My academic year

2009: third year of my career.

How this year I´m in half of journalism, could be good a reflection about it. Sometimes is necessary stop to think about what you've spent or made for value your actions.

Weel, the academic load of this year was normal, so I got good scores in my tests, I learned interesting topics of comunication and even I practice other kind of journalism like Tv and radio.

If I had to look back and compare with first and second year of my career, 2009 was a good academic period, even with other loads like my work.

Is very important explain this final point because for study you need time, so, if you haven´t all the time that you need, the scene turn complex. Well that happend to me: I work in my University and I have an timetable to keep all weeks.

On this respect I have somethig to say: If I had more time, my academic year could be better but I cannot grumble because how I said first, I obtain good results and at the moment I´m passing all my subjects.

Anyway, I regret not being able to devote all my time to special subjetcs (include english class), for read other texts or find more information about some authors. My console is that summer is coming and we are almost in vacations. I hope to revise this in my free time and have a rest.

Comming back to the central topic, my academic year was very diverse because it include differents areas like radio, theory of comunication and Television. This final subject was very special because isn´t only learn how is a camera and how use it: is learn a new language, the audiovisual language.

That was special because is a new way for express the activity of my career and audiovisual language increases the chances of creating reports or investigations.

Finally, this year was good in general. I´ve can see that I can do good many things at the same time. But I hope that next year will be more relaxed even I don´t thik so. I´ll continue work next year.

Anyway, I save the experience and the knowledge that I obtain this year because with my work and my studies -toghether- I even traveled to Cuba this year. It was the most beautiful experience of my life.

I´m very grateful of the life and I hope learn more next year .

Journalism, challenges all the time

All people knows that our chilean education have many problems because isn´t regulate.

My discipline isn´t the exception: there are many journalist in Chile, so I can say that the principal challenge in my discipline is competition. But there are many other challenges, connected with other areas.

With techonology. First, my area -comunication- is encroach upon with digital plataforms, specially with Internet where blogs and other medias are making our job, in an independet way. This is because how all people is different, needs special information. That´s good if the journalist can work in this media, but is bad if this platforms steals our work.

In otherside, technology is a challange because journalist must to know how use new equipment like new cameras. If a journalist doesn´t know it, could get out his or her job.

Social Matters. How I said, now, in comunication there are a big topic: fragmented comunication. People is different and come together in communities or groups. Our challange is deliver them what they want and keep ethics over all. Our societies are very complex and we cannot not considerer conflicts of interest, especially in communication.

Education. We come back at first point. Education in two faces. First about our unregulated preparation that is a challange. Second, our job in mas media is a challange because we have a responsability with society and with information. If we don´t do our job with ethic and responsability we can detrimental many people.

One Season: one reaction

How I feel about the seasons?

My answer is: very different.

Some seasons are a problem for me because I´m a special woman that need sun all the time.

How we know, all seasons are differents, so, it make me feel different too.

First, my favourite season is SUMMER!. I´m from Iquique, a place where there are sun all the time and people use to go to the beach, so, summer is the perfect season for enjoy the landscapes of my city. Other reasson is that in summer we aren´t in classes. I go to parties, I watch movies and I sleep so much.

Some people say that summer is unbearable because there are a lot of hear. I understand them but I don´t care hear, I love sumer.

Then, autumn is, how say it... is the beginning of an season that I don`t like. Autumn is a mixture of heat and cold. I like autum because sometimes I like feel cold in mi face and dress me with other kind of clothes. Use wool hats and coats. Autumn is tolerable only when the temperature doesn´t drop below 10 degrees, but sometimes that doesn´t happen and it's very cold.

If I have to say an advantage of autumn is that people could be in their house, in family, around a stove, sharing eachother.

When cold starts with rains, is my end!. I hate rain and use umbrellas. Winter starts in july in Chile and we have our winter vacations. Fortunately I can go to Iquique where there aren´t so much cold.

