(10) English Language Challenges

In my daily life I'm not speaking english for the streets precisely, but... in some occasions I use some of its words or expressions. Where I use it the most is when I'm singing, because many of the songs that I like are in that language, and there's when I can apply all of this knowledge. 

In school I had good teachers so I guess I learned the basis of english, now in the University, taking this classes and writing the blog have helped me to remember some things, and to know new expressions that are commonly used by americans or british people.

But I think that most of all, the thing that had help me a lot it's to know more vocabulary, that's always necessary and it seems like never ending. Write these blogs help at that, whenever I need to use a word that I'm not sure to know, I look for it and then I learn something new.

Another thing that I need to improve are the uses of the verb tenses. I get tangled up with them because some are so similar, and I mixed up the past with the present and then I'm not sure of anything... But I think that's a things that I'll be learning with constant practice. 

It'd be great if someday -hope it's not so far- I could travel to a country that speaks only in english -So I don't mix languages- and where I can just be practicing the whole day. It must be very frustrating the first days or months, but I think that's the only way to get into learning it  really well. 

(9) Changes to my study programme

Even though I like the perspective of the career in this University, I think there comes a point where it seems that those subjects related to periodism are more important than those ones related to cinema, and that even in the first one the same materia it's repited in different classes of different years, which I think it's not necessary for us at all. Instead of that, there should be more subjects that can reinforce technical issues like photograpy, illumination, use of sound equipment, and things like that, which are really important for us.

And even though I like this connection with the communication side, I think there should be a relationship more strong with arts too. It's too little the searching in this way, and it seems that all that matters in this career it's "what you say" and not "how you say it", or at least that's what the subjects reflects, even though in the practice you can experiment by yourself. 

I think five years it's a lot, so the changes I said could be done. And if they can't, maybe there could be more elective classes that includes those themes that are not being enough considered, like art direction, an area that I'd really like to develop, but which seems to not be important in this "social-political-communicative University", because it has been taken way too superficially.

I remember to finally have this art direction class the past year, and that I became so disappointed :( and I remember that sudden there was this “color” elective subject that didn't exist before -the only one that can be related to art direction- but then everyone wanted to join, so they didn’t give me a space in it </3

(8) Summer plans

I haven't thought about how I will live this next summer, there are different possibilities, but I've been keeping that mission to Camila of the future.

I thought some time ago that I could do the University's practice during the summer, but now it seems that I can not because of the schedule.

One of my cousins told me recently that we could travel this summer, and go to another country like Peru, Uruguay or something like that. But the truth is that I do not have any money now and I think I will not have afterwards neither. So I think that there is a big possibility of the course of this summer, to find a nice job the first month, in December or January and then, with the money, think of traveling with friends or family.

The other option is to be with my father in La Serena, where I lived most of my life, and just be relaxed, go to the beach, go out in the night and just sleep and eat a lot during the day, that attracts me a lot too haha. La Serena in summer is so different from the rest of the year, there are plenty of tourists and lots of night life, so it's a lot more fun. And go to the Elqui's Valley is always a good option too, camping by the river and being with the nature, seeing the beautiful sky at night. Mm .. and I think that I'd like to attend workshops and take classes of dancing, singing or whatever too. But I'm so indecisive! I guess I'll try to do as many things as I can.

(7) I'm fine in the present (?)

I think I would not be prepared to go to the future and see things that I could'nt understand, I'd get depressed or something like that  by how things turned out, and how society and technology have developed. I'm not a fan of technology so that's the main reason of why I think that travel to the future could make me feel sad or empty. 
Nevertheless, I do not think I would like to travel to the past neither, maybe to a remote past, in the origins of human history or something like that so I could understand some present behaviors, or maybe I would travel beyond, until prehistoric times, so I could see dinosaurs and plenty of extraordinary animals.
But, even so, I think I'd prefer to go to the future to analyze how humanity will change, and see if there are things that are different than now or If there are problems that can be fixed before they happen. 
I think that's my main interest to travel, the possibility to see ourselves, and our political, social or emotional changes.
I'm very sensitive so that's why I said before that maybe seing a future society that may be really related to technology -like it seems now- could make me feel bad... but that'd be just because I wouldn't understand it, so I'd just have to be very open minded. Maybe in the future lot of things will be better than they are now, so I'm just been being pesimist, yey!