My Pets

 Today I'm going to talk about my pets. The only ones that are still alive are my dog, Ananda, my cat, Penélope and my sister's turtle Rafael. I've had 11 different kind of pets, with this I mean, different kind of animals, like rabbits, hamsters, rats, cats, dogs, iguanas, turtles, fish, frogs, lizzards and a chinchilla. My first trauma was my chinchilla, he died because he was old, it was a calm death, but it was a trauma for me because I was little and I was the one that found him dead, inside his cage. He was stiff and cold, and I hugged him while crying.
 The frogs were another kind of trauma. We has 6 frogs, one for each member of the family. One day, one of them jumped out of the aquarium, my father, who didn't notice, went to his usual spot on the table, sat down and started reading. But the moment he put down the chair and sat, knew something was wrong. Yep, he smashed the little frog with the chair.

 Ananda is our dog, she is still alive but she is very old, this October she turned 13 years old. She is a Cocker Spaniel. Right now she is living with my sister, her husband and her son. They are a cute family, and my nephew loves her, the only problem is that she is afraid of him. He likes to go after her and hold her, but she starts trembling like crazy. Lately, he likes to go and sit on her bed, while she trembles from a corner watching her bed being stolen.

 Penélope is my cat, she lives with me. She is my most important company when I'm at home, she is always with me. When I have to work, she sits beside me and stares at me or just sleeps. When I have to study, usually she sits on top of my book, that way I have to pet her instead of reading. She is very small, even though she has 10 years, the vets always think that she is like, 2 years old. In the night she sleeps with me on my bed. When it's winter, she likes to sleep under the sheets with me. She is always asking for love, meowing on a special way, purring, and she doesn't like to eat alone, so she calls me to accompany her. I really love my cat, she makes me feel needed.

Ghosts Rapes of Bolivia

 This is a documentary that I saw on youtube on a channel named VICE, this channel specializes in documentaries that are released every week. This one talks about the residents of Manitoba Colony in Bolivia, which are called Mennonnites, this colony in special is ultra conservative. The Mennonnites are like the Amish people, who get away from the technology and the big cities. They live in the country side and work all day. This colony is very, very religious, they say that the only path to heaven is to devote to God and work, work nicely and constantly. So since the kids are able to, they start working. This "ghost rapes" started in 2005, when the women woke up and started finding semen and blood in their sheets, but they couldn't remember what happened. The rapers would go inside the houses, and reaped avery women in the house, from the little girls to the mothers. One guy says that they went into his house, raped his wife, then his 4 daughters, the age didn't matter, not even if they were 3 years old. When this began, they said that it was the devil, then when the Bolivian police started the investigation(they don't have their own police) they found out that 8 members of the community were doing it, they used some spray they invented with cow sedative and put to sleep the hole family. This 8 guys were sent to prison, their sentence was 25 years. Yet, even when the culprits were in prison, the rapes continued. Later, the people who were investigating discovered that the real culprits, were the own family members. In the colony there are heavy incest cases, and the men of the house rapes their sisters and daughters. This happens in almost all houses, and there is a small possibility that the women knows the truth, yet they remain silence since their policy is to forgive. The colony members insist that if the 8 guys sent to prison ask forgiveness, then they can return, and they will be forgiven, because if we don't forgive other, God won't forgive us. A girl that run away from the colony said that the Ministers, who are the men who are in charge of the colony, don't care about this, they only care if someone buys a car or a radio, if you do that, then you are banished. This girl told them that his father was abusing her, yet they punished the whole family because they had a car, they didn't even listened what the girl had to say. Later when she got married, her husband started abusing her too.

 This cases still exist, and in my opinion, their strict behavior and their religion is making them blind to the truth, at least that is what happens with the women, who can't even talk with strangers or foreigners, who can't continue with their studies and can't learn another language.

