my sabbatical year

If I took a sabbatical year I think my first option is traveling. First I think we all need some year in life doing nothing, only survive. Traveling is a great way to grow up and find ourselves, and when you start working it is very hurt to stop it and go away. So the best way to do it is then you finish the university because you don’t have responsibilities. In my case I must pay university first because I study with bank loan.
I think firs I would have to work, in the beginning of the year and then y would start traveling. In every city where I stop I can work being waitress. I learned that here in Santiago and I think is a good tool to do everywhere, and it’s a great way to meet people. I want to know all Latin America and I think I need a lot of time to know it very well.
Other thing I would do its staying whit my parents in Chiloé. They live in a beautiful place, and you can do a lot of things there, like feed animal, they have a lot, or plant the land. They always have a lot of work and I love working there.
The last option can be doing courses of dressmaking; I always wanted to do that. I think I will do that not only if I take a sabbatical year, I can do it working too. I love make my own cloth.

How green are you

I consider myself as a green and conscious person. But I think we could always be more conscious because the environment is still dying because of us and nobody seems to do something. In my case, I ride my bike, I recycle the garbage in my house, I only take a shower one day a week because I don’t consider important to take a shower every day and I hope the water will not disappear. When I was at school we planted a lot of trees in my city and I’ve always tried to increase at home the quantity of plants and trees. I also participate in Patagonia sin Represas when we tried to fight against the dam in the south of Chile, and also in the demostration against Pascua lama because I always go there since I was a little girl because I have a piece countryside there in the Huasco valley and I know what the damage they produce there and the most painful thing is people can’t do anything about it because they need to survive and they offer them a lot of money and stupid stuff like plasmas and things like those. Last year, I joined Green Peace but I had to pay every month so I only receive information on my email and sometimes I go to a demonstration or something like that. But I think that’s not enough, because it’s too minimum comparing the contamination that cities and industries make and that it’s the biggest problem. I think we do all that stuff to decrease the guilt because the real problem is the industry and we all know that. So, I think if we want to do something that really matters, we should struggle to change the government legislation and try to end the pollution of big cities such as Santiago.

The bad dream of Chilean Education

I think this is a very big problem. I really don’t know how to solve it, because I think there are a lot of solutions but none is enough. I think the government doesn’t help, but the problem is before it. The problem is the Neoliberalism, the power of politics, the bad education in Chile, and the most important problem it is the idea of the education as a business, and the government should punish that. I think the way we are now it’s convenient for Piñera’s government because we are not 100% public and neither 100% private. So the best solution still is the anarchism, the university should be the life, and the teacher should be people who have more experience because of the years that they have lived. So, now, I don’t know what to do, if I knew I would do it but I think this is a problem without solution and the best we can do is, first, kill Piñera and his friend and then kill us each other. Maybe dogs or horses are more intelligent and they will know how make education better that we have today. If they don’t know, this world have no sense at all.

The country I would like to go

The place I have always wanted to visit is Colombia, but I have two problems, one, it’s too expensive and I can’t save the money because I work for living first. The another problem is my sister told me the places I would like to go are too dangerous. She went there last year with her boyfriend and they got scared with people with arms and the guerrilla. So, if I go there someday I think I should have military training first. Maybe the reason I would like to go there is because of the danger, and I am an adventurous person, or maybe it is because I like their culture, especially the cities and towns that are not touristic and I like going where nobody goes. I think I have to meet first the people and places to decide if I would like to live there someday, but in the meantime I think I wouldn’t.

My first term

This year, when it started I had to work because I don't live with my parents any more. So I started this term working and studying so it was more difficult for me. But I thought it was more hurting than it was, and I could do both things. I worked at nights and I had classes the next day in the morning, at 8:30 am. In the beginning, I tryed to go to every class, but I never woke up on time and I decided only go to the important classes, so in the end of the term, I only gave the tests and exams because I was exhausted. I thought I couldn’t pass the subjets but to my surprise, not only I did it I also exempted all exames and I could travel before finishing the term and I had tree weeks for vacations.

My favorite subject

Your favorite subject
- What's your favorite subject?
- Who teaches it?
- Why do you like it?
- What have you learnt this semester?

Im still dont have a favorite subject. But I had only one that I really like it, but was on my firt year in the university. The subject called Social History of Chile. The teacher was a grate teacher, his name is Gabriel Salazar and he is so successful. He had won a lot of prizes in his career. He teached us about another way to see the history of chile, an "alternative" view and I really learned a lot with him. I think that year was the last for him teaching here. I remember when I was in school I readed something about him and I really like it and when I new he was our theacher I couldnt belive it. He teach about minority, groups of people in Chile that nobody know. That was the most relevant on his class. We studied the history of Chile but telled from them, the people that nobody leasen, and we tryed to understand the things that happened trying to see the things like them.
I think before that subject I never enjoyed another one