Catalina Maldonado

Although I only had two semester of English at university, I definitely think I had improve my skills, coming to know more about this language than what I had learn't at school years ago. Now I am better specifically at listening because I understand inmediatly what I ear, and at speaking because I feel confortable when I am put at situations were I have to talk to others in english. Despite of that, of course I have to keep getting better because I think my grammar and writing it's still weak. For that, I have to read more. I usually read papers and magazines like Time or Rolling Stones, but now we are ending the semester and sadly I don't have much time as I would like to have to read on my free time. I am constantly exposed to this language either watching movies, listening to music or reading stuffs on internet. Oh and on april of next year it will be launched the last season of Game of Thrones, which it's my favorite serie, so I will be listening to the ac...

From my experience studing four semesters on this university, I think this one right now has been the most difficult.  Because of this years feminist revolution on our universities and public spaces, and the following suspension of classes and take of the buldings, we had to learn in a very short time, almost 3 months, the subjects of what it should have been learnt on 5 months.  I think the subject '‘feature story’' should have been taught at least one semester before ''radio 2'' and ''audiovisual languaje'', because in those subjects we have to do reportages too. It would have been better to already have managed the concept of building a story before, because first of all, we should learn to do it properly on the writing area. A good thing I have noticed on this two years studing here, on University of Chile, it’s that knowledge’s strategies are well distribuided: ''practice'' takes almost fifty percent of our study...

My favourite female artist it's Lana del Rey. She is a singer and songwriter from New York, United States. At the middle of 2011 she became to win popularity on internet with her first hit, Video Games. What captured people's attention on this song was her melancholic tone. Actually, when I first heard it I felt the pain and suffering this girl was transmiting through his singing. After her first single, the singer went straight to top,   debutating numer 2 at billboard 200 with her album Born to Die, on january of 2012. From that moment til now, the artist has released five albums, all of them had received favorable reviews from professional critics, according to Metacritic. She as also worked on film soundtracks of movies like The Great Gatsby, which garnered her a Grammy nomination, and Big Eyes. For this last film, she earned a Golden Globe nomination. I knew her when I was just a teenager and since that I had been following her musical and visual work. Be...

Today I am going to write about something very serious that has been happening in our country from a long time ago, for almost fifty years: a constant contamination on the sacrifice zone of the Quintero - Puchuncaví bay. What we saw on 21 of august of this year was just a little demostration; the tip of an iceberg that has been growing for decades. More than 300 kids had to be evacuated from his schools, what should be supposedly a safe place guaranteed by the State, because of a toxic cloud made of gases released from 18 plants located on a very limited coast of only 5 kilometers. All of this contamination has been happening because of the impunity and lack of environmental regulations in our constitution that have always protected the pockets of the companies's owners that make up the industrial cordon. After four months, there has not been any solution because kids are keep getting sick, although now the numbers are less. I think those plants should have closed immediately...

When I finish to study here on JGM (hopefully in 3 years left, haha), I would definetely like to keep studying so I don’t lose the habit. I think it would be good to do a master or a specialization on international area. I haven’t search a course in specific but it would be here in University of Chile or maybe in Pontifical Catholic University. Although I am a bit overwhelmed with homework now, I think it’s important to keep improving our skills as a journalists, despite of living stressed haha. We are in the perfect age to learn. After all, our profession its stressful by itself, because we have to be constantly updated about all the news, Like I said in the last blog, I am truly clear that my main goal is to do a PHD on London School of Economics, to keep learning and to finally become an international analist because that is what I have always been interested on. Of course, at that moment I have to be living in the United Kingdom, and for that, I have to be a really good j...

My dream job would be of course as a journalist, but working on another countrys, which would allow me to know different cultures and societies. That would be really satisfying for me because it's what I have always dreamed since I was just a girl. I would not mind if I had to work on an office, like a newsroom or something like that. But it would be nice to work outside, maybe covering news going in direct for the radio or TV going, because some journalist lose perspective when they work 24/7 on an office. One of the things that motivated me to study journalism it was that I wanted so badly to travel around the globe! I hope that in the future the opportunity will present to me, but of course it will require hard work to be ready for that moment. In the future, when I already had experience working, I would like to do PHD at the London School of Economics, to become an expert in international analysis. I really want to learn and understand how events and news around the worl...

I may be a few one that definitely enjoyed his school days. I could say that several times I have been caught myself remembering my experience studying in Calbuco, where my friends and I used to spent all day. Actually, we grew up together. I studied since kindergarden to senior year of high school on San Miguel School, which enable me to create a very close relationship with my schoolmates through the years. In fact, I am still friend with most of them, although now all of us are studying in different cities. Besides of being all day together on the classroom, we also used to meet on weekends too, to party or to do our homeworks. Now I realize that we were seeing each other a lot, more than spending time at our houses with our families. From that perspective I see that it was inevitable that we became like brothers and sisters!  I think our friendship it's different from other ones I have made now. My ex schoolmates are what I call ''real friends'', because w...