Eurotrip to Prague 2011

 In 2011 with a group of fellow designers we went to Europe because of the Prague Cuadriennal. Theatre Designers came from all over the world and made their stands. It was so great to see that there are much more people doing the same than us. Other thing that I loved was that there, everybody knew what our job was about, there were no questions like; Oh! really? and what do you do for a living?.
 We stayed at the Elf Hostel, it was awesome. When I arrived, it felt like home. This is because the first time I went in, I saw all my friends and classmates there, just hanging or eating, I had a very warm feeling. Most part of the Hostel were ours, because we were a lot of people. We just went from one room to another, visiting our friends. I think the girl that was in charge of this place went nuts because of us. We were a bit messy sometimes, and loud.
 After the Cuadriennal ended, the traveling started. What I mean with this is that form the period of the Cuadriennal we stayed mostly in Prague, but after it ended we went to other places like Berlin, Vienna and Paris. The first place we went was Berlin. Here we stayed at my aunt's house. She has lived there since 1974 because she was a dancer and she had to scape from the military. She received us really well (me and two other friends), she gave us homemade food which was so good, we loved this so much because when we didn't had much money, we only ate sandwiches. We told us how to use the subway and buses and recommended us some places to go. We walked a lot on this trip, not just in Berlin, but everywhere.
 At Vienna we visited some museums and we went to Schönbrunn palace, which was Sisi's palace. Here, we cooked a lot, we stayed at a Hostel too and we bought food and used the kitchen. The weather was awesome, it was hot, but suddenly it got windy and started raining pretty strong, but we weren't cold.
 Paris was the last place we visited. The flight from Vienna to Paris was horrible, it was a really small plane, very uncomfortable. We were very sleepy but we couldn't sleep at all. When we arrived to Paris we started walking and saw the Eiffel Tower, we hadn't slept all night, but the moment I saw this, I woke up immediately and started walking towards it. Here we also went to the Mouling Rouge, it was beautiful, the costume were so full of colors and glitter.
 We has an amazing trip, we enjoyed a lot.

Some great Movie Directors

 I would like to talk about my favorite movie directors, Satoshi Kon and Hayao Miyasaki. Sadly, Satoshi Kon died on 2010, I was really sad about this because his movies were really good. I really liked his drawing, stories and characters, all of them were so full of life and magic. The first movie I saw was Paprika, which talks about dreams, and for me, if you compare it to Inception, is way better. There is also Perfect Blue, which was an inspiration for the director of the Black Swan, but Perfect Blue being the original is way better, the story is really catchy, the characters are really well made and you never expect what is going to happen next. Also, the ending is soooo good!. I could go on forever, because even though he didn't make much movies, all of them are awesome in some way, Millenium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Roujin Z, etc.
 Hayao Miyazaki was the main director for the japanese film company Studio Ghibli, and a few days ago he announced he was retiring from the movies. His last movie is called: Kaze Tachinu, which means Wind Rises. It tells the story of an aircraft designer called Jiro Horikoshi from the WWII, it's based on his biographical book but it also contains the characteristic Ghibli magic. He received lots of criticism, not very good from a group of the japanese population because it was said that he mentioned things about the japanese army that wasn't real, but this is only because this things are not good. Like the fact that there existed a group of the army that tortured prisioners. I can't really tell if this is true or not, because I still haven't watched the movie. I was a bit sad when he said he was retiring, but he deserves it, he has been making such awesome movies for a long time already.
 The styles on both of them are different, but they are awesome on their own way. I love to watch their movies, and even though both are not longer making them, I'll just keep watching what they already did.

A Country I Would Like to Visit

 The country that I would love to visit is Japan. Since I'm 14 years old, it's been my biggest dream. I have always liked anime, as many people, but when I turned 14, I started researching about it's culture, I studied Japan's Art History, I also took a curse to learn how to write a Manga and how to draw it. Latter I started studying the language, since then until 2010 I studied Japanese non stop.

