Learning English

Learning english at university is pretty much different that learning it in high school. Back then we only had to be able to participate in the class and to talk the language from a very general perspective. I mean we only had to talk about ourself and our experiences. But in University the thing got pretty more difficult.
Every language is a tool to build a world, to understand your reality with other glasses on.  That what I learn to do in University, throughout the knowledge of the skills that would help me out to express myself in the correct way, I understood that the english was a very different way to see our world and our quotidian life. I wasn't only about learning to translate some sentences and some words to make us see more comfortable with the language, but it was a new way to think our reality.
Writing this blog gave me the skills to make an opinion out of any subject. Every week we had to write about something different and that was a very crazy way to learn the language because we had to look into our head the right words for every situation.
Anyway, I think that I need to learn a more formal english. What I'm trying to say is that I use to watch a lot of series and movies, all of them from the United States, except for two or three, and gave me a very informal perspective of the english.

Welcome to a public university

At lunch, I was just talking with a classmate about the building of the Arts Faculty in Morandé Street. He was telling me that it was a very old construction with long, dark aisles and creepy lamps hanging from the ceiling. Well, that’s a very big problem in this University.
Even when our faculty seems to be better, the reality is that there’s still a lot to do. We need to improve our resources like the video cameras, our TV and radio studios and our library. Sometimes it’s really hard to get to do your works in places like the library, because is too small and sometimes, or maybe always, very, very noisy.

About the video cameras, can you imagine that three years ago people had to work with tapes for the video cameras? Come on! Tapes?! Seriously?! Luckily for us this is part of the past and now we have digital video cameras, which make the job a lot easier, because you have to remember the fact that after the shooting there is always a time of editing. But even when the suffering with tapes has end, we still need better editing rooms, and more cameras! With all the money that people pays only in this room (6 peoples) we should get a lot more instruments for our works.

About the studios, they are very small too, as the library. When I had the Radio Subject it was very bored to spend the most of the class waiting for your turn to record your podcast. And sometimes it was kind of stressing, because we had only one hour to record our podcast and a ten people queue in front of you, all of them doing the same stuff: survive a small studio.
And the same history with the TV studio. Too small, too old, too come-on-this-is-not-what-I’m-paying.
I hope, I really do, that this improves in the future. We need to have better spaces for our professional development, I mean, I can’t conceive that our studies programme be limited by the tools we have, or by the one we do not. But anyway, welcome to a public university.

A summer without roads

A few months ago I wanted to go to Machu Picchu with my cousin and a friend during summer. But then, a couple of weeks ago, I was accepted for an exchange in Belgium in the Free University of Brussels, so I’m not in the place to spend my money, in fact, I’m saving it like crazy. So, this summer is going to be very quiet, just in home, enjoying maybe for the last time a summer at my hometown.
My parents bought a piece of land near by “Salto del Laja”, which is like 40 kilometers away from Laja, the town where I come from, and the days in there are very peaceful. We grow our own vegetables, carry our own water, swim in the river, anyway, I feel very relaxed in there.
But I’m not going to lie to you. It would be great to go to Machu Picchu and be in Peru for the first time in my life and with two great friends, as my cousin and my friend Victoria are. But I guess that trip can wait. I mean, come on! I’m going to Europe, to live in a very different culture, to face the challenge of surviving to a very different society without dying in the process.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to this summer. I really enjoy being with my family, they are very funny, and I really, really enjoy go to the river every single day.

That was not my sister

For me, awkward moments just aren't too many, because every time I do something ridiculous I can't help laughing of myself. But that is now that I'm not a child.
When I was six, my mom, my older sister and I were in a craft fair in Los Ángeles. While we were there I was amused with a handmade red train. And when I stopped looking at it and turned around to look out for my mom and sister, all I could see was butts. I kinda freak out a little bit, but I calmed down when at the end of the aisle I recognized my sister. So I run over her and once I got there I pinch her in the back, really hard, as I used to do. 
The girl turned around. She looked at me with a really confused look, as my entire body turned red. I swear for my life, that I never ever felt more ashamed than that moment. I didn't know where to go. Luckily for me, I heard my mom voice calling me, so before I babble an "I'm sorry" I ran to her. 
-What happened you? Why are you so scare? - my mom asked.
-Nothing...I just thought I was lost- I answered.
Looking back to that moment, I realize that it wasn’t that awkward, but back then for me was a very terrible situation.