Lives in a pineapple under the sea!

When I was little, I didn’t see many cartoons. I preferred playing in the street with my little friends and run for many places in Chillan city, where I was born. But I can’t deny that I saw some cartoons, for example the mythical Power Rangers and the Chilean television program called “Hugo” where many children’s called every day to participate in this program and play with Hugo through the telephone. The two programs were very entertaining.

But my favorite cartoon is Spongebob, in Spanish, Bob Esponja. This program was broadcast when I was around ten years, and I saw it every day with my sister, one year younger than me.

This cartoon was transmitted on the TV Channel called “Nickelodeon”. I can’t remember when it was the first time I saw Spongebob, but in general, I laughed a lot with each chapter because it was very very funny.

The protagonist of this animated series is a yellow sponge, he lives in a pineapple under the sea, as the song says, and he has a pet a winkle called Gary, and his best friend is a starfish.

Every evening, when I came home from school I sat in front of the television and with my sister I saw SpongeBob.

Currently I still think that Bob Sponge is very funny and even now I understand many jokes that before I didn’t understand, and for this I continue seeing it. Moreover these days, SpongeBob is not only transmitted on the paid TV. Every Saturday in the morning, the Chilean channel Megavisión, continues transmitting this funny cartoon.

A beautifull country

Well, a country that I’d like to visit is Italy because is a country with a lot of history. In this place emerge the Roma Civilization and it's cradle of other many stories. Also it is a beautiful place, there are many historical places like the Roman Forum, the Roman Coliseum, the Agripha Pantheon and Vatican.
Maybe my principal motivation to visit Italy is its history.

Really I don’t know much about this country. Just I know that in this place there are beautifull cities, many rivers, historical monuments and big mafia organizations. I say this, because in this moment I'm reading a book called “Gomorra”, and all it talks about is the mafia in some cities, specifically in Nápoles. It is really incredible!

When I travel to Italy, in the future of course, I would like to know all places with history, the Coliseum, Vaticano, and so on. Also I would like to know Venice because I think that it is very amazing live in such a special city, “the canal city”.

Obviously, when I visit Italy I will only have to rest, and I will take a tour around the country. I suppose that I'll eat pizza, lasagna and much spaghetti!

But thinking in the future, if I ever have the opportunity I would like to live in this country, but just for a while, because I like Chile very much .

A hard semester

Well, I can say that the first term of 2010, was a good semester in the academic field. I had a goods marks and I learned many news things.
The past term I was six subjects; five subjects of career, and English level three. In that course I learned to use a blog, I and I learned more words for write and talk in English.

But English was not only subject, because I had a course called “Taller de Periodismo televisivo”. In this class I learned use the camera also some editing programs, very useful for the journalist that work in television.

These two subjects was a really challenge for me, because I had no idea how utilize this programs and cameras. But the principal challenge was learned to write in English, because I don’t do this frequently and I don’t have anything practice.

In the sport field, I must say that I don’t play any sports. But this semester I pretend go to aerobic or entertain dance, It depending that my free time. Some days, I went to the gym of my building, but I went a very few occasions.

Maybe, the more difficult the last semester was the beginning. First because was a earthquake, and I live in the more affected zone, and later, because my mother is ill with cancer, and my family pass for very difficult moment. Fortunately in this moment everything is okey and she's very well.

But the best thing of the last term, was my first niece was born. Her name is Fernanda Emilia, and she’s the happiness of my house.

In this moment is everithing ok, and I hope that this year finish of a good form.

I lost my fear of writing in English.

This semester I had to write a blog in English. It was the first time that I had to do this in my academic life. I thought it was a big challenge, because I never had the opportunity to write in another language before. Besides I didn’t know how to use this web tool.
To start this new task for me, the first thing that I had to do was create a blog. It was very hard for me, because I have never used this platform, so I had no idea about how to manage it.
After the big technical challenge, that this meant for me, I could create my first blog account. However, my problem wasn’t a technical issue. The most difficult was writing. I had not enough vocabulary, I didn’t know how to connect different ideas and I had serious problems with the grammar. Something very different happens to me when I write in Spanish, because in this language it is very easy for me.
I think that one of the reasons of why writing in English was very hard for me was that in high school most of my classmates knew how to speak and write in English very well. Even some of them came from different countries, because they were on a student exchange program, so they speak in this language fluidly. For this situation, the English teachers taught the subject very fast, so it was more difficult to me to reach my classmates level.
For all this, the first blog entry was a big challenge. I never could finish at time, and I always had to read the teacher’s instructions before the class begin to think with anticipation what I was going to redact in my blog.
It cost me a lot of work to write in English. Sometimes I felt so stressed that I couldn’t write anything. However, the teacher was always there to help me out. Even my classmates did. They told me how to write better, and also gave me the meanings of unknown words.
With the passage of time, writing blogs became easier for me. Writing in my blog started to be more entertaining. I could finish my entries in class, I didn’t ask too much as I did before, and I could express my ideas more clearly.
I believe that this exercise was very useful to learn grammar and vocabulary, but I don’t feel that I could express my self in English very well. I think that I learnt a lot, but it is not enough, because I didn’t dedicate too much time studying for this class. One of the reasons of this is that this semester has been the most difficult on my career.
Despite of my insecurity, I feel that now I am more prepared to write and even speak English and this is the result of redacting about different things on my blog every week.
Definitely writing blogs in the class has been very productive for me. I have made a huge progress, and I learnt many things. Is true, are many other things to learn, but in this moment I can say that I lost my fear of writing in English.