Winter have many desvantages. I cannot say any advantage of winter, at least for me. On winter I die!.

Then, start other good season: spring. I love spring because It brings the heat that I need to return to life. Spring brings shorts, tops, dress, skirts, my favourite clothes. People can out of their house without big clothes. For exaple, here in Juan Gómez Millas we can stay more time sharing our classmates, drink some beers, in others.

Some advantage of spring are the allergies. Some people suffer so much with this. Fortunately I'm not allergic.

Change of seasons are very significant for me because It make my life totally different.

How I say before, my favourite season is Summer, so my special memories are from summer.

When I was a little girl I use to go to the beach with my mother and my brother. We spent very good moments. Now, in summer I return to Iquique and I´ve have my betters summers.

I´ll never forget it.

Our "faculty"

Do you heard several complaints about facilities of our faculty?

Really? I don´t beleive you!

Ha - ha, I´m kidding

Our ICEI -Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen- isn´t a faculty, is an "Interdisciplinary Institute". ICEI is a young academy unite of our University and have a new bulding that has no comparation with the previous building: an old and big house located at Center of Santiago.

This is a big diference, so I think that we aren´t so bad.

Despite this, we cannot deny that our bulding have problems but in Juan Gómez Millas there are other faculties in worst conditions like Faculty of Science and Faculty of Arts.

Our problems are with technological equipment for classes. For example, there are five professional camera or there are 5 radio studios for 30 classmates. This situations, sometimes, become complex because we have to wait many time for use it.

The problem is deeper than it looks because doesn´t depends of ICEI ´s authorities. Our Interdisciplinary Institute have no money for buy new equipment because our university doesn´t give what it need for innovation, only receives money to support and for pay salaries.

One solution would be a greater fairness in the distribution of resources between faculties and a greater commitment from chilean State with the education and future.

The benifits of these improvements would be better quality of learning and more justice between Faculties and between students. There are not better carrer than others.

If it happened, the professionals weel be better than now. This would be a structural change.

But changes must be not only in infrastructure. The subjects that we learn most be critical withour society and must see problems like these, about our university.

Friends over all

¿ ?


My famiily is a delicate topic.



I`m the smallest of my closest family (and I´m 20 years. We are so old!)

I have a brother (Alexander), father (Reinaldo) and my mother (Aurora) died when I was 13 years old. I forgot it, my dog (Colo colo, he is 15 years old!)

Other point: my familiar story is complex because my aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents are in Santiago and in Villarrica and we are in Iquique (but now I live in Santiago because I´m studing in University).

We, four and then three, had to related with other people and just have to accepte it: our communication with family only by telephone or E- mail.

I have a good relationship with my closest family, specially with my brother. He is 25 years old and we have many things and topics in common. He is psichologist and I will be journalist: two humanist in the family. With my father the relationship is good, only good. He is different to us.

Well, with my other relativies isn´t the same. With some aunts I have good relationship and ussually I visit their, but with some uncles I don´t have any communication and they live here, in Santiago, near from my house. But whatever, I´m used to it.

As I was saying, I must to related with other people, so, since I was small, I was very friendly. I have many friend, specially in Iquique, and now others from University.

My best friends called Liz and is from Iquique. I met her in 3th grade and we have 15 years of friendship.

Liz and my other friends (Nathaly, Carolina, Camila, Andrea, Nicole, Catalina and Marilyn) are very special for me because they are like my family. They were with me in hardest moments of my life and they made the role of my relatives. They was- and are- with me, they take care me and love me.

If I have to choose my choice will be my friends. They are the most important part of my life.

In future, when I will have a family, I would like that my childrens have a good and stronge relationship with their family. I will try it.

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

I´m fanatic of music. I cannot live without it. All the time I use my MP3 because my music is like the soundtrack of my life.

How I´m 20 years old, in my life I´ve knew many kind of rihythms and artists from many countries, but now I have my favourity band: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.


