reflections about the strike

Write about the strike is very hard for me, mainly because in my school no one spoke me about these issues. We were worried about the heating of classrooms, improve the quality of the toilet paper or the place of our study tour, and that seemed very important for me at the moment. (that’s embarrassing now that I think about it)

When I entering this university I felt ignorant on the subject of student demands, I didn’t knew the reasons for the strikes and even I was very angry for the fact of not having classes. In fact, the last year I was consulting at the pontifical catholic university the procedures that needed to do to change my university. (at the end I didn’t do that because that week we returned to classes)

The only thing that I know, is that students are fighting to get a free and a good quality education, which the president promised and still doesn’t.

My reflection from the strike is that I should get more involved, because it is something that concerns all of us, as students and citizens. Painfully the participation on the strike is too low actually, and it makes me feel guilty … 

my blog experience

Personally write a blog wasn’t one of my favourite activities for this subject, especially by the fact of have to comment on my classmate’s blogs or have a words limit, because sometimes a got inspired and I write almost the double of what I had to. However, I think that the blog works very well as a strengthening. I learned a lot of new words from different topics.

 in my opinion my writing skills have not developed too much. It is true that write something takes me less time that before, but constantly I have to use a dictionary and look up words that I don’t know (maybe it’s too dreamy to think that someday I will not need a dictionary to write something, but I’m working on it)

in the future I would like to do more pronunciation exercises and maybe do the same thing that we do on the blogs, but unwritten (I don’t know if I’m explaining myself very well), something like a video blog, but that is more complicated because we would have to record a video and upload it, so it would be a little bit tedious.

If we keep doing blogs, I would like to write emails, thinking on our profession, something like asking for an interview, asking for press accreditation for any event, things like that. 

my favourites subjects of my career (journalism)

Regrettably the subjects of this semester are not my favourites. I would say that until now my favourite subject is workshop reporter, but it belongs to the second semester. I liked that subject because we had to do reporting in all the sessions, and write about that. The most interesting thing was that the professor choose the theme that we were going to report, sometimes this was good and bad at the same time, because some themes were harder to report than others, so it wasn’t fair.

In this semester my favourites subjects are "derecho a la información" and English. The first is about laws that we need to know to practice as journalists, as freedom of expression and opinion laws, press freedom and the practice of journalism. I think that this subject is very useful for us as journalists, and I like it because I’ve been interested on the law career and those topics since i have 10 years old. It must be because almost everyone in my family are lawyers.

And last but not least is English. I like the idea of learn many languages as French, Portuguese, Turkish (because i love the TV series "Suleiman the Magnificent" and "Kosem") or Chinese, but my favourite language is English, because it reaches a lot of people, more than Spanish language (maybe I’m wrong). But my greatest fear in classes is speak, because I’m always thinking that I’m going to pronounce something wrong and that I’m going to sound like Sofia Vergara. 

Webquest 2

Part 1- Calculate my carbon footprint!

1. What’s your carbon footprint ? 3.78 tonnes per year
2. What’s the average carbon footprint of a person? The average carbon footprint for people in Chile is 3.87 tonnes and The average worldwide carbon footprint is about 4 tonnes

Part 2 – recycling quizzes

1. Hand washing dishes can use up to 50% more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.
2. Only about 8 % of global energy comes from renewables.
3. True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity. false
4. Can you make paper out of hemp? Yes, and also you can make paper with panda excrement and sheepskin.

Part 3- Top 3 tips for recycling

1. Reuse the bags, for example carry an organic bag each time that you go to the supermarket
2. Squash plastics bottles
3. Buy food with minimum of packaging

Webquest 1

Day		Place		Entrance Fee	Tube Station	Travel Zone
Monday	10:00 AM	The British museum		0.0	Tottenham court road	Zone 1
	4:00 PM	London eye		20.70	Waterloo	Zone 1
Tuesday	10:00 AM	Tower of London		25.00	Tower hill	Zone 1
	4:00 PM	Tate Britain (The Tate Modern Art Gallery)		0.0	Pimlico	Zone 1
Wednesday	10:00 AM	Natural history museum		0.0	South Kensington	Zone 1
	4:00 PM	Science museum		0.0	South Kensington	Zone 1
Thursday	12:00AM	Kew garden		15.00	Kew Gardens Station	Zone 3
	PM
Friday	10:00 AM	National gallery		0.0	Charing Cross	Zone 1
	4:00 PM	Somerset house		0.0	Charing Cross	Zone 1
Saturday	12:00 AM	Camden Market		0.0	Camden town	Zone 2
	PM
Sunday	10:00 AM	Stamford bridge stadium		0.0	Fulham Broadway	Zone 2
	4:00 PM	Madamme tussauds		23.79	Marylebone	Zone 1
			Total Costs	84,49

the woman that inspires me

As I told you before I never thought that I was going to study journalism. I’m not saying that I never liked journalism, but I didn’t saw it as an option to study.  That’s why I don’t know too much about journalists.

When entering college, the whole journalism issue seemed to me very far, but since I meet Faride Zeran I felt inspired, I felt like I wanted to be journalist.  She is a very smart person, and you can notice that since the moment that she starts to talk.

She is daughter of two Arab immigrants. They arrived to the city of Puerto Natales. Alia Faride Zeran moved to Santiago to study journalism at the university of Chile and in 1974 was exiled to Argentina, where she meet his husband, and after that she moved to Venezuela. She founded the institute of communication and image and in 2007 she won the national journalism award, in addition to other awards.

