Journalism for a beter world (?)

I didn’t expect to be a journalist, or even to study in Santiago.

Living in a little town in the south, I suppose that I wanted to enter to the Universidad Austral in Valdivia and look for a career that the universities near Rio Bueno were offering.

As a little girl I loved the careers related with health and helping others like nursing, teaching, veterinarian, and so on, but with the time I also liked the idea of working close to writing and reading, like lawyer or professional writer…

In the second grade at the school I loved robotic things and I was in the robotic team, we created machines, and played with motors, it was a good time, but I never thought about studying a career that could implicate numbers.

In third and fourth grade I participated in the debates tournament with my team, I lived for it!! During that time I thought translation or even teaching english could be a good idea.

At the end of many doubts, I read about journalism, talking with some people that were actually studying that at Universidad de Chile and I felt that through journalism we could help others and also be closer to writing. To know more about it I read the journalism program at Universidad the Chile, and made a contrast with Universidad Católica, and decided to enter here.

I think it was a good choice.

 My first walk for JGM. At the "aularios"

At the first day of "inducción"

Cata's story

Catalina Paz Solís Carrillo, born in Rio Bueno, on October 16th 1997. Is the second son of Elias Solís and Carla Carrillo, both native of Río Bueno, the other two siblings are Nicolas and Robinson. She studied in a catholic school, the Holy Cross school of Río Bueno from pre school to the secondary education.

All along secondary she thought about her vocation, she wanted to study other careers like nutrition, law, theater and also become a nun, yes, a “monja”.  But at the end of the school she came to Santiago to study journalism, because of her dream of becoming a writer.

She found a good option to get away from the loneliness in her job, at the radio and in the magazine, the “Bello Público”, in those places she also found friends and love.

Nowdays she lives in Ñuñoa, near to Juan Gómez Millas and can go to the university in her bike, or walking and even by bus. Catalina misses her home, but she knows that studying is a good way to have a nice life, help her family and reach her goals. 

My perfect party

I love party, so it’s funny to think how can be my ideal party. First of all, I don’t really like beer, but I love cocktails, my favorite one it’s a kind of blend so we’ll have a lot of that! The food it’s so important, and just to make sure all the guest will join the party we’ll have pizza, sushi, tacos, "empanadas" (cheese and meat), “anticuchos” and vegetables brochettes. The dance music will be loud and clear in all the house! I’ll be funny :D

The last time I did something new :0

The last time I did something new… I was scared, I men it cost an arm and a leg! I buy a camera, a reflex, what means it’s a professional one. I didn’t knew anything about photography, except the cell phone camera, that is more than less but not enough for handle a professional camera. I must buy one because of the photojournalism class. I used to practice in the building's garden and it's funny and a relaxing thing to do. Now I can take photos, not excellent ones but I’m learning about it, the internet helps a lot but and I have an entire semester to become a kind of photojournalist :) 

New is always unknow

How can I start? Well, first of all I'm excited to start this class, I really like english, and improve my skills. At the school I was in the debates team, it was so funny and I met great people and also made good friends. I hope this class can help me to remember all the skills and be able again to speak a fluid english. On the other hand meet my classmates, know them, and maybe make some friends!