Los Fabulosos Cadillacs are an argentinian band mentined in 1985 (when i wasn´t in this planet). This band play many kind of music like Ska, reggae, punk, in others and have an particular style.


Los Fabulosos Cadillacs have a lot of albums and all their productions have importants song like "Matador", "Manuel Santillán, el león" and "Gitana". This songs are fundamental in the Latinamerican music history.


I don´t have a favourite song of LFC - and of other band- because i love many compositions of this band, but if I have to choose one my choice ir "La Vida".


(If you wanna here it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1JuFKFJAKk)


This year, on October 11th, LFC play in Santiago. The concert was great and in that opportunity they announced other event for December 3th. Of course, I will buy the ticket.


Besides I´ve been in another recital of artists like "Los Tres", "Bersuit Bergarabat", "Keane" and others.


Well, if you don´t know Fabulosos Cadillacs`s music, you must to search on Youtube or Ares dowload it. You will not regret.

An important event for the comunication

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced an stoppages at Thursday and Friday. The reasson of this stoppages is that Royal Mail -the company- is asking importants requeriments and its are too quickly for employees.

Royal Mail is now in a modernization process and they are -accordind employees- making unreasonable demands on staff.

This stoppage is the first movilization in UK, but isn´t of others companies of Europe.

This stoppages will generated important consequences like 200 thousand items will not delivered to its destination.

Previously, The CWU offered conversations to Royal Mail for halt this stoppages but Royal Mail said that this stoppages is "appalling and unjustified attack on customers".

Specialist says that this stoppages could cost the company almost £120 in lost revenue, so Lord Mandelson, the business secretary of the UK government, said to CWU that their "message to them has been clear: put your customers first".


More information in

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/15/postal-strikes-royal-mail-unions

Santiago: a strange city

Arround the world there are importants cities like Ney York, Paris, Roma, in others, but, what happend with other cities like Santiago or Lima? Are them popular like this capitals?

I don´t really know.

I really think that Santiago isn´t a touristy city, but if a tourist come to Santiago, there are many places to go.

Santiago is separated in many parts: out of Santiago, Center of Santiago and Range of Santiago. In this parts the turist can watch differents landscapes and practice many activities.

For example, out of Santiago there are many countrysides and other littles cities like Talagante or Calera de Tango. In Center of Santiago there are many old buildings, tradicional places like La Piojera, in others. Finally, in range of Santiago there are ski centers like "El Colorado", places where people can see beautiful landscapes of our capital.

If a tourist doesn´t know anythig about Santiago, he or she must to try to meet many kind of people. I think that the people is an important referent from a city.

My top 5 places in Santiago:

5: Saint Lucy Hill: In center of Santiago there are a big hill: Saint Lucy. This hill is spectacular because inside there are a old building and in the top you can see all Santiago.

4: Saint Cristobal hill: At north of Santiago, near of Saint Lycy hill is Saint Cristobal hill. This part of Santiago is very beautifull and funny because inside of hill there is the zoo. To arrived to this place the tourist can walk for Bellavista street, other touristic place.

3: The Mint: this is the government building. The Mint have many history and was desinsigned by Alexandre Gustav Eiffel.

2: Quinta Normal: other traditional place of Santiago is Quinta Normal. Quinta Normal is a big park -near of Central Station- where people can go to walk and navigate in a like lake. Other important characteristic of Quinta Normal is that inside its borders there are many Museums.

1: Central Station: It is a tradicional building where arrived the train from south. Near of Central Station -where you can arrived in subway- there are many shops and tradicional streets like "Exposición" and "Bascuñán Guerrero". I love this place because there are chilean spirit in the air and is very cheap.

The Simpsons: a classic

My favourite serie is The Simpson.

I remember -when I was 5 or 6 years old- a chilean channel showed The Simpsons but so latter, then of a Tv show called "Video Loco". I waited until midnigth and I saw this program.

