My experience using blogs in the English class.

As you know, this semester we have to write every week in this blog for the English class. At the beginning I was a little afraid about write in English, because I didn’t speak it or studied since I left the school. I felt that I forgot everything that I knew and I didn’t trust in my English, so every time that I wrote something I checked it in “google translate”, to search some words that I didn’t know… maybe I used it to much, but it wasn’t to helpful because the translate was to literally, so I must check it and fix it a lot.

But time pass and I used less and less the translate… now I didn’t open it! I’m writing for myself, so I can say that I improved a lot.. I really want to learn English, so this semester I started watching “Friends” in English and without subtitles, that helps me a lot…

Wrote this blog was very funny, the subjects were always interesting… but sometimes I didn’t have time, so it stressed me, but in general this was a really good experience.

In the future, I would like to include more things about my career, more vocabulary and other kind of stuffs. I hope someday know how to write chronics and interviews in English, It would be awesome.

Definitely, English is the language of the future, so you must learn it… for this reason I will try harder and harder to become a bilingual journalist. 

Reflections over the strike

The journalism's school of the university of Chile have now six weeks on a strike. Almost every year the career suffers a strike because of the different demands of the students: a free education, a quality education and  the end of the business around the education, among others.

At an internal level, the students of my career decide to strike for the precariousness of our faculty. The university of Chile is very unjust in the distribution of its funds, it has faculties with amazing infrastructure and resources, while others (like mine) doesn't have a enough chairs, tables, places to eat, basic materials or space to work and study.

I think that the commitment of the students with the strike is very low. Last year I was fully committed with the movement but soon I realize that a lot of students vote for the strike and then doesn't participate of the programmed activities. Also there are some students that vote for the strike to delay tests and exams. With this kind of commitment I felt that it wasn't worthy to remain in Santiago, away of my family, to be part of a movement like that.

I have classmates really committed with the movement that really act thinking in change our situation for the better, but this year I chose not to participate of the strike and travel to Puerto Varas to wait the returned of the classes with my family and boyfriend, so I think that I can't talk about learnings acquired with the movement and strike of this year, however I have used the time to read and work in personal projects.

Non-sexist comunication: body, media and image

One of the topics that I want to develop as a future journalist is the feminism because is a subject that has been poorly treated in Chile.

In the secondary that I used to attend we never spoke about the subject and the same happens in the majority of the universities, luckily I study in a public university where every topic can be discussed and even have its own course.

For example, now Im taking a course called "Non-Sexist Communication: Body, Media and Image".

The professor that dictates the course is Cristián Cabello, every Monday at 4 pm and it's the class that I liked the most since I started my journalism's studies.

The course talks about feminism, society, social structures, femicide and heteronormative conducts, among other interesting topics.

The teacher recommended us really good texts and in the classes we see very interesting videos.

For most of the evaluations we need to redact a text about some topic: opinion columns, book reviews, autobiographical essays, etc.

I feel that since I took the course I've learned a lot and it has changed my way of think and see the world.

One of the things that I appreciate of this subject is that teach me and compels me to conveyed the knowledge of the course to other people, especially women and I think that this it's the most important thing to learn: to transmit knowledge.

Since we stopped the classes in ICEI in protest of the poorly condition of education in Chile this is definitely the subject I miss the most.

WEBQUEST 2

Part 1- Calculate your carbon footprint!

• What’s your carbon footprint? My carbon footprint is 4.16 tonnes per year.

• What’s the average carbon footprint of a person?  In Chile, the average carbon footprint per person is 3.87 tonnes.

 
 

Part 2 - Take these Recycling Quizzes

•   Hand washing dishes can use up to 50% more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.
•   Only about 8% of global energy comes from renewables.
•  True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity. FALSE, Many appliances continue yo use energy for features like clocks and remote control sensors even when they are turned off.
•   Can you make paper out of hemp? YES, is the more humane and clean option.

Part 3- Video >> Top ten tips for recycling

Watch the video and choose the best 3 tips in your opinion.

1. In my town , Puerto Varas , plastic bags are absolutely prohibited . It is a very good rule , it's amazing how you can help.So it's my first choice.

2. One of the biggest World Problems is the volume of waste. So my mother since childhood taught me to crush the trash as possible before throwing it away . 

3. Separating trash from recyclables things is very good as well , so I included in my top 3.

Planning study trip to London! :)

Day		Place		Entrance Fee	Tube Station	Travel Zone
Monday	10AM	The Tower of London		£23.10	Tower Hill	1
	4PM	The Tate Modern Art Gallery		free	Southwark	1
Tuesday	10AM	The British Museum		Free	Tottenham Court Road	1
	4PM	Science Museum		Free	South Kensington	1
Wednesday	10AM	Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum		£39	Baker Street	1
	3PM	Victoria and Albert Museum		free	South Kensington	1
Thursday	10AM	London Eye		£21.20	Waterloo	1
	3PM	Southbank Centre		free	Waterloo	1
Friday	10AM	Camden Market		free	Camden Town/ Chalk Farm Road	2
	9PM	Camden Market		free	“”””	“”
Saturday	10AM	The Natural History Museum		free	South Kensington	1
	9PM	Somerset House		free	Temple	1
Sunday	11AM	Kew Gardens		£14	Kew Gardens Station	3
	9PM	Kew Gardens		“”	“”””	“”
			Total Costs	£97.30

Juan José Millás

When I was a little girl, my dad gave me “Cuentos a la interperie”, a book written by Juan José Millás, a Spanish writer and journalist. From that moment, he became a great reference for me, especially for his particular way of writing. This should be the first book that I read that wasn’t jus for children. It opened a whole new world of reading for me.

Juan José Millás was born in 1946, in Valencia, but has spent most of his life in Madrid, where he studied philosophy and literature at the Complutense University. When he was a child, he wasn’t a very good student, so he did the majority of his schoolwork at night, while he worked in a savings bank. Then, he abandoned his career at the university in his third year. After that, he obtained a job as an administrator in Iberia, dedicating himself to reading and writing.

He has written many books (“The city”, “Harsh times”, “Laura and Julio”, among others) and has won a lot of awards ( like Planet Award or Spring Award). And his work has been translated into 23 languages!

I really admire him because he writes in a very original and fun way. It is impossible to get bored reading his books.

Nothing like food

I’m living alone since last year in Santiago. Well, not alone, but only with my brother and two friends. And very, very far from my mother's food. That’s why the noodles have become my best ally since I started this adventure of living without my parents, because them doesn’t  require time or effort.

 But gradually I was getting bored. Beef with noodles, egg with noodles, beef with noodles, egg with noodles. But I couldn’t stay away from the noodles for a practical reason.

One day I went to my boyfriend’s house and he cooked noodles for me. I thought "Ohh, not again!". However, when he served to me, them didn’t taste like always. They were delicious!!!

From there I cook it every time that I can. They are noodles with onions, red and green peppers, onions, capers, melted cheese, olives and olive oil. I like to prepare it every time I have a little more time than usual (and money haha). I cook them just as usual noodles are made, and sauté the ingredients separately, and then mix them, so it is still easy to do but much tastier!