 I love it's History, I loved to learn such different kind of History, the way they count the years, the way they evolved is so different than the story we learn in school, that i fell in love. It's culture is so different, since the past until now, they treat the elders different, they treat eachother different, and lots of other things. Other thing that I really like is the way the fashion develops over there. Young people (from 12 to 25 usually) dress like they want to dress, and I think that is so awesome. I've heard lots of comments from family or friends that say that japanese people is so weird, but I find it awesome. They go out just like they want to, if they like to go outside with two pants and a skirt, all in different colors, then they just do it. They don't care if other people is watching, but the best is that other people don't really care about how the other is dressed. For example, there is this guy, that is 50 years old and like to dress like a school girl, he has his reasons, but he enjoys dressing like that and he thinks it's just a game, and he really likes when people tells him that he looks cute.

 I would like to study lots of things there, like: Japan's History, Japanese, Japanese Cooking or more related to my field, Kabuki or Noh. I would like to live there for a while, I don't think that I would stay for life, but for months, or a couple of years. This would really help me master the language and learn a lot about their traditions.  

My Ideal Job

 I think my ideal job is close to what i'm already doing. Of course i still have lots to learn to make it my "ideal job". I really like costume design, it gives me the possibility to create characters, even though i'm not an actress, I can help them create a posture, a personality through the elements I can give them. I really like clothes and styles from all over the world, I like colors, accessories, make up and hair.
 I would like to go further with the characterization by making masks. I want to take the next semester to learn different techniques that could help me improve this area, like sculpture, painting and others. Also i want to study on my own make up, because, there are different styles that are not only about clothes and accessories, but make up is a crucial part of the transformation. At the same time i want to start doing clothes, backpacks or accessories, so that way I can improve my abilities with the sewing machine.
 I'm really thorough when I make things, I like the details and doing little things with lots of details, so I really enjoy making this kind of things, and because of that, the product is good. I like hand sewing a lot actually, but only when I have to do little details.
 I think I chose the right career because I've learnt lots of things that fits with my ideal job, and the work field goes perfect. From a play at a theatre to participating in a movie, I can do all this things that I really love. I've already done some of this, but I'm sure that there are other works waiting outside the university, so I'm anxious of ending this year and become a professional.

First Term 2013

 During the first term of this year we directed our profession towards movies, tv series and tv shows. Our teacher is a designer that works for "Canal 13" doing mostly scenography for the morning show that airs at 8am called "Bienvenidos". Also we had class with a known chilean Director called Orlando Lubbert. With both of this teachers we made a short film, that in the case of my group called Le Gaffer Producciones, was about a guy who was too much into videogames that his reality mixed with his games. The result wasn't very good because we had problems with the times of the actors and ours, it was very difficult to coordinate, also, the camera wasn't very good and we didn't knew how to use it. Even tough all this time and recording problems, when we got together to shoot, we has an incredible time, it was fun and we ended learning a lot from our mistakes. 

 In my free time i had to work for a play called "Lo que las mujeres no dicen", it was about a crazy girl who talked with a mannequin. There were 3 actresses who played different states of the main character, one was her evil childhood, the other her process of becoming a woman and the last one her last days, as an old lady. I worked in that play with my colleague, Nicoletta, and we had a great time with the company, but a side from that, we had a difficult time doing some of the things needed for the play, like the mannequin. We did the mannequin ourselves which was a huge challenge. We used lots of techniques and we failed lots of times, were the arms fell, the chest broke and things like that. For like, 3 or 4 days we slept like 3 hours trying to make the mannequin work. At the end we managed to make a beautiful mannequin which the director liked to call "Cindy". As a company we had to deal with other problems like, the girl in charge of production collapsed, we had to cancel the play a couple of nights and the biggest problem that was that the director had to put the money, from his pocket, for everything.

 My thursdays were free, so i spent that time to be with my nephew. I went every thursday to my sister house to have lunch with them and to play with the little boy. In June he turned 1 year, and my family gave him as a present a wood horse and a little piano. He likes to play his little piano, which is at the right side of his father's piano, along with his father. Usually he takes my finger with his little hand and takes me to his room and puts in my hand a book, so he makes me read to him and show him the drawings. So, after all the problems i had to face in my free time with my work, or the problems with the homework, he kept me happy and active, that way, the next day i had extra energy to deal with all of that stuff without going bitter.