My 2018 so far

What can I say about 2018 so far?

Well, this year has been very tough for me. I've had other difficult years before, such as when I decided to left my other career -Let me clear this up. after I took that choice, I was happy, but the hole process was a mix of emotions- but saddly, this time is worse because it is not only the academic part that affects me but also personal issues; and, unfortunately, that is something I can't control.

In fact, to be fair, I can't complain so much about the "academic part" because the only thing that makes me hate a little this semester, is the boring subjects, there are some exceptions such as my class called "Electivo Cultural", because thanks to it I have been attending several cultural events -something I really love- and also English classes, because I really like English and it keeps me away from "jurnalism subjects" when I want to escape from the boredom haha. 

Probably, another thing that persuade me that this was not going to be "my year" was the cancellation of  a project -a radio programme- that I decided to do with a group of my classmates. Some reasons were the lack of motivation from some of my friends and the not enough time that people of the radio gave us to make a model of the show, that brings me down.

But, once more, the academic part has been a little trouble this year, the real problem is these personal things that let me down and makes me feel blue almost everyday for several months now. I never felt this way before so I didn't expect that this would affect my academic life -not only with grades due to my lack of focus, but also in my attendance to class, for example-, it has been a hard process to fix up, but I started to take action on this matter to feel better and cheer myself up.

As we have come back to classes now, I expect to end this first semester in good terms and second semester things get nothing but better and better.

My favorite food

¡Hello everybody!

Today post is about my favorite food.

If I have to be honest, for me is really difficult to talk about food or cook, because I'm not really into it. Actually, I'm a disaster in the kitchen so I prefer to "take a step to the side" everytime I'm in a social situation and somebody needs help cooking. I'm always afraid to ruin everything or burn my fingers!!! That's why I don't really have so much knowledge about food...

But!!! Of the almost anything that I know about it, there is one type of food that I love the most and absolute won my heart since the first taste: I love PASTAS. I know, that term sound a little too wide, but that's exactly my idea, because I love all type of pastas: Spaghetti, Fettuccine, Ravioli, Gnocchis and more.

Now, you have to know that for me is not just about the pasta, but also the sauce. It doesn't matter if is Bolognesa sauce or Alfredo sauce -or any other sauce-, I believe that in a dish of this kind the delicious sauce is everything! I mean, I can handle to eat pasta without seasoning, but it's not going to be the amazing. It's boring!

People ask me why I love to eat pastas so much or if I'm not scare of gain weight in the future -because I eat a lot of it and I'm not even italian haha-, and I never know what to say... I just love it. I love this food because makes me feel good and if I gain weight, well at least my belly will be happy. 

I can't do anything about it! 

I may not be italian, but my belly defitnely is.

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Here I left the recipe for "Fettuccine with Alfredo sauce"

Ingredients:

• 1 fettuccine package (You can find them on the market)
• 1/2 cup of butter or margarine
• 1/2 cup of whipping cream
• 3/4 cup of shredded parmesan cheese
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1/8 teaspoon black or white pepper chopped fresh parsley

Steps

1.- First, in large sauce pot, cook fettuccine as directed on the package. 

2.- While fettuccine is cooking, in 2-quart saucepan, heat butter and whipping cream over low heat, stirring constantly, until butter is melted. Stir in cheese, salt and pepper.

3.- Drain fettuccine; return to sauce pot. Pour sauce over warm fettuccine; stir until fettuccine is well coated. Sprinkle with parsley.

Enjoy!

¡I love Radio!

When I decided to study Journalism, I knew that one thing it would happen, was the fact that my new schedule will be full of interesting and motivated subjects, those king of subjects that convince you that the career you are studying is the one youalways wanted for your proffesional life, and lucky me I wasn't wrong about it.

In the past two years of career I've learned and have fun a lot, something that impress me, because when you are a fresh student, you see the university as a place of "hard work and no fun" but after all you learned that is not so restrictive at all. So, if I have to choose a subject that change my life since day one, I must say "Radio" class.

Was in my second year that I found out the "Radio host" world and even when I always loved the idea of became a "Radio host" -because I love music programmes-,0                              it was not a decision completely real until I had my first day of class in a radio studio, with big headphones on and sit in front of a big microphone, in that moment the I certanly knew that will be my future work.

