I wanna make the most honest self evaluation, cause I really need it. I was thinking of doing it anyway in another plataform, but this is a good chance to do it.
This year, my second year at the university, was kind of weird. The subjects that I had were really different from each other and kind of strange. At the beggining, I didnt understand what was all about, but then I realize that everything had a purpose. Unfortunately, it was a little late. But anything is lost yet, so I have faith, and I will have it untill the very end.

In the first semester of this year at journalism, I had just one more subject than the second one, but I barely feel it. The second semester was tougher than the first one. Specially because the subject of philosophy was in it (well, it wasnt call it that way, the subject´s name was "the knowlegde´s problem", but it is the same). And I hated it. I don´t like philosophy at all, but I understood why is so important to this career. I´m still fighting with this subject, but I think I´m gonna pass it anyway... well, I hope so.

That was a particular problem, but in general I most say that I that this was a really good year, academicly speaking. I don´t have the best grades, but I feel I´m moving on and growing as a journalist. As I said in another post, I have a radio program with my friend José Manuel Bustamante, called "Aficción" and it´s about cinema, literature and tv shows (and you can hear it following this link. comments are wellcome), so I have been practice the journalism in other ways. I think is great to have good marks at the unniversity, but it´s really healthy to practice in some way what are you going to do in the future, during the career. Not sacrifying the marks, of course... and that´s something that I learn this year.

I hope the next year will be better, everyone hopes the same. I wanna have more good marks, organize my time and work in our project. "Aficción" is going to be a website, with reviews and links to the differents topics that is about, but I have to work harder the next year so I can produce as much at the university as in my personal proyects.

I can´t say a have the perfect family, `cause I don`t. Anybody has, actually. But mine is great and I love them. And that`s the important, right?
My dad, Carlos Andueza Gonzalez, is a not-strict policeman, my mom, Jacqueline Garrido, is a not really dedicated housewife and my sister, Carolina Andueza Garrido, is a lazy student. Can you figure it out how am I?
They love me and I love them. They support me and take care of at the distance. Now I called them ocassionally and I ask them for advice every once in a while. I spend only the holidays with them so I tried to enjoy a lot when I am with them.
My friends, in the other hand, are great. I have a really few friends but they`re amaizing. Jose Bustamante y Karina Mondaca are the greatest! I don´t know what can I do here without them.
I feel really good with the family and friends that I have.

I never knew the old transportation system. I´m not from Santiago so I never got on a yellow bus. But like everybody says that system must be much better than the current one. This one sucks! it´s really slow and uncomfortable. The worst part is that I have to travel on it like an hour from my house to the University every single day. And then, the way back of course.

I dont like this system. I think the goverment spent a lot of money on it and nothing good came out of it. Is like a joke to the people. A bad one.

Thounsands of people suffer everyday because of this system. They can´t reach any bus, because at the peak hour these are full. And there aren´t enough to the entire Satiago population.

And although you can see the city through the windows, I rather the subway than the bus. The bus is the slowest and most of the time stinks. It stop in every red light and also, of course, in the bus stops.

The subway, in the other hand, is faster. If you are hurry, you can calculate how much you late to go somewhere and the subway take you there in that time. The bus not. But the bad thing about the subway is that you can´t see outside and also is really difficult to get a sit.

In summer, the both alternatives are really uncomfortable because of the heat... but I don´t wanna remeber that. Not yet.

Hi again.

I`ve come back.

Now I´m gonna write about my last term of this year.

That term was a really good one, I did a lot of things and I started a new proyect that I´m really proud of.

First of all, during the summer, I went with my family to the south of Chile. We had been planing this trip to Coyhaique since a lot of time ago, and it finally works. It was great. The south of the country is beautifull, amazing. The only bad thing was the weather, so cloudy, rainy and cold.

Then, I come back to Santiago and the classes started. In general, it was a really boring semester, in everything related to class. I didn´t like so much the subjects that I got (bad thing), but I pass them all (good thing). The only subject that I really liked was Chronicle and Interview. It was a real challenge and I enjoy it a lot.

But a really good thing that happened the last term was the podcast that we started. And I say "we" because this is a proyect that I´m doing with two other friends: Macarena and José. We have a radio program broadcasting on the internet, and we talk about fiction products on it. Every week, since april, we talk about books, movies, anime, tv shows and others, and it´s been great.

So, yeah! I think that´s a good way of describe my last term of 2009.

The picture above it´s from Chaiten, a little town in the south of Chile that it´s becoming really famous around the world because of the vulcano and its explotion. We went there after the destruction, but I already write about this in a previous post. Well, anyway, I have to say it again, it was awsome!

Ok, I guess that´s enough for now.

Read us later.

