminist revolution in Chile as well, have demonstrated that women won’t accept the violence and discrimination in any of its forms anymore. They have made the society could realize about the things that are wrong and a non-sexist education have an important role here.

I've enjoyed this Subject!

As I said before, I really like the audiovisual area. So this semester I’ve enjoyed the “TV subject” that it called “Periodismo Televisivo”, in it we have learned how television and their programs works. For that, we have learned about professional cameras, equipment sound, the TV studio and the most I like: the switch.

The principal activity, which we have worked, it has been to create a TV program. With my work group, we are doing a cultural program called “Santiago Culto” and It’s about show different artistics things in the city, the unconventional art contrasted with the conventional one. My work in the program is be the director's assistant, although it's stressful, I like it a lot! Having this charge means coordinating the program with the director, and work in the switch.

Santiago Culto it will be broadcast live, so we are preparing everything, it’s a lot of work but I think It will result in a good program.

I don’t usually visit websites about journalism, but sometimes to read news I like to visit http://www.theclinic.cl/. The Clinic is originally a newspaper (but now all of us read news on internet) characterized by its satire and particular humor, but at the same time you can find serious opinions about politics, culture, and current events, and that’s why I like.  As I say, I don’t visit these types of sites very much, maybe once a week, but I recommend visiting this one, because its cultural criticism through the jokes can be a funnier way to get informed, and they have good interviews and investigative work.

The Website has a lot of sections (Poder, Chilean news, Webeo, Columnas, La Calle, Cultura, Deportes, Around the world, etc) and is friendly with the reader.
Also the design is very distinctive, quite good!

I refuse to grow up

It’s very dificult to me choose a favorite movie because my tastes are extremely varied, but I really love children’s movies and cartoons characters, so this time I want to talk about Toy Story, one of my favorite movies.

Toy story is a comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios in 1995, and it’s about the life of the Andy’s toys, which pretend to be lifeless when he or humans are present.

The principal characters are Woody (Tom Hanks), a cowboy doll and Buzz Light-year (Tim Allen) an astronaut figure action.

One of my favorites scenes ever, is one of the second part of Toy Story, when Woody is stolen  by a crazy crazy toy collector, who wants to sell it to  a Japanese museum and hires a toy "doctor" for fix every part of Woody and leave it as new, that part is really satisfying to see!

The story of a picture

I took this picture in Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the summer of 2017 and it brings me very good memories because the magic of this place.The photo shows a road, where you can reach one of the island's volcanoes (Rano Kau).

We decided, with my friend, to take this bike ride because it was the cheapest way. When we were leaving to visit the volcano, we asked a man how to get there by bicycle and he told us that it was too long and exhausting in that way, so he offered to take us in his truck to the top, he was so nice.

On the way back, we went down the road by bicycle and it was the best bike ride of my life, the landscape was so beautiful a the descent was very steep, so we went with a lot of speed. At the end of the road we couldn't feel our fingers to hold the brake for so long hahaha. The place was full of cows too, which also chased us. It was a good experience.

There's sexism in cartoons, think about it

While I was thinking in this topic, I realized that the characters which I used to love and I still doing it, they’ve always had feminist ideologies or have represented a critique of gender inequality.

My favorites cartoon series were and are these 90's shows: Hey Arnold, Rugrats, Rocket Power, The Wild Thornberrys, The Powerpuff Girls and Recess, all of them have strong female characters, for example Helga Pataki, Spinelli, Buttercup, Reggie Rocket and Eliza Thornberry, who were out of stereotypes, and demonstrated that they can do the same things (sports, science, leadership, etc) or even better than men.

However, there’s a lot others movies and cartoons that I used to watch, which actually are really sexist, the most clear example are the Disney princesses, when I was a child I couldn’t notice the things that they are normalizing and currently, they are still being a role model for many little girls, even when the movies show a woman who's a stereotype totally wrong.

Social media and social movements

Currently social media has an important role in society and its growth has caused an impact on communication and the way information is delivered. I think I don't have a favourite piece of Technology, but I can recognize the importance of social media to violence and help the massification of social movements.

Social media are the way people are informed today, although much information that is uploaded to the network is not serious, can bring together a lot of people who have the same goal, because people have the freedom to write and demonstrate everything they think. Right now, in Chile, many campaigns against gender violence are being launched.

Complaints, calls to strike and organizations against violence have started on social media. however, I think that we should not only depend on social media to make big changes and stimulate empowerment.

My Career

When I was a child I wanted to be a Vet because I love animals. But when I grew up I realized that I’m not able to see hurt animals so I left that dream behind.  

One day I discovered my love for photography but my mom it wasn’t very happy with that career, especially in Chile, so I found Journalism, which has a lot of audiovisual areas to work.  When I finished high school I applied for just one career and just one university, people told me that I was crazy but it worked, so I entered to Journalism in 2015.

With the time I found a lot of things that I like and I discovered in what things I’m good. Now I enjoy doing documentaries and stuff, I hope to work in a place that I really like in the future and maybe study film.