Evaluation my blogging experience

At first, I thought that it would be very simple and doesn't really matter, because I've never had a writing blog before but with time I learned that my ability to write was improving a lot by writing every post, and that surprised me. I also learned words that served me in my caarer.

In this experience, I have developed my writing skills.I think that writing different entries abput different items, I could interact with new words and manage a more formal language; also I can now create more fluent sentences about those different items.

I think that in the future, the class should’ve been more participatory. I mean, talking about the same things we write, but in the class, so the procees would be more complete and we could really include the contents in our daily vocabulary.

I would like that we could write more about the things we like in our careers, to complement and learn about what really like to do. For example in my case, as a journalist, I would like to write some investigations, notes. or chronicles in english because that would help me a lot. Or maybe write about was happening in our country and our opinions about different conflicst would really help a future jounalist.

Reflections over the strike

I think that our country is in a deep crisis because of a lot of conflicts that affect us and the State has not done anything. The demannds of this strike about the education is the same that we has been fighting the last years. But is not the only one. In this year, the causes of the strike that are being discussed are many. We have seen attempts against our environment like the one in Chiloé about the "salmoneras". There is a labor reform that doesn’t take into account workers. Our ethernal conflict about the education and the work of the press, that doesn't really inform people.
Today, traditonal media criminilazed the student movement, and they communicate only what suits their editorial.

Obviously, we have to fight against all these conflicts because affects us. Is our responsability to question the mechanism we are using. Sadly, the movement has lost the attendance of the students to the activities in the strike. The quorum in the assemblies is hard to reach, and its seems like the strike is getting worn.

Today, the strikes don’t really represent any pressure for the authorities. That is why I think that we have to search new forms of fight. I actively participated int his strike and I think that some instances like triestamental cloister, interventions in the streets, informing people on the buses like the "Pregón Callejero" has been doing, have to win weight, but for this, we need people here in the university actively participating.

A subject I've enjoyed studying this semester

The subject I've enyojed the most this semester was "chronicle and interview", with the teacher Ximena Poo. In this class, we learn about writing and producing different journalistic genres like chronicle, briefing notes, interviews, editorial, etc. This process is not only about writing, because before the process of making a 'text', it requires a work of thorough research with various types of sources.

Part of the contents we have seen its the different journalist genres and and how those genres fulfill the role of informing. We also have read a lot of different texts to understand even more every categorie. 

I think I like this subject because is the one that brings you closer to real journalism. I like to go to the streets, interviewing people and investigate differents problems in our society, and finally make a content about it to inform and generate opinion in society, and this subject is all about that. 

Webquest 1

Day		Place		Entrance Fee	Tube Station	Travel Zone
Monday	AM	The Tate Modern Art Gallery		free	Southwark	1
	PM	London Eye		£ 1,75	Waterloo	1
Tuesday	AM	The British Museum		free	Tottenham Court Road	1
	PM	Tower of London		£25,00	Tower Hill	1
Wednesday	AM	Madame Tussauds Wax Museum		£39	Baker Street	1
	PM	Victoria and Albert Museum		free	South Kensington	1
Thursday	AM	Science Museum		free	South Kensington	1
	PM
Friday	AM	Kew Garden		£14	Kew Garden station	2
	PM
Saturday	AM	The Natural History Museum		free	South Kensintong	1
	PM
Sunday	AM	Camdem Market		free	Camden Town	2
	PM	Camdem Market		‘’	‘’
			Total Costs	79,75

Webquest 2

Part 1- Calculate your carbon footprint!

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

Ø What’s your carbon footprint?

My carbon footprint is 3,74 metric tons of CO2 per year. ( I calculated with secondary part)

Ø What’s the average carbon footprint of a person?

     In Chile, the average footprint for people is 3.87 metric tons 

Part 2 - Take these Recycling Quizzes

Questions:

Ø Hand washing dishes can use up to 50% more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.

Ø Only about 8 % of global energy comes from renewables.

Ø True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity.

False.

Ø Can you make paper out of hemp? Yes, it's clean and can be recycled

Part 3- Video >> Top ten tips for recycling

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

1. For me, the best tip is 10. Use reusable bags should be a rule for all of us.

2.Tip 5. dispose of organic food in two bags is very helpful for prevent contamination.

3.Squash the plastic bottles.

A person that I admire

Pedro Lemebel was a writer, visual artist and chronicler. He was born on November 21, 1952. Santiago de Chile and died on January 23, 2015, at 62 years of age.

After graduating in visual arts from the University of Chile, he was a teacher at two peripheral schools, but he was fired from both, apparently because of his homosexual appearance. After that, he dedicated to literature.

His work stands out for his radical questioning of the neoliberal society, where it reproduces a repressive ideology; and following its practice of structuring dualisms of excluding normal.
The most original of his work is in the vehemence of his exercise of "difference", or "the marginalized". For this, In his chronicles, he makes a critical of the culture of dictatorship and the hatred against homosexuality.

He also dedicated to the artistic performance, to form with the poet Francisco Casas, "Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis", which it was characterized by surprisingly barging in book launches and art exhibitions, becoming a counterculture myth.
In 1995 he published his first collection of stories, "La esquina es mi corazón" and created a program on Radio Tierra, called "Cancionero". in the following years he published "Loco afán" y "Perlas y cicatrices".

I admire him because he was a transgressive artist and his work was able to capture a critique of the model that governs us today as a society. His writing registration It was a mixture of metaphorical as literal, as hyperbolic as social, and whose fusion is an emotional poetic acute.

A meal I like to cook for myself

Well, I'm not very good at cooking and I don't like to do it. I feel like it takes such a long time to prepare something that you eat so fast and I'm a lazy person so... Anyway if I have to cook for myself, I would do something simple but (i think) delicious: noodles with tuna croquettes. My older sister taught me how to prepare it a few years ago, she said to me something like: "You have to learn how to cook or you will die when you live alone".