I admire her because I like his personality, she says things as they are, aboveboard, I like how she sees journalism and the role of journalists and also I like her writing job, but most of all I choose to write about her because she inspires me , (although I fell that she hates me hahaha).

Since childhood I love to cook, in fact, when I was in my first year of high school I wanted to study gastronomy. At that time I cooked tasty meals almost every single day, such as cakes, pastries, pizzas, bread, sandwich cookies, Chinese Food and Chilean food, but Italian food it’s my favorite.

When I have free time I make pasta and sauces, because I don’t like the taste of packaged foods, so I have a small garden in my house where I cultivate coriander, red peppers, paprika among other spices and herbs.

Vegetarian lasagna it's my favorite food!, to make it I use soy meat, fresh tomato sauce, onion, carrot, and lots of cheese. Unfortunately I do not cook it very often because it takes so much time. I usually cook lasagna when I'm with my boyfriend because it is his favorite food too.

The first step is to soak the soy meat with seasonings and salt for about three hours and then I remove the excess of water. While the meat is soaked i prepare the dough with flour, salt and eggs. after that I mix the onion, carrots, pepper and a little garlic and finally add the soy meat and the tomato sauce.

The last part is the easiest, in a bowl with olive oil I put a base of meat, on top of that y add cheese and over a sheet of pasta. I follow these same steps 3 times and I put the bowl in the oven for 45 minutes. And voilà!

My life as jonatic

As you can see in this picture all the girls who appear there are fans of the Jonas Brothers. We are part of the official fans club of the band and we got together every Saturday of the year in a park of providencia. At that time we were preparing for the arrival of the jonas brothers to Chile for give a concert. All of us worked very hard to raise money and buy tickets that were placed as close as possible to them. (I was in the third row for the concert!).

This photo was taken on the last meeting before the concert. That day we were very anxious. we had bought this new canvas to identify us as fans club. Also that day accompanied us a Chilean band called madvana and the double Justin Bieber that took the picture. (I have to clarify that almost all of us detested the music of justin, but the double was very sympathetic)

I like this photo because I felt very happy going to these appointments. I met wonderful people and made great friends. We had many things in common besides our musical tastes. And the greatest thing is that this picture appeared in a newspaper of viña del Mar.

Currently we are not getting together as fans club, but we still stay in touch. 

The Love of my life

Since 2010 i have been miley´s mother. That year i wanted to adopted a male cat, and my uncle has a lot of baby cats to give in adoption, so i went to his house to choose a male White-haired cat with a yellow tail. After electing him i had to wait for two days to prepare my house for his arrival, i bought  a scratching claws, a sandpit and a pet bed.

The day when my uncle brought me the cat, i realized that it was not the same cat that i choose, this one was a female cat with the same appearance, anyway i keep it. I called her miley as the Singer.

Miley is very important, she is with me all day, when i am studying, cooking, taking a shower, even we sleep together, but i think that the cutest thing that she do is that when i’m sad or sick she gets more loving than usual, is like she’s taking care of me.

I love her because she is like that, because she is lovely and elusive at the same time, because she gets crazy when i get home, and many other things that i can’t express in less that two hundred words.

My favorite thing

My favorite piece is my “lady di” ring. It is not exactly the same that Princess Diana had. This one was made with yellow gold with a violet sapphire in the center lined with eight small diamonds.

When I graduated from high school, my mom gave me this ring. It is like a tradition, because my grandmother gift this ring to my mom when she graduated.

I don’t use it very often; I think is dangerous to use it to walk on the street (and also my mom won’t let me use it), because in my opinion is very showy, and a thief can steal it, so I only use it for special occasions like marriages, christenings or for the Christmas dinner and New Year.

I love this ring because belonged to my mother, now belongs to me, it will belong to my daughter, and it will transfer from generation to generation.

I hope not to lose this ring as I lose all my jewelry, because if that happens the tradition is not going to keep on the time. 

original lady di ring

my ring

The career that i choose

in the course of my life, I have been interested in a lot of careers from almost all the disciplines, as medicine, literature, psychiatry, gastronomy, even I wanted to be a police.

When I had applied to the university, I wanted to study three careers besides journalism. They were public administration, psychology and law. The decision was too difficult for me, because when the application result came out, I had been selected for psychology and journalism at the same time.

After two days of reflecting about my future, I decided to choose journalism because it is a career that I like, it is interesting and fun. Until now I think that my choice was right, and in the future I would like to dedicate myself to do radio programs, tv shows or write about cultural topics. 

My biography

A brief resume of my life

I was born in April of 1997 at the city of Santiago. When I was two years old my mother got pregnant of my brother, Hernan. One year later my parents got divorced.

I studied at Lucila Godoy Alcayaga School, in San Bernardo. After primary school, I studied at antil Mawida School until I finish my senior year. Actually I’m living with my mother, my Little brother and my grandmother.

I love sing, dance, to cook (only vegetarian food) and play guitar. I think that it’s probably because my dad is singer, but not professional, and my mom won a regional championship of cueca when she was young.

my boyfriend on the right, and me on left

I have been studying journalism since 2015 on the Universidad de Chile. I never thought that was going to study this career, because I’ve always wanted to be a lawyer, as my dad, my mom, and my uncle. But when I saw the study program of journalism I decided to study that, because it seems interesting and fun.

And here’s the most beautiful thing in the entire world, my kitty Miley.

the star

This logo represents us because journalism has five points of view such as the star, which answer to five essentials questions: who, how, when, where and why. That’s the reason why we choose that object. Besides, the blue color represents the truth. That’s the color which represents our ethic and the ethic of journalists.  

Elba Medina, Javiera Soto