I'm not going to lie, at first I was terrified because I always had been a little shy when I had to do things in front of people -yes, something not so good for a future journalist- so I almost let this experience go and run away, but I didn't do it, I just face the situation and it was a fantastic experienced, and in a certain way help me to find out that I have to take risk more often and not just run away from my fears.

The entire subject last one year so, with time and the different assignements that our teacher gave to us, I started to been less shy in front of microphone and even was choose to radio host a little radio program of our class once.

"Clases de Periodismo" The virtual school for spanish journalists in the web.

¡Hello everyone!

As a future journalist, nowadays internet is one of the most important platform to express my knowledge, because for a twenty one century journalist, Internet it's not only an important tool but also a place of work. Today I'm going to talk to you of one of the websites that for me is essential for a journalist and was made by and for journalists, looking to help journalists to use this platform in the best way possible! I'm talking about clasesdeperiodismo.com.

"Clases de periodismo", is a website built in 2008 by peruvian journalist Esther Vargas, with the idea of made a place where journalists and also people interested in communications, find all the necessary information to make the best work in journalism through this technologic platform, looking to spread good practics, with a vision of freedom of the press and jounalistic ethic.

Even when the central house of the site is located in Lima (Perú), the teamwork is formed by a diversity of journalists and journalist students from all around América Latina and Spain, who contribute in favor of this big journal comunity.

The web is formed by different sections that can help you find easily the topic you are interested in, such as: 

• Noticias (News): In this section you can find the latest news about the world related to the proffesion.
• Herramientas (Tools): Here, the articles show you different information, pages or applications that helps journalism and the best way that you can used them.
• Entrevistas (Interviews): Here you can find different interviews to people who talk about some toppic of the proffesion or give you some advises.
• E Book: Here you can find a list of books -on the internet- that talks about jornalism.
• Colaboradores (Cooperatives): In this section you can find opinion articles from the journalist who contribute in the web

As the ethic is really important in this site, the teammwork always examine carefully all the content and posts, with a special care in the way that quotes are used, trying to respect the plurarity of the voices that form the team.

If you are or want to be a journalist, I invited you to visit this page,

It will be really helpful!

See ya later alligator.

About Gender Roles (In my experience)

¿Do I feel like a woman? 

Yes, I believe I do. I'm one and I've been treated as one too. Even when I know we are living in a time were this kind of "label" is being discussed, I just can't help it!!! Now, I'm not saying that it's something I hate or something I don't like but, I believe that the exageration of expect that women or men acts in a certain way is something that shouldn't be an obligation.

In my experience, I was born and rised in a family where the genre models were (and are) always very clear. For example, my family is formed by a majority of women (mother, sister, grandmother and me) and even when my mom works, in the weekends my father is always the MOST IMPORTANT for her, you know, he is the "man of the house" or the one who bring the sustent of the house, and she is always trying to served and treat him as a king. 

I absolutely hate that and is something that I've been figthing with her a lot now, because my father is all grown man and he can perfectly do his things alone! When I was a little girl that attitude was very normal.

Another example, is that since I was a little girl, my mother always buy only dresses for me to wear, and I always has to be clean and not play in the dirt!!! Well, maybe it wasn't always this restrictive. At least I was allowed to play with my friends to hide and seek and play with balloons and ride my bicycle or even play video games, thing that usually are "masculine", but in my birthdays or christmas I always recieved dolls to play with or any "Barbie" products. 

All this attitudes, formed in my mind as a child a vision of what is my "role in society", but that vision was changing as time passed, because even when I am a woman and I feel like a woman, I found out that I didn't fit in the stereotype of the "all femenine and girly girl", and even when that makes me a little sad in my teenager years, with time I've learned that is not necessarly to be all femenine or achieved certain goals to been treated as a girl.

But i'ts not something so easy just to start to thing different, even now I somethimes feels like I'm not so pretty or I don't dress so beautiful as other girls, but I've been working about it, convinced myself that I'm beautiful just in the way I am and it doesn't matter if I like "male stuff", because is only material things, all that matter is how I feel with myself.

I think is time to change that closed mentality of believe that a girl has to be this kind of job or thet a girl has to be soft and gentle with a man or man has to be strong. I want to cchange my mentality I know is a slow process because came from my roots, but I have a lot of people sourronding me tht believe the same that I do I work togheter all the time to help me and teach others to open their minds to this change. 

Especially in our cause as women while we are in disadvantage.

The story behind this photography.

¡Hello everyone!