I like The Simpsons because their characters are very particular and they represent a piece of society. For example, Homer is stupid and drunk -but a good person-, Marge is clean and bussy and she thinks in her family all the time, Bart is a bad guy, he doesn´t care anythig, Lisa is smart and clean, like her mother and Maggie, Maggie is Maggie.

This family is very abnormal and is surrounder for other characters like Moe, Barny, Flanders, Mr. Burns, Carl y Lenny, in others.

I like this particular serie because all the character complete the comedy, but this isn´t a simple comedy. All the espisode of The Simpsons criticezes the society and their bad habits like the individualism, alcoholims, foolishs, and many others.

I thik that The Simpsons still is on Tv because their creators are good cartoonists, creative persons. The Simpsons have 22 season and I guess that Matt Groening keeps drawing The Simpsons for a long time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZGz1Ajg7QU

First term: a difficult story

My first term was like a storm. But like people used to be, then out of the storm, always comes the calm.

I arrived to Santiago (because I´m from Iquique) in March and I had not where to live, I did´nt know if any bank will give me a loan for study and I had not money. It was terrible.

I don´t know why but here in university - the unit of comunication- offered me a job, and I got other job in a pub in Ñuñoa Square. Then BCI bank gave me a loat for pay mi career.

However i started this firt term in the university with many problems but with the time, my life went back to normal.

I learned so much in first term. I had six subjects and two works, so my weeks was very busy.

I loved a subject called "Cultural Industries" because we revised many authors of comunication theory like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Marshall Berman, in others. This subjects was great because i understand the trajectory of modernity until postmodernity. Other important subject was "Radial Journalism". It was a new way to write news. We leard how broadcast in radio.

How I had many work, i couldn´t practiced sports or any free time activity because I was runing all the time.

This first term was harder than others. In the past I lived with my family, with security, with compañy and with warranties, but now, i live alone but with new knowledges about life.

A strange experience

It is very hard to explain. I enjoyed it but there were moments in which I could not work because I didn´t have much time because we had other works like reporting in streets, or recording a radial report, etc. It is true that we had time to work in the university, but sometimes we wrote our blog in our houses because we didn´t finish our tasks.

Doing an evaluation, the experience like bogger was good for learning english because we could notice our mistakes and use the recomendations of our teacher and we posted to oue classmates, so we met new people from other grades.

Firstly, the advantages were many. For example, we could think about topics that we had forgotten, like why we are in te career, or what kind of journalism we want to practice, or who we admire in our area, etc.

Secondly, the disadvantage of blogging in the English class was the time.


But finally, this was a good experience.

Thanks for all.-

My ideal job

If I have to choose an ideal job, this would be in a media -any kind- where I could travel around the world.

All the people ask me about if the journalism is just traveling around many countries, but this idea is unreal. Just few journalists have the opportunity to make reality this wish.

Well, if luck were with me, I could obtain a god job where I would be able to travel, to report other realities.

I would be good at this job because I`m a responsible person and i will learn other languages, so I will be ideal for traveling.

To find this kind of job is almost imposible, but with time and experience, this dream could be real.

About Ken Robinson´s work

In his conference, Ken Robinson talked about the education and the creativity of children. The central topic was how the school and the sistem inhibit the human creativity, whit rules, and special knowledges.

The relation between teachers and students is hard because they say "what to do and how do it", and this inhibit the creativity of childrens.

Ken Robinson says that the consecuences of this relation can go back to school sistem and could change the the potential of children , so he said that all born artist and while progressing in school, we lost our talent.

Finally, is remarkable the entertaining way to explain of Ken Robinson, with examples and personal experiencies. Very funny.

I agree with him: creativity now is important in education!

My future

For my future i hope many things.

5 years from now i guess that i will be working in a newspaper or in other media, but in journalism. That´s for sure.

I don´t know if my future will be promising like i want now, but i will try to do it, for a good life.

In the work i will be a good journalist. Responsible and hardworking. In my life, i don´t know if I´ll be married or alone, but I´m sure that in 5 years from know I don´t want childrens. This project is for eight or ten years from now.

