CHAPTER X: EVALUATION OF YOUR BLOGGIN' EXPERIENCE

{Thank You, and GOOD NIGHT!}

Wow. Is this the end of blogging or not? Time flies by! Is not, I know. Well. I must confess I had a Blogger before, when I was fifteen. I used to write a story about bands and romances, but then I realized that the plot was way too similar to Camp Rock and Lemonade Mouth so I decided to quick the story, and obiously, Blogger. Five years later I started to use wordpress, to upload random writtings. But when the english professor said "ok, we're going to use Blogger" I put the same face as the Drake's meme. I didn't like the esthetic of this plataform. 

 But writing in english was such a fun experience. I learned new words and connectors to use in more formal pieces of writting, and it made me write in a more fluid way. Also, I learned little and big things about some of my classmates. In the speaking theme, I'm not fluid as a person borned in a country where people speak english, but the excercises helped me a lot. I will remember the Professor Jordan's killer face when I spoke in spanish when he asked us to speak in english.

In the future I would like to write... I don't know. I just like to write. About everything. But there was a theme suggested in class, "The Soundtrack of My Life", and I found it very interesting... but perhaps no one else did :( -insert a sad violin song here- Maybe more speaking exercises.

A new topic. Maybe... I don't know. What about the best memory we have? That would be such an interesting theme.

PS: The photo it's me very happy using blogger. I know: I'm gifted. 

CHAPTER IX: REFLECTIONS OVER THE STRIKE

{Wake up, you sleeping unaware}

When you're a regular ICEI student, you know when a strike is coming. You just know it because of the signals, and most of all, because of one concept: The Assembly, when all the students are summoned on the Pepe Carrasco Auditorium. I wasn't agree at first with all this strike stuff, I didn't wanted to lose the subjects and the career's rhythm. But there was so much crap goin' on right there, that the strike became a must.

Between all the Chiloe fisherman thing, and the educational reform promised by the goverment, wich was pretty vague, the majority decided to do this. I need to be honest with all of this, I'm not the more concerned and I didn't participate from the strike in a very active way, but I decided to go to a couple of the marchs and the repression right there was awful. And sincerely, that makes me angry. Why some cops punch to students? Because they're disagree with the goverment? Because that were just orders from the head of this country? Is a very delicate theme, because I only have this side of the story. I wonder what do they think. If they think this is fair. If they enjoy go to every march with their shields, and helmets and sticks. If they like to see the angry face of the youngest in Chile. If ALL of them think like that or not. 

Other thing that I would like to say in a short way, may be all the press here. They covered every signal of corruption, or repression, or a mistake made by the powerful ones. And that's so unfair. I think that one good way to protest may be to hack the national television signal and put a video on it, because we as a social comunicators we want to people stop watching the TV. But they won't stop to do it. So the only way is to go there, just like a punch of classmates did last week, interrumping a morning program. We need to wake up, but for that we need to stick together, and I think that's very difficult.

CHAPTER VIII: A SUBJECT THAT YOU ENJOYED STUDYING THIS SEMESTER

{Taller de Crónica y Entrevista}

First, I would like to say that it was hard to pick up just only one subject, because I believe that all of them are interesting (even if they're difficult for me) and also a challenge. But in this one I found something I really like, and a new safe step to my future in journalism. 

Taller de crónica y entrevista is a workshop, and the only specialized subject in this semester. On it we learned how to make a appropiate investigation process, and capture it on a final writting piece. Also I like it because I have the freedom to describe situations or person in my own style, and the most of all is the teamwork. Some of my classmates are very good interviewing, others investigating, and I write the final results. The professor gave us an specific topic and we made the accurate process. 

The most hard work to do was to make a chronic about a outraged politicial. It was hard to contain the thears while we're hearing the testimony. That's the biggest reason why I enjoyed this subject: It made me feel human.

WEBQUEST 2: ENVIRONMENT STUFF, YEAH

      PART ONE, Questions:

Ø What’s your carbon footprint? it is 0,21. Pretty weird, but I think that it's because I live with 5 other people in my house.

Ø What’s the average carbon footprint of a person? 3,78, so much higher than that.

PART TWO, Questions:

Ø Hand washing dishes can use up to 50 % more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.

Ø Only about 8 % of global energy comes from renewables.

Ø True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity. A: FALSE.

Ø Can you make paper out of hemp? A: Yes. Also, it has fewer chemical byproducts, witch it makes it more healthy.

PART THREE:

1) Get a bag for life. I think is very useful, cheaper, and it helps to the environment.

2) Squash the plastic bottles. I didn't knew that tip, is very useful too.

3) Minimize the waist you create by fun package.

WEBQUEST 1: LONDON TRIP!

It's very expensive, but Bunk Inn worth it.

CHAPTER VII: A PERSON ON YOUR FIELD THAT YOU ADMIRE
{"My name is TRUMAN CAPOTE"}

Truman Capote was a connoted novelist borned in New Orleans, on 1924. He had a tough chilhood, because of his parents. They split, and his mother married with a very rich business man, whose surname was Capote. He felt really lonely not only because of his parents theme; he always was different. It must was very hard the fact of being gay in the fifty's society, but Truman Capote could made himself a name because of all of his pieces of writing. He started working for New Yorker, but then he left and started to travel around the world, specifically Italy, Greece and Spain. In the middle of that he wrote a lot of interviews for Playboy and one of his most-known novels: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958).

But there's one novel that make the difference between him and his other fellows. This may be In Cold Blood (1966), a non-fiction novel. Capote revolutionized the journalism's world, because he found a new way to see it: To tell a story, and between it show the world the problems inside the context that the story develops, in a poetic and literally way.

 CHAPTER VI: A MEAL YOU LIKE TO COOK FOR YOURSELF

{Mushroom Soup}

Not gonna lie: I'm such a terrible chef. I threw salt into a strawberry juice, boiling water to lettuce (because I believed that bacteria were removed of it in that way), and everytime I cook something like spaghettis or rice it ends up burned. I'm being serious. Even I studied cooking for a couple months to change that (and I learned a lot of cooking theory), but is just I don't have the gift, really.

Maybe that's why I like to make soup. But not any soup: an instant mushroom soup, as known here as Sopa para Uno, and particulary that flavor. It's cheap, and easy. And is very suitable for winter, because is warm and salty, and liquid, so it's easier to eat. If you ever get bored of make tea when the rain falls down behind the window, it's your better option! and no, I'm not making advertising! Well. Maybe. The weird fact here is that I hate lentils, beans, and legumes in general, even the home-made soup, but this, it's just... I can't. And is pretty simple, you just go into a store, ask for one Sopa para Uno, buy one, go back home, boil water in a kettle or a teapot, put the content of the envelope inside a mug, and mix the water and the content, add salt to taste, and voilá.

I like it also because when I'm in a sad mood during a cold day I wrap myself with blankets on the couch of my living room, put Orange is The New Black in Netflix and chill out with a warm mug of mushroom soup. Is not like eating chocolate, but is fine. Also, it works for hangovers, a little bird told me that, I swear.