Today I wanna talk to you about something in my childhood I usually don't speak very often... my days as a "cheerleader". Can you believe it? Well, yes, I used to cheer up people and this picture is the perfect proof.

This happened when I was thirteen. At that time, in my school was obligatory to sign up in any extracurricular activity, and for me sing up Cheerleaders was the only one thing that reeally attracted my attention -which is really weird because I've never been good working out-. From the beginning the group was formed only by females and we were very few members because the extra activities were never considerated as something important.

The things changed when, in time, we started to make a lot of presentations in the school's festivities and more girls wanted to form part of the team... as a result of that, our group started to expand. Something that I treasure of that days, is the "big family" atmosphere we created with my teammates, it was a group surrounded with love and team spirit.

Once we formed this big family, we were ready to bring more difficulty to our routines and our teacher, Miss Macarenaa, thought that we were ready to sign up in a BIG  competition! So, the photograph I choose is from the day we had that first competition. I remember that the picture was taken by my dad and the event was in Ñuñoa's Polideportivo. 

Ok, now that I'm older i can see that the event it wasn't thaaaat BIG, as our teacher told us at that time. But, it was big enough for us, because a lot of schools from Santiago were present that day and a lot of them were already familiarized with whis kind of competitions, while this was our first try and we were really nervous!!! Especially me, as you can see in the picture...

But everything ends well, after all, not only we made it great in our first try, but alsowe won the second prize, YAY! Not so bad for the rookies. 

That was, definitely, one of the best of my life! And I must say... that day I learned that you are capable of doing great things if you want to, the only thing you have to do is always believe in yourself.

See you later alligator!

This is why we need legal and safe abortion, NOW!

Hello everyone!

Nowadays, women started to have a big infuence in the society. Saddly, the reasons of this situation aren't the best ones, because with our participation and movements, we are looking for a way to being listened, about different reasons such as our right to live in peace with ourselves as women, rights that must of the time are violated. Is something so basic, but yet, we had to wait a lot of time to became aware of how big deal this was.

In this sense, analyzing the chilean situacion, one of the principal issues which society and government had been paying attention these past years, directly related to women's rights, is abortion.

Chile had been one of a few countries with an abortion ban -until recently- in all circumstances. This law was put in place in 1989, during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorhip, supported by conservative parties and the Chatolic Church, same ones institutions opposite to liberalize one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world.

But, this change -a little bit- in 2017, when, after a heated debate that takes almost two years, with the approval of the judges in the constitutional court, the chilean President, Michelle Bachelet, has pushed trough a bill that will allow abortion but under three exceptional circumstances:

• When woman's life is in danger
• When a fetus is unviable
• When a pregnancy results of rape

A lot of people believed in this results as a progress in the "women's rights territory", but, ¿does it means a real progress?

I believe that, even when we can see this little progress as a "small vistory", the abortion still remains as an option for a girl or woman who don't want to be a mother, and proceed to abort her baby by illegal and dangerous methods. The situation is more complicated that only reduce to "three conditions".

¿Why chilean women are still treated as criminals? I -as a future journalism- know that one of the principals responsibles of spread this "conservatory point of view" is social media, especially with the lack of care in the treatment of the information.

They show a reality, in a way to show you how guilty is the girl or woman who choose abortion as an option, perpetuating the classic speech "you are carring a perfect, complete and finished baby on you, deal with it...", while in the other side of the world, the countries that approves the abortion, allow it in a period of twelve or fourteen weeks, a period when this creature is still an embryo lack of any human form.

You know why this happens? Because, as a country, Chile is short of knowledge in the matter. Because is a "too much controversial theme", and sexual education is off the tables, is tabú, most of the time -especially in home and shools, places where the young girls shoul learn about the care of themselves-  ¡We need to investigate and inform ourselves in a better way! If the big countries can do it, ¿why we can't?... ¡¡¡We practically lived copying them in every singe matter!!!

If our government legalize abortion, not only this will be a big step and resulted ina a better and safe future for the pregnant woman, but also, this step will avoid the future of a kid growing up in a place such as Sename, because the mother couldn't support and take care of her child product of her age or her economic reality, a truly desperate situation.

A woman needs rights, needs the liberty to find out what she wants for herself and for her own safe. The govenment manage almost everything in out lives, but our body is ours, ¿right?, so, the only ones who must choose what to do or what not to do with it, is ourleves as women. It's time to move on, ¿Don't you think?

See ya later alligator!