English programme

I think the English programme in English IV is suitable with a higher level in the language. This programme is very practical and varied: we have to do blogs, videos, and oral activities.

The problem with English programme is the previous courses. I only did English III before, and that course was very practical too, we didn`t learn about the language theory like times of the sentences. We learn some words of the vocabulary, but that is not enough.

About the other courses, like English I and II, I have listened comments that they are not the best in the teaching of the theory, and they are very practical too. I hear that the English I students had to do theatre performance with socks, and they didn`t know a lot about the language.

My great critic of the university’s English programme is the practical sense. The people can`t start speak English without know nothing about the language. The English programme, I think, needs more theory content, especially in their first courses.

English language in Chile

In a globalized world whose country of greatest influence is United States, I think is necessary to learn English because we can connect and talk with people of the entire world.

But I think is an error the importance of English in schools. With the need to entry in this globalized world, the governments boost English programs and they don’t care about other cultures in Chile and their languages.

One iconic example is the Mapuche culture and Mapudungun. The Mapudungun is a beautiful language that is ingrained in the self knowledge and in connection with the nature. But the Chilean governments prefer the English language.

And how many people who learned English in school really use that language? Probably a minor part, and, I think, most of them became from rich schools.  I have an example for that. When I was a child I was in one of that rich schools. There I learned all I know about English today. For the other side, in my adolescence I went to a lyceum that goes people from different social origins. There the English class was very bad, I didn’t learn anything much that I learned before.

The social difference is even in the teaching of English language. The rich people can enter in this globalized world as opposed to poor people.  

Journalism investigation

When I will finish my career I would like to do a postgraduate in journalism investigation in Universidad de Chile. I think that will be like two years after I graduated, because I want to do a working holiday in Canada and other things in that lapse of time.

The journalism investigation is a topic that I like a lot, since I entered to the career. Ciper, I think, is one of the best means in the country; they inspired me to deepen in this topic.

The investigation is one of the essential parts of the journalism and with this postgraduate study I can learn about the management of the sources, delimit the topic of the investigation, the legislation about journalism, the audiovisual realization, etc.

The sources and their management is one of those things that are, I think, complicated of the journalism. I sometimes have troubles with the sources. Sometimes they have a strange schedule for interviews, or they simply don´t answer my calls. With this postgraduate I think I can drive better my relation with the sources. Consider a lot of options for the sources for example. On other way, I think that those things it can be teach in the career, considering the price of this postgraduate.

The enrollment cost $131.250 and the tariff… $1.444.896 ! To pay those big numbers I think I would be an “encalillado” person. The costs of the university.  

Astronauts and journalists

In my childhood, when I was between 3 – 7 years old, I stayed a great part of the night seeing the moon. My family said that I will be an astronaut. And I wanted a lot, but the circumstances and the years changes to one a lot, you know.

When I was 14 -15 years old I started to read a lot, and my preferences changed very fast. First I wanted to be a lawyer, in fact, was one of my options in the postulation process of university. But I saw journalism a very attractive career.

When I saw that a lot of my favorites writers were journalists I liked a lot the idea to be one. But the most important factor in my decision was the social impact of journalism. With this career I can know other realities and people that in other instances I couldn’t have done it, and I can help them, maybe not directly, but I can help to make visible their situation.

With journalism, maybe I can´t go to the outer space, but I can travel -and I want very much- a lot in the planet earth.  

Jorge Teillier

Hi! Today I will talk about another poet, this time the chosen one is Jorge Teillier.

Jorge Teillier was a Chilean poet, the maximum representation of Larica poetry, a movement centered in the earthly roots, the nostalgia of the homeland.

Teillier was born in a 24 of june, in the year 1935. His homeland was Lautaro, a town near to Temuco. His experiences in the mythical south inspired him a lot of his poems. Other topics he touch is love in the memory, the childhood, and in a lesser extent, the political poetry.

The political poetry was one of his major faults, like said Teillier. He wanted to write more of that topic, but he didn´t felt comfortable writing that. He said that a poem never does feed the poor. He was more comfortable like a guardian of the Lautaro’s culture, against the cosmopolitanism of the 50's generation.  

The Jorge Teillier’s work is one of the greatest poetry of Chile, I think. His sensitivity, and the way simple and effective oh his verses, makes him very close to all the people who want to read him. Like Alfonsina Storni, I recommend to all of you.

Free topic: Alfonsina Storni

Since teenager I like a lot to read novels and poetry. This year I realized that I read almost men. I wanted to read a woman. In july I found an anthology of Alfonsina Storni’s poetry in the house of an uncle. That day I read some poems. I liked them a lot.

Alfonsina Storni was an argentinian poet and journalist. She was born in the year 1892. Her first book was published in the year 1916. Her poetry, in her beginnings, is very very melancholic, a constant pain for love. But after she enter to feminism circles, that experience changed her poetry. In those year, she was more confrontational, in a world extremely machist, dominated by men.

She was a single mother, added to her feminism, she was target of critics. I like her a lot, I loved her confrontational personality, and helped me to see another visión of poetry, besides of men’s vision. With her poems, I can sense her pain of live in a men´s world. I recommend to everybody to read her work.    

My best holidays: the 4th region

My best holidays was this Winter. At the beggining of july I went with my father to the fourth región. In that place, there are a great part of my father’s family (uncles, cousins. Near of 100 persons), family that I didn´t know before.

We first went to La Ligua. There we stay one night at the house of a cousin of my father. There were other family members, all of them very friendly. The next we went to my family’s countryside, in Los Trigos, a place near to Ovalle.

In Los Trigos, an uncle told me that he need help to work in a mine of gold. I accepted. The mine is in a place that is two hours from Ovalle. There I worked some days. In the mine work three people: My uncle, and two oldmans, one of 65 years old and the other of 83. The experience of work in the mine was great, and the talk with those oldmans change my mind in a lot of things.

After, approximately, one week in the mine, I went to Ovalle, with my father, who stayed in Los Trigos. In that day was the birthday of my godmother. In her house I knew like 20 family members. I saw features of them in my personality. I loved to know that part of the family.