In the newspaper i will be working like reporter, or, if the future is better that i think, i will be editor of a section, or something like that.

My ideal future is with a family, with security and peace. With a good professional and personal life. I hope a nice home. I don´t know if in Santiago, but a nice home with a few cats.


Finally, i want to be happy.

CHRONIC: a way to say stories of reality

My favourite subject was Chronic and interview, in second year of University.

In this subject my teacher was Ximena Póo, a great writer and journalist, and my assistant was Paulina Roblero (She´s my friend now).

Between different topics, we saw a few latinoamerican writers like Martín Caparrós, Carlos Monsivais and Juan Villorro, and we learned how do an interview.

This was the hardest part of the subject because we met many new people and sometimes they were not nice.

Nevertheless, we learned how write great and that´s one of our tresaure. We learned how describe things, situations, trips, in others.

I´m very appreciative of this subject, and if i have to do a subject again, it was Chronic and interview.

A little of photos

The war in photos

This picture was taken for Robert Capa, an important photographer of the history. Capa was hungarian and he was the creator of Magnum agency of photography, where now work the most important photographers of the world.

In the picture appear soldiers of the Second War, in the “D” day, when they arrived to Normandia, France. It was an important step for the end of the war.

The photo was taken in 1944, exactly June 6th

I like this photo because it is in black and white. Another reason is the amazing life of Robert Capa and the important historic moment that the photo represents.

The photo is not clear because the films were lost until fourteen years ago. Other information is that Robert Capa used to travel around the world, taking pictures of the war, in Spain and Japan, and in others countries.-

A good website

Browse in Internet is an important activity for all the people. Especially, for me is a basic work: I must to find information and read news all the time.

When I want to find some information about the country, the politics, the sports, the world or any other topic, I browse directly at La Tercera.

La Tercera is an old newspaper of the country, and now is in Internet too. This page offers a digital version of the newspapers and many links of other media like radios, magazines, economic notices and others.

I visit this site all the time because is very related with my carrier: the journalism. I guess that I will work in a media like this.

I found it when I start to study in the University. In the past I did not usually visit this kind of page. Only I watched the news in the television.

This site is very nice because the information is in order. Moreover, the is an space with a TV channel of La Tercera.

I recommend that people visit this site

The direction is http://www.latercera.com/

i cannot live without you!

Perhaps is the favourite piece of tecnology of the people, so there are many reasons for it.

The computer is the best piece of tecnology of the world! Is very important for me becasue is very useful for my work: write and write and write many journalistic text. It have another funtions for me like:

-is a comunication tool (especially because my family is so far of Santiago)

-is an informative tool (when the computer is connected to Internet)

Is machine is like a human because it can think, can work and many other actions. The computer colud be a personal computer (the big machine) or a notebook (the little machine). Now there are other kinds of computers, with more teconology and aplications.

My computer arrived to my home a year ago. In the past i had another one, in Iquique. When i come to Santiago my father gave me my new PC. Is the big kind, is very normal and i have Internet now.

Like i said before, i use my computer for work and for write menssage to my family. I love to be front the screen because i can watch videos, tv shows, video clips. I can hear radio and music.

I use the computers ten years ago approximately, so i could say that i know how use it. But if somethig happened to my computer i cannot do anythig. I don´t know how open it or fix it.

Francisca Palma without a computer is like a sailor without a boat. I cannot do anythig without it because in the university all the works are in office (microsoft word), all the comunication and the information is in Internet.

Finally i could say that i love my PC despite there are another piece of tecnology that are important too or more important than te computer.

(the computer is my friend).

I like English

well, i guess.

no, i was joking. I like english because this language is a tool of work, very usefull.

Morover, i love things that are in english, like the music, the movies, the books, the tv shows, and many others. So i must to learn to hear and speak english.

I whish to be good for english !!!!

(Auncle Sam is so terrifying :S)