It's easy to cook: first you have to make a stir-fry of onion and garlic in a pan. Then you need to mix two eggs with six tablespoons of flour, the jar of tuna and cilantro to taste. Add this preparation to the stir-fry and mix it. I prefer to accompany it with noodles, but you can eat it with rice, mashed potatoes, or just a salad.

PS. But if you are a lazy person that don't like to cook like me, you can simply make some fries. It never fails.

The story of a picture

This picture was taken by my friend Francisca, and shows me and some of my friends of college.
It was taken in May this year at Antumapu. I think it's a very simple photo, but I really like it because it brings back many memories of that day.

I remember it was a thursday and one friend told me that at Antumapu it was going to be Gepe and Chico Trujillo. Well, I don't really like Gepe, but I love Chico Trujillo. I think that "Macha" is a great artist and I enjoy a lot at his shows, so after classes, I invited my friends.
Once there, we danced and had lots of fun together. We all like the same musicians so being there with them was great. We  also loved the campus because its was like a landscape.

I really like to spend quality time with my friends, and I enjoyed that day a lot. I think the picture shows that. We are all smiling and joking around, thats why I like it. After the whole thing, we went to eat pizza and had good deep conversations.

My pets

One night, about four years ago, I was going to my house with my sister after a party. While we were about to enter to the house, we heard a noise like someone was crying.

Kitty

First, I got scared. But when we found out it's was a baby cat at the corner of the house, I got worried. We couldn't leave her there, so she spend the night at my house. After a week of discussions with my family (and a lot of insistence from me), we decided to adopt "Kitty".

Negrito and Rusio

After a year, she had four babycats. My friends adopted two of them, and we keep two with us: "Martín" and "Charly", but I just call them Rusio and Negrito.

Kitty is strong and rude. She's always fighthing with other cats (or even dogs). But sometimes she doesn't know the difference between playing and fighting.

Rusio always wants to cuddle and likes being around people. I have to take a lot of care with him because he's weak and can get sick easier.

Negrito was the most quiet cat of the world. He was always on the house. I could spend all day playing with him and he never got tired. Unfortunately, four months ago, he died. It's was terribly for me. I still get sad. But I try to think we did everything we could for him.

Its amazing how we can create strong bonds with animals. I feel like they know when we're not feeling well. They stay with me when I'm feeling down and that's why I love them.

My favourite piece of technology

Hello everyone.

I have to say that technology's world isn't very attractive for me. Anyway if I had to choose my favourite piece of technology this would my laptop. Has been with me since my last year of elementary school.Yes! I know it's old but still works. It was a gift from my school and I remember I was very happy with it.


I like it because it has a million uses. You can visit any social network and for my career (journalism). its very important to stay informed about what is happening in the world. I use it everyday to write all the stuff for college, but I also use it just for enjoy: I watch movies, download free music, stay connected with my friends. An advantage of my laptop is that its very comfortable and transportable and I can take it anywhere.
But there's something bad about it: when I have to study, this object can distract me a lot!

Without it, maybe, I would be stressed and everything in my career would more complicated and slower to do.

Why did I choose journalism?

To be honest, I was never sure of what I wanted to be. When i was a child, I dreamed of traveling the world and I didn't care about how I could do it.

When I grew up, reality hits me. In 2011, I was in a public school that had many shortcomings. I decided to form part of communal debates, where we touched issues such as education and public health, the legacy of the dictatorship in our country, and how all the pillars that keep it alive, transgress us. So in this period, with the apogee of the student movement, I realized about a lot of things that were so wrong and realized about how important it was a new democratic constitution for the country.

In the same year, I entered the journalism workshop and participated in the radio of my school. This project aimed to inform classmates the things that was happening in our society. Inform all these issues in the radio, was very rewarding for me, because I felt I was contributing in something, so I also started to work at the collective of my commune "Carnaval Pudahuel Sur", organizing different cultural activities, and making civics classes to children, something lacking in the schools of our community.

when I had to decide what to study, I was confused between being a history teacher or a journalist. I feel that the two were able to contribute to transform our society.

But after reviewing the meshes career at various universities, I realized that journalism offered you many things. I decided to make investigations about those deep problems in our society.

Until now, I am not regret about my decision. But I'm not gonna lie, I'm scared. Here have given me the opportunity to write about what I want, and I appreciate that, but I know out there will be not like that.

In the future, I hope to work in a media that has an editorial line with my ideals, or form one with my teammates.

My auto-biography

Hello everyone. My name is Daniela Sánchez and I am nineteen years old. I was born in Santiago, on July 24th. I studied in two different schools. The first one was "Puerto Futuro" where i did my elementary school. For highschool I went to "Liceo Monseñor Enrique Alvear".

Me and my twin sister, 2001.

I lived my entire life in Pudahuel. I have a twin sister and it's amazing. My childhood was so fun and I have a lot of memories with her. I also have two brothers but they are older and don't live with me. I live with Javiera, my twin sister, my cats, and my parents: María and Elías. They are traders, so they have to work at street markets everyday. It's a demanding work, I think they deserve some time to rest.

I have too many hobbies. I love dancing. This semester I am taking contemporary dance classes. I also like to party and hanging out with friends. Other thing that I love to do, but i think its a job and not a hobby, is working for my commune. For the last five years, I have been working at the collective "Carnaval Pudahuel Sur". We are a group that organizes various cultural activities for the community. For international women's day, we did a commemorative mural with the help of children.

Pudahuel Sur, 2016.

I am studying journalism, because I think that the journalist has an important social role. I believe that showing different realities without fear or pressures from the powerful groups is important to make changes and build a fairer and more humane society.