This is my final post here, so I have to say goodbye.
It´s been a pleasure, thanks for reading me, and comment me. It`s been great.
I know I didn`t have so much time to do this and I`ve been really lost since a little time ago... but it`s the unversity style of life. So, I´m sorry.
I liked to do this, it was a really weird experiment, but in a good way. It allowed me to write what I never thought I`ll writ in this language. The only problem was the time (and also my memory, I alwasys forgott to do it).

So, pretty much, that`s it.
See ya, everyone!
:)

I couldn`t be any more agree with what Ken Robinson said on TED.
He started his conference talking about the future and how difficult is to us to see it, to imaginate it. And that´s true, due to multiple tecnologies steps the last time has been place.
He thinks that creativity is a really important part of education, but schools doesn`t get it that way. "We are educating people out of their creativity" he says. And he is right.
He also says that been wrong it´s not a crime, but schools today doesn`t really allow to their students to be wrong, and cut their creativity with lot of work and no art.
Robinson argues that the educational system today is preparing only college teachers, and that really talented child are not able to expressed theirslefs.
"He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence" says on TED´s website.

You can watch the talk if you follow this link: http://bit.ly/101CR

Francisco Ortega is a really good example for me.

I`m pretty sure that he is not the best journalist of Chile, or the most famous one, but he is an important reference to me. He, actually, was born in the same town than me (Victoria, IX region), so that fact give me a lot of hope in my future.

I like his work as journalist `cause he has done what I want to do in the future, and that`s working on a lot of media and not to type-cast in one particular job.

He also has writing and publishing a couple of novels, and I really desire to write and publish a few of my own.

He thirty-something and he has work in a lot of places: Zona de Contacto, Wiken, Revista de Libros, Virtualia, Capital, La Tercera, Rolling Stone, Vive y Muy Interesante (and he was director of the last ones).

He has writing two novels: "60 kilómetros" (1995) y "El núméro Kaifman" (2006).

He`s also a really good blogger, and you can find all of his posts at: http://www.fortegaverso.blogspot.com/

I decided to study journalism when I was seventeen years old, but I had some difficulties on the way. For many reasons, since I took that decition, I changed my mind and I told everybody I wanted to enter in a law school. And I did it. The 2006 I started to study law in the University of Concepción. But thank God I leave that career after a year of been there.

I like journalism because it allows me to develope my writing skills. I love to write, and I enjoy to communicate myself through writing words. My favourites subjects, by the way, are literature and cinema. But I also like to record radio programs and record videos with my camera, so that`s why I think this is the perfect career for me.

In the future, journalists will need many cibernetic tools and skills. Internet and tecnologics devices will be very important to develope this career, as we can see in theese days.

Now that I`m here, I`m not regret. This is my vocation.

This is an image of the Chaiten volcano, and I took it the last summer. It was absolutly exciting to be there, so close. It was actually a dangerous thing to do, but my parents, my sister and I wanted to go so badly and we were really carefull.Well, as you can realize, we survived, fortunately.

We were in Chaiten city just for two days this last february, and we spent the night in an hotel, the only one which was opened. The city was almost empty, and the streets were covered with ashes. The desolation was overwhelming.

This picture is really one of my favorite of that trip because it represents how far we can get together, as a family. We took care of each other and we felt closer after that holiday.

My parents gave it to me when I was eighteen years old. It was a really special gift `cause I had been waiting for it since a long time. And, I have to say it, my Toshiba laptop changed my life. For real!

My old computer it was not a personal one. That PC was (and still is, because it belongs to my mother now) a desktop one, and I couldn`t move it anywhere. It was (and still is) in my bedroom, in my house.

My Toshiba laptop, however, is great because I can go any place I want with it, it`s faster than the other one and it has so much more memory and softwares.

I can do everything I like on it. I can write, watch videos on YouTube, download a lot of music and, in general, surfing on the internet.

I really like my notebook! :)

I´ll be honest with you. I didn´t do this until the last day before deadline. I always do the same thing, so I think this confession says a lot about me. I´m not the kind of responsable person everyone think I am, but at least I´m honest... most of the time.

I like pizza, and chinese food. Well, McDonald´s too. Fast food, in general. And it´s so much better if I eat it with my friends, while we´re watching a movie or the last episode of Lost.

I rather silence than loud music.
I rather fiction than realistc literature.
I prefer coffee than tea.

Most of the time I can´t sleep at a decent hour, that´s why my eyebags. Everytime I run to get on time to my classes, which are at Universidad de Chile, where I study journalism, by the way.

I´m 21 years old. My dad is a cop, my mom is a desperate housewife, and my 12 years old sister wants to be a future detective.

I don´t like english, ´cause I don´t know anything about this language. I can´t speak it and I can´t write it.
I like sarcasm too.

:)

I´m in a lab now, but I´m not doing any experiment.
xD