My favorite picture

This picture was taken by Bárbara, my best friend, two years ago. We were on the flat roof located in Providencia, Santiago. So the photo shows the houses and buildings that are near the Bustamante Park and also the smog of the city. The 2013 summer, I traveled to Santiago with my brother, Jorge, to see Bárbara and her family and we spent very nice and entertaining days. That day was very hot so we decided to use the pool on the flat roof. Bárbara was trying to teach me how to take photos with an old analogue camera that her father had given to her. We didn’t know what to capture with the camera and my brother, which was looking around the place and enjoying the sunbeams, told us to photograph the other buildings and the beautiful houses downhill in the street. The result was very good and we got a nice picture. 

How green I am

I think I am not so green but I do have environmental awareness and I care about the environmental problems that affect our world. In my opinion, the first place where people learn about environmentally friendly practices is home. My parents have taught me some environmentally friendly practices like turning off the lights at home when I am not using them, unplugging gadgets that I don’t need at that moment, because if they’re plugged in they consume energy, thinking what I am going to take from the refrigerator before opening the door in order not to consume so much energy and they also have taught me to make sure that I am not using so much water when I wash my hands, my teeth, take a shower, water the grass or wash the dishes.

Walking and using my legs to go to any place is something that I really like to do. Here in Santiago it is difficult to walk all the time, because the distances between a place and another are very big, but in Linares I can walk as much as I want, because it is a little city. Anyway, in Santiago I prefer using public transport than a car.

Although Linares is not a big city it does have pollution problems. This environmental pollution is due to the use of the hearths because burning firewood produces a lot of smoke that contaminates the city. I know that these hearths are necessary to heat up the houses in winter but I consider that pollution is also a big problem. 

My future job

I hope to feel like that in a couple of years. 

The future job that I would like to have is associated with printed journalism. I would like to work indoors, maybe in an office. It’s not that I don’t like being in contact with people, but I prefer to work very concentrated and as quiet as possible, so I would like to share a big office with other people. Something that I really want to do in the future is being part of the creation of a very interesting magazine. I prefer the musical, artistic and cultural area so that magazine could be about that issues. It would be very exciting to know talented people to write articles about them, visit nice places around the world and being able to entertain and inform people.

I would also like to make journalism in digital formats. If I ever worked in a newspaper I would like to do it in a website.  Something that I don’t want to do is to report. I don´t like going out the streets for getting information and be subjected to very stressing moments, I prefer to write the important thing that happen every day. At the moment I don’t know what major I will study, but I want to take any after I finish this career. 

The last movie I saw

The last movie I saw was a 2015 argentine crime film called “El Clan” which was selected for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards and won the Silver Lion at the Venice International Film Festival. This movie is directed by Pablo Trapero and the history is based on the murders and crimes committed by the Puccio family, who kidnapped four people in Buenos Aires in the 1980s. I went to the movies yesterday to see it with my friends Carla and Javiera and we really enjoyed it. One of the many things that I liked of the movie was its attractive soundtrack. I think that is a very good selection of songs that give a touch of irony to the film, because some songs with a very happy melody were used at dramatic or violent moments. This soundtrack has songs by British and US bands like The Kinks or Creedence, and also songs by Latin-American bands like Virus. In my opinion “El Clan” is a really appealing movie because is based on true events and mixes drama, black humor and violence. 

I love my laptop

My favorite piece of technology is my laptop. I started to use a laptop a few years ago, when I was at school and I have used it all the time since then. I got the laptop that I use now at the beginning of this year, because I thought that a new portable computer for college it was a good idea. The good thing of laptops is I can connect it to the wi-fi everywhere I am and are easy to carry in my bag. I use it when I am at home or when I travel to watch some movies. I like them because are very useful to do my works for college, surfing the internet, reading digital books and having all the music that I want. Although I think that collect discs is a good way to enjoy music, I like to download the complete discographies of the bands that I listen to, so my laptop helps me to have that and I don´t have to spend so many money. My laptop makes my life easier.