I don't like think about the future

I am not a person who likes to think about the future. The truth, is that I like living in the present and I preffer keep the feet on earths. At the present, I’m studing journalism so, I think that in the future I exercise my profession in a mass media or some company.

In first time, I would like to work in a company, because the salary is better,I pretend save money and continue studying and specialize me in my profession.

Once done all that, I hope have a family with my boyfriend, his name is

Francisco and we have been together three years.

But when I decided have a family I don’t like to live in Santiago, I would like lives in other city, maybe some place in the south of country or simply in Chillán, my hometown.

When I think in the future tto think I would like travel for many countries, but first I want to know all Chile, from north of south. Other wish I have is have a beauty house and I to give a travel to my parent for them can enjoy after a hard live to educate four daughters.

Is very difficult think in how many children I want to have, because at the present I don’t can imagine as a mother, the idea scares me and I don’t feel able. In many times I asked me, I will become mother? I don’t know only time will tell.

I say in the beginning, I don’t like's to think about the future, because are many questions but few answers. Also I think that the future and the past only are a thought because.

Maybe I have many plans about the future but only the lives decide how I can realize and how stay pending.

El Quiltro del bicentenario, a symbolism picture

"El Quiltro del Bicentenario" was a photograph contest to choose the best photograph where a typical dog of Chile, "El quiltro" was shown.

The name of the winner picture is "Si para ser felices", and It was taken for Óscar Fuentes Mardones. This history is very nice, because this men is not photographer but is a physiology teacher of Universidad del Bìo Bío, a chilean university located in Chillán, Chile.

This photograph has a lot of symbolism because it shows a dog next to a beggar in a street of Chillán. With this picture Òscar Fuentes shows a hard reality, and also shows the big social inequalities existing in our country.

This picture was taken the last year and Óscar knew He won in January of 2010. But this photograph is not by chance, because frequently Óscar walked by the place where this pictures was taken and saw the beggar next to the dog called "Cachupín".

One day, Óscar decided to take a photograph and send it to the contest, but his motivation more than winning a prize, was to show this hard but existing reality.

When I talked with Óscar, he comment me that his father was also a photograph lover and he took the pasion from him.

The photograph content “El quiltro del Bicentenario” trying was a funny contest but with the Óscar picture this initiative be coverted in a X –ray that Chilean society.

Finally this picture shows that really Chile is not prepared for celebrate with a big party this two hundred year because while exist this problems, and this inequalities we don’t anything because for celebrate.

A big problem and a bad experience!

Probably, everybody has different opinions about the Capital Punishment. According to my opinion, I think it is not a good solution to reduce criminality, because this problem is connected to different social mistakes, as disparity in the distribution economic, bad quality of education and other many factors that make emerge this big problem.
I think, that the pros in capital punishment, is that a criminal they will think it better before making a crime and the government save money. But the cons, is that with this punishment the state killed peoples and that's not their job or anyone else.

For to reduce criminality rates in Santiago, the government should close the revolving doors. It must create better laws and give punishments more strict for the reoffender. As well I think that actualy laws protect to criminals and give possibilities for that they go out to the jail very easi.
In my opinion, the origin of the increasing criminality in Chile is, in some case, lack oportunitties, but in the most cases I think is because personal intresting of this person for have more of the work can give. But we cant forget that this consumer society create the conditions for that this criminals exist.
In one time, I goes with my sister to Movistar Arena for saw a concert. But in the road, we found many fans of the football team Universidad de Chile. When we go out of the public transport two men came up in the street and they stole us rob, but my sister begin to shout and many cars begin to shout and many cars begin stop and the criminal escape. Finally we can go to the concert and was a good night.