The Strike

I think the students are having an urgent fight, but I don't know about the effectiveness of the marches and strikes. At the begining of this movement around 2006, I think this kind of pressure was effective in order to awake this debate in the public opinion, but after more than ten years of using the same methods and getting no much more, I think it's time to turn to a different kind of contestation.

The movement has been sort of invalidated by the media, thanks to the awfull coverage of the marches and strikes, through years, national tv, newspapers, etc, had manage to make a bad impression of students that mobilize that has gone deeply in most of society. I guess that to counter this situation is necessary to stablish public debates that actually make people think, wonder about things beyond of what it's shown in media.

The most important thing in my opinion, is to make an epistemological change in the notion of education that most people have, we need to stop thinking that knowledge it's something that worth money, even if it's cheap or there are people with enough money to pay for it. Over the centuries education has been slowly separating from religion, elites, and its time to separate it completely from economy, as hard at it seems in this neoliberal reality.

To make this change I think its fundamental, paradoxically, more and better education, no more schools or universities, but education through media, through groups of people, through internet, we need to start discussing things with consiousness, with bases, and stop thinking that to have the opportunity to learn it's neccesary to beg for some kind of financing, to after manage with eternal debts.

Postgraduate studies

I have no intention to keep studying after I get the journalist degree, but if I had to think about something I would like to learn, it would be a course on documentary cinema. With years I have realized that I really like audiovisual journalism, not television, but documentaries, due to the closeness with film narrative. I've always liked cinema, but I think I'm not a creative person, so I never dared to study it, but with documentaries I think I could develop certain habilities to show the way I see things.

I've heard about the magister in documentary cinema that University of Chile imparts, and it sounds really interesting, if I could be accepted, I would like to take some theory courses like history of latinamerican documentary and film montage history, besides all the practical subjects in wich students learn and do every phase to create a documentary. 

I don't know if this kind of postgraduate course exists in other countries, but if it does, I would like to study in Argentina, Mexico or Spain, because from the spanish-speaking countries I admire the kind of cinema that comes from these three, but honestly, if this magister exists in New Zealand, I would definetly go there without second thought.

The best way to learn how to make things by it's doing them, so I would like to study part-time but with onsite classes, so I could go and practice all the time. 

My Future Job

Actually, now I feel really indecisive about what to do with my future, right now I have no desire to work as a journalist, I only know that I like cinema and trees. I had done a few workshops and elective subjects about film analysis and apreciation, and I think I could work in that way in difusion and I also would like to create some kind of space to watch movies for free where I live, in Paine, so the people who live there could have an opportunity to share different experiences and points of view about the topics in diverse films.

On the other hand, about my love for trees and plants, I have a plan. My dad is starting an little agricultural business and he wants to sell different kinds of plants and trees, so I would really like to work with him, to help him with his rising business and also have a constant contact with nature, so I can have time to think and do the things that I like and matter.

I'm aware that my plans must be really different to the ones of my classmates, but I think I'm studing to learn more than to have a title and work in it. I can say I had learned a lot about life in this years at university more that about the career itself, but I don't feel closed to any alternative in the future, who knows, I may end up working as a journalist.

Belly button trip

The best party I've ever been was last year with my classmates. We were celebrating that we reached the half of our studies and we went camping for a weekend. We stayed in a place called Picarquín, in the limit between Metropolitan and 6th region.

Firstly, one of the best things was that we had a music reproductor that sounded really loud, and also a fridge that kept our beers cold, so we didn't need much more. And there we were, with more than 48 hours left just to party, and that's exactly what we did. I slept no more than four hours in the whole weekend, I danced so much with everyone up in te tables, and laughed so hard till my belly hurt.

I think my favorite thing that happened was the enormous amount of food that was avaliable for me to eat, I  ate so much that I spent almost a week sick of the stomach, I just couldn't stop eating. After the weekend I kept remembering hilarious things that happened and laughed by myself in the street, in public transportation, everywhere!

Here's a cute collage a classmate did